Visil



"Long, long ago… A civilization greater than our own flourished. Its people had solved all the world’s mysteries, and had power to rival the gods. This power was called science. Mankind gained dominion over nature and life itself. But humanity’s technology also cast a dark shadow over its future. Their forecasts and projections increasingly showed them their own imminent demise. In destroying the environment, humans were making their own habitat unlivable. The danger was realised too late, and billions died in the resulting climate change. Mankind faced extinction, but there were those who refused to give up, and kept fighting. The Yggdrasil Project was formed to augment and restore nature with human technology. Named for the mythological tree of life, the project hoped to purify the contaminated earth. It’s lead researcher worked tirelessly, collecting data to contribute to the project. But all the while, the deaths continued. The researcher lost his teammates, and soon after that, his wife and child… But he never gave up. He continued his research. At long last, he was able to synthesize a compound that would heal the land. But his experiments showed that a full recovery would still take thousands of years. To see the Yggdrasil Project through would take more time than mankind had left. The despairing researcher considered his options. As the last researcher alive, he felt an obligation to see the culmination of their work. In order to finish the job, the researcher took Yggdrasil’s power into himself… He relinquished his humanity to be forever fused with the great World Tree.

I was that man."

- Visil

Visil is a character from Etrian Odyssey, and serves as the main antagonist and final boss of the first game in the series.