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n. (plural of sephirah English)
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is a fictional character in the role-playing video game Final Fantasy VII developed by Square (now Square Enix), where he is the main villain. Character designer Tetsuya Nomura conceived and designed Sephiroth as an antagonist to and direct physical opposite of the game's main character, Cloud Strife. The character was portrayed in Japanese by voice actor Toshiyuki Morikawa and in English by both Lance Bass in Kingdom Hearts and George Newbern in all his subsequent appearances.
Sephiroth is revealed in Final Fantasy VII to be the result of an experiment by the megacorporation Shinra, in which they injected him with cells from the extraterrestrial lifeform Jenova when he was still a fetus. Upon discovering this, Sephiroth decides to follow what he believes to be his destiny and take control of the Planet, whilst Cloud and the game's other protagonists attempt to stop him. Sephiroth's role in the story, as well as his background, are expanded in the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. Additionally, he appears as a boss character in the Kingdom Hearts series, and other video games developed by Square. Sephiroth has been well-received within the video game community, and is highly ranked on many lists of the best video game villains and Final Fantasy characters.
Usage examples of "sephiroth".
Evil created from the fragments of the broken vessels of the Sephiroth, 794-l.
Vessels of the Sephiroth below Binah broken that evil might be created, 791-l.
From these two, which are one,--from the excellence and perfection of the Divine Nature and Wisdom, considered as Success and Glory, as the opposites of Failure and Mortification, results what the Kabalah, styling it Yesod, Foundation or Basis, characterizes as the Generative member of the Symbolical human figure by which the ten Sephiroth are represented, and from this flows Malakoth, Empire, Dominion, or Rule.
Sephiroth: Splendor or Perfection of Deity represented by the eighth, 736-l.
These three are found also in the Spiritual world, and are universals in the psychical and material world, producing the lower Sephiroth.
To understand the Kabalistic idea of the Sephiroth, it must be borne in mind that they were assigned, not only to the world of Emanation, Aziluth, but also to each of the other worlds, Briah, Jezirah, and Asiah.
Deity present in each of four worlds as in and through the Sephiroth, 768-l.
Sephiroth so constituted that it was not necessary to frame worlds from the first nine of them, 754-u.