(shout out to silentshadow801 for pointing this out.) To start off I would like for you to see what the black heart and a taken blight looks like when it is destroyed [b](don't have to watch the rest.) [/b] Or if you're bored, feel free to go kill the heart and Malok yourself and watch the blight and heart die. [url=https://youtu.be/yc6HX86rP_k?t=8m55s]Black garden heart defeated[/url] [url=https://youtu.be/ifhj5xWhmck?t=1m20s]Taken blight defeated[/url] Now let's get started. So in case you couldn't tell, I'm thinking the black heart may be a taken blight or something to that extent. The black heart was used by the vex to make more of themselves, basically a vex spawn. However, the vanguard believes that the vex did not make the heart. They think that the Black Heart was a being so beyond comprehension that even the Vex saw no logical option other than worship it. As to why they think this, I have no clue, so I might just throw their theory out the window. Watching the black heart and taken blight disappear side by side make me think these things may be the same or at least very closely related. One of my thoughts is that this was a taken blight, maybe given to Crota by his father to one day bring taken to the system or maybe the vex stole one while they were on the dreadnought, or maybe the vex pulled one through time accidentally. either way, it made it to the black garden. After the vex took the blight, they changed it so it would suit their purposes. I'll go out on a limb and say maybe they bonded/infused some Radiolaria to the blight and corrupted it. (hence the reason why it looks more like a more organic thing.) but because they couldn't have full control over the heart, they did the only thing they thought reasonable, worship it, as the hive would worship their gods. They then made it make more vex. It is also hinted that there might be more hearts or at least more to this kind of production, meaning the vex could have taken a few blights. Another point to bring up is that a taken blight doesn't go away until the taken ultra(s) in the area are killed, same thing applies to the black heart. It doesn't go away until you've killed all of the sol progeny. Another point that backs this up, when the taken invaded mars they also tried to get the black heart, meaning they not only know what it was but they also [b]wanted[/b] it. This could mean that they recognize it as a taken blight and want it back. So to review, the black heart acts like a blight in terms of bringing more forces forward to fight us. The black heart dies the same way a taken blight does. (killing the ultras attached to it) The black heart is also power beyond vex understanding which is much like their knowledge of the taken. They can't comprehend the taken. So, what do you think? Do you think the Black heart is a modified taken blight or do you know something that would say otherwise? If you do, feel free to throw it out there. [quote]Back to master thread: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/205238605?showBanned=0&path=0[/quote] Cheers. :D