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10/8/2019 10:58:55 PM
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(Spoilers) The Unveiling
So if you somehow still don’t know what happens in Shadowkeep that was your warning.
I am absolutely loving what Bungie are doing through this book. Messages from the Darkness itself seeped in metaphors. Unlike Truth to Power, I don’t believe anything in these first two entries are lies. They are merely what the Darkness honestly believes about itself.
For instance, the second entry seems to imply that the Darkness and the Traveler are playing some kind of cosmic game, or at least they were when the entities began. The Traveler seeded life and the Darkness put it to the test, destroying what could not stand. There are two ways to interpret this.
The first is the option that paints the Traveler in a very, very negative light. The Darkness and the Traveler are not in conflict with each other but are instead in a cycle of the Traveler evolving and guiding life only for the Darkness to destroy it.
The second is that this was how things began. Life as we know it did not exist, you see. The Darkness began to see the eradication of life as something beautiful, beginning to see itself as the only being worthy of existence.
Both are valid, both have their evidence. The Darkness however is not attempting to feed us misinformation like Savathûn. Instead it is using information to seed doubt in our mind. It is toying with us for its own amusement.
The fact that the big bad of Destiny has finally been established and is being developed before our eyes is exciting. I haven’t been this excited since the Books of Sorrow came out in Taken King, reading the entries relating to the Deep and Oryx’s conversation with it. The Darkness makes the case that life inevitably ends up destroying itself, so it argues that any pretence of society or order should be dropped and instead each and every race should exist only to kill any others, to prove that it is better. Granted the Darkness omitted that it believed it was the best, but that’s neither here nor there. I do hope that Bungie was not misleading us when they teased Rasputin for Year 3, because there’s a great opportunity there. Rasputin is perhaps the only being besides the Traveler that has experienced the full might of the Darkness. Would be nice to see Rasputin react to the Pyramid on the moon, it’s activity and the news of the Darkness returning.
Once again not a heavy analysis of anything, planning on doing something over the holidays though. Just thought I should raise the point.
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3 RepliesRasputin DID react to the Pyramid on the Moon. By striking all records of any mention of it from that K whatever Crew. Have you not read the Revelation lore book? There was a mining crew sent to the Moon back in the beginning and they stumbled on the Pyramid first. The leader of said group was “kind” enough to send reports to Rasputin, who was watching and hearing everything anyway. Then, Rasputin heard about the Pyramid and decided to strike every record that K1 ever sent him. And he never told us. So yeah, he did react to the Pyramid, by not reacting at all
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10 RepliesThe darkness is basically Nurgle from Warhammer. A force of death and decay that destroys everything so new life can grow, just like Nurgle however the darkness is a -blam!- and goes waaaaay too overboard. That's the thing about the traveler, it's moderate light. True Light means no death, no conflict, no change which would be a nightmare. The traveler is the light but reasonable, as in people are allowed to die, to make mistakes, to evolve etc.
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The Revelation book is also super interesting.
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4 Replies<You should see entries three and four.>
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8 RepliesThe Traveler existed as a Gardener for the Darkness, or at least what it used to be called. Growing things for the Darkness to consume it. The Garden is different from the Dark. A remnant piece of the original society. The Garden seeks to create life, and preserve it. Creations absent of Death and Rebirth, like the Traveler, and unlike the Flower Eater it's absent of consumption. This is why the Vex worship. Ever wonder why on Mercury, it's called the Gardener's Spire with Vex and the Traveler sharing Mercury? ... I'm beginning to wonder if the Pyramid on the Moon is actually part of the fleet of Darkness ships. It clearly crashed there and became derelict, but it was before the Golden Age?
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Edited by FdYAcsoyPKN83gLE: 10/9/2019 2:24:01 PMThe unveiling of the evidence at Luke Smith's house was what got my cousins' brother's roommate killed.
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2 RepliesWhat bookis this?
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Don't forget it shows the worm gods. [quote]The day was longer than all of time, and the night was swifter than a glint of light on a falling sugar crystal. Insects buzzed between the flowers, and worms slithered between the roots, feeding on what was and what might be, the first gradient in existence, the first dynamo of life. Rain fell from no sky. Voices spoke without mouth or meaning. A tree of silver wings bloomed yielded fruit shed feathers bloomed again.[/quote]
