Talk:Darkness

Origins of the Darkness

How do we know for certain if the Darkness originated from the Black Garden? The Darkness has even been with the Worm Gods on Fundament. It's still unclear for certainty where the darkness even originated from in the first place. So I strongly suggest it should remain unknown until future content says otherwise. -- Titan66 (talk) 22:10, 19 June 2017 (EDT)

You make a valid point. Correction has been made. -- Δαντε τηε Γηοστ ^{Ι ωονδερ ιφ Ικορα γιϝες ηυγς το Γηοστσ. Ηεη... ανψωαψς, νιξε ωορκ. Τηις ις ωηατ Ι υσεδ.} 22:46, 19 June 2017 (EDT)

Triangle Ships

Again, we don't know for certain where the Darkness originated from so those Triangle ships could be anything until more information in the future shows up. -- Titan66 (talk) 23:41, 09 September 2017 (EDT)

They responded to the activation of the Light and turned toward it, but beyond that you're right. However they were concept from the beginning of a fifth race, showing those same pyramid ships as a concept for the Taken, so all evidence points to them being what we call the Darkness. -- Δαντε τηε Γηοστ ^{Ι ωονδερ ιφ Ικορα γιϝες ηυγς το Γηοστσ. Ηεη... ανψωαψς, νιξε ωορκ. Τηις ις ωηατ Ι υσεδ.} 23:43, 9 September 2017 (EDT)

Oh cool then I stand corrected then! :) -- Titan66 (talk) 23:44, 09 September 2017 (EDT)

Definitely a race of aliens

I'm kind of objecting to saying flat out that the Darkness is definitely an alien race. We actually don't know that for a fact. I have little doubt that the things shown in the stinger of Destiny 2 is supposed to be the Darkness, but we don't know yet what they were. They might not even be ships. Also, when the Darkness spoke to Oryx in the Books of Sorrow, it referred to itself as "I", not we, so the Darkness appears to be a single individual, not a race. I feel it's too early to say flat out that the Darkness is a race of aliens instead of a single individual. -- SFH (talk) 12:39, 10 September 2017 (EDT)

True. The Ships may just be a vessel for the Darkness to act through. You can make whatever changes you need. :) Arcmind ^{Execute long hold for reactivation. AI-COM/ACMD SIGNOFF} 12:47, 10 September 2017 (EDT)

Source on Drown.jpg?

Title; I've never seen these images in any Destiny material, curious where they're sourced from? —This unsigned comment was made by 104.222.147.144 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

Shouldn't Use Pyramid Ship Image for the Darkness

The Pyramid ships are the counterpart to the Traveler, in that they are an avatar of their respective paracausal force. The Traveler is of the Light, while the Pyramids are of the Darkness. While the Traveler is near synonymous from the Light, both are distinct. The same logic should be applied to the Darkness and the Pyramids. Additionally, the Black Heart is a manifestation of the Darkness, yet it is distinct in itself. We don't use an image of the Traveler on the page for the Light, the same should go for the Pyramid with the Darkness. Unless it's otherwise confirmed that the Darkness itself, the whole paracausal force, is indeed the Pyramids, we shouldn't be using the Pyramid image as the main image for the Darkness. On that note, besides having a distinct image for the Darkness, representative of it being an almost conceptual entity, the same should be done for the Light if such an image exists. -- Jzpelaez (talk) 10:56, August 6, 2020 (EDT) ~

Clarification between Darkness actions and Witness actions

Now we know that the Witness exists, shouldn't we edit this page to split their actions? We know the Darkness can talk and communicate (when it talks to Oryx through the baby Ogre he makes, and throughout Unveiling in general), but the page posits some actions which are clearly the Witness' to the Darkness (speaking to us in the Black Garden vision, giving Rhulk his abilities, giving Oryx his ability to Take, etc).

I'd do it myself but I'd rather talk about it first because I know someone will probably shoot down my changes because they don't like them, or understand them. The Witness and Darkness are two separate entities for sure, and have a separate list of actions. —This unsigned comment was made by ProstatePuncher (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

Distinguishing Between the Darkness and the Winnower

I think at this point there is substantial evidence in support of the Winnower as, at the very least, a distinct character from the Witness, as well as perhaps slightly less strong evidence for the Darkness being synonymous with the Winnower. In no particular order:

The narrator of Unveiling explicitly identifies themself as the Winnower, and goes on to say that they transformed themselves into a rule in the flower game; this rule is associated with simplification, which mirrors the discoveries made by Clovis Bray I in his studies of the Darkness.
The Lore entry for Nacre is written in exactly the same tone as Unveiling, and seems to be a direct continuation of those messages; the narrator refers to their message as "one more nice sit-down for the books." The entry references "my beloved," and the narrator goes on to say that they are not referencing the Witness' version of the Final Shape ("my sedimentary necrolite, frozen in time" clearly refers to the Final Shape as envisioned by the Witness). Therefore, the entry takes place following the defeat of the Witness, and so the speaker cannot be the Witness.
The entry "Majestic. Majestic." in the Books of Sorrow is written in exactly the same tone as the above entries, and the narrator (who is described as being the Darkness itself) uses the first person, indicating that they are almost certainly not the Witness; the word "majestic" is used by the narrator again in Unveiling, in what is clearly intended as a callback to the BoS entry.
The Witness explicitly says during The Final Shape that is it not the Winnower, but merely "the First Knife clutched in its hand."

I have tried to make a variety of edits on this and other pages clarifying these points, but I have been repeatedly rebuffed by TheTrueSorrowMaker, who seems to strongly oppose this interpretation, for reasons I do not understand. I believe that this is needlessly obstructionist behavior and ignores the weight of evidence in favor of this connection. I believe that there are many other articles on the wiki which make connections that are similarly hinted at in the lore, in many cases on the basis of far more tenuous evidence. Why is this point so contentious? --Xardwen (talk) 16:18, September 14, 2024 (EDT)

I'm in favor of looking at it more thoroughly myself, as I've always found "the Witness" to not be as compelling a villain and yet otherwise all mentions of the so-called Winnower stem from, at the very least, the Witness' original people's understanding of The Final Shape, almost an invention of theirs to explain the opposite of the Traveler, and yet the Veil as we see in-game is so passive as to be nonexistent.

Sorrow's cautious about inserting fanon into official lore and is rather stringent about it. I agree with his methods. So far, the Winnower's not a concrete entity in the same way the Traveler is. Yes, the Books of Sorrow "Majestic. Majestic." and Nacre share a similar narrator; but consider that the Books themselves are a mixture of selectively edited truth and outright propaganda in favor of the Hive, and all of the lore since then points to Savathûn actively working for the Witness prior to her betrayal while Oryx seems not only oblivious to the Witness' mere existence but actively unaware of it even being a thing

I'd be as cautious as Sorrow too, given that it was a mistake on my part that led to Bungie canonizing Eramis, Kell of Darkness' existence when I was hard of hearing and invented her wholesale instead of what Variks actually said. -- Δαντε τηε Γηοστ ^{Ι ωονδερ ιφ Ικορα γιϝες ηυγς το Γηοστσ. Ηεη... ανψωαψς, νιξε ωορκ. Τηις ις ωηατ Ι υσεδ.} 16:45, September 14, 2024 (EDT)

Re: the Eramis/Veekris confusion- was that actually you?? That's wild haha, I love when things like that happen and become canonized.

Regarding the BoS' dubious content, granted- but surely that particular entry wasn't just made up wholesale by Oryx? Why would they do that? And why would they write in exactly the same tone as the narrator of Unveiling? Surely the simplest explanation is that Oryx was in direct communication with the Darkness itself - as he apparently believed he was - and that the Darkness is the same as the narrator of Unveiling, which is to say the Winnower, which (IMO) stops just short of explicitly saying "I am the Darkness" in Unveiling. As for why the Darkness/Winnower would talk to Oryx, when Oryx didn't know about the Witness - why did the Winnower talk to us in Unveiling? We didn't know about the Witness back then either.

Re: all mentions of the Winnower coming from the Witness- is Unveiling written by the Witness? Or is it simply, as it appears to be, a series of messages to the Guardian from the Winnower itself?

I also am in favor of avoiding fanon making its way into the wiki, but the connections I'm making here seem very clearly spelled out, at least to me. Like I said, I think there are other connections made by other articles that are a far bigger stretch than this one. --Xardwen (talk) 17:04, September 14, 2024 (EDT)

Yeah, that debacle was all me and I hate myself for it.

I'm not as well-versed in all this new stuff as, say, Sorrow or WizardWolf are, so I'll let the former speak his reasoning, but I'll say this much: it's a mixture of seeming inconsistency with Bungie's lore writing itself and actual RL glitches, like how Nacre's lore entry was unable to be read when first released until after a patch, after the Witness was defeated, which leads to further confusion. Again, I'll let Sorrow elaborate more or prove my words as me talking outta my behind. Ultimately I'm just trying to keep things as organized as I can as far as my procrastination will let me. -- Δαντε τηε Γηοστ ^{Ι ωονδερ ιφ Ικορα γιϝες ηυγς το Γηοστσ. Ηεη... ανψωαψς, νιξε ωορκ. Τηις ις ωηατ Ι υσεδ.} 17:11, September 14, 2024 (EDT)

I have to agree with Dante's statements, but I will say this, the (former as of recent layoffs) Bungie Narrative Director literally stated that the Unveiling lore was just propaganda, a religious text like the Bible in a sense (I know, I don’t like that comparison but that is what it is). The whole Nacre lore doesn’t need to be stated as a proper reference to the Winnower and is more so trivia which I had already added to the Nacre ship page. I had also added the parable link to the Unveiling page as well.

Oryx was not that close to the Darkness as people claim that he was. His ability to take is a fragment of the Witness's own power to move worlds, there are reference links to this on the Taken page.

I also want to add that the Gardener IS the Traveler, as with what is described in the Witness's origins cutscene and the majority of what happened in the Final Shape also say the same thing. Even Luzaku refers to the Traveler as Gardener. Adding to this, Gardener was a term used to describe the Traveler since D1, specifically Ghost Fragment: Mysteries.

Yes, I know that the Winnower isn’t the Witness but the words of the Witness are conflicting. The "Winnower" doesn’t wield the Witness or could even be considered the one who created the Witness. And if you were to take the Traveler=Gardener, that same comparison could be made to the Veil being the Winnower, but the Veil didn’t create the Witness, it was a tool used by the ones who actually created it, the Precursors.

TheTrueSorrowMaker (contribs) 19:33, September 15, 2024 (EDT)