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{{Quote|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. And it is majestic. Majestic. It is the only thing that can be true in and of itself. And it is what I am. |The Darkness}} | {{Quote|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. And it is majestic. Majestic. It is the only thing that can be true in and of itself. And it is what I am. |The Darkness}} | ||
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> paracausal alien force inimical to the [[Light]]. It is the ancient enemy of the [[Traveler]],<ref name = "Journey"/> and actively tracks it through the cosmos.<ref>[http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/28/destiny-hands-on-bungie-xbox-playstationshared-world-shooter '''The Guardian''': ''how the makers of Halo plan to change the future of shooters'']</ref> The Darkness once ruled the universe, and the [[Hive]] believe that the [[Light]] must be consumed for the Darkness to reclaim its domination.<ref>'''Bungie (2014-6-12)''', ''Destiny: Alpha PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies#The Hive|The Hive]]''</ref> While never encountered directly, | 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> paracausal alien force inimical to the [[Light]]. It is the ancient enemy of the [[Traveler]],<ref name = "Journey"/> and actively tracks it through the cosmos.<ref>[http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/28/destiny-hands-on-bungie-xbox-playstationshared-world-shooter '''The Guardian''': ''how the makers of Halo plan to change the future of shooters'']</ref> The Darkness once ruled the universe, and the [[Hive]] believe that the [[Light]] must be consumed for the Darkness to reclaim its domination.<ref>'''Bungie (2014-6-12)''', ''Destiny: Alpha PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies#The Hive|The Hive]]''</ref> While it has never been encountered directly by the Guardians, it enacts its will indirectly through numerous proxies and servants, with some of the most powerful being worshiped as [[Worm Gods|deities]] unto [[Oryx, the Taken King|themselves]]. The [[Vex]], [[Hive]], and [[Taken]] are all linked to this force.<ref>[http://www.gameinformer.com/games/destiny/b/playstation4/archive/2014/04/04/a-player-39-s-journey.aspx?PostPageIndex=4 '''Gameinformer''': ''A Player's Journey'']</ref> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
===The Distant Past=== | |||
The earliest recorded mention of the Darkness known to the Guardians comes from the [[Books of Sorrow]], a collection of records discovered aboard the Dreadnaught of Oryx, the Taken King. The books describe the origin of the Hive on the gas giant [[Fundament]], where three daughters of a deposed king, [[Aurash]], [[Xi Ro]], and [[Sathona]], set out to save their world from a prophesied apocalypse, and in their quest encountered the massive being known as the [[Leviathan (creature)|Leviathan]]. The Leviathan warned them against the temptation of "The Deep," a philosophy which held that "existence is the struggle to exist," and which it claimed would lead them only to ruin and calamity. It instead told them to pursue the philosophy of "[[Light|The Sky]]," which encouraged collaboration to build a kinder, more prosperous world, even if it meant that some deaths and misfortunes must be allowed to occur. The sisters rejected the Leviathan's advice, and dove deep into the core of their world to find the five [[Worm Gods|Worms]] [[Eir]], [[Ur]], [[Yul]], [[Xol]], and [[Akka]]. | |||
The Worm Gods promised to lend the sisters their paracausal powers, which they drew from the Deep, in return for the sisters becoming hosts for the Worms' larvae. The sisters agreed, and became the founders and God-rulers of what would one day become known as the Hive. The Worms taught the nascent Hive Gods of the [[Sword Logic]], which they used to become ever more powerful. | |||
Much later, the Hive God Auryx (who was once Aurash) slew the Worm God Akka, in order to obtain enough power from the Sword Logic to [[Taken|Take]]. He became thereafter known as [[Oryx]], the Taken King. Some time later, he sought to commune with the Deep directly and prepared an Ogre as a sacrifice, which the Deep inhabited and used to converse with Oryx. | |||
===The Collapse=== | ===The Collapse=== | ||
[[File:Darkness.png|thumb|300px|The [[Director]]'s depiction of the Darkness arriving in the Solar System.]] | [[File:Darkness.png|thumb|300px|The [[Director]]'s depiction of the Darkness arriving in the Solar System.]] | ||
[[File:Collapse.jpg|thumb|300px|The Darkness closes in upon the [[Traveler]].]] | [[File:Collapse.jpg|thumb|300px|The Darkness closes in upon the [[Traveler]].]] | ||
{{Quote|Something hit us. Killed our Golden Age. Nearly wiped us out. Only the Traveler saved us, and at a shattering cost.|[[Grimoire]] description.}} | {{Quote|Something hit us. Killed our Golden Age. Nearly wiped us out. Only the Traveler saved us, and at a shattering cost.|[[Grimoire]] description.}} | ||
The only solid information on the Darkness comes from an ISR report from centuries ago.<ref name = "Journey"/> At that time, the Darkness appeared just beyond the edge of the [[Solar System]] in what was termed as a "''TRANSIENT NEAR EXTRASOLAR EVENT''", with the only means of determining that a transient event had even occurred was through the detection of a 0.3 second displacement of gravity waves, as well as anomalous interactions in the local Higgs field traced to [[Wikipedia:Sterile_neutrino|sterile neutrino]] scattering. | The only solid information on the Darkness gathered by humanity itself comes from an ISR report from centuries ago.<ref name = "Journey"/> At that time, the Darkness appeared just beyond the edge of the [[Solar System]] in what was termed as a "''TRANSIENT NEAR EXTRASOLAR EVENT''", with the only means of determining that a transient event had even occurred was through the detection of a 0.3 second displacement of gravity waves, as well as anomalous interactions in the local Higgs field traced to [[Wikipedia:Sterile_neutrino|sterile neutrino]] scattering. | ||
An AI observing the event, the [[Warmind]] [[Rasputin]], was able to derive some information, based solely on the phenomena that it could detect, but was unable to ascertain its mechanism. Rasputin conducted an "Omnibus analysis" of the event's effects on local spacetime, measuring a wide range of data points including direction, distance, range, speed and size as well as a comprehensive pattern analysis of the event itself. This last set of data showed, to a certainty of "9 Sigma", a definite and measurable pattern which had a complex, almost linguistic, structure that demonstrated both intelligence and intent. | An AI observing the event, the [[Warmind]] [[Rasputin]], was able to derive some information, based solely on the phenomena that it could detect, but was unable to ascertain its mechanism. Rasputin conducted an "Omnibus analysis" of the event's effects on local spacetime, measuring a wide range of data points including direction, distance, range, speed and size as well as a comprehensive pattern analysis of the event itself. This last set of data showed, to a certainty of "9 Sigma", a definite and measurable pattern which had a complex, almost linguistic, structure that demonstrated both intelligence and intent. | ||