Origin
Kirchen Bell
Plachta is a character in Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book. She is a talking book who has lost her memories. As Sophie comes up with new recipes and adds them to the book, she recovers new memories. 500 years ago, Plachta was once a human alchemist. With the help of Sophie and her friends, her soul is moved to a doll body, allowing Plachta to live a human-like life again.
Atelier Series
The Atelier series (アトリエシリーズ?) is a series of role-playing video games developed by the Gust Corporation since 1997, primarily for the PlayStation consoles (original, PS2, PS3, and PS4), though portable versions for the Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita and WonderSwan Color have also been made. Two of the games in the series were ported to the Sega Saturn and Dreamcast. The series has been primarily released in Japan, though recent titles have been localized for other markets. The game series, based on the definition of "atelier" as an artist's workshop, draws heavily on the pseudo-science of alchemy, requiring the player to find and collect items and combine them in recipes to create better items with which to progress further in the game. A manga adaptation by Yoshihiko Ochi has also been published.
