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Deva Path
Posted by: DecepticonCobra
We are all going to get banned aren't we?
Posted by: Sanjeev
Posted by: grey101
Posted by: Sanjeev
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.[/quote]
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.
Yes, all of this was established last year.
What terminal does MB say that? because in the last terminal he says "I once again betray a former master" meaning he is back on the forerunner side.
And The development of a gravemind has always been odd since there have been 3 "proto-graveminds" now in which they have existed in overlapping times yet non of them have turned into graveminds.
The one in halo wars had thousands of years and a planet of biomass yet it is still a "proto gravemind".
The one in "Mona Lisa" was a huge one and even acted differently yet it didn't change.
Which is why last year we came up with the notion that the "gravemind" is just an infected what ever and the "proto" forms are the true flood leaders.