Board Thread:Destiny Forum/@comment-4814368-20140916164127/@comment-160529-20140916175325

Well the Guardians... no... the guardians dont know better.

The traveler uses the light as an energy source, and to do this it absorbs the light of the people in the solar system... and all that is left when it has absorbed the light... is darkness.

The Darkness is the culmination of infinite lost souls unable to pass on because the traveler has absorbed what is essentially half of their souls, condemning them to limbo.

When the traveler entered our solar system... so very long ago, it cut us off from the light, what we once called "magic" and began absorbing the souls of the dead... thus luring the darkness here.

The Traveler and the darkness are both evil, the Traveler because it takes all that is good from the world... and the darkness because it is all that is left when the good is lost.

When the traveler died... it created the ghosts, each a vessel for a soul that it had not yet processed, and sent them out to find the bodies those souls belonged too... this is why they are called ghosts. Creating these agents, or Guardians, was its only way of defending itself while in its crippled state.

Each race has a connection to the darkness of course, the Vex were promised the ability to manipulate time for their servitude, in an attempt to bring their own creators to the present.

The Cabal uses the blood of the darkness, an oil like substance, as fuel and it is slowly corrupting them.

The Fallen once tried to recreate the traveler after it abandoned them, creating instead the servitors... which tapped into the darkness, and through which the darkness now rules them.

and the hive were amongst the first race dealt a bad hand by the traveler, forever being turned into undead monstrocities... inhabited shells that have dark souls instead of the natural balanced souls the traveler dissasembles.