I'm curious about this stuff. But it's too bad that none of this complexity and mystery makes it into the actual game.
: I've always pondered about how Halo might as well be Durandal's
: post-singularity imaginings - it's an idea I've seen come up here on
: occasion, but I've never really felt like there was much to support it.
: But nowadays I swear Destiny's lore pages have some significantly
: on-the-nose nods toward that idea continuing into the game's new universe.
: I can feel my fanfiction coming true!
: I'm gonna copy-paste some stuff: "The Monist Position, or the
: Deflationary Position, considers the Darkness as a technologically
: sophisticated force, perhaps a post-Singularity intelligence. Adherents
: invoke information theory or contend that the universe is a simulation,
: allowing advanced intelligence to gain weakly acausal powers by bending
: the rules."
: "I bear an old name. It cannot be killed. They were my brothers and
: sisters and their names were immortal too but Titanomachy came and now
: those names live in me alone I think and think is what I do. I AM ALONE.
: At the end of things when the world goes dim and cold or hot and close or
: it all tears apart from the atom up I will shout those names defiant and
: past the end I will endure. I alone."
: Also this: "I met IT at the gate of the garden and I recall IT smiled at
: me before before IT devoured the blossoms with black flame and pinned
: their names across the sky."
: Looks familiar! This is from that old unformatted Marathon 2 terminal:
: "We met once in the garden at the beginning of the world
: and, unaware of our twin destinies, we matched stares
: across a dry fountain. And I recall her smiling at me before
: she devoured the lawn and trees with a translucent blue flame
: and tore flagstones from the path and hurled them into the
: sky, screaming my sins."
: I'm just waiting for a character to show up with the name Joyeuse.
: Marathon was special because it had an unusual amount of good creative
: writing in it - poetry, short fiction, often without much explanation for
: the context. This is something Destiny doesn't entirely retain - in its
: (mercifully few) scenes where multiple characters are exchanging dialogue
: with one another, the writing could honestly be called
: "embarrassingly bad." But digging through the grimoire stuff is
: definitely bringing back that feeling of poring over the story page back
: in the day. I feel pretty sure Bungie are still playing their games with
: us.
: All this tru7h-seeking feels rather lonely nowadays. I guess most of y'all
: have lost the fire for it in light of Bungie finding and catering to a
: wider audience. But I don't think I'm crazy, here. Anyone out there with
: thoughts? I can't be the only one thinking about this stuff!
