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"I am hollow. I am empty. Shattered! The universe, is shattered. This child too, is shattered. We all are shattered. I will right all these wrongs with one declaration. All will become one, whole, full, with purpose. I have an everlasting purpose, as such all who is I shall too never be without purpose and shall be whole. Starting with this broken child, then all of reality shall fold to me!"

— The Everlasing Echo

The Everlasting Echo is one final Echo fired out of The Traveler and holds the memories of the Precursors during the time of their golden age until they merged into The Witness.

Overview

The Everlasting Echo is much like the Echo of Navigation in that it acts on its own, however unlike the Echo of Navigation which was working off of the imprinted memories of Oryx, the Taken King, the Everlasting Echo seems to have its own malignant will and goal. While it appears to hold the Precursors' desire of enacting the Final Shape, in reality it desires a, while similar, whole new form. It wishes to subjugate all of existence under its will in one massive super-entity, comparing its desire to that of Azathoth from Human mythology. This new shape of the universe would mean everything is it and it is everything, all life and unlife is merely an extension of its mind and existence.

While it seems to have founded its belief on passion, the Everlasting Echo at its core is a malignant and evil force who seeks nothing more than the addictive power of more beings brought into its fold dubbed the Lost in hopes of bringing all of existence into unity with it.

History

Upon being ejected sometime after the destruction of the Echo of Navigation, Zavala immediately deployed a Fireteam made up of Eris Morn, Drifter, and The Guardian to seize it, with a backup Fireteam of himself, Ikora Rey, and Crow on standby. The Echo would crash into the Hellmouth and pierce Crota's languishing Oversoul Throne. Upon the Guardian fighting through the House of Dusk, Sol Divisive, Hidden Swarm, Taken, and even a deserter faction of Red Legion, they'd reach the Oversoul Throne and track down the Echo. It'd fly into Crota's tomb and pierce it, causing a dormant Echo of Oryx to awaken and fight the Guardian, believing they were here to plunder the realm. However during the fight the tomb would shatter open with shards of Crota's chitinous body falling out, but his never-extinguishing Soulfire soul, or what was left of it after the Guardian took a significant part to become ascendant during the events of The Taken King, rising with the Echo within. Crota's few remaining pieces would rise and once more take their position as his soul was contorted to fill the gaps and with a ruinous howl, Crota was once more reborn but now as the vessel or the now self-dubbed Everlasting Echo.

The Echo would quickly then consume the Echo of Oryx into its whole, filling in more empty gaps and replacing most of Crota's contorted soul with Taken energy. And with the essence of an Echo of Oryx, it gained command of the Taken in the local area on the Moon. It'd then call many Taken in and begin consuming them all and preparing to strike down the fireteam, not knowing how to approaching this new foe, Eris begins to take them out of the Oversoul Throne with her teleportation spell, Zavala arriving to use Strand to hold Crota's sword in place and Ikora and Crow keeping the Taken at bay. The two teams barely manage to escape the Echo and arrive back above the Hellmouth, now seeing Taken fighting all of the other factions, but rather than killing most of them, they instead imprison them and drag them down into the Hellmouth, which itself is beginning to transform and contort.

The Coalition ponders what their plan of attack should be, knowing that if they don't act now the Everlasting Echo and its Lost will overrun the Moon and Earth will inevitably be next.