Hello, Spartans! I came across a neat video that explains an interesting theory. This information may not be new to some of you, but I think it’s worth sharing with the community. The following video may be considered to have spoilers, so watch it at your own discretion. After watching the video, let me know what you guys thought of this theory!
http://youtu.be/YklFMcZ0c6sEDIT: My intention was not to have this topic be about the YouTube commentator’s credibility. I’d like to focus this conversation on the theory presented.
Probably not the best place to bring a halofollower video as the forums seem to dislike him due to his uneducated theories and his lack of lore knowledge
Like I said, I thought it was an interesting theory that was worth sharing with the community. I’m interested in hearing what everyone thinks about it.
Yup, Chris is nice, but his theories are the theories of someone who 1 - hasn’t read the novels properly, 2 - thinks youtube comments count as valid and 3 - is not very good at thinking logically.
Example one: The geas dilutes out into the Human genome even just as Humans spread over the Halo’s after they were devolved. It’s not a ‘character’ forming entity, just a faint memory… As best could be described. This is covered in the Forerunner novels through the travels of Chakas and Riser.
Maybe Chris just really likes youtube views…
Also I hate to say it, but his language skills suck, even ignoring his speech impediment.
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> Example one: The geas dilutes out into the Human genome even just as Humans spread over the Halo’s after they were devolved. It’s not a ‘character’ forming entity, just a faint memory… As best could be described. This is covered in the Forerunner novels through the travels of Chakas and Riser.
Can anyone elaborate on this? I haven’t been fortunate enough to read any of the Halo novels. I do not want this topic to be about the individual who is presenting the theory. I want to focus on what you guys think about the theory. Can we see examples throughout the lore that can help or debunk this theory?
The theory was largely written by someone else who is respected in the lore community (I am not going to name who it is) and follows the speculations about a geas within John. A geas being awakened makes sense in light of what the Librarian’s durance did on Requiem.
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> The theory was largely written by someone else who is respected in the lore community (I am not going to name who it is) and follows the speculations about a geas within John. A geas being awakened makes sense in light of what the Librarian’s durance did on Requiem.
I am aware that it was this theory was not brought up by the YouTube channel host. Because I’m not too familiar with the forum rules, I didn’t provide any names. Regardless of who came up with this theory, the theory seems to support some evidence. Now, is there evidence in other Halo media that can support or debunk this theory? This is my question.
Does anyone know if you can give credit to people by revealing their user-names? If I recall correctly, gamertags are not allowed. I was wondering if people in articles can be credited for their work.
Chris and the rest of the HaloFollower crew are not the most reputable of sources available- but they have become better over time (still not stellar). As far as the Iso-Didact theory, I’d actually call it possible based on how the lore sits right now. That being said, I personally don’t want it to play out like that.
Yeah I can’t stand HaloFollower, they know nothing and are YouTube view -Yoink!-'s. As for the theory itself and the part where he talks about Spark in Two Betrayals, that’s because Bungie intended Humans and Forerunners to be one and the same, instead of what we have now. That’s the big flaw unfortunately with Halo: Bungie had a much different plan for the Forerunners than 343 does.
I keep hearing people say that the reason in which Spark identified MC as the IsoDidact was because of his rampancy, which is certainly possible, but then there’s the fact that that line was even included in Silentium in first place.
Surely, you’d think that 343i wouldn’t pull out and revive such a trivial and specific line without significantly meaningful intention, no?
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> I keep hearing people say that the reason in which Spark identified MC as the IsoDidact was because of his rampancy, which is certainly possible, but then there’s the fact that that line was even included in Silentium in first place.
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> Surely, you’d think that 343i wouldn’t pull out and revive such a trivial and specific line without significantly meaningful intention, no?
True, but the main point is that Halo CE clearly didn’t plan for any of that so his statement will likely never be understood by us as Bungie originally intended.
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> Yeah I can’t stand HaloFollower, they know nothing and are YouTube view -Yoink!-'s. As for the theory itself and the part where he talks about Spark in Two Betrayals, that’s because Bungie intended Humans and Forerunners to be one and the same, instead of what we have now. That’s the big flaw unfortunately with Halo: Bungie had a much different plan for the Forerunners than 343 does.
Agreed, I really don’t see him as a person who talks seriously about it, he does it more for the purpose of creating his own theories and then get popular with his illogical theories, winch am pretty sure he knows a lot about halo, but doesn’t really shows it.
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> > I keep hearing people say that the reason in which Spark identified MC as the IsoDidact was because of his rampancy, which is certainly possible, but then there’s the fact that that line was even included in Silentium in first place.
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> > Surely, you’d think that 343i wouldn’t pull out and revive such a trivial and specific line without significantly meaningful intention, no?
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> True, but the main point is that Halo CE clearly didn’t plan for any of that so his statement will likely never be understood by us as Bungie originally intended.
I don’t think that the point of this debate is whether Bungie originally intended for the story to go this way. Although it is likely that Bungie had a different plan going on, Andycu5 brings a great point to the discussion. Why would this line be referenced again in Silentium? It seems to me that Silentium tried to tie these events somehow. I am not sure, though.
