A Hunter, a Titan and a Warlock come together and decide to find out who is the most powerful out of the three of them. The titan says "Me, I am the strongest." The hunter says "Me, I am the most cunning." The warlock says "Me, I am the smartest." So the three take eachother to the crucible and fight, each dying many times over. At the end of the match there is still no clear winner so the Warlock proposes an idea. "We shall pick a fallen camp and the one of us that destroys their servitor wins!" The titan and hunter agree and so they set off to the EDZ.
Once there they find a suitably fortified Eliksni camp and part ways to make their plans. The warlock, confident in his abilities obliterates the sentries at the entrance and marches into the camp stating "I am powerful beyond your comprehension. Surrender yourselves to me and be annihilated!" This is true, the warlock is more powerful than the fallen. However in his display of power he has left himself open to attack, the Fallen quickly overwhelm him and he is defeated.
Next comes the hunter, who chuckles at the arrogance of the warlock and having watched his fall devises a cunning plan to lure out the warriors of the Eliksni and leave their camp vulnerable to attack. She sets off an explosion a short ways from the camp and leaves a snare for when they come to investigate, settling into her hiding spot to watch the events unfold. When the camps warriors come out to investigate they walk right into the snare and are caught, the hunter reveals herself, throws a grenade at the trapped fallen and cackles with glee. But her joy soon turns to terror as one of the vandals catches her grenade and throws it back at her. She has but a moment to scream before the grenade explodes and she is destroyed.
The Titan, having seen both the warlock and hunter fail, laughs heartily. She is not as clever as the warlock nor as cunning as the hunter but she is trained in the art of war. She approaches the Fallen camp under the cover of darkness, rocket launcher in one hand and flaming hammer in the other and reduces the camp to ashes. The eliksni, overwhelmed and delerious from her assault are powerless to stop her as she cuts her way through them to the servitor, relishing the slaughter as dreg after dreg falls to her might. She reaches her prize and wasting no time fires a rocket straight into the trembling machine. "Click." She turns to her rocket and realises it is empty, no matter she thinks as she reaches for the light and summons her mighty hammer. "Pfft." A lick of flame warms her hand but nothing more. She turns and sees the remainder of the Eliksni regroup, sensing her weakness. She casts her launcher aside and charges the group, her brute strength the only weapon left to her. The fight is brutal and bloody but eventually the exhausted titan falls, defeated.
The guardians were each mighty enough to destroy the servitor but all three failed. The warlock was smart enough to outthink their weaknesses, the hunter cunning enough to subvert them and the titan strong enough to overcome them so how were they defeated?
How you ask? They were defeated by their strengths. The warlock, in the knowledge that he was superior to the Fallen invited them to defeat him. The hunter, in enacting a cunning plot provided the means for her own demise. And the titan, in showcasing her overwhelming strength overexerted and left herself weak enough to be felled.
This story is a metaphor for a brother and two sisters, one possesing great knowledge, one possessing great cunning and one possessing great strength. Take heed of these words O reader mine and know that with great power comes the means to exploit it. All you have to do is sieze the oppourtunity.
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*Cue Inception Foghorn*
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“O reader mine”?! KILL IT!!! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!
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This is good
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What’s gonna work? Teeeeeamwork.
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Soooooooo... [spoiler]Nerf fusion rifles?[/spoiler]
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TLDR; they all got an edge transit
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Good story, Spartan. I like how you treated each class equally and extolled each classes virtues and vices. In the words of Shaxx: "THAT'S WHY WE HAVE FIRETEAMS!!!!!"
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Edited by WarriorPoetSDG: 9/21/2018 7:35:20 PMO writer mine, I have heeded your words and grown fat from strength. The Taken King is dead and the sword logic proclaims my right to rule. Grant me the last wish that I may slay what yet stands before me.
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I’m assuming Oryx is the warlock, savathun is the hunter, and Xivu Arath is the Titan?
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Loved it Guardian, I kinda took it to basically mean; Remember there is no I in team, so work together and you will overcome.
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One thing you could/should add to that pleasant read is that they would have all survived/won if they put their combined strengths together while covering eachother's weaknesses. I honestly don't get some of the community's dislikes for certain Guardian types. I main a Titan but am always happy to see a Warlock or Hunter on my fireteam. Diversity works wonders, especially in this game.
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Well it was pretty foolish of that Titan to go in there with only one weapon. The Hunter should’ve been using blade barrage to nuke the warriors when the came out. Lastly, the Warlock probably only died because they couldn’t jump away from the enemies.
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I don't get it. Why didn't they just climb the tower and despawn the adds. Then icebreaker the servitor into submission. The other part that doesnt add up is crucible. Didnt any of them complain that each of their opposition was using meta weapons? No one called the other scrub. No rage quit? None of them ran to the forums to complain about the servitor being op? Seems like this fable, though very well written is lacking reality.
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O reader mine... this kid is an ahamkara
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If you don’t think that the titan wouldn’t just use codes of the missile to fling themselves into that camp you are Wrong
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Edited by OLDSCRATCH4: 9/21/2018 7:50:31 PMAwesome story! But you left out the most important part. The Titan skates away in shame, to hide the all too common tears in his eyes. The Warlock [i]walks[/i] (because we all know they can't jump, and it's hard to run in a dress) away, to drown in a bottle of arrogance and self defeat. Now the Hunter on the other hand, she pulls out something miraculous, don't know what, but it was miraculous...and glorious! Anyway, she wins the day somehow (could have been by her frabjulous cloak). ...oh, and she gets a racecar!
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So what you are saying is #Titanmasterrace
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Edited by Xeno: 9/22/2018 12:40:17 AMShouldn't it be that the brother has great strength and one sister is cunning while the other is really smart? No sexism here, it's just that "You have mail"s are usually the big and strong ones while the Iron Man is usually the smart one that holds us back from doing stupid things. [spoiler]The symbol for Iron in the periodic table is Fe while man refers to a male. Which means Iron Man means Female, or to be more exact, it means "Fe male"[/spoiler] [spoiler] [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/DestinyInventoryItemDefinition/218335759]Bam! I just blew your minds[/url][/spoiler]
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That moment when you realise it's all about Oryx and his sister's, duh duh durrrrh
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That warlock must've been a disgrace to all warlocks. No warlock would do something so silly like that. We are the master race because we can plan and think like a hunter. Our power is beyond any strength displayed by a titan. We are not bound by that law of space and time. Our minds are in many places at once. Any being breathing should consider themselves lucky to even lay a finger on us.
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Edited by BioCats: 9/21/2018 9:55:28 PMI [i]love[/i] this post! Being a lore junkie, I figured out what this story was a metaphor for by the Hunter. That extra detail and the ending really shows the thought you put into this! [i]No, that is a lie. Everything about it makes it great.[/i] Bravo.
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Warlock would have blinked in with a nova bomb and blinked right back out
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This writing is what I would find in a fabled. Well done!
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There’s no I in team
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I don’t trust anyone who uses the phrase “O (insert relationship pronoun) mine.”
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Hey it's an Ahamkara! KILL IT!