Return to Midgard. It has been three months since all of Midgard watched Njorun battle with Sieglinde beneath the colorful boughs of the World Tree. The player known as 'the Cataclysm' has disappeared, and Circle Systems has remained silent. Hayden Itagaki, determined to find out the truth behind Lisa Perdita's disappearance, has created a new player-persona named Gefjun and gathered a diverse party of players in order to unearth Kognition's nefarious secrets. Desperate to find her friend, and spurred forward by an enigmatic character, Gefjun becomes obsessed with Kognition. In a world made...

Lisa Perdita is a Future Child, one of many who live in an age of endless digital-world connection. Secretly she is also Njorun, an infamous player-persona in the world's most popular video game: Kognition. Between juggling schoolwork and her personal life, she has spent much of the last ten years in Kognition's world of Midgard. First Fragment explores the beginning of the Cycle, an opening act pushed forward by death. Second Stage continues the Kognition epic by taking Lisa Perdita beyond the game itself. This edition collects First Fragment and Second Stage together for the first time with...