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8/28/2021 3:50:48 PM
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Theory on Hive Lightbearers...
OK, so it's pretty clear that Savathun is going to find a way to make her so called Hive guardians. I think most of us assume that every Hive puppet is going to be gifted with the light, but...
If you look at the trailer for WQ, specifically the part where Savathun brings forward the Hive ghosts, if you look carefully you'll see it's maybe a handful of them. I'd say somewhere between 10 and 20. Considering a small lore piece of Crow telling Ikora that he had to steal 'a handful' of dead ghosts from spider, I'm thinking that definitely not all Hive are going to be Lightbearers.
My thought is that she is going to have a bunch of special soldiers or guards that can wield the light. Perhaps turning them into something similar to the scorn bosses from Forsaken. But then again, it's just a theory 😉
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I think it’s safe to say that not every hive we run into will be a lightbearer. I’d assume that she used Sagira’s ghost (alive or dead) to find out out they worked and then used dead ghosts (I don’t think there are lore to suggest ghosts going missing) to reanimate them into hive ghosts. Whereas our ghosts come from the traveller and are more plentiful. So the thing that still sets things apart is that the ghosts from the traveller are plentiful and maybe more replinishable. But the Hive ghosts may be more limited in number due to how they are created. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a mission/strike where we had to interrupt a ritual that was bringing dead ghosts to life as hive ghosts.
