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4/13/2018 2:15:24 AM
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What is the traveler
what the hell is the traveler. Oh look the thing in the sky made things like light and ghosts. Do they even explain or is everyone like, yeah, the massive ping pong ball gave us special powers and made planets look pretty, thats it like why would we care why it gave us powers and what it is. Don’t even tell me it gave us powers to protect against the darkness, that’s even less explained.
I feel like the entire the light vs dark theme in destiny is a really shît version of the Jedi vs the sith. It’s so poorly written that I could probably find it in my old 4th grade writing journal.
[spoiler]i will give bungie my 4th grade writing journal in exchange for 30% equity in the company and a lead role in the dlc in November[/spoiler]
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<If I remember my own post correctly... The Traveler is a god incubator both capable of making individuals into god-like beings but also housing a powerful god-like entity. Given that the Cabal were able to tap in and drain the Light, we can assume this deity is hooked up to the machine that is the shell we see in-game. It is capable of breaking the laws of physics (as evidenced by terraforming and even the arrival of the Vex and Ahamkara, though the latter could've just followed it) and even some basic mechanical work as it released dozens of Ghosts after it sacrificed itself at the end of the Collapse. It seems the shell itself takes damage as more Light is released given that it "cast off" the bottom during the Collapse and broke apart significantly during the Red War when it woke up. It is currently locked in a war with another paracausal entity known as the Darkness that it has been on the run from since ???. It finds a civilization and uplifts it in an attempt to fight back, but it almost always loses. It has a genuine care for life but obviously puts its own life above everything else, which is most likely what led to the uplifting and ditching of many societies. There are many theories about what happened during the Collapse that ended with the Traveler winning and the Darkness leaving, the two primary ones being that either the Traveler stayed or it attempted to flee only to get damaged. Personally I'll go with everyone but lore dudes' approach to this scenario and say the Traveler sacrificed itself. Given that the Warminds couldn't do jackshit to the Darkness I doubt it could've done anything to the Traveler. As to why it stayed, we happened to be at the right place and the right time. As it does care for life, it has probably noticed how many species have been broken or turned against it. In an attempt to stop this, it concluded that it needs to stop the Darkness at all costs. This leads to a short battle which leads to the creation of the Awoken and Jovians. Unless Rasputin tells me otherwise, I'm staying with this theory.>
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8 RepliesIt’s a godlike machine capable of changing and manipulating matter in ways that directly defy physics. It also apparently is in the crosshairs of an even more dangerous entity, and has spent over a billion years fleeing said entity. It encounters advanced civilizations, and grants them powerful abilities and technology, all in an effort to have these civilizations fight, and defeat the darkness for it. When the dark force inevitably wins, the traveler leaves the shattered civilization behind, and flees into space in search of a new civilization to ascend. The fallen race was the last civilization the traveler abandoned, and chased it to the sol system. Also, it was trying to escape earth and leave humanity to die when the darkness came, but Rasputin shot it with a god killing ancient weapon, and knocked it into a state of suspended repairs. In an effort to protect itself, the bitch assed traveler created a shield bubble, the ghosts, and the guardians themselves. The traveler is not a good being, but a godlike bitch who can’t beat the darkness on its own.
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It’s the Wizard of Oz
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It’s where Adam Warlock projects his soul gem dimension.
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I'm still hoping for it to be a god incubator.
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Edited by Dagoth Tokodia: 4/16/2018 8:28:54 PMA ball containing a Precursor from halo [spoiler]Or a Daedric lord[/spoiler]
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1 ReplyEdited by kris_tunetso: 4/16/2018 7:56:30 PMWe do not know what, exactly, the Traveler is. The only hints we have of it's true nature are these: * The Eliksni call it "The Great Machine," they build servitors in the Traveler's image, and worship them. This seems to imply that the Traveler is machine in nature, rather than organic. * Fenchurch Everis claims to have been inside the Traveler, and says it smells faintly of vanilla. *The Traveler possesses significant paracausal powers, given that it was able to terraform various planets in our solar system and make them viable for human life. Not just change the atmospheres, but actually altered their gravity. Even Luna, Earth's moon, has had it's gravity modified to be equal to Earth's. That's it. That's literally all we have. We know that Bungie removed "the Darkness" as a concept from D2, because Luke Smtih admitted that they didnt really know what it is. They didnt want to keep it in the game wihtout a definite idea. I would suppose they dont know what the Traveller is either, but can't straight up remove it as well because it's been a focal point of the story.
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There’s more than one
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I am guessing a "Giant Servitor" with special powers.
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I believe it’s some kind of cosmic being inside a shell that it made to help it protect itself from the darkness. The earliest mention of the traveler is in the books of sorrow and for all we know it could’ve existed for thousands of years before then.
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The traveler is the physical representation of space magic
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It's the ball Luke, he gives us the power, it's amazing.
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Giant salty tear factory. I don't think even Bungie knows.
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Want me to simplify? It’s just there, ok? It’s there because everyone evil has tiny/no balls, and since the Traveller is the biggest ball around, they’re like “it’s ridiculing us! I wanna shoot it”. So yea, it’s the reason the Fallen are total flying French fries and why Ghaul is always on his period.
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1 ReplyIt's bungie. It's listening but does Jack sht
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Edited by FdYAcsoyPKN83gLE: 4/15/2018 3:08:47 AMA broken computer.
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2 RepliesEdited by blade329: 4/13/2018 7:33:50 PMFour years into the franchise, and we still don't know what it is. I don't know if that's good or bad. Who knows, Luke Smith might have it removed for Destiny 3 with no explanation. I can almost hear it now, "That always gave me a chuckle. I think we wrapped up that story arc pretty well. Har har har."
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a machine.
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1 ReplyIt’s Xurs piggy bank
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A giant ball
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1 ReplyIt’s an empty shell just like this game.
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14 RepliesA pokeball.
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2 RepliesHonestly i wouldn't be surprised if the traveller was some form of ancient alien A.I that has figured out how to empower itself and it's servants with localised reality shaping powers similar to the vex. That's just my 2 penny's worth though
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3 RepliesMy theory is the Traveler and the light are two separate beings. The Traveler is for lack of a better term a container that either houses the light or holds onto a part of it.
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Edited by XxDra90nB0rnxX: 4/14/2018 8:12:17 PMThe traveler is actually a huge piece of earths moon and was built by humans. They also built the vex as the protectors/caretakers of the traveler, then sent it out into the universe to seek out alien life with clear instructions to return to our solar system once it did, somewhere along the way it got sucked into a wormhole and sent into the past. The wormhole scrambled the Vex’s programming and they abandoned the traveler after it discovered the fallen and returned to mars. The vex then found the darkness and helped it end the golden age and silence the traveler when we rediscovered it. The “light” of the traveler is actually Vex bio-computer brain gel that it had left over from before the vex went rouge, it wasn’t until someone startled the traveler and got doused with brain-gel that the first guardian was created. This gel was also used to give exo’s sentience. I read all about it in the lore I made up
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Edited by Black Magic: 4/14/2018 2:38:42 PMAn big golf ball in the sky
