The Epitaph of Twilight is a poem written by Emma Wielant (a fictional author) that inspires the creation of The World in the .hack series. Wielant studied medical science before experiencing a "psychic phenomenon", which subsequently developed her interest in the metaphysical and caused her to write Epitaph. Shortly after she was killed in a car crash. Harold Hoerwick, a German programmer, fell in love with Wielant and her poetry and became incredibly distraught upon news of her death. Although Epitaph was unfinished, he created Fragment--the precursor to the MMORPGThe World--as a testiment to both his love for Wielant and her brilliance as a poet. For the PlayStation 2 video game series by the same name, see . ... A massively (or massive) multiplayer online role-playing game or MMORPG is a multiplayer computer role-playing game that enables thousands of players to play in an evolving virtual world at the same time over the Internet. ...
There are several versions of Epitaph floating around The World, but these are heavily altered and untrustworthy. Purportedly only Hoerwick and Wielant knew what the original Epitaph contained.
The Epitaph of Twilight (黄昏の碑文), sometimes the Epitaph of the Twilight, is an epic written by Emma Wielant.
In Greek mythology, the Pleiades are nymphs (i.e., beautiful minor divinities of nature) and the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione born on Mount Cyllene.