The Didact HAS RETURNED + A TON MORE (HUGE NEW HALO LORE)

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  @HiddenXperia · 2 years ago · pinned

  Fellas - you absolutely HAVE to read, or imo, LISTEN to Halo: Epitaph. It's narrated by the Didact himself so it literally feels like one big cutscene, cannot recommend enough!

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  @gideonkimbrel7181 · 2 years ago

  Somehow the didactic has returned

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  @sonicrunn3r895 · 2 years ago

  To my knowledge, this is the first time Warden Eternal has been mentioned in almost 10 years, and I think that's hilarious

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  @coffeecannon · 2 years ago

  You got something wrong at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0zosXsuUPs&amp;t=1080">18:00</a> - The DIdact DID help Chief and Blue team, he notably weakens the Guardian&apos;s gravity coil grip on the Cryptum enough for Exuberant to yank it away. Its quite a stressed point in the book!<br><br>He almost doesn&apos;t do it, but feels that pissing off Cortana is worth saving his killer and enemy, lol

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  @PaulRobertson-vu6kg · 2 years ago

  Hey so you missed an important thing, the Didact DID have a hand in helping Chief being saved in Halo 5. Spoiler but in the book it talks of the Didact actively grabbing the link between the Guardian and the cryptum Chief and Blue Team are trapped in, thus weaking the grab the Guardian has on it and allowing the sentinels to break it open. He just mocks Cortana saying he was a satisfied bystander.

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  @Sepheus13 · 2 years ago (edited)

  The flood is playing the absolute long game. <br>4d chess.<br><br>-The twisted precursors set it up so that the flood will always survive. The gravemind laughs at the didact about the halos and says that those installations are their salvation. Every forerunner installation has flood containment facilities. Its only a matter of time until they are released again. <br><br><br>The book is amazing for showing the perspective of someone with the logic plague. They truly don&apos;t see that their actions are assisting the floods long goal and think they are doing it for the mantle/living time. <br><br>The way the logic plague is talked about it seems a mind is torn apart to its roots and reassembled with fundamental flaws built in. The ones affected seem to be apathetic to their former cares and their actions directly help the precursors long goal.<br><br>So. <br><br>Flood infected Mendicant bias. Twisting its view to see the forerunners as the true blight on living time. <br><br>The GM also infects the Ur-Didact and sends him back to the ecumene. With messages to Faber and ultimately no cares about the remaining forerunners. He has a new agenda. His actions of leading the flood to the Ark and composing the halo humans leads him to be trapped in a cryptum on requiem. But THATS ALL PART OF HIS PLAN. or should I say the graveminds plan to ensure his insanity still exists 100 millennia from then.<br><br>Flash forward. <br><br>GM infects Cortana, and ultimately sends her on the path to try and claim the mantle. She thinks she is doing this for the betterment of the galaxy. <br><br>After Halo 3 it is heavily implied that Mendicant Bias sent Chief and Cortana to requiem. <br><br>They release the insane Didact and he begins his conquest of the humans (is this part of the twisted mantle test? The one designed to fail?) &nbsp;It creates absolute chaos for the humans and introduces the idea of the Mantle. Right when they are arguably the peak of the milky way. <br><br>These events lead cortana to enter her rampancy, probably onset by the logic plague and she gets OBSESSED with the mantle. <br><br>When it is revealed at the end of the book that her actions are the result of the logic plague she finally wakes up. Realizes that yes. She was touched by the gravemind. And ultimately sacrifices herself.<br><br>So. <br>MB sent chief to wake the Didact, where cortana went rampant. Where the created was born. <br><br>The damn precursors are responsible for EVERY major conflict humanity has dealt with in the halo universe

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  @ABoxIsMyHome · 2 years ago

  The didactic returning is becoming a 343 comedic trope

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  @me_Gustav · 2 years ago

  Holy shit, I actually love how this ties up a lot of the plots from Halo 5: Guardians and Halo Infinite in a way that is actually satisfactory! And it still leaves some stuff open for interpretation with the Endless and Offensive- and Mendicant Bias. Amazing,

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  @mph23290 · 2 years ago (edited)

  It&apos;s interesting to think that the Covenants belief in paradise beyond the Great Journey isn&apos;t completely wrong, even if they were wrong in how it worked. <br><br>The domain acts as an afterlife, where you&apos;re in purgatory until you come to peace with all the good and bad within your life. And once you have achieved peace, you&apos;re welcomed into the domain proper, where you then experience an existance that is the idealistic version of the life you want, your paradise. <br><br>Had the domain not been damaged after the firing of the Halo&apos;s, the Forerunners would have found their peace and entered their own paradises. <br><br>The Covenant believed you&apos;d go to paradise upon firing the rings, believing the Forerunners transcended to this paradise, the afterlife upon firing the Halo&apos;s. <br><br>They weren&apos;t too far off at all, even if they were condemning all to die with them upon activating the array.

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  @FireChicken747 · 2 years ago

  WE NEED SOMEONE TO ANIMATE THE FIGHT BETWEEN THE WARDEN AND THE DIDACT!!! PLEASE IM BEGGING SOMEONE TO DO IT!!

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  @olliegodfrey482 · 2 years ago

  I also love how Didact and Forthenchos alliance directly parellels Chief and Arbiters. Two sworn enemies responsible for commiting atrocities coming together to fight a larger threat in the name of their own survival.

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  @Stefan-br2cf · 2 years ago

  A Cyborg in a Citadel and not knowing what is Dream and True? I hear you Marathon, I hear you....

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