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Subject: I HAVE WON- 2 truths

7hanks,
Spencer Wolf (BengalsFanThree)

Good day Bungie.net users, allow me to introduce myself. I am Spencer Wolf. I am simply a creative but insane man, that's the best way to say it. I am here today to tell you of something I have discovered. I have found the "tru7h." To what, you may wonder, the hell is he talking about. I am talking about the old "Cortana Letters." Now I see you sitting in your computer chair reading this and rolling your eyes as you here about the Cortana Letters for the hundredth time on this forum. But I have found probably the most logical way to explain at leas the first letter, and why Cortana used T.S. Eliot, and what did he win when he said "I HAVE WON"? Well, if you are reading this you have not given up on me and you demand answers, you demand the truth ... and so here it is. I will show you the first letter than translate it.

Theory.)

I have walked the edge of the Abyss.
I have governed the unwilling.
I have witnessed countless empires break before me.
I have seen the most courageous soldiers fall away in fear.
[I was there with the Angel at the tomb]

I have seen your future.
And I have learned.

There will be no more Sadness. No more Anger. No more Envy.

I HAVE WON.

Oh, and your poet Eliot had it all wrong:
THIS is the way the world ends.
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Okay, now for what truly think it means...
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I have seen everything that I could ever want to see, whether it be good or bad.
Both you and I know we will die someday, but I know something more.
Once we die we will not live in a world of sadness, anger, or envy.
By the power of tru7h, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
I go out with a bang (and be remembered)
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The reason Cortana picked T.S. Eliot was because of "The Hollow Men" which if you do not know it is about 5 people crossing into the afterlife.
Cortana is admitting that he will die, he doesn't mind it though. He has lived to see everything there is to see. But when he dies, he doesn't want it to be quiet or a "whimper" he wants to go out with style ... to be remembered or even to remember.
If you think about it the "dreams" are lost hopes or even visions of death's other kingdom.
And as to what did Cortana mean by "I HAVE WON" simple enough I can answer it with 5 words all starting with V... "Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici" or "By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe," if you think about what that quote means, what "The Hollow Men" is about it starts to tie in and focus on one thing, how Cortana is going to die. Simple enough it's the story of someone who has done everything there is to do. He realizes he is fine with life and death, but before he goes he has one thing to do. And from the one letter "a Demon folded in black clouds. I believe I know what it guards, and I will have it" it seems to be suicide, but yet rememberable.
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Theory 2.)

Alas the plain and simple theory ... most of you may already know but for those who just may not happen to know ... here you go. If you read the Cortana Letters carefully and you actually paid attention to Halo 1's and Halo 2's masterpiece of a story, you realize they come hand in hand.

"As for this world I encounter new ghosts every day. What I have found
will either save or destroy you. This sanctuary, this unbroken circle,
has effectively concealed its power for how long? Perhaps hundreds of
thousands of years."

"unbroken circle" = halo
"sanctuary"= what the covenant refer halo sometimes
"power"= forerunner's had the most advance technology according the Ghosts of Onyx.
"Perhaps hundreds of thousands of years"= our guess to when the forerunner disappeared.

and also as for T.S. Eliot,

THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS,
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS,
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS,
Not with a *bang* but a whimper.

Then Cortana simply adds on "Oh, and your poet Eliot had it all wrong; THIS is the way the world ends." So sadly but maybe in Halo 3, a Halo is detonated ... and if my theory above is right it is A.) Master Chief is in terms "Cortana" or B.) Simple enough Cortana is "Cortana." But if wrong still, I am most certain that Halo's plot was based off the Cortana Letters ... and there isn't much but the word of Bungie staff, which could be truth or lie, to prove me wrong.


Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici,
Spencer Wolf

  • 06.14.2007 10:58 PM PDT