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Subject: The Cortana Letters

Hi all, sorry if I'm walking on old ground here but i'd thought I'd share this with you

just watched the latest ign.com weeekly 10 (http://uk.games.ign.com/articles/700/700315p1.html) and it raised a few interesting points about what could be in Halo 3.

The cortana letters (http://marathon.bungie.org/story/cortana.html) were sent between febuary and may of 1999 so this is before Halo 1 was released there for the letters could have nothing to do with Halo but then again they could be paving the way for the story.

The first letter:

I have walked the edge of the Abyss.
I have governed the unwilling.
I have witnessed countless empires break before me.
I have seen the most courageous soldiers fall away in fear.
[I was there with the Angel at the tomb]

I have seen your future.
And I have learned.

There will be no more Sadness. No more Anger. No more Envy.

I HAVE WON.

Oh, and your poet Eliot had it all wrong:
THIS is the way the world ends.


a friend of a friend

this letter relates closely to the end of Halo 2 and the Halo 3 trailer mainly the line "This is the way the world ends" as it is spoken by Cortana in the trailer. The line "I was there with the Angel at the tomb" could this reference Halo 1 as the covanent call the MC a deamon there for Cortana might call him an angel and the tomb could be Halo its self as the Flood were locked in side. "a friend of a friend" I'm sure I've seen this line in a Halo 2 manual or the Conversations from the universe booklet but i've checked it again and I cant find it, can anyone point this out to me.

"... In my palace deep, Lyca lies asleep ..."

that was the only line in the 6th Cortana letter the name Lyca may be a link to the website lyca.com that is romured to be the "ilovebees" of Halo 3 and if you click on the first dot you get a refernce to a pet cat called Lyca, this is a long shot but there is some evidence that the Cortana letters, lyca.com and Halo 3 are linked.

I have read the 7 Cortana letters and there are more strong links to the Halo stroy line but as this is all guess work and is just me conecting the liknesses so this could all be wrong

tell me what you think

[Edited on 5/31/2006]

  • 05.31.2006 12:54 PM PDT
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ok Bungie and i love bees have no affiulation what so ever they said it themselves

Lyca is just some name of some dude's cat who owned the website

If you don't beleive it i can find the post. i know it's here somewheree

  • 05.31.2006 1:23 PM PDT
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Yeah, old. As in 8 years old.

  • 05.31.2006 1:30 PM PDT

Posted by: XxangeloxX
Yeah, old. As in 8 years old.


the letters are but the Halo 3 trailer isnt, as far as I know there hasnt been a explination of the letters so maybe there will be when Halo 3 comes out

  • 05.31.2006 1:56 PM PDT

anyone else got any ideas

  • 06.02.2006 12:54 PM PDT
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if you really pay attention to the cortana letters, ilovebees (i love EasterEggs), and lyca, you see connections. especially marathon connections. i think maybe cortana is the fourth that she speaks of in the letters. after all, the brilliant marketing they use is one of the things that make halo great. 5-10 year old messages about a project before it happens makes it like a prophecy. get it?

[Edited on 6/2/2006]

  • 06.02.2006 1:02 PM PDT