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The nature and purpose of the Black Garden is one of the ''Destiny'' franchise's longest-running mysteries. | The nature and purpose of the Black Garden is one of the ''Destiny'' franchise's longest-running mysteries. | ||
According to Pujari, the Black Garden is a reflection of the Traveler's actions: when it terraformed the "iron world," the Garden either came to be or changed to match. However, it was not created by the Traveler.<ref name = "Pujari"/> When the Vex arrived, they attempted to control it and impose their own changes through rigorous engineering and earth-moving.<ref name = "In the Garden"> | According to Pujari, the Black Garden is a reflection of the Traveler's actions: when it terraformed the "iron world," the Garden either came to be or changed to match. However, it was not created by the Traveler.<ref name = "Pujari"/> When the Vex arrived, they attempted to control it and impose their own changes through rigorous engineering and earth-moving.<ref name = "In the Garden"/> | ||
The Black Garden is a place where ''"everything grows"'' and where ''"abstract patterns war for survival, fighting to propagate themselves by preying on each other."''<ref name = "In the Garden"/><ref name = "On the Hunt"/> Ideas and concepts are carried on the wind in the form of whispers, ''"sentences with just the beginnings of syntax"''. Introducing new ideas into its conceptual environment, such as through speech, causes those ideas to "take root" in the Black Garden, changing the concepts present. Uldren conversing to a Cabal Legionary in Ulurant led to the whispers taking on aspects of Ulurant grammar. The Vex there sing (''"faint, wraithlike notes of inhuman clarity"'') to ''"see how the Garden changes their song."''<ref name = "On the Hunt"/> The Vex are particularly interested in the Black Garden because its effects on them ''"[grow] them toward what they want to be."''<ref name = "After Part 2"/> | The Black Garden is a place where ''"everything grows"'' and where ''"abstract patterns war for survival, fighting to propagate themselves by preying on each other."''<ref name = "In the Garden"/><ref name = "On the Hunt"/> Ideas and concepts are carried on the wind in the form of whispers, ''"sentences with just the beginnings of syntax"''. Introducing new ideas into its conceptual environment, such as through speech, causes those ideas to "take root" in the Black Garden, changing the concepts present. Uldren conversing to a Cabal Legionary in Ulurant led to the whispers taking on aspects of Ulurant grammar. The Vex there sing (''"faint, wraithlike notes of inhuman clarity"'') to ''"see how the Garden changes their song."''<ref name = "On the Hunt"/> The Vex are particularly interested in the Black Garden because its effects on them ''"[grow] them toward what they want to be."''<ref name = "After Part 2"/> | ||