Noah

Noahノア
Novel	Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA
Rank/Title	The First Member of SEELE
Age	Unknown (Deceased)
First Appearance	Volume 1 (Mentioned)

Noah (ノア, Noa^?) is a fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA novel. He was a character mentioned in second volume of the novel series.

History

Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA

Volume 2

Upon putting the SEELE's relic in his head, Kaji's body is taken over by SEELE, Kensuke Aida explains that Kaji told him that he inherited memories of past worlds. Kaji told Kensuke that his role is to make the right adjustments to progress the Human Instrumentality Project and to make sure the same mistakes aren’t repeated. He says that he doesn't know how many of him existed, but reveals that the first member was Noah.

During the events of the Valley of Human Bodies conflict, Kensuke, Misato and the Kaji-vessel are reunited. Misato asks what is his objective. Kaji-vessel reveals that that the Instrumentality Project has failed on this world, but he was forced to stay when all he had to do was to proceed to the next trial. He reveals that Armaros is a safety mechanism to ensure the advancement of the Instrumentality Project. Then when Humanity fails, Armaros comes and ends it all, restarting the cycle until the completion. Kaji-vessel says that in a past world, many ages ago, they were ordered to build an Ark that gave humanity access to a small portion of their techniques. And this is the beginning of SEELE with Noah being the first member.

Volume 5

Kaji-vessel isn't bothered by revealing this much claiming that everything will be erased by Armaros, so knowing will not help anything since they won't have time to act.

"SEELE had guarded the memory of the world ever since the time of the first Noah. Though they’d never attained success, they’d kept the record of all the failures. The world had no blueprint. All they could do was eliminate one failure at a time. They were the ones who’d learned how to interfere with the messengers. They were the ones who’d crafted the Ark to shorten the creation of new worlds."

Trivia

• According to the Genesis account, Noah labored faithfully to build the Ark at God's command, ultimately saving not only his own family, but mankind itself and all land animals, from extinction during the Flood. Afterwards, God made a covenant with Noah and promised never again to destroy all the Earth's creatures with a flood. The flood narrative is followed by the story of the Curse of Ham.