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'''Truth to Power''' is a [[Lore]] book introduced in ''[[Forsaken]]''. Entries are obtained by visiting the [[Queen's Court]] with an [[Oracle's Offering]] when the [[Dreaming City|Dreaming City's]] curse is at its strongest. | '''Truth to Power''' is a [[Lore]] book introduced in ''[[Forsaken]]''. Entries are obtained by visiting the [[Queen's Court]] with an [[Oracle's Offering]] when the [[Dreaming City|Dreaming City's]] curse is at its strongest. It is a series of messages addressed to [[the Guardian]] as part of [[Savathûn, the Witch Queen|Savathûn's]] plan to generate [[imbaru]]. | ||
==Is it you?== | ==Is it you?== | ||
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I never needed you to save me. I wasn't a dried corpse or a dead Ghost or a voice on the com sure to die before you could offer help. I hauled myself out of that pit. I made my own way back to the [[Tower|To000wer]]. And if I was… unsubtle in the way I threw you against the [[Hive]], if I seemed to wield you as vengeance, please believe that your victories were the closest I could come to feeling joy. | I never needed you to save me. I wasn't a dried corpse or a dead Ghost or a voice on the com sure to die before you could offer help. I hauled myself out of that pit. I made my own way back to the [[Tower|To000wer]]. And if I was… unsubtle in the way I threw you against the [[Hive]], if I seemed to wield you as vengeance, please believe that your victories were the closest I could come to feeling joy. | ||
I know you must have questions. What did I plan with the [[Mara Sov|Queen]]? What destiny did I embrace after [[Oryx]] fell? What's happening in this city, where dream has become nightmare? I can guide you to undo this curse, as I once guided you to unmake Oryx. But in the [[Dreaming City|DreaAAAming City]], as in the secret worlds of the Hive, there is almost no difference between the act and the actor. | I know you must have questions. What did I plan with the [[Mara Sov|Queen]]? What destiny did I embrace after [[Oryx, the Taken King|Oryx]] fell? What's happening in this city, where dream has become nightmare? I can guide you to undo this curse, as I once guided you to unmake Oryx. But in the [[Dreaming City|DreaAAAming City]], as in the secret worlds of the Hive, there is almost no difference between the act and the actor. | ||
In order to understand my answers, you must understand me. | In order to understand my answers, you must understand me. | ||
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0. Another failed timeline. I'm glad you're okay. This city is the perfect trap for you. If your Ghost is destroyed, you will be dead forever, but every cycle, your enemies spring up pugnacious and fresh. The Light that gives you free will in the loop is also your fatal weakness. Did you know that the story of Achilles, dipped in the river Lethe but still vulnerable where his mother held him by his heel, is a weak retelling of a superior truth? In the original, Thetis held Achilles in the fire to burn his weakness away. His father Peleus, terrified by the sight of his child in the flame, interrupted the ritual. The father's cowardice doomed the son. We must be brave as Thetis, and hold our children in the fire. We must fight on. | 0. Another failed timeline. I'm glad you're okay. This city is the perfect trap for you. If your Ghost is destroyed, you will be dead forever, but every cycle, your enemies spring up pugnacious and fresh. The Light that gives you free will in the loop is also your fatal weakness. Did you know that the story of Achilles, dipped in the river Lethe but still vulnerable where his mother held him by his heel, is a weak retelling of a superior truth? In the original, Thetis held Achilles in the fire to burn his weakness away. His father Peleus, terrified by the sight of his child in the flame, interrupted the ritual. The father's cowardice doomed the son. We must be brave as Thetis, and hold our children in the fire. We must fight on. | ||
1. The Dreaming City was built in imitation of a greater world, a wonder lost to the Awoken but not forgotten. Like wandering K'lia, which I on&_>>> called/summoned home. | 1. The Dreaming City was built in imitation of a greater world, a wonder lost to the Awoken but not forgotten. Like wandering [https://marathongame.fandom.com/wiki/K%27lia K'lia], which I on&_>>> called/summoned home. | ||
2. I have correlated Awoken myth with ontocartography salvaged from Oryx's Dreadnaught. The original home of the Awoken still exists, hidden in a singularity that orbits our sun. The key to its location lies somewhere in the Dreaming City. YOU MUST FIND IT. IN THIS TRUE CITY LIES THE DESTINY OF ALL GUARDIANS AND THE FINAL PURPOSE OF YOUR EXISTENCE. You must open the way. | 2. I have correlated Awoken myth with ontocartography salvaged from Oryx's Dreadnaught. The original home of the Awoken still exists, hidden in a singularity that orbits our sun. The key to its location lies somewhere in the Dreaming City. YOU MUST FIND IT. IN THIS TRUE CITY LIES THE DESTINY OF ALL GUARDIANS AND THE FINAL PURPOSE OF YOUR EXISTENCE. You must open the way. | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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