Toland, the Shattered Toland, the Shattered understands the Darkness as the natural evolutionary endpoint of the entire universe. Since the beginning of time, everything has been in competition with everything else for no reason, other than that is the way of the universe: the law of the jungle. As atoms came into being, they defeated the "primordial broth" that preceded it. From atoms came stars, from stars came galaxies, worlds were created, and finally life arose, all due to the eternal competition. Toland envisions a future where three archetypal "nations" compete with other: the first represents the perfect rule of law, the second represents knowledge made paramount, and the third represents sheer, total conquest. The third nation will succeed, inevitably, and in time will lead to a greater conflict between other nations which all represent the desire to conquer and dominate. The universe thus becomes a place where only the most ruthless entities succeed, to the point where they actively hunt and exterminate other life long before it can ever be a true threat. Finally, at the end of time there will be only one entity that rules the universe so absolutely that nothing will ever exist except by its consent, so it will rule forever. In essence, Toland asserts that this incontestable supremacy is the goal or driving force of the Darkness. An alternative way of life, where law and knowledge and might worked together rather than competed, as in the case of humanity and the City, is little more than "the dream of small minds", and is unlikely to succeed against an entity of pure conquest. Source - destinypedia We assault our enemies before they can become a threat. We conqure our enemy's territories and slaughter them. Every time we get better gear, find a new powerful exotic, upgrade our subclass, it's just to allow us to kill our enemies faster. What you call darkness, is the end of you evolution. - Oryx Oryx was right. Guardians There are a handful of Guardians who fell into the darkness, notably Dredgen Yor. Yor came to desire taking innocent lives and sowing despair, claiming he had developed a hunger for it. Toland, the Shattered claimed to be able to communicate with the Darkness, whereas Eris Morn was able to survive and escape the Hellmouth wielding the very power she fought against. Eris had one time even used the power of Darkness to rescue the Guardian from being trapped in the Oversoul Throne. As noted above, it would appear that the Darkness attempts to turn Guardians away from the light. One example is when Pujari had his vision of the Black Garden; the vision made him doubt the righteousness of the Guardians when the vision told him, "You are a dead thing made by a dead power in the shape of the dead. All you will ever do is kill. You do not belong here. This is a place of life." This hearkens back to Ghost Fragment: Darkness 4 (The Black Garden: Darkness), where the Darkness calls Guardians "a dead husk" animated by "an ancient corpse," referring to the "dead" Traveler. Binary Star Cult A heretical position from the Binary Star Cult states that the Traveler itself triggered the collapse, and used humanity as a sacrifice/proxy army in its war against the Darkness. The traveler made us immediately belive it was good with no proof, just lies. When you see this: [url]http://geekparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Destiny-E3-2014.jpg[/url] you know these are evil things. And for those who say we aren't [I]dark[/I], we are using principles of the darkness. Let's use [i]dark[/i] power for a [I]light[/I] cause: [url]https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/217365362?sort=0&page=0[/url]