Board Thread:Destiny Forum/@comment-4814368-20140916164127/@comment-152.6.250.5-20150930170347

My theory probably has holes big enough to fit a truck through but here it is. The Stranger when we first meet her face to face and we talk about the Awoken she says they waver between light and dark before saying "A side should always be taken Little Light" then looks dead at your character and says "even if it's the wrong one". This seems a not so subtle hint that something isn't adding up. With the theory she may be from the future added in she may have hindsight we lack at this point in the game.

My two possible theories are these. Either the Traveler is neither good or evil and we are worshipping him when he will only abandon us like he did the Fallen and we are left with no knowledge of how to defend ourselves. We are too small for the Traveler to notice and the Darkness merely absorbs us because we are in its way unless we learn to defend ourselves without it.

OR we are the Vex. If you look on the page of Cayde-6 we learn he was once human and turned into a exo. This is disturbing to think our "golden age" involved such technology especially when the page says he remembers it was involved with paying off a debt. The Vex's core are organic as stated by Ghost in a mission (I apologize I remember it was a story mission on Venus but not which one). Vex also time travel meaning they can be from the distant past or far future. What if the Traveler abandons us and to save ourselves from the Dark we turn ourselves into machines but it doesn't save us from corruption. Or we become more machine slowly to become more in tuned with the Traveler and we lose ourselves and become "evil so dark it hates other evil" we still attack who we remember are our enemies but we forgot why we fight them.

Last theory. The Traveler and the Dark are one in the same. Two halves of the same coin that cannot exist without the other. If there is a light it will make shadows. The Traveler and the Darkness are one and the same or the Traveler cannot help but make Darkness every time he brings light but he has to make light to protect from the Darkness so it's an never ending cycle.

Those are my theories and I'm sure they're wrong but at least they're fun to think of.