Egrigori

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Egrigori are an organization that feature in Project ARMS.

History

It was known that the Egrigori were noted to had formed collaborative agreements in secret with foreign governments where they collected bio-warfare research and conducted human testing. These arrangements allowed them to maintain a profit base by assisting in the assassination of forces in Third World countries. As a result, they became forever tied with these nations and if the Egrigori ever fell than their sponsers would fall with them. (Episode: Bluemen) Thus, they had formed a huge military industrial complex which became the source of their wealth. With their power, they engaged in illegal experiments where they wielded their power as a scalpel with impunity and taking apart humans in order to alter them whereupon the subjects were put back together. (Episode: Illusion) Their deeply held ties with various governments meant that police and military forces never intervened in the affairs of the Egrigori. (Episode: Bluemen) Their influence was to such an extent that it was believed that even governments turned a blind eye to their activities. (Episode: Illusion) Through their immense military capital, the Egrigori funded projects in three fields of research. These included the creation of cyborgs such as the Crimson Triad, the genetic manipulation of subjects to create the Ex Armis and finally the fusion of bodies with the ARMS weapons. The goal was the defy the laws of nature in order to find ways to artificially manipulate the human species. (Episode: Snark Hunt) However, at some point, their ruthless endeavours created disgust amongst various members in the organization. These individuals later decided to rebel against the Egrigori and they openly went against them when its members smugglered the prototype ARMS away. Once they accomplished this act, the rebels formed a rival group known as the Bluemen that were the enemies of their former parent organization. (Episode: Bluemen)

Among the many recruits the organization managed to entice into their ranks was the dying and elderly Colonel Ganz Gaull who was provided a bio-engineered younger body. (Episode: Judgment) At some point, the Egrigori abandoned the research on the ARMS but had created new models from the prototypes though these were devoid of any inherent intelligence but were implanted within the Keith-series. (Episode: White Knight) Around ten years ago, this secret organization was responsible launching a devastating attack against Abumisawa Village where all the inhabitants were killed leaving only Hayato Shingu the only survivor. (Episode: Stranger) Afterwards, the Egrigori rebuilt the devastated village and used it as a site for research project in human experimentation to study the effects of mind control implants. Due to brain surgery being difficult, the test subjects all consisted of diposables in the form of noted criminals that were brought to Abumisawa where they were robotized. (Episode: Illusion)

One test group consisted of genetic mutations that were grown with specific abilities such as psychic powers with these subjects being known as the Ex Armis (X-Army). However, all the subjects were treated cruely by the Egrigori and were nothing more then guinea pigs for experiments with the data collected for another project called Redcap. This left the Ex-Armis frustrated and desperate to prove their worth but were unaware of the fact that the data being collected was intended to grow their replacements that were an army of cloned supersoldiers known as the Redcaps. (Episode: Snark Hunt) At some point, the organization discovered highly intelligent twin male children by the name of Al Bowen and Jeff Bowen. These twins had more knowledge and sheer mental power than any adult thus making them frightening adolescents who were abandoned by their school as well as their own parents. These traits, however, intrigued the Egrigori who took them in and attempted to reintegrate them into society by enrolling them in the Chapel Program. However, the Chapel Twins intelligence only continued to increase and they began to produce state of the art military weaponry which the Egrigori kept as their secret supply and used for their own cause. (Episode: Counterattack)

After the discovery of the ARMS children, the Chapel Twins volunteered for the task of capturing them where they deployed their combat cyborgs Plus and Minus for the task. (Episode: Counterattack) However, they engaged in an attack on the ARMS childrens school leading to the organization dispatching Keith to eliminate them as they had become a liability. During the encounter, Keith killed Jeff Bowen but spared his twin brother Al Bowen in amusement when the ARMS began to protect him. As a result, Al Bowen became determined in bringing about the destruction of the Egrigori and allied with the ARMS to achieve this goal. (Episode: Trust) In the rebuilt village of Abumisawa, the ARMS had to battle the brainwashed villagers along with the Crimson Triad elite cyborgs who were defying orders in not engaging the ARMS children. (Episode: Illusion) Afterwards, the Egrigori were notified of the ARMS teenagers being at Abumisawa village and staged an onslaught that wiped it out. (Episode: Jabberwock) By this point, they had also completed Project: Redcap that was based on the data retrieved from the Ex-Armis. Once the project was complete, the remaining Ex-Armis were eliminated whilst the Redcaps were deployed on their first military exercise against the ARMS children and their allies in Aisora City which was cut off from outside contact. At the same time, they Egrigori also attacked the Bluemen headquarters and seemingly destroyed it. (Episode: Snark Hunt) However, they were defeated by the ARMS and Bluemen who had survived the attack on their base. This saw the Redcaps dying after the failure in their mission as their engineering saw them turning into elderly dying men. (Episode: Judgment)

The ARMS children later travelled to America in order to find Katsumi who was within the Egrigori's custody. This saw them arriving in the country where they intended to meet members of the Blue Men in an isolated town. However, this proved to be a trap set by the Chapel Children who unleashed their Hound battalion against the ARMS. Ultimately, the Chapel Children headed by the prodigy Oscar sought to control the ARMS subjects and use them as a means of usurping control over the Egrigori. (Episode: Hound)

Overview

They eventually took the name of Egrigori which was a word not recognized by the Church as being part of the Bible. It was an unauthorized part of the Old Testament and concerned the appearance of an angel in a disputed chapter. This angel was described as holding a face of metal and eyes that never closed with it being made the guardian of morals. It was known as the "Sleepless Keeper" due to its role in legend. The organization was described as being a huge conglomerate with military and political connections around the world. (Episode: Trust) They had such fine management over society to the point that they claimed that they controlled the likes of the police and media. (Episode: Intercept) The Egrigori were also known to not tolerate traitors amongst their ranks and ruthlessly exterminated them. (Episode: Evolution)

Among the noted fields of study of the organization included cyborgs, mind control, illegal human reconstruction and genetic restructuring. They were noted to had gone to the edge in testing the limits of man/machine fusion. (Episode: Illusion) The three primary fields of research were; cyborgs, genetic mutations and the ARMS. (Episode: Snark Hunt)

One technological field of study for the group was experimental mind control implants. Subjects were tagged with a barcode on their left ear and implanted with devices designed to make the subject respond like a machine. The implants themselves took the form of chips that were placed between the frontal and temporal lobe in the region that administered behavior, auditory and memory functions. This allowed the subject to be manipulated from a distance and allowed the users to remotely control the host bodies. However, this technology was experimental at best as some brains rejected the chips leading to the subjects eventual death. (Episode: Illusion)

Another product of their experiments were the Hound Battalion in order to breed supersoldiers that worked in packs with a leader directing their operations. (Episode: Hound)

The headquarters of the Egrigori was stated to be within the United States of America. (Episode: Snark Hunt)

Members

• Al Bowen :
• Jeff Bowen :

Appearances

• Project ARMS: "Bluemen"
• Project ARMS: "Snark Hunt"

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