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 ==Possible Forms==
 ===The Witness's Final Shape===
-[[The Witness]]'s [[Precursors (Species)|Precursors]] became fixated on the idea of a "Final Shape" out of a desire for meaning and purpose, as they found none in the universe, the [[Light]], or [[the Traveler]]. Various factions within the civilization's governing body, the Consensus, arose with differing conceptions of the Final Shape, but all were eventually supplanted by the Penitent faction, who believed that the Final Shape was to be a universe free from suffering. After the Traveler fled the Precursors' homeworld, the Precursors used [[the Veil]] to merge themselves into the Witness, a single being with a composite consciousness containing all of their minds and memories, driven by their collective fury at the Traveler and obsessed with realizing their vision of the Final Shape.<ref name="Origin">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0CKckjryVI'''YouTube''' - ''Destiny 2: Season of the Deep - The Witness's Origins Cinematic'']</ref><ref name="6-11">'''[[Entelechy]]''', ''[[Entelechy#Scribe Archive XI-9-2C|6-11]]''</ref><ref name="Origin"/><ref name="32-25">'''[[Entelechy]]''', ''[[Entelechy#Scribe Archive XI-23-1C|32-35]]''</ref> However, the Witness would become deaf to members within its collective that opposed the atrocities it committed, choosing instead to cut out any dissenters from its mind and sequester them away until they could be re-integrated during the creation of the Final Shape.<ref>'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[Lore:The Rubicon]]: [[Lore:The Rubicon#Phlegethon II|Phlegethon II]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - Item Description: [[Turmoil Engine#Lore|Turmoil Engine]]''</ref>
+[[The Witness]]'s [[Precursors (Species)|Precursors]] became fixated on the idea of a "Final Shape" out of a desire for meaning and purpose, as they found none in the universe, the [[Light]], or the [[The Traveler|Traveler]]. Various factions within the civilization's governing body, the Consensus, arose with differing conceptions of the Final Shape, but all were eventually supplanted by the Penitent faction, who believed that the Final Shape was to be a universe free from suffering. After the Traveler fled the Precursors' home world, the Precursors used the [[The Veil|Veil]] to merge themselves into the Witness, a single being with a composite consciousness containing all of their minds and memories, driven by their collective fury at the Traveler and obsessed with realizing their vision of the Final Shape.<ref name="Origin">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0CKckjryVI'''YouTube''' - ''Destiny 2: Season of the Deep - The Witness's Origins Cinematic'']</ref><ref name="6-11">'''[[Entelechy]]''', ''[[Entelechy#Scribe Archive XI-9-2C|6-11]]''</ref><ref name="Origin"/><ref name="32-25">'''[[Entelechy]]''', ''[[Entelechy#Scribe Archive XI-23-1C|32-35]]''</ref> However, the Witness would become deaf to members within its collective that opposed the atrocities it committed, choosing instead to cut out any dissenters from its mind and sequester them away until they could be re-integrated during the creation of the Final Shape.<ref>'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[Lore:The Rubicon]]: [[Lore:The Rubicon#Phlegethon II|Phlegethon II]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - Item Description: [[Turmoil Engine#Lore|Turmoil Engine]]''</ref>
 The Witness' vision of the Final Shape entailed reshaping the universe into a more orderly state in which nothing could exist without its consent and no actions could be taken by any other sentient being, thus halting what it perceived to be the "meaningless cycle of action and reaction" that inevitably led all beings to experience suffering.<ref name="Transmit">'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[Transmigration]]''</ref><ref name="Dissent"/><ref name="Exe-Ghost"/> The Witness sought to achieve this by using the Veil's Darkness in combination with the Traveler's Light, using the former's ability to project possibilities contained within thoughts and memories and the latter's ability to grant those possibilities physical form.<ref name="Transmit"/><ref name="Tempt"/><ref name="Exegesis">'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[Exegesis]]''</ref> The end result of this would be a calcified, frozen, timeless version of reality, in which all sentient beings would be immortalized at the moment of their greatest triumph or most profound regret, unable to perpetuate the cycle of suffering which the Witness viewed to be the supreme injustice of existence.<ref name="Exegesis"/><ref name="Icon"/> The Witness itself would not be part of the Final Shape, but would instead effectively become a god presiding over a perfected universe for all eternity.<ref name="Exegesis"/><ref name="Exe-Ghost">'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[Exegesis]] - [[Ghost]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGlfYMeYYAU "That's why the Witness is here. It wants to weaponize the Traveler and transform the universe into a fixed state based on what it believes we deserve. The Witness thinks "purpose" is a static idea. Its promised salvation is a perfect ending it chooses for us. That sounds more like obsession to me."]''</ref>
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 As the Guardian and the Vanguard approached the Witness' Monolith, the Witness drew upon the memories of its enemies using the Darkness to offer them a more personalized Final Shape. It showed [[Uldren Sov|Crow]] a future where he would rule the Reef and beyond and be looked at with pride, trust and love by his friends and [[Mara Sov|sister]], and offered to erase his past mistake with the [[Dreaming City]].<ref name="Tempt">'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[Temptation]]''</ref> It also offered to bring him out of the shadow of his sister, and hinted that it would let him see [[Amanda Holliday|"[his] sunrise"]] again.<ref>'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - Item Description: [[Promised Reign Suit#Promised Reign Cloak|Promised Reign Cloak]]''</ref> For [[Zavala]], it offered to bring back [[Safiyah]] and [[Hakim]], allowing him to spend eternity with them at their old homestead,<ref>'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[Requiem]]''</ref><ref>''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - Item Description: [[Promised Reunion Suit#Promised Reunion Mark|Promised Reunion Mark]]''</ref> and later offered to remove any doubts or fears he had in his lack of purpose and join the Witness's amalgam mind.<ref name="Dissent">'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[Dissent]]''</ref> For [[Ikora]], it offered to remove her from the endless cycle of death and rebirth that it believed she had grown weary of, and instead have her friends returned and let her only experience eternal victory in battle forever.<ref>'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - Item Description: [[Promised Victory Suit#Promised Victory Bond|Promised Victory Bond]]''</ref>
-To [[The Guardian]], the Witness initially offered freedom from their unending life in "enslavement" to the Traveler,<ref name="Tempt"/> but later, believing they desired endless challenge, offered to make them into that which destroys all that can be destroyed, to make them a [[Disciples of the Witness|Disciple]] and be regarded as being above all other Guardians. It then offered to grant them an escape from their eternal cycle of battle for rewards and commendations, and instead promised all the vast riches the Guardian's strength was "owed". Finally, claiming that the Guardian's potential was being limited by the Vanguard leading them, the Witness offered to help them achieve the power they deserved, raising them up instead to stand alongside the Witness, apart from the Final Shape, as a god ruling over all of existence. Their Ghost, however, saw that the Witness was only making these offers because it was desperate and terrified of what the Guardian could do, and sought to prevent its own destruction.<ref name="Icon">'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[Iconoclasm]]''</ref>
+To the [[The Guardian|Guardian]], the Witness initially offered freedom from their unending life in "enslavement" to the Traveler,<ref name="Tempt"/> but later, believing they desired endless challenge, offered to make them into that which destroys all that can be destroyed, to make them a [[Disciples of the Witness|Disciple]] and be regarded as being above all other Guardians. It then offered to grant them an escape from their eternal cycle of battle for rewards and commendations, and instead promised all the vast riches the Guardian's strength was "owed". Finally, claiming that the Guardian's potential was being limited by the Vanguard leading them, the Witness offered to help them achieve the power they deserved, raising them up instead to stand alongside the Witness, apart from the Final Shape, as a god ruling over all of existence. Their Ghost, however, saw that the Witness was only making these offers because it was desperate and terrified of what the Guardian could do, and sought to prevent its own destruction.<ref name="Icon">'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[Iconoclasm]]''</ref>
 ===As Understood by the Disciples of the Witness===
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 ===The Winnower's Final Shape===
-As described in ''Unveiling'', the Winnower promotes a philosophy of might-makes-right and "survival of the fittest," claiming that only those things which must exist should exist and that any entity which cannot defend its own existence is morally equivalent to that which has never existed in the first place. As a result, it encourages its followers (as well as the Guardians) to destroy their enemies, reject the ideals of peace and cooperation, and pursue ever-greater power, so that they might eventually become the Final Shape.{{citation needed}}
+As described in ''Unveiling'', the Winnower promotes a philosophy of might-makes-right and "survival of the fittest," claiming that only those things which must exist should exist and that any entity which cannot defend its own existence is morally equivalent to that which has never existed in the first place. As a result, it encourages its followers and those that have read Unveiling to destroy their enemies, reject the ideals of peace and cooperation, and pursue ever-greater power, so that they might eventually become the Final Shape.{{citation needed}}
 ===The Vex's Final Shape===