- Sanjeev
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Origins from Halo: Legends basically showed that the Elites were around before the Halos were fired. They were catalogued, which is why they still exist today.
As for the idea of a geas, I think thats an interesting theory, perhaps the Librarian implanted them with a geas too, but from a pure writing standpoint, I feel the concept of the geas was introduced by 343 and Greg Bear to explain the 'Reclaimer' idea to the readers. Kinda cheapens the entire thing if other species were also implanted with the geas.
My initial interpretation of what 343 said to Sesa was that it was merely an assumption made by 343. Spark probably would have recognized that the Covenant weaponry and technology was heavily based off some form of Forerunner tech and hence assumed that the Covenant had studied the Forerunners extensively and knew their entire, true history.