I know that the Gardener and the Winnower are metaphors for the Light and Darkness given personalities, but doesn’t it seem strange that we’re being gifted powers of The Darkness like Stasis, Deepsight, and the Relic on Mars to fight The Witness in their implied goal to cause total entropy (Ending everything) in the universe.
In the Unveiling, “The Winnower” likely absolutely despises The Witness.
“Beings who deserve no thought:
those who pedal the tired gotcha that all life hastens entropy. (“You promised them life but deliver only death. Enough. Enough death, enough life.”) They are fatuous little nihilists who pretend to prefer no existence to a flawed one. They bore me.
Those who seek to delay the challenge that all things desiring existence must overcome. (Ending all life at once cancels out this opportunity)
Those who describe false moral equivalence...”
- “The Winnower”, Unveiling: The Cambrian Explosion
With these lines in mind, if the Witness is nearing their goal with no escape for The Traveler, why would they give their greatest adversary powers of The Darkness? Unless it wasn’t The Witness giving us these powers.
“The Winnower” (if it truly is an omnipotent entity like “The Gardener” is) is probably aiding us; giving us Stasis, Deepsight, the Relic on Mars and so on so that the flower game they likes to play with the Gardener never ends; preventing “The Flower Game” of life from ever ending. After all, you can’t have Darkness without Light and even though their fight created the universe, their existences are tied to each other. End the universe, both the Gardener and the Winnower end.
Sort of.
Gods are just bored. What kind of God would they be if they just interfered with everything they didn't like? But they do have their rules, and they are absolute.
They grant their gift willingly by their choice, one requiring permission from the wielder, the other requiring permission from the granter and they do have the power to take it away but don't unless a rule is broken. They let the children fight amongst themselves in order to let them grow. The Witness included, for it is a fraud only posing as a God.
Savathûn was the only one who understood the meaning of life. To sacrifice everything as a "God" to experience a somewhat normal life. The yearning feeling she felt when watching Crow & the Guardian around the campfire.
But the show must go on, and someone had to take the Witch Queen's place. The First of the Lucent, her most trusted Witch remade in the image of the Witch Queen herself.
Gods are neither Good or Evil, those are subjective terms mortals place upon ideals they identify themselves with as the correct path for one's rightouness in another's perspective can be seen as the evil.
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If we are a simulation playing a simulated game of ourselves and you couldn't tell the difference, would it matter?
What kind of God would I be if I just gave you the anwsers to life's meaning when the purpose of me is to let you make your own mistakes? Would I even exist then, if I don't intervene? If I did, wouldn't that be the end of your freewill? Why would you then ask for guidance then if that is the opposite of your intent? The spaces between your words. You ask to be free, but when you wish for it, you seal yourself away.
If I didn't exist would it matter? What about if I chose to live like you because fate was boring? What if I wanted to experience all the flaws and inconveniences of humanity for myself including experiencing death.. Would I Matter then?