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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.


Epitaph of the Twilight
Emma Wielant

The Epitaph of Twilight (黄昏の碑文), sometimes the Epitaph of the Twilight, is an epic written by 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 occured, 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.

Twilight means "end"

"The Keel Mountains traversed at last, we met a Dragon who 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?""
-Epitaph of Twilight

this is from .hack//Another Birth Vol.2//Mutation. Akira (BlackRose) asked her friend about the Epitaph and she told her what she remembered. also, in the game (part 2 Mutation), there is a Wavemaster AI that keeps asking "do you have the end?" "I want the end" That AI is named Sheraton (the same name as the dragon in the epitaph). later without kite, blackrose goes back and says to Sheraton that she knows the answer. the answer is this moment. then Sheraton smiled and dissapeared. as he was dissapearing, she heard a faint "thank you".

Pardon the double post, but why are you using the other forms of their names? .hack//wiki has a better version.

Skeith, Innis, Magus, Fidchell, Gorre, Macha, Tarvos, Corbenik. IN THAT ORDER!