

As the rift closed in on the four, Mac uses the Harbinger to release the four's souls, allowing Roach to return, as well as the others. The four manage to defeat Xarcoh, who says he's sorry before fading away. The four follow him in, engaging him in one last battle. After battling them for a while, the rift fully opens, with Xarcoh jumping into it. He then further says even if he has to kill his own friends before charging at the four.

Saddened by this, Xarcoh explains he will do whatever it takes to stop the cycle before summoning the Harbinger.

He then offers the four to become Soulless themselves, with the four refusing. Enraged by this, Xarcoh explained that he needs to be sealed away within Limbo if he was to ever stop Unit 14 from completing the cycle, a cycle he would never be able to break otherwise. As he was in the process of re-opening the rift, he was confronted by the four. The next day, Xarcoh learns that Xirsch was slain, ultimately leaving him as the sole surviving Soulless.

Ordering Xirsch, Chris' Soulless to stay at the bunker and distract the four, Xarcoh then retreats back towards Tunisia. After learning of Yaxnor's execution, Xarcoh decides the only way to ensure the cycle would never be completed was if he was to seal himself within Limbo. However, Yaxnor was captured and interrogated by the four, who then learns the truth about the Soulless. Fearing that the base has been compromised, Xarcoh and Xirsch head to the bunker in Genoa while Yaxnor, O'Ryan's Soulless stays behind in order to distract the four. On the morning of July 17th, 2035 however, the three Soulless lose communications with Lextyr, who was destroyed by Mac, Doc, Peterson and Gary in hopes of finding the original personas of the Soulless. Learning of a Unit 14 hideout in Hamburg, Germany, Xarcoh sends Lextyr, TJ's Soulless, to investigate the facility. The four Soulless head to the Gilze Rijen Air Base in Hulten, Netherlands, where they make that, along with an abandoned coastal bunker in Genoa, Italy as a base of operations. Upon exiting the rift in an underground chamber in Mateur, Tunisia and reaching ground level, they see the aftermath of Unit 14's plan, which had caused the world to be nothing but a barren wasteland. Despite this knowledge however, Xarcoh believed the only way to ensure that Unit 14 would never complete their cycle was if the four remained as Soulless.įour years after becoming Soulless, a rift leading to reality opens in Limbo, allowing the four to escape Limbo. During their time in Limbo, Xarcoh discovered it was possible for the four to become human again if they were destroyed and their original souls were freed from the Harbinger or if they were to merged back with their souls. Usually, a Soulless and their complete counterpart cannot co-exist since they share the same body and initial soul, although if a Soulless is able to form a new soul and regain another physical form, then both selves can exist simultaneously.Īfter Roach used the power of the Harbinger to extract the souls of O'Ryan, Chris, TJ and himself, their physical forms faded out, rematerializing in Limbo as Soulless, where they became corrupted by the darkness of Limbo, which was later revealed to have been caused by the Prophets of the Soulless, the original creators of the Harbinger. Though it is possible for a Soulless to conjure a new soul should they remain in the universe from which they originated from long enough, most of the Soulless created have been destroyed long before they ever could. All Soulless have been conceived in the realm of Limbo, most of which have aligned themselves with darkness. They share the same appearance as their "complete" selves, although they have golden eyes and anagrams of their original names with an X added to differentiate themselves. Soulless are beings who retain a physical form yet lack a soul, making their existence "incomplete" without one. I have been victim to these truths given by the light the power of a soul is one that should never be trusted.
