Hello fellow guardians. As you guys already know House of Wolves has come out six days ago and in my opinion has been awesome. House of Wolves has not only been a good step for Destiny, but it also cleared up many things about what the DLC is about, the Fallen. With the introduction of an actual fallen ally, Variks, we get to find out more about the most common enemy in the game. So here, with information from Variks and grimoire, I made a possible theory of the history of the Fallen and why they are not dark creatures. Theory: The fallen come from a distant and unknown world beyond our sol system. They were once a great and powerful civilization who had a massive golden age of their own. We do not know if the houses were ever united at one point, but I think they might have because we were all united during our golden age. Variks mentions that the fallen did indeed encounter the traveler but they were already in their Golden age when they saw it. They probably made their golden age together without the traveler until all hell broke loose when the equivalent of our collapse, the whirlwind to them, happened. Since the fallen saw the traveler, the darkness was probably in hot pursuit of it and wrecked havoc to the fallen civilization when their homeworld was in the way. We know from Variks that the house of rain was decimated by this collapse so we know the houses existed before the whirlwind. The fallen possibly could have been a civilization already in decline before the whirlwind due too politics between the houses and hierarchy. We know that the house of judgement tried to keep peace between the houses and possibly during this time when the relationships between the houses started to become more tense. We know the prophecy by the house of rain stated that a kell will unite all the houses together so the houses were fighting already before the whirlwind when the house of rain was destroyed. Then the darkness swooped in and destroyed the fallen's homeworld, causing them to scatter. Then the traveler ran to Mars and was found by us. The darkness was probably busy destroying the fallen's homeworld for as long as our golden age was and then continued its pursuit of the traveler while the fallen scattered. The fallen probably were trying to find another place to settle and so found us. They noticed our technology and pillaged us ,while fighting the other invading aliens, to get it for their ether supplies and for their civil war and for fighting the other aliens. Because of the traveler we survived the collapse and we became enemies with the fallen because they tried to wipe us out to steal everything. The house of kings noticed that the traveler was why we had a golden age and so are trying to unite the fallen to steal it and restore peace in their civilization. Some houses, such as the house of wolves, we're crazy enough to try and steal the darkness to use its power, such as when scolas' plan was failing. The fallen are indeed power hungry and want to steal any power whether it be darkness or light to restore peace or to dominate the other houses. So if their trying to steal the the power of the darkness and its wielders' technologies, then that means they don't have the darkness, which means they are not dark creatures and servants of the darkness. They just believe it to be another source of power like the light, which they also want to steal. If the fallen were part of the darkness, then Variks would not have betrayed scolas and go along and betray the queen. If the fallen were dark, they would not even ally with their enemies. They would probably fight to the last soldier like the hive and vex. But instead they have free will which the darkness does not give its servants and so they chose to surrender to the queen and Variks chose to stay with her. The fallen are apparently more of an enemy to the darkness than to us. If you noticed the AI in the game, you notice that fallen enemies will actually fight the dark creatures rather than you, even if they did notice you. I've seen in the devils lair strike on many occasions, when you enter the first building where the fallen are fighting the hive, that several dregs were not paying attention to me but were fighting the hive while I was being shot by other dregs and vandals who were in the back and were free to shoot me. I don't know if this is just how the AI works or if it was intentional, but if it was intentional it definitely proves my point. Much better proof is the story of cayde-6 where he was fighting some hive on the moon who just recently attacked a fallen outpost. The fallen baron managed to survive and saw cayde. She then decided, instead of killing cayde, that she would fight the much bigger threat, the hive, with cayde. After a few minutes of fighting the baron was shot by the hive and she was on the brink of death. The hive retreated to regroup and cayde went to see her. She then passed her shock pistol to him and weakly tried to stab him when he reached for it. Then cayde shot her and used her pistol. He did not know whether she wanted to actually kill him or just wanted to be put out of her misery and make it seem that she wanted to kill him so he could kill her. But I think she just did it from the agony since she probably speak human language. In conclusion, I think the fallen are just a species that want to find the best way to regroup, either through domination, power, or peace. They choose to do things, which is not very present in the other aliens who are just corrupted and brainwashed by the darkness to just kill the light, no matter the circumstance. The fallen have emotions and feelings and personal thoughts on things and show many resemblances to us emotionally and thinking wise. If you spent time reading this, I just wanted to thank you and I would love feedback and what you guys think about the fallen. Have fun playing destiny.