
In contrast, when the Light is bestowed upon an individual via resurrection by a Ghost, they forget all details of their past life.

This is exemplified by Deepsight, which allows one to, among other things, experience memories associated with an object's past. Perhaps counterintuitively, the Darkness is associated with memory, whereas the Light is associated with forgetting. The Darkness grants paracausal abilities to those who wield it, among them elemental powers such as Stasis. The Hive, Taken and Scorn are also influenced by the Darkness to varying degrees, as are a subset of the Vex. Its foremost servants and wielders are the entity known as the Witness and its Disciples, who collectively command an armada of Pyramids known as the Black Fleet. Similarly to the Light, it enacts its will in our universe indirectly through various beings whom it empowers with its paracausal gifts, with some of the most powerful being worshiped as deities unto themselves. Like the Light, the Darkness is a cosmic paracausal force that has existed since before the beginning of time. Imagine a world without me." - The Darkness Imagine the lies that would flourish without context or corrective. Imagine the things that would suffer and never die. Because those who open their mouths to that wind pass from the world and leave no descendant, whether of flesh or of thought.īut imagine the abomination of a world where nothing can end and no choice can be preferred to any other. " It is the nature of life to favor existence over nonexistence, and to prefer the fertile soil to the poisoned wind.

The Darkness as depicted in the Grimoire. It is the main antagonist of the Destiny series. The Darkness, also known as the Winnower or the Deep, is a powerful, paracausal force inimical to the Light. It is the only thing that can be true in and of itself.Īnd it is what I am." - The Darkness to Oryx, the Taken King This is the universe figuring out what it should be in the end.Īnd it is majestic. This is how the world changes: one way meets a second way, and they discharge their weapons, they exchange their words and markets, they contest and in doing so they petition each other for the right to go on being something, instead of nothing. The fate of everything is made like this, in the collision, the test of one praxis against another. Strip away the lies and truces and delaying tactics they call 'civilization' and this is what remains, this beautiful shape. And if life is to live, if anything is to survive through the end of all things, it will live not by the smile but by the sword, not in a soft place but in a hard hell, not in the rotting bog of artificial paradise but in the cold hard self-verifying truth of that one ultimate arbiter, the only judge, the power that is its own metric and its own source-existence, at any cost. The universe is run by extinction, by extermination, by gamma-ray bursts burning up a thousand garden worlds, by howling singularities eating up infant suns. Not on peace, but on victory by any means. Not on friendship, but on mutual interest. " Ah, Oryx, how do we explain it to them? The world is not built on the laws they love.

Seeks the reduction of the universe to a simplified, eternal formĭesires to subvert and convince the Guardians of its mission Vex ( Black Heart, Sol Divisive, Sol Progeny, Vex Champion)įallen ( Splinter of Darkness, House of Salvation, Fallen Champion)Ĭabal ( Loyalists, Red Legion, Corrupted Bonded Psion, Shadow Legion, Cabal Champion) I swear it's these symbols."This article does not meet Destinypedia's standards.
