A-801 This is the order sent out by the government of Japan at Neo-Tokyo-2 in "Air", The End of Evangelion. This order means "The abolishment of the special legal protection towards the intelligence organisation of NERV, and the transfer of its command to the Japanese government." Since "A-17" was issued when the 8th Angel was captured, there has been other "A" orders. They were all emergency action orders related to NERV. Ê

Aoba Shingeru An operator of the Central Military Operaton Room in NERV HQ. His rank is lieutenant. His responsibilities include communication, and data analysis. His hobby is guitar. Birthday is May 5. Bloodtype A Ê

Apotheosis The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing him among the gods. Glorification and exaltation. It is the idea of creating something in the image of god, where that image is from the first angel Adam.Ê

A.T Field Abbreviation of "ABSOLUTE TERROR FIELD". A physical barrier of absolute field put out by the Angels and EVAs. It boasts enormous defensive power and it is able to greatly reduce the power of all attacking weapons. The ability of EVA to neutralize the A.T.Field of the Angels is one major reason why EVA was considered as the only weapon against the Angels. However, the same A.T.Field does not exist only in the Angels or EVA's. Human also possesses this field. With this A.T.Field, human is able to keep separate from each other, and to stay in seperate physical forms. Nagisa Kaworu explained A.T.Field as "A barrier of heart that everybody has", "a personaly barrier that no other can penetrate" and "heart's light barrier".

Kabbalah Kabbalah which means tradition in Hebrew Culture, is a study of Divinity and the relationship between God and His Creation, based on the premises of revealed truth. The Kabbalah takes man beyond the normative understanding of reason. It has uncovered many of the infinite layers of the secrets of Life, of Creation, of Soul, of the Heavenly Spheres. The Kabbalah is a highly esoteric strain of mysticism within Judaism that first arose in Spain in the twelfth century and it is also claimed to be a collection of secret knowledge handed down directly from God to Adam and Moses that it provides the initiate with the ability to approach God directly.Ê Ê . . . . . . Ê Ê

The First Impact This was according to the history book which Shinji and his classmates study. About 65 millions years ago, a massive meteorite from the outer space which impacted at Caribbean Sea had triggered a serious decline in the globe's temperature and created a kind of nuclear winter that drove dinosaurs and other species to extinction. After this heavy impact, Earth took a very long time to recover from this catastrophe. This catastrophe is known as the First Impact.Ê Ê The

Second Impact This is called so because the catastrophe was the largest since the 1st Impact, 65 million years ago. Another meteorite hit Antarctica, causing the whole continent's ice to melt. There were radical changes in Earth's environment: Floods, Volcanoic eruptions and change of Earth's axis etc. These, combined with the civil war on a world scale afterwards, caused half of the world's population to die.Ê Usually its cause was explained as a massive meteorite fallen on the Markam Mountain in Antartica. But in fact its cause was artificial: SEELE and Gendou's group reverted Adam, the first Angel, back into embryo before other Angels woke up, and this caused the Second Impact.Ê Ê Ê The

Third Impact A large-scale catatstrophe following the First (Giant) Impact and the Second Impact, as foreseen by human. It had been said that this would be started by from alien Angels who came into contact with Adam stored underground beneath Tokyo-3, and therefore EVA and NERV were there to protect this from happening. However, the truth is that they were there precisely to start the Third Impact, the real objective being the Human Complementation Plan.Ê .

Lilith A giant crucified on a red cross at the extreme depth under NERV HQ. Its face is covered with a mask which has the Arm of SEELE drawn on it. Its hands are penetrated by nails that are stuck on the cross. Although it does not have the lower body when it was pierced by the Spear of Longinus, it grows its lower body after the Spear was pulled out.Ê Originally the Human Complementation Plan planned to use this Lilith. However SEELE changed the plan after the Spear was lost, and they attempted to use EVA01 for Complementation purpose. At that moment, Keel Lorentz says this is "the copy of Lilith". By this it seems that EVA01 was actually made by copying Adam but used Lilith's cells.Ê Ê

Tree of Life Called SEIMEI no KI. When the Human Complementation Plan starts, EVA-01 grows into something like a tree, with its roots spreaded towards the sky and its branches extended to the ground. Regarding this Fuyutsuki comments, "EVA-01 is returned to the Tree of Life". A Tree of Life that has its roots and branches inverted appears on both Hindu scriptures and the Kabbalah. This was called "the Inverted Tree"Ê Ê Tree of Wisdom In the Garden of Eden, there was a kind of fruit which grew on the Tree of Wisdom called 'The Fruit of Wisdom' which was not allowed to be eat by God. After Adam and Eve ate the fruits on the Tree of Wisdom, they had lost their eternity life and had been forced to leave Eden. Actually, the Fruit of Wisdom is the power of science used by mankind to continue lives in this world. It provides us the ideas of living in bad environments.Ê Ê

Tree Of Sephiroth Sehuiroto no KI is graph of symbols in Kabbalah (A mystery sect of Judaism which built around the mystery interpretations of "Torah"). It represented, as a diagram, the physical rendition of the 3-dimensional images of the spiritual realm. The same diagram can also be found in Gendou's office. The diagram is composed of ten circles linked by 22 paths.Ê The ten circles represent a meaning of their own. 1st (kuteru) is the circle of surpass god's nature. 2nd (hokuma) is circle of wisdom, purity and point of creativity. 3rd (binaa) is circle of concious, the spring of creativeness. 4th circle (hesedo) is love, adore and greatness. 5th circle (teiin) represent law, power of god, evil's discovery and anger. 6th (rahaniimu) is known for beauty and hypocracy. 7th (neeshiaha) means foreverness, expansion and victory. 8th (hodo) is for pride. 9th (iesodo) is the fundation of all things, in terms of god's creativeness. The last but not least, the 10th circle (marukuto) represents kingdom, resources and humanity.

Dead Sea Scrolls Known as URA SHIKAI BUNSHO. A document that seems to be used by Seele for the direction of their actions. Following what was recorded in "Secret Dead Sea Scrolls", Seele built EVA and fought the battles against the Angels. It seems that this same document also recorded all invading Angels. By the way, the "Dead Sea Scrolls" as exists in real life was dug out from a cave near the Dead Sea of Israel in 1947. Its contents include the "Old Testament" of Bible and its acryophaea.Ê Ê Human Complementation Plan (JINRUI HOKAN KEIKAKU) A plan to induce artificial evolution for human, who had reached an impasse in becoming a colony of worthless, to become a total single-form organism. It was under the direction of SEELE, and the secret agency NERV was the implementation organisation. However, the expectations of SEELE seems to be different from the objective of NERV (which means the objective of Gendou and Fuyutsuki).Ê EVA was in fact not planned as a weapon. It was built with the aim to realise this plan. More specifically, it seems that the plan is to artificially start the Third Impact, thus erasing all human, and after human shed their physical form, they will then evolute into a new stage.Ê

The Secret of EVA-00 EVA-00(Zerogoki has berserk two times in the TV series. In the first berserk, EVA-00 wants to hit Ikari Gendou who is in 2nd Activation Experiment Laboratory. The Second berserk is also occurred in the same laboratory. But this time, the target is Ayanami Rei. The only person who hates Ayanami Rei and Ikari Gendou is Akagi Naoko because Ikari Gendou had lied to her and Rei-1 is the clone of Ikari Yui. So it seems that Akagi Naoko's soul might be absorbed into EVA-00 after she died and this is also the only way to explain why EVA-00 berserk.Ê Ê The Secret of EVA-01 (SHOGOKI) EVA-01 TEST TYPE. The first EVA to be thrown into real battle. It is the second EVA, after EVA-00, that was built in EVA HQ. Although it contributes a lot in its participation of many battles against Angels, it also behaves unexpectedly in many occasions: going berserk, starting up without the presence of Entry Plug, staying active after its activity time limit etc. It obtained the S2 Engine directly by defeating and devouring the 14th Angel.Ê Colouring is purple. Dedicated pilot is Third Children -- Ikari Shinji. It seems that inside it lives the soul of his mother -- Ikari Yui. Also, it seems that the physical body of EVA-01 was made using Lilith. This is why in the case when the Spear of Longinus was lost, EVA-01 became the only substitute of Lilith as the tool for Human Complementation.Ê Ê

The Secret of EVA-02 (NIGOKI) EVA-02 PRODUCTION MODEL. The first EVA in the world to be built for real battles. Design and manufacture of components were done by Japan. The final assembly and start-up experiment were done in Germany. It went through a real battle when it battled with the 6th Angel which suddenly appeared during its delivery to Japan. Afterwards, it joined in the defence of Neo-Tokyo-3 and assumed the responsibility of ambushing the Angels. Colouring is red. Dedicated pilot is Second Children -- Souryu.Asuka.Langley. Inside EVA-02 lived the soul of Asuka's mother -- Souryu.Kyouko.Langley.Ê Ê

What are Evangelions? The formal name is "General-purpose Humanoid Decisive Combat Weapon - Artificial Human (Adroid) Evangelion" [Hanyou Ninkei Kessen Heiki - Jinzou Ningen Evangerion]. In order to implement the Human Complementation Project, 14 years of time and astronomical amount of money were used to build Evangelion. Being able to deploy A.T.Field as well as neutralize it, it is the only weapon that human have to counter the Angels. It takes its power from electricity and without external supply it can maintain only 5 minutes of activity. Thus usually it takes the electrical power it needs throught Umbilical Cable. (EVA from EVA-05 onwards doess not need this cable because it has the S2 Engine) Originally EVA does not have soul. To have a soul in EVA, EVA-01 had the soul of Igari Yui living in it.Ê The origin of the name "EVA" was thought to derive from Eve, the wife of Adam, from the "Old Testament" of Bile, and "Evangel", the English for the gospel.Ê Ê

Command Announcement Office (Command Centre) (HATSUREISHO) A command room located inside the Central Combat Operation Room of NERV HQ. It reminds one of the bridge of a military ship. During combat, seven people including the commander, deputy commander, combat operation leader would gather in this place to form the core staff. All the instructions would then come from this room.Ê There are more than two such command centres in NERV HQ. Since the first was destroyed during the intrusion by the 14th Angel, the second command centre is in use.Ê Ê Ê

NERV (TOKUMUKIKAN NERV) An extra-legel organisation which aims at pushing the Human Complementation Plan. It was organised by moving the whole GEHIRN, the investigation body for the same plan, into this new body. The headquarter is located at Neo-Tokyo-3. It is also an international body with branches in Germany and USA etc. Although to outsiders it is an organisation directly under UN, in fact UN has absolutely no influence over it. It is under the command of SEELE. Holding several Evangelion, the General-Purpose Humanoid Decisive-Battle Weapon, it possesses the only combat force capable to counter the Angels. However, its vulnerability to anti-personnel combat was fully exposed when it received attacks from the Strategic Self-Defence Force in "Air

Mark Of NERV The Secret Agency NERV has a mark which is composed of three parts: the name of the organisation, a picture and a motto. The name of the organisation is the 4 character word "NERV". The motto is "God is in his heaven. All right with the world" (PY: the Japanese translation of this English motto is given in the original text, which would be pointless to translate back into English :-) , a section taken from "Pippa Passes", written by a 19th century poet Robert Browning. And then the picture is a half piece of fig leaf. The fig leaf, accoring to legend, is the symbol of the original sin which entangled Adam and Eve. It reminds us of the human who ate the Fruit of Wisdom.Ê. .

SEELE A secret organisation that existed even before the Second Impact. It hid the truth about the Second Impact and the existence of Angels and uses its power to abuse UN and other countries. After the Second Impact, it used UN as a cover, established the Committee of Human Complementation and the secret agency NERV, and built the EVA series.Ê

SEELE's Human Complementation Plan is mapped out according to what was recorded on the "Secret Dead Sea Scrolls". The objective of the plan is to move human up to another stage of evolution. However, with the loss of the Spear of Longinus, and then the rebellion of Ikari Gendou, the commander of the secret agency NERV, it became inevitable that the plan has to be changed at the last stage.Ê Ê

SEELE's Coat of Arm (SEELE no MONSHOU) A coat of arm which has an inverted triangle superimposed by seven eyes. The same emblem was painted on the mask that covered the face of Lilith. Its relationship with Jehovah, who is the absolute God in "Old Testament Bible" and is sometimes said to have seven eyes, is unclear.Ê Ê

Strategic Self-Defence Force (SENRYAKU JIEITAI) A military force directly under the Defence Ministry of Japan. Triggered by the military conflicts between China and Vietnam over the Spartleys, it was formed by the Japanese government which had no military force of its own (all the army, navy and air force of the original Self-Defence Force had been incorporated in UN Force). The English abbreviation is JSDF, which stands for "JAPAN STRATEGY SELF DEFENSE FORCE" [sic]. It was also often called "Senji" as its short form. In "Air", under the instruction from the Japanese government, one division of JSDF was deployed in an attempt to directly occupy the secret agency NERV.Ê. .

Marduk Organization Marduk is the main organization which is used for searching and selects the qualified pilot for Evangelion. The qualifications are rather stiff, apparently only 14 years old children without mothers can operate Evangelion. It seems that Marduk has grouped all qualified children in Class 2-A of the First Municipal Junior High School of Tokyo-3. Marduk has 108 agencies around the world and all of them are dummy companies. These dummy companies were all created by NERV.Ê Ê Marduk The highest god of Babylon called "The Lord of Gods of Heaven and Earth". Marduk rose to power by conquering Tiamat, the monster of chaos. Some of Babylon's most elaborate temples were built to worship Marduk and as the conquering armies of the empire overran most of the Middle East, worship of Marduk spread to those lands.Ê Ê

Ikari Yui Wife of Ikari Gendou. It seems that at the very beginning she belonged to SEELE. She was married to Gendou (originally Rokubungi Gendou), whom she knew since the Kyoto University years, and gave birth to Shinji. After marriage, she worked with Gendou in GEBIRTH and spent a lot of effort towards the success of "E Project". Died in an accident during an experiment in 2004. Nevertheless, her soul stayed on within EVA-01. It seems that this accident was actually intended by her will. Age when she died: 27.Ê Ê

Souryuu Kyoko Zeppelin The real mother of Soryu Asuka Langley. She fell into mental breakdown in an accident during an experiment. Afterwards, she became a person who lived in her own world, so much so that she committed suicide. Her soul was used as the core of EVA-02.Ê Ê

The True Identity of Ayanami Rei First Children. The dedicated pilot of EVA-00. A young girl who apparently lacks emotions. Her body was actually salvaged from what was left behind of Yui's body inside EVA, and a lot of body copies were later prepared in the Terminal Dogma so that when one Rei dies she could be replaced by another. The present Rei is the third one. The first was killed by Dr.Akagi Naoko; the second was killed in her battle against the 16th Angel. Although the personalities of these 3 Rei are different from each other, this is due to the environment. Their soul is one and the same. Also, it seems that this soul was somehow derived from Lilith.Ê At the final stage of the Complementation Program, she betrayed Gendou, returned to Lilith out of her own judgement and handed the future to Gendou's son -- Ikari Shinji. Birth date unknown.Ê Ê

Nagisa Kaworu Fifth Children, who was sent by SEELE to NERV. However, his real identity was the 17th Angel. Perhaps he was an Angel which was captured by SEELE at his embryo stage. Different from other Angels, he has a mind quite close to human's. On documents his birth-date is AD2000 September 13th. In human form he made contact with Third Children (Ikari Shinji). Although he had good feelings towards Shinji, he was strangled and killed by EVA-01 piloted by Shinji. It was he who said "Life and Death are equivalent" and "Only one life-form could be chosen to be given the future".Ê Ê

Ex-Tokyo The capital city of Japan before Second Impact. It is the largest city of Japan. Annihilated by human's new invention, the N2 Bomb, seven days after the Second Impact. The annihilation of Tokyo has occur the wars among all countries. The temporary Japanese Government give up the rebuilt Tokyo and decided to move the capital to Nagano in 2001.Ê Ê Ê

Tokyo-2 The new capital city of Japan. Built in the old Nagano prefecture to replace the old Tokyo. Construction started in 2001 and it acquired all the functionalities suited for a capital in 2003. In 2005 the second capital relocation plan was agreed, and it was planned that the capital would be moved to Neo-Tokyo-3, still under construction then.Ê By the way, old Tokyo was annihilated by the new bomb dropped one week after the Second Impact. Again, the construction of Neo-Tokyo-2 was decided by the Provisional Government of Japan.Ê Ê

Tokyo-3 Although in public it was circulated as the new capital city that would replace Neo-Tokyo-2, it is in fact a fortress city for ambushing the Angels, which was built with the expectation of Angels coming to attack it. But then the ambush combat force is the EVA. The city mainly serves the function of supply and support. Armed buildings -- supporting facilities which are made to look like ordinary buildings -- stood inside the city like forests. Inside the buildings are the discharge outlets of EVA, electricity supply, replenishment of weapon and ammunition and supporting guns. There are also many ambush weapons installed around the city. Spreaded below the city is the wide and big Geo-Front. Located at its centre is the headquarter of the Secret Agency NERV.Ê In "Air", the city was first attacked by the Strategic Self-Defence Force, and then EVA-series were thrown into the attack. This annihilated all the combat strength of the city except for EVA-01.Ê Ê

Geo Front A big underground city buried deep underground below Neo-Tokyo-3. This was built using an pre-existing spherical cavity (though most of it had been under earth and dust at first). Its ceiling was almost totally destroyed when in ep.25 the Strategic Self-Defence Force mounted their attack against NERV, and Geo-Front became exposed to outside.Ê NERV HQ is located at the centre of Geo-Front, and is surrounded by big forests and underground lakes. The many high-rising buildings that hang upside-down on the top part of Geo-Front are the "Celing City (Tenjou Toushi)". It looks exactly the same as Neo-Tokyo-3 that sits above it, and is used to accomodate the sunken buildings of Neo-Tokyo-3 when an Angel comes to attack.Ê Ê

Monoliths' Room The most secret room of NERV headquarters which only Gendou and Fuyutsuki can enter. This room is reserved for Ikari Gendou to communicate with the 12 monoliths of SEELE and those monoliths never show their true face in this room. NERV's stuff are allowed to enter this room only when the 12 monoliths want to meet them. The rule of this room is lying ones will be punished to death.Ê Ê Central Dogma A huge and wide underground area directly beneath NERV HQ. Its lowest level has a sea of LCL and Lilith who was cruficied on a red cross. By the way, in biological terms, "Central Dogma" means the irreversible information flow that occurs in the transformation DNA -> RNA -> protein.Ê Ê

Terminal Dogma Terminal Dogma is located below Central Dogma and it's look exactly like old Antarctica which is full of ice and covered with snow. Actually, Terminal Dogma is used to hide Lilith and stored L.C.L. That's why Terminal Dogma is also known as "L.C.L Plant". Normally, there is no guard in Terminal Dogma because NERV does not allow anyone to go there, even Ritsuko and Gendou seldom go there.Ê Ê Graveyard of EVAs Graveyard of EVAs is located in the Central Dogma. It is used as the main experiment laboratory of Gehirn for developing Evangelion and Magi System long time ago. After Ikari Yui disappeared, this room has been disposed and used as the graveyard for failure EVAs. Inside this place got many dead bodies of failure prototype EVAs.Ê Ê Ayanami Rei's Room Same as the Graveyard of EVAs, also locates in Central Dogma. This place has been used as Artificial Evolution Laboratory before and was dumped 10 years ago. Inside of this room got nothing but just a bed, a table and a few disposed boxes. Actually, this is the place where Rei was born and it seems that Rei has lived there for a long time.Ê Ê

Super computer MAGI- A supercomputer whose foundation theory was completed by the late Dr.Akagi Naoko and implemented by her daughter, Dr.Akagi Ritsuko. It is said that MAGI is the brain of the secret agency NERV. It devises, revises and solves many of its mysteries and plans. MAGI is composed of three systems: MELCHIOR-1, BALTHASAR-2 and CASPER-3. Final decision is made after the conference of these 3 computers. This computer is similar to human not just in the sense that it re-creates on a computer the dilemmas usually held by human, it is also similar in the sense that it uses a personality-transplant-OS which has the thought logic pattern of human transplanted to the computer. The thought logic pattern transplated to MAGI is that of Dr.Akagi Naoko. MELCHIOR-1, BALTHASAR-2 and CASPER-3 has the transplanted thought pattern of Naoko as a scientist, a mother and a woman respectively.Ê By the way, the name of "MAGI" comes from the name for the three wise men from the east who prophesized the birth of Jesus (PY's note: this seems to be a bit misinforming?) in the New Testament of Bible. MELCHIOR, BALTHASAR and CASPER are their respective names. At the beginning of movie "The End of Evangelion", started from MAGI #2 at Matsushiro, the five builds of MAGI from Germany, USA and China etc. tried to hack into the original MAGI sitting in the NERV HQ.Ê Ê

Entry Plug System A capsule-shaped cockpit inside which the EVA pilot sits. EVA is started by the insertion of such plug into its back neck (the same applies to the virtual entry plug -- dummy plug). In emergency the plug can be ejected and becomes an evacuation capsule. The plug is equipped with parachute and ejection rocket for this purpose.Ê Ê

Dummy Plug System A virtual Entry Plug which was developed for starting and using EVA without the pilot. Even though it has a copy of the personal pattern of the Children, the digitization of the soul is impossible. Thus the Dummy Plug can only serve to simulate the thought pattern. The Dummy Plug prepared by NERV had the copy of the personal pattern of First Children (Ayanami Rei). On the other hand, the Dummy Plug prepared by SEELE used the personal pattern of the Fifth Children (Nagisa Kaworu).Ê Ê

Plug Suit The dedicated uniform for EVA pilot. It has the effect of raising the synch-rate and protecting the body etc. This suit is totally one piece covering from feet to neck. Its structure is similar to things like wet-suit. There will still be space between the suit and the body after it is put on, but by clicking on a switch on the wrist the suit then sticks to the body.Ê