Story Direction and Progressing (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Monday, June 13, 2016, 23:36 (3178 days ago) @ cheapLEY

In some ways it does seem odd. In others though, I think Guardians are something entirely different from what the universe has ever seen. My sense of it from what we've done, from what the Grimoire has said, and from what little Bungie has said in various places is that Guardians are far more powerful than anything even the Hive have encountered.

Our ability to return from death, to weild Light directly, to naturally interact with and reverse the corruption of Light (as we did when killing Oryx) are abilities that have never been witnessed before. Perhaps the Traveler had such power but I get the sense that the philosophy of the Light was to heal and build communities and uplift but not to directly fight... Until Rasputin nuked the Traveler.

When that happened and Ghost and Guardians were created the war of Light vs Darkness changed. Now the Light is on the offensive, pushing out from The City in the form of us Guardians. And yes, the Darkness is powerful and through the Hive it destroyed thousands of worlds, but the Light is powerful also... If used in the wrong way.

See, I also hope that when the Traveler awakes, it will denounce us as preverting the Light. We are destroyers, not builders. We're more following the Hive's Sword Logic of being the last creatures in the universe standing that we are terraforming worlds and building communities.

Again, though, this is something I think Bungie has not told us and has to be inferred almost entirely, which is dumb.