Elisabet Sobeck Profile and Backstory

This character profile is all about Elisabet Sobeck, a major character that appears in Horizon Forbidden West. Read on to learn about Elisabet Sobeck's backstory and her interactions with other characters in the Horizon series.

Warning: This page contains spoilers for the story of Horizon Zero Dawn

Elisabet Sobeck Basic Information

Elisabet Sobeck
Voice Actor	Ashly Burch
Appearances	・Horizon Zero Dawn (2017) ・(TBD) Horizon Forbidden West (2022)
Relationships	・ Aloy (Descendant through genetic cloning) ・ Ted Faro (Colleague)

Elisabet Sobeck Profile and Backstory

Personality

From the get go, Dr. Elisabet Sobeck has shown her dedication and commitment to making a change for the environment. It's evident in her work with Faro Automated Solutions to solve the environmental crisis, and in her endeavors to further improve the world. Her achievements and innovations are what led Ted Faro to seek her help in solving the Faro Plague.

Beyond her commitment to saving humanity, her selflessness has defined her beyond her work. All those who had worked with Dr. Sobeck have been moved in one way or another by her words and deeds. This is best seen in her final sacrifice: giving her life in order to give Project Zero Dawn a chance. In doing so, she gave them the opportunity to finish the work before the Faro machines could tear it all down.

Horizon Zero Dawn

Dr. Elisabet Sobeck's brilliance and love for the planet has been evident in her from a young age, from solving an environmental crisis fresh out of her studies, working with Faro Automated Solutions to create machines that brought about The Clawback. Her work in FAS lasted for almost a decade before she left when Ted Faro began to enter the field of military machinery and weaponry. Instead, she ventured out on her own, creating Miriam Technologies.

As a leader in the field of modern technology, it comes as no surprise that Ted Faro enlists her help in solving the Faro Plague. It is also by her genius that she discovers the truth of the Faro Plague and conceived the Zero Dawn Project, despite protests against it. Project Zero Dawn is a terraforming system run by an AI that was built to rebuild and care for the planet after all life had gone extinct. In her work on Project Zero Dawn, she created GAIA and with her team of other leaders in their respective fields, they created the systems that would support it.

Their progress came at great costs, and with Dr. Sobeck's pragmatic and optimistic views they had made headway on Project Zero Dawn. Unfortunately, in GAIA Prime, where they were sealed off to protect Project Zero Dawn from the Faro Plague, one of their doors had malfunctioned opening a seal that could lead the machines to their doorstep. Even before the team could argue who would sacrifice themselves to a very sure death, Elisabet had already donned the suit and had offered her life to protect the Alphas and Project Zero Dawn.

It is centuries later that GAIA, seeing a problem in the system, makes a last ditch attempt to protect the world by creating a child out of Dr. Sobeck's Genetic material. This child would be grow up to be Aloy of the Nora.

Aloy continues her legacy of protecting the world as they know it and finds Dr. Elisabet Sobeck's remains at their old family ranch, still in the suit she wore to save Project Zero.

Horizon Forbidden West

It has not been revealed whether we may see Elisabet Sobeck once more in Horizon Forbidden West.

Skills and Abilities

Technological Genius

Elisabet Sobeck is a prodigy and genius, making strides in automation and technology from the moment she entered the field. Her skill and expertise is unmatched, making her one of the most pivotal members of the Project Zero Dawn team.

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