{{
`${userDetail.user.displayName}${userDetail.user.cachedBungieGlobalDisplayNameCode ? `#${standardizeBungieGlobalCode(userDetail.user.cachedBungieGlobalDisplayNameCode)}` : ""}`}}
{{getUserClans()}}
Edited by HELP1NG HAND:
4/22/2015 6:49:49 PM
7
Achlyophage Lore
So I received an exotic helm for my hunter from the Nightfall last night: the Achlyophage Symbiote.
So I am aware of the Greek translation (I think its greek) of "Darkness Eater", but the Symbiote itself has me intrigued.
The helmet itself appears common, and standard issue aside from the critter/ colony/ fungus/ alien blob growing on (or through) it.
Does anyone know of any lore or back story surrounding the life form attached to the helmet?
-
2 RepliesIn the name Achlyophage Symbiote, we find a combination of ancient greek words that when put together, don't really make an english word. Achlyos (Αχλύος) can mean 'Night', 'Dark', 'Mist' that sort of thing. And Phagos (Φάγος) meaning 'Glutton' 'Eater' or 'Consumer'. Combining the two create this personification of a creature or artifiact that "Eats darkness." The word symbiote is one of the two organisms involved an a symbiotic relationship. Which if you haven't taken biology yet, a symbiotic relationship is a relationship two organisms have together in where one or both of the organisms is benefited by said relationship. I.e. Oxpecker and the Rhino. The helmets quote says "They told me it would eat my thoughts and leave me full of light." So I imagine that the original wearer of this helmet was told that the helmet was an organism that would consume the dark thoughts inside their head and leave them full of light thoughts. But the quote is insinuating that something had gone wrong. It says "They told me-" as though they had told him falsely and he is being accusatory. So the name describes that this helmet is intended to consume darkness in whatever organism wears it. But the quote implies that it fails to do this. I'm not sure of the design and the lava like slime substance -- that appears to move -- on the helmet. I feel it resembles a side effect the helmet has when the dark thoughts are consumed
-
Edited by Pyrohydrant: 4/24/2015 4:33:43 PMIts a reference to dark souls the insect thing on the helmet are suppose to be sun light maggots taking the sanity out of solarie and makes him go insane thus you having to kill him
-
1 ReplyNo idea, I have wondered the same. Following post for an answer.
-
1 Reply"They told me it would eat my thoughts and leave me full of light" makes me think that if Dregden Yor had this on his head he wouldn't of turned into such an ahole.
-
The flavor text is a reference to dark souls and an ending for the character solare(?)
-
It looks like a lava monster blew his load on my helmet, and that shit dont wash off
-
2 RepliesIts a reference to Dark Souls 2
