I was searching through some Halo 4 photos and found something called “Promethean Vision”.
Could this mean that they are the enemy?
How would that fit into the story? Would that enemy work?
I believe it refers to Prometheus, a Titan who gave men intelligence by stealing the god’s fire.
> I was searching through some Halo 4 photos and found something called “Promethean Vision”.
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> Could this mean that they are the enemy?
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> How would that fit into the story? Would that enemy work?
multiplayer armor ability my friend.
And it’s just a name. It used to be forerunner vision, but now it’s promethean vision.
Unlikely since they opposed the construction of the Halo rings.
> > I was searching through some Halo 4 photos and found something called “Promethean Vision”.
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> multiplayer armor ability my friend.
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> And it’s just a name. It used to be forerunner vision, but now it’s promethean vision.
Yes but the name has significance, Prometheans are the highest level of Forerunner worrier servants and they are inconceivably powerful.
The only enemies I can see being added to Halo 4 would be the Precursors who came before the Forerunners. Whatever sent the original Flood into our galaxy, which could even then be the Precursors or something else entirely. Or a new species we don’t know about yet that’s on the shield world of Requiem; the world that the Master Chief is falling towards at the end of Halo 3’s Legendary ending.
I just can’t see us fighting the Forerunners in Halo 4. Even though in the distant past we did fight a war with them (this is all in Cryptum), I just can’t see us fighting them or whatever could be left of them at this point since they worked so hard to preserve the species of the galaxy from the Flood and the Halos firing.
If Prometheans are our Ancient Enemy, Humanity is doomed. It’ll be the Human-Covenant War all over again, with double the damage and less than half the time. Humanity, even with Spartans, would be crushed by Prometheans.
No.
Prometheans are the forerunner equivalent to spartans. They are bros with the didact, who if anything, will be an ally, which might explain why they’d give us their uh…vision.
> " You and I are brothers in many ways… not least in that we faced the Didact before, and face him now, and perhaps ever after. This is combat eternal, enmity unmasked, unified by only one thing: our love for the elusive Lifeshaper. Without her, humans would have been extinguished many times over. Both I and the Didact love her to this day.
> "Some say she died on Earth, but this is demonstrably untrue… And after a hundred thousand years of exploration and study…
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> “I know where to find her”
Halo: Primordium P:378
Now, the date is redacted, but it’s clear from the book that they are aboard an ONI ship conducting tests on Guilty Spark 343 (one of his iterations anyhow). From the above transcript I’d wager we’re fighting the Didact and/or the Librarian… or versions of their geas within other as yet unseen Forerunner machines
paragraph from Halo: Primordium which points to the real threat
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> > " You and I are brothers in many ways… not least in that we faced the Didact before, and face him now, and perhaps ever after. This is combat eternal, enmity unmasked, unified by only one thing: our love for the elusive Lifeshaper. Without her, humans would have been extinguished many times over. Both I and the Didact love her to this day.
> > "Some say she died on Earth, but this is demonstrably untrue… And after a hundred thousand years of exploration and study…
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> > “I know where to find her”
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> Halo: Primordium P:378
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> Now, the date is redacted, but it’s clear from the book that they are aboard an ONI ship conducting tests on Guilty Spark 343 (one of his iterations anyhow). From the above transcript I’d wager we’re fighting the Didact and/or the Librarian… or versions of their geas within other as yet unseen Forerunner machines
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The real threat being the Didact? No way. The didact, in the end, tried to save, not destroy.
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> > " You and I are brothers in many ways… not least in that we faced the Didact before, and face him now, and perhaps ever after. This is combat eternal, enmity unmasked, unified by only one thing: our love for the elusive Lifeshaper. Without her, humans would have been extinguished many times over. Both I and the Didact love her to this day.
> > "Some say she died on Earth, but this is demonstrably untrue… And after a hundred thousand years of exploration and study…
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> > “I know where to find her”
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> Halo: Primordium P:378
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> Now, the date is redacted, but it’s clear from the book that they are aboard an ONI ship conducting tests on Guilty Spark 343 (one of his iterations anyhow). From the above transcript I’d wager we’re fighting the Didact and/or the Librarian… or versions of their geas within other as yet unseen Forerunner machines
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That doesn’t point to the real threat so much as it points to the real allies we could be getting.
He might be right. I was on the Halo 4 website and it does say Chief woke up an ancient evil.
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> > > " You and I are brothers in many ways… not least in that we faced the Didact before, and face him now, and perhaps ever after. This is combat eternal, enmity unmasked, unified by only one thing: our love for the elusive Lifeshaper. Without her, humans would have been extinguished many times over. Both I and the Didact love her to this day.
> > > "Some say she died on Earth, but this is demonstrably untrue… And after a hundred thousand years of exploration and study…
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> > > “I know where to find her”
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> > Halo: Primordium P:378
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> > Now, the date is redacted, but it’s clear from the book that they are aboard an ONI ship conducting tests on Guilty Spark 343 (one of his iterations anyhow). From the above transcript I’d wager we’re fighting the Didact and/or the Librarian… or versions of their geas within other as yet unseen Forerunner machines
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> The real threat being the Didact? No way. The didact, in the end, tried to save, not destroy.
I agree, it seems unlikely. I want him on our side, anyway.
I think we’ll be fighting Faber/the Master Builder. He was never confirmed dead, and he could be trying to put Forerunners back on top.
I think the ancient evil are the precursors
Description: (from Halo Nation)
“Precursors are described as “very large”, with 4 upper limbs and 2 legs. Also having an “ugly head shaped like arthropods” - like spiders or crabs (described like scorpions) - they have oval, faceted slanted eyes and a “flat face”. Coming from the back of the head is a long tail with a 2 meter barb coming out of it. Whether this is the way all Precursors look has yet to be revealed, but this is the way the prisoner on Charum Hakkor is described.
It is also revealed that this prisoner is the last known Precursor, and that every other Precursor had been ruthlessly killed in a Forerunner-Precursor war almost 150,000 years before the events of Halo and that their answer is at hand - implying that a Proto-Flood form (described as a fine dust, contained in hundreds of glass cylinders) was created as revenge or as a failsafe.”
Now here is the Halo 4 plot explanation on Xbox.com:
The Master Chief returns to battle an ancient evil bent on vengeance and annihilation. Shipwrecked on a mysterious world, faced with new enemies and deadly technology, the universe will never be the same. Enlist aboard the UNSC Infinity to experience Halo’s original multiplayer and Spartan Ops—episodic fiction-based co-op missions.
So the precursors are the only known thing that predate the forerunners, and look at this picture from the Halo Nation page on precursors comparing the concept art for them and pieces put together from the Halo 4 concept art video
No, no, the Ancient Evil is that last Grunt on the mission Halo in Halo 3!
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> > > > " You and I are brothers in many ways… not least in that we faced the Didact before, and face him now, and perhaps ever after. This is combat eternal, enmity unmasked, unified by only one thing: our love for the elusive Lifeshaper. Without her, humans would have been extinguished many times over. Both I and the Didact love her to this day.
> > > > "Some say she died on Earth, but this is demonstrably untrue… And after a hundred thousand years of exploration and study…
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> > > > “I know where to find her”
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> > > Halo: Primordium P:378
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> > > Now, the date is redacted, but it’s clear from the book that they are aboard an ONI ship conducting tests on Guilty Spark 343 (one of his iterations anyhow). From the above transcript I’d wager we’re fighting the Didact and/or the Librarian… or versions of their geas within other as yet unseen Forerunner machines
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> > The real threat being the Didact? No way. The didact, in the end, tried to save, not destroy.
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> I agree, it seems unlikely. I want him on our side, anyway.
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> I think we’ll be fighting Faber/the Master Builder. He was never confirmed dead, and he could be trying to put Forerunners back on top.
Agreed if and very big IF, its going to be the forerunners it will be the master builder. Correct me if I’m wrong been while since i read the books but the master builder and Didact are’nt the best of friends and the Didact did try save his human friends
> I think the ancient evil are the precursors
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> Description: (from Halo Nation)
> “Precursors are described as “very large”, with 4 upper limbs and 2 legs. Also having an “ugly head shaped like arthropods” - like spiders or crabs (described like scorpions) - they have oval, faceted slanted eyes and a “flat face”. Coming from the back of the head is a long tail with a 2 meter barb coming out of it. Whether this is the way all Precursors look has yet to be revealed, but this is the way the prisoner on Charum Hakkor is described.
> It is also revealed that this prisoner is the last known Precursor, and that every other Precursor had been ruthlessly killed in a Forerunner-Precursor war almost 150,000 years before the events of Halo and that their answer is at hand - implying that a Proto-Flood form (described as a fine dust, contained in hundreds of glass cylinders) was created as revenge or as a failsafe.”
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> Now here is the Halo 4 plot explanation on Xbox.com:
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> The Master Chief returns to battle an ancient evil bent on vengeance and annihilation. Shipwrecked on a mysterious world, faced with new enemies and deadly technology, the universe will never be the same. Enlist aboard the UNSC Infinity to experience Halo’s original multiplayer and Spartan Ops—episodic fiction-based co-op missions.
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> So the precursors are the only known thing that predate the forerunners, and look at this picture from the Halo Nation page on precursors comparing the concept art for them and pieces put together from the Halo 4 concept art video
Wasn’t it later hinted that the prisoner who claimed to be the last Precursor was actually a gravemind?
> > I think the ancient evil are the precursors
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> > Description: (from Halo Nation)
> > “Precursors are described as “very large”, with 4 upper limbs and 2 legs. Also having an “ugly head shaped like arthropods” - like spiders or crabs (described like scorpions) - they have oval, faceted slanted eyes and a “flat face”. Coming from the back of the head is a long tail with a 2 meter barb coming out of it. Whether this is the way all Precursors look has yet to be revealed, but this is the way the prisoner on Charum Hakkor is described.
> > It is also revealed that this prisoner is the last known Precursor, and that every other Precursor had been ruthlessly killed in a Forerunner-Precursor war almost 150,000 years before the events of Halo and that their answer is at hand - implying that a Proto-Flood form (described as a fine dust, contained in hundreds of glass cylinders) was created as revenge or as a failsafe.”
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> > Now here is the Halo 4 plot explanation on Xbox.com:
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> > The Master Chief returns to battle an ancient evil bent on vengeance and annihilation. Shipwrecked on a mysterious world, faced with new enemies and deadly technology, the universe will never be the same. Enlist aboard the UNSC Infinity to experience Halo’s original multiplayer and Spartan Ops—episodic fiction-based co-op missions.
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> > So the precursors are the only known thing that predate the forerunners, and look at this picture from the Halo Nation page on precursors comparing the concept art for them and pieces put together from the Halo 4 concept art video
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> Wasn’t it later hinted that the prisoner who claimed to be the last Precursor was actually a gravemind?
He was believed to be a gravemind, as far as I’ve understood from reading on the Universe forum. Lots of topics on The Timeless One in the Universe forum for those who want to learn more.
> No, no, the Ancient Evil is that last Grunt on the mission Halo in Halo 3!
But he wasn’t evil…
OT: I think the enemy will be something to do with the precursors, either them or something they created.
There is a forunner class called promethean, though the name prometheus is where the term was derived.