I often wonder if the Arbiter regrets what happened between the two of them after he learned that the Heretic Leader was right. Granted, its pretty bad communication skills when you suddenly draw your weapon and start shooting, so no points for the Leader there, but had that meeting gone down differently, a lot of things after would have been different.
Yeah, I’ve wondered about that too. I have no doubt had Thel not killed the Heretic leader, he would’ve join the SoS. I’m sure Thel has regrets.
That’s such an interesting box to unpack.
I’m surprised that this hasn’t been explored before, like in a short story or something?
I personally always wanted to see a book from the Arbiter’s perspective, covering the events from Halo 2’s cliffhanger to Halo 3’s epilogue, which could have call back as far as Thel’s campaign on Reach and the choices he’s made so far.
Something about the Arbiter tells me he doesn’t really regret it. At the end of the day, the Sangheili are a feudal race that prides themselves on combat prowess. Sesa Refumee challenged him to a fight by literally shooting at him. The Arbiter took on the challenge and won. I don’t think he would have considered his adversary’s death beyond that. Maybe he occasionally thinks about the valuable leadership potential lost, but I doubt he has any personal regret over it.
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> I often wonder if the Arbiter regrets what happened between the two of them after he learned that the Heretic Leader was right. Granted, its pretty bad communication skills when you suddenly draw your weapon and start shooting, so no points for the Leader there, but had that meeting gone down differently, a lot of things after would have been different.
Ultimately the fault was on the Heretic Leader for opening fire instead of allowing Spark to explain the true purpose of the Halo Installations.
Regrets over this probably linger but the Arbiter has many things in his life he could regret.
Amongst them being the genocide of billions of humans when he was still a Supreme Comander.
I also often think about this, it’s too bad it went down that way.
The terminal scenes put even more depth on it when Sesa Refumee tells 343 Guilty Spark that Thel Vadam was the only person he would trust with the information.
Ultimately I don’t know if the Arbiter was ready yet at that point to accept that truth, Sesa probably understood this or atleast was too scared of that alternative to even take the risk, therefor maybetrying to get the upper hand of the fight instead. Idk .
The heretic got confused on the difference between a debate and a fight to the death. It’s an honest mistake that a lot of folks in this community make as well. But that’s not the Arbiter’s fault.
Must be a tough pill to swallow.