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Edited by external: 4/5/2013 1:32:18 AM
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"Uh, you mean... their souls?"

...Or ours? Note Race 4, 4th from left. Appears to be Hive. The others appear to be, from left to right: Vex, Fallen, Cabal, and a 5th unidentified race to the right of the Hive. Recall, from the GDC World Building video: Populating Your World section 30:52-34:15, at about 32:22: JS: 'What's up with the [b]green[/b] guy? With the light shootin out of his head? What's that?' And Chris said... CB: ...something like, y'know, 'that's his [i]soul[/i] ripping out of his body!' [i]Bungie.net ; News:[/i] "New Beginnings." Posted 22/2/2013. [quote]We’ll show you how incredible it feels to see [i]a Fallen Captain’s ethereal soul rip from its body[/i] after you’ve dusted his crew with your Gravesend Mk. 28 Heavy Machinegun, shattered his absorption shield with a perfectly-placed pulse grenade, and delivered a final, thundering shot with your beloved hand cannon.[/quote] EDIT: See also: [url]http://destiny.bungie.org/galleries/gdc2013_concept_art/lg/49.jpg[/url]. Check the figures in the background, count the arms... So, is it all but confirmed that the Hive can possess or infect many species, Fallen and Human included? Or, is there something particular to the Fallen where we can see their souls as well in some different way. If it's the latter, is there some special connection between the Fallen and the Hive? What do you think? And do you dig the idea of this sorta fantasy trope, or would you have preferred to have seen Staten's "species that consumes noble gases" SF angle worked into this somehow?

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  • Well, those were very early concepts, my guess is that they decided the soul ripping thing worked better for the fallen and gave the attribute to them instead.

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    • This was bugging me too!

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    • Edited by LugDubh: 4/5/2013 12:20:56 AM
      I wouldn't say confirmed but there is a four armed variant next to (behind) the robed figure in that concept image. Certain others (behind again) seem to be much larger but unlike the large hive creatures already pointed out by others.

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