The Black Garden and Vex Hypothesis (Destiny)

by Blackt1g3r , Login is from an untrusted domain in MN, Friday, September 26, 2014, 18:31 (3948 days ago) @ Earendil

"There are gardeners now. They came into the garden in vessels of bronze and they move through the groves in rivers of thought."

This is the only time I'm aware of that "gardeners" is plural, and it also references a description that fits the Vex perfectly. The use of having "gareners now" implies there was a time when the garden existed but there were not multiple gardeners. So The Garden started with One Gardener, and then Muliple gardeners came on the scene.

Conclusion: Either The Darkness is the gardener, and things don't fit quite right, or the Traveler is the Gardener, who made little gardeners not unlike his own biological/mechanical nature, called Vex. The Darkness came, beat or chased off the Traveler/Gardener, leaving the little gardeners to logically work out their fate. They then chose to worship the more powerful being as logic and limited understanding would dictate they do. The Gardeners previous "Garden" now becomes the "Black Garden", a place that the Darkness rules, and the Vex would call home. This might also explain why the Black Garden has some sort of power over the Gardener/Traveler.

Thoughts?

I think the Vex are simply referred to as gardeners simply by virtue of their watching over the garden. I think it's important that in the quote from Rasputin that he refers to it as the garden and not the black garden. I think the garden has become black because of the darkness inside of it.