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Edited by The Muzzy98: 3/29/2017 2:06:19 PM
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The Physiology of Guardians

Hello everyone, Muzzy here. Today, I want to explain the physiology of Guardians and hopefully clear up a few misconceptions about what they can and can’t do. NOTE: This strictly applies to Human and Awoken Guardians as we don’t know how Exos work in the lore yet. [b]1. Guardians have limitless (or near limitless) energy.[/b] Have you ever wondered how it is that your Guardian can sprint without ever needing to rest? This is because a Guardian’s body is filled with a power known as Light. Light, alongside giving Guardians amazing abilities to be used in combat, also acts as an always-on power generator, giving energy to the muscles of a Guardian, enabling them to sprint for incredibly long periods of time. [b]2. Guardians need to eat and drink.[/b] Despite having limitless energy, Guardians apparently do need to eat in order to survive. While many people believe that Guardians do not need to eat or drink, they actually do. Why this is a necessity when Guardians are regularly being resurrected and don’t need the energy from food anyways, I don’t know. [b]3. Guardians don’t age.[/b] I’ve discussed this before in another post, but it merits mentioning again. After being bonded to a Ghost, a Guardian becomes immortal. The Ghost has the ability to completely regenerate matter, by either taking molecules and breaking them and reforming them into what is needed to make a body, or by completely breaking physics (which the Light and Traveler already do, so…). Because a Ghost can rebuild a body even after complete disintegration, it also has the ability to replace/regenerate and dead/dying cells that make up a Guardian’s body. This is why we don't see any organic Guardians with prothetic replacements. The Ghost can just rebuild the limb after the Guardian's next resurrection. [b]4. Guardians have increased physical strength[/b] While I’m sure that most of you are shaking your head and thinking something along the lines of, “well duh,” it’s still something that needs to be said. Everyone knows that Titans have immense super strength that far outclasses the other Guardians. What you may or may have not known is that all Guardians benefit from increased strength, not just the Titans. (Although the Titans obviously have even more than the others.) That about wraps this up. Let me know what your thoughts are in the comments and be sure to bring up any other points that I may have missed. Have a fantastic day, Guardians. [quote][b]Sources:[/b] [u]Grimoire Cards[/u] Ghost Fragment: Cabal 4 Lady Efrideet [u]Quests[/u] In Pursuit of Light [u]Items[/u] Dustwalker Helmet [u]Other[/u] Gameplay[/quote]

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  • So what do exos like me eat? Wires and oil? Om nom nom

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    • Uhhh....Guardians are Zombies, bro. Guardians were just dead. Then Ghost comes along, and resurrects them. Ghosts make the dead "undead", i.e., Zombies.

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      • Do exos need to eat and drink? I would assume no. Also, do guardians sleep?

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        • Lore-wise, it is a titan's armor that gives them an edge in strength. Force drivers.

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          • Soooo.... if Guardians don't age... No ghost= aging, right? #lordsaladbar [quote]Even Old wolves still bite...[/quote]

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            • If said guardian needs to eat/drink, when and where does this happen? I can't recall a single time I've seen any of mine go to a restaurant or diner. Plus, I've never seen a water fountain or bar serving actual beverages.

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              • Then how does that guardian have a Vex arm?

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                • Edited by Lord Ded: 3/30/2017 4:58:11 AM
                  Thanks for this post of awesome info I didn't know so what's your thoughts on this In Destiny 2 I think we might get multiple ghost voice actors for two reasons 1: We want it 2: Logically in the world of Destiny every guardian has their own ghost because the ghost brings the guardian back to life they are connected without the ghost the guardian can't respawn and without the guardian the ghost has no meaning for existence(the sad reality) each guardian has his own personal ghost that is his alone always was always will be which leads me to say that each ghost is unique meaning that most likely each ghost has it own voice so the fact that Bungie hasn't already given us multiple ghost voices I kind of odd that would mean there's millions of guardians with the same ghost who picked them up at the same time which means every guardian that currently exists(Us) is actually one guardian all together which would therefore mean us in a singular guardian saved the system several times over from enemies like Atheon, Skolas, Crota, Oryx and Aksis while also creating mental illusions in our own head that we had teammates fighting along with us when in reality us a single guardian did it we killed gods with our hands alone but not alone lololol Basically as of right now there only exists one ghost and one guardian who did every thing we think we did unless bungie corrects this mistake by giving us more ghost voices (because like I said each ghost is unique to its guardian because their connected so the ghosts should each have their own voice) if they do well we can just say that millions of guardians were reseructed at the exact same spot then we can magically fill in our new ghosts voice in our heads with the original Destiny ghost scenes and forget this flusie ever happened

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                  • Edited by Kel of Kells: 3/30/2017 2:30:59 AM
                    A note from #3. If what you say is true about ghosts regenerating limbs, why is it that the guardian in the new AoT Eris Morn grimoire card has a vex tech arm? Is this due to the fact that his ghost was also corrupted with vex tech, and therefore the ghost either mended a vex limb to his, or simply regenerated the limb as a vex limb?

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                    • We have super strength but can only carry an engine block for 10 seconds and need to rest?

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                      • Do they gotta take a piss too? Cuz we never see super heroes take a piss....just saiyin..

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                      • Guardians are a lot like the Elves of Tolkien's Middle-earth. Beings that are more Energy (spirit) than Matter. Who are immortal, but not indestructible, and have the ability to use magic.

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                        • Racist to exos I see? I'm gonna kick your mortal ass. Yes- with me in exo form, your ass will become MORTAL.

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                        • Guardians are simply Jesus, reincarnated. Think about it: * Can be revived from the dead * Contain the light of the Lord * Can shoot electricity out their buttholes

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                          • Guardians can't sprint without needing aren't though.

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                          • 1. Guardians are zombies 2. Guardians are zombies 3. Guardians are zombies 4. Guardians are zombies Check mate!!! Souce: The first 30 seconds of the freaking game.

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                            • If I have limitless energy then why do I randomly stop sprinting and can only walk for like five seconds?

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                              • Edited by BraveCole: 3/29/2017 3:23:26 PM
                                Regarding bullet point number three: In the new Eris Morn Grimoire card added in AoT, it details her encounter with a awoken male guardian named Asher Mir. Asher Mir had a missing arm, and had replaced it with vex technology. Whether he did it for the sake of it, or did it because his arm was missing, remains unknown. But it is noted that his arm was no more. http://www.ishtar-collective.net/cards/ghost-fragment-eris-morn

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                                • Well in the new Eris Morn grimoire it is stated that a guardian has a prosthetic Vex arm .. I don't know if that happened because his ghost is corrupted by the Vex ( as stated ) so it can no longer use the Light to regenerate - ressurect him.. That might be the case.. As for the "infinite energy" thing. The Light which the ghosts use is not infinite.. It is stated that some people are against the Crucible exactly because of that.. Some guardians actually never came back.. Plus it makes more sense that there is no such thing as infinite Light because we still have to fear death don't we?

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                                  • Edited by Ghost593835: 3/29/2017 7:00:14 AM
                                    1: so Guardians are night omnipotent or have nigh unlimited power. 2: Guardians need to eat like people, so they are more like mass effect 2 revival. 4: guardians are strong, id say any guardian is stronger than a space marine or a spartan. Just look at the new person for the iron lord's that came back. She threw lord saladin like a toy towards a walker.

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                                    • So if you destroy the ghost is the guardian suddenly mortal, In the sense that he can't regenerate any more? Also can I guardian get a new ghost? How does a guardian actually die besides not having the ghost? I've heard the ghost can't revive the guardian if the darkness is too strong or something like that

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                                      • Guardians need to eat becuase "light" is only used for combat purposes. This means that the rest of there body still needs power.

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                                      • Where exactly is it stated Guardians need to eat/drink?

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                                        • Guardians get a year round sugar high from Festival of the Lost. But if they start to crash early from too much raiding, they just get high on sparrow fumes.

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                                        • Hold on a damn minute! If guardians need food/drink to rebuild their energy, where to they go to relieve themselves? If it goes in, some kind of waste product has to come out.

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                                          • Technically the universe already has infinite energy and also energy can't be created or destroyed but maybe bungie doesn't care about easy science

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