Des2ny is Canon (Story Spoilers) (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Sunday, September 10, 2017, 10:15 (2413 days ago) @ grantixtechno
edited by Cody Miller, Sunday, September 10, 2017, 10:18

Is the theme of the story that no person can achieve greatness and embody the light (good) unless they are chosen by some higher being? That's kind of messed up. If beings chose to be good, could they be inheritors of the light? That's a far more interesting question that could have been answered by the story with Ghaul changing sides. Instead we're left with some generic baddie who falls before our invincible bad-assery.

Now that you mention it, it does seem you are right about this. And yeah, that's actually a pretty troubling interpretation of the story as presented. It's disturbing even. Nobody asked our Guardian if they wanted to wield the light and be immortal. It's been thrust upon us.

The Traveler / Loving God comparison really does make the story seem anti human doesn't it? Rather than the light being a power we can conjure from within, by our strength of spirit and will, it's a power given to those who were chosen by the Traveler / God. In that sense, there's really no heroism at all if we have the light.

I think the redeeming quality here is that humanity doesn't have to serve the Traveler the way man has to serve God. So you can cast it aside should you choose, because the Traveler isn't going to judge you on death or otherwise force you to obey its laws.