Bungie Universe
This topic has moved here: Subject: [Cryptum Spoilers] Prisoner's Appearance?
  • Subject: [Cryptum Spoilers] Prisoner's Appearance?
Subject: [Cryptum Spoilers] Prisoner's Appearance?

I'm just your average idiot savant.

I was just wondering, what exactly does the prisoner look like? I've heard conflicting reports that he/she/it looks either like a sea scorpion or a large four-armed humanoid...thing. Can someone help me out here?

  • 03.20.2011 6:24 PM PDT

Vengeance only leads to an ongoing cycle of hatred.

I believe the Precursors looked like a sea scorpion. That's all I've been hearing. Also, people suspect the Gravemind is the prisoner. Which would make sense.

  • 03.20.2011 6:37 PM PDT

Signatures are for squares.

Halo: Cryptum: pg 277:

The cell contained, in temporal suspension, a genuine monster: a large creature with an overall anatomy like a grossly misshapen human, though possessed of four upper limbs, two degenerate legs, and an almost indescribably ugly head - a head shaped remarkably like that of an ancient arthropod seeded long ago on a number of planets, presumably by the Precursors, and known by some as a eurypterid. A sea scorpion.

Oval, faceted, slanted eyes bumped up from the front of it's low, flat "face." And from the rear of it's head, a long, segmented tail descended the spine, ending in a wicked barb two meters in length.

  • 03.20.2011 6:48 PM PDT

I'm just your average idiot savant.


Posted by: privet caboose
Halo: Cryptum: pg 277:

The cell contained, in temporal suspension, a genuine monster: a large creature with an overall anatomy like a grossly misshapen human, though possessed of four upper limbs, two degenerate legs, and an almost indescribably ugly head - a head shaped remarkably like that of an ancient arthropod seeded long ago on a number of planets, presumably by the Precursors, and known by some as a eurypterid. A sea scorpion.

Oval, faceted, slanted eyes bumped up from the front of it's low, flat "face." And from the rear of it's head, a long, segmented tail descended the spine, ending in a wicked barb two meters in length.

Huh. I see. I suspected it might be a combination of the two, but I didn't (And still haven't) read the actual book so I wasn't sure.

  • 03.20.2011 7:05 PM PDT