Gelimer

Story

“I shall explode the crude human concept of emotion. This is the next step in humanity's evolution!”

― Gelimer, before preparing to drop his bombs onto Edelstein

Gelimer is the chief scientist, and later, the new leader of the Black Wings and a business partner of the Black Mage and his Commanders. He is the main antagonist during the Black Heaven storyline and the inventor of the eponymous airship.

Story[]

A Rising Star[]

Since his youth, Gelimer was a brilliant scientist who appeared to have endless talent in his research. At one point, Gelimer worked in a biotechnology lab alongside another scientist named Promathus. Despite his specialization in biotechnology, Gelimer demonstrated great aptitude in mechanical engineering, chemistry, medicine and many other fields. Eventually, Gelimer began researching androids, but his dangerous research resulted in him being forced to leave the lab, nearly being kicked out altogether.

Fifty years before the battle of Black Heaven, Gelimer began working for the Edelstein armed forces, working closely with Irvin, an ace pilot of the Edelstein air force, as well as Martini, a charismatic officer in the navy. Because of his talent, many in their division had high hopes for Gelimer and his career.

Eventually, however, Irvin grew furious upon learning that the armed forces were sanctioning experiments on living subjects. When Irvin confronted his friends, however, Martini claimed that he supported Edelstein's decision, believing that the experiments were necessary to protect their people.

Gelimer agreed with Martini, explaining that it was all in the name of progress. Though Irvin resigned in disgust, Martini and Gelimer stayed behind, with Gelimer continuing his research in order to satisfy his curiosity, at the expense of his conscience.

This decision was the beginning of Gelimer's descent into evil, as his desire to progress and evolve humanity resulted in him conducting countless experiments that slowly eroded his sense of ethics and compassion. Over time, Gelimer came to believe that human emotions were a weakness, for which he began delving further into his research on androids, believing that they were the key to creating the perfect being.

The Xenoroid Project[]

Over the years, Gelimer continued performing experiments to turn living beings into machines. One such experiment was Roo-D, a fox-rabbit hybrid cyborg that became one of his first Xenoroids, the name that he had given to the ultimate type of cyborg. With Roo-D as his assistant, Gelimer began kidnapping children in order to use them as test subjects for his Xenoroid experiments.

One such test subject was a young girl whom he turned into a Xenoroid named Beryl. However, Gelimer remained unsatisfied with Beryl, whom he viewed as imperfect, and so he continued seeking candidates for his experiments. Soon after, Gelimer kidnapped a young boy from Edelstein after the boy was returning home from playing with his friends: Claudine, Elex, Brighton, and Belle. This boy was turned into a Xenoroid named Xenon, who was raised alongside Beryl. Shortly after Xenon was brought to the lab, Roo-D made a promise to protect him and secretly turned against Gelimer, masquerading as his loyal underling while watching over Xenon from afar.

Hoping to remove their human weaknesses in order to make them fully compliant to his orders, Gelimer attempted to erase Xenon and Beryl's memories. When he discovered that some of his memories were unable to be deleted, however, Gelimer overwrote them with his soldier programming. As a result, Xenon and Beryl were turned into blank slates, though they both held residual remnants of their old memories that Gelimer could not fully erase.

Serving the Black Wings[]

Several years after he began his Xenoroid project, Gelimer was approached by Orchid, who had spent centuries trying to find a way to revive Lotus, who had been beaten into a coma by Phantom. Gelimer was amazed at Lotus and his perfect body, which had been magically created by the White Mage's light magic. Believing that Lotus would be the perfect Xenoroid, Gelimer agreed to help Orchid revive her brother, though he secretly plotted to keep Lotus for himself and turn him into a cyborg .

In order to provide Gelimer with the resources he needed to revive Lotus, Orchid founded the Black Wings and gathered members by claiming that she was planning to resurrect the Black Mage, and that he would reward them for their aid. The Black Wings then seized control of Edelstein and its mines, which held energy-rich rue ore. With the Verne Mine as their headquarters and ample resources for his experiments, Gelimer began conducting experiments to revive Lotus.

With his newfound authority, Gelimer ordered for several Edelstein scientists to be taken to the mine in order to aid him with his experiments, for which Sven, Allen, and Cory were brought as assistants. Gelimer also brought in his old friend, Martini, who had risen to become an admiral in the Edelstein navy. Suffering from an incurable disease, Martini joined the Black Wings after Gelimer promised to help him rise above his mortality.

Soon after, Gelimer ordered the Black Wings to kidnap children from across Maple World, hoping to use them as test subjects for his research. In the Verne Mine, he conducted experiments on those children by utilizing a combination of alchemy and science to replicate and enhance Lotus' perfect constitution in the form of a new body. By making copies of Lotus' genetic code and splicing it with that of other creatures, Gelimer hoped to magically enhance the new bodies that he created in order to make them stronger.

One such test subject was a child who had been genetically engineered to have a tail and wing-like appendages. Another was a human girl, who Gelimer had hoped was the pinnacle of his genetic research. At the conclusion of his experiment, however, he wrote: "Upon completion of the experiment, the subject appeared to be successful. Visually it appeared to be an exact replica of The One. I named it Vita, thinking it would be my greatest achievement. However, after multiple tests, I am now certain the experiment was a failure. It exhibits no extraordinary capabilities. It is, in fact, a quite ordinary human female. The subject will be purged during the next clean cycle. I must go back to formula.”

Outside his genetic experiments, Gelimer also continued his android research and created many different types of androids as servants. In one such experiment, Gelimer hoped to use Racaroni and Raco Hearts as power sources for his androids by ruthlessly tearing out the hearts from those living creatures and exploding the energy within them. In addition, Gelimer also experimented on Ore Munchers, despite the creatures being sentient and highly regarded by the people of Edelstein, in order to harvest the rue that they produced.

In his position of power, Gelimer lost all vestiges of his humanity and became ruthless and remorseless, treating living beings as nothing more than objects for his own gain. Despite his attempts to erase emotions in his creations, many of his androids began developing feelings, such as fear and love. Knowing that Gelimer would dispose of them, these androids attempted to hide their emotions in order to keep themselves safe. Nevertheless, Gelimer would occasionally discover their hidden defects and ordered his other androids to dispose of them, despite the fact that these androids often saw each other in familial contexts.

Although Gelimer performed many of these experiments in the Verne Mine out of scientific curiosity, this research was largely a front in order to trick Orchid into believing that he was actively working to revive Lotus. In secret, Gelimer would funnel Black Wings resources into his hidden laboratory, where he continued building Xenon into the perfect Xenoroid, hoping to use him as a prototype for his eventual plans to turn Lotus into a Xenoroid. Nevertheless, Gelimer incorporated alchemy and biology into his Xenoroid project, making it possible that the results of his Verne Mine experiments were factored into his private Xenoroid research.

Seal Stone Research[]

Believing that the Seal Stones that the Heroes had hidden across Maple World would be able to revive Lotus, Orchid ordered the Black Wings to obtain the Seal Stones, claiming that finding and destroying all the Seal Stones would free the Black Mage. After learning about the existence of the Seal Stones, Gelimer grew curious about their nature and decided to investigate.

His research led him to conclude that the Seal Stones held power that exceeded that of even the Transcendents. He learned that the Seal Stones required multiple conditions to activate, namely the desperate wish of many, and that it would be destroyed upon demonstrating a power that exceeded causality.

From his research, he concluded that the power of the Seal Stones were so great that they could even turn back time itself, though they would not grant the wish of an individual. He also concluded that the Seal Stones were unconsciously channeling the greatest wish of the people of Maple World, which was that the Black Mage should not return to full power. Because of this, he realized that as long as even a single Seal Stone existed, the Black Mage would remain weakened.

Hoping to harness the power of the Seal Stones, Gelimer began learning more about how they had been created. He came to learn that the Seal Stones had been created by Freud centuries ago, though the more he researched about them, the more unbelievable it sounded that a mere magician could have created such immensely powerful objects.

While attempting to steal the Seal Stone of Ereve, Baroq was stopped by Aran and the Cygnus Knights, causing him to fail in his mission. Because of this, Orchid severely castigated both Baroq and Gelimer for falling off the timetable and delaying Lotus' resurrection. Though the Black Wings ultimately succeeded in obtaining all the other Seal Stones except the Seal Stone of Ereve, Gelimer was unable to harness their power, as he could not find a way to circumvent the Seal Stones only being able to grant the wish of a population. Because of this, Gelimer turned back to his original research and had the Seal Stones destroyed.

Retoxin Experiment[]

Over the years, Gelimer began balding and grew highly self-conscious about the matter, to the point that he would order Black Wings henchmen to have their rabbit fur removed by his androids as retribution for their mocking. Hoping to find a solution, Gelimer began creating a special drug from Orange Mushroom extract and Stone Colossus saliva, which produced miraculous results in clinical trials with test subjects. However, upon testing it on himself, Gelimer realized that the drug failed to work on him.

Though he briefly considered selling the drug and making profit, he realized that since the drug didn't work on him, it would mean that he would end up becoming the only person in Maple World with a bald head. He soon discovered that a side effect of the drug was that those who were injected with it would lose their emotions. Believing his immunity to the drug to be a sign, Gelimer hoped to use the drug in order to spread its effects and create a world of perfect rationality that he would rule. Furthermore, he believed that in doing so, he would be able to ensure that he would never be mocked for his baldness again.

Gelimer would brand this drug as Retoxin, which would become the center of his plan to erase emotions from the world. Later on, Gelimer would begin conducting experiments with poison gas generators, suggested to be a gaseous, more transmissible form of Retoxin. At one point, a Resistance leader attempted to destroy the generator, though they were caught and imprisoned. In order to rescue them, their student infiltrated the mine and destroyed the machine before rescuing their instructor.

Vita Escapes[]

Though Vita, the near-perfect clone of Lotus, had been deemed a failure, Gelimer found some use for her when the Resistance rescued her from his laboratory. By taking advantage of her brainwashing, Gelimer had Vita befriend the Resistance and gain their trust, after which he had her create a special poison disguised as medicine.

Eventually, the Resistance began suspecting Vita and imprisoned her. However, Gelimer activated Vita's brainwashing and forced her to escape the prison. Vita's friend, a Resistance member who had helped rescue her, came after her and encountered Gelimer standing beside her at the entrance to the Verne Mine.

The Resistance member demanded to know what he had done to Vita, to which Gelimer replied that ‘the creature' had completed its mission and was awaiting its next orders. The Resistance member snapped at Gelimer not to treat Vita like a robot, to which Gelimer clarified that she wasn't a robot, but rather, a perfect brainwashed slave. He explained that he had called her back, as it had been some time since he had given her a check-up, but he was pleasantly surprised that she had brought the Resistance member along as well.

Though he yearned to use them as his new lab rat, he knew that Hiver wouldn't allow it. However, he still decided to run one small experiment and told them to take the road behind the mine to his lab, promising to return Vita if they made it. He also warned that the guards would be dangerous and recommended that they bring as many friends as possible for backup.

After the Resistance member left, Gelimer locked Vita inside a cage and strapped a bomb to it, which would kill her and anyone in the area. After the Resistance member came to rescue her alone, Vita used a return scroll to send them back to the Secret Plaza safely, after which the bomb detonated and killed her.

Following the incident, Orchid confronted Gelimer and began chastising him about falling behind his timetable again. Gelimer told Orchid that there was no need to check up on him in person, promising that his research would be finished soon. However, Orchid snapped at him, claiming that Arkarium's plans were well under way, and that she couldn't let him beat her and Lotus.

She reminded Gelimer that he had claimed that he had only been waiting for Vita to finish her mission, to which he explained that there had been complications, and that it wasn't easy creating a creature as powerful as what she was asking for, though he promised that he would have it ready soon. Orchid told him that he had better be right, as it was the very reason why she had formed the Black Wings in the first place. Gelimer told her that if she had spent so many years waiting, then a few more days wouldn't make a difference. He then assured her that once he finished, the resulting creature would be more powerful than herself and Lotus put together.

Xenon Escapes[]

Soon after, Gelimer successfully finished building Xenon as the perfect cyborg. Upon finishing, he told Beryl that every bit of research and every machine that he had ever built had been leading up to Xenon. As a final test, Gelimer had Xenon defeat a hologram of Von Leon. Just then, the Resistance discovered Gelimer's secret laboratory. After he sent Xenon to stop them, the Resistance managed to escape, though Claudine was captured.

While Gelimer and Beryl chased after the others, Xenon's latent memories of his childhood friend caused him to break free from his programming. With the help of Roo-D, Xenon and Claudine managed to escape back to the Secret Plaza. Furious at the loss of his perfect creation, Gelimer sent Beryl in order to recover him. However, Xenon was able to elude Beryl each time that she tracked him down.

Desperate to recover his prize creation, Gelimer had no choice but to turn to Francis and Dargoth, despite the fact that he had hoped to keep the existence of his Xenoroid project secret from Orchid. Nevertheless, Xenon was able to evade Dargoth and convinced Francis, who resented Gelimer out of loyalty to Orchid, in order to turn back and lie that he had failed his mission.

Soon after, Gelimer learned that Orchid was attempting to obtain secret alchemy documents on life creation in Magatia, which had been written by the Black Mage. Hoping to stop her from obtaining them and reviving Lotus herself, Gelimer sent Beryl in order to seize the documents first. There, Beryl also encountered Xenon, who managed to defeat her once again.

With his patience wearing thin, Gelimer gave Beryl one final chance to prove herself. Beryl forced Xenon to return back to the abandoned laboratory where they had been created, where they had a final confrontation. However, Xenon ultimately managed to best Beryl, who accepted both her defeat and the emotions that she had been repressing in order to prove herself as worthy to her father. Beryl then returned back to Gelimer empty-handed, who ordered for her to be scrapped for her failure. Nevertheless, Beryl was rescued from her fate by several other defective androids, who fled into hiding with her.

Evolution Lab[]

In the Verne Mine, Orchid continued to lament over Lotus' condition and demanded to know whether Gelimer's experiments would truly bring him back. Gelimer assured her that Lotus would return in perfect form. He also proposed the draft of a massive airship that he was planning to build, Black Heaven, and convinced Orchid to approve the project.

Soon after, Gelimer moved Lotus from Orchid's room to a new area of the laboratory called the Evolution Lab. There, he finished transforming Lotus into the perfect Xenoroid, making him far stronger than his prototypes, Xenon and Beryl. Orchid soon discovered the Evolution Lab and demanded to know why he had moved Lotus without her permission. She threatened Gelimer and reminded him that his experiments should have concluded months ago. Gelimer promised that Lotus would awaken imminently and demonstrated his claim by releasing Lotus from his pod.

Orchid was overjoyed to see her brother awaken, but she quickly grew confused when he wouldn't respond to her. Gelimer then commanded Lotus to execute Program Alpha-97, which caused Lotus to turn on his sister and drain her half of the Wing Master powers. Gelimer revealed that he had succeeded in taking control of Lotus, who himself had the ability to control others, and explained that he had deliberately kept Lotus' brain in hibernation, since his powers were all that Gelimer wanted.

Severely injured, Orchid weakly asked Gelimer why he needed Lotus' body. Gelimer explained that the Black Mage required a vessel, not another follower, and with that, he left Orchid to die and took Lotus with him. Soon after, Orchid fell into a coma and was rescued by the Resistance. As Orchid called out to Lotus in her dreams, Lotus shed a tear for the sister whom he had been forced to turn against. Gelimer was surprised to see Lotus crying, as he had believed that he had suppressed all of Lotus' emotions and desires. As Gelimer set out to correct the behavior, Lotus also called out to Orchid.

As the Alliance continued to use the Evolution System in order to learn more about it, the system recorded the combat data of countless Alliance members and imprinted it onto Lotus in order to have him analyze and enhance his own battle algorithms, thus making him even stronger. Soon after, Gelimer sought out the Commanders and presented Lotus' enhanced body to them, claiming that it would be the perfect vessel for the Black Mage to inhabit.

Though the Commanders were plainly aware of Gelimer's hidden agenda, they nevertheless accepted him into their ranks in order to use his talents, though they refused to make him a full Commander. With the support of the Commanders and free from Orchid's oversight, Gelimer was in the perfect position to achieve his goals unobstructed.

Dimensional Invasion[]

In order to help Hilla with her plan to confront Magnus, who had seemingly betrayed the Black Mage, Gelimer developed a special type of portal called the Crimson Interdimensional Portal, which would allow Hilla's army to easily invade Grandis. After using the portal to arrive in Heliseum, Gelimer assured Hilla that with the success of his portal-generating device, Grandis would fall before them.

However, Hilla told Gelimer to relax and suggested that they spend time enjoying themselves, just as Magnus must have done. Gelimer replied that the reports indicated that Magnus was powerful, and that he had also been a Commander like Hilla. However, Hilla snapped at him that Magnus was nothing like her, claiming that Magnus couldn't keep his allegiances straight if they were made of unbendable steel. She also added that his intent to betray the Black Mage had been opaque to them all from the beginning.

Meeting Zero[]

Gelimer and Lotus were both present alongside the Commanders who met Alpha and Beta after the twins escaped from Mirror World. Though neither Gelimer nor Lotus spoke during the encounter, they both witnessed the Commanders offering the new Transcendents of Time a choice to join the Black Mage.

Black Heaven[]

After ousting Orchid, Gelimer became the new leader of the Black Wings. In his newfound position, Gelimer accelerated his plans to build Black Heaven, as well as to create an android army, an airfleet, and Retoxin bombs. Using his research on Xenon, Gelimer also finished augmenting Lotus' body with cybernetics, transforming him into the perfect Xenoroid. After the completion of Black Heavne, Gelimer hooked Lotus to the central processing system and loaded the airship with Retoxin bombs. He then created a large teleporting device to transport his android army to the airship, thereby making the airship nearly inpregnable.

After sending out a message of the airship's completion to the Black Wings via a secret code in the Edelstein newspaper, Gelimer had Hilla view his project, which shocked her with its immense magnitude. Later on, Gelimer met with Hilla and Arkarium in order to finalize the details of his plan, hoping to become a Commander with the success of his mission.

Soon after, Gelimer launched Black Heaven and his airfleet and began directing them towards Henesys as his first target. However, he was met by the Alliance in combat over Edelstein, where they began fighting in the air. After an Alliance member attempted to infiltrate Black Heaven with Belle, Checky, and Brighton, the three were stopped when Gelimer broadcasted his voice, explaining that he had been expecting them. He then ordered Lotus to take them out with his perfect targeting, resulting in Belle, Checky, and Brighton being shot down.

Later on, Gelimer betrayed his old comrade, Admiral Martini, poisoning him with Retoxin and leaving him to die. Martini was later found by the Alliance infiltration party, who were urged by Martini to stop Gelimer and his madness. As the Alliance party continued deeper into Black Heaven, Gelimer detected their presence and destroyed the elevator in order to stop them. Nevertheless, the Alliance member was able to enter the core of Black Heaven and defeat Lotus.

Furious, Gelimer ordered Lotus to get up and keep fighting. Just then, Orchid - who had awoken from her coma - reunited with her brother, who was able to break free from his programming. Unable to abide his creation rebelling against him, Gelimer used his kill switch on Lotus, who died in Orchid's arms. Gelimer then retreated and launched his Retoxin bombs, which rained down on Edelstein. He also let Retoxin gas leak into the room, poisoning the Alliance member, just as he had done to Martini.

The Alliance member struggled to stand and fight, while Gelimer mockingly dangled the antidote in front of their faces, ordering them to beg for it. He then laughed and smashed the antidote on the floor before ordering his Xenoroids to restrain the Alliance member and self-destruct. With Black Heaven about to crash in the wake of Orchid using her powers to destroy the Retoxin bombs in mid-air, Gelimer attempted to flee in his escape pod.

Unexpectedly, however, the Xenoroids developed survival instincts as they realized that Black Heaven was about to crash. They climbed onto the escape pod and begged their father to save them as he took off. In the sky, Gelimer attempted to cancel his self-destruct command, but the Xenoroids soon exploded and killed Gelimer in the process.

Gallery[]

Videos[]

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Trivia[]

If the player is using one of the Resistance classes during Black Heaven when he/she confronts Gelimer, he/she angrily curses him for Vita's death, only for Gelimer to reply that he doesn't even remember her, coldly showing how callous he is towards human life.

References[]

↑ Also provides the voice(s) of Xenon, Checky, Grand Master, and Aaron (Gerand Darmoor).
↑ Also provides the voice(s) of Mihile / Mihile (NPC), Eckhart, Von Leon, Neinheart (Cygnus Returns video), Stan, and Ericsson.
↑ Also provides the voice(s) of Luminous, Black Mage, White Mage (MapleStory Black Mage Prologue "Origins"), Freud (Shade cutscene), Damien, Elite Bosses (Black Knight (Hardin), Mad Mage, Rampant Cyborg (Quieg), Vicious Hunter, Bad Brawler), Grendel the Really Old, Melange, Sharen III, and Ergoth.

[1] Also provides the voice(s) of Xenon, Checky, Grand Master, and Aaron (Gerand Darmoor).

[2] Also provides the voice(s) of Mihile / Mihile (NPC), Eckhart, Von Leon, Neinheart (Cygnus Returns video), Stan, and Ericsson.

[3] Also provides the voice(s) of Luminous, Black Mage, White Mage (MapleStory Black Mage Prologue "Origins"), Freud (Shade cutscene), Damien, Elite Bosses (Black Knight (Hardin), Mad Mage, Rampant Cyborg (Quieg), Vicious Hunter, Bad Brawler), Grendel the Really Old, Melange, Sharen III, and Ergoth.

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