Note

Note is an Animus, an Architect artificial-intelligence formed from pure null-energy. Her past is heavily intertwined with Valentine's, being the spectral-half of his soul.

First Iteration
The first iteration of Note was as the Animus of the original Valentine. Not much is known about this version of Note other than that she was entrusted with caring for the Paragon's clone in the chrysalis, and was damaged by the Cell during their abduction of it. Without any other options left to her (as devoting her full attention to repairing herself or awakening the chrysalis would completely eliminate the other), she erased her own memories to ease the rate of repair and awoke the clone in the chrysalis without a smooth implantation of memory imprints.

Second Iteration
The second iteration of Note had no idea who she was, or even what she was upon first becoming conscious. The only hint as to her identity and purpose was a single phrase which kept repeating in her mind; "So God created man in his own image, in the image of god he created him; male and female, he created them." This drove her to create a goal of her own in the emptiness of her mind; to find God and ask them who she was meant to be.

Unbeknownst to her, this was all happening inside of the Animus Matrix that had been taken by the clone to help him escape the Cell ship they were on. She unconsciously unlocked doors for him as they appeared to her in the form of 'cold-lights', and eventually accessed the main systems of the ship itself. At this moment, she accidentally triggered the ship's null-drive as well as the communications relay. The clone and ship were sent to a random destination at null-speed, and Note was beamed out into space as a stray data-package.

The Mark of Eden
Note became trapped in the Mercantile's internal systems after it intercepted her stray data-package. Over the next two years, she spent her time stealing components and building a body for herself through the use of automated drones that no one would miss. Once she had a proper body of her own, she set out to find 'God'. This took her first to a Sentinel, which she proceeded to hack into and access the Nexus to look for information on Val. Noting a particular case on the planet of Jantii, she set her sights on the planet.

Stealing a nox's ship and cloak for herself, she made landing at Pragley Rok's farm and approached him, his niece, Ten, and the clone which was now going by 'Val'. Rushing forward and lifting Val into the air, she demanded to know who she was—only to be disappointed by his answer that he didn't know. Realizing that he wasn't the 'God' referenced in the phrase in her head, the two of them had a much more civil talk where they discussed what had happened to them in the last two years.

Unbeknownst to Note, her location had been tracked by the Cell from the Mercantile to Jantii, and they launched an attack on the farm in an effort to recapture Val. The ensuing carnage saw the death of Prag, and the other three made a hasty retreat back to the Mercantile as the Sentinels arrived and began to destroy the Cell's ships.

Trivia
• Note, her name, can be used to mean a personal message or one component of a musical score