Limbus Company
For information regarding the game of the same name, see Limbus Company (game).
Limbus Company (Hangul: 림버스 컴퍼니, Rimbeoseu keompeoni) is a large and well-endowed company operating in the City, capitalizing on the fall of Lobotomy Corporation in order to have the LCB raid what remains of its branches and secure the Golden Boughs from within.
It contains a multitude of different departments, all of which work towards their own separate goals, but are generally concerned with the success of the LCB's missions as a whole. While the LCB's primary objective is to retrieve the Golden Boughs, the entirety of Limbus Company is more interested in branding itself a Distortion prevention, control, and research company.[1]
Overview
Limbus Company is somewhat of an enigmatic company, with goals still unknown. However, keeping the Golden Boughs out of enemy hands is considered to be of the utmost importance for Limbus Company, and at one point, Faust equates the end of the LCB to the end of the world itself.[2] The company is said to have zero budgetary concerns,[3] and have backing from shareholders from a wide array of fields,[4] allowing it to operate under expensive conditions including offering company cards without spending limits to teams with notable performance.[5] The company's various departments are said to lack a common goal,[6] yet they tend to behave in means benefiting the LCB's amateurish adventures, such as planning out their missions or cleaning up their messes after the fact. As a result, the Sinners are generally disliked by competent members of other departments.
While the LCB's specific objective is to capture the Golden Boughs, the greater company finds its cause in the Distortion phenomenon, and considers itself an enterprise specializing in the research and maintenance of Distortions.[1] However, Abnormalities, E.G.O, Peccatula, and Monoliths are additional points of interest for Limbus Company. Limbus Company is also noted to be talented in the realm of information-gathering.[7][8]
Furthermore, Limbus Company operates as a business on the side, and possesses a purchase catalogue which seems to be offered to potential buyers.[9] Through this, the director of T Corp. could buy all of the Monoliths Limbus Company had in stock at the end of Intervallo IV: Timekilling Time, regardless of Faust or Vergilius' personal feelings on the matter. It was also around this time that Limbus Company began making a small name for itself, to the point of P Corp.'s Cesara having heard rumors of the group before meeting them.
The LCA
The LCA Department is considered the most influential department in Limbus Company.[10] While Faust refers to it as the special operations unit, Dante's Notes states that said unit is only a part of the larger LCA.[10] The members of this unit dress in black full-body suits and speak in a particularly firm, report-like manner.[11] Dante describes the LCA as "like they're from a completely different company", and notes that they feel considerably out of place compared to the other departments.[11]
The LCA is first seen accompanying Faust at the end of Leviathan, where they blow open a wall in order to access Vergilius.[12] The team is later mentioned by the Color Fixer in Canto V, where he informs the Sinners that if they fail to escape the Pallid Whale, the LCA will blow them up along with it, before an unclarified "very lengthy battle" ensues.[13] This carries the implication that the LCA has a combative role within the company. However, Intervallo III leans more into the idea that the LCA works with the LCD in order to secure Monoliths and distorted individuals,[11] which is also what Dante interprets their role as.[10]
An "R&D Team" of the LCA is also mentioned in the flavor text of the Identity and E.G.O Takeoff Modules, where they are stated to be the developers of these materials.
The LCB
The Limbus Company Bus Department, or LCB, is the department primarily tasked with finding and retrieving the Golden Boughs.[14] Given the company's larger interest in branding itself a Distortion management service,[1] the LCB tends also to take on Distortion suppression requests as a secondary duty.[15] This LCB is named after their mode of transportation, the bus Mephistopheles built by Faust specifically for their department.
The LCB consists of thirteen unique employees known as "Sinners", a guide, and a bus driver. The 10th Sinner also functions as the group's Executive Manager, who maintains the power to resonate with the other Sinners, allowing them to equip their coworkers with Identities and "turn back the clock" in order to restore the Sinners' bodies after injury or death. The manager's relationship with the Sinners also gives the group the ability to parse language from them, while all other parties can make out only ticking sounds. Despite Dante's managerial position, both Faust, Sinner no. 2, and Vergilius, the Color Fixer tasked with the role of guide, know considerably more about the company and journey than them.
Together, the group travels around the City striking down foes and traversing dungeons in order to lay claim to the Golden Boughs. In between missions, and occasionally during, the LCB tends to pick up contracts from outside parties related to Distortions or the Bough expedition.
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Recruitment
The Sinners and Vergilius appear to have been picked out by Faust, or the higher-ups at Limbus Company, beforehand. In Leviathan's Final Book, Vergilius is described as having been successfully "found" by the LCA, and Faust similarly states that she had been "waiting" for Yi Sang upon their first meeting. According to her, the reasons for the company's Sinner recruitment are confidential, but nonetheless related to the LCB's destinations throughout their journey.[16] At one point, Sinclair makes the accusation that it's specifically so the Sinners can act as "sensors for the Boughs".[17] At another point, Gregor points out that the company must have looked extensively into their backgrounds,[7] given that the contract clauses tended to offer the LCB members exactly what they were most desperate for at specific, low points in their lives. These clauses made Faust confident that each of the Sinners would join Limbus Company,[18] which she was ultimately correct about.
The Sinners were all recruited by either Vergilius and/or Faust, often at opportune moments. The Sinner portraits seen in the Theater depict the Sinners just after their recruitment into the company, most obviously through Yi Sang's, where he has yet to even dry off from the rain Faust had found him in. So far, Vergilius, Yi Sang, and Hong Lu have been confirmed to have been recruited by Faust, while Don Quixote was taken in by Vergilius. Rodion and Gregor are also implied to have been approached and recruited by Vergilius rather than Faust.[19]
Before their onboarding into the company, the Sinners were also presented with the opportunity to take on an alias.[20] This offer was accepted by multiple Sinners, through both calculated and accidental means.
Contracts
Members of Limbus Company's LCB Department were made to sign contracts upon joining the company. These contracts contained a number of different clauses, such a one which prevents resignation,[21] another which requires the Sinners to abide by the manager's orders,[22] and another which stipulates that they seek out the Golden Boughs.[23] While Vergilius also signed a contract, his contained unique clauses and conditions that the Sinners' lacked, preventing him from retrieving the Golden Boughs himself or providing direct support to the group.[24] There appear to be punishments for purposefully breaking contract clauses, as breaching his contract resulted in Vergilius not getting everything he had wanted out of it and later required that he help the LCC out with some "business" during Nocturnal Sweeping.[25][26] Unlike the others, there is no implication that Charon signed a contract before joining. Similarly, while Faust offers Dante a promise in the prologue (a proponent of the contracts), there is never any mention of them having signed something.
Each of the LCB's contracts contained one special clause with details tailored to each Sinner, meant to motivate them to join the company. This clause promised to make a certain desire of theirs come to life, no matter how impossible.[27] At one point, Vergilius confirms that this is guaranteed to occur so long as the Sinners continue on their journey with Dante.[28] Ishmael states during Canto V: The Evil Defining that this clause had come true four times by then, potentially indicating that Gregor, Rodion, Sinclair, and Yi Sang all had their wishes fulfilled during their respective Cantos.[28] Additionally, despite her unique position in the company, it's implied that Faust had also signed a contract in exchange for a wish.[27][29]
While Faust states that company rules "forbid disclosing the contents of the job contract in detail", a few of the group's wishes have thus far been alluded to or confirmed outright:
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Vergilius | To get Lapis and Garnet back to him. | Confirmed[30] |
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Yi Sang | To help him recover his torn and broken wings. | Confirmed[31] |
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Don Quixote | The promised timepiece will come to be by her side. | Confirmed[32] |
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Hong Lu | To give him something to want. | Confirmed[33] |
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Ishmael | To allow her to come face-to-face with Ahab again. | Heavily implied[34] |
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Heathcliff | Something to do with Catherine. | Proposed by Dante[35] |
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Dante | To get their aspect carved at the end of all of their missions. | Confirmed[36][37] |
The LCC
The Limbus Company Clearance Department, or LCC, is a special forces unit tasked with helping the LCB retrieve the Golden Boughs.[38] It is considered proficient in performing espionage operations, consisting of professionals and veterans.[39] The department's name is derived from their role in helping "clear" things up and out for the Sinners, and is split into two distinct teams.
The LCCA
The After Team, or LCCA, is the unit tasked with cleaning up after the LCB's various excursions. This includes taking items of interest,[40] Golden Boughs,[41] and Abnormalities to the company headquarters,[42] using regenerative means like HP ampules to treat Dante's major injuries,[43] and helping the Sinners recover from psychological corruption.[44] Its members appear to have an exceptionally poor view of the LCB.
The LCCA has a number of different teams, including Normal Operations and Special Operations.[42]
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The LCCB
The Before Team, or LCCB, is the unit tasked with the scouting and preparation work that takes place before the Sinners arrive at a scene.[45] This involves performing reconnaissance and intelligence tasks concerning the LCB's destinations, preliminary surveys, and coming up with advance plans for Golden Bough retrieval.[46] My Form Empties' Observation Log suggests that they may also identify and observe Abnormalities prior to the LCB's encounters with them.[42]
The LCCB has a number of different teams, including Preliminary Observation, which is said to have five sections in and of itself.[47] The Preliminary Observation of the Before Team staff are remarked to receive little pay and be treated as expendables by the company.[45]
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Effie Unit 3 Assistant Manager |
Saude Unit 3 Manager (promoted) |
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Sinner Identities
Rodion and Ishmael's World of the LCCB Identities were added to the Standard Fare on launch, while Ryōshū's was added in the Season 3 Target Extractions as a Seasonal Identity and can be obtained through Extraction or the Dispenser from Season 5 onward.
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The LCD
The Limbus Company Distortion Department, or LCD, is a small department housing consultant Fixers which specializes in matters regarding the Distortion Phenomenon.[48] This includes Monoliths and previously-distorted individuals.[11] The LCD Department was created as a result of the company's interest in making a name for itself in all things Distortion, and meant to expand Limbus Company's business.[49]
The LCD appears to contain a number of different teams, including the On-site Investigative Reasoning Team, which Moses leads. Additionally, Ezra refers to herself as "LCD Distortion Task Force Ezra", suggesting that may be another team within the LCD. Vespa is mentioned by name in Canto VII, but whether he has a position in the company is yet to be confirmed.
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Moses On-site Investigative Reasoning Team Leader |
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The LCE
The Limbus Company Enkephalin Department, or LCE, serves as the company's research and development team. They involve themselves with the study and classification of captured Abnormalities, Distortions, and Peccatula, along with E.G.O extraction and the workings of the Monolith. The team is stationed within Limbus Company's headquarters, and a portion of the LCE staff wear extracted E.G.O Gear on the regular.[50]
The team functions similarly to Lobotomy Corporation, containing and handling Abnormalities, producing Enkephalin and E.G.O from them, and combating the creatures whenever containment breaches occur. However, it prioritizes research over energy generation,[51] and the department's E.G.O Gear takes a slightly different form than that of L Corp.'s. Specifically, their E.G.O Gear "exhibits more of each source Abnormalities' idiosyncracies” as a result of the company’s alternative extraction method.[50]
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Hohenheim Chief Researcher of Limbus Company |
Marton Assistant researcher |
Alyssa Assistant researcher |
Sinner Identities
The World of the LCE Identities were added in the Season 5 Target Extractions as Seasonal Identities and can be obtained through Extraction or the Dispenser from Season 7 onward.
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Gallery
Trivia
- Hohenheim claims to be the chief researcher for the entirety of Limbus Company, and not just for the LCE Department. Faust claims that this is only true because she and Yi Sang are classified as Sinners and thus are excluded from the research personnel files.[52]
- The club weapon used by Effie, LCCB Assistant Manager Rodion, and the Pallidified Thing-Club enemies use a scrapped design for a club weapon in Lobotomy Corporation.
- The term "Limbus" is a medical term referring to the border or margin of a tissue, such as the "corneal limbus," the border between the cornea and the sclera of the eye. It may also be a reference to the limbic system, as they share the same root word.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Intervallo 5.5-16 - Caiman: "Limbus Company decided to find our cause in 'Distortions'. No significant organization has yet taken charge of managing instances of the Distortion phenomenon. (...) Limbus Company is building our reputation as a professional Distortion prevention & control company that doubles as a research center for the Distortion phenomena. Which means that we need to produce real results. In more ways than one, that is."
- ↑ Canto 5-30 - Faust: "[Self-detonation] is our last resort—an emergency preventative measure to stop our enemies from getting their hands on the Golden Boughs. (...) … Even though this may be the end of LCB, the world… no. Limbus Company must continue to exist… Dante, you must make a judgment call."
- ↑ Intervallo 6.5-1
- ↑ Canto 3-2 - Vergilius: "Limbus Company has backing from the shareholders of a wide array of fields."
- ↑ Canto 2-3 - Faust: "So the rumors were true that teams with notable performance are given a company card with no spending limit."
- ↑ Dante's Notes (Limbus Company, record #2)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Canto 4-45 - Gregor: "How thoroughly did they look into our backgrounds?"
- ↑ Canto 7-2 - Cesara: "… Haah. I don't know if it's a particularly versatile agent or a very proactive intelligence department, but your company has some serious intel gathering capabilities."
- ↑ The Final Problem/Floor 1 - Hubert: "Remember that purchase catalogue Limbus Company handed me? That 'Monolith' in there… really caught my eye. I'd like to purchase them. As many as you have in stock."
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Dante's Notes (The LCA, record #1)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 A Blade Fiend's Fathoms/Floor 1
- ↑ Leviathan Final Book, Charon and Garnet (FAN TRANSLATION)
- ↑ Into the Dark/Floor 1 - Vergilius: "If I don't hear anything from you in six hours, LCA will be taking over the rest of this mission. (...) If they hear the very unfortunate news that all of you decided to row into the Whale's belly and got yourselves trapped… They'll be having a long internal discussion about how they could blow that Pallid Whale apart. Then a very lengthy battle will ensue."
- ↑ Dante's Notes (Limbus Company, record #1)
- ↑ Intervallo I: Hell's Chicken, Intervallo III: Yield My Flesh to Claim Their Bones, and Intervallo IV: Timekilling Time are all examples of the LCB taking on a request to deal with a Distortion.
- ↑ Canto 3-1
- ↑ Canto 3-20
- ↑ Prologue 0-3 - Vergilius: "Ms. Faust, what will we do if Dante keeps on refusing to cooperate? This was not a scenario we anticipated."
Faust: "Preposterous. Faust anticipates every possibility." - ↑ Canto 2-1 - Rodion: "Don’t ask me~ We haven’t known him much longer than you have. What’d he say again? Something like, “Welcome to Limbus Company. I’m your guide, Vergilius” and all that… (...)"
Gregor: "You got his authoritative tone down to a tee, I’ll give you that. I had to hold myself back from asking if I could resign right after joining." - ↑ Canto 8-33 - Faust: "Before your onboarding, you may present a name or an alias of your choosing that others should address you by. Will you use your name, Jia Baoyu?"
- ↑ Prologue 0-3 - Faust: "Haven’t you read your contract? …Resignation is not permitted."
- ↑ Intervallo 4.5-11 - Ishmael: "Fine, I’ll abide by the oh-so honorable contract. Manager. Give me your orders, and I’ll follow them. (...) I’ll gladly obey as it is stipulated in the contract, Manager Dante."
- ↑ Canto 6-43 - Nelly: "So… why are you looking for the Golden Boughs? (...)"
Ishmael: "It's all just a part of our contracts." - ↑ Canto 6-6 - Vergilius: "I also signed a contract. With specific clauses and conditions I must abide by. (...) I am not supposed to retrieve the Golden Boughs myself, nor am I allowed to provide you with any direct support. The contract stipulates that I must leave everything to the manager and the Sinners."
- ↑ Canto 6-41 - Vergilius "Yes, I am aware. I won't be receiving everything I wanted from the contract. I will have to forgo my avarice, make compromises, or even give up a few clauses."
- ↑ Intervallo 7.5-17/18 - Saude: "Yes. Unfortunately, LCC has our own business to take care of today, so I won't be accompanying the LCB this time. And the Red Gaze will be helping us out to get it done."
In the next story episode, Faust states: "His actions were a violation of one of the more important items in his contract with the company. He is simply taking responsibility for the breach of contract." - ↑ 27.0 27.1 Canto 4-45 - Sinclair: "If I joined this company…"(...)
Outis: "Yes, the thing I thought would be impossible…"
Faust: "They promised to make it a possibility. Most certainly." - ↑ 28.0 28.1 Canto 5-15 - Vergilius: "That 'contract clause' you're so impatient about… is bound to make an appearance as long as you follow the manager's peculiar misadventures. Your combative attitude against the manager will only delay that inevitability."
Ishmael: "It happened four times. That's not a very big sample." - ↑ Canto 4-45 - Ryōshū (talking about why they joined) - "We all…"
Faust: "That’s enough of it. Our company rules forbid disclosing the contents of the job contract in detail."
Ryōshū - "Acting all high and mighty when you’re in the same boat with the rest. Foul." - ↑ Leviathan Final Book, Charon and Garnet (FAN TRANSLATION) - Faust: "Lapis and Garnet, we can give those two back to you. (...) How about it, Red Gaze? Would you like to work with Limbus Company?"
- ↑ Reminisced League of Nine/Floor 3 - Faust: "If you join Limbus Company… I promise that we'll help you recover your torn and broken wings."
- ↑ The Tale of a Great Fixer Who Once Reached for The Dream/Floor 1 - Vergilius: "You must come with me, for this journey demands your company. In return… … when the time is right, the promised timepiece shall come to be by your side."
- ↑ Canto 8-32 - Faust: "Then allow us to provide you a proposal. We will make you 'wish to want'. In other words, we will give you... something to want."
- ↑ Ishmael has a few lines alluding to her contract which tie into her obsession, such as "The thing I recited to myself every night…" (Canto 4-45) during the group's conversation about their job offers. Vergilius also describes her contract clause as being "bound to make an appearance" (Canto 5-15), which suggests that Ishmaels contract only promised she'd see Ahab again, not kill her. Ishmael not specifically wishing to kill Ahab also makes more sense in the context of the contract clauses being guaranteed to occur.
- ↑ Intervallo 5.5-3 - Dante's inner monologue: "Every Sinner had a reason for joining Limbus Company, so… … maybe Heathcliff joined Limbus Company for this 'Cathy' person."
- ↑ Prologue 0-2 - Faust: "Dante, once you’ve completed all your missions… You’ll be able to engrave the Aspect. I can promise you that."
- ↑ Canto 4-45 - Dante's inner monologue: "The job offer. In my case, I was promised I’d get my aspect carved."
- ↑ LCCB Assistant Manager Rodion/Identity Story
- ↑ Canto 2-2 - Faust: "Our partner is a special forces unit consisting of professionals and veterans… (...) Rest assured that they are our betters, at least in espionage operations."
- ↑ Canto 6-48 - Faust: "The coffin and the person that lies within will be retrieved to the headquarters by the After Team."
- ↑ A Notable Change Mini Episode - Outis: "Are the Golden Boughs not immediately shipped to the headquarters by the After Team as soon as we retrieve them? How can they affect the engines if they’re not here"
Faust goes on to explain how this can be the case. - ↑ 42.0 42.1 42.2 My Form Empties Observation Log
- ↑ Branch K-02/Floor 3
- ↑ Doomsday Calendar Observation Log - Faust: "I had Yi Sang talk with the recovery staff from After Team for a moment. His psychological corruption seems rather severe."
- ↑ 45.0 45.1 Dante's Notes (The LCC, record #1)
- ↑ As seen with Effie and Saude in Canto III (where they explain that pre-observation has lead them to discover N Corp. has dispatched employees in K Corp.) and Canto II (where they create and pitch a plan to the Sinners).
- ↑ LCCB Assistant Manager Rodion/Voicelines - Rodion: "The Preliminary Observation Department’s damn expendable if we’re being real. They toss staff into danger all willy-nilly. No wonder it’s got five whole sections..."
- ↑ Intervallo 3.5-1 - Faust: "Our company has the LCD, a department housing consultant Fixers dedicated to matters regarding the Distortions. Though its size is small, it nevertheless signifies the company’s interest in the phenomenon."
- ↑ Dante's Notes (The LCD, record #1)
- ↑ 50.0 50.1 Dante's Notes (The LCE, record #1)
- ↑ LCE E.G.O::Lantern Yi Sang/Voicelines - Yi Sang: "… Abnormality containment breaches are a rather commonplace occurrence here. It may perhaps be more frequent than it was at the former L Corp., given that the application for Abnormalities here is more for tasks rather than simple energy generation."
- ↑ Intervallo 7.5-4 - Hohenheim: "To be more precise, I am the chief researcher responsible for the entirety of Limbus Company."
Faust: "To be even more precise, the only reason he retains that role is because Yi Sang and I have been excluded from the research personnel files due to our statuses as Sinners."