<Welcome to another addition to my collection... of random shit. We are going to analyze the Curse of Osiris prophecy weapons... the flavor text. Not the lore tabs. I mean the cryptic shit. [quote]To Tower comes a war in red; an orphan sounds the empire's call. Mortal angels mourn the dead while lightless light wraps night in pall.[/quote] - The Conqueror 2 This is the easiest one to explain. It's talking about the Red War. Ghaul was an orphan. Mortal angels refer to us, Guardians. Lightless light may be referring to many different things, but I'm just going to say it's the shit we get from the Shard. [quote]Two siblings cleaved by time and space, reflections never found alone, The ending of the eldritch race—a path long seen but never known.[/quote] - Garden Progeny 1 OK... this one has a lot to unpack. I'm 75% sure this is talking about the Light and the Darkness. But why? Well, we all know what a reflection is, right? We all know the Traveler has a dark version of itself. What would "never found alone" mean? Well, it's self-explanatory when you think about it. The Darkness has a ton of minions, including the Hive, while the Traveler has humanity. Even Rasputin says that the "Gardener did not shrug and make herself alone" in one of the Grimoire Cards describing the Collapse. What is the Eldritch race? Well eldritch means weird, sinister, of ghostly. When Cayde-6 has a vision of the Collapse, he describes shadowy figures. That's ghostly. However, it doesn't have to be ghostly (or just ghostly), it can also be sinister. The Darkness's philosophy is that if you aren't strong enough to defend yourself, you deserve death. Many species would consider that quite evil, especially since the Darkness typically has an unfair advantage. A path long seen and never known could be referring to the ending of all of this. All things must come to an end... but the paracausal forces of old never go away, do they? [quote]A charnel but effulgent orb—beacon in a loathsome dark— Fêted, fetid corpses rise—a too-long-absent gibbous spark.[/quote] - Machina Dei 4 The word charnel means associated with death. Effulgent means shining brightly or radiant. This "Effultgent Orb" is the Traveler. A shining light in a "loathsome dark"... Fêted is past tense of fête, which means to honor or entertain someone lavishly. Fetid means smelling extremely unpleasant. Gibbous, when not referring to a moon, means protuberant... which means "protruding; bulging." Funnily enough, I have no idea what that last line is trying to say. Is it talking about Guardians and how we were resurrected after being long dead? [quote]A spark of knowledge with each fall, the purpose of the endless youth. No longer shunned, dark's nameless call now brings about tenebrous truth.[/quote] - West of Sunfall 7 Well here we are... things are getting harder and harder to analyze. So what does this mean? I'm going to do the second statement first... "no longer shunned". The Dark's nameless call brings about a {dark, shadowy, or obscure} truth. Now here's the thing... that second line could refer to Osiris. Osiris has been right in a lot of things and has been very... persistent in getting his word out. The Speaker and by extension, the City, shunned him. Ikora doesn't hate him anymore, and now the City's best Guardian got into the mix, so would he still be shunned? Would people even remember or care after the Red War? It could also be the actual Darkness revealing what it and the Traveler is. Why the Traveler never wanted to wake up... but would the Darkness be accepted? It's possible that the first line refers to the Traveler learning after every civilization it leaves. The Traveler sacrificed itself here, so something must've changed because it's been running from the Hive and Darkness for centuries now. So that's all I can come up with... leave thoughts or whatever below. Please clap...>