The Witness is a small grey alien that uses Resonance to appear godly. Look what happened to Rhulk when Resonance and the Pyramid tech got used against him.
I get the feeling it's as Savathun says: he's just a bro who found an ancient source of darkness and created technology from it that he used to transform himself, like a mix of The High Evolutionary and Tony Stark.
I just can't picture the Witness flying out from its massive Pyramid and waving its hands around causing planetary destruction and that's because the Witness is just a mastermind and manipulator, hiding behind intimidation tactics and big imposing Pyramids to hide how small it actually is.
As soon as it's Pyramid is infiltrated and the Resonance technology is turned against it, it's after images, echoing voices, and shroud will turn off like a light bulb for DPS time.
Everything the Witness has done has been espionage, manipulation, and fear mongering tactics. Appearing as us in the Black Garden. Abducting us into it's Pyramids. Talking through our Ghost. Lying to Savathun. Lying to Rhulk. And giving us power to sway us. If the Witness was truly super powerful, it wouldn't have needed to lie to the Krill and create the Hive, corrupt Rhulk, lure Guardians with Stasis, recruit the Scorn, Cabal, Psions, Calus and others.
It's saying the Travelers pale heart holds the key and sends Calus to Neomuna for something. If the Witness was nearly as powerful as we think, it could've ended us back in Season of Arrivals and wouldn't have to prepare so much. It wouldn't need a pale heart and it wouldn't have to recruit Calus, Eramis, Rhulk and so many other Disciples.
I expected the being behind the Collapse to be scary and waste no time doing something apocalyptic but so far, the Witness ain't about it. Fingers crossed for The Final Shape and I'm hoping it has a second form or something that's actually intimidating.
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1 ReplyWell, to start with, The Witness is not like Rhulk whom cracked a rib bone from the creature (I forget what it's called) in Fundaments seas, and confronted the Worm Gods. No, the Witness is like Terminator (bad example but still works), IT and I mean IT, may have Darkness resonance to follow it around and give it a menacing look but there's a prophecy as foretold in the Vow of the Disciple raid (the giant miral just before the jumping puzzle after Caretaker) that states: The Hive and Scorn love the Darkness and worship the Witness, The Pyramid Fleet enters Earth and stops Guardians, the Witness will commune with the Traveler and drink the light, The Witness will kill blank If you ask me if the Witness is as powerful as the prophecy is foretold then the whole premise of The Final Shape, (whenever that comes out) will be the end of the prophecy.