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Going to have to rework about a majority of this since the Darkness is not an entity and was recently stated that the Witness is the one speaking through the Darkness and not the Darkness itself.
(Going to have to rework about a majority of this since the Darkness is not an entity and was recently stated that the Witness is the one speaking through the Darkness and not the Darkness itself.)
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|othernames= "The Deep" <br> "IT"<ref name="GFR4">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost_Fragment:_Rasputin_4|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 4]]''</ref>  <br> "The Flower Eater"<ref name="GFR4"/>  <br> "The Queen of Final Shapes"<ref name="GFR4"/> <br> "The Black Edge"<ref>https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/47849</ref> <br> "The Formless One" <br> "The Winnower"<ref>''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore:Unveiling|Unveiling]] - [[Lore:Unveiling#Gardener and Winnower|Gardener and Winnower]]''</ref> <br> "Clarity" <ref>https://imgur.com/a/gRtlPej</ref><br>"Luster"<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Shattered Suns|Shattered Suns]] - [[Lore:Shattered Suns#Lamented|Lamented]]''</ref>
|othernames= "The Deep" <br> "IT"<ref name="GFR4">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost_Fragment:_Rasputin_4|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 4]]''</ref>  <br> "The Flower Eater"<ref name="GFR4"/>  <br> "The Queen of Final Shapes"<ref name="GFR4"/> <br> "The Black Edge"<ref>https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/47849</ref> <br> "The Formless One" <br> "The Winnower"<ref>''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore:Unveiling|Unveiling]] - [[Lore:Unveiling#Gardener and Winnower|Gardener and Winnower]]''</ref> <br> "Clarity" <ref>https://imgur.com/a/gRtlPej</ref><br>"Luster"<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Shattered Suns|Shattered Suns]] - [[Lore:Shattered Suns#Lamented|Lamented]]''</ref>
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{{Quote|Ah, [[Oryx]], how do we explain it to them? The world is not built on the laws they love. Not on friendship, but on mutual interest. Not on peace, but on victory by any means. The universe is run by extinction, by extermination, by gamma-ray bursts burning up a thousand garden worlds, by howling singularities eating up infant suns. And if life is to live, if anything is to survive through the end of all things, it will live not by the smile but by the sword, not in a soft place but in a hard hell, not in the rotting bog of artificial paradise but in the cold hard self-verifying truth of that one ultimate arbiter, the only judge, the power that is its own metric and its own source—existence, at any cost. Strip away the lies and truces and delaying tactics they call 'civilization' and this is what remains, this beautiful shape.<br> <br>The fate of everything is made like this, in the collision, the test of one praxis against another. This is how the world changes: one way meets a second way, and they discharge their weapons, they exchange their words and markets, they contest and in doing so they petition each other for the right to go on being something, instead of nothing. This is the universe figuring out what it should be in the end.<br> <br>And it is majestic. Majestic. It is the only thing that can be true in and of itself.<br> <br> And it is what I am.|The Darkness to [[Oryx, the Taken King]]}}


The '''Darkness'''<ref name = "Journey">[http://www.gameinformer.com/games/destiny/b/playstation4/archive/2014/04/04/a-player-39-s-journey.aspx?PostPageIndex=3 '''Gameinformer''': ''A Player's Journey'']</ref>, also known as the '''Winnower''' or the '''Deep''', is a powerful,<ref>[http://www.destinythegame.com/au/en/game/story '''Bungie''' ''Destiny Story'']</ref> [[Paracausality|paracausal]] force inimical to the [[Light]].
The '''Darkness'''<ref name = "Journey">[http://www.gameinformer.com/games/destiny/b/playstation4/archive/2014/04/04/a-player-39-s-journey.aspx?PostPageIndex=3 '''Gameinformer''': ''A Player's Journey'']</ref>, also known as the '''Deep''', is a powerful,<ref>[http://www.destinythegame.com/au/en/game/story '''Bungie''' ''Destiny Story'']</ref> [[Paracausality|paracausal]] force inimical to the [[Light]].


==Overview==
==Overview==
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{{Quote|Think about it. Do you mourn the uncreated? Do you grieve for those who were never born in a nation that never developed around an ideology no one ever imagined on a continent that never formed? No!<br> <br>And from that self-evident truth, you must raise your eyes to the ultimate revelation: those who cannot sustain their own claim to existence belong to the same moral category as those who have never existed at all.|The Darkness}}
{{Quote|Think about it. Do you mourn the uncreated? Do you grieve for those who were never born in a nation that never developed around an ideology no one ever imagined on a continent that never formed? No!<br> <br>And from that self-evident truth, you must raise your eyes to the ultimate revelation: those who cannot sustain their own claim to existence belong to the same moral category as those who have never existed at all.|The Darkness}}


In addition to being a fundamental paracausal force, The Darkness is intelligent and capable of communicating with sentient beings. In the Books of Sorrow, [[Oryx]] is described as directly communing with the Deep through an unborn Ogre<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books of Sorrow#XXXI: battle made waves|Books of Sorrow - XXXI: battle made waves]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books of Sorrow#XXXII: Majestic. Majestic.|Books of Sorrow - XXXII: Majestic. Majestic.]]''</ref>. The Lore Book [[Unveiling]] is unambiguously written from the Darkness' perspective, and clearly indicates that the Darkness possesses sentience and motives of its own<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore:Unveiling|Unveiling]]''</ref>. Whereas the Light rarely communicates with its followers, the Darkness has shown itself to be all too willing to speak directly to sentient beings in their own languages. In such communications, it has typically demonstrated an informal, friendly tone, and will expound at length on its philosophy. It is utterly convinced of the incontrovertible truth of its convictions, and expresses disdain for anyone or anything that objects to its worldview. Notably, the Darkness seems to always refer to itself in the first person, in contrast to the [[The Witness|Witness]], who always refers to itself in the plural; this may be used to distinguish the two in various Lore entries where the identity of the speaker would otherwise be ambiguous.
In addition to being a fundamental paracausal force, The Darkness is intelligent and capable of communicating with sentient beings. In the Books of Sorrow, [[Oryx]] is described as directly communing with the Deep through an unborn Ogre<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books of Sorrow#XXXI: battle made waves|Books of Sorrow - XXXI: battle made waves]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books of Sorrow#XXXII: Majestic. Majestic.|Books of Sorrow - XXXII: Majestic. Majestic.]]''</ref>. The Lore Book [[Unveiling]] is unambiguously written from [[The Witness|the Witness]]'s own perspective, and clearly indicates that the Darkness possesses sentience and motives of its own<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore:Unveiling|Unveiling]]''</ref>. Whereas the Light rarely communicates with its followers, the Darkness has shown itself to be all too willing to speak directly to sentient beings in their own languages. In such communications, it has typically demonstrated an informal, friendly tone, and will expound at length on its philosophy. It is utterly convinced of the incontrovertible truth of its convictions, and expresses disdain for anyone or anything that objects to its worldview.


The Darkness is fundamentally driven to reduce complexity and diversity within the universe, and to eliminate any entity which cannot survive in the face of adversity; its philosophy is tied to that of the [[Sword Logic]], though not necessarily identical to it. From the Darkness' perspective, only beings which exist have any moral value, and any being that is unable to prevent its own destruction has the same moral worth as a being that never existed to begin with- that is to say, none whatsoever. For this reason, the Darkness seems especially willing to grant its favor to those who commit acts of genocide, such as [[Oryx, the Taken King]] or [[Rhulk, Disciple of the Witness]], both of whom are among the most powerful Darkness-wielders yet encountered (with the possible exception of [[the Witness]] itself).  
The Darkness is fundamentally driven to reduce complexity and diversity within the universe, and to eliminate any entity which cannot survive in the face of adversity; its philosophy is tied to that of the [[Sword Logic]], though not necessarily identical to it. From the Darkness' perspective, only beings which exist have any moral value, and any being that is unable to prevent its own destruction has the same moral worth as a being that never existed to begin with- that is to say, none whatsoever. For this reason, the Darkness seems especially willing to grant its favor to those who commit acts of genocide, such as [[Oryx, the Taken King]] or [[Rhulk, Disciple of the Witness]], both of whom are among the most powerful Darkness-wielders yet encountered (with the possible exception of [[the Witness]] itself).  
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