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So the official name for the child of Maria and Mamoru is [救世主
(Kyūseishu)](http://shinsekaiyori.wikia.com/wiki/Messiah), which basically
means "savior" or "the Messiah"... It is unusual (and ironic) for a character
to be called like that -- especially when she(he?) is pretty much the biggest
threat for humanity at that time. Why Messiah among all names? Is there a
reason for this?


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Is there a reason for the child of Maria and Mamoru to be called Messiah?


It's because Messiah is the savior or the Messiah for the Queer Rats, not the
humans.

It's implied that Squealer found out (through a False Minoshiro) that the
Queer Rats

> are actually genetically altered humans (mixed with the DNA of mole rats as
> Saki speculates at the end)

and for all intensive purposes, slaves to cantus users much like that of the
Slave Dynasties (where non-cantus humans were slaves to the ruling class of
cantus users). Any attempt of rebellion against the humans would be slaughter
because the Queer Rats can't fight against cantus powers in the end.

Supposedly from the same source Squealer learned about the Death Feedback (and
possibly what an Orge is) in which cantus-users of the [4th
group](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/9588/1587) have genetically altered
themselves to be unable to kill other members of their own speices. we even
see earlier in the series that something that looks human but isn't (like a
Queer Rat in the distance) can trigger the adverse reactions of the Death
Feedback.

By raising Maria and Mamoru's child as a Queer Rat (via
[imprinting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_\(psychology\))) he/she
(in the anime it's a girl, in the manga it's a boy, not sure about the novel)
would not be affected by the Death Feedback when killing humans (because to
Messiah he/she is a Queer Rat or that Queer Rats are human and actual humans
are something else) and as described by Tomiko Asahina when she was telling
Saki about when the village was in danger from an Ogre it took deceit and
mutual destruction to kill a single Ogre (the doctor who killed the boy who
was the Ogre ended up dying). This is even more evident when Shisei Kaburagi
faced against Messiah where despite being the stronger cantus user he was
weakened and killed by Messiah.

Now to my understanding Messiah as a name is never used by the humans and it's
the Queer Rats, mainly Squealer, that refer to Messiah as their Messiah, their
savior. Most of the humans refer to him/her as an Ogre while Saki refer her to
as Maria's (and Mamoru's) Son/Daughter


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