Nelly
Character profile for Nelly in Neverness to Everness, the Secretary General of the Bureau of Anomaly Control who orients new arrivals and oversees Bureau operations.
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Nelly is the Secretary General of the Bureau of Anomaly Control in Neverness to Everness. She is a key administrative figure within the Bureauresponsible for welcoming new personnel, providing orientation tours, and enforcing the organization's protocols. Nelly is a non-playable character who appears prominently in the early story, serving as the player's first point of contact with the Bureau's operations.
Attribute | Detail |
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Role | Secretary General |
Affiliation | |
Status | Non-playable character (NPC) |
Associated Character |
As Secretary General, Nelly holds a senior administrative position within the Bureau of Anomaly Control. Her responsibilities include:
Responsibility | Description |
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Welcoming new arrivals | Nelly greets newly assigned personnel when they first arrive at the Bureau. She is the face of the organization for newcomers, making first impressions and setting expectations. |
Orientation tours | She provides guided tours of the Bureau's facilities, walking newcomers through the various departments and explaining their functions. These tours introduce the player to the Bureau's structure and the scale of its operations. |
Operational oversight | Nelly demonstrates extensive knowledge of Bureau operations, including the monitoring systems, response protocols, and interdepartmental coordination. Her understanding of the organization is comprehensive. |
Protocol enforcement | She upholds the Bureau's regulations strictly, including information security rules that govern what personnel are allowed to discuss. |
Nelly is deeply familiar with the Bureau's internal systems and protocols. Two notable systems she references are:
System | Description |
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A monitoring system used by the Bureau to track anomaly activity. Nelly is familiar with how the Index operates and what different readings indicate, suggesting it is central to the Bureau's early warning capabilities. | |
Confident Galaxy Protocols | A set of regulations governing Bureau conduct. The second article of these protocols prohibits personnel from inquiring about information unrelated to their duties. Nelly cites this rule directly, indicating she takes information security seriously. |
Her willingness to enforce information compartmentalization suggests that the Bureau operates with strict internal security. Not all personnel have access to the same information, and Nelly acts as a gatekeeper who ensures those boundaries are respected.
Nelly is closely associated with Alphardserving as his assistant and companion. External sources describe her as Alphard's assistant who accompanies him in connection with early anomaly cases in the story. The nature of their relationship appears to be professional, with Nelly's administrative competence complementing Alphard's more mysterious role in the narrative.
The pairing of Nelly and Alphard is significant in the early story. Nelly's practical, by-the-book approach to Bureau operations contrasts with Alphard's more enigmatic presence, and their interactions help establish the tone of the game's narrative: a blend of bureaucratic structure and supernatural mystery.
Nelly plays an important role in the player's introduction to the world of Neverness to Everness. As the first Bureau representative most players encounter, she establishes:
The organizational structure of the Bureau of Anomaly Control and its role in managing anomalies throughout Hethereau.
The rules and protocols that govern how the Bureau operates, hinting at deeper secrets and compartmentalized knowledge within the organization.
The professional culture of the Bureau, where even senior officials like the Secretary General follow strict information security guidelines.
A connection to Alphard and the early anomaly cases that drive the opening chapters of the story.
Her detailed knowledge of Bureau systems and her role as an orientation guide make her a natural exposition character, delivering world-building information in a way that feels organic rather than forced. Players learn about the Worheimer Indexresponse protocols, and the Confident Galaxy rules through Nelly's dialogue during tours and briefings.
As a non-playable character, Nelly cannot be used in combat or added to the player's party. However, her narrative presence is substantial. The game's design philosophy emphasizes that important NPCs have unique visual designs and expressive animations during dialogue, making them stand out from ambient NPC citizens. Nelly falls into this category as a named, story-relevant character with a distinct identity within the Bureau hierarchy.
Nelly shows up during the opening hours of the game, when the player is still settling into the role of an Appraiser working in Hethereau. Her presence alongside Alphard in those early segments is one of the first clear signals that the Bureau's day to day work is less about dramatic monster hunts and more about methodical casework. She handles the scheduling, the briefings, and the handoffs, while the Appraiser and more combat oriented figures like Alphard take point on the field side of an investigation.
Because she is the character who walks the Appraiser through the initial facility tour, most players first learn the basic vocabulary of the setting from Nelly. Terms like Appraiser, anomaly, and Esper are introduced through her orientation dialogue, and she is often the one who explains why the Bureau has an interest in a specific incident before the player is handed off to a field team. In that sense she doubles as a soft tutorial guide for the main story's opening chapter.
Multiple pre launch previews describe Nelly specifically as Alphard's assistant, and the two are shown together in trailer footage tied to one of the earliest anomaly cases in the game. Pre-launch coverage consistently identifies her with this role, which lines up with her Bureau administrative duties. She coordinates the paperwork, the facility access, and the protocol checks while Alphard acts as the case lead.
Their working dynamic reinforces a theme that runs through the Bureau's operations: field officers rely on a layer of administrative support to stay inside the rules. Nelly's comfort with regulations and her willingness to cite them out loud keeps Alphard's work above board even when the investigation touches on sensitive information. That balance, careful rule following on one side and open ended investigation on the other, is part of why the pair are used to frame the game's opening case.
The Bureau of Anomaly Control is the primary institution responsible for managing supernatural phenomena in Hethereauand its staff are drawn from administrators, researchers, and field Appraisers working alongside Espers. Nelly sits on the administrative side of that structure. Her Secretary General title places her near the top of the internal hierarchy for non combat staff, which is consistent with her being the one to greet new personnel and issue orientation briefings.
Her position also explains why she is the character who enforces information security rules during tours. In an organization that coordinates with field units like Emergency Task Division 4 and liaises with outside sources such as Eibon Antique Shopcompartmentalization is not paranoia, it is standard practice. Nelly's no nonsense attitude about need to know information reflects that institutional culture rather than personal secrecy.
In the scenes where Nelly has spoken lines, she presents as composed, formal, and efficient. She treats the orientation tour as a job to be done correctly rather than a performance, which sets her apart from more flamboyant characters in the opening cast. Her calm reaction to unusual questions, paired with polite refusals when those questions stray outside her authorization, paints her as someone who has been doing this job long enough to have her answers ready.
That steadiness is part of her narrative function. The first hours of the game introduce players to a city where supernatural phenomena are a routine problem to be managed, not a source of panic. Nelly's matter of fact delivery models that attitude for the player. If the Secretary General of the agency responsible for anomalies is treating the situation as just another Monday, then the player is meant to read the setting the same way.
Topic | Summary |
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Type | Non playable story character |
Organization | |
Job title | Secretary General |
Works with | Alphard on early anomaly cases |
Primary duties | Orientation tours, new personnel intake, protocol enforcement |
Story role | Introduces the player to the Bureau and its rules during the opening of the main story |
Combat use | None, she is not a playable Esper |
First appearance | Opening chapter, during the Appraiser's arrival at the Bureau |
Alphardthe investigator Nelly assists during early anomaly cases.
Bureau of Anomaly Controlthe organization where Nelly is Secretary General.
Hethereauthe city whose anomalies the Bureau manages.
Espersthe awakened individuals who handle field work on the Bureau's behalf.
Main Storythe narrative arc that first introduces Nelly to the player.
Characters (Espers) Guidefor an overview of the playable roster that contrasts with story only NPCs like Nelly.