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Posted by: grey101
"Child of my enemy why have you come here? i offer you no forgiveness, a fathers sins..pass to his son"
That was said by the all meaning gravemind himself child of my enemy mind you that the gravemind has consumed millions of forerunners and has thier knowledge, i would also like to think that he would be able to tap into the geas of humanity by consuming them also, meaning he would have full knowledge of everything.
I was always under the impression that the gravemind that talked to Master Chief was formed after the Covenant and Humans came into contact with the flood on the first halo. I thought Captain Keyes became a part of the proto-gravemind that became the fully formed gravemind.
Although it seems like the humans and forerunners (side note, I think of forerunners as "space elves" after reading Cryptum) were created by the precursors, well at least the forerunners didn't create the humans, the humans were devolved, and its possible that as the forerunners faded out of existence in our galaxy they designated the humans as their successors.
Think of it as twin brothers, one was devolved into a baby, and as the other died it made the other its adopted son, if you will.
So to look at the gravemind quote, this is how I view it:
"[adopted] Child of my enemy why have you come here? i offer you no forgiveness, a fathers sins (forerunner)..pass to his son (humanity)"
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
I had always believed that the Prisoner was imprisoned because he created the Flood, which would have been seen as an abomination to the rest of the life-loving Precursors. It could be said the Precursors were split into two camps.
Camp A) Traditionalists, creators and protectors of life to aid and mature the universe. Created humanity/the Forerunners and maybe the Elites to one day inherit the role of the Mantle.
Camp B) More radicle, see there power over the natural laws of the universe as a right to control, but are impeded by the benovolent nature of the traditional Precursors. They use their powers to create a counter to the Forerunners and humanity, a more perfect specemin of life: The Flood. Lead by the Flood's future dark master: The future Gravemind.
This sparks a civil war, which the traditionalists ultimately win, who then throw the Gravemind into a eternal captivity while the Precursors partake in the Great Journey (whatever that is), forever leaving the Prisoner behind. The Prisoner, gone insane over the millions of years of isolation, convinces himself the Forerunners and humanity are the reason for his captivity, and begins plotting his escape and revenge on his enemies.
This would explain the Mind's hatred towards the Forerunners and humanity (eventually), his story to Didact saying the Forerunners wiped out the Precursors (when they really went on the Journey, as Didact says they do in the Terminals), and what the Mind means by saying "Child of my enemy, why have you come?"
Its already been established that the Forerunners tend to believe the Precursors created humanity as well, so we need an explanation for that line. It'll also explain why the Precursors locked up one of their own, the one who happened to bear the message "this [the Flood] is our answer."
There's too many unknowns about the Precursors. The one solid fact that we have is that the last precursor stated that his vengeance (the flood) is upon them (the forerunners).