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Subject: So I just finished reading Cryptum...

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*For those who haven't read the book, there might be some spoilers here. I myself only got the book a week ago so, yeah.*

Having finished Cryptum I'm left with my mind blown, an eagerness for the next book, and a theory.

As we know, Mendicant Bias communicated with what we have been led to believe was the first Gravemind, which we can now link to the 43 years from when MB fired a Halo near Charum Hakkor and mysteriously disappeared.

At the end of the book, Bornstellar goes back into some of the Didact's memories and, in a sense, relives the dialog the mysterious prisoner spoke:

*Spoilerish part, stop reading if you have not read the book etc*


We meet again, young one. I am the last of those who gave you breath and shape and form, millions of years ago.
I am the last of those your kind rose up against and ruthlessly destroyed.
I am the last Precursor.
And our answer is at hand.



*End spoilerish part*

So, what does this leave us with? It's highly possible that this Precursor could somehow develop into the Gravemind. Perhaps the Flood somehow infected him; his races' final revenge turned against its master. Or perhaps it was intentional? Maybe the Precursors-these 4 armed, flat-headed, barbed tail fellows-intended to use the flood on themselves. Obviously that's just a theory, but hell, it might be right.

At the end of this, the one thing that practically screams to us here though, is that there is a link between this last precursor and the Gravemind. What happens to this last Precursor however is still unknown. The flood itself, may just be an agent of sorts, and the Gravemind we know of (tentacle-y and flood-y and such) could just be what we know of it as; the flood's heightened consciousness having reached a sufficient level of self sustainability.

Finishing off, if you too share some ideas on the concept, please discuss. I'd love to see some discussion on this, even if it's been done before.

  • 05.18.2011 12:12 AM PDT

Maybe the Precursors and the Flood are one and the same...?

  • 05.18.2011 12:31 AM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

Its pretty much confirmed by the terminals that the prisoner and the mind are one and the same. we are just waiting to see how exactly he turns into the mind. because if you haven't noticed none of the "proto" graveminds look or act anything like the final product.

  • 05.18.2011 6:52 AM PDT