Thanks to the lightfall reveal, we can confirm that the witness is not controlling the darkness, he is leading the pyramids but not the darkness.
How ?
Its because of strand. According to the dev, strand is a new darkness subclass which was discovered by the guardian which means not even the witness knows it.
The two difference between these 2 subclasses are:
Stasis was given to us (sort of) - witness told us to go to europa “ Ancient power awaits you in europa” but strand is different. I think this is a big issue for the witness since the darkness is starting to favor the guardian more than him.
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That was revealed almost a Year ago. Savathun even stated, "it's not the darkness, but wears it like a Cloak..corrupting it."
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We’ve known that since Shadowkeep, when we got Unveiling. The Witness is just a Darkness user whose top dog. The originator of Darkness is the Winnower.
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3 RepliesEdited by LikwiD_SmOkE22: 9/14/2022 8:38:50 PMThe witness is a proxy of the winnower. He is a child of the darkness. He was once a mortal being & now he is endowed with paracausal abilities. I think you're assuming the witness doesn't know about strand. I think what they meant was the guardian discovers it alone so without the help of Eris or Elsie or the drifter etc etc
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8 RepliesWe’ve known this since Season of the Lost. The question is whether the Darkness was ever an entity to begin with (Winnower) or whether Unveiling was itself another deception of the Witness.