Thoughts on Exos

I discover something rather interesting. I've been reading through a site that has all of the Grimoire cards on it, and came across this one: [quote]Ghost Fragment: Legends Deep Stone Crypt This is the tower where we were born. Not the Tower. Just a tower in a dream. The tower stands on a black plain. Behind the tower is a notch in the mountains where the sun sets. The teeth of the mountain cut the sun into fractal shapes and the light that comes down at evening paints synapse shapes on the ground. Usually it's evening when we come. The ground is fertile. This is good land. We go to the tower in dreams but that doesn't mean it's not real. Some of us go to the tower in peace. They walk through a field of golden millet and a low warm wind blows in from their back. I don't know why this is, because: The rest of us meet an army. You can ask others about Deep Stone and they'll tell you about the army. They might confess one truth, which is this: we have to kill the army to get to the tower. Usually this starts bare-handed, and somewhere along the way you take a weapon. Ask again and if they're buzzed they might also admit that most of us don't make it to the Tower, except once or twice. None of them will tell you that the army is made of everyone we meet. The people we work with and the people we see in the street and the people we tell about our dreams. We kill them all. I think because we were made to kill and this is the part of us that thinks about nothing else. Often I kill people I don't know, but like most of us I think I knew them once, in the time before one reset or another, when my mind was younger and less terribly scarred. So that is how we go back to the Deep Stone Crypt, where we were born.[/quote] This, on its own, didn't say much. It didn't specifically say who the narrator was or what group he is with. It sounded like a Guardian, or maybe one of the Guardian races. It left me with a lot of questions and interesting possibilities. Then a few days later I was running around the Tower, and the Speaker was selling a Titan Mark called "Deep Stone Crypt." This, of course, immediately caught my interest. The mark had an image of a stone tower on it. It's description was: [i]" A badge illustrating the infamous subroutine which seeded the first Exo consciousness."[/i] It blew my mind. The dream from the Grimoire card entry is a dream that Exo's have. The stone tower in the dream represents the subroutine that seeded the first Exo consciousness. It's where they came from. It's what they were made from. Some Exo's can reach the tower easily and with little trouble, while others must kill everyone and everything. Some Exo's were originally created for peace, and others were made to be killing machines. And this is why I truly love this game. There is indeed a deeper story here. The puzzle pieces have been scattered through the game and the Grimoire cards. I can take one card and one item description and end up with a whole new view of a character race and their backstory. Anyway, I hope this helps the conversation.

This is from the Exo race grimoire card: [quote]Built for a long-forgotten struggle, Exos are self-aware war machines so advanced that nothing short of a Ghost can understand their inner functions. They remain ciphers, even to themselves: their origins and purpose lost to time. Whoever built the Exos fashioned them in humanity's image, gifting them with diversity of mind and body. Many of the City's Exo citizens live and work alongside their organic brethren. But others fight again, re-forged in the Light of the Traveler to serve as Guardians.[/quote] We know the Exos were build for a long forgotten struggle. Since the Exos are so complex we can assume they were built during the Golden Age. Anything we are told about the Golden Age is very idealistic, where-as what we see is to the contrary very dark. I didn't find anything saying that humans built the Exo, but simply that they were built in our image, it could have been that the traveler created them as an army or maybe even the Warminds.

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Thats a interesting outlook call me a idealist but id like to think the Exos started off as machines meant to do things humans couldnt do in space like being exposed to extreme enviromental situations etc. but as more and more taskes where gradually given to them they slowly developed as a sentient race that eventually intergrated into society as a accepted and equal people now I realize this outlook maybe shadowed by my interest in other sci-fi lores but to me it does seem the most logical to me what do you guys think