Who are our Guardians? (Destiny)

by Grizzlei , Pacific Cloud Zone, Earth, Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 16:58 (3050 days ago) @ MacAddictXIV

I imagine that these things being called "Ghosts" will eventually turn out to be a little bit more literal than we now know it to be. We have stories of Ghosts searching Earth and Mars for their individual Guardian even in the current day some 400+ years after the Collapse. My current theory is that our Ghost was somehow linked to us individually when the Traveler "died".

As to whether we're special in some way... it's hard to say, We know some current Guardians, like Cayde-6, were combat trained. Cayde served as a special forces Exo and later as a body guard to Maya Sundaresh on Venus, for instance. We also have what appears to be Jaren Ward's Ghost transferring to Shin Malphur after Jaren's death... but Shin was also recognized as being somehow special so I'm not entirely clear what was going on there.

Another thing that is really weird is that we can have Exo's, awoken and humans be guardians, but why weren't there any Fallen guardians after the Traveler gave them their golden age? Is it because the guardians are a last ditch effort to protect the Traveler?

I think that would be the most logical scenario, though I wonder why Light couldn't be infused into the likes of Variks and others in houses like Judgment (and formerly Wolves) who largely, if not entirely abandoned the Darkness.