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What you are about to see is only a very small fragment of the whole that was written, and what was written isn't even whole. The author died before she was able to finish, but her poem did live. It inspired the creation of Fragment, the Beta test of The World. It lived on in Fragment and then The World, but none know if it ever will be completed. I personally believe, that the poem is The World and thus will go on as long as The World does.

Unknown where the Cursed Wave was born...
After the stars doth cross the heavens...
The sky in the East doth darken.
And air doth fills 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.

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 - all now to droplets turned in the temple of Arche Koeln.
Returns to nothing, this world of shadowless ones.
Never to return, the shadowless one.
Who quests for the Twilight Dragon.

The wife buffeted by ``waves'' turns her back on the field.
The daughter that waited for the shadows repeated,
``For sure... For sure I can go home.''
But the girl did not know...
The truth that waited at the end of the journey
The eternal mourning of her land.

In the place of the calamitous, only life was known.
After the circling stars
When the eastern dark void, the air full of despair
In the depths of the divided forest, in the land of Karma,

Riding fast on the path is Skeith
Bearing death's shadow, it eliminates all that seek to thwart it.
The Confusing Mirage, Innis
Decieves those that see it with illusions, rescues the waves

The wave soaring high, when its head is smashed,
A new wave will emerge
To become Magus's power.
When questioning the wave,
Hope's light will be lost when he speaks of the dark future of where sorrow and resignation reign.
Using Fiddlehiem's Technique

When englufed by the Waves of Calamity, Gole will plan
The sweet snare of conciliation is Maha
The Waves, an exceeding maelstrom
Nothing can escape

When you think you have escaped, Talvos exists
To destroy those with his exceeding cruelty
Upon violent requital, only to remain is the void, the vacant darkness
is the harbringer that Copernic is to appear.

-Emma Wieland

Please note the differences. As I said, the poem is in fragments, with only 2 knowing all that was writen, one known to be dead the other I presume is dead. The fragments can be found through out The World, but not the whole poem. If any other versions are found, please post them.

Even though it's "The World" it effects the real world... that's the true mystery. It has boggled the minds of many that try to understand. All we can do is keep playing, hoping to find an answer.

((in other words, play the games, watch the .hack\sign, read .hack\legend of twilight, then when it comes out play the new G.U. games and .hack\Fragment, the ONLINE game. ^_^ Yep .Hack's going Online.))

((YEA! But it'll be a little different till they have all the servers set up and stuff or something. You connect to your computer and those of yoru friends and can play home made dungeons. After everything's ready they'll have root towns and dungeons on big servers. it can be played offline too, to lvl yoru character.))

((ditto. When I heard of it I made a mistake in a contract I was writing up.))

I don't know if even the makers of .Hack know what they've created in the Epitaph. Ah well, as long as they make good games and stuff. I heard that you can meet characters from the series and games and stuff on the Online Game. Also in the new G.U. games, you play a PKer and you don't have the Braclet. Hell you get DD used on you by a Zombie Kite look alike.

of course not, then it wouldn't be a mystery.

And they wanted to have something for people to try and figure out.