Born in the late 1970's as the daughter of a rich winery owner, Emma Wielant suffered early loss of her mother as a child and later her father during her late teens. Denied her inheritance, she enrolled into a nursing school in order to support herself, only to overwork herself into illness. While recovering at a resort in southern France, she experienced some sort of supernatural or spiritual event, causing her to develop an interest in anthroposophy and the supernatural. It is at this point, Emma starts her career as a poet and at some point began the epic poem the Epitaph of Twilight which was only available on her personal website.
One day while attending an anthroposophy seminar, she meets a German programmer named Harald Hoerwick who instantly falls in love with her. Alas his love is unrequited, as she is only interested in him professionally for his skills. They worked together for an unknown length of time, until one day, she dies in a car crash on her way to meet him. She died with Harald still hopelessly in love with her and with the Epitaph of Twilight unfinished. On her headstone, presumably Harald leaves the following epitaph:
"The hand that spun a legend will also become a legend itself."
Not soon after her death, the unfinished Epitaph of Twilight, which recently become popular in many fan-circles, is removed from her website. Due to the inevitability of time and the nature of the internet, the original whole text has been lost, with it being frequently modified or fragmented into excerpts.
In his grief, Harald decides to create a tangible expression of his love for Emma, a virtual daughter named Aura. He creates the AI Morganna, disguised as Fragment, a MMORPG based on Epitaph of Twilight. Presented to CC Corporation, together they developed it into what will be known as The World.
And thus, Emma Wielant indeed became the stuff of legend, as players delve deep into the mysteries surrounding the connection between the Epitaph of Twilight and the unusual occurrences happening in the The World.
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