Relapsed Shades then began to attack Replicants. "Relapse" refers to the catastrophic loss of sentience as seen in certain Gestalts. The lost souls without a Replicant's shell would eventually relapse and evolve into the hostile monsters, they now call Shades. However, the process was complicated when the Replicants gained a consciousness of their own, and Shades were soon left without their vessels. Replicant bodies were created so that eventually the vessel-less souls could re-enter into a human body and live normally once again once there was no longer a threat. The shell-less transition was intended to be temporary. The process was a necessary solution in order to preserve the human souls as they were going extinct and dying off. They are the separated souls without vessels that underwent a process from Project Gestalt. Each Shade is a twisted remnant of what was once a human being. Shades, also known as Gestalts, are the true humans in NieR Replicant. The only way humans could survive was to temporarily live through it as Gestalts. The project was launched when humans faced extinction and the earth was plagued with a lethal disease. Project Gestalt was the separation of human souls from their human bodies with the intention to restore them back into a new Replicant body. Popola, Song of the Ancients Project Gestalt He will then vanquish Grimoire Noir and restore harmony to the world. The white book, Grimoire Weiss, will appear with his Sealed Verses. When the great black book, Grimoire Noir, plunges the world into chaos. Determined that the black book is also the root of the Black Scrawl and with Grimoire Weiss now already by his side, his main quest is now to obtain all the Sealed Verses in order to reverse the Black Scrawl and cure Yonah. Legend has it that the white book, Grimoire Weiss and the Sealed Verses have the ability to reverse the chaos of the black book, Grimoire Noir. " Song of the Ancients." Once NieR discovered Grimoire Weiss, it gave him no reason to believe that Sealed Verses did not exist, and was determined to find them. NieR puts all his faith in the words of an ancient song. When NieR's sister Yonah becomes afflicted with the Black Scrawl disease his main objective was to find her a cure. The protagonist and his family are no exception. The world of NieR Replicant is a tumultuous era where the earth is getting more and more overrun by Shades, and the fatal Black Scrawl disease is sweeping the land. So the kindness of the villagers has meant much. I try my best, but I'm only one man and a hard one at that. My sister is sick, and my only concern is to give her a better life. Once thriving populations now lie decimated by plague and disease.Īnd if that wasn't enough, monsters called Shades now roam the land, threatening our very lives. They will soon find out that the illness that has afflicted her is the fatal Black Scrawl disease. NieR's regular day consists of doing chores around their Village in order to earn gold and support his sister Yonah and himself. His sister is still ill and his main objective is to find a cure and give her a better life. Many years, later and the story seems to pick up with the same brother-sister duo in a less dire setting. With the power of the book, he clears the Shades with ease and returns to the back of the building to tend to his sister only to witness her be overcome with the black magic of the book herself. He has no choice but to turn to the power of the black book. It offers the boy the power to save his sister in exchange of his soul. They have nothing but the temptation of the magic book with them. Two survivors, a brother and his ill sister, are trapped and the building is surrounded by Shades. The human world is facing extinction and the prologue takes place in a run-down building in the middle of a snowstorm in Shinjuku, Tokyo during a lockdown. In a distant, distant future, humanity is on the brink of extinction.Ī black scrawl disease and strange beasts threaten the world.Ī young kindhearted boy makes a promise to his little sister.Ī thousand-year lie that would live on for eternity.Ĥ6 years after chaos fell upon the human world. The tale of NieR Replicant has a convoluted storyline, that reveals multiple perspectives and endings with every playthrough. NieR Replicant is set in a faraway dystopian future full of Shades after the initial collapse of humankind. NieR Replicant Lore refers to the World Building, Story, and Setting of the game.
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