Makes me think of the Grimnoir series. (Destiny)

by Quirel, Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 18:40 (3862 days ago) @ PackLeader89

Thank you for posting. These are some pretty good points. You are correct in that we have no idea what are the Traveler's intentions at this point and we may never know. I don't know where I heard or read that the Traveler (or his energy) is what grants the Guardians their powers. If this is the case, then the Traveler is still somehow "helping" humanity in its survival. Who knows at this point...

In the Grimnoir series, humans started exhibiting magic powers around 1850, and we find the source eighty years later. Some sort of eldritch abomination has set up shop around earth and is symbiotically bonding itself to individuals it deems to have potential. It grants those individuals some of its power, which grows and matures the more the person uses it. And when that person dies, the magic is harvested by the creature.

Which makes for a really, really interesting sort of alternate history, like The Maltese Falcon crossed with X-men. Only, there's one problem.

• This isn't the first world that the creature has cultivated.
  
• It's on the run from something even more powerful than it is, something that devours worlds and enslaves sapient inhabitants.
  
• We're next.

Back to Destiny, though, it would be kind of interesting if we're not the ONLY ones hiding under the Traveler's shadow. The other races don't play nice, but maybe they're on the run too.