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Aura is a fictional character from .hack, a franchise that encompasses several video games, anime and manga. She is an advanced AI. Her virtual avatar is the form of a young girl whose white hair, skin and garments give her a ghostly appearance.

Appearances

.hack//SIGN
.hack//INFECTION
.hack//MUTATION
.hack//OUTBREAK
.hack//QUARANTINE
.hack//Legend of the Twilight

Biography

Conception and birth

Before the creation of The World
a German programmer named Harald Hoerwick fell in love with Emma Wielant, who wrote an epic poem entitled the Epitaph of Twilight. After Emma died in a car accident, Harald became distraught and created frägment (the prototype to The World) inspired by the Epitaph. but this program is actually intended to create the ultimate AI, Aura. Harald worked on Aura as a symbol of his love for Emma as the daughter that could have been.

At the care of Morganna

At the beginning of .hack//SIGN Aura is asleep as her mentor program, the AI Morganna has yet to gather enough data from the players to awaken her. But Morganna is intentionally trying to keep Aura asleep since she realizes that she would die when her job—raising Aura—is completed. Morganna manages to imprison the consciousness of Tsukasa (the protagonist in .hack//SIGN), trapping him inside The World, and linking his emotions to Aura's development, while she manipulates him so that Aura can never awaken. At the end of the series, Aura fortunately awakens correctly, allowing Tsukasa to log out of the game. However, Aura's awakening also in turn activates the Phases, AI programs originally engineered to gather data for Aura's development, but modified by Morganna into invincible monsters to capture her.

Awakening and persecution

A few months after SIGN, The World has succumbed to some severe problems, including invincible monsters and hacked graphics. All of this as part of the intent of Morganna to capture Aura, and preventing her from developing Data Drain, the ability to edit game data, which is necessary for her to become complete.

However Aura is able to cultivate this power into an installation book, and attempts to give it to the legendary player Orca but Skeith attacks them, Data Draining Orca causing the player in the real world to fall into a coma. When his best friend Kite (main protagonist in the playstation games) logs into The World searching for Orca, Aura gives the Installation Book to Kite. Upon opening the file, his player code is rewritten, and he receives the Twilight Bracelet, which allows him to use Data Drain, the only power capable of defeating the corrupted monsters as well as the Eight Phases of The Cursed Wave.

When Kite encounters the first Phase, Skeith, it is already in the process of Data Draining Aura, scattering her data throughout The World in fragments. Kite defeats Skeith, creating Cubia in return. Fortunately, Aura's consciousness is still partially functional, so she is able to send corrupted e-mail messages to him, which are possible to read but with great difficulty. With the help of other players who later become known as the .hackers, Kite is able to face and defeat six more of the eight Phases which include Innis, Magus, Fidchell, Gorre, Macha (otherwise known as Maha), and Tarvos. After Aura becomes complete, there is only Cubia and the final phase, Corbenik, left to deal with. Aura tells Kite not to confront Cubia, who is invincible, but Kite does anyway, and sacrifices the Bracelet to destroy Cubia, since they are one and the same.

However, this makes it impossible for the final Phase to be defeated, and over twenty million people would imminently die. Kite fights the final Phase anyway, but when he is about to deliver the final blow to it Aura gets in the way and is killed.

When this happens Aura, who has collected data on positive emotions, merges with Morganna, who has data on negative emotions, completing Aura's final incarnation as the Ultimate AI. From then on, Aura becomes an omnipresent yet mostly silent force within The World, analogous to a god.

Shugo and The Twilight Bracelet

In .hack//Legend of the Twilight, Aura is constantly being hunted down by the CC Corp (the game producers) without much success.

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