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  • The Witness was once an entire species
  • They discovered the Traveler buried on their home planet.
  • The Traveler uplifted their civilization and basically they got bored and needed purpose.
  • This led them to seek out The Veil. They built the pyramid ships to search for the Veil.
  • The Veil is the Darkness equivalent of the Traveler. Not the pyramid ships.
  • The Witness saw the light as a chaotic force to be tamed and tried to use the darkness/Veil to tame it and create the final shape.
  • Traveler said nope and began running.
  • The Witness’ race mass suicided and used the Darkness to combine their consciousness into what we know as The Witness.
  • All the crumbling statues around the pyramids are the remains of its species.

Some pretty dark stuff with the origins of the Witness. I don’t think it’s quite clear what the final shape is yet.

  • idusces@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Absolutely wild realizing what all those chopped-up-ppl statues in the pyramids are, and what the pyramids are.

  • Lurra@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Sorry for responding late, finally got a chance to play this week. Love the cutscene, the whole dynamic of the Witness being this unified obsession. A collection of thoughts that are hell bent to force their ideas onto the physical plane of the universe. All cause they are certain that all existence will end up suffering like them in the end… Great story ☺️

    • jontree255@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah. I question their decision to tell the story over the entire year instead of giving it to us in Lightfall. This cutscene feels more planned out than the Strand aspect quest though, which felt more like cut campaign content that was slapped together.

      • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I think they’re looking at seasonal storytelling the wrong way. The Beyond Light seasons are peak destiny imo because they tell a coherent and exciting story across all the seasons about Savathun possessing Osiris and infiltrating the tower and manipulating everyone. None of that is really related to the Beyond Light campaign. It’s entirely separate.

        That’s what they need to do. Lightfall needed to tell a story that mostly resolved by the end of the campaign and explained the big things. The seasons could then tell a cohesive story of how we fight back against the shadow legion on earth and on Neomuna, and on learning more about portal on the traveler.