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| Gravemind's final Riddle ****Spoilers***** | |
| Posted By: GryphonOsiris <gryphonosiris@aol.com> | Date: 12/14/04 1:18 p.m. |
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I was thinking about Gravemind's final riddle and the possible hints found within those three verses. Silence fills the empty grave now that I am gone,
Besides being a lovely iambic pentameter (why is it all really evil villians are fluent in Shakespeare?), there are very subtle references that explain a few question that people have had. In the first verse he says that the grave he was in is silent since he is no longer there. Now we can take that as the grave being his dwelling on Delta Halo, and the silence being the lack of Gravemind's thoughts there (after all potentially millions of minds converging as one would be noisy). If you also take that with the background we were seeing (High Charity) the most logical assumption would be that Gravemind move himself to High Charity. Verse 2, Gravemind, like 343 Guilty Spark, has been out of touch with Events since the Halo's fired (would really kill the local distribution of the Sunday Times, plus no Funny papers for 100,000 years, no wonder he is so Grave.) So of course he, like the looney, blue eye Basketball, want to catch up, find out if the Mets have won, and if Disco really did die. On a serious note though, the fact that he is troubled is a bit worrying. He has absorbed the minds of Human's and Covenant alike, so he knows what they know, however perhaps it is that which bothers him. He might recognize one of the species and can't understand why they have such seemingly primative equipment and do not know the true purpose of Halo and the Flood. Now we all are pretty sure that the Covies weapons are bad knock offs of the Forerunner weapons, as we have seen with the Sentinel's beam cannons. Those he would have some recognition of, though it would be like comparing a Matchlock to a P-90. The human projectile weapons would be troubling as the forerunners had moved past metal slug weapons long before they met the Flood. This is all heading towards him recognizing humans, and maybe even more so, Master Chief's armor as being the Forerunners.(Side note, obviously Forerunner's didn't call themselves that, as it implies that they knew they came first, that they would fall, and that others would follow them). Just a Rampant thought on a three verse musing of the greatest threat to life since plaid polyester pants. | |
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