I was always under the impression that the Traveler was the narrator of the "...from a red space before victory" Grimoire card, namely describing a time it fought the darkness before and how it will inevitably win. The passage "[i]I AM ALONE I survived alone. I cast off the shield and I shrugged my shoulders so that the billions fell off me down into the ash. They made me to be stronger than them and to learn and I learned well[/i]" seems to describe the Traveler dropping it's defenses and sacrificing much of it's light to create the ghosts and scatter them among the ashes of humanity. I also believe the card does refer to the Black Garden, and that it was not always the domain of the Vex or a place of darkness. "The Gardener" could refer to another, more powerful, Traveler-like being that was bought down by the darkness. Unlike "The Gardener" the Traveler is willing to make itself alone and dormant, cut off from the coming and goings of the universe. The garden was the last battle ground lost to the darkness. This is why the Traveler was found on Mars, [b]the same planet we find the gate to the Black Garden[/b]. Mars, of all places, is hardly the ideal location for the Vex to keep the gateway to their inner sanctum on. Why not Mercury or Venus, planets they have near total control over, rather than a planet they barely have a hold on and are in constant dispute over with the Cabal? Simple, they didn't create the gateway, only a way to access it. It's worth noting that this card is found in the Legends & Mysteries section of the Grimoire, directly next to the Black Garden card and that it has a background image of the Black Garden prior to being acquired. This would explain the parallels people have drawn between how the card's narrator fought "IT" and the Guardian supers, and possibly give an insight to the Traveler's origins before arriving in our system.