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2/22/2017 1:35:35 PM
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I don't see how the thunderlord is tied to tragedy, especially from the text you used. It has a completely different tone to me, but that's the problem with key concepts being restricted to loose interpretation.
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One way to link Thunderlord to tragedy is the dialogue from Ikora for the first step of the Nova Mortis questline: "You've heard of Thunderlord? It is a weapon of The Great Disaster—our first terrible attempt to fight the Hive on the Moon." It's more or less a symbol.
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That says more or less when it was seen being used, not the nature of the weapon itself. I it signifying the advancement against an enemy that believes the fight is over. Hence why the people in the description felt safe to sleep but didn't realize that they were in the eye of the storm.
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The nature of the gun is meaningless when talking about being tied to(associated with) tragedy. The Great Disaster is the biggest tragedy in Guardian history that saw the death of the majority of their ranks. As the only thing we know of Thunderlord is that it was a weapon known to have been in that battle, it is quite clearly tied to that tragedy.
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Was it forged for the battle or modified in the field to become what it is? If it's defining background is it's use in this battle, then wouldn't it be likely that there are more thunderlords? If a gun was used in the d-day invasion, does that become it's defining feature, or is it the way it behaves in combat, a functional difference that makes it stand out from its sisters? The thunderlord begins a heavy attack with a moderate rate of fire, only for it to become more relentless in its assault as it sustains fire, like an approaching storm tearing through obstacles to reach those who pray their shelter will hold. Is that not this weapon's defining feature? Is that not the nature of this machine gun?
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Makes sense. I didn't think about it in a way of, as you say, the nature of the gun.
