If you don't want to read my thesis I have this in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgeoNk3y8oA If you don't want to watch the video I have a google slide made for you broskis: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbaRbyPoqqW4GNKT5PTxZCHztBFMNghfIGrBtnAeziE/edit?usp=sharing THIS IS ME ASKING FOR YOUR THOUGHTS NOT ME SAYING IT'S 100% WHAT I THINK IT IS just wanted to scream that first okie Alright bois so I'm the dude a while back who made the super long post about my studying the Pyramid Ships and what I believe the truth about them was. As a result of the time spent observing the Pyramid architecture in particular I am really confident in saying that I know it inside out. When BL came out I was extremely disappointed with the lack of Pyramid involvement in the campaign, the fact that the actual Pyramid interior was a copy and paste of the end of the Moon Pyramid, and the fact that the majority of the Pyramid architecture was relegated to "simulations." Granted, the new architecture did have new engravings in the Exo Challenge missions, and the cruxes SPECIFICALLY have completely new whisper voice lines/creepiness (I recorded them for myself but I can upload them if you are interested.) Long. Story. Short. I was doing the week 2 Exo Challenge, and I noticed at the end there was a style of engraving that didn't match the typical style of the place at all. I saw a rectangle going down, with a smaller one connected above. This exact engraving can be found on pillars in at least the second and third Exo Challenge, with the second challenge having that engraving as the outline for the entrance to the main complex (the part where you run in the tunnel with the disappearing floor, the pads form that symbol.) After seeing a third line separating the larger rectangle into two parts, in my mind this engraving represented one thing. A double edged blade with a thin rectangular hilt. I have to make this clear, this is going to be purely up to how you see it. Friends wise 3 agree with me and 2 are undecided, so I'm not just expecting everyone to see what I see. So I thought it was a sword, and immediately a connection was made between this "sword" and the Sword Logic. This made sense to me, as although I do not believe the Pyramids to be the actual Darkness, I do believe they are allied with it, and so follow some form of the Sword Logic. I'm looking at this thing which I think is a sword, and I'm just thinking. What struck me at the time was the "handle" and the "blade." The handle/hilt is thin and rectangular. The blade is double edged, but one side is wider than the other, the hilt not being in the direct centre of the blade as a result. Immediately I thought of the Winnower’s blade, because I remember it being somewhat blocky as well. I pull up a picture and the similarities are extremely striking. Two double edged blades with one edge wider than the other, a third "edge" coming in from the side. I drew some lines in the slide to show you what I mean. At this stage, it’s really up to you as to whether or not you see the resemblance. I will argue with anyone that this is a sword, but if you think that it isn’t any sword in particular well, that’s all good. That's the first part of this, which was just showing you what I found. The next is what this could mean if I'm right. Alright for this part, assume that this engraving is in fact, a sword, and more that, the Winnower’s sword. What would this mean? I’ll tell you what it would mean for the Pyramids, the Winnower, and the deeper lore. For the Pyramids this changes absolutely nothing about my beliefs surrounding them. In regards to the sword, it doesn’t really matter. Like I said, I don’t believe the Pyramids are the Darkness. I am adamant that the statue of the veiled lady is the Gardener, and the Pyramids who perhaps used to worship her, are now allied with the Winnower, not actually him. It is very clear from what those inside the Pyramids have said that they do believe in some form of the Sword Logic, so seeing a sword is really not that surprising. If the sword is the sword I think it is, then this is a symbol of the logic that the Pyramids follow, nothing more. For the Winnower this would actually be extremely significant. If this is actually a representation of the sword shown in the concept art, then that concept art is what the Winnower to some extent looks like. Yes, I get it, he’s the Formless One, but if the Gardener has a physical form, then at some stage he must have had one as well. If you want proof about what the Gardener looks like I explain it all in my OG post and the video here: https://youtu.be/xS4M-CIZBWQ Finally for the lore, this is the really conspiracy theorist stuff. We're bringing out the Nastareth bois! I would like to state that I am very aware that there are some people who groaned upon seeing that word, and to those of you I am sorry. But this is simply what I’ve found. Sylok, THE DEFILED. Oh yeah, our buddy Silly Sylok. Sylok was a Taken Knight in the Prison of Elders and was experimented on by the Awoken. The Taken are pretty much braindead, and the only real stimulation that got some brain activity was pain, so they pretty much tortured him. He absolutely loved the pain, and one of the lines he said was “Blessed is the Nastareth.” (https://www.ishtar-collective.net/cards/sylok-the-defiled?highlight=Nastareth) Now that is the only time in the lore that this word has been used, and no one has any idea what it means. If you google it you’ll find nothing, BUT, while I was searching the word Nastareth, I was met with the word Nastara. Now there’s the name Nastara which means wild rose, don’t get mixed up with that. I believe it’s from Hindi, or one of the Indian languages, but a Nastara is a lancet. The plural of the word is nastaras/nashtaras btw so sounds very similar. Anyway a Nastara is a lancet, and a lancet, is a broad, double edged blade often used for surgery. What does any of this have to do with the Winnower you might ask? Ok this is where the waffle begins. The Winnower is the destroyer of life, but theoretically not all life. Only the life that he believes deserves it. As a result of this he is the pruner of the garden, the dude who separates the wheat from the chaff. He reaches in, cuts out a chunk of life, but is careful to only take what is needed. Sounds like the guy could use a lancet if you ask me. So why mention the Nastareth? Because honestly, at this stage what could it mean? It’s a word that’s dead in the water, most people not knowing it exists, and those who do know it having forgotten about its place in the big scheme of things. I’ve found a possible inspiration for the word, and that inspiration is a blade that fits with how the Winnower sees his work. So my friends, why not give the sword of the sword logic a name? Why not say the Winnower wields the Nastareth? That is the conclusion to this discovery. I said it before and I’ll say it again, this isn’t me announcing that this is the 100% Winnower’s sword. Truth be told, even if I'm right, it's not too big a deal in my eyes, although it would tear down the notion that the veiled lady is the Winnower. So my friends I will let you decide what this is. Is this as one of my friends put it, a hole in the wall? Do you think it’s a sword? Do you think it’s the Winnower’s sword. If you think it is, what do you think this means? Let me know. I guess writing essays in college have one life skill.