It’s time to come back to this topic. We finally have our answers. Traveler is the Gardener, and the Witness is not the Winnower, but rather, a collective consciousness of a civilisation that wants to reshape all of reality. No more Ulan-Tan theory. We aren’t dealing with a two-sided god. Both are completely different, and the veil and gardener are older than the civilisation of darkness that became the Witness. But… There are…questions. Questions that don’t add up. Look back at the Unveiling lore book. The dialogue. I’ll be honest. I’ve been studying the Unveiling lore book for a while, and I’m having some doubts. Well, not doubts. Just some mixups. Let me go through it. One by one. This will be a long one, so get your tinfoil hats on because it’s probing time. Let’s start by asking this question: Is the Ulan-Tan theory still right? Well, of course not. The cutscene proves….not much. It gives us a big answer: the origins of the Witness. But…what about the two primordial forces that are supposed to make up light and dark? Gardener and Winnower? The Flower Game? What about the Unveiling lore book? After studying this book with new and open eyes, I’m conflicted. Things don’t add up. Not anymore. So let’s take this one step at a time. The Witness is a culmination of a civilisation that chose to merge themselves into a harbinger of the final shape. They did this because they wanted to rid the universe and everything in it, and start clean once more. They wanted to rid the universe of suffering and give life purpose and meaning. The Witness doesn’t believe that life has meaning. It believes the Light is destructive and ruins that which it touches. In Life, there is only death. Enough Life. Enough Death. But what makes no sense is that the Unveiling lore book doesn’t hold this. And yet it does! It’s so clear yet so muddled that it makes my head spin. Okay, if we take the words of the Unveiling from the perspective of the Witness, then it could make sense. Except the whole Flower Game part, it could make sense. But if we look at it through the eyes of the Winnower, not the Witness, we see a glimpse of something completely unusual. The Winnower and the Gardener are not beings, they are…constructs. Constructs made to help us see the universe of Destiny. The traveler is the gardener, right? What is the Winnower? Well, the only guess is that the Winnower is…what is the Winnower? We get the Traveler, aka Gardener. We get the veil, aka the link between the traveler and a new world. Where’s the Winnower??? The Winnower has to be the Witness. It’s the only conclusion I can make. Ahh, but it conflicts so much with my theories…the dark future, primordial beings, etc. If the Witness is the Winnower, then why is it trying to renew the Universe, and reshape it into something with meaning, without suffering? It defies the logic. And we know that the Unveiling goes by the sword logic. Prove your worth by being the last one standing. But…the theories are being tangled. It doesn’t make any sense. Well, it does. I just need to put them in the right order. So let’s make a label. Traveler: Gardener. Winnower: Maybe the Witness. Witness: Definitely a civilisation. Unveiling: a book from the perspective of either the Witness or the Winnower. Ulan-Tan: Proven wrong. Wait…as I was reading the Unveiling, a thought came to my mind. One that may change everything. Okay. For a while, I was confused about how the Dark Future lore book came into play here. But here is what I think happened. I’m going to become insane by the end of this. Okay, let’s take it step by step. Civilization becomes the Witness. It goes after the traveler. Future goes, and the Traveler loses. In the Dark Future lore book, the Traveler reset time as soon as the pyramids came to it. It RESET TIME. And this, the civilisation became the Witness once more. And the loss happens. Time and time again. And the vex win each time until the guardians and the hive come into play. And the last city loses. Over and over again. What if… the Unveiling lore book was from the lens of both the Witness and the Winnower? Hear me out. This’ll sound kinda insane. What if the Witness retains its memories? What if it’s consciousness goes beyond time and space? Every reset that happens, it all happens in this universe. Our universe. Where physics causes gravity to be a sculptor of our universe. EVERY TIME. What if our universe is the flower game? And the Witness is the Winnower, at least their embodiment of the Winnower? And every time, the game plays differently, until the Gardener says: let me put something unique. Let me put everything on the line. US. The guardian. We are the final resolver of this problem. And we will be the ones to stop the Witness from rewriting time itself. Because we are the embodiment of the traveler. Aren’t we? I know this theory is basically insane. But if you read till the end, I appreciate it greatly. What are your thoughts? Leave them down below and I’ll be sure to read them. Have a great day!!