I was thinking about the enemy races and each one seems to represent distinct themes and concepts that line up with the biblical four horsemen and the supposed leaked original story of destiny in which the traveler is a false messiah/anti-Christ who brought about a golden age simply to tear it down.
The Vex: they are death,they pervade all time and even outside of time. They do not discriminate nor do they seem to have any other motive than to consume/assimilate.
The Hive: they are disease,they infect,hide and consume,they are grotesque,and use swarm tactics.
The Cabal: they are war,they are a militarized empire,their mentality is that of conquerors. They use very materialistic and rough weaponry,no pseudo-magic or gods or kings like the hive,and no unexplainable tech or over mind like the vex.
The fallen: they are famine,the closest and most immediate threat to the last city,constantly scratching at our walls as we struggle to get by.
Perhaps the guardians are the true messiah collectively,maybe the source of their light/power is not simply just a handout from the traveler but something they already possess.
Edit 1: I acknowledge that there is def valid reasoning for the vex and hve switching spots. They are so close but for me it comes down to aesthetics and themes presented by the races.
Edit 2: I'm not pushing any religious dogma here,I'm merely using religious themes,concepts and symbols to speculate on the game.
Religious themes pervade our culture and are present within almost every creative media. These ancient themes and archetypes resonate with all of us despite our religious backgrounds.
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4th horseshit
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Edited by plan-001: 7/31/2015 1:37:06 PMYou swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas, you couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions primed on the heel. You are a canker, an open wound. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You took your last vacation in the Islets of Langerhans. You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, and a weasel. I take that back; you are a festering pustule on a weasel's rump. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon. I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. You are a technicolor yawn. And did I mention that you smell? You are a squeaking rat, a mistake of nature and a heavy-metal bagpipe player. You were not born. You were hatched into an unwilling world that rejects the likes of you. You didn't crawl out of a normal egg, either, but rather a mutant maggot egg rejected by an evil scientist as being below his low standards. Your alleged parents abandoned you at birth and then died of shame in recognition of what they had done to an unsuspecting world. They were a bit late. Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it ever so much more rapidly. If cluelessness were crude oil, your scalp would be crawling with caribou. You are a thick-headed trog. I have seen skeet with more sense than you have. You are a few bricks short of a full load, a few cards short of a full deck, a few bytes short of a full core dump, and a few chromosomes short of a full human. Worse than that, you top-post. God created houseflies, cockroaches, maggots, mosquitos, fleas, ticks, slugs, leeches, and intestinal parasites, then he lowered his standards and made you. I take it back; God didn't make you. You are Satan's spawn. You are Evil beyond comprehension, half-living in the slough of despair. You are the entropy which will claim us all. You are a green-nostriled, crossed eyed, hairy-livered, goisher kopf, inbred trout-defiler. You make Ebola look good. You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. You are not ANSI compliant and your markup doesn't validate. You have a couple of address lines shorted together. You should be promoted to Engineering Manager. Do you really expect your delusional and incoherent ramblings to be read? Everyone plonked you long ago. Do you fantasize that your tantrums and conniption fits could possibly be worth the $0.000000001 worth of electricity used to send them? Your life is one big W.O.M.B.A.T., and your future doesn't look promising either. We need to trace your bloodline and terminate all siblings and cousins in order to cleanse humanity of your polluted genes. The good news is that no normal human would ever mate with you, so we won't have to go into the sewers in search of your git. You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a loathsome disease, a drooling inbred cross-eyed . You make Quakers shout and strike Pentecostals silent. You have a version 1.0 mind in a version 6.13 world. Your mother had to tie a pork chop around your neck just to get your under the porch and bites you. You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking half-twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You bloody churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill. You jetere steatopygous pilgarlick hircine whigmaleerious rhadamanthine lintlicker. I refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram. You are so clueless that if you dressed in a clue skin, doused yourself in clue musk, and did the clue dance in the middle of a field of horny clues at the height of clue mating season, you still would not have a clue. If you were a movie you would be a double feature; _Battlefield_Earth_ and _Moron_Movies_II_. You would be out of focus. You are a fiend and a sniveling coward, and you have bad breath. You are the unholy spawn of a bandy-legged hobo and a syphilitic camel. You wear strangely mismatched clothing with oddly placed stains. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just knowing that you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away. You are jetsam who dreams of becoming flotsam. You won't make it. I beg for sweet death to come and remove me from a world which became unbearable when the bioterrorists designed you. It is hard to believe how incredibly stupid you are. Stupid as a stone that the other stones make fun of.[spoiler]lol jk[/spoiler]
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Ignore the haters! Pretty cool concept!
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Did you know if you put your destiny disk in a record player and play it backwards the satanic hymn will play?
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I think disease is actually pestilence.
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I like this. I never thought of it that way before. Most I saw was the very European draw between fantasy and mythology. Dealing with Greek, roman, and even folk undertones. This was awesome to see a good and new light to these creatures. Thank you
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Edited by Barach Jalaalma: 7/31/2015 1:56:46 AM[quote]Horsemen[/quote] All I see is... [quote]Semen[/quote] *drum roll*
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Edited by Æsir: 7/23/2015 3:07:53 AMI can debunk your theory with one statement. [i]The fourth horseman is a shotgun.[/i] [spoiler]Edit. Apparently a number of people are so stupid and idiotic that they can't spot a joke even when it is blatantly obvious, so for all you deadshits out there [b]this is a joke[/b][/spoiler]
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Edited by wurlok: 7/27/2015 6:00:09 PMInteresting you call the Fallen "famine" as they are a race that survives purely on the scarce ether from their servitors Edit: but it does seem to fit the archetype from the original story
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Maybe ORYX has his own four horsemen!!!!!! DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.......
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"That's deep bro"
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Just saying in the nighfall at the end battle where taniks spawns on that ledge go right to where he spawns and when he does use arc blade and fourth horseman, goes down in about 10 seconds
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But their are ONLY 4 & TKK AND any new stuff trumps that. They may have been for the Golden eras downfall though.
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But the Vex were created by the Traveler...
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Lol I thought you were going to be talking about the shotgun
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hmm interesting
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The hive are basically the flood.
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I only have one comment. That "leaked story" you mentioned wasn't leaked story, it was a theory that people still circulate.
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how do you get vex to be death?! we attacked them first, they are defending themselves. haven't you noticed the vex are the only race who will focus more on the other nearby minions of "darkness" instead of us guardians?! Also, I partially believe the vex are good. at least the ones in the vog. how: there are many similarities between the traveler and the vex. considering the vex are based nearly entirely around ancient greek times, (including the names relating to them, even kabr. in greek kabr means grave): perhaps the traveler is suppose to represent the titans in greek mythology. he was creating a golden age, but for himself, as the titans did. they created an age where they ruled all and they lived supreme, and everyone else suffered. they called this the golden age. the gods then game, vanquished the titans who were their creators. perhaps the vex represent the gods, the traveler represents the titans. the traveler created the vex to help him forge a golden age, but they rebelled. they are trying to free us from our bounds by time. we are chained to this time realm by our ghosts, which have a suicide protocol built in. that is why Kabr did not die when Aethon teleported him, he had lost his ghost before that, so the suicide protocol never activated, so it never killed him! the traveler is trying to forge a golden age for himself, not us, and the speaker is the way he does that.
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Still not have one... More gjallarhorn then horseman
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I like this theory. Good thinking!