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9/24/2015 5:23:08 PM
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Shadowed Light - My Thoughts on Nightstalkers
So after some reading, playing the nightstalker subclass, and facing a few Nightstalkers in the crucible, I have a theory. Well a couple really.
The first comes from the grimoire card for Nightstalker. In the card it says [quote]Do not hunt the monster. Become the monster.[/quote]
Now that may seem like very little. But Tevis also speaks to the Guardian about how to embrace the path of the Nightstalker is to walk closer to the Darkness than any other Guardian. Is it possible that the Nightstalker's power truly does come from the Darkness and not the Traveler's light? To know this for sure, we would need to know who the first one was. But I do believe that the power of the Nightstalker is a form of corrupted Light, or Blessed Darkness, or something of the sort.
Secondly. We know Hunters can blink. Supposedly it was taught to them by the Warlocks, though they executed it in very different ways. Warlocks walked through the void. Hunters just entered insane bursts of speed. But Shadestep...is that a form of Blink? Is that the Hunter stepping through the void for the smallest fraction of a second to avoid attack? I'm not so sure on that one..but I'd love to discuss it!
Anything else anyone wants to comment on, feel free!
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1 ReplyVery interesting. I touched upon this in one of my "Class Origin" theories, but it seems that the new subclasses were the last to emerge from the Dark Ages. Sunbreakers and Stormcallers likely went extinct due to overly aggressive tactics in a losing war, but Nightstalkers are special, it seems. This is applicable to all the Hunter subclasses, really. Gunslingers stuck (literally) to their guns, and probably survived in Golden Age ruins, places where guns were present and fighting was constant. Bladedancers focus on knives, a relatively modern weapon but one easily maintained at a distance from technology. This suggests they migrated from civilisation and regressed, shunning technology in the wilds of Earth and surviving alone, rather than in a group. Nightstalkers, it seems, fled further into the jungles and deeper in the Darkness itself to survive. They completely abandoned technology and were the last to emerge after the Collapse.
