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Ancient humans are the Ancient evil...
[/quote]I thought the ancient evil was the forerunners. The Didact to be more specific.[/quote]
He's Halo 4's antagonist, not necessarily the Ancient Evil.
Though I have no reason to think it's humanity other than for the sake of a crappy twist.
He is the antagonist, but a few trailers end with 'An ancient evil awakens' and Didact's symbol. He is most likely connected to it.
Of course, but they've built the Precursors up far too much lately as a villain to not be the villain, the Bigger Bad.
From a storytelling standpoint, the Forerunners are easily recognizable to non-lore buffs, and could act as a setup to introduce the Precursors to civillians.
Absolutely. I doubt Didact will be the villain for the whole trilogy, but he might be a good choice for a transitionary bad guy who will introduce the Precursors to everyone else. Maybe he is being manipulated by them.
Of course, if you make Precursors the bad guys, you run into problems as well. How can we defeat these kinds of people? Their structures are untouchable by anything short of a Halo, so unless they're much softer than their structures or we suddenly acquire portable neural weapons, it won't be a very long war.
Perhaps the objective is to not beat them but survive them. They're playing a bigger game than any one mortal race such as ours can fully comprehend. Their reasons for creating life, and then trying to find stewards to protect it, must be serving a goal of some sort, and it is a goal that they will gladly commit omnicide to defend and achieve.
I don't see the Precursors themselves as villains in the traditional sense, but rather as the chestmaster that is the fount of all our problems, but is completely untouchable from behind their veil of mystery. They'll work through proxy races like the Flood and others, but rarely will we see them personally. We might have to play their game to survive, and hope they deem us worthy.