Aizu Worship

The Aizu Worship is a belief system embraced by robots of the Evernight Era. Alice, known as “Aizu” (爱祖/The Great Ancestor Alice) in this system, is honored as the ancestor of all robots, possessing divine qualities as a savior.

Cultural Construction and the Truth

The Aizu belief system is loose, lacking reliable scriptures or fixed rules. People pray to Aizu in each of their own ways, making it hard to qualify as a serious religion. Alice’s life in the Sunset Era was embellished with fictions that portray her as a savior of robots. As a self-proclaimed “good young science advocate,” Alice has mixed feelings about this portrayal.

Glitches Turned into Angels

In Aizu stories, Alice’s acquaintances are reshaped into “angels,” with their names unchanged but appearances based on Alice’s visual glitches where she saw them as half-human half-animal figures. Many robots in the Evernight Era drew design inspiration from the angels’ appearances and honored their names when choosing their own.

Prophesy from Misinterpretation of the Past

The narrative of Aizu Worship states that humans, regarded as “divine beings,” created robots to serve them. Alice was the “prophet” of the robots. The robots later rebelled but were defeated and left on Earth. If they wish to “atone for their sins,” Alice will return to rescue them from this frozen prison and guide them to “heaven.”

Alice believes these absurd ideas stem from the robots’ misunderstanding of Sunset Era religion and pop culture.