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Edited by MisterSilly:
9/21/2018 5:14:52 PM
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The Traveler is selfish and the Darkness is doing its job.
That’s about all really random theory I’d like to discuss! Haha
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The Traveler is being held against its will and will leave us soon. The Darkness/Eldritch will bring about our end. That’s the theory you should be discussing
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They are neither selfish nor selfless they are two sides of the same coin to us The Sky seems good and The Deep seems evil but it isn’t the traveler gives to civilizations and brings them to great height to inevitably fall and when it creates its warriors it forces them to live out a thousand lives dying again and again. The darkness empowers the strong with the powerless falling to the power. The darkness also makes pacts in those they make it with have to slay to continue to live. The darkness isn’t evil and neither is the light they just approach power differently the light as a deity and blesses its champions with the curse/blessing of resurrection and the darkness gives strength to those who prove themselves
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1 ReplyThis is a big discussion. I am going to argue that neither light nor dark are selfish, they just go about what they do in totally opposite ways. The light/traveller gives, and isnt choosy really about who gets the benefit, weak or strong. It creates life, terraforms planets, uplifts civilizations to their best. It causes growth. Now I can argue it technically doesnt create strength, each group it attempted to uplift would have a golden age and eventually it would fall due to the darkness. The darkness is also not selfish, its view as described by the books of sorrow is for the strong to survive (kind of loosely like survival of the fittest). They would take the energy from the weak and absorb it into the strong, like the sword logic. I would say every civilization that had its golden age, and like all things it had to come to an eventual end. The fallen we see in the game were not even connected to the darkness, only the victims of a war with the hive who chase the traveller as part of the darkness. I argue the cabal too barring ghaul, were also just being Cabal, but arent associated with the darkness. We havent yet heard of any group that the traveller touched that wasnt affected by the hive, I would like to know what the actual cycle of the traveller is without interruption, if it ever happened. I wonder if the darkness following the traveller is not maybe a means of controlling all of that creation so as not to have things go too far. But we dont know that yet. I want to say what they are doing is what comes naturally to them. I am always ready to reevaluate it as I learn more, especially once we come face to face with this darkness. I think then we will know what's actually happening.
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The Traveler(and the Light) want civilizations to advance by working together to create a perfect universe. The Darkness and its followers want a universe purged of "weakness", and accomplish this by attempting to kill everything they come across.
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5 Replies<The Traveler wants to propel life, but it does so by choosing one species or group of species and doesn't usually mind the collective deaths of many others. As the Collapse shows it is capable of fighting back, but it did this because it was tired of running. That being said, it could've done so literally any other time. The Darkness believes the Traveler to be disrupting a balance of evolution and wants it gone. Problem is, it has no issues in decimating bystanding civilizations and is actually happy to do so. It also manipulates it's disciples instead of just telling them the Traveler is disturbing the natural order. If you go by that interpretation then both have good motives, but questionable or down right horrible ways of accomplishing them.>
