That could also be meant to be more literal. As in, even they say "dark" they don't mean "Dark".
Also, when Variks talks to us about Taniks for the strike, were being sent out to stop him from "stealing the dark" from the hive, so that he cannot "align them with the dark".
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Maybe, but Skolas said this after returning from the darkness. He also uses the word Whirlwind, which is their name for the Darkness (the darkness that wiped out their civilization was Savathun).
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From what I've read (from similar posts to this) the Whirlwind was literally a giant whirlwind, created from the traveler taking a speedy hike.
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The Books of Sorrow describe the Hive destorying the Ammonites, a race of cephalods. The Traveler also created several Golden Ages before leaving them, why would it destroy everything its built by its own vanishing act?
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Well, according to those same posts, it specifically left the fallen because they were doing terrible things that it didn't want to be associated with (which I wouldn't mind an elaboration on). The only answer to your question that's not weird is if it did that on purpose/didn't care if it made that happen.