Loki Crown only goes off if the Traveler tries to leave (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Tuesday, June 14, 2016, 16:14 (3321 days ago) @ Durandal

At the very least the last one should be Unknown given that what we observe in the present day would seem to fit with the planned course of action if the Traveler did try to leave AND since we know that the Traveler sometimes/often/always fled the Hive every other time it was found.

I see your Alpha Lupi cards and will raise you Ghost Fragment: The Traveler 3:

The knife had a million blades.

And you were giant, powerful and swift. But the knife pinned you. Cut your godly flesh away.

Could the one that did the pinning and cutting have been Rasputin? But, I do see your point. The various Alpha Lupi cards are not something I considered along side the Rasputin theory. I'll need to take another look at them tonight. :)

I don't think the Traveler thought the Darkness was contained, however. From the time she tired to destroy it at the Firmament she knew she failed and fled as the Hive and their worm gods were attacking the surrounding civilization. I seem to recall a card from Oryx's or the Hive's point of view mentioning the Traveler fleeing as well. Something else to see if I can track down.

Let me do another read through of the Books of Sorrow, but my impression was more that the Traveler had tried over and over to stop the Darkness by uplifting civilizations and each time it failed it fled just as the Darkness / Hive arrived. Some of the Hive's conquests were against entire empires instead of a lone star system so it seems unlikely that the Traveler didn't know about any of it if it only fled as the Hive got close.

I do like the alternative point of view you provided though. Again, linking it to the Alpha Lupi cards was a neat idea.