So, many of you have recently noticed some [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZVo9qMMv_Y]post-SotL-launch Override dialogue[/url], where Mithrax mentions a new entity, Skira. Here is how that goes: [quote]Mithrax: Reflecting on our victories, I am reminded of an Eliksni legend. One told by the scribes of House Judgment. Before the Great Machine, the Eliksni were hounded by Skira, the Watcher. A shapechanger, manipulator. Ikora: Savathûn? Mithrax: No. But... similar. A demon of our past, defeated. Ikora: How? Mithrax: Not with weapons or words, but with silence. Our fear and belief made Skira powerful. When we ceased being afraid, Skira ceased to be.[/quote] So, what is Skira? Well, you all read the title. I'm not going to fall along the common theory that it's a reference to a new being, or rather an aspect of the Darkness. Nor am I going to say it's the Entity that controls Xivu Arath, the Taken, or the Scorn. Instead, I'm saying it's an Ahamkara. "Why Archival," I hear you thinking, "that's very anticlimatic for something that took a whole season to be namedropped" But let me explain why I think this way. This Skira came to the Eliksni before the Traveler even made contact with them. Granted, many Dark things resided in our system before it arrived here as well, such as the K1 Anomaly. However, it's the rest that really put this together. Besides, the K1 Anomaly didn't talk to anyone until it was unearthed, and even then it was extremely hostile and acted more like a Marker from Dead Space and its masters follow the Traveler rather than communicating with species before it even arrives. What is known as a shapechanger and manipulator? A lot of things can be labeled as either, but few as both. And being compared to Savathun? That really narrows the options here. We know Savathun has frequent contact with Ahamkara bones for reasons unknown. Some even go as far as to speculate she has a direct connection to the wish dragons. Either way, the two are comparable. Both shapeshift and both are very fond of manipulating people. But what really gets me here is how Skira was defeated. With silence and non-belief. See, belief doesn't really affect Light and Dark in a literal sense. But think about this from the lens of an Ahamkara. You come to this world of gardeners, seeking fodder to feed upon their wishes. Of course, the wishes turn bad for them and they revolt. They stay silent, they erase you from their daily lives. They don't even know you exist. They no longer come to you for wishes, so you leave to find food elsewhere. It makes way too much sense. Something Dark would be far more subtle, poison a society from within. Instead, this creature was beaten in a way that wouldn't deter many others, but would absolutely deter a being whose purpose requires people to know its existence. So, what do you think?