Skeith
Original appearance	.hack//INFECTION (2002)
Platform of Origin:	PlayStation 2
Type:	Boss
Cross appearances:	Project X Zone Project X Zone 2
First Chapter Appearance:	Chapter 7 (Skeith PXZ) Chapter 8 (Skeith PXZ2) Chapter 29 (Skeith Zero PXZ)

Skeith (スケィス, Sukeisu^?) is a major antagonist of the original .hack quadrilogy and a protagonist of the .hack//G.U. series. He is the first Phase of the Cursed Wave and referred to as the "Terror of Death".

Profile

Skeith is the one of the harbinger of the Cursed Wave and the one who started the entire events of .hack.

Riding into battle from the Chosen Land beyond the Dividing Forest, he carries the Shadow of Death, which drowns all that stands.

Skeith's first initial appearance is actually the anime .hack//SIGN, where he was summoned by Morganna to Data Drain Sora, a rogue Player Killer, as punishment for his betrayal. He then followed Tsukasa and the awakened Aura to Net Slum, but before he could do anything to them, Helba deleted the area, allowing everyone to log out (except for Aura who escaped into The World).

In the first volume of .hack, Skeith made his debut chasing Aura in the dungeon of Δ Bursting Passed Over Aqua Field. It was there he first encountered Kite and his friend Orca, though he ignored them during the chase.

After Aura gave the Book of Twilight to Orca, Skeith reappeared. Orca tried to fight the mysterious foe, but to his surprise, none of his attacks work. In retaliation, Skeith mortally wounds Orca and then Data Drains him, placing him to a deep coma. Before he could attack Kite next, Helba appeared and drove him away.

Over the course of Infection, Skeith continued to chase Aura, attacking any players that got in his way.

Eventually he managed to catch up with Aura at the field Θ Chosen Hopeless Nothingness, where he found Kite with her. Skeith Data Drains Aura, segmenting her data into three parts and sending them to various places inside the system. Enraged, Kite challenged Skeith in a fierce fight that ends with the former victorious. Kite, possessing the powers from the bracelet, performed his own Data Drain on Skeith, which left him vulnerable for the final blow. However, despite Kite's victory, Skeith's death only resulted in the birth of Cubia, the malicious shadow of Kite's bracelet.

Skeith also appeared in .hack//G.U., but unlike the original, he is a protagonist and the avatar of Haseo, the game's main protagonist. In this series, his wand is replaced by a scythe, which fits his name as the "Terror of Death".

Crosspedia Entry

Project X Zone

Skeith

One of the eight Phases created by "The World" management program, Morganna, in order to destroy Aura. Attacked Kite's friend, Orca, at Morganna's behest, sending him into a coma in the real world. The red wand Skeith carries is said to contain the minds he has stolen from PCs. This is the first phase, "The Terror of Death." Skeith has the ability to cause status ailments on PCs.

Skeith Zero

The original form of Skeith. One of the eight Phases created by "The World" management program, Morganna, in order to destroy Aura. Contains of consciousness of Sora, a PC who cooperated with Morganna to begin with but ultimately turned against her. Skeith Zero also eventually split into eight, one of which acts as vanguard in the continuing pursuit of Aura.

Project X Zone 2

One of the eight Phases created by management program of The World, Morganna, in order to destroy Aura. This is the first Phase, "The Terror of Death", which has the ability to give PCs status ailments. At Morganna's behest, he attacked Kite's friend, Orca, sending him into a coma in the real world. The red wand Skeith carries is said to contain the minds he has stolen from PCs.

Gameplay

Project X Zone

Skeith is one of the major antagonists of Project X Zone who makes his debut in Chapter 7: The .hackers. In the past, he is a powerful monster who nearly brought down The World with a huge server crash who was destroyed by Kite and his allies. However, is revived by the multiverse distortions and proceeds to attack the heroes, but is defeated and retreats from the server.

He then reappears in Chapter 16: Detestable Golden Sunny Demon, but is "destroyed" by the heroes.

However, in Chapter 20: The Maverick Hunters, Skeith somehow without heroes know "he came back to life" and Ciseaux, who is interested in his powers, tries to follow him, because he escaped dismantling The World's management system, in a few words, he split up Aura in four parts, as it had happened in the past. However, is defeated by the heroes and retreats from the cyberspace. It's revealed in Chapter 24: Maidens of the Battlefield, that Skeith took the last fragment of Aura and escaped from the cyberspace to the real world, so she uses his remaining powers to log-out the heroes from the server, after the log-out, they find Skeith in Marvel Land, however, he summons monsters from Marvel Land and escapes from the Pyramid. At the end of the Chapter, it's revealed that Skeith walked on the Hall of Messengers's rainbow for escapes from the heroes, however, Haken could give his location thanks to his friends, he is inside the Schlafen Celeste, as shown in Chapter 26: Warriors Beyond Reality, however, he managed to escape on time, thanks to one of the teleporters of the ship, just when Ciseaux found him, so he decides to pursue it by going to the same teleporter, also, in Chapter 27: The Dimensional Cliff, he ended up in the Geo Fortress to reach to Astaroth's castle and leave the Aura's last fragment there. According to Aura in Chapter 28: The Realm of Overlords, somehow Skeith, during the events of the game, had gained an unknown power for the time being and he was using his transport data to collect something and reach to The World, however, it's discovered in Chapter 29: An Unbeatable Love that such power is the ability to create clones of itself. After the these clones appear, the real Skeith appears, Skeith Zero, who attacks the heroes along with The World's bugged monsters and Feydooms. However, he is defeated and retreats from the server.

Project X Zone 2

Skeith reappears in Project X Zone 2 making its first appearance in Chapter 8: Dance Battle! in R:2's Hulle Granz Cathedral when Haseo summoned it. However, due to unknowns reasons (possibly due to the distortions that occurred with the golden chains), the Avatar Skeith is transformed to its Cursed Wave's form and is separated from Haseo's body. The heroes try to recover Skeith, but he retreats from The World R:2.

Skeith's second appearance is in Chapter 15: Echoes in Eternity in R:1's Hulle Granz Cathedral, but is defeated and retreats from the server. Haseo, however, deduces that the Skeith they have been fighting is the one that is his Avatar.

Skeith's third appearance is in Chapter 26: The Terror of Death Approaches in R:2's Outer Dungeon alongside Tri-Edge, though when he appears, Kite feels that he is about to 'break apart' from within. Nevertheless the group fight and defeat him, where he does indeed begin to break apart, but it causes a massive data increase resulting in cyberspace becoming unstable. However, Haseo manages to regain control of his Avatar once more and its Cursed Wave's form is destroyed, after which he uses him to wipe out some enemies that appear on top of the Dragonturtle Mk. I.

In Chapter 33: Dance with the Devil, AIDA was able to obtain Skeith's data and creates two copies of him, but both are defeated by the heroes.

Skeith's final appearance is in Chapter 41: The 101 Embryo Plan, however he is made out of reconstructed data and accompanied by other bugged monsters from The World, but is defeated with the other bugged monsters and destroyed for good.

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Enemy Auto Skill List

Gallery

Skeith's three forms in .hack//G.U.

Trivia

• Skeith and the .hack// franchise are the only Bandai representatives for Bandai Namco in the Project X Zone series.
• Skeith is the only boss who has multiple designs in the same game.
  • The original design is the boss form while his design from .hack//G.U. is used in Haseo's Multi-Attack.
• Skeith is first encountered in Hulle Granz Cathedral in both games.
• Skeith is the only boss in Project X Zone 2 where multiple of them are fought in the same chapter. In this case, two of them appear simultaneous in Chapter 33.
• Skeith, Nemesis, Vajra, Marduk, and Coco ★ Tapioca are the only bosses that aren't the same ones each encounter.
  • The clones of all the bosses in Final Chapter: The Winged Wanderers don't count.
  • The Skeith encountered in Project X Zone 2 is Haseo's that reverted to its older form because of the golden chains.
  • The ones fought after Haseo's retrieval were cloned, either by AIDA or The World's bugs.
• Skeith and Phantom are the only permanent bosses to switch sides.
  • Their plots are similar since their "owner" Haseo and Haken respectively, seek out to retrieve them. Both of those plots end in around the same point in the games. (Chapter 27 (PXZ1) and Chapter 26 (PXZ2))
• Skeith and Dural are the only boss with variants. Both have at least one who doesn't appear in both Project X Zone games.
  • Skeith Zero doesn't appear in Project X Zone 2 since they aren't the same.
• Skeith and Dural are the only mute bosses.
• Skeith is the only permanent boss in Project X Zone that doesn't show up in the final chapter as one of the clones. Instead, his stronger variant Skeith Zero takes his place.