I'm just hoping in can finally farm some moon sugar and make me some skooma

Well dear, the hive gained power from the deep/darkness and thus set on a course to kill all life in the universe including the traveller. The vex came into the world due to Crota, and they had the goal to survive. And that required eliminating all threats. So they fought the hive since they both had conflicting goals. The fallen were attacked by the darkness and the hive just as we were. But the traveller left them. So they were manipulated by the darkness to attack us. And the canal are a mystery, the emperor could be a slave to the darkness or wants the traveller as a weapon. So they all have the goal of destroying us/traveller or taking it. They seemed all be tide to the darkness, but I guess it's an allied of my lord is not my ally. But cabal and fallen I believe have a pact of non violence that was broken by the wolves.

I don't ask questions, I fight for the light. My ally today may be my foe tomorrow. Kill em all, let the light sort it out.

I think they need to make a movie or i dunno an anime series after this game. Too much fragmented lore to put that shit together yourself i want it spoon fed to me. Also fan service please :D

The Hive wanna kill everything. The hive attack The Fallen Fallen survive Vex are programmed like robots to build machine worlds and to kill anything that could destroy their machines. Probably why we can't communicate with Vex because there brains are said to kill any threat to there machines. Fallen arrive on earth get angry at us think we are thief's and kill people. Cabal are neither running from The Hive. Came to investigate Vex activity. Or setting up war camps on Mars.

Long story short we don't know. At least according to this article as players we don't know, along with our guardians not knowing either. So we have to look at it from two different angles, one as Guardians inside Destiny, and two as players outside of Destiny. In vanilla Destiny there was the "I could tell you" cutscene with the Speaker. He pretty much either: A, gave us his honest interpretation of the darkness, or B, gave us some fear inducing properganda of the darkness. Both points are up for debate but the simaliarity is that both views have a concept of the darkness not an actual tangable source or entity. If you listen to the Vanguard, the Speaker and the Faction Reps in the tower they all muddle this and that. The corrolation to them all is that they think any and all enemies of humanity are "The Darkness" thus a concept of it's existance. This propergates more fear to fuel thier own agendas, however... Every lie is based on some sort of truth. The Guardians are mankinds' last line of defense and they are it's protecters. So you were created in Light to protect Humanity or so you were told. How do you not know that The Travaler created you to protect itself? Knowing it were to be protected by humanity through proximaty for doing this. Why not give them a way to defend themselves through Guardians and in turn, defend itself at the same time? Why put up all this extra effort instead of just running like it always has? Why is it defending itself when we know as players that it had abandoned many civilizations before it? Not just the Whirlwind that drove the noble Eliksni into Fallen scavangers. In the Book of Sorrow the God Wave (the collapse) not only happened after the synergy (golden age) of Fundament, [i]it was predicted too[/i]. It seems to me the worms know much more about the Travaler than we do. How else could they have known about or anticipated these events without prior knowladge? This also brings up the question. Do our true enemies know more about the Travaler than we do as players? Of course the Guardians and the Last City have no knowladge of this infomation. This will be very intresting to see how things will unfold and the aftermath that is due to follow. Don't you agree? [i]Oh reader mine...[/i]

The Darkness is an entity that is so powerful that it is simultaneously a philosophy and a force of nature. The minions of the Darkness is a blanket term for everyone who fights us. By the very nature of fighting against us, the forces of the light, they aid the Darkness whether or not they know it.

My best guess would be the Worm Gods

Those four races are not in the traveler's light, correct? Hence, darkness. Seems to me that darkness, or forces of darkness, is like the term infide or heathenl; anyone that doesn't believe in the tenets of my religion is an infidel. Infidels can still fight amongst themselves. I may be way off base, but this makes the most sense to me.

The darkness was just a catch it all term for everything that was trying to kill us. Remember in destiny no one has any answers. Even in character no one had a clue what in fact is going on. All we are trying to do is just survive. That context is very important while dealing with any of the lore!

The darkness is really oryx, his family, their "gods" that gave both him and his sisters powers