Now let’s say that his Cryptum can be opened by anyone, so what would happen if Truth or more or less the Orignal Covenant Empire found a living Forrunner?
Truth would wage war against the Didact. He thought humanity were descendants of the Forerunners which had failed to transcend to the Great Journey, and that humanity were the true aires to the Great Journey. That was in contrast to the foundations of the Covenant. Given that, I think he would try to pass the Didact off as an evil alien species, similarly to humanity. Of course, I don’t think every Forerunner would be persuaded by his arguments given that they would be literally looking at a living, advance Forerunner.
Some Covenant groups may rebel and there would be a Great Schism in that universe too. Some would remain allied with Truth, while others would opt to fight with the Didact. That’s my take on it.
A question to think about, for sure.
I’d assume the original Covenant would all follow the Didact. The same thing that happened with Jul’s Covenant would more than likely happen with the original Covenant. Truth would be in the place of Jul.
The question would become why is the Didact alive, when all the Forerunners became something more when they activated the rings? Though would anyone truly question it? Some heretics may come into existence, but I think majority of the original Covenant would very much follow one of their gods, living or ascended.
I do think Truth would want to silence anyone who ever questioned anything about anything, just in case it could all fall apart. And Truth’s original plans would immediately go down the toilet, but I would think that as long as Truth wanted to keep some kind of power, he’d follow the Didact anyways.
So I really don’t think much would be different between the original Covenant and Jul’s Covenant. Truth would be in Jul’s position. The original Covenant would be in Jul’s Covenant’s position.
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> Truth would wage war against the Didact. He thought humanity were descendants of the Forerunners which had failed to transcend to the Great Journey, and that humanity were the true aires to the Great Journey. That was in contrast to the foundations of the Covenant. Given that, I think he would try to pass the Didact off as an evil alien species, similarly to humanity. Of course, I don’t think every Forerunner would be persuaded by his arguments given that they would be literally looking at a living, advance Forerunner.
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> Some Covenant groups may rebel and there would be a Great Schism in that universe too. Some would remain allied with Truth, while others would opt to fight with the Didact. That’s my take on it.
That doesn’t make sense. Are you confused with Isodidact and Ur-Didact? They are two different beings. Ur-Didact was prisoned in Requiem. He is the Didact that hated humanity. Finding a forerunner who hates humanity perfectly fits Truth’s vision. No one would question Covenant’s foundation. Sure if Librarian leaks some information, then it could get complicated, but humanity wouldn’t have Elite separatists to help them out. Worse, Covenant gets Didact on their side. In short, humanity would not make it out alive.
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> That doesn’t make sense. Are you confused with Isodidact and Ur-Didact? They are two different beings. Ur-Didact was prisoned in Requiem. He is the Didact that hated humanity. Finding a forerunner who hates humanity perfectly fits Truth’s vision. No one would question Covenant’s foundation. Sure if Librarian leaks some information, then it could get complicated, but humanity wouldn’t have Elite separatists to help them out. Worse, Covenant gets Didact on their side. In short, humanity would not make it out alive.
You seem to misunderstand the reasons for the Covenant War. The Covenant didnt go to war because they hate humanity, they went to war because the Prophet of Truth found out that humanity might be living Forerunners.
Now, the Covenant was completely built on the idea that the Forerunners all went on the Great Journey and thus can’t be alive. Seeing an actual living Forerunner would be just as dangerous as humanity.
I’d imagine that Truth would portray him as some kind of demon Forerunner who was left behind to destroy them or something and the Covenant would then wage war.
Wasn’t there ruins on Sanghelios that even warned about waking the didact in Thursday War? The covenant seemed to have some knowledge of didact and librarian beforehand.
I feel like Truth would brand him as a devil before he realized he could be a tool against humans. He even has an actual legit fall from grace story to back him up too. He’d also challenge Truth’s power and the validity of the great journey. While he would be anti-human, I dont think he wants to activate the rings.
I doubt the Didact would be happy to see Truth considering his race fought with Ancient humans against the forerunners.
It depends.
If the Prophets had encountered the Didact before the Human-Covenant War, they would have tried to suppress him and his potential takeover of the empire.
However, had Truth encountered the Didact during the war, he would have been thrilled to see that the Didact actually shared his hatred of humans. This would consolidate the alliance, as it was supported by a living god. So the Covenant would have allied with the Prometheans in order to eliminate humanity. The Covenant’s religion would have probably smoothly transitioned into something similar to the religion of 'Mdama’s faction. (ie, worship of a “living god”.)
As for the Didact’s relationship with the San’Shyuum, I think he would have accepted them as long as they were subservient. Since they were former enemies, it would please him to see them as his new servants. And except for a handful of greedy San’Shyuum hierarchs, I think most would accept him a their god.
The Didact would have uprooted all Covenant beliefs and the empire would have dissolved quickly. It was in Truth’s best interest not to find a Forerunner.