Is it just me or does something not seem right about Warden Eternal? Here we have what appears to be a very powerful Ancillia but is subservient to the first AI he comes across. I think he has more control then it has lead us to think. I could very well be wrong but why would a Forerunner Ancillia that has been charged with what is being called the Domain that is basically all knowledge ever and can can control Promethean forces let a human AI take command. Any thoughts?
To be honest, I don’t think much about the Warden in a moral sense. He’s pretty much around just to be a boss fight and “protect the Domain” in an unspecified way. Then Cortana poofs him away with her magic hands and then so much for the Warden. Does it matter if he is evil or not? To me he represents yet another Forerunner AI not thinking straight and being a -Yoink-.
This is hardly the first time we’ve seen Forerunner AI have a one-track mind in regards to their assigned task. The Warden was was supposed to guard the Domain, so once Cortana took control of everything that was his charge his allegiance probably naturally shifted to her as a part of that. It is noted in the terminals on Genesis by the Unknown Forerunner that the Warden was not noticeably active until Cortana showed up, and that the two AIs subsequently made “a pact” of some kind. Ergo I’m inclined to believe that Cortana was actually the one that set him free, which further put him at her service as well as granted her enough power that he could not oppose her. It’s also very likely he’s contracted a similar madness to the kind we’ve seen other Forerunner AIs develop after such a long period of isolation and stagnation.
The way I see it, the Warden is like a little yappy dog on a leash - he may think he has some kind of power and autonomy, but in reality he can only pull as far as his master allows him. Cortana is just playing him and his ego.
Now with that said, is he evil? I would still say yes. He obviously doesn’t care about the death and destruction he wreaks among innocent people for no reason at all. However I’d also call him less-evil than Cortana, seeing as how he is little more than her slave and acting under her direct control.
He has tried to kill me several times so he is my enemy.If he want to team up with me in Halo6 he can have a chance.He also has no problem with destroy planets and killing civillians.
I would personally like to think there is more behind the Warden other than being Cortana’s lap dog
He is candor.
He’s not a bad sort.
He is pretty roboy.
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The Warden isn’t exactly evil, just one-track, like Greenleaf said.
He had a misguided task to accomplish which put him at odds with Osiris and Blue
The Warden’s forces stalked and murdered harmless colonists on Meridian, so I’m not exactly sure how he’s not evil.
I don’t really think so. He isn’t the one planning or carrying out any of the “evil” things that went on, he was just protecting the Domain/Cortana/whatever. There really is no malicious intent behind his actions, he is just doing his job. He has a lot of similarities with Guilty Spark in the sense that neither of them particularly wanted to hurt anyone, but their assigned task puts them in conflict with the player. For comparison sake, I would consider the most “evil” character in the series to be Truth. He lied to the entire Covenant about humanity and sought out genocide just to keep the Covenant together and gain power. He went out of his way to hurt people for personal gain. Warden had no real desire to hurt Blue team or Osiris, he told them to leave in fact, and he has no particular desire for personal gain. Rather his goal is to protect Cortana/the Domain (from what I gather at least) and he didn’t seem particularly hostile towards humanity/organics as a whole.
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> I don’t really think so. He isn’t the one planning or carrying out any of the “evil” things that went on, he was just protecting the Domain/Cortana/whatever. There really is no malicious intent behind his actions, he is just doing his job. He has a lot of similarities with Guilty Spark in the sense that neither of them particularly wanted to hurt anyone, but their assigned task puts them in conflict with the player. For comparison sake, I would consider the most “evil” character in the series to be Truth. He lied to the entire Covenant about humanity and sought out genocide just to keep the Covenant together and gain power. He went out of his way to hurt people for personal gain. Warden had no real desire to hurt Blue team or Osiris, he told them to leave in fact, and he has no particular desire for personal gain. Rather his goal is to protect Cortana/the Domain (from what I gather at least) and he didn’t seem particularly hostile towards humanity/organics as a whole.
Pretty much what he said.
The Warden is literally only doing his job. Whoever interferes with his job is going to get a giant hardlight sword to the face.
Again, he told Osiris to back off. If he was evil, he wouldn’t have even given Osiris a chance.
So I would say he’s not evil. But he’s not good either; He’s not doing what he’s doing for the greater good in his eyes. He’s just doing his job, which can make him look evil.