Lightfall/The Final Shape is a far way off right? Well, what would you ideally want in the final race to be presented if you could fight them tomorrow?
My list for these beings would be simple:
Mysterious
Polar opposite to light guardians
Mysterious. I want them to be filled with surprise after surprise that makes me change how I have fought any other enemy. Like the Taken for the first time (replicating psions was a brilliant move honestly).
Polar opposite to light guardians. I want them to have a weapon or ability to suppress light-based capabilities which is why we have lost against them for so long or lore implications for destroying their items of interest (like a destabilization effect which makes them more primal or stronger or both- think brutes from Halo when enraged).
What would your list include?
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I think its too soon to predict. Also The Taken are really the "polar opposite" of Guardians. Guardians are the chosen dead who are brought back to life by the Light of the Traveler, then given the choice of whether to be protectors of the Living. The Taken are those who are snatched from life without their consent, and then returned to the Living World as these mindless killing machines by the Darkness. Slaves to War and Death under the will of someone else.