Credit to lmMrMeeseeksLookAtMe from redit Let bungie know what you want from this. So much potential This is a guide into the following categories, starting with what we know the most about: The Darkness The Traveler and Rasputin The Fallen The Vex The Cabal The Awoken The Jovians and the Nine The Darkness (and the Hive/Taken) If you've played Destiny past the opening cutscene, you've probably had the question: What exactly is the Darkness? And the answer is: We don't know. The Speaker wasn't being a dick. He couldn't tell us anything because he doesn't know. At best we can say it ushered in the Collapse of Humanity's Golden Age, allowing Hive, Vex, Cabal, and Fallen to enter the Sol System. There are some good guesses, such as it simply being a metaphor for entropy, or a metaphysical opposite to the Traveler, but some hints lay in the Grimoire about it being more. This is a SKYSHOCK ALERT. Multiple distributed ISR assets report a TRANSIENT NEAR EXTRASOLAR EVENT. Event duration ZERO POINT THREE SECONDS. Event footprint includes sterile neutrino scattering and gravity waves. Omnibus analysis detects deep structure information content (nine sigma) and internal teleonomy. No hypothesis on event mechanism (FLAG ACAUSAL). Bootstrap simulation suggests event is DIRECTED and INIMICABLE (convergent q-Bayes/Monte Carlo probability approaches 1). No hypothesis on deep structure encoding (TCC/NP-HARD). Source blueshift suggests IMMINENT SOLAR ENTRY. Promote event to SKYSHOCK: OCP: EXTINCTION. Activate VOLUSPA. Activate YUGA. Cauterize public sources to SECURE ISIS and harden for defensive action. I am invoking CARRHAE WHITE and assuming control of solar defenses. Ghost Fragment: Darkness This Grimoire card is Rasputin, the Last Warmind, talking about the arrival of "The Darkness" on the edge of the Sol System. The bolded text is the important part. According to the Destiny wikipedia, this implies that when the Darkness arrived, it was something massive. Gravity waves are generated when an object or event interacts with the curvature of spacetime in such a manner as to create changes in that curvature, which then ripple outward away from the event at the speed of light (or 186,000 miles per second) in a wave-like manner. In reference to the ISR report, the event which triggered the SKYSHOCK alert lasted 0.3 seconds, which suggests that whatever displaced local spacetime during the event measures some 55,800 miles in diameter (assuming a spherical shape), making it almost twice the size of the planet Uranus (31,518 miles) and a little over three-fourths the size of Saturn (72,367 miles). Now, this could be a reverse-Traveler (implied to exist by Xur, Agent of the Nine) which dwarfs ours in size, perhaps due to the sheer amount of Light it has consumed over the eons. Or maybe this large presence was simply the alien fleets arriving en masse to trigger the Collapse. This is humanity's extent of knowledge about the Darkness. In the Hive's Books of Sorrow, the Darkness seems to be something else entirely. It embodies itself in a species that we'll call "The Worms". They offered the powers of "The Deep" to the Krill, which were a short-lived species that eventually became the Hive after being gifted with these powers. The Krill were granted immortality to exact their revenge and save their world (more on this later), while giving up any free will they had. They became consumed by a desire to bring death and violence to all living things. —The Deep embraces death— ++Saying: this is inevitable and right++ —I exist as hungry ruin— ++TURN BACK FROM THE WORLD-KILLING WAY++ ++OR YOU WILL LIVE AS DEATH AND DEVASTATION++ —The Sky is the harder way. But it is kinder.— —My charge is balanced: my voice exhausted.— Books of Sorrow VIII: Leviathan This way becomes the way of the Krill-Hive, and they become closest with the Darkness, which their Worms seem to embody. The Hive worship these Worm Gods and the Deep, and seek to bring the Universe to the ideal state, where "sword logic" rules all (anything that can be defeated is a parasite and therefore doesnt deserve to exist). Oryx is the ultimate believer in this way of thinking. Ah, Oryx, how do we explain it to them? The world is not built on the laws they love. Not on friendship, but on mutual interest. Not on peace, but on victory by any means. The universe is run by extinction, by extermination, by gamma-ray bursts burning up a thousand garden worlds, by howling singularities eating up infant suns. And if life is to live, if anything is to survive through the end of all things, it will live not by the smile but by the sword, not in a soft place but in a hard hell, not in the rotting bog of artificial paradise but in the cold hard self-verifying truth of that one ultimate arbiter, the only judge, the power that is its own metric and its own source—existence, at any cost. Strip away the lies and truces and delaying tactics they call ‘civilization’ and this is what remains, this beautiful shape. Link to the rest [url]https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/3lv2bm/a_somewhat_comprehensive_guide_to_the_origins_of/[/url]