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| “ | Down, you simple ape! | „ |
| ~ Nur-Ab-Sal, through Sophia Hapgood's body, threatening Indiana Jones for saying he is a bad influence to his host. |
| “ | What do you mean, CHURL? | „ |
| ~ Nur-Ab-Sal repeteadly to Indy once he realizes that Sophia isn't making an act. |
| “ | Sea scum! Drones! Primates! Too low to serve -- even as my slaves! | „ |
| ~ Nur-Ab-Sal when questioned by Hans Ubermann and Klaus Kerner. |
Nur-Ab-Sal is the overarching antagonist of the 1992 point-and-click adventure video game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, the first original Indiana Jones video game, and its tie-in 1991-1992 comic book adaptation of the same name by Dark Horse Comics.
He is the legendary Atlantean god of deceit who ruled over the mystical underwater city of Atlantis centuries before the early 20th century. However, unknown to the experts of Atlantean lore, Nur-Ab-Sal was merely a human priest in Atlantis who wished to attain godhood with the Colossus, a "god-making" machine that would transform humans into supreme beings.
He was voiced by an uncredited PJ Heywood, who also voiced William Afton and Souldozer in the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise and David Bringdown in Phineas and Ferb. While possessing Sophia Hapgood, he was voiced by Jane Jacobs.
History[]
Past[]
The comic book adaptation fleshes out Nur-Ab-Sal's backstory. Centuries ago, the man who became known as Nur-Ab-Sal was one of the many men who got visited by mysterious horned beings (presumably of extraterrestrial origin), who taught them about technology and powering it with the orichalcum mineral. By mastering its use, Nur-Ab-Sal and his community were able to build Atlantis with bronze statues they could animate with orichalcum. They would go to conquer several nearby island kingdoms, but the horned beings departed before Atlantis was unfortunately sunk by a volcanic eruption. As the last Atlantean high priest, Nur-Ab-Sal came up with the idea of achieving godhood so Atlantis could feel safe.
As a result, Nur-Ab-Sal created a powerful device known as the Colossus, a "god-making" machine that would allow Atlanteans to become like their "gods" with aligned orichalcum beads. However, the device was flawed and horribly disfigured and mutated all the Atlanteans subjected to Nur-Ab-Sal's experiments, who kept sending them to be horribly altered until he could achieve his goals. Eventually, most of the mutated Atlanteans rebelled against Nur-Ab-Sal, killing him, but before dying, Nur-Ab-Sal had studied how to leave his essence outside his body to enable him to cheat death, passing his soul into an amber necklace. Centuries later, in 1929, Sophia Hapgood finds a necklace containing Nur-Ab-Sal's spirit during the Jastro Expedition, leading the Atlantean deity to subtly possess her since then, never letting her take off the necklace.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis[]
Ten years later in 1939, Sophia Hapgood meets again Indiana Jones, an acquaintance of his whom she met in the Jastro Expedition, who has come to request her help in his search for Atlantis, leading Sophia to show him the necklace that allows her to communicate with Nur-Ab-Sal's spirit, though Indy doesn't believe it. He supposedly guides them to look for the three Atlantean stones described in the Lost Dialogue of Plato, assisting Sophia while they look for one of the three stones of Atlantis in an archaeological site in Algiers, Algeria or while exploring Crete's catacombs. During their visit to the Laberynth of Crete, Indiaan Jones starts becoming concerned about Nur-Ab-Sal's growing influence over Sophia, making her refuse to lend Indy her necklace with a hoarsely voice. As she is taken hostage by the Nazi officials Hans Ubermann and Klaus Kerner, who are also seeking Atlantis, Sophia uses her connection to Nur-Ab-Sal to distract the guard guarding her to allow Indy to go undetected.
Upon arriving to Atlantis, Indy rescues Sophia and the two kiss, with the two jokingly claiming that Nur-Ab-Sal made them kiss. However, as they explore the Lost City's canals, Sophia claims to feel Nur-Ab-Sal's presence, leading the two into a chamber with a lava pit and calcified skeletons that Nur-Ab-Sal had as his personal abode. Once more, Hapgood speaks to Jones in a hoarsely voice and Jones starts suspecting that something strange is happening due to Sophia's claims that Nur-Ab-Sal and her are now one and the same, insisting to stay in the chamber, leading Indy to realize that Nur-Ab-Sal has been possessing Sophia from her necklace for most of the adventure. He allows Indy to talk to Sophia, who tells Indy that she can't let go of the necklace.
From here on, depanding on the player's choice, the ending may vary: if the player chooses to destroy the necklace, Jones makes Sophia let go of the necklace by putting a hot bead inside it, prompting her to take it off in pain and then locking the necklace in a golden box he had retrieved beforehand, proceeding to throw it into the lava pit. The necklace's destruction consequently kills Nur-Ab-Sal in the process and dissipates his spirit into nothingness.
If the player doesn't destroy the necklace and leaves Sophia there, however, one of the bad endings of the game occur: in this, Nur-Ab-Sal remains undetected in Sophia's necklace and Indy just leaves Sophia in Nur-Ab-Sal's abode as they demand, proceeding find his way into the Colossus, where he gets found by Ubermann, Kerner and two of their Nazi guards. After Kerner tests the Colossus on himself to then commit suicide for his mutation and Indy tricks Ubermann into testing it on himself, Nur-Ab-Sal and Sophia arrive and demand Ubermann to test the machine on them, leading Ubermann to comply and Nur-Ab-Sal to become a being of energy that floats around and knocks Ubermann off to his death in the lava pit below before blowing up themselves, triggering the final collapse of Atlantis and killing all the Nazis there, though Jones manages to escape.
As Sophia is shown to still be alive eight years later in 1947 (the year in which Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine takes place), it can be easily concluded that the Good Ending is the canonical one, so Nur-Ab-Sal is dead and doesn't claim Sophia.
Trivia[]
- Nur-Ab-Sal is easily the most powerful Indiana Jones villain due to his immense powers as an ancient deity.
External Links[]
- Nur-Ab-Sal on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Nur-Ab-Sal on the Indiana Jones Wiki
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