Reading and studying on the Precursors lately, and it seems like they will maybe have a physical role within the Games sooner than we think being that they still are “around”.
(Correct me if I am wrong, I still am not very strong with this part of the lore)
The Didact called Forerunners the guardians of all that exist. This is not true, the reason being is because the Precursors denied them of being worthy of what they left behind, plus the Precursors are the original creators of all. So wouldn’t this mean that the Guardians are the Precursors? My main point is that Halo 5’s subtitle is “Guardians”, so what if the Precursors appear?
Never thought about that. I wouldn’t say it is likely, but it also isn’t too farfetched.
The Halo novels, which are canon, explains the Precursors and what happened to them. You can read about them in a Halo wiki and as to your idea of the guardians, 343i hasn’t said what the guardians are meant to refer to in this case. There are many ways the word guardians can be used, in this case I feel it is used in an abstract sense, or actually as a title.
I think they should keep them a secret for the time being. I feel revealing too much about the forerunners is a bad idea, so precursors are out of the window for me. You have to keep some sort of mystery in the halo story.
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> I think they should keep them a secret for the time being. I feel revealing too much about the forerunners is a bad idea, so precursors are out of the window for me. You have to keep some sort of mystery in the halo story.
Yeah. Maybe we could visit some Precursor artifacts, but that’s as far as I think we should explore on the Precursors themselves.
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I would be cool with this.
Interesting theory. I actually haven’t thought of the precursors being the " Guardians." And what you’re saying makes a lot of sense, because the Precursors did create the forerunners and are the original creators, so they would be the guardians. I’ve just got a feeling that the precursors will appear later in a much bigger way and surprise us all.
Technically you are pretty close/possibly correct OP. Of course as others have said you can find more on wikia or with the books and other media regarding the precursors. The Precursors, depending on if you see them as the flood or not and completely gone, were and are the present Guardians but on a technicality that nobody else has attained the “Mantle” and whatever that responsibility requires. As a lot of us have known the Forerunners didn’t even know what it exactly meant and made up a lot for their own understanding and diction and were never truly the “Guardians” of the galaxy. In reality it just seems to be an open/vacant position that the Flood or Humans are possibly able to attain, the Forerunners have been out of that plan for a while now.
It just depends on the direction that fans or individuals take and define Guardian, as well as where the developer/writers take the title and direction. We’ll hopefully learn more soon enough.
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The Guardians in the name " Halo 5 Guardians" are going to be characters that will appear in the campaign of the first ever Bungie/343i mashup game. There are 3 types of them: Titans, Hunters and Warlocks. They came from an extra-dimensional portal to the universe of Halo, where they came across the Master Chief, a human of extraordinary power. Together, they will learn what it means to be a Guardian by: protecting Dinkle bot from horde waves, fighting the Covenant/ Fallen, fighting the Flood/ Hive, fighting the Forerunners/ Vex, fighting the Brutes/ Cabal, discovering new locations and then never returning to those locations, and then ultimately fighting the final boss of the game, who is very underwhelming.
Basically the next Destiny game.
Didn’t the Precursors turn into the flood at some point?
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> The Guardians in the name " Halo 5 Guardians" are going to be characters that will appear in the campaign of the first ever Bungie/343i mashup game. There are 3 types of them: Titans, Hunters and Warlocks. They came from an extra-dimensional portal to the universe of Halo, where they came across the Master Chief, a human of extraordinary power. Together, they will learn what it means to be a Guardian by: protecting Dinkle bot from horde waves, fighting the Covenant/ Fallen, fighting the Flood/ Hive, fighting the Forerunners/ Vex, fighting the Brutes/ Cabal, discovering new locations and then never returning to those locations, and then ultimately fighting the final boss of the game, who is very underwhelming.
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Hmn yes, quite.
Brilliant. Genius.
Based on the message of the Flood and Precursors being one and the same at this point, I don’t think we’ll ever see the Precursors proper. I think that is a good thing, I can’t see the closest things to gods in the Halo universe having a definite shape.
Well didn’t all the Precursors destroy them selves in their war with the Forerunners?
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> Based on the message of the Flood and Precursors being one and the same at this point, I don’t think we’ll ever see the Precursors proper. I think that is a good thing, I can’t see the closest things to gods in the Halo universe having a definite shape.
Well, they were described as insectoid beings.
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The Primordial was, but last I checked even Bornsteller said it looked like it was made of a collection of species all merged together.
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Lol
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> Well didn’t all the Precursors destroy them selves in their war with the Forerunners?
Pretty much except for the Primordial, he was the last one, then killed off. There are no “true” precursors anymore, but flood are still around, which were/was precursor powder a long time ago…in a galaxy…far far away? O nvm, guess it was this galaxy just on the fringe hah.
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“Those who created us were defied and hunted. Most were extinguished. A few fled beyond your reach. Creation continued.” I don’t believe all of them are dead and gone. When they mean, fled beyond your reach - they kept running until the forerunners couldn’t reach them. They continued to create, all this means is that the Milky way is kind of like a garden that was abandoned.
Weren’t they all destroyed in the forerunner fight against them , then they killed the last one in the final book in the forerunner saga? If there are any left in the universe, we probably won’t see them until further down. When the time is right. (or never)
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> Weren’t they all destroyed in the forerunner fight against them , then they killed the last one in the final book in the forerunner saga? If there are any left in the universe, we probably won’t see them until further down. When the time is right. (or never)
According to that quote, a few were spared…sounds like more than one survived. While they did execute many, and the Iso-Didact killed the Primordial. It still doesn’t make sense when he states: "A few fled beyond your reach, creation continued’ Apparently they fled to some where safe where the forerunners back then couldn’t follow and continued to create life… and while they were Tier 0 and very knowledgeable, i doubt they were gone for good…they had such an understanding of living time and the universe that a bitter tier 1 “creation” of theirs wouldn’t wipe them out completely with no way of coming back. I’d be happy knowing more about them to be honest and i’ve love for them to tie into the games at one point but it would have to be on the scale of like Destiny “where the darkness is closing in”. There will be a tipping point where the galaxy is under siege again, and that would be a perfect time to introduce one…either a vengeful one or one that assists humanity when a flood threat greater than the forerunners faced or on that scale return.