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{{about|the ancient | {{about|the ancient race that formed the Witness|the Vex Subtype|Precursors}} | ||
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|name=Precursors | |name=Precursors | ||
|image=[[File:Witness Species.png|300px]] | |image=[[File:Witness Species.png|300px]] | ||
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|focalworld(s)=[[System R-3TN-PLRMA]] | |focalworld(s)=[[System R-3TN-PLRMA]] | ||
|goals=Finding purpose in the [[The Traveler|Traveler]] {{c|formerly}} <br> Define different interpretations of the [[Final Shape]] {{c|formerly}} | |goals=Finding purpose in the [[The Traveler|Traveler]] {{c|formerly}} <br> Define different interpretations of the [[Final Shape]] {{c|formerly}} | ||
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|distinctions=Pale white skin | |distinctions=Pale white skin | ||
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|notable-group=[[Consensus (Precursor)|Consensus]] <br> [[Penitent]] <br> [[Nihilist]]s <br> [[Solipsist]] | |||
|notable-person=[[HNW047622]] <br> [[RS6243199]] | |notable-person=[[HNW047622]] <br> [[RS6243199]] | ||
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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
===Origin=== | ===Origin=== | ||
In ancient times, the Precursors were once a nomadic people who trekked through the desert of a desolate world for survival. However, they would enter a Golden Age after discovering a large white orb buried in the sand they would call the Gardener. The Gardener terraformed the deserts into fertile deltas and lush gardens and gifted the Precursors with the means of building great cities and ships that let them travel to other worlds that they could terraform themselves. | In ancient times, the Precursors were once a nomadic people who trekked through the desert of a desolate world for survival. However, they would enter a Golden Age after discovering a large white orb buried in the sand they would call the Gardener. The Gardener terraformed the deserts into fertile deltas and lush gardens and gifted the Precursors with the means of building great cities and ships that let them travel to other worlds that they could terraform themselves. | ||
However, despite all they had been given these gifts, the Precursors desired meaning and guidance from the Gardener but it never spoke to them. In time, they began to see the [[Light]] the Gardener provided as a source of chaos | However, despite all they had been given these gifts, the Precursors desired meaning and guidance from the Gardener but it never spoke to them. In time, they began to see the [[Light]] the Gardener provided as a source of chaos. As such, the Precursors sought a "Winnower" to shape the garden and began to idealize a "Final Shape" | ||
In time, various factions of Precursors would form under a consensus, all with their own interpretations of how to enact the Final Shape. The '''[[Solipsist]]''' believed that one's self is the only existing "Final Shape" in this reality and all other realities{{Citation needed}}. The '''[[Nihilist]]s''', who were described as "self-flagellating pessimists", believed that the Final Shape would only be brought upon by their own destruction. | In time, various factions of Precursors would form under a consensus, all with their own interpretations of how to enact the Final Shape. The '''[[Solipsist]]''' believed that one's self is the only existing "Final Shape" in this reality and all other realities{{Citation needed}}. The '''[[Nihilist]]s''', who were described as "self-flagellating pessimists", believed that the Final Shape would only be brought upon by their own destruction. The '''[[Penitent]]''' desired to rid the universe of all suffering by any means and believed that anyone who did not act to do so was complicit in its repetitive cycle. Two other groups known as the '''[[Bountiful]]''', who had erroneously destroyed themselves with the Gardener's gifts, and the '''[[Primacy]]''', who had used the Gardener's gifts for subjugation, were mentioned to have existed. | ||
When Precursors Scholars discovered an entity with a connection to the Gardener known as the Veil, they claimed it. They began studying it, eventually discovering the power of [[Darkness]], which had their means to carve away the chaos of existence and calcify it into the Final Shape. But, when they attempted to link the Veil to the Gardener to strengthen the connection between them and allow them to shape reality to their idealized state, the Gardener fled from their word as it was unwilling to allow this. | When Precursors Scholars discovered an entity with a connection to the Gardener known as the Veil, they claimed it. They began studying it, eventually discovering the power of [[Darkness]], which had their means to carve away the chaos of existence and calcify it into the Final Shape. But, when they attempted to link the Veil to the Gardener to strengthen the connection between them and allow them to shape reality to their idealized state, the Gardener fled from their word as it was unwilling to allow this. | ||
Unwilling to give up in their pursuit of the Final Shape, the Precursors, now fully under the control of the Penitent after eliminating both the Nihilists and Solipists, would use the powers of Darkness to merge their | Unwilling to give up in their pursuit of the Final Shape, the Precursors, now fully under the control of the Penitent after eliminating both the Nihilists and Solipists, would use the powers of Darkness to merge their minds into a single being, one that would be both incredibly powerful and incapable of doubt or dissent in its goal of the Final Shape. This being would come to be known as the Witness. | ||
===Dissidents=== | ===Dissidents=== | ||
