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I didn't choose this story. I didn't choose my words.
Jaser Strach
Jaser Strach is one of the main characters in Enigma of Fear. He is considered the game's antagonist, despite also being one of the playable characters. Jaser is better known as the Unhaunted One.
His birth, an event known as the "Rise of the Unhaunted One", transformed the entire life of his family, fullfiling the "Purpose of the Strach", making each member have the Vision and understand their role in the Enigma of Fear. Jaser was also who manipulated the members of the Order so that they could also perform their functions within the Perimeter, after Verity ran away with Mia.
In the game’s plot, Jaser finds himself in the Cathedral, waiting for the fullfill of his Vision along with Verity. However, after the cycle breaks, by Mia’s interference, he feels that he is able to make the choice he could never have made all this time: to cease to exist and change the story so that Mia would stay in his place.
Appearance[]
Jaser is a short, thin white man. He has completely green eyes without pupils and a scar of the Mark of Fear on the left side of the face. His hair is black with an asymmetrical cut that is longer on his left side and with a white streak on his right side. As an adult, Jaser is seen barefoot, wearing a completely black overcoat with some buttons, a pair of black pants and a nun’s scarf around his neck. Although hidden by his clothes, Jaser is covered with several scars of various types on the whole body.
Personality[]
Jaser is the Unhaunted One, thus, he knows everything that will happen and every step of his life, not having any choices or free will outside the Prophecy of the Unhaunted One. Therefore, Jaser shows practically no emotion, since he has no Fear and knows how everything in his life will happen. This unemotional attitude lasts completely from childhood to adulthood, maintaining a calm and cool voice and an entirely static expression. Despite this, inside himself, Jaser feels fragments of emotions, as when he says to himself that he would have liked his time with Verity and Sofia had lasted longer. The only time Jaser presents strong emotions is when he comes across Mia during his final battle with Verity, where something finally happened different from how Jaser had seen, laughing wildly with a huge smile on his face, while screaming in euphoria and fear. After the final battle, when Jaser meets with Mia and Lupi for the last time, despite his initial apathy, Jaser shows himself as someone understanding and kind while talking to them.
Biography[]
And I remember every single time.
Jaser Strach
His birth brought with it the remnants of his end, causing a vision in all the members of the Strach and generating hope for Abraham, who believed that he had been the father of the Unhaunted One, and could thus continue the "Purpose of the Strach", but Jaser is actually the son of Yuri with Abraham's wife, Andrea, who died giving birth to the boy.
His childhood was extremely troubled, since Abraham tried to make him feel fear in various ways possible, abusing Jaser physically and psychologically. Because of this, the doctors of the Elite Team believed that being born and growing up on the Perimeter generated incalculable trauma in the boy.
What's the greatest fear of all?
Jaser Strach
Around the age of 12, when Abraham completed the construction of the Cathedral, Jaser is knocked out by him and chained in the Cathedral, with the aim that the Unhaunted One would find the God of Fear and thus feel fear. Abraham believed that by doing so, he would become the God of Fear himself, but this was not his function. Then, Jaser frees himself and goes to the kitchen to get a knife to kill his "father". By doing so, Verity and Sofia Besatt find him and take him to the Order’s base in the Underground to be treated and cared.
Sofia believed that Jaser's case would have to be handled in an unconventional way. Thus, she and Verity become responsible for caring and studying the boy, quickly creating strong ties of affection from both sides.
This part... I wish it lasted longer.
Jaser Strach
This period ended when Sofia needed to be isolated because of her pregnancy and unfortunately died due to Mia's birth. Verity took his baby and ran away from the Perimeter, afraid of what could happen to Mia when she was born and grew up there, leaving Jaser and the other agents behind. However, Jaser didn't know what exactly had happened to Sofia, much less of Mia’s existence. After all, she was isolated in the "Forbidden Room", a place that he could never enter. Jaser then leaves the Unhaunted One Wing and goes to Calisto, who had a vision, as well as all agents present in the Perimeter, generated by Mia's. Then, Jaser reveals the Prophecy of the Unhaunted One to him, saying that:
Only the God of Fear can bring about the Other Ending.
Jaser Strach.
So making Calisto do everything to bring Sofia back.
More than 20 years later, when Verity returns to the Perimeter, Jaser knows it’s time to imprison him in the Cathedral and battle with him, a battle in which both die. Through the Pillars around the Perimeter made of petrified Ooze, which were also marked by the Graveyard's Fissure and filled with the Paranormal Crystal, in addition to being energized by a large amount of energy through the Perpetual Engine, Jaser’s memories are "repeated", restarting the eternal cycle of his life by "receiving" the memories of his full life at the time of his birth.
Thid ending... once again...
Jaser Strach
Until something finally causes fear in the one that knows everything that will happen and breaks that cycle.
In one of the infinite loops of Jaser’s life, Verity somehow manages to hit and hurt Jaser before his final blow, causing confusion in the Unhaunted One, who wonders how that could be happening. At the end of the battle Mia manages to enter the cathedral and prevents Jaser from killing Verity. At that moment, the prophecy is concluded, because seeing that person, who had never appeared in any repetition of his life, Jaser feels fear, thus making the God of Fear bring the Other Ending.
THIS NEVER HAPPENS!
Jaser Strach
After the final battle of Mia against the Enigma of Fear, Jaser has a short conversation with the God of Fear until he is interrupted by Lupi. He is finally free to do what he wants, going through the Perimeter, completely changed and transformed by the Other Ending, while revisiting all the places that he has been locked up during his entire life. However, now it was different, now he could choose. Jaser has the choice to take Mia’s place and have her family and friends.
[...] I am free to choose.
Jaser Strach
However, with the stubbornness of Lupi, he makes the choice that no one could have ever made and comes across Mia, carrying Lupi with him. After talking, he explains that even if finally he could have a free life, being able to choose his destiny for the first time since his birth, Jaser has already made his decision: give all this so that Mia continues to exist in the Other Ending, with Agatha, Samuel, Verity and of course, Lupi. Jaser, with the freedom that was granted to him, having the infinite of possibilities in front of him, makes the Impossible Choice, and, by going against the infinite of Fear, he ceases to exist.
Because now we have the same eyes.
Jaser Strach
Rituals and Abilities[]
Abilities[]
The Vision: Jaser is able to see the chains that bind all those in the Perimeter remembering everything that will happen. After all, it already happened. He also knows everything he needs to do. As a result, he is unable to feel fear.
There is no fear when you know.
Jaser Strach
The Impossible Choice: In the Infinite, Jaser gains the power of the choice, managing to do the impossible, the choice that no one could make: never have existed for that Mia could exist.
There is no feeling without choice.
Jaser Strach
Arsenal[]
Enigma of Fear[]
| Sword | A melee combat blade used by Jaser during his fight against Verity in the Cathedral, during every single time. |
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Relationships[]
- Mr. Verity: Verity was the one who found and rescued Jaser, after the little Unhaunted One murdered his "father" Abraham Strach, and during the childhood of Jaser, he always remained close, taking care of him and caring for Sofia. Jaser showed to like the company of Verity during his childhood and also, that admired the agent, saying that "wished that part could last longer" and that "was rooting for him too", referring respectively to his childhood with the agents and his final fight against Verity in the Cathedral.
- Lupi: Jaser, during the Other Ending, showed liking Lupi, referring to him in a relaxed manner and using nicknames, not bothering with Lupi being always around following him.
- Mia: Upon meeting Mia in the Cathedral, Jaser feels fear for the first time, because during all the infinite cycles of his life, he had never seen that woman in front of him. However, after Mia faced the Enigma of Fear during the Other Ending, Jaser treats Mia casually, having a dialogue with her while facing the void, and, after a conversation, decides to make his choice to let himself be non-existent, so that Mia continues to exist in the Other Ending, because now they have the same eyes.
Soundtrack[]
List of theme-songs from Jaser Strach played in Enigma of Fear:
- The Rise of the Unhaunted One: Played at his birth and in the revelation of the fate of the Strach, at the beginning of his gameplay section.
- I Remember Everytime: Used in the scene where Jaser murders Abraham, in his gameplay section.
- The Day has Come: Played on the day when everyone of the Elite Team has their visions, Sofia dies and Verity leaves the Perimeter in his gameplay section.
- The Vision: Used when Jaser narrates the Cult of Fear’s actions to the conclusion of the Enigma of Fear in his gameplay section.
- Final Battle: Used in the battle between Jaser and Verity, in the gameplay section of Verity.
- This Ending. Once Again.: Used in the battle between Jaser and Verity, in the gameplay section of Jaser.
- The Place That Doesn't Exist: Played when Lupi helps Jaser break the chains of his fate during the Other Ending.
- The Same Eyes: Played when Mia, Lupi and Jaser talk in the infinite during the Other Ending.
- The Choice: Used at the moment when Jaser makes the Impossible Choice, during the Other Ending.
- Unhaunted One's Theme: Character's theme song in Enigma of Fear.
Trivia[]
- Jaser is the most detailed character in Paranormal Order written by Cellbit in the last three years.[1][2]
- During the charity auction held by CDawgVA, one of the items donated by Cellbit was an exclusive coat made by hand with several secrets and elements of the game itself, which was inspired by the dress worn by Jaser.[3]
- Jaser has 10 theme songs, becoming the character of Paranormal Order with more songs.
- Jaser is a name of Arabic origin and means "fearless" referring to the character being the Unhaunted One.[4]
- One of the inspirations for Jaser's coat was the clothes used by the character Crona, from Soul Eater.[5]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Twitter. Tweet from rafael lange (March 21, 2023)
- ↑ Twitter. Tweet from rafael lange (November 30, 2024)
- ↑ Twitter. Tweet from Ordem Paranormal (July 16, 2024)
- ↑ Ancestry. Jaser. Checked in January 18, 2025.
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