I saw this image on a previous post and decided to dissect it a little. First and foremost, I would like to thank [b]jk kills 33[/b] for the inspiration.
Basically, I'm going to quote the passages from the Destiny ARG and match their corresponding geomantic figures with the planet they are associated with. I'll probably do this in a few posts so it doesn't look like the mass of text that it is.
By the way, I start at the top and go clockwise with the messages.
At the top, we have:
"The best voices...voices that truly matter...never allow themselves to be heard. This lesson is worth learning again and again. Forever. Your voices moves as whispers, murmurs and urges inside larger winds. Only the trusted few can absorb what is necessary. Wise and sly and perfect, your instructions drop, leaving nothing but the hard sweet rime of enlightenment. The path is set. Your voice is unleashed. Except now it is gone... And maybe it never was."
This passage is coupled with the geomantic figure "Populus," meaning "the People." It is linked with the Moon. I don't really catch the meaning of this passage, though. Maybe it doesn't have one much more than what it says outright.
The next one:
"One face is blistered, the other plunged into a brutal chill. Is this how it's always been? You remember hot oceans, nourishing atmosphere. But something transpired, kicked what was wet and fertile into space, stealing away everything of value. Or perhaps what thrived here for a day or for ten million years decided to leave, peeling its wet organics off the bones. A name offers itself and another, and a thousand more. The answer feels like the iron heart of a collapsed star, and you realize the union between the past and the future is now."
The corresponding geomantic figure is "Albus," which means "White." The planet is Mercury, which doesn't seem to fit the passage at all, given the hot oceans and nourishing atmosphere. Something must have changed between now and when Destiny takes place.
Now:
"You see history hidden betwen the barren rocks and within the high acid clouds. You see ruin emerging from where it has always been, ready to claim its birthright. Sunlight is starved. The fierceness is chilled and thinned, made sweet again. A new ocean emerges, thick and salty and hot, from springs and geysers that drench the dead ground. You wonder: will this world's second birth be its finest? You draw deep inside, seeking direction, truth... But all you have are the riddles of your own intentions."
This is "Puella," Latin for "the Girl." Which is quite fitting, seeing as Venus (this geomantic symbol's planet) was a goddess of Roman myth. This passage hints at terraforming via the "second birth." I guess this explains why Venus features jungles. "History hidden between the barren rocks..." points me toward the Vex, who I recall as the time-traveling robot inhabitants of Venus in Destiny's world. For one, "history" is a word that for me has much to do with "time." "Hidden between the barren rocks..." reminds me of that strange blue smoke/glowing light that is visible in the PS4 announcement trailer.
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[quote]"One face is blistered, the other plunged into a brutal chill. Is this how it's always been?[/quote] [quote]Due to its near lack of an atmosphere to retain heat, Mercury's surface experiences the steepest temperature gradient of all the planets, ranging from a very cold 100 K at night to a very hot 700 K during the day.[/quote] seems to match with this, which to me means they all correspond to planets directly.