So I’ve got 2 questions (hopefully these don’t sound dumb) 1. So were the prophets (truth in particular) truly believers in the great journey or were they literally just insanely hell bent on exterminating everything? 2. So (in my opinion) humanity would have lost if not for the great schism. So, if truth is so clever, then why couldn’t he have literally just waited a few more days to start exterminating the sangheli? Atleast until humanity was defeated? It just seems like there wasn’t any plausible explanation for promoting the brutes and killing off the elites before the war was even over. Thoughts?
Ord Casto was indeed a devout follower of the “Great Journey”, however, upon learning of the connection between Humanity and the Forerunners, via the Mendicant Bias fragment, the information would ultimately manipulate and mould him into the “Mad Prophet”.
In terms, of why the Prophet of Truth favored the Jiralhanae, over the Sangheili, is simply due to his lust of power, trust of the Elites and the obedience of the Brutes; this would lead him to greater influence the Covenant Empire, and easily overthrow any resistance
Ah ok that makes sense. Thanks!
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> Ah ok that makes sense. Thanks!
You should get Halo Broken circle worth the investment. Lots of insight on the covenant.
Truth definitely wanted power, that’s for dang sure. But whether or not he believed, I’m not entirely sure. He definitely did before the Covenant found Humanity and Medicant Bias told him Humans were Reclaimers (in which he believed meant they were living Forerunners). But after that, I’m not too sure.
Truth preferred Brutes because they were far more obedient. Elites would either worry about their honor or possibly question the Great Journey (which happened on multiple occasions).
Why he didn’t wait until Humanity was exterminated to begin the Great Schism doesn’t make much sense to me. Perhaps he didn’t expect such a revolt. Or one that would end up as such as large civil war. Unless I missed something somewhere, it doesn’t make much sense to me.
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> Truth definitely wanted power, that’s for dang sure. But whether or not he believed, I’m not entirely sure. He definitely did before the Covenant found Humanity and Medicant Bias told him Humans were Reclaimers (in which he believed meant they were living Forerunners). But after that, I’m not too sure.
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> Truth preferred Brutes because they were far more obedient. Elites would either worry about their honor or possibly question the Great Journey (which happened on multiple occasions).
> Why he didn’t wait until Humanity was exterminated to begin the Great Schism doesn’t make much sense to me. Perhaps he didn’t expect such a revolt. Or one that would end up as such as large civil war. Unless I missed something somewhere, it doesn’t make much sense to me.
Truth expected the Sangheili to rebel. He also knew what the Halos did. In Halo 3 you can hear him say that the Ark is a shelter from the Rings’ fire and that many were left behind.
Im pretty sure all that inbreeding was making the prophets braindead, which is why MC was able to -Yoink- their -Yoink- up.