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| || || || The Gardener decides to add both it and the Winnower themselves to the rules of the Flower game in order to delay the [[Final Shape]], a philosophy in which nothing that cause pain and suffering should exist. The Winnower discovers the First Knife, initiating the first conflict between the paracusal forces of [[Light]] and [[Darkness]]. Light is the paracausal force affecting the physical world while Darkness is the paracausal force affecting the mental world. The conflict begins by bringing down the legendary [[Tree of Silver Wings]]. As a result, the universe begins recording time. | | || || || The Gardener decides to add both it and the Winnower themselves to the rules of the Flower game in order to delay the [[Final Shape]], a philosophy in which nothing that cause pain and suffering should exist. The Winnower discovers the First Knife, initiating the first conflict between the paracusal forces of [[Light]] and [[Darkness]]. Light is the paracausal force affecting the physical world while Darkness is the paracausal force affecting the mental world. The conflict begins by bringing down the legendary [[Tree of Silver Wings]]. As a result, the universe begins recording time. | ||
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| || ||The Traveler manifests in realspace|| The Gardener lands on the home planet of a humanoid species. The inhabitants exhume the [[Traveler|sphere]] which bestows upon them gifts of knowledge, beginning their Golden Age. | |||
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| || || || Eons later, in absence of guidance from their benefactor, their society began to crave meaning, and sought to find something that would bring order and purpose to an otherwise open-ended existence, eventually viewing their Gardener as a force of chaos capable of bringing creation or ruin. | |||
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| || ||Discovery of the Veil || Now capable of [[Pyramid|interstellar travel]] as a result of gifts of the light, the species becomes aware of an object of [[Darkness|power antithetical to the Light]], one linked to the mind and consciousness rather than the physical world. They called this object: [[The Veil|The Winnower]]. In studying the Darkness, they discovered that it held the means to guide the universe into a perfected, eternal form, a "Final Shape" that would last to the end of time and beyond. In this, they found purpose. To achieve their goal, the species schemed to bring the Traveler and the Veil together, which would, according to their research, grant them the ability to alter reality itself. They set off in search of their benefactor's counterpart, eventually finding it and returning it to their homeworld. In response, the Traveler flees to avoid this outcome. | |||
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| || ||The Birth of The Witness || Unwilling to abandon their quest, the civilization used The Veil to bind their consciousnesses together, merging themselves into a single, unfathomably powerful entity: [[the Witness]] through a ritualistic mass sacrifice, possibly against the will of many members.<ref>'''Bungie (2023/6/20)''', ''[[Lightfall]]: [[Season of the Deep]] [[Lore:Purpose#V._Expectation|Lore: Purpose]]''</ref> Empowered by the Darkness and commanding a fleet of pyramidal ships, the Witness left its world behind and began a crusade to find the Traveler and unite it with the Veil, and in doing so bring about the Final Shape | |||
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| || || || | | || || ||[[The Traveler]] arrives at [[Lubrae]], a planet orbited by a Sapphiric Sun and an Umbral Sun. It uplifts the [[Lubraean]]s living in the planet, enabling them access to technology capable of driving out dangerous flora attacking the people under the Umbral Sun through the Sapphiric Converter. After the Traveler departs from Lubrae, a division occurs with the Lubraeans between the nomadic [[Wanderers]] and [[The Regime]] settling under the Sapphiric Converter. [[Rhulk, Disciple of the Witness|Rhulk]] is born under the Wanderers to his father [[Rhelik]], his sister [[Kheeta]], and his mother [[Vrhuna]]. He witnesses his father fight the [[Stalkers]] sent by the Regime and shares in his hatred of them. | ||
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| || || || After witnessing the death of his clan-uncle and [[Fhent]] at the hands of the Regime, Rhulk decides to take action. He kills the Stalkers, but the Wanderers banish him from their culture. He begins his quest to find his father. He gets captured by the Regime in the process. He learns that his father had defected to the Regime, angering him. He names the Glaive he had from Rheliksward to Rheliksbane. He later learns his father has defected back to the Wanderers, angering him further and vowing to put him down. | | || || || After witnessing the death of his clan-uncle and [[Fhent]] at the hands of the Regime, Rhulk decides to take action. He kills the Stalkers, but the Wanderers banish him from their culture. He begins his quest to find his father. He gets captured by the Regime in the process. He learns that his father had defected to the Regime, angering him. He names the Glaive he had from Rheliksward to Rheliksbane. He later learns his father has defected back to the Wanderers, angering him further and vowing to put him down. | ||