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originally posted in: Let's talk about Andal Brask
11/16/2017 2:41:05 PM
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My theory is that his intention to trap Cayde was to save him from himself. We know Cayde has been writing to Ace, his son he doesn't remember. We also know that Cayde has a strong attachment to finding and remembering all his old memories, this comes from his copy of Treasure Island from the TTK collector's edition. It says: —See, the reboots, they don't wipe it all away. Not everything. And the new life-plus the Light-it does something real funny to what's left. Amplifies it, scrambles it, reshuffles the fragments like a dealer riffling a deck of cards, putting the hands we've already won and lost back into play. Most of us do what we can on our own to forget. Let the itch go unscratched. Me? I learned long ago you gotta play the hand you're dealt. Cayde does not want to forget, he does not let the itch go unscratched. Knowing this, and knowing that Cayde has an eye for the Vault of Glass, it isn't that hard to figure out why he would want to venture into the Vault. Time travel. What if Cayde's eye to the Vault was so he could travel through time and find/save his son, learn about all those things he forgot about himself? One of his idle dialogue pieces to any exo Guardian in D2 is "you ever wonder what the other versions of you are like?" or something along those lines in reference to the exo number. So what if Andal, combined with this bleak weariness we looked at earlier and concern for his friend venturing into the Vault, decided to take matters into his own hands? He planned the Dare, he planned his death, he trapped Cayde as the hunter Vanguard to keep him safe. Each move was precise and Cayde fell entirely into his trap. Andal played his final joke, and Cayde was the punchline. But then, I had another brief idea. What if Andal isn't dead? Cayde wears his cloak, Cayde pulled it off his body after the fatal fight with Taniks, Cayde would have seen Andal's body. But, maybe it was yet another calculation? A Ghost could leave a body behind, choose not to resurrect it, come back for it later - such as after Cayde came through to take up his cloak. Even feign its own death, if it chose to. To further evaluate this idea that Andal's death was on purpose, that it was – to him – a relief, I've been looking into the void. Osiris is said to be one of the most powerful warlocks. Ikora was his apprentice, or at least one of them. And we know Ikora is powerful as well, we watched her blast off two Nova Bombs in a row in the beginning of D2. So that brings us to the void, and what it is. Those who walk the void understand that there is no fearing the void, when you state into that vacuum between the stars and galaxies themselves, it stares back. The Voidwalker card says —You will fear nothing, and nothing will not fear you. Ikora’s idle dialogue includes her speaking about the whispers in her head, how her mind is far away, and how her head aches. These are the results of walking the void, and we can tell that Ikora has walked deeper into the void than most warlocks. She's no doubt powerful, but that doesn't come without the risks and we do watch her suffer from it. Hunters, too, have this pull. There's a line from Cayde that says: —Picking it up is the easy part, Hunter. Putting it down again, well, you’ll find that it’s addictive, that power. This weapon is something special. Your light gets twisted. Changed. You find the power to punch through and borrow something from the other side. The Void opens up a hole, and draws from the deep. Go ahead. Carry it a while, Hunter. You’ll feel how heavy it can get. Tevis, the Nightstalker who our Guardian took the bow from in the Taken King missions, says: —I've had a dozen Hunters ask me why it's so hard to summon a Dusk Bow. I asked 'em what they thought of the Void, and their eyes told me everything. You can't be afraid. That's the secret. No fear. So, what if Andal Brask was a Nightstalker? What if he reached too deep into the void, what if he walked too far into that suffocating black that he hit his limit and kept going? What if he, like Ikora, suffered from the aftershocks of trespassing that void and what if he was not able to pull himself back from it? What if, when the void looked at him, he felt a twinge of fear? Perhaps that could have also contributed to his choice to fall to Taniks, the Scarred. I don't think Andal Brask was just murdered, I don't think Cayde had any hope of winning this Dare, and I don't think that there was any moment throughout all of this that Andal wasn't in complete control. But, who knows? We know very little about who this guy was. His name was spoken in the Gunslinger subclass quest, in this DLC or the second one I'm really really really really hoping that we might hear more of him. Please? There's so much potential here.
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