Angler Father

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Angler Father (Alter)
HometownAngler Company headquarters
GenderMale
RaceCyborg
FamilySenya Angler (daughter)
Nicky Angler (son)
Laha Angler (daughter)
Cosim (son)
EmblemAnglerfish
AffiliationsAngler Company
Gerand Darmoor
MinionsAngler Company robots
EnemiesElders of Grandis
The Adversary
Maple Alliance
StatusAlive
Name (Other Servers)
KoreaMS앨터
(Elter)
JapanMSアルター
(Alter)
ChinaMS艾尔特
(Elter)
MapleSEAElter
Voice Actors
GlobalMSBrent Mukai (past)[1][2]
Nicolas Roye (Odium)[1][3]
KoreaMSYoungsun Kim[4]

The Angler Father is the founder of the Angler Company and the creator of Karote. Though his true name is unknown, his current body is designed in the shape of a rabbit Anima Constable of Odium, which he has named Alter.

Story

Creating Karote

The Angler Father was a Vessel created by the researchers of Odium. The researchers modified his body and turned him into a cyborg in the hope of fusing him with a Godsphere and turning him into an Adversary to be used as a weapon in the war against the Ancient Gods. However, the Angler Father was ultimately deemed a defective Vessel and was thrown off the edge of Odium by the robotic Guardians. Because his body had been replaced by metal, he sank to the bottom of the sea. There, he encountered a giant anglerfish, whose light helped him begin the process of creating a large tower in order to escape the ocean. Upon reaching the surface and seeing the rising sun, he believed that he had never been a failure, but rather, the elders had deemed him one because they were afraid that they had created an Adversary even more powerful than they were. He then continued building the tower in order to reach Odium floating in the sky. Just as he reached the top, however, a large mechanical beast known as Guardian Kalos, who had been created by the elders as a sentinel, deemed him unworthy to enter Odium and reduced the tower to rubble in an instant.

The Angler Father then fell back to the bottom of the sea, where he realized that if he couldn't reach Odium himself, then he would need the help of a true Vessel. He continued rebuilding the tower and stealing the robotic Guardians at the entrance to Odium each time before Kalos would destroy it. He then enchanted the tower and turned it into a large artifact, in which he created statues that contained his memories. Potential Vessels that came in contact with the statues would be transported to a subspace containing the reprogrammed Guardians, who would attack the Vessel in order to determine whether they would be deemed worthy by Kalos. The Angler Father then enchanted the tower so that it would build itself each time that it was destroyed. Though it naturally took a lifetime to complete, the presence of a Vessel would accelerate its completion to the span of less than a day. Because of this, the tower became known as Karote, the Unending Tower.

The Angler Company

The Angler Father would later found the Angler Company, a national-level arms dealer organization that used the technology stolen from Odium in order to create powerful weapons that would be sold to the warmongers of Grandis, including the High Flora. Using all his resources, the Angler Father built Company headquarters in the middle of the stormy seas of Grandis, where an army of powerful robots guarded his technology. At one point, the Angler Father traveled to a remote region of Grandis, where he kidnapped an unknown rabbit Anima who had wandered from his people's refuge. After bringing the rabbit Anima back to headquarters, the Angler Father brutally tore apart his limbs and internal organs, replacing them with cybernetics in the same way that the elders of Grandis had experimented upon him. Although the purpose of this experiment remained unknown, it is speculated that the Angler Father intended to use the rabbit Anima's cybernetic body to disguise himself as a mechanical Constable of Odium for his future plans to invade the laboratory.

In addition, the Angler Father - obsessed with fulfilling his hardwired purpose as a contaminated Vessel - devoted his time and energy into creating a Godsphere, intending to fuse himself with it and become an Adversary. Despite his efforts, however, the Angler Father was unable to create a working Godsphere, though he nevertheless salvaged his efforts by combining his failed experiments into a cyborg which he called Cosim. Programmed to show the utmost devotion towards his creator, Cosim regarded his maker as his father and experienced a hardwired desire to earn his father's approval. Unbeknownst to Cosim, however, the Angler Father had incorporated his failed attempt at a Godsphere inside him, which served as Cosim's heart and power source.

Soon after Cosim's creation, several rabbit Anima tracked down Company headquarters, hoping to find their friend whom the Angler Father had kidnapped. Upon Cosim reporting the rabbit Anima's arrival, the Angler Father asked him what he believed was the right action to do, noting that Cosim had been programmed to have impeccable judgement. Though Cosim admitted that the intruders had no malicious intent, he nevertheless recognized that anyone who had discovered Company headquarters needed to be eliminated at once. Because of this, Cosim successfully carried out his first mission to eliminate the intruders, much to his father's satisfaction. Some time after Cosim's creation, the Angler Father would also create three other cyborg children to carry out his will: Senya, Nicky, and Laha Angler, who took on the surname 'Angler' to denote themselves as part of the Angler family.

Destruction at Headquarters

With an army of advanced machines, the Angler Company developed a fearsome reputation for its brutality, striking terror in the hearts of those who heard its name. Despite this, the Angler Father remained obsessed with fulfilling his purpose, eventually succeeding in creating a perfected imitation Godsphere, which would serve as his heart. However, the Angler Father also realized that in order to be made whole, he needed to fill the heart with a large amount of power. He then summoned Cosim and informed him that he was leaving the Company's affairs in his hands, as it would be too risky for himself to leave headquarters with the heart. He explained to Cosim that if someone were to come after him, it would be to take the heart, but more specifically, the power contained inside the heart.

Cosim expressed his confusion, as he had been programmed to believe that his father's memory chip was the most important thing, though his father impatiently dismissed Cosim's words and emphasized that the memory chip was nowhere near as important as his father. He then declared that there had been many failures along the way, though he added that even those failures had been useful, which he could see just by looking at Cosim. Reveling in his success, he laughed as he wondered aloud what the elders up above would say if they could see him now. After placing the Godsphere heart inside him, he ordered Cosim to begin harvesting more power, to which Cosim obediently agreed. Cosim and his siblings then began undertaking missions to harvest more energy, no matter how risky, as they had been programmed to obey their father no matter what.

During one such operation, Cosim was attacked by the Primacy in the Arcus desert, where he was rescued and repaired by the Ancient God Gob, who had formed a partnership with the Primacy. Due to his damage, Cosim's memory chip began malfunctioning, causing him to witness memories of the rabbit Anima whom the Angler Father had kidnapped long ago. Mistakenly believing that he was the rabbit Anima, Cosim concluded that his father had forced him to kill his own friends. Furious, Cosim immediately returned to Company headquarters and hacked into the central system, forcing the Angler Company robots to turn on each other and destroy the building. He then confronted his father, who noted that he seemed to have made a mistake, as Cosim still appeared to have some memories of his old life left. Cosim immediately demanded to know whether the memories that he had seen belonged to him, and whether his father had forced him to kill his friends with his own hands. Cosim's father laughed as he claimed that Cosim was merely a robot that he had created, adding that it wasn't in Cosim's programming to feel anger towards him either. A furious Cosim demanded to know how his father could feel no guilt over his actions, to which his bemused father pointed out that Cosim was the one who had killed his friends himself.

At Cosim's shocked expression, his father noted that it wasn't because he had been programmed to follow his orders, but because he had made the choice to do so himself after being asked what he believed to be the right judgement call. He noted that only one rabbit Anima's sacrifice was needed to complete the Company's research, and that it was Cosim who had created the needless deaths of all the others, as it had all been his own mechanical decisions. Furious, Cosim unleashed energy attacks at his father, who easily dodged them and noted that he seemed to be behaving irrationally, just like a human. He then reminded Cosim that it didn't matter if his main body sustained a small amount of damage, after which he offered to forgive Cosim for damaging the Company if he fixed his actions immediately. Cosim noted that it would be the rational thing to do by begging for forgiveness and fixing his actions, noting that doing so and continuing on with his usual life would be the mechanical thing to do, as only humans would risk their lives in a fight that they knew they couldn't win. However, he declared that he could no longer live like a machine anymore, as his human heart was starting to come back to life.

At Cosim's words, his father merely laughed and replied that he was nothing more than a robot with a modified heart, though Cosim retorted that he was different from him. His father admitted that he didn't want to kill Cosim, claiming that hunting rabbits wasn't easy, and that he had also poured valuable resources into creating him. As he moved to attack, Cosim noted that he knew that destroying his father's main body wouldn't achieve anything, as the Angler Triton failsafe would activate the moment that he tried to take the perfected heart, and that his father's memory chip and heart would simply be moved into a new body. Cosim's father was surprised to learn that Cosim knew about the failsafe protocol, for which he regretted giving Cosim so much oversight on the Company. Just then, Cosim teleported behind his father and used a laser beam to push him away before taking the power source within his perfected heart and escaping. As Cosim fled the exploding Company headquarters, he concluded that he must have once had a human heart, as he would never have been programmed to have the capacity to feel guilt or anger or betrayal if he had only been a machine, making him certain that he must have been the rabbit Anima whom his father had kidnapped. In the aftermath of Cosim's betrayal, the Angler Company robots turning on each other caused a large explosion that destroyed Company headquarters, severely wounding both the Angler Father and Cosim. As a result of his severe injuries, Cosim was freed from his father's programming, after which he continued to operate in his broken state in order to prevent himself from falling back under his father's control. With Cosim having stolen the Godsphere, the injured Angler Father was left with no choice but to bring the Company underground, causing many to believe that it had gone extinct altogether.

Partnership with Darmoor

In the shadows, the Angler Father continued running the Company and forced his remaining children, who were also injured to some extent in the explosion, to harvest large quantities of power in order to create a new Godsphere. These excursions put a target on the Angler family, which soon drew the attention of Gerand Darmoor. Darmoor followed rumors of the Company's return and met with the Angler Father. During the meeting, Darmoor revealed to the Angler Father that a new Adversary had been created in the aftermath of Black Heaven, and that he was planning to destroy the Seal Stone within them. The Angler Father then allied with Darmoor, hoping to use the Adversary to build Karote and open the path to Odium. Some time later, the Angler Father transferred his heart and memory chip into a new body, created in the image of a Constable - Anima-like robots who maintained Odium. This body was created as a robotic rabbit Anima, with the Angler Father taking on the name Alter while inhabiting it.

Stealing Power

As part of his efforts to create a new Godsphere, the Angler Father sent Senya to Savage Terminal, where she attempted to use a cleaning device that would acidify the waters of Savage Terminal, leaving behind a source of bioenergy at the cost of the destruction of the moon. However, Senya was stopped by the efforts of the Adversary and Cosim, who was working alongside the elders of Grandis to stop Darmoor and his allies. Later on, Nicky was sent on a mission to Reverse City in the Arcane River, where he began harvesting large quantities of pure Erda for his father, while also creating a black hole generator. After being stopped by the Adversary, Nicky also ascertained that the Company would be able to use the Adversary to reach Odium. After the battle of Cernium, the Angler Father sent Senya to Hotel Arcus in order to have her seize control of the ancient superweapons buried in the desert. However, Cosim quickly warned the Alliance, which then undertook a mission to stop her. Nevertheless, Senya succeeded in drawing the Adversary to Arcus, where Nicky was sent to manipulate the Adversary into completing Karote. After the completion of Karote, Nicky attempted to hack into Guardian Kalos, though he was defeated by the Adversary. Just as the Angler Father had anticipated, Nicky's programmed behavior had allowed for both the Adversary and Kalos to be removed from the board in one swoop. As Nicky fell to his apparent death, he came to realize that his free will had been overridden and confronted his father about it through a phone call. He then begged his father to say that he was proud, to which the Angler Father consented before Nicky fell.

Invasion of Odium

With the path to Odium open, the Angler Father ordered Senya and Laha to lead the invasion fleet so that they could claim the power source of Odium. Using their technology, the Angler Company hacked into the Constables and Guardians of Odium in order to bring them under Company command, intending to manipulate the Adversary into helping them open the path to the laboratory. Using his Constable body and his new identity as 'Alter', the Angler Father infiltrated Odium following the invasion, where he staged an operation to join the Adversary's party. As the Adversary and the Glory Guard entered Odium, they found Alter being attacked by the reprogrammed robotic Guardians of Odium. After the Adversary destroyed the Guardians, Alter thanked them for saving him before asking who they were and how they had come through the door. He then realized that they were a Vessel, adding that there was one amongst the intruders as well. He noted that the Adversary was the one who had defeated Guardian Kalos and introduced himself, greeting them as the Vessel of an Adversary and explaining that he was under the impression that their kind had gone extinct after the researchers had decommissioned every model at the end of the war.

Confused, the Adversary asked him which war he was talking about, to which Alter explained that it was the war to slay the last god left in the world, adding that they must have heard of it. The Adversary then realized that Alter was referring to the war against the Ancient Gods. Alter told the Adversary that after the Ancient War, the researchers had disappeared in accordance to the will of the world, hoping to wash away the sins that they had committed in the laboratory. Alter also explained that the researchers had left Kalos and the other Guardians on watch, while the Constables maintained order, as they had hoped that it would be enough to keep their technology out of the wrong hands. However, after Kalos had fallen, strange airships had appeared in the sky, with the intruders somehow knowing exactly what they were looking for. He explained that the intruders had spread out and had taken the residential district with precision tactics and coordination, reprogramming the Guardians to turn on the Constables.

Brighton asked if the technology in the laboratory was still intact, to which Alter replied that the intruders had only taken the residential district, with the laboratory still remaining secure. He explained that several Constables had barricaded themselves inside, where they were devising a strategy to retake the residential district. However, he added that the intruders had captured multiple Constables, who were being interrogated as they spoke. He explained that he had managed to escape from their interrogations, though he expected that the intruders would soon find him. Alter told the Adversary that he had hoped to find a way to reboot the Guardians and restore their previous firmware, though he had instead run into them. He noted that a Vessel arriving in Odium at such a moment was a highly improbably contradiction, and that the researchers would have called it destiny.

The Adversary then told Alter that there was a corrupted Transcendent in the world down below, and that they had come in search of the power of the Adversary in order to stop him. Alter suggested that they visit the residential district as their first stop, explaining that the other Constables would accept them as he had, as they were a true Vessel, and one from outside the laboratory, at that. Alter then asked the Adversary to clear a path, and so the Adversary fought through the Enhanced Olivine Guardians and the Enhanced Diamond Guardians. Just as they began moving forward, Oz heard the sound of machines approaching. Alter realized that the intruders had arrived and suggested that they hide. They then saw Senya and Laha appear with fortified Angler Company robots. Upon witnessing some of the Guardians exploding, Laha noted that she had thought that someone was destroying the Guardians, though she was unimpressed to find that they were merely self-destructing because of conflicts in their systems, adding that the researchers were foolish for having made so many ‘junk robots'. Laha then asked Senya whether Darmoor's Apostle was here yet, adding that since she knew how to enter the laboratory, they ought to call her and quit wasting their time.

Senya told Laha to be patient, reminding her that their father had warned them not to push Darmoor, as he was an important client. She added that their father's words were applicable to Darmoor's people as well, and that while she didn't care whether Laha destroyed all the Constables, she reminded her sister to watch her attitude, warning that there would otherwise be trouble. She also reminded Laha of what their father did to things that he couldn't control, to which Laha angrily told Senya to be quiet, threatening to rip out her memory chip and toss it into the sea before storming away. As Senya watched Laha leave, she noted to herself that she was sure that their father had heard their conversation. Alter was shocked to know that the enemy knew of a way to open the door, and that they wished to destroy all the Constables. Just as Oz began wondering who the Apostle of Darmoor could be, Senya called out to the Glory Guard and asked them to reveal themselves, promising that her sister was gone. She then brightly smiled at the Adversary and asked how they had been, noting that she hadn't expected them to arrive so soon. She then knowingly asked whether somebody had helped them along, though she added that they likely wouldn't tell her who it was anyways.

The Adversary ignored her question and instead noted that the girl whom she had been speaking with was her sister. Senya introduced her sister as Laha Angler, adding that they likely hadn't met before. She joked that Laha was a simpleton who never listened to her, adding that, as an older sister, she worried about Laha a lot. She noted that her little brother didn't listen either, though he had at least been cute. She admitted that his face had been ugly, though she regretted making fun of him for it. The Adversary then realized that Senya was referring to T-Boy, and that if the Company didn't retrieve him, then it likely meant that he hadn't survived the fall off Karote. Senya then warned the Adversary that they should stay out of Laha's way, as Laha wasn't one to use her words to express herself. She then noticed Alter and recognized him as a doll created by the ‘old men'. She laughed that the Adversary was the same as they had been back in the desert, still getting attached to lifeless objects. She then amusedly noted that they ought to stop trusting people before thanking them for cheering her up. With that, she decided to take her leave, explaining that she was busy enough with her father's work that she would look the other way while they left, adding that they wouldn't change anything by sticking around anyways. After Senya left, the Glory Guard headed through the doors and entered the residential district.

There, they encountered two more Constables with mechanical Anima features named Sya-sya and Kaya. Alter introduced the Adversary as a true Vessel, to which Kaya noted that their presence indicated an unprecedented level of activity in the world down below. Sya-sya added that Guardian Kalos and his subordinates were down, the laboratory was under threat, and a true Vessel had appeared, causing her to wonder whether the researchers were aware about those developments. Alter then asked Sya-sya and Kaya to let the other Constables know that they were all in danger, as he had overheard the intruders mention that they had found someone who could reach the laboratory, meaning that they had no use for the Constables anymore. Sya-sya was shocked, realizing that it could only mean that they had brought one of the researchers, noting that such a thing would be impossible. Kaya noted that it wasn't necessarily impossible, and that if it was true, then they were all in danger. Kaya asked about the Constables in the laboratory, as well as the test subjects inside. Alter replied that their investigation was still pending, after which he suggested to the Adversary that they enter the laboratory together, as it would help them in their research to learn more about the power of the Adversary. He also added that he would be unable to reach the laboratory without them.

The Adversary asked where the laboratory was, to which Alter pointed out the gold-roofed complex in the distance. He explained that the researchers slept in the red-roofed buildings in the residential district and worked in the gold-roofed complex. He told the Adversary that in his caretaker duties, he had spotted traces of the researchers' work still in the laboratory, which he believed would contain the answers that they were looking for. Alter then explained that there used to be stairs in the center of the village that led up to the laboratory, though the Constables in the laboratory had deactivated them as part of their barricade. Though there was another way inside, he explained that the path was blocked by Angler Company robots. With no other choice, the Glory Guard decided to head the long way, where they found a huge number of Company robots occupying the route. The Adversary then suggested that Brighton and Oz attack from both sides, while they and Alter distract the enemy.

The Adversary then fought through the robots, with Alter noting that their combat skills were practically immeasurable. Suddenly, Laha arrived and smugly declared that she had been right to think that something was off. She recognized the Adversary as the famed warrior of the Alliance who had been giving her family difficulties. However, she laughed and added that she wasn't mad about it, as she hated her family anyways. Upon seeing how unimpressive the Adversary appeared, Laha expressed her disappointment in her siblings for failing to defeat them. Laha proudly proclaimed that she was different from her siblings, adding that her father should have sent her in the first place. She explained that she was 100% android, and that if she had been sent instead, not only would Kalos have been subdued, but unlike Nicky, she would never have allowed the Adversary to escape. Her face then contorted in anger as she declared that Nicky had gotten off easy. She promised the Adversary that if they ever ran into her father, they would undoubtedly wish that they had died at Karote. The Adversary then yelled for Alter to get back as Laha shot a blast of energy from her exosuit. Laha claimed that her attack had been self-defense, as she had been ordered to guard the door to the gold-roofed complex. She then told the Adversary that whatever happened next was on them before threateningly declaring that she wasn't as careful as she should be with human bones. However, she promised that she wouldn't kill them, at least not yet.

The Adversary then faced off against Laha and managed to defeat her after a fierce battle. Laha was shocked that she had been beaten, and upon realizing that they didn't even have the Godsphere, she declared that they had no right to even call themselves an Adversary before mocking them, claiming that they weren't as special as they were said to be after all. Laha angrily asked what her siblings and her father saw in them when Oz and Brighton rushed to the scene and found the Adversary and Alter facing off against Laha. Alter then told them to hurry, as they now had a chance to open the door. He told the Adversary that since they were a Vessel, no door in Odium would stay locked for them. Just as the Glory Guard opened the door and headed inside, Alter asked the Adversary to let the other Constables know that the residential district was still in danger. The Adversary immediately realized that Alter was planning to face Laha alone in order to buy them time and urged them not to. However, Alter told them that he had done nothing but stay behind them ever since they had met. He then asked to be allowed to correct that error and fulfill his duties as a Constable. Upon realizing that the door had been opened, Laha angrily ordered Alter to get out of her way, though he continued distracting her long enough for the Adversary to make it through.

Soon after, Kaling arrived and opened the path to the heart of Odium, where she discovered that the power source of Odium was her creation, Hundun, the most powerful of her Four Perils who had been forcibly fused with the World Heart by the elders. After Laha and Kaling came into conflict over who would take Hundun and the World Heart, the two engaged in a fierce battle, during which the Adversary was given the World Heart by Hundun. Before Kaling and Laha could stop them, the Adversary and their allies were able to escape into Shangri-La with the help of Master Tai Yu, who had arrived to assist them. Just then, Senya arrived with several Angler Company robots and asked Laha if she was happy now, adding that her actions were the very reason why she had been meant to stay put until their father arrived. Senya then pointed out that the Adversary was gone with the Godsphere, and on top of that, Laha had angered their client, adding that she was disappointed in her. A terrified Laha then noticed her father, Alter, approach from the shadows. Kaling was surprised to find that Alter was the Company founder, noting that he looked different from what she remembered. She then realized that his body had been destroyed in the explosion, and that he had created his new body in the form of Odium's Constables.

Alter greeted Kaling as an Apostle of Darmoor and apologized on Laha's behalf for her ungracious actions. He noted that children could be quite unruly when they weren't being supervised, to which Kaling told him that Laha had claimed to have acted on his orders. She then asked whether he intended to become enemies with Darmoor, to which Alter explained that there had been a misunderstanding, as he had never authorized Laha to attack her. He then conceded that Darmoor deserved more than a simply apology before approaching Laha. Laha pleaded with her father, claiming that she had only done it for his sake, to which Alter reassured her that he knew that, as he had designed her to bring him exactly what he had wanted, adding that she didn't need to make excuses for that. He noted that it was commendable of her that she had wanted to bring him the Godsphere and all the power of Odium, adding that he knew that she would never let him down like her brother.

Upon hearing his words, a terrified Laha promised him that she wouldn't, adding that she only did what he had made her to do. Alter then thanked her before ripping out her mechanical heart and destroying it. He then asked Kaling whether she was satisfied, adding that Hundun was hers to take, and that he believed that even without the Godsphere, she would find some use for it. Kaling warned Alter that his next mistake would be his last, adding that he ought to consider himself lucky. As Kaling turned to leave, Alter ordered Senya to have the androids haul out all the technology left in the laboratory, as he believed that they would be able to get something out of what the elders had left behind. After Alter left, Senya approached Laha's broken body and noted to herself that her father had killed Laha in front of her in order to demonstrate that he could kill her too. Though she knew that he was more than capable of it for now, she also noted that things changed. She then decided that she needed to see Cosim. After hacking into her father's communication logs, Senya determined that Cosim had been captured after returning to Company headquarters. Anticipating Senya's betrayal, Alter marked Senya as a target in the system, causing the Angler Company army to turn on her. Nevertheless, Senya was able to take the perfected Godsphere that Cosim had stolen from their father, after which she vowed to take down the Angler Father and avenge her family.

NPC

Karote

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Location Cutscenes


Odium

Road to the Castle's Gate 5

Alter
Location Road to the Castle's Gate 5


Road to the Castle's Gate 3

Alter
Location Road to the Castle's Gate 3


Road to the Castle's Gate 1

Alter
Location Road to the Castle's Gate 1


General Area by the Castle's Gate

Alter
Location General Area by the Castle's Gate


Residential District

Alter
Location Residential District


Captured Alley 1

Alter
Location Captured Alley 1


Captured Alley 4

Alter
Location Captured Alley 4


Trivia

  • His original name, Elter, means "parent" in German. This fits the plot as him being the patriarch and head of the Angler family.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Confirmed by the GMS Community Manager.
  2. Also provides the voice(s) of Warrior (Male) and The First Explorer / Mysterious Voice.
  3. Also provides the voice(s) of Night Walker (Male), Knight (Mihile storyline), and Ensorcelled Knight (Mihile storyline).
  4. Also provides the voice(s) of Will, Albaire, Limbo, Elwin, White Mage (Borderless/Convergence), Master Tai Yu, and Ryan.