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Posted by: llamalizard
Posted by: Will_Spartan043
um, k
-"Do you know where we are?"
-"The mausoleum of the Arbiter"
-"Quite, so"
-"Here rest the Vanguard of the Great Journey"
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-"Even on my knees, I do not belong in their presence"
Not a mark of shame, a mark of honor.
"You are the Arbiter, the will of the Prophets"
And Halo Wars.. not officially recognized Halo canon.
Ensemble made most of that up to fit what they wanted for that game.
which was :@ in every respect.
No, you're wrong.
It is a mark of shame and honour at the same time. It spares the covenant's worst sangheili criminals from a quick death, instead promising them a death doing the work of their prophets, where they are almost certain to die much slower and more painfully. No self-respecting elite wants to be branded a heretic, but that's exactly what the brand is - a mark of failure, a mark of the heretic, a mark of blasphemy, a mark of shame.
There was definitely more than one suit of Arbiter armour. Honestly, how can you be so stupid to believe that the covenant could retrieve a suit of armour from many different areas, never have it damaged and somehow have it always fit an elite?
Halo Wars is official Canon, whether you like it or not. Ensemble worked alongside Bungie to make sure that NO aspects of their story broke canon. Anything that does seem to (meeting flood, sentinels, arbiderka, amount of spartans at reach), can be classified as a retroactive canon, and should just be accepted. If you met a single life form on a planet which was no more than essentially gasbags would you honestly tell everyone about if when you got back? And honestly, how dangerous would they think something which, to their knowledge, only lived on what is now a destroyed planet?
The Arbiter is a position of honor.
"OUR" Arbiter, failed in the fact that he allowed Halo to be destroyed. He was a heretic because their, "most sacred ring" was "allowed" to be destroyed. Their prophecy then negated, throwing everything about their covenant into question. The Elite that became the Arbiter was therefore branded a heretic.
-"You are one of our most treasured, instruments"
Not just any Elite can become the Arbiter.
-"We know you are no heretic, the Council was.. overzealous"
From contact harvest we know the Prophets were politicians. They appeased the council, telling them "they will have their corpse." Just think of Tarturus' expression when he brought our arbiter before the Prophets. It was expected that he was going to be executed. The arbiter is a position of honor, not shame. No criminal would ever be given the responsibility that came with being "the will of the prophets"
And I never said there was one suit of armor, but this quote from Halo 2.
-"Your armor system is not as new.. as ours. Your camouflage will not last forever"
suggests that it is in fact the one and only armor for the Arbiter. Though likely not. But it sure wasn't custom made for our Arbiter.
-"Here rest the vanguard of the great journey. Every Arbiter from first to last. Each one created and concealed in times of extraordinary crisis."
-"The taming of the hunters, the grunt rebellion, were it not for the Arbiter the Covenant would have broken long ago"
-"Even on my knees i do not belong in their presence"
this line is just affirming the legendary status of the Arbiter. He did not expect to become the Arbiter. They spared his life and gave him a chance to redeem himself with an honor he could have never imagined in his lifetime.
Halo Wars was not created by Bungie. It simply followed "guidelines" as outlined in their "Halo Bible". Almost all of the events that took place in that game were made up for the sake of a story in the game. While i'm not sure if any of it actually conflicted with "official" Halo canon, it was still a cheap rip-off of something great. Calling it the same thing, is insulting to the Halo title. And think of it this way, Bungie is refusing to produce more Halos as of right now, yet Microsoft is taking it upon themselves to milk the cow for as long as possible. Bungie has no choice in the matter, because they were once owned by Microsoft. The rights to this title do not solely rest in Bungie's hands anymore. Halo is their "baby," and they made the mistake of marrying it to a greedy corporation. Halo is going to get raped by 343 Industries. The commercial machine is no more canon than what your younger brother comes up with as an awesome story for how the chief goes back in time and somehow ends up in the prequel as his older self.
No slapping Halo on the side of something does not make it official canon. It just means you have a lot of money and you own the commercial rights to someone else's creative idea.
[Edited on 10.25.2009 11:19 PM PDT]