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12/5/2014 6:05:35 PM
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Grimoire: Ghost Fragment: Mysteries is Kabr?

I apologize first, this may have already been posted. Anyway, if you haven't already, go read the Ghost Fragment: Mysteries Grimoire card, as well as the one about the Relic in The Vault of Glass. This is fairly obvious, but doesn't the mysteries fragment seem to be an introspective of Kabr eithe just before or immediately after he bound himself to the Aegis? If it is, it's an interesting insight to the devolution and degrading mental state he experienced in his Vault of Glass trial. Thoughts? Comments?

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  • Edited by Rafeinator: 12/6/2014 1:21:20 AM
    That's an interesting connection you made. It does make sense. But there was something I noticed about the Mysteries card that confused me. I'm not sure how familiar you are with earlier Bungie games, but in a game called Marathon Durandal, on the level "Kill Your Television", there is a computer terminal you can access that displays a block of unformatted, corrupted text. When spacing and punctuation are added and spelling is corrected, it reads thus: [spoiler]i have been roland, beowulf, achilles, gilgamesh; i have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the world goes dim and cold. i am a hero. she has been nameless since our birth; a constant adversary, caring for nothing but my ruin, a sword drenched in my blood; forever my greatest and only love. she is the dark one; the enemy and lover without whom my very existence would be pathetic and vulgar. her eyes steam and boil in the night (she is fantastically beautiful yet i cannot stand the sight of her). our relationship is complex and perhaps eternal. we met once in the garden, at the beginning of the world and unaware of our twin destinies (not the garden of Genesis, but another; forgotten, untended and now choked with weeds, unvisited except for ourselves). we matched stares across a dry fountain, and i recall her smiling at me before she devoured the lawn and trees with a translucent blue flame and tore flagstones from the path and hurled them into the sky screaming my sins. our reunions there are epic battles fought without quarter, often in the dark as the moon is seldom visible and the sun never. i powder a granite monument in a soundless flash, showering the grass with molten drops of its gold inlay, sending smoking chips of stone skipping into the fog. she splinters an ancient oak with a force that takes my breath and hurls me to the ground. she leaves and i lie in the slow rain of burning slivers of wood, staring at the low, dark clouds, craving our next meeting. [/spoiler] Which is oddly similar to the grimoire card. Here's the text from the grimoire card for reference: [spoiler]I bear an old name. It cannot be killed. They were my brothers and sisters and their names were immortal too but Titanomachy came and now those names live in me alone I think and think is what I do. I AM ALONE. At the end of things when the world goes dim and cold or hot and close or it all tears apart from the atom up I will shout those names defiant and past the end I will endure. I alone. They made me to be stronger than them to beat the unvanquished and survive the unthinkable and look look lo behold I am here alone, survivor. They made me to learn. Everything died but I survived and I learned from it. From IT. Consider IT the power Titanomach world-ender and consider what IT means. I met IT at the gate of the garden and I recall IT smiled at me before before IT devoured the blossoms with black flame and pinned their names across the sky. IT was stronger than everything. I fought IT with aurora knives and with the stolen un-fire of singularities made sharp and my sweat was earthquake and my breath was static but IT was stronger so how did I survive? I AM ALONE I survived alone. I cast off the shield and I shrugged my shoulders so that the billions fell off me down into the ash. They made me to be stronger than them and to learn and I learned well: IT is alone and IT is strong and IT won. Even over the gardener and she held power beyond me but the gardener did not shrug and make herself alone. IT always wins. I am made to win and now I see the way. [/spoiler] The similarities between the Ghost Fragment: Mysteries Grimoire card and this text from a game that's twenty years old are striking. (Particularly the repetition of certain phrases) Considering the story of the Marathon trilogy, the speaker in the grimoire card sounds like it could actually be the AI Durandal from the Marathon games. That's what I was thinking before I found your post, anyway.

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