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  • Poll [11 votes]: Is this all just a strange coincidence, or is there an actual link?
Subject: Link between Halo 3 and the "Cortana Letters"
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Poll: Is this all just a strange coincidence, or is there an actual link?  [closed]
It's a coincidence:  9%
(1 Votes)
There's an actual link:  64%
(7 Votes)
I don't know:  27%
(3 Votes)
Total Votes: 11

I just finished reading the "Cortana Letters" ( http://marathon.bungie.org/story/cortana.html/ ) and I noticed some strang "coincidences." In the Halo 3 trailer cortana says "I am your sword." After the first "Cortana Letter" was sent there was some speculation as to who this "Cortana" was. In this speculation someone says that Cortana was an ancient sword used by the First Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Charlamagne. At the end of the first "Cortana Letter" Cortana says "THIS is how the world ends." That, of course is her final line in the Halo 3 trailer.

Read thes mysterious letters and see what you can uncover. Post your findings after this message.

  • 06.25.2006 11:59 PM PDT
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The Cortana letters have nothing to do with Halo 3. they don't even have anything to do with Halo: CE. The cortana letters are from a Time when Halo CE: was supposed to be a Real TIme Strategy game, before they ran around with one of the little foot soldiers and decided they like that better than the whole RTS thing.

Bungie has said this.

P.S. everyone and their dog has already read every single Cortana letter. This is old as hell and beaten to a pulp topic.

[Edited on 6/26/2006]

  • 06.26.2006 12:01 AM PDT
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Maybe in the H3 trailler, Cortana is saying things from her letters for some reason.... I dunno, it was just a guess.

  • 06.26.2006 12:04 AM PDT
Subject: Link? Wait! Isn't that a characters from The Legen...
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There is no link as in, "the Cortana letters were originally intended to have a major effect on the Halo storyline, and thus have some deep and hidden meaning to them," no, but as in "Bungie has used ideas from previews games in Halo, so these letters could have a link to the events of Halo 3, or the time between them while Cortana was at High Charity."

  • 06.26.2006 12:05 AM PDT

Thinking of something witty to write here since 2004...

Maybe those quotes were used for looking back at the history of the Halo series. Maybe as time goes by more trailers will go by with more memorable quotes or eggs.

  • 06.26.2006 12:16 AM PDT
Subject: Link between Halo 3 and the "Cortana Letters"
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Also I f you think about it the letters appear to have come from the time at the end of Halo 2 and the probable beggining of Halo 3. For example one line sounds like something that would be said by Gravemind. Also the Master Chief (it does not say it is the Mater Chief, but seems to allude to that), is refered to as a Devil in one line. And the topic of the Cortana Letters was previously beaten to a pulp with the new information about Halo 3 new life has been breathed into it.

  • 06.26.2006 12:21 AM PDT
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I think on the part where you say she was an anciend sword (medaphor), ahe looked like the anciend girl in the past as they say in Fall of reach...they look like ancient godesses.

  • 06.26.2006 12:32 AM PDT
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Also Cortana says something about another entity (which I believe to be Gravemind) that is interested in her mother. THat must mean Dr. Catherine Halsey, creator of not only Cortana but also the SPARTANS (from the Halo book series).

  • 06.26.2006 12:36 AM PDT
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The Cortana Letters Have Nothing To Do With Halo 3!!

They Were Sent Out For Halo: CE when it was Still Halo: CE the RTS. Bungie Has Said This. How Many Times Do People Have To Hear It Before They Stop Posting This Thread?

  • 06.26.2006 12:38 AM PDT
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Posted by: xXdeathomenXx
The Cortana Letters Have Nothing To Do With Halo 3!!

They Were Sent Out For Halo: CE when it was Still Halo: CE the RTS. Bungie Has Said This. How Many Times Do People Have To Hear It Before They Stop Posting This Thread?


1.1 x 10!

  • 06.26.2006 12:40 AM PDT
Subject: Link between Halo 3 and the "Cortana Letters"
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The Cortana Letters may have been sent out before Halo was ever going to be on the Xbox, but Bungie often goes back in time to get things for their games. For example, Halo has a lot a subtle connections with Marathon.

  • 06.26.2006 9:25 AM PDT