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This page'll is an infodump straight from the in-game Crosspedia! Which means bios for .hack related characters, baddies, terms, and places found in the game! Some of these are straight copy/pastes from the first games Crosspedia, but I'll include 'em anyhow for completion.
Characters
Kite
Voice: Sayaka Aida
One of the legendary PCs (player characters) called ".hackers" from the online game "The World".
Kite once used the power of the Twilight Bracelet entrusted to him by Aura to resolves a far-reaching virus incident whose repercussions extended even into the real world.
He is currently equipped with a new Twilight Bracelet.
He has a warm and calm personality and is an excellent leader, altrough he has a tendency to worry too much about trivial things.
In real life, he's a junior high school student.
Haseo
Voice: Takahiro Sakurai
A PC in the sequel to The World, "The World: R2".
Back when he first started playing, one of his guildmates, a girl named Shino, was PKed and turned into a Lost One by Tri-Edge, a PC who looked identical to Kite. Burning with anger, Haseo set off to find Tri-Edge and extract revenge. As he gathered new companions, he learned about AIDA, an AI data anomaly not bound by the rules of the game world, and he discovered that he possesses a special power known as an Avatar.
For a time after Shino was lost, Haseo kept strictly to himself and avoided contact with other players. But one he met Atoli, a PC who looks like Shino, and Kuhn, who went out of his way to warn him about the dangers of Avatars, he learned the value of using strength to protect rather than attack. In time, his PC evolved through Job Extend quests, reflecting Haseo's own growth as a person.
He is socially awkward by nature, and his contemptuous attitude still comes out at times, but inside his heart is slowly becoming warmer and more compassionate.
Aura
Voice: Maaya Sakamoto
An NPC created by the developer of The World, Harald Hoerwick in a plot to develop the ultimate AI. She has the ability to grow in a humanlike fashion by studying how to think as humans do.
While she was being pursued by the controlling program of The World, Morganna, who wanted to shut her down, Aura sent a message to Kite asking for help.
Learning about the human heart from his subsequent struggle, she finally performed a very human act, sacrificing herself.
However, a few months later she was reborn, and now she watches events unfold as the will of The World.
Monsters
Skeith
Voice: -
One of the eight Phases created by management program of The World, Morganna, in order to destroy Aura. This is the first Phase, "The Terror of Death", which has the ability to give PCs status ailments.
At Morganna's behest, he attacked Kite's friend, Orca, sending him into a coma in the real world.
The red wand Skeith carries is said to contain the minds he has stolen from PCs.
Azure Kite
Voice: Sayaka Aida
A mysterious PC also known as "Tri-Edge" who hunts and PKs other players in The World.
He exudes an ominous aura and lacks any kind of visible expression. On the surface, he looks exactly like Kite, even wielding the same triple-edged blades, but otherwise he is very different from regular PCs. He is able to float, teleport, and split into three separate versions, enabling him to attack an opponent from different directions simultaneously.
When Haseo first tracked him down, Azure Flame Kite defeated him easily and used his Data Drain ability to revert Haseo's PC to its initial state. At first he was believed to be the same kind of being as AIDA, but other PCs thought to be his allies have been known to oppose AIDA. the truth remains a mystery.
Stehoney
Voice: Noboyuki Hiyama
A Golden Goblin. It is particularly fleet of foot.
An underling of the other Golden Goblins, the Four Goblin Kings (Jonue, Zyan, Albert, and Martina).
Together with the four kings, it once challenged Kite to a game of Goblin Tag.
Stehoney R
Voice: Noboyuki Hiyama
A Golden Goblin. It is particularly fleet of foot.
Together with the Four Goblin Kings, it challenged Kite during his second round of Goblin Tag.
The R stands for "Racing".
Stehoney T
Voice: Noboyuki Hiyama
A Golden Goblin. It is particularly fleet of foot.
Together with the Four Goblin Kings, it challenged Kite during his third round of Goblin Tag.
The T stands for "Turbo".
Stehoney X
Voice: Noboyuki Hiyama
A Golden Goblin. It is particularly fleet of foot.
Together with the Four Goblin Kings, it challenged Kite during his fourth round of Goblin Tag.
The X is simply an attempt to look strong and cool. This also accounts for the undeniable mystique of X the Reploid and Mr. X the crime boss.
Headhunter
Voice: Yukitarou Namura
An undead monster carrying a massive sword and a skull. It swings its sword with all of its strength.
Headless King
Voice: Yukitarou Namura
An undead monster carrying a massive sword and a skull. It swings its sword with all of its strength, but it also uses attack magic.
AIDA < ANNA >
Voice: -
The most primitive type of AIDA, an AI data anomaly that is no longer bound to the rules of The World. It floats in the air like a marine organism and attacks by firing Algol Lasers and Kobold Bullets, the latter of which were of course named for the famous programming language "Kobold".
Bugborn Alpha
Voice: -
A type of "Outer Bug" found in Outer Dungeons, dungeons which exist outside the rules of The World. It resembles a chess pawn, moving mechanically and attacking its opponents with body slams.
Bugborn Beta
Voice: -
A type of "Outer Bug" found in Outer Dungeons, dungeons which exist outside the rules of The World. It resembles a chess pawn, moving mechanically and attacking its opponents with body slams.
Bugborn Gamma
Voice: -
A type of "Outer Bug" found in Outer Dungeons, dungeons which exist outside the rules of The World. It resembles a chess pawn, moving mechanically and attacking its opponents with body slams.
Bug Queen Alpha
Voice: -
A type of "Outer Bug" found in Outer Dungeons, dungeon which exists outside the rules of The World. It resembles a chess piece, moving mechanically and attacking and attacking its opponents with body slams.
Bug Queen Beta
Voice: -
A type of "Outer Bug" found in Outer Dungeons, dungeon which exists outside the rules of The World. It resembles a chess piece, moving mechanically and attacking and attacking its opponents with body slams.
Bug Queen Gamma
Voice: -
A type of "Outer Bug" found in Outer Dungeons, dungeon which exists outside the rules of The World. It resembles a chess piece, moving mechanically and attacking and attacking its opponents with body slams.
Goblin Mage
Voice: -
A spellcasting low-level monster found in The World. It looks suprisingly intellectual for belonging to such a simple-minded species.
Goblin Sage
Voice: -
A spellcasting low-level monster found in The World. It looks suprisingly intellectual for belonging to such a simple-minded species.
Strange Head
Voice: -
A beast-type monster with a distinctive nose. Normally it moves quite sluggishly, but when it's ready to attack it will roll itself up and charge at its opponent with surprsing speed.
Olin Pack
Voice: -
A beast-type monster with a distinctive nose. Normally it moves quite sluggishly, but when it's ready to attack it will roll itself up and charge at its opponent with surprsing speed.
Gigamouth
Voice: Yoshiaki Hasegawa
A monster with an enormous mouth. It attacks by winding up its upper body and pounding away with its abnormally long tongue.
Apititer
Voice: Yoshiaki Hasegawa
A monster with an enormous mouth. It attacks by winding up its upper body and pounding away with its abnormally long tongue.
Terms
The World
An online game that has swept the world, no pun intended. Offering players a chance to experience a tantalizing alternate reality, it has garnered massive amounts of attention and praise.
However, while glitches and problems with online games are sadly nothing the gaming public is unfamiliar with, The World at one point developed particularly odd errors and weird occurrences that even system administrators could not explain.
Finally, it was discovered that the disturbances were caused by the control program for the game, Morganna, which was attempting to prevent the birth of the ultimate AI, Aura.
The Morganna crisis was eventually resolved, and players began to return and enjoy everything The World had to offer. Unfortunately, a few years later, the game's developer suffered a huge disaster, and almost all of The World's data was lost. But even as players were mourning this loss, a sequel known as "The World Revision 2" (R:2 for short) was released.
In time, R:2 gained more and more players, and over a year after it went on sale, Haseo logged in for the first time.
PC
The name given to the characters controlled by players in The World; in other words, their avatars inside the game.
Although PCs were originally supposed to be nothing more than characters in a game, a network virus once caused problems with PCs whose effects even extended to real-world players.
It was the .hacker, including Kite, who resolved this crisis.
Eight Phases
The name given to the eight parts that the control program of The World, Morganna, split herself into in order to destroy Aura.
They worked to spread the virus through the game and caused a multitude of errors, but ultimately they were defeated by Kite and his allies.
The Phases are composed of special data known as Epitaphs. In The World R:2, there are some special PCs with Epitaph data built into their character bodies. Haseo's PC is one of these, containing the data for the first phase, the Terror of Death.
Mac Anu
A town that exists on Delta Server, one of the multiple servers that comprise The World.
The first town that players of The World come to, it sells gear and items aimed at those just starting out on their adventures.
There is a teleportation device called a Chaos Gate in the middle of the town. By entering specific keywords in various combinations, players can travel to many different locations.
AIDA
An entity that exists outside the bounds of The World's specifications. Its name is an abbreviation of "Artificially Intelligent Data Anomaly".
Essentially a virus, when it infects PCs within The World, that PC's emotions are amplified to the point that they lose all rational thought. All feelings and desires that they had been keeping under control burst to the surface in a flurry of unbridled emotion.
The countless black bubbles that appear whenever AIDA manifests are a kind of intermediary that lets AIDA infiltrate The World.
Avatar
A manifestation of powers that exceeds The World's specifications. Originally known as the Eight Phases, this power is derived from a special type of data called an Epitaph that is built into a select numbed of special PCs. These PCs, known as Epitaph Users, are the only ones who can make use of Avatars.
The names, forms, and abilities of each Avatar possesses are different for every Epitaph, but they all share the ability to perform Data Drains, a technique capable of defeating AIDA.
Although Avatars are powerful enough to defeat ordinary PCs with a single blow, they also amplify the darkness that resides in their users' hearts, sometime reaching the point where the user is no longer able to control their power with discretion.
Outer Dungeon
A spacious dungeon that exists outside the bounds of The World's specifications. Ordinary PCs are incapable of even seeing these dungeons.
Inside, they are made up of aggregates of countless pieces of fragmented data. They are home to bug monsters known as "Outer Bugs" that wander the zone and attempt to eliminate all intruders.
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