Read the article before continuing. I'm not saying the above was entirely correct. But the main idea of the Traveler (maybe or maybe not Rasputin, although it would make sense.) going through time again and again. The Exo Stranger does too. I can add one thing. Who the darkness is. Read Ghost Legends 2. The Nine are the darkness. Xur comes from their dark place. What if when we buy things from Xur, we are feeding the Darkness. In theory, the strange coins must be some key to the reason the world's demise occurs everytime. Because we feed Xur. The Exo Stranger is the extension of the traveler and she has gone through time many times. It is stated very clearly in the Ghost Fragment on the Exo Stranger. I quote "I stand here now and now and now many times, this view, this ground... This is where I always choose to stand. I put my feet where I put my feet before and where I will again and I look at the sky." Which suggests she views this battle over and over. "Then fall back to that point, there, where everything shatters... This is when we lose the war The silent avalanche begins. Rock and dust. Falling chaos. Machines, as a rule, hate chaos. The enemies are the enemy nine. The warminds. The machines. Our enemies outflank us from below, above, left, right, before, beyond. The Traveler - shattering. Again, the traveler fails There are always the dead. Their names shift. Different people. same outcome. Finally, adressing the queen. Everything below was pieced together from the Grimoire. She helps both the darkness and the Light. This is why the Stranger says that they should choose a side. She chooses the darkness. More on that later. I believe that her Brother chooses the light, or at least does not trust the darkness. He sends his Crows to the Black Garden to learn about it. The Nine is unhappy, and shares this with the queen. The queen then sends Skolas to them. They release him on the Reef. Now there are two possibilities. A: The Nine and the Queen are testing the Guardians/ drawing them to their demise. B: The Nine abandoned the Queen and has intents to defeat the Reef and the Tower. Either option fits. Also, The brother did not want you to go to the Black Garden. He thought you would never make it. If Option A was true, then the Queen convinced us to go BECAUSE we would never make it. She wanted us destroyed. If Option B was true, then when the Queen tells the brother to "use us as a key" then she wanted us to open the Black Garden so that the Queen can take it out. If you find anything wrong, then tell me. I think this could mean something.