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Posted by: anton1792
Posted by: Killer Crunch
With this parts of the game have suddenly become non-canon. Like in Halo 3 when the gravemind says to the master chief. "Child of my enemy why have you come? I offer no forgiveness, a fathers sins pass to his son."
This does not rule out the concept of adoption. The Forerunner adopted Humanity to be their heirs after an unknown amount of time and/or an unknown event. We will most likely find out in the next novels. This does not definitely mean that Humanity are the physical descendants or creation of the Forerunner, there is room for interpretation.
Posted by: Killer Crunch
or when the Prophet of truth says "I know now why they left you behind, you were weak and gods must be strong."
The Prophet of Truth is not entirely trustworthy, and whatever characters themselves think can sometimes be incorrect. It would be very boring if every character was omniscient and honest all the time.
From his viewpoint he thought that Humanity was the descendants because he was very ignorant of the truth, and from what he learned from Mendicant Bias. As for why Mendicant called Humanity his "makers and Masters" ... Well, Humanity had inherited all the Forerunners technology. That would include MB, therefore Humanity were his new masters.
Posted by: Killer Crunch
Humanity is the creation of the Forerunner, there last greatest creation intended to carry on the Mantel which was passed to them by the Precursors. In one of the computer logs on the ark between the two Forerunner, one of them seems to be describing earth and humanity, referring to us as "them."
No. It was explicitly stated that they stumbled upon Humanity in the terminals. At that time, almost everybody interpreted that to mean that the Forerunner found Humanity late into the war with the Flood. They could not have created Humanity.
Now however, they knew about Humanity for a while. However I think that the Librarian may not have been speaking about Humanity itself but rather something she discovered about Humanity; a discovery that was made late into the war. Somebody had definitely tampered with Earth and Humanity before the Forerunners got to them.
Posted by: Killer Crunch
Also what happened to these supposed human subspecies that were created by the Forerunner when the devolved us, a term I detest using.
They obviously died out, like many of Humanity's ancient cousins have. Neanderthals as an example.
Posted by: Killer Crunch
Why did the Elites forget our alliance and turn on us and worship the Forerunner?
Elites? Well that would be nice except that it was the Prophets. And they forgot about the alliance because they were likewise "de-evolved" after the Forerunner obliterated what was left of their race and civilisation. The Librarian only managed to save a few.
"You are the child of my makers, inheritor of all they left behind. YOU ARE FORERUNNER!!" 343 Guilty Spark