Aura (G.U.)

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Character Profile
Online
Name	Aura
Gender	Female
Race	AI
Class	N/A
Guild	N/A
Offline
Name	N/A
Age	N/A
Gender	N/A
Media Information
English Actor	Lia Sargent
Character Voice	Maaya Sakamoto
First Appearance	.hack//G.U.: Redemption

"You must go...little children of Morganna..."

— Aura —

Aura (アウラ) is the spirit of the The World and was created by Harald Hoerwick to be the Ultimate AI.

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Basic Info

Aura is the ultimate AI, created by Harald Hoerwick. For Harald, Aura's existence was that of the daughter that he never would have had with Emma Wielant. After the Twilight Incident, she replaced Morganna Mode Gone as god of The World and later, The World R:2.

File:Aura fades while saying little children of morganna.jpg

Aura fades away while refering to the Epitaph users as the "little children of Morganna"

Appearance

Aura assumes her mature state when she appears at the end of .hack G.U.//Redemption's ending. Her hair is mostly white now, as opposed to the lavender color at the end of the games. As always, it is wavy, and only goes down past her shoulders. Her eyes are still an intense light blue and show more maturity than her last appearance. She wears the same loose, flowing dress and a white shawl as from her last appearance with her trademark infinity brooch. Due to the loose folds of her dress and her cloak and the lighting of her only appearance, her hands are hidden from view. Since she floats in the air most of the time, her bare feet are rarely seen. Any aging besides the rewhitening of her hair and the maturity of her eyes is inevedent, possibly due to the lighting.

She seems to travel like Azure Flame Kite: by turning into azure orbs and flying away. Unlike her knite, though, she becomes many orbs rather than one.

In .hack//TRILOGY, she makes no physical appearance and simply speaks as the system, much like Morganna Mode Gone.

Personality

Before, Aura displayed a large amount of concern for the players affected by the events in The World and tried to do whatever she could to help them. Now, while see still seems to genuinely care for The World R:2, she prefers to detatch herself from the characters and let them do as they please. Even in the heat of AIDA Incident, she doesn't once come in contact with any players. Later, during Cubia's seige of the internet, she responds only after hearing a portion of the Epitaph of Twilight, and then only in proxy. She later appears in the final battle to give Haseo simply words of support rather than any real help.

She, true to her character, doesn't seem to hold any grudges against Morganna Mode Gone and the Infinity Eight. She even refers to the Epitaph Users as the "little children of Morganna", and in a positive connotation, suggesting that she not only supports them, but also for gives her "mother" for her past failings.

In .hack//TRILOGY, she seems to have become somewhat cynical, telling Haseo that Ovan can't be saved. When Haseo disregards her and manages to save Ovan anyway, she is surprised and rethinks things.

History

.hack//Games

See Aura (R:1)

The End of The World

After Legend of the Twilight, Aura vanishes for no reason. The Internet, which had come to depend on Aura, begins to suffer serious network trouble. CC Corp, realizing the value of Aura, begins Project G.U. to bring her back. Programmer Jyotaro Amagi comes up with an ambitious plan: Restore Aura, or the R.A. Plan. His team salvages the data of the 8 Phases to recreate the Morganna system and bring Aura back under CC Corp control. They embed the Phases into 8 PCs, so they can be controlled by CC Corp, but when the Chosen Ones attempt to execute Amagi's R.A. Program, something goes wrong. First, most of The World's data is immediately lost. Second, all seven Chosen Ones fell into comas, while Amagi, using a "dummy program" he constructed, fell into a state of delirium and set fire to the CC Corp building. CC Corp combined the remaining data with another in-progress game to create The World R:2. On the last day of The World, Zefie appears to Jun and hints at where Aura has gone, before leaving herself. It is unknown exactly when this happened, but the statue of Aura at Δ Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground disappeared as well.

.hack//Roots

In The World R:2, Aura is a rumored lost goddess of The World. Shino tells Haseo that she heard there used to be a statue of her in the Cathedral, and later compares her conviction to Aura, who abandoned The World. Saburou also mentions Aura later in the series when following Haseo through the Forest of Pain, noting that "Tri-Edge" could have been sent to find her.

.hack//G.U. Games

Aura's email icon in Redemption

It is revealed that, long before Roots, Ovan and Aina visited the statue-less Cathedral, and prayed to Aura to cure Aina's illness, but to no avail. Ovan attempted to seek out Aura after he was infected by Tri-Edge, but again failed. Finally, after integrating all of the Phases' Epitaphs and the original Epitaph of the Twilight in the Cathedral, Haseo, Yata, and Aina encounter the Three Azure Knights, who attack them while they try to contact Aura. Before the battle can continue for too long, Aura uses Aina as a vessel, and commands the knights to stop. It is revealed that she receded into The World's sea of data to sleep and leave the future of The World in the hands of the players, and she tells them that they must deal with the threat of Cubia themselves. During a discussion of this at Netslum Tartarga, Endrance suggests she may have disliked the role of goddess she had been given in The World. She had, however, intervened once during the AIDA crisis and created the Three Azure Knights from her memories of the heroes of The World, although this was done hastily so they were incomplete. She currently exists as the system of The World, and wishes the players to decide their own destiny. It is also revealed that Hulle Granz Cathedral is the only area in The World protected from the influence of Cubia.

During the fight against Cubia, Aura assists Haseo by creating an "Aura Sphere" that allows him to contact and summon his friends, and access his item storage. Following Cubia's defeat she briefly appears along with Ovan, telling Haseo that his feelings had called out to and summoned Ovan to his side, and that "The World" now belongs to players like him. Later on, she sends him an e-mail, and gives him the member addresses of the Azure Knights before returning to sleep in the sea of data. She also gives Haseo the Promise Card, telling him to give it to the one person he wanted to share his feelings with the most.

.hack//G.U. Trilogy

As Ovan was falling into the depths outside of The World's boundary game network, Aura speaks to Haseo and Ovan. Ovan realizes that it is the spirit of The World talking to them. Aura tells Haseo that in order for a miracle to occur an equivalent sacrifice must be made, saying that it is an absolute rule. Haseo ignores this and breaks through to save Ovan, and Aura muses that the strongest feelings can change The World.

Unlike in .hack//G.U., Aura does not make an actual appearance. It can be infered that she is simply speaking as the system, much like Morganna Mode Gone did.

Aura as she appears in 4koma.

.hack//4Koma

Aura's personality is unchanged in .hack//4Koma. Her appearance focus more on characters' reactions to her rather than anything she does herself.

.hack//Link

See Aura (LINK)

Trivia

• In the Japanese version of .hack, Aura's name uses the German/Latin pronunciation ("ow-ra"), rather than as the much more common English loanword pronunciation ("oh-ra"), which is the way it is pronounced in the English version.
• Both Aura's Japanese voice actress (Maaya Sakamoto) and English voice actress (Lia Sargent) also play the role of Natsume. They both also shared a non-.hack role as the Nothing Card in the second Cardcaptor Sakura Movie.
• In Unison and concept art, the decoration down the middle of her dress is just a line, but in the games and G.U., it is more lacy.
• In the background story for The World R:2, the Goddess "Aurora" seems to represent Aura.
• Aurora Gaze is the only GU Card Battle and Crimson VS card picturing Aura.
• While an image is not present in any of her G.U. emails, a profile image is present in the Redemption game disk.