"Laments of a False Messiah"
by Azusa Kuraino
erica.drescher@gte.net
~Fin.~
author's notes:
This story-- or whatever you want to call it-- grew out of a conversation I had with a friend of mine about Biblical allusions in Xenogears. My standpoint was that the allusions were meant to be indirect and not as specific parallels, since the Xenogears world, while similar to our own, wasn't an exact mirror of it. Nonetheless, I decided it might be interesting to see if I could draw any parallels between parts of the Bible and specific events in the game and in the lives of certain characters, and... this was the result. ^^ Granted, I'm not exactly the world's greatest religious scholar, and none of this is intended as an affront to any religious writings or doctrines. Though some of my friends have done stories based upon similar principles, I'd like to think mine is distinctively different in some way or another. ^_^