Your analysis is largely pointless considering that Bungie not only doesn't even know what 'The Darkness' is, but don't plan on bringing it up in Destiny 2 anyway...
[quote]So, I think that at a point, just totally candidly? We had no idea what it was. Straight up. We had no clue.[/quote]
https://kotaku.com/destiny-2-director-answers-our-questions-about-the-open-1796139202
[quote]Ultimately, we do owe our players a story there – what is The Darkness? – but that’s not this game. We wanted to remove as much of the extra terminology as possible and focus on telling the Destiny 2 story. [/quote]
https://www.gameinformer.com/games/destiny_2/b/playstation4/archive/2017/06/11/destiny-2s-lead-creators-discuss-story-direction.aspx
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