In both of these entries, the Darkness exhibits an informal, friendly demeanor, and refers to itself in the first person both of these seem to indicate that the speaker in these entries is not the Witness, who is less casual in its speech and always refers to itself in the plural. A conversation between Oryx, the Taken King and the Darkness itself is also recorded in the Books of Sorrow, in which the Darkness further describes a philosophy of winner-takes-all and survival at the expense of others. This story not only appears to provide an origin for the Light and Darkness as they are presently known, but also seems to imply that the Darkness is itself sentient and has its own motivations, namely to reduce the universe to an eternal, maximally simplified form known as the Final Shape. In the allegorical story recounted in Unveiling, these two entities struggled with one another in the state which preceded the universe, and upon inadvertently creating the universe as a by-product of this struggle, each became a paracausal force which would serve to further their respective goals within the universe. The Winnower is presented as embodying the reduction of complexity, whereas the Gardener embodies the growth and preservation of complexity. Unveiling is narrated by a being who identifies themselves as the Winnower, one of two primordial entities who predate the universe, the other being the Gardener. However, if the Lore Book Unveiling is to be taken at face value, the reality may be more complex. Most of humanity's experience with the Darkness has come through conflict with those aligned with the Witness and its cause, such as the Hive, Taken, Scorn and the Vex of the Sol Divisive, which has in large part led to the one-sided view of Darkness as a destructive force hostile to life and peaceful civilization. In contrast, the being known as the Witness and its Disciples, who collectively lead the armada known as the Black Fleet and have exterminated countless civilizations uplifted by the Traveler, wield the Darkness as a weapon against their enemies. Ancient civilizations such as the Ecumene and Qugu used the Darkness for peaceful purposes, such as communing with the memories of their ancestors. This is now known to be untrue just as the Light can be used for constructive and benevolent purposes as well as destructive and self-serving ones, the Darkness has no moral valency of its own and can be used for good or ill. Similarly to the Light, it manifests in a variety of aspects, among them elemental powers such as Stasis and Strand.įor centuries following the Collapse, the Darkness was believed by scholars of the Last City to be an inherently evil force, with its usage inevitably corrupting the wielder. Like the Light, the Darkness is a cosmic paracausal force that has existed since before the beginning of time. Imagine a world without me." - The narrator of Unveiling Imagine the lies that would flourish without context or corrective. Imagine the things that would suffer and never die. Because those who open their mouths to that wind pass from the world and leave no descendant, whether of flesh or of thought.īut imagine the abomination of a world where nothing can end and no choice can be preferred to any other. " It is the nature of life to favor existence over nonexistence, and to prefer the fertile soil to the poisoned wind. The Darkness as depicted in the Grimoire. The Darkness, also known as the Deep, is a powerful, paracausal force. It is the Entity that commands them all: the Voice in the Darkness." - Mara Sov It is the Black Fleet, waiting to strike. Some among you already discovered this on Europa. Vex ( Black Heart, Sol Divisive, Sol Progeny, Vex Champion)įallen ( Splinter of Darkness, House of Salvation, Fallen Champion)Ĭabal ( Loyalists, Red Legion, Corrupted Bonded Psion, Shadow Legion, Cabal Champion) I swear it's these symbols."This article does not meet Destinypedia's standards.
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