Card Trivia:Sephylon, the Ultimate Timelord

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  • This monster's name is based on the Sephirot, an alternate name for the Tree of Life, the ten emanations in the Jewish Kabbalah.
    • Fittingly, in the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's anime, when this monster is Special Summoned via the effect of "Infinite Light", a tree structure appeared with the other ten "Timelord" monsters (representing the ten emanations of the Jewish Kabbalah) depicted on the circular patterns.
      • This reference is maintained in this monster's OCG/TCG Special Summoning effect, which require the player to have ten or more monsters in their Graveyard.
      • Based on its position on the tree, this monster is based on The Almighty, Judeo-Christian God "Yahweh" or "Jehovah", but it received its name from the Sephirot to make it less offensive.
  • This is the only "Timelord" monster whose artwork shows it from an angle rather than front on.
  • Despite its status as the higher level "Timelord", this is the only "Timelord" monster that does not have built-in protection from being destroyed, or an effect that prevents its controller taking battle damage from battles involving it. In the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's anime, it needs to banish one other "Timelord" monster to grant itself the built-in protection the other "Timelord" monsters have.
  • In the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's anime, this monster's attack name is "Akashic Storm", which references "Akasha", the Sanskrit word meaning "aether", the basis and essence of all things in the material world, and the first material element created from the astral world. It is known as the "fifth element", the other four being WIND, FIRE, EARTH and WATER.
    • Fittingly, all ten original "Timelord" monsters possess one of the aforementioned Attributes, with this monster and "Sandaion's" LIGHT Attribute referencing DIVINE or "aether".