Based off the latest Halo 5 trailer, it seems we won’t be seeing MechaDidact as our main antagonist. Instead, it’s implied that the Warden Eternal will be the primary foe.
Just my thoughts, I see him as a more ambiguous enemy than anything else. Presumably being behind the Guardians, he’s obviously causing widespread destruction to the galaxy. However, being related to the Domain, his intentions are likely more benevolent than we might think.
I think he is friends with Blue Team. Watch the e3 Demo. " The master Chief Has called, But you, Your passage is denied "
If he was the main villain then the Master Chief wouldn’t be working with him.
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> If he was the main villain then the Master Chief wouldn’t be working with him.
Guilty Spark was the main villain in Halo: CE and Chief worked with him.
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> I think he is friends with Blue Team. Watch the e3 Demo. " The master Chief Has called, But you, Your passage is denied "
We dont know the full context of that though.
In one of the snippets, Chief clearly engages conversation with the Warden, but it seems, foreboding. I wouldnt be surprised if the Warden truly was the primary threat. I also wouldnt be surprised if there’s more than one of him and mechadidact is one, or controlling them in general.
I think the real villain is will be “its complicated”
The true villain in Halo has never been clear. In halo 1, it was the covenant initially, but 343 GS had the more sinister ambitions… until you realize that he was just trying to save the galaxy from the flood… again.
In Halo 2, you learn that the covenant is really just a group of mislead, enslaved, and confused species… half of them end up regretting what they’ve done. And the flood itself is just a misguided attempt at stopping all the bickering… so I guess the prophets are the main villain here? Gravemind even helped save the day.
Halo 3 is a balancing act between helping the flood keep the array from firing, and keeping the flood from consuming everything.
Halo 4 is the first in the numbered series to have a Main villain… and I’m still don’t perfectly understand his motivations.
Hopefully, halo 5 is more like the first 3, a tangled web of twisted, short term allegiances, where multiple parties believe they have the moral high ground. Considering ONI will stop at nothing to protect humanity, even if it mean perpetuating human and alien civil wars, Jul M’dama was right that humans were not to be trusted, MC isn’t beyond sacrificing human lives for the greater good, Locke believes his hunting a traitor, The UNSC has been backstabbing the Arbiter from the moment they declared peace with him, the outer colonies have a bone to pick with the central government, and Forerunners have always thought they were God’s Gift to the Universe, I’d say that yet again, a clear “villain” won’t be established… and that’s a good thing!
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> If he was the main villain then the Master Chief wouldn’t be working with him.
Yep…but as I said before 343 has a plan…so…
I find it curious as he’s talking, Blue Team lowers their weapons. What he says must be pretty good if they lower their guns slightly.
I think the Warden Eternal is the Didact. As the Ur-Didact, he saw himself as the warden of the Mantle. Now composed, he is eternal - the Warden Eternal. Even the way he moved seemed similar to the Didact.
I don’t think that the voice we heard for the Warden at E3 was the actual voice. I think it was a stage-in to keep his identity secret.
If Warden Eternal was something as simple as the main villian, I don’t think 343 would have revealed him beforehand.
They’ve said the story is built as a mystery for the player to solve, and that they are keeping major parts of it in the dark. If it all ultimately boils down to “Warden Eternal is bad, let’s stop him”… Yeah. No. If that was the case, it would make no sense to reveal him months early and even present him as a villian by default. They also kept Didact as a secret before Halo 4 launched (or tried to).
I think early introduction just implies that Warden is one of the major players in the story, along with Blue Team and Osiris. 343 just WANTS us to think he’s a villian, so they are very ambiguously presenting him as such.
I don’t see him as an enemy. As others have said there never is a true enemy in a halo game, there is always some type of twist. Even the Didact should not have been an enemy but was forced in to becoming one. I think we are in for a killer story with a lot of plot twists.