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{{Quote|You desire life. My Witness desires your power. A trade is in the stars: your servitude for their lives.|Rhulk's offer to Xita.}} | |||
Through its studies with the [[Darkness]], the Witness learned the existence of a metaphysical [[Sword Logic|logic]] that gave paracausal power to any being that asserts their existence through self-proving social Darwinism, most notably through a thanatological understanding of violence and death. Eons ago, it would introduce the concept of killing logic to a progenitor race of [[worms]] on the gas giant of [[Fundament]], offering them the death-fueled means to channel the Deep's forbidden magics and evolve into godhood. The proto-worms that were tempted by the Witness' gift gave way to self-inflicted genocide as they killed each other and took power from their deaths, leaving only [[Ahsa]] to have rejected the logic and fled the carnage on Fundament into space.<ref>'''Bungie (2023/5/23)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Deep]] - [[Ghost shell]] lore:[[Síocháin's Scuba Shell]]''</ref> | Through its studies with the [[Darkness]], the Witness learned the existence of a metaphysical [[Sword Logic|logic]] that gave paracausal power to any being that asserts their existence through self-proving social Darwinism, most notably through a thanatological understanding of violence and death. Eons ago, it would introduce the concept of killing logic to a progenitor race of [[worms]] on the gas giant of [[Fundament]], offering them the death-fueled means to channel the Deep's forbidden magics and evolve into godhood. The proto-worms that were tempted by the Witness' gift gave way to self-inflicted genocide as they killed each other and took power from their deaths, leaving only [[Ahsa]] to have rejected the logic and fled the carnage on Fundament into space.<ref>'''Bungie (2023/5/23)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Deep]] - [[Ghost shell]] lore:[[Síocháin's Scuba Shell]]''</ref> | ||