Goddess Ilias



The creator of the world and life, Goddess Ilias is a religious figure in the game. She is depicted as an angelic being and appears to Luka in his dreams quite regularly to guide him in his quest. She is also the main antagonist of Monster Girl Quest, serving as the instigator of all of the main problems which occur throughout the game, from the monster and human prejudices, to the multiple problems which plague Luka along his journey.

As she wishes to destroy all monsters, she uses heroes to go on quests to destroy the current Monster Lord and defeat any monsters on their way. In return for their “unwavering service” she gives them her blessing at a coming of age ritual. The blessing itself protects the hero by making their semen repulsive to monsters, apparently tasting like angel liver.

Though this makes them safe from the more erotic attacks from monsters, they may still be put at greater risk from normal attacks and devouring as they can’t offer use as a source of food.

Ilias’s religion spreads far and wide across the world, apart from areas such as the isolated land of Yamatai Village and, obviously, the Monster Lord’s Castle in Hellgondo, the northernmost continent. Conversely, her following is a lot stronger in the South, which her temple is located at. Additionally, the southernmost continent is also named Ilias, along with a village, a city, and a port named after her. The central continent, Sentora, is a large grey area with differing attitudes to monsters and her teachings in each village, but generally the more North one goes the less the teachings are followed.

An organization named Ilias Kreuz was founded under Ilias’s name. Led by Marcellus and Lazarus, they take Ilias’s teachings very seriously (for example, “Thou shall not give semen to a monster” to them means “Thou shall not have any contact with a monster”) and will take the necessary actions to destroy bonds between humans and monsters.

Luka mentions five commandments of Ilias. They are as follow:

1. “Thou shall not give semen to a monster.”

2. “Point your sword at the Goddess and thou shalt cry” (over time, this has come to include statues, monuments, altars, and other representations of Ilias.)

3. “Thou shall pray to Ilias often.”

4. ??? (This commandment remains unknown at this point in time.)

5. “Thou shall not rebel against Ilias.”

Should the player lose, Ilias will appear to give them guidance, or Evaluations, on how to defeat an enemy, though her descriptions can sometimes be vague and insulting. Should the player ask for her guidance 50 times, she will become annoyed and disgrace Luka with a handjob which adds her to the Monsterpedia as an entry.

Also, as the game continues she will grow increasingly weary, breaking the fourth wall as if she was aware of the many, many losses the player may go through (and may assume their actions were intentional). Her comments begin to regard Luka as a pervert, foodstuff, and a slave to the monsters he encounters.

By the end of Chapter 2, Ilias reveals to have a sinister role: she was the one who caused the Slaughter of Remina, Heinrich found Ilias’s hidden secret and revolted, and when Luka refused to slay Alice, Ilias decided that humanity are her first failed creations rather than monsters, and attempts to eradicate them all with the help of Black Alice.

Biography
At the beginning of the game, Ilias appears to Luka in a dream, and asks if he can hear her. He can say “I can hear you!”, “Nope!”, or “…”

If he says “I can hear you!”, the dialogue continues normally. If he says “Nope!”, she’ll merely ask why he responded. If he decides to ignore her twice, she’ll punish him and he receives a Game Over.

With all that, Ilias informs Luka that he must defeat the Monster Lord. Luka wakes up, only to find out the village is under attack by a Slime Girl. If Luka chooses to run away twice, Ilias punishes him and he receives a Game Over.

Heading out to battle the Slime Girl, Ilias teaches him how to fight. Humorously, Luka will get a Game Over if he asks to be taught twice, having not healed from her first Judgment Tap.

After Luka meets Alice, he heads to the church to be baptized by Ilias herself on her birthday, however she did not show up. Alice appears and convinces Luka to continue his journey.

Throughout Luka’s travels, Ilias appears to him in dreams and continues pressuring him into defeating the Monster Lord. In return, Luka continuously prays to her, however Alice mentions that this is a contradiction he must overcome if he truly desires coexistence between humans and monsters, for Ilias seeks to eradicate all monsters from the world.

Ilias soon appeared to San Ilia King in a dream, informing him that he will meet an unbaptized person named Luka and must guide him to defeat the Monster Lord.

In one of Alice’s stories, the Monster Lords were founded by a monster who was equal to Ilias.

When Luka heads to Remina, he finds a feather that supposedly belonged to an angel.

Alice reveals a location called the Sealed Sinner’s Prison, sealing the souls of humans who revolted against Ilias. Luka learns that the place was named after Heinrich, although rumors state that the goddess herself brought Heinrich to the heavens. Instead, Heinrich appeared to have revolted against Ilias, and the jail was created as ultimate punishment for those who disobey her, trapping spirits inside to prevent them from being reincarnated.

At the end of Chapter 2, if Luka kills Alice, Ilias drops down to congratulate his accomplishment. The hero claims a treasure chest holding Alice’s ribbon; Ilias wonders why a monster would keep such a cheap item. With that, she brings Luka to the heavens. With no need to return to the world, she gives him his reward: to bestow the body of the goddess. She straddles him and proceeds with a vaginal intercourse which will continue for all eternity, effectively resulting in a Game Over.

If Luka spares Alice, Ilias comes down, disappointed; Luka has been seduced by darkness and as thus is no longer qualified as a hero. Alice sneers at this; if a hero does not fight for others, then what is he? Luka appeals to the goddess, but is turned down by her responses. He then goes against his contradictions and revolts against Ilias, as herself and her teachings make coexistence impossible. Having broken two of her commandments, she attempts to punish him with the Thunder of Judgment, which he evades with Serene Mind. In a hardly angelic manner, she declares that the castle will become a “Second Remina”, and leaves her angels to do her bidding. Promestein appears during the assault and reveals that the attacking chimeras were created by her “with dark magic” under Ilias’s orders.

Goddess Ilias (1)
''“The Goddess who created the world. Though she holds enormous power, she’s rarely seen on the Earth itself. However, her will is handed down to the humans living on the Earth and she is revered as their goddess.''

''It’s said that she hates her failed creations, the monsters, but loves humanity. She would object very strongly to being included in this [Monster Encyclopedia].”''

Goddess Ilias (2)
''“As the Goddess who created the world, she resides in the heavens. Though she’s incredibly powerful, she rarely extends that power to the world below. But by extending her will to the humans below, she leads them.''

The equal of the Founding Monster Lord, there are many doubts surrounding her such as what happened to the Hero Heinrich, the appearance of a strange monster called “Black Alice”, the strange female scientist with the Chimeric Monsters, and the Slaughter of Remina… It may be that Ilias has had a hand in all of these issues.”

Trivia

 * In the beginning of the game, Ilias references the first few lines of the Book of Genesis.
 * It is strongly implied that when Alice left Hellgondo to travel the world, Ilias attacked her. This may have been part of the goddess’s master plan for Luka to defeat the Monster Lord.
 * According to the Fairy’s Monsterpedia entry, those with strong faith in Ilias are incapable of seeing them.
 * Ilias despises humans using Cursed Sword techniques, however she makes exceptions to Luka as he must use the techniques to succeed in battle.
 * Despite giving evalulations to heroes upon their defeat, it is referenced in a book that she dislikes giving evalutations which confuses a scholar when he tries to translate the book. She often breaks the fourth wall in order to insult Luka during some evaluations.
 * Ilias dislikes Luka to be using the power of the Four Spirits, unless they become expendable to him.
 * A good number of areas in the game have their own, more lenient, take on Ilias’s teachings: Sabasa Castle’s royal family has a history with monster blood while Port Natalia is more accepting with resident mermaids and the women of Grand Noah just like to see men get raped by the resident monsters in the Colosseum.
 * In Yamatai Village, one of the villagers suggests starting up a shrine for the Goddess Ill-Ass, a pun on the mispronounciation of her name as the locals are unfamiliar with the religion. Luka thinks she would not approve.
 * She has displayed six of the seven deadly sins within her personality. The only sin she has not displayed yet is envy/jealousy:
 * Pride/Arrogance: Seeing herself as the judge of what a “hero” is, and proceeds to consider humans and monsters to be failures. Sees only those who are loyal to her to be creatures worth living.
 * Sloth/Indolence: Has never committed a direct antagonistic action in the game thus far, instead leaving the job to Promestein and Black Alice.
 * Gluttony/Voraciousness: Consumes the semen of Luka endlessly within the bad ending of Chapter 2. Wishes to consume the world with her will. Whether she is voracious like most of the monsters in this game is unknown.
 * Greed/Avarice: Has the desire for all things to be under her and to have ownership over the entirety of the will of living beings.
 * Wrath/Fury: As seen at the beginning of the game when she is ignored, or more notably with the Slaughter of Remina and at the end of Chapter 2 when she slaughters the monsters within the Monster Lord’s Castle after Luka fails to obey her.
 * Lust/Lasciviousness: A given considering the nature of the game, but her two rape scenes are the evidence.
 * Despite her role as goddess, she is not omnipotent. While she governs holy magic, she cannot control it alongside dark magic. That is why she kept Black Alice alive.