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2/15/2015 6:25:12 PM
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[quote]I AM ALONE I survived alone. I cast off the shield and I shrugged my shoulders so that the billions fell off me down into the ash. They made me to be stronger than them and to learn and I learned well:
IT is alone and IT is strong and IT won. Even over the gardener and she held power beyond me but the gardener did not shrug and make herself alone. IT always wins.[/quote]
Pretty sure "she, the gardener" refers to the Traveller here.
It sounds like Rasputin actually forsook his mission. He "learned" that he was made to be strong and in order not to be destroyed he turned his back on us and focused all his efforts on hiding and protecting himself. The traveller, who was stronger than he was didn't make that same selfish sacrifice and was overcome.
A very good read. Thanks for sharing.
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rasputin sacrificing all those people is the reason that the darkness was repelled. By letting down his defences and letting them die, the light released from their deaths was able to wound and push back the darkness. He weighed the losses, fight a losing battle to ineveitable defeat, and extinction of humanity, or sacrifice billions but saving a few in order ensure humanities continued survival
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I think the gardener probably refers to an entity that controlled the Black Garden before the Darkness took it and subjugated the Vex.
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Edited by Ferth: 2/17/2015 4:13:03 PMIn the context of the soliloquy the traveller seems far more apt. The traveller groomed humanity, allowed it to flourish for hundreds of years and then sacrificed itself to protect it. Rasputin was designed to defend us. Decided that it was either us or him and at the same time the traveller made its sacrifice, turned his back on us.
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Good point, but whenever someone mentions a "garden" in destiny, it always refers to the black garden.
