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Posted by: Sanjeev
Posted by: grey101
Posted by: Sanjeev
Posted by: FTW 1997
Posted by: Sanjeev
I think the Timeless One looks exactly like what Cryptum described him as: 4 arms, sort of like huge version of a Predator perhaps?
The Gravemind is his puppet.
The timeless one is the gravemind we defeated in Halo 3(most likely defeated because he survived one halo activation he can survive another).
See thats what I thought at first, but it kinda makes The Timeless One's introduction into the Halo universe a pointless one if his story is already over, right? That's why I think since the Flood is seemingly the Precursors' creation, the Gravemind, as a construct, is a tool using which the Precursors control the Flood.
You could clearly tell that the "thing" was lying about that.
It was clearly stated not even the ancient humans believed that and greg even implied on his board that it was lying.
Regardless, if the Gravemind that Bias was working with is indeed The Timeless One, it means that guy died a long time ago. The Gravemind we meet in the Halo games is another iteration that managed to grow on Installation 05. They have this whole Flood collective intelligence thing going on, so that means The Timeless One technically still lives in the Flood hivemind and could easily resurface at any point.
One thing to consider, however, is that in the Terminals in Halo 3, Bias tells the Gravemind that he now serves a new master, which I'm going to just go out on a limb, with evidence from the timeline presented in Cryptum, that this new master is The Timeless One.
What this means and where this ends, I don't know. Primordium probably will help fill in some details.
The thing to remember when discussing the Gravemind is that he is not the only Gravemind to ever exist. Hell, there could even be multiple Graveminds that exist at the same time since they all grow from the Flood Proto-Gravemind forms. Its just that this particular Gravemind got pretty far. When seen this way, it doesn't really make sense to just lump The Timeless One into one of these Graveminds.
Basically flood and gravemind are all one.
If flood exists then there is a gravemind somewhere away....it will know of it and know what that flood group knows.
So you can say that the flood existed on installation was there even before activation so it know what timelessone knew and what the previous gravemind knew.
Also i recon that the "new master" is Spartan117 since MB helped Spartan 117 get to ark and defeat flood.
[Edited on 11.07.2011 8:17 AM PST]