Sophie Noia


 * "To say what its all for--- It is a dream to improve the quality of life level of human society using monsters!"
 * — Sophie's dream.

Sophie Noia (ゾフィ・ノイア女史) is a game original character that appeared in Mass for the Dead.

Appearance
A woman with heterochromia eyes, her left eye is blood red, while her right eye is pink. Sophie is a fair woman with dark purple hair and a scar over her left eye which she covers with a gold-rimmed monocle. She wears a white jacket with a hood, and an open chest top revealing her bosom. At her waist, she is equipped with a belt carrying various items, like test tubes and other instruments.

Personality
A confident young woman she appears to be somewhat crazed and perverted. She holds the belief that humanity can advance through the fruits of her research on monsters.

Background
In the empire, there was research on how to make skeletons do manual labor, but Sophie wishes to make an attempt in using other types of monsters. One specific type of monster that is of interest are slimes. According to her humanity has long coexisted with slime-types.

She recently became the newly selected High Disciple of Fluder. Though she became a researcher after the subject of her revenge died during the Catastrophe.

Mass for the Dead Arc
In the game, Sofie relocates to E-Rantel for her research on monsters. There she meets the protagonist and contracts his team to collect samples of the slimes in the city's sewers to discern why the monsters have gone aggressive.

From her analysis she learns that the slimes have traces of alchemical solution, causing them to mutate. The magic caster brought her findings to Lakyus Alvein Dale Aindra, who then called a meeting of the city's representatives and the members of the Tripartite Alliance. Suspicion fell on Hilma Cygnaeus, the executive of the Pharmacist's Guild, for illegally stealing the substance to mutate the slimes. It was later learned that the mutation was an accident caused by the rundown from the artificial herb project, in which the solution was permeated in the soil and washed into the sewers.

After the protagonist cleared out all the mutant slimes, Sophie was in doubt that they achieved this until she saw the slime core from the Super Giant Sanitary Slime.

Sophie visited the secret laboratory where Nfirea Bareare was trying to cure the contaminated Gazef Stronoff. The magic caster suggested that perhaps they should move their subject to a more open area, however, she was ignored, thus they turned to reviewing their notes on their progress in finding a cure for the Miasma which did not seem to be a poison but rather a "curse" as those afflicted remained Contaminated Beasts even after they are revived from death. Sophie had very little interest in making a cure as her focus was on slimes, but praised her peer for the work he was doing, advising him to take better care of himself before leaving.

Sophie later bumps into Fluder Paradyne outside in the streets of E-Rantel. After they share a few words, she inquires about her senior's secret project and what prompted him to conceive of such an idea given his sole interest in magic. When the wizard states that it a result of the times. After he departs she wonders if that is the case. While she finds her master's work to be amusing she however decides to focus on her own slime project.

Shortly before the protagonist was granted the title as Guardian of E-Rantel and transferred the administration rights of the city to the Sorcerer Kingdom, he recruited Sophie to become part of a new research team called the E-Rantel Magic Research Institute to study a broad field of subjects for the Alliance. The magic caster happily accepted the invitation, to further her research in slimes and their potential uses. Later she was out in the field, investigating the cause of why the slimes in the Melting Pot at the Quarry failed to melt all the Chaos Beasts that fell within. Upon studying the slimes' mucus samples, she made a startling discovery.

Sophie was busy at the time of the protagonist's second visit to the institute as she was engrossed on her own discoveries in the laboratory and refrained from greeting her benefactor.

Sophie having the need of a strong slime for her experiments complained to Nfirea to no end. Nfirea who heard of the protagonist’s interest in suitable fiber plants that could be harvested in the Tob Forests, agreed to provide the adventurer a list though afterwards Nfirea asked that suitable slime be captured and brought to the institute.

The institute would be visited again at the dead of night by Darkness, after Clementine alerted the city officials of suspicious activity from the remnants of Zurrernorn. It was thought that the old base of the cult would be targeted, but Nfirea and Sophie confirmed that they received no visitors or intruders. Sophie was confident of her slime traps she laid around the facility and reported none had caught any prey.

Since the group came out of their way to check on the institute, the adventurers asked the researcher what project she was working on. Sophie revealed that her latest pet project was a drug that suppressed the predatory instincts of slimes that she developed so that her slime trap would yield living captives. It turns out the project was actually an older one from the Kingdom to address the eating habits of the sanitary slimes in E-Rantel.

The research of the "anti-slime" agent piqued the protagonist's interest as he managed to inductively come to the conclusion that Zurrernorn's latest scheme involved the slimes of the city sewers. Armed with this knowledge, the protagonist procured a sample of the agent and gave it to Soi who was sent to aid the members of Blue Roses in driving a Super Giant Sanitary Slime created by the death cult back into the sewers. More of the agent was produced through the efforts of Sophie and Nfirea after a plan was devised by the adventurers, Sunlight Scripture to cleanse the sewer of the abomination.

Some days before the protagonist and Slimeko would be heading out to lead a delegation to the Dwarf Kingdom, Sophie shared the results of her discovery to her colleagues at the Institute. The researcher discovered that the conditions in the Melting Pot, may have inadvertently developed a method by which the contaminated essence of creatures affected by the Miasma could be removed. When she informed the news to the protagonist, Sophie planned to experiment and try to replicate the Melting Pot to see if a cure for the Miasma could be synthesized.

While Soi stood guard at the Institute in the absence of the protagonist, Sophie worked with Fluder and Nfirea to figure out how to use the contaminated slimes and Chaos Beasts to create a cure. Their experiment to involved using contaminated slimes to melt a Chaos Beast, however the decontamination effect did not occur. Sophia hitting a wall on how to apply her knowledge, turned to Nfirea as he was an expert on Chaos Beasts. From what she could tell the slimes both normal and contaminated caused a reaction that decontaminated the traces of miasma when they melted the Chaos Beasts. But there were several inconsistencies that did not make sense, and Sophie she felt that they were missing something to make their theory work. Nfirea was the first to realize something, which Sophie noticed and begged the young director of the Institute to share his epiphany.

When the E-Rantel Magic Research Institute came under attack from Chaos Beasts that were invading from several Cracks that appeared in the city, Sophie was bunkered down in the lowest level of the facilities resuming the experiment. She was joined by Nfirea who wanted to see the experiment through. Sophie was amused that the young man's determination was fueled by revenge, something which she ironically lost when the Incident happened though was able to find solace in her slime research. The imperial knights, Nimble Arc Dale Anoch and Leinas Rockbruise had arrived for their protection, their appearance caused Sophie be relieved that their work would be preserved, but it was fleeting as a Spear Chaos Beast teleported into the area, killing her, the researchers and the knights. Despite her death, Sophie's work on the cure for the contamination of the miasma proved to be successfully as it returned Gazef Stronoff to sanity.

Some months after the attack on E-Rantel, Sophie was among the personnel of the Empire whose corpses were recovered and resurrected as courtesy of the Sorcerer Kingdom. During her brief encounter with death, Sophie finally made a breakthrough in the usage of Chaos Stones, using the items to enhance equipment, analogous to players use of Data Crystals. The research was later shared with the Sorcerer Kingdom which Demiurge, Pandora's Actor and the Chief Blacksmith and used to develop equipment that could be worn to allow users to safely enter the "other side" of the Crack for brief periods of time.

During the miasma crisis affecting E-Rantel, Sophie and her fellow researchers returned to the city to assist the beleaguered rescue team in decontaminating the surviving populace. Sophie revealed how she accidentally discovered the cure through examining the remnants of the Melting Pot and a plan was concocted by the group to save the infected.

Sophie, Fluder and Nfirea were noted to be insensitive on the issue of using human corpses to make a cure for the contamination. To Sophie the crisis was a perfect way to test her hypothesis and also believed that using the dead was perfectly fine as it reduced waste. This caused Slimeko to question if the trio were really humans to begin with. Sophie hinted about knowing the Sorcerer Kingdom's ulterior motives in the crisis but added that she dare not question the kingdom due to their backing.

Later when Enhela appeared and defeated Sebas, she expressed shock along with the other researchers. She and the others observed the dialogue between the priest and the Nazarick agents, and despite the ambiguity of the situation the alchemist was able to follow the story of hostility between the two parties.

Abilities and Powers
The strongest of Fluder Paradyne's disciples, Sophie can use up to the 4th Tier Magic. While casting her magic, she also utilizes potions in her attacks.

Active

 * Magic Boost (Medium): Increase the magic attack power of allies alone.
 * Viscous Species Special Effects: Damage increases for “viscous” seeds that deal magic damage to single enemies.
 * XXX Cage: Inflict magical damage from the "Darkness" element on a single enemy, making it paralyzed.
 * Darkness UP: Increases the attack power of the "Darkness" element.

Slimeko
Due to her interest in the monster, she appears to have an unhealthy obsession with the Slime.

Saint Clementine
The two women are colleagues, as Clementine acts as a middle person for her transactions to acquire new samples for Sophia's research. Though Clementine finds her habits to be strange, and the researcher referring her as her senior, embarrassing the saint who sees Sophia as a good person.

Nfirea Bareare
Sophie seems to relish teasing Nfirea, especially noting his radically changed personality after Enri Emmot's death. When she comments him on his genius in his work, it is a mixture of praise and criticism. His now stoic and cold disposition interests her, and she openly states that its hard to believe that he is the "genius boy" she knew in the past.

Trivia

 * Sophie is the fourth new character from the game Mass for the Dead. She was added as a limited-time character on October 4, 2019.