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Shin Megami Tensei II

As Tokyo Millennium is a theocracy governed by the Messian Church, the city is centered around the worship of God, otherwise known as YHVH. Supposedly, the city is aligned to God's will, and according to the Messian Church, God will soon send the people a Messiah that will guide them to create the Millennium Kingdom, a utopia where people can live in peace forever.

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After seeing all the atrocities committed by the Center and invading the Center HQ, Aleph comes across one of the Center Elders, who calls out the other Elders' actions and says that their efforts to create the Millennium Kingdom are against God's will. Once Aleph strikes down the three Elders, who in actuality are the three Archangels Uriel, Raphael, and Michael, a dying Michael pleads to God to save them and deliver justice unto Aleph's party, which summons a being claiming to be YHVH, who also attacks the party for daring to oppose it's will. After Aleph defeats the perceived god, the non-hostile Elder reveals herself to be the Archangel Gabriel and explains that though the other Elders had initially tried to bring about the Millennium Kingdom according to God's will, their vision of God and the Millennium Kingdom became perverted, and the Millennium they ended up creating strayed far from God's true vision of it. God had also promised that He would send a Messiah to save the people, but seeing that this Messiah was not coming soon enough, Michael, Uriel, and Raphael attempted to artificially create the Messiah themselves, which was in direct opposition to God's will, causing Him to abandon them and contact only Gabriel to order her to separate from her fellow Archangels to follow His true will.

Later, when Aleph is brought to Keter Castle to meet Lucifer, the demon lord informs him that the YHVH Aleph had defeated at the Center was not the real God; It was a fake generated from the fervent belief the Elders' held that they were following God's will. Lucifer also informs him of the impending return of God's tool of judgment, Satan. In the distant past, God had defeated Satan and split him in half, with one of those halves being Seth, and had him sealed away until the time God needs him comes, a time Lucifer suspects is drawing near as Seth is beginning to awaken.

After this, Aleph is brought to Eden, Zayin's new base located at the top of the Center HQ. There, multiple people who have heard the voice of God, chosen regardless of their origin or class, have been assembled to be part of a new world where God's true Millennium Kingdom will be created, a goal Zayin asks Aleph to help bring to fruition.

Later, on the Neutral route, Lucifer reveals to Aleph that his weapon, the Kuzuryu, was given to him by God under the orders that he use it to destroy humanity, which Lucifer pretended to obey while secretly planning to use it for his own purposes. God eventually found out about Lucifer's treachery however and had Gabriel secretly install a new weapon into Eden instead, the Megiddo Ark, which will cleanse the Earth of everyone apart from God's chosen people in Eden. In the Neutral and Chaos routes, Aleph's party infiltrates the Ark to stop it from firing, along the way defeating God's avatars Sabaoth, Shaddai, and Elohim. At the top of the Ark, Aleph's party confronts Satan, who, on the Neutral route, will briefly assume the appearance of his former self Zayin to explain why the situation had escalated to this state, with the reason being that God had abandoned Tokyo Millennium. Despite their cries for a Messiah, God never sent one to humanity because it was never His intention to do so; He knew that so long as humanity held knowledge, they would continue to turn away from Him, and so when the Archangels took matters into their own hands and started the Messiah Project, He gave the fifth and final member of the project, Zayin, the soul of Satan, so that he would judge and punish all who were not chosen to be part of the new world. After Satan's defeat on the Chaos and Neutral routes, YHVH speaks directly to the party, ordering the ones who killed Satan to show themselves to Him. As they enter His realm, they finally face God Himself.

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