God dammit, Bungie hit me with another Ahamkara twist in the lore, just like they did in the Books of Sorrow. So I was reading the Cabal Booklet which came packaged with some sort of alternate edition of Destiny 2, all of which is written from the perspective and speech of Emperor Calus of the Cabal Empire, and I came to a shocking paragraph at the booklet's conclusion: "I say this to you, oh champion mine, and I say it from my heart: there are those who would bargain away their souls just to live a little longer. I am not them. Life must be worth living. Life must be lovely and delicious and enviably sweet! Nothing has ever lived that will not die, so what matters is how we use our time." "... oh champion mine..." Oh champion mine. So if you've been living under a gameplay rock and not reading any lore, "oh -noun connected to whoever is being spoken to- mine" is the iconic phrase which Ahamkaras use impulsively in their speech when speaking to foreign organisms. If you don't even know what an Ahamkara is, go hit up the Ishtar Collective and seek answers there. But Emperor Calus said it too, and I KNOW Bungie isn't one to make some coincidence like that in their lore. Does this mean... Emperor Calus is connected to the Ahamkara in some way? Evidence of this being the case may further be supported when you connect Calus relating paracausal things such as life to hunger, consumption, and/or taste ("Life must be lovely and delicious and enviably sweet!") just as the Ahamkara bones used to assemble the Skull of Dire Ahamkara did with the paracausal subject of reality ("Reality is the finest flesh, oh bearer mine. And are you not...hungry?"). It seems to me that the Emperor and the Ahamkara share a common gluttony towards things which cannot be eaten with each other... With this connection between Calus and the Ahamkara, I believe I have also cracked another secret of the Ahamkara. Calus, during his exile on the Leviathan following Ghaul's [i]The Tragedy of Julius Caesar[/i]-styled backstab, came into contact with some deep space entity on his sad, lonesome voyage- the Void, possibly (Cabal seem to be amassed on Mars out of all the planets in the Sol System in order to mine and harvest materials from it, such as Relic Iron, which, according to the lore surrounding Darkdrinker, is highly reactive to Void energy... why the Cabal would want such a material, I can only connect it to Calus and his acquaintance with the Void, Relic Iron being sent to their Emperor in order for him to use it to stimulate his abilities given by the Void in some way)- which enlightened him about the universe and its secrets, as well as its answers, and seemed to have altered his speech to the sort which is spoken by the Ahamkara. This, to me, indicates that the Ahamkara may very well get their abilities from the Void... whether or not that happened through them contacting it during a time when they didn't have their powers (if there ever was such a time) or them originating from the Void itself, I am not sure. Want to share[b] your ideas[/b] of a [b]better Destiny[/b]? Have [b]observations[/b] and [b]theories[/b] of Destiny's [b]lore[/b] which desperately need to get out there for others to know? Feel free to join my group, Golden Destitutes, and mix the fluids of your mind in a creative cauldron... [b]Group Link:[/b] [spoiler]https://www.bungie.net/en/Groups/Chat?groupId=2858340[/spoiler] [b]EDIT:[/b] I was brought to attention that Calus's daughter, who aided Ghaul in the dethronement of Calus, crushed his only chance to get help during the backstab: a bone. An Ahamkara bone, very much possibly? If so, then this shows that Calus came into contact with an Ahamkara at some point, probably asked for his wish of leading an empire and being loved from it, which the Ahamkara did grant, but not without an Ahamkara's price: his eventual dethronement, exile, and ultimate humiliation. [b]EDIT:[/b] I was also brought to attention the large skeletal remains scattered about the Pleasure Gardens within the Leviathan. These could very well be the bones of Ahamkaras, suggesting even further evidence in the possibility of Calus encountering the Ahamkara. But that raises the question: why would their remains be in the Pleasure Gardens? Did Calus kill the Ahamkaras/Ahamkara he encountered? If so, why? Did he find these remains? If so, where?