"A tale that's different from the rest: the thread unfurls against the clocks. The one the Speaker loved the best must have a perfect paradox." If any of you have read the lore for the shotgun, the Perfect Paradox, you may be a little confused with what you find. At a glance it appears to be a letter but who it's addressed to is unclear. Several clues do leap out though, such as how Saint talks about the recipient being his [i]inspiration[/i] and how the [i]recipient[/i] gave the shotgun [i]TO[/i] Saint initially. As Byf discussed in his vid on the subject, this letter is most likely talking about US. If that makes no sense, think about the Perfect Paradox's name. I believe the Perfect Paradox is a weapon that exists in a causal loop, a Bootstrap Paradox, where the same cycle of events must happen over and over. Here's the basic gist of the loop: -Saint goes into the Forest to kill the Mind (that wasnt his original goal, but NOW it is. He remembers every time he loops, we'll get to that later) -Saint kills the Mind and subsequently dies, leaving the Paradox for us -We give the Paradox to Saint so he can use it to kill the Mind We know WE made the Paradox first, but then how does it get to Saint? It's simple, WE have to go back in time to before Six Fronts and we have to give him the Perfect Paradox personally. But why do all this? What does it all mean? This part is kind of a huge spinfoil on my part but it explains basically everything. I theorize Saint is looping back in time over and over to kill the light-draining Mind. He needs to make sure that it stays dead at all costs, for if Saint failed to kill it, the Mind would certainly turn its sights on other guardians and begin picking us off. While it's not explicitly stated, it seems the Paradox itself is the weapon Saint needs to kill the Mind. It's the only way the shotgun could factor in to the loop. If we dont give Saint the Paradox, he cant use it to kill the Mind, and thus the Mind will not die and the loop will break. I think the Mind actually being created has become something of a fixed point, and even with Saint out of the picture causality would find a new reason for it to have been built. Saint isnt looping because he is forced to, he is doing this of his own volition to prevent the Mind from escaping. Its the only way for him to keep it dead. I dont know if the devs will ever follow up on this story, but i believe this was the original plan. They wanted us to go back in time, meet Saint-14 and fight alongside him, and eventually give him the Perfect Paradox to complete the causal loop. Let me know what you guys think about my theory! Tangential totally unfounded spinfoil about the Mind, dont take this part too seriously: How can a Vex Mind drain light? Sure we know it "tuned to Saint's frequency" but how did it actually DRAIN the light? Vex cant even SIMULATE light correctly, let alone interact with it, unless... The Vex know of the existence of Paracausality and the Sword Logic, and they have successfully applied the latter in the past with Quria Blade Transform. Its possible the Vex used what they learned from Quria to make a new Blade Transform, empowered it with Sword Logic, and this is how the Mind is able to drain light. The Infinite Forest is connected to the Vex Gate Network, which like the Ascendant Plane, seems to give the Sword Logic even greater strength than normal (remember, the battle with Quria happened inside a breach between the Network and Oryx's ascendant plane). Its possible the Mind spent a millennia charging up it's Sword Logic until it was powerful enough to drain Saint-14's light through sheer force of will.