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2/8/2016 8:17:22 AM
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This story loophole bothers me quite a bit..
I'm the type of gamer who really enjoys the story and lore behind games, and there's something about Destiny's story that I've been pondering on quite a bit..
The entire point of Destiny, the entire point of Guardians, our purpose, is to save the Traveller. It's reiterated throughout the entire story. We must save the [b]dying[/b] Traveller, and prevent its death.
The very first mission of The Taken King greets us with a short scene depicted by our very own Ghost, telling us the tale of how he found us.
He starts with "I was born the moment the Traveller [b]died[/b]". So, before defeating Skolas and the House of Wolves, before defeating Crota, before defeating the Black Garden and putting a stop to the Vex, before meeting the Stranger and even before we are resurrected for the first time in the tutorial, the Traveller has already [b]died[/b]. Well before, supposedly, as our Ghost tells us about how long it took him to find us in the first place.
Just kind of bugs me. Before The Taken King, every single player knew that the purpose of Destiny was to save the Traveller before it dies. Then, we are now told that essentially all our efforts of preventing the Traveller's death were for nothing, because the Traveller died before we even began our journey.
It could just be a mistake on Bungie's behalf, a slight mistake by Nolan in the script, perhaps he was actually meant to say "I was born the moment the Traveller [b]began to die[/b]" instead. Who knows. Either way, it's quite a major loophole in the story, and despite all the complaints about Destiny's story, I liked it quite a bit, and this one statement whether it is correct or not kind of annoys me.
Did the Traveller really die before the tutorial even began? Might by some petty issue to other players, something I shouldn't get worked up about, but that first line of The Taken King still bugs me to this day. Especially when you go back to redo all the pre Taken King quests and it's still all about saving the Traveller before its death, even though, well.. [b]It's already dead[/b]..
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2 RepliesEdited by Valkalla: 2/9/2016 1:58:15 AMIt's not a mistake. Dying doesn't have to mean the descent into non-existence. If something dies, especially when we're speaking of digital devices, machinery, etc., it means the object has stopped running its systems, or has lost charge, or is not functioning. But let's say the Traveler truly has died in the sense that of its own accord, it will never again function or live. It has begun non-existence.... Well, in a hugely fantasy game like Destiny, do you not think it's possible that we could somehow resurrect the Traveler? Resurrection is a common enough theme in Destiny. Also, life beyond life is another common theme in Destiny. If you read the book of sorrows or know anything about Praedyth or other like mysterious characters in Destiny's lore, you know that Destiny stresses the existence of various planes of existence and that death is potentially not the last stop for any who dies, especially beings of higher power and understanding. Also, remember that the Traveler is simply an agent of the Sky/Light, and is not actually the Sky/Light itself. That means our efforts are not in vain. We have to come to a place of enough power and dominion over the Darkness that we are able to appeal to the Sky to resurrect its agent. But most likely the Sky will not do it if the same threat that was around when it first died remains, which is why we do what we do in Destiny.
