Gelda Nebilim

Who is Gelda Nebilim?
Gelda Nebilim is a key character in Jade Curtiss´ personal story in Tales of the Abyss.

Professor Gelda Nebilim
Gelda Nebilim once formed part of the Oracle Knights of the Order of Lorelei as Locrian General, running the investigation under the orders of Fon Master Evenos into the relics known as Planetary Arte Catalysts, Six weapons that shared the power of Rem and Shadow, the Fonons of Light and Darkness.

After her retirement from the Oracle Knights, Gelda Nebilim took he knowledge and opened a school in the Silver Town, Keterburg. Located on the cold wintery north of Planet Auldrant, territory of the Malkuth Empire.

Unlike any teacher, Professor Nebilim shared an important bond with her students, since she treated them like the children she never had. If there was something bothering them, she would step in and try to help, a dedicated and loving teacher if you ask me.

After the arrival of Jade Curtiss as a young boy, Professor Nebilim felt the boy´s twisted mind of a mad scientist with no ability to distinguish the guilt or the pleasure ot taking a life for smaller it was. She changed his heart, and put him to develop his Fomicry methods towards a better cause.

Also, she constantly spoiled Saphir too much, turning him into a sort of Teacher´s pet. She also concealed the sneaking from Peony the Ninth from his isolated mansion into the school to learn like the other kids and see his friends, since she knew it was even more important for an emperor to understand his people when Peony became the next emperor of the Malkuth Empire.

All´s happiness, until the night Jade tried to use a Fonic Arte and it got out of control. The result ended in Professor´s Nebilim catching fire, barely getting out with a small breath of life. Jade, who was accompanied by Saphir, wook the dying Professor to the outskirts of the Town, in which Jade decided to use Fomicry to save the life of their beloved professor by using the process in a Fonic Arte. The result was a success, but with a slight error from the stage of Fomicry research. The Replica Nebilim was a monster, on the hunt to satisfy her hunger for First and Sixth fonons.

In that moment, Professor Gelda Nebilim oficially died.

Replica Nebilim
The Replica created by Jade Curtiss in an attempt to save Professor Gelda Nebilim´s life from his childish mistake.

As the research into Fomicry by the time just relied in two children, its process was still very fresh and unstable. The result of the Relication of Professor Nebilim was nothing but a Monster with a neverending hunger for First and Sixth Fonons, since the process rendered them weak in the mix of all Six fonons making her up.

The first thing she did, was to go in a killing rampage by taking the life of several Fonist in the region, to devour their First and Sixth Fonons. Following these events, the Malkuth Empire declared a state of emergency in which its Army went all out against the Rampaging Monster.

Finally, the strongest Fonists managed to seal her away over in what could be called, Nebilim´s Crag. An isolated cave at the tip of Mt. Roneal´s merciless cold.

Many years later, Saphir who became Dist the Reaper for the God Generals saw his own Plan or resurrecting the Professor, which finally involved the very own Planetary Arte Catalysts she researched. With the possible bother it was to actually search for them, he rearranged the play, so Jade and his group could search for them believing it could give them astonishing power, and before Van found it for his own.

Finally after gathering all six catalysts, the group heads to Nebilim´s Crag, where Dist shows up as well. The result, his plan is triggered, releasing the once sealed away Replica, now able to sustain herself thanks to the sixth catalysts giving her a neverending supply of First and Sixth Fonons.

After the long battle, the connection between the Catalysts and Nebilim is severed rendering her weak and descomposing herself. Before she steps into the Fonic Glyph to recover, Jade uses the Planetary Fonic Arte on her, with an instant obliteration.

With the Monster Replica eliminated by the very research she developed, Gelda Nebilim´s memory was once again given a clean slate. And if we could even say, she could finally rest in peace.