- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Poll: What is Gravemind? [closed]
| A highly evolved form of the Flood itself.:
30%
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(11 Votes)
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| A highly evolved Forerunner form of the Flood.:
30%
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(11 Votes)
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| A highly evolved Human form of the Flood.:
0%
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(0 Votes)
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| A highly evolved Elite form of the Flood.:
0%
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(0 Votes)
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| A highly evolved Prophet form of the Flood.:
0%
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(0 Votes)
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| A highly evolved mixed form of the Flood.:
41%
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(15 Votes)
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Total Votes: 37
Ok, so I've been browsing around the forums and noticed a lot of threads about Gravemind, his purpose and relation to the story, and a lot about what he said through Halo 2. However, to understand one, one must know one, so gets down to knowing what truly is Gravemind. What in God's name is it, really? Is it human? Elite? Both? Or is it a mutated Flood that obtained a high level self-awareness? We all know it is one form of Flood, though it being one of the six known forms of the Flood, so far it is the only able to communicate and to show signs of a higher intellect level.
I’ve come to the assumption that Gravemind is not a Flood form that came to be through the mutation of the host, but rather the Queen Flood, much like the Xenomorph Queen from the tetralogy of films, Alien. I also believe that Gravemind is the oldest Flood, its age ranging roughly anywhere from 1,000-100,000 years with basis on his own words, “I am a monument to all your sins,” which implies he may have been around for roughly the same time or even longer than the Covenant and humans; perhaps even existed since the days of the Forerunners. However, this is just a rough theory I have, not something concrete enough for me to have solid evidence to support besides what Gravemind implied in his quote,. Also, the fact that it doesn’t resemble any other forms of the Flood, though even after the most severe of mutations of a host, the Flood usually remains somewhat close in resemblance to the original form of the host, which can be seen in all other forms of the Flood besides Gravemind itself.
So, any takes on this?