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→Biography: I was about to make a page titled The Witness' Species but User:Xardwen beat me in making a summary of the cutscene we just saw lol. Probably better off as a section on this page anyways since there's probably no other member of the species that is still alive.
Bluebeefalo (talk | contribs) (→Biography: I was about to make a page titled The Witness' Species but User:Xardwen beat me in making a summary of the cutscene we just saw lol. Probably better off as a section on this page anyways since there's probably no other member of the species that is still alive.) |
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{{Quote|I stand before a being with a thousand names. It whispers one: The Witness. Remember it. Remember that name.|[[Savathûn]]<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', '''''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[The Mirror]]''</ref>}} | {{Quote|I stand before a being with a thousand names. It whispers one: The Witness. Remember it. Remember that name.|[[Savathûn]]<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', '''''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[The Mirror]]''</ref>}} | ||
{{Hide|title= Season of the Deep Spoilers|According to the creature known as [[Ahsa]], the Witness' origins lie with an ancient humanoid civilization that lived billions of years ago on a desolate world. This species discovered the Traveler on their homeworld half-buried in the ground, which activated and began to transform their planet into a paradise. | {{Hide|title= Season of the Deep Spoilers|[[File:Witness Species.png|thumb|330px|The Witness' Species.]]According to the creature known as [[Ahsa]], the Witness' origins lie with an ancient humanoid civilization that lived billions of years ago on a desolate world. This species discovered the Traveler on their homeworld half-buried in the ground, which activated and began to transform their planet into a paradise. | ||
Although the Traveler's gifts brought about a golden age for the civilization that lasted for eons, it never communicated with its patrons or offered them any hint of guidance. As a result, the society began to crave meaning, and sought to find something that would bring order and purpose to an otherwise open-ended existence. In their studies of the Traveler, they also came to view the Light as a fundamentally capricious and chaotic force, equally capable of bringing life or death with no ultimate justification for either. | Although the Traveler's gifts brought about a golden age for the civilization that lasted for eons, it never communicated with its patrons or offered them any hint of guidance. As a result, the society began to crave meaning, and sought to find something that would bring order and purpose to an otherwise open-ended existence. In their studies of the Traveler, they also came to view the Light as a fundamentally capricious and chaotic force, equally capable of bringing life or death with no ultimate justification for either. | ||