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Not much is known about Wilhelm. He is the founder and CEO of the largest interplanetary conglomerate, Vector Industries. He also served as the Executive Committee Director of the Galaxy Federation, up to a decade ago. To be the founder of Vector and the Executive Committee, Director Wilhelm must be very old, much older than any normal human could possibly live. It is quite possible that he is undergoing life extension, much like Emperor Cain in Xenogears (see Xenogears terms). Wilhelm is one of the most suspicious characters in the Xenosaga series; it seems he is manipulating every other conglomerate and individual for his own personal gain. Wilhelm also has an affinity for referring to life's situations as if they were all a part of some universal theatrical play.
Wilhelm uses an artifact called the Compass of Order when he makes a move. He is often seen staring into it, sometimes obsessively. It is quite possible that Wilhelm is using the Compass of Order as a vision into the future. With such knowledge, Wilhelm could easily manipulate circumstances in the present to aid him in the future.
Wilhelm's assistants are the Testaments, powerful and mysterious agents. The extent and nature of the Testaments' power is unknown, but they seem to be Wilhelm's closest personal advisors and subordinates. By the end of the second game we have seen four Testaments, each dressed in different-colored robes: black, red, blue, and white. All of the Testaments have previously been killed in some way or another, and they were somehow resurrected by the intervention of Wilhelm and became Testaments.
At the end of Xenosaga Epiosde II, there is a brief scene involving chaos and Wilhelm. Chaos explains that he will not hold back, and Wilhelm seems delighted that chaos is finally "entering the stage." Wilhelm then addresses chaos as "Yeshua," which may hint to a past partnership or rivalry between the two men.
Wilhelm also appears to own an E.S. or E.S.-like silver mech which is breifly glimpsed in the epilouge at the end of Episode II. The mech appears to have a long spike protruding out from the elbow joint of it's left arm and a series of tubes or wires stretching out from the elbow joint of its right arm, curving around its back and connecting with the mech's right shoulder. A strange glowing blue symbol or object can also be glimpsed somewhere on the mech's chasis as well though it was obscured by the mech's own shadow. This unit will more than likely make a return appearence in Xenosaga Episode III.
Wilhelm's link to the collective mythos upon which Xenosaga is based may lie in the titles of the first Xenosaga games, Der Wille zur Macht and Jenseits von Gut und Böse. These titles are shared with publications by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, whose middle name is shared by Wilhelm himself. This link helps to attribute Wilhelm to his role as a enigmatic manipulator of the events which unfold in Xenosaga.