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Subject: Cup stays here?

Roll the dice, try again.

where was it before? Is it suppose to move? What does this mean? I remember reading this a few months ago

  • 03.22.2012 11:49 AM PDT

In a time long past, the armies of the dark came again to the lands of men. Their leaders became known as the fallen lords, and their terrible sorcery was without equal in the west.
In 30 years they reduced the civilized nations into carrion and ash. Until the free city of Madrigal alone defined them. An army gathered there, and a desperate battle was joined against the fallen
Heros were born in the fire and bloodshed of the wars which followed and their names and deeds will never be forgotten

The Pentathlon cup stays here!

  • 03.22.2012 11:50 AM PDT

The Pentathalon trophy. Trophies are often referred to as 'Cups.' So Achronos was saying they were going to win again and keep the trophy where it was as opposed to someone else winning and moving it.

  • 03.22.2012 11:51 AM PDT
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You see, cup is a metaphor or symbol. A cup is an object that holds something, usually a liquid such as water. Water is a symbol for life. So by cup, it means carrier of life, or more precisely, earth.

Stays is a word that represents the past, present and future, a word that represents the unchanged of something through time.

Here is a relative term, here could be anywhere, depending on where who said here is.

So we can then interpret this sentence as "Earth has and will always be with you." We can obviously reinterpret this sentence as one of comfort to those who it's said, a sort of greeting "I do say, cup stays here, my good friend".

  • 03.22.2012 12:01 PM PDT

If I rememeber the story correctly, the phrase originated when there were still separate offices in Chicago and Seattle.

[Edited on 03.22.2012 12:04 PM PDT]

  • 03.22.2012 12:04 PM PDT

Not Seattle, BBB, I think the Oni team stole it away to California, Bungie West was there.

  • 03.22.2012 12:17 PM PDT