[i]"How can I prove to you that I'm really Eris Morn? Not Medusa, not Riven, not Quria, not Dûl Incaru, not the Witch-Queen Herself? I don't know. Will you believe me? [No] Will you scour these pages for proof or disproof? [Yes] Will you upload these files to your networks, share them, call in Warlocks and Cryptarchs to catalogue and dissect everything I've said? [Of course] Will this manuscript become the foundation of another teetering edifice of theory and anticipation? [Heck yes]"[/i] Hey guys, happy Spooktober! I finally want to crack Truth to Power, the currently unavailable lore book. It´s very confusing and I want to see who´s behind it. This post won´t deal with Savathuns plan, Dul Incaru and the Dreaming City, just with Eris, Medusa and Quria. I have posts on basically everything else that is revealed in the book. I recommend to everyone to read these entries through whatever means, it´s very interesting and reveals so much about what´s currently happening and will happen in the future and much more. It will also greatly help you in understanding this post. ------------------------------------------------- First, I´ll summarize the events in Truth to Power very briefly [I already did this in great detail, but my laptop decided to delete everything I had written so far, so I´ll cut the summary short for now. The summary was planned to be it´s own post]. Truth to Power follows a narrative, in which you first get contacted by Eris Morn. She reveals her backstory and past life and how she helped defeat Oryx. The message glitches out and it is revealed that Eris didn´t sent these messages, but rather a golden age AI called Medusa, who is uploaded to the Dreaming City. She says she needs our help and explains what is happening and happened in the Dreaming City. She then crashes and we, the guardian, enter a vex simulation. It is run by Quria, Blade Transform who reveals a whole lotta stuff, including that she apparently created Medusa as a way to talk to us. Medusa needs our help to stop Savathuns plan in the Dreaming City. Then, a simulation of Dul Incaru enters the simulation and shows us two Hive verses detailing what Savathun is up too. She then says that she wrote them to understand and predict her mother. A seemingly new but similar simulation starts. Medusa now tells us to that Quira compromised her systems and that we need to escape the simulation. We manage to do so. Medusa messages us again and details and summarizes everything that has been revealed about the situation of the Dreaming City and the causal loop. Next, Eris messages us once more that she was behind everything that happened before and that she made up Medusa to cover her first attempt at talking to us, as it was embarrassing to her. So, everyone is pretending to be someone else. I´ve seen a lot of people come to wrong conclusions about these entries. To end all misleading theories: -Eris is not an AI, the AI pretends to be her -Eris did not create Medusa, she made her up and posed as her -Quria, is not Eris, it pretends to be an AI pretending to be Eris -Eris is not Quria, she just pretends to be her. Quria exists outside of this. Very confusing and multi-layered indeed. There are a lot of points that don’t add up if you believe that...(and listen to this, this is what the book wants the reader to believe) [*deep breath*] ...Eris pretended to be Quria, who pretended to be Medusa, after pretending to be Medusa, after contacting us first. Confused? You should be, because it is. Something doesn´t seem right about this. Let´s get to the theory. I believe Eris isn´t even involved in the whole thing. Some else is the real mind behind these messages. Notice that there is a certain structure to the order of beings interacting with us? Eris -> Medusa -> Quria -> Medusa -> Eris It comes back around, the pretend-circle mirrors itself. Quria is in the center. Up to Quria, the order makes sense, there is a certain logic. Then Medusa says she isn´t Quria, followed by Eris saying that she was everyone. Notice here, that lying about one’s identity is always used to hide something and gain trust to us. Eris pretends to be Medusa to cover up her first unsuccessful attempt of talking to us. Then, Medusa says she used Medusa as a way to gain our trust. So, at this point, Quria has made two attempts of contacting us, one as Eris, and one as Medusa, both uncovered. Remember that we are in a simulation now. That is a fact. The simulation happened. The detail of the information revealed within and the way it´s written give that away. Eris can’t create a simulation, Medusa probably can´t too. Even if she could, she couldn´t create a perfect simulation of Dul Incaru and her Hive verses. You need inside info to do that. I think you see what I´m getting at. Quria is definitely the architect of the simulation, and therefore the actual one talking to us. Everything that happens after and before the simulation is a cover up by Quria. She created Medusa, who pretended to be Eris at first. All to gain our trust. If Medusa is created by Quria, the Vex mind let us out of the simulation on her own and then continued to hide behind other faces, keeping the ruse intact by using the Eris facade again. Think of the situation as a pit with layers. Quria is, the bottom layer, the core, covered by Medusa, covered by Eris. (Events happen from left to right) Eris------------------Eris [Lie 1] -----\-----------------/---- Medusa------Medusa [Lie 2] ----------\-------/--------- -----------Quria---------- [Truth] [Sorry for this terrible attempt at visualization] We crack the two shells protecting Qurias identity, but she builds them up again. Quria is trying to make contact with us under two alibis at first, then revealing her true identity and intentions to us, but reverting to the facade after that. How and why would Quria, a taken agent of Savathun try to foil her plans? Simply, because Quria is a master of trickery herself and she has her own motives. She is disconnected from the Vex network and when Oryx took her, he left her with some of her own will, hoping that she would betray Savathun after he gifted Quria to her. Savathun did secretly organize the Vex invasion and wanted Quria to be created. But she seems to underestimate the powers of the hydra. Quria learned the sword logic in Oryx throne world. She is very adaptable. She has the greatest trickster to learn from. Quria knows Svatahuns masterplan That´s why she is causing the loop. To stop Savathun from reaching the Distributary through Dul Incaru. Whatever Quria wants to achieve in the end, it will probably only benefit her own agenda and Savathun is in her way. I doubt that Quira will continue to help us after Savathuns demise, but she seems to need us to kill the witch queen for her. And she will show us how. Currently Savathun is using Quria in her scheme, but the mind is already planning to foil the plan it helped to create. But why should Quria want to cover up her identity after we uncovered it? Why recreate the lies? My best guess is to gain our trust again. Every time a layer was lifted, it was because we didn’t trust the previous one. A guardian would trust Eris before trusting a random AI or a taken Hydra. Quria gave us the information she wanted us to have as Medusa and in the simulation. That´s the most important part in her plan. We need to know what´s going on. After that was done, she probably wanted to kill our doubts by pretending to be Eris, thereby giving legitimacy to the information. I must admit, her weird U-turn style recovery is poorly executed if she wanted to regain our trust. Now, there is another possible explanation to who´s talking when. I´m not that confident in this one, but it explains some aspects a little better, but lacks in many other parts. Both Quria and Medusa exist, are different beings and are both behind the messages. We can come to this conclusion if we take everything Eris says as false, but everything else as true. So, Medusa then is a golden age AI and the one pretending to be Eris. She then gets compromised by Quria, who also tries to contact us, trying to find help in killing Savathun. Medusa regains control and frees us from the simulation. Why she would pretend to be Eris after that, I don’t know. I´m fairly confident one of these possibilities is what´s actually happening in the book. ------------------------------------------------- I´ve covered Truth to Power so much in all of my last posts, I need a break from it. Hopefully this is the last piece in figuring out everything there is to this book. I hope you enjoyed this theory of mine. Please let me know if I missed something. Here are the links to every entry from Truth to Power in order. I don’t have the Ishtar collective links for all of these, so I used other ones, I hope they work: https://data.destinysets.com/i/Lore:3053246533 https://data.destinysets.com/i/Lore:3053246534 https://data.destinysets.com/i/Lore:3053246535 https://data.destinysets.com/i/Lore:3053246528 https://data.destinysets.com/i/Lore:3053246529 https://data.destinysets.com/i/Lore:3053246530 https://data.destinysets.com/i/Lore:3053246531 https://data.destinysets.com/i/Lore:3053246540 https://data.destinysets.com/i/Lore:3053246541 https://data.destinysets.com/i/Lore:3070024247 https://data.destinysets.com/i/Lore:3070024246 -Expect a good ol´ timezone-adjustment-bump later- [spoiler][b]BOO![/b][/spoiler]