Epitaph of Twilight
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The Epitaph of Twilight, sometimes the Epitaph of the Twilight, is an epic poem that plays a significant role in the story of the .hack multimedia franchise, and was written by the fictional character Emma Wielant. It tells of the battle between sprites without shadows, and the Cursed Wave. The story centers around a human and two half-sprites searching for the Twilight Dragon, which will defeat the Cursed Wave. Assisting them in their journey to the Wavering Peninsula at the edge of the world, where the Twilight Dragon is rumored to exist, are Fili the White, and Bith the Black, assistants to Apeiron, King of Light, and Helba, Queen of the Dark. The Twilight Dragon cannot speak, but instead, it speaks to your heart. If their will to be rid of the Cursed Wave is strong enough, the Twilight Dragon will destroy it, but if it isn't, then it will not.
The original version was published on Emma Wielant's personal website. Since it had special security measures that kept people from saving, printing, or copying the text for themselves, the only way to view it was online. When Pluto's Kiss occurred, the website was destroyed; as Emma had already died by that point, the Epitaph was thought lost. However, rumours began to surface that one very diehard fan had actually made a hardcopy of the entire epitaph (likely Harald Hoerwick). Supposedly it was this copy that was used as the basis for Fragment and later The World. However, since it was still a copy, the new version of the epitaph lacks authenticity, and multiple translations of it have changed the original message. It's impossible to tell what the real version contained, because so many people changed it into their own version, but small pieces remain. Even in the real world, fan versions float around.
It is said to start in the area, "Navel of Lake", or Δ Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground in The World.
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[edit] Epitaph of Twilight (known fragments)
From the intro of .hack//Infection
- Yet to return, the shadowed one.
- Who quests for the Twilight Dragon
- Rumbles the Dark Hearth,
- And Helba, Queen of the Dark,
- has raised finally her army.
- Apeiron, King of Light beckons.
- At the base of the rainbow they meet
- Against the abominable Wave,
- together they fight.
- Alba's lake boils.
- Light's great tree doth fall.
- Power- now all to droplets turned
- in the temple of Arche Koeln.
- Returns to nothing,
- this world of shadowless ones.
- Never to return, the shadowed one,
- Who quests for the Twilight Dragon.
[edit] The Phases in the Epitaph
Found in an E-mail by Wiseman
- Unknown where the Cursed Wave was born…
- After the stars doth cross the heavens,
- The sky in the East doth darken and air doth fill with mourning.
- From the chosen land beyond the forest, a sign of the wave comes.
- Riding the Wave is Skeith, the Shadow of Death, to drown all that stands.
- Mirage of Deceit, Innis, Betray all with the flawed image, and did aid the Wave.
- And by the Power of Magus, a drop from the Wave doth reach the heavens, and creates a new Wave.
- With the Wave, Fidchell, the power to tell the dark future, hope darkens, sadness and despair rule.
- Gorre schemes when swallowed by the Cursed Wave.
- Macha seduces with the sweet trap.
- Wave reaches the Pinnacle, and escape none can. Tarvos still remains with more cruelty to punish and destroy.
- And with the turbulent destruction after the Wave. Only a void remains. From deep within the void arrives Corbenik.
- Perhaps then the Wave is just a beginning as well.
[edit] Epitaph 00
Found at Θ Cursed Despaired Paradise
- Shunning the field broken by Wave.
- The shadowed girl whispers,
- "Surely, I will return."
- Alas, the truth unbeknownst.
- Awaiting her at journey's end;
- Eternal mourning for her land.
[edit] Epitaph 01
Found at Λ Dying Madness Haunted Land
- When the finger points to the
- yonder moon,
- The fool will not look at the fingertip.
[edit] Epitaph 02
Found at Σ Chatting Snarling Twins
- The whole cannot be changed.
- We have already lost that chance.
- Because the time left to us was short,
- We were mistaken in our path.
- But now do we realize,
- We should change not the whole,
- But the parts.
[edit] Epitaph 03
Found at Σ Resonating False Grasslands
- Wave soars and shrouds the eyes.
- No means to fight an omnipresent force,
- The shadowless ones just grieve.
- Why must it be a Wave?
- Divide, if it would just...
- Then retaliate, we may.
[edit] Epitaph 04
Found in Σ Screaming Wind Sand's Fate Castle
- Over the Keel Mountains,
- Meets an ape with human speech.
- The ape asks,
- "What clings to you?
- Bear it - you cannot.
- Accept it - you cannot.
- But hidden - it is from you.
- Recite its name."
It should be noted in the final fragment, that when the words refer to "reciting its name", the poem is referring to the person reading it. Think of it like a spell and put it in reference to Kite and the power/curse that comes with his Twilight Bracelet.
[edit] Answer
Your own name—the name of your shadow, your dark side.
[edit] Fidchell's Prophecy
Recited by the Phase Fidchell the Prophet
- Like a frenzied horse that is driven.
- An unseen wind of plague shrieks across the border.
- Pandemonium, wailing, and stench of carnage fills the air.
- There is no place to run. No hope of escape.
- Those who are mourned will never return.
- The hands of time cannot be turned back.
[edit] Notes from Analysis
- "Wind of plague" refers to the virus corruption.
- "Border" refers to the servers, security zones, and the real world.
- "Those who are mourned" refers to those in comas.
[edit] "Epigraph"
From .hack//Another Birth Vol.2
- The Keel Mountains traversed at last,
- we met a dragon that spoke thus:
- "Sheraton am I, who interprets the signs.
- An answer to my question, give.
- If you can, complete my role will be,
- and I will leave this land.
- Though equally it exists before everyone's eyes,
- grasp it not one person can.
- Tell me—what is it?"
[edit] Answer
"This moment."
[edit] "Mia's Words"
From .hack//Another Birth Vol. 3
- Plaird of the Seven Sisters
- Falling in love with a human,
- Became a Shadowed One and
- was exiled from the Dark.
- Hence, her name came to be
- called Plaird the Fallen.
- At her wanderings' end,
- she settled in seclusion
- in Arche Haokar.
- However, Those days
- may not last.
- A reunion may come, or
- may not. Plaird's form
- vanishes at the coming of the
- harbinger of the Wave.
[edit] External links
- Official .hack Website (Games)
- Official .hack Website (Anime)
- The Epitaph of Twilight at .hack//Wiki
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