By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
Posted by: TACTIFUL KILL
the Primordial was lying
Right, there is absolutely no evidence to confirm this. We can't just keep on going dismissing everything in the novels by saying "oh it's obvious he was lying" otherwise 2 entire books would be wasted with new lore that would end up not being true. No, he was not lying.
to how far we don't know, but I can tell Precursors and Flood aren't synonymous. I believe that possibly a Precursor allowed himself to become infected by the Flood, and became part of a Gravemind which came to be known as the Primordial.
The line between fact and opinion is being drawn pretty thin here. You don't know he's lying, you think he's lying - for what reason I do not know other than "he's the antagonist".
The Gravemind likes mixing truth with lie. " I am peace, I am salvation. Join your voice with mine, and sing victory ever lasting." See where I'm coming from. I've thought quite a while about this, and this is just how I see it, hopefully, also the Primordial didn't know where the Precursors went.
Except Gravemind wasn't lying there. The Flood represents the perfect lifeform, the final evolution of life - a being of total unity without any civil conflict, devoid of the delusion of morality. The Flood sees everything that's not with them as something that suffers, this is why they 'infect' them, this is why humanity was tested for the Mantle previously and was decalred worthy because they sacrificed a -blam!-ton of their population.