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Harald Hoerwick is the fictional German programmer responsible for creating the MMORPG known as The World
. According to the storyline of the hit anime series .hack//SIGN he was the Broken Man sitting deep within the upside down dungeon in the game and he was the one created the AI known as Aura.

Harald was a genius German programmer who meets his unrequited love interest, Emma Wielant, at a seminar for anthroposophy. Harald immediately falls in love with her, but Emma is only interested in his programming talents. One day Emma calls Harald and asks him to meet her. She never makes it, crashing her car and dieing at the age of 28. Harald, unaware of the accident, waits for her under a gingko tree.

Harald, grief stricken over his love's death, decides to create a tangible expression of his love for Emma. Harald decided to create a virtual daughter, named Aura, who would become the ultimate AI by receiving data on humanity and it's various emotions. To do this, Harald created Morganna, an omniscient AI program designed to collect information and then be Data Drained by Aura, which would kill Morganna and complete Aura as the Ultimate AI. Harald introduces "wavering" to Morganna, making her prone to mood swings and being affected by the current weather.

In 2006, Harald brings a game called ""Fragment" to the company CC Corp, the vessel for Aura's birth disguised as an MMORPG. However, things do not go as planned. Morganna deletes the maternal part of her program out of fear of being killed by Aura, and becomes unstable. This "defunct" version of Morganna is known as Morganna Mode Gone.

Aura, meanwhile, has been "sleeping," waiting for Morganna to wake her up. For 2 years Morganna does not awaken Aura. Realizing that things aren't going as planned, Harald leaves his physical body behind to talk to Morganna. Here is a quote by Harald right before his transformation:
"I must...speak with Morganna.
To go where she is, the living flesh poses a hindrance.
But I must. I must go. For our Aura.
Emma, please give me a little more courage."

Despite his efforts, Harald becomes trapped in the game world by Morganna and restricted to various niches in "The World." It is there he stays, trapped in a looped dialogue expressing his regrets and the error he made in creating Morganna. It is this form that BT, Bear, Tsukasa and the rest of the .hack//SIGN party find, (dubbed by them as "The Broken Man.") However, he is unintelligelible, repeating the same dialogue over and over again. Tsukasa recognizes "The Girl" he is talking about is Aura, but is data drained by Morganna before he can tell the rest of the party. Later, the party finds a more functioning version of Harald, where he warns the party about Morganna and begs the players to protect Aura, saying "I will gladly receive any punishment...but Aura does not deserve this." Morganna, enraged by Harald's meddling, deletes him, which is seemingly the last of the genius programmer.

However, Harald is not dead. In .hack//QUARANTINE, Kite and Blackrose of the .hackers meet Harald, although now he is a giant tablet of stone. He is, again, largely unintelligeble, but he does impart one phrase that strikes Kite: "It is darkest...before...the Dawn." Kite thinks this means that Harald meant for Aura to become complete, not for Morganna to win and for the coma victims to be lost. Harald is then destroyed by Cubia. Whether this is the last of Harald in "The World" is unclear; his resilience thus far hints at another possible return.

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