Board Thread:Destiny Forum/@comment-4814368-20140916164127/@comment-26073932-20150204073017

There's always a link between the various Bungie games, I'm going to try and work from there.

In previous Bungie games, the Nine have been more or less present twice: once in Marathon, where there were ten Cyborgs, one of which was missing, so nine immensely powerful humanoids protecting humanity - the tenth one was most likely the player, who for the most part obeyed a half-insane AI (Rasputin comes to mind). In Myth, the Nine were the champions of mankind, the good guys. So from these games I feel fairly confident in assuming the Nine from the Jovians are probably good guys. The fact that one of their people sells stuff to us, suggests that we are not fully evil. As I understand it, Xur works for the Nine, so he's not some rogue smuggler, right? So I conclude that the Traveller is not the Darkness, as in, not mainly evil. Of course, good and evil are always relative.

The Traveller is reminiscent of the comet spotted in Myth, heralding a new age of good (am I right here?) and of the Rogue star spotted in Marathon, which has been convincingly linked to the Jjaro, and immensely powerful race who battled the W'rkncacnter, beings of pure chaos. So it is tempting to say the Traveller is a creation of the Jjaro, here called the Light, and the W'rkncacnter is the Darkness. Only problem with that is the various races who are said to be clients of the Darkness. The W'rkcacnter is known to spawn horrors as it dreams (and I would hope the Lovecraft inspirations are obvious here) but mainly mythical creatures. Whole races with such level of technology seem wrong to be originated from a chaos being. It could be, of course, in Myth, the Fallen Lords are champions of evil and gather whole armies for their cause. Another option is that the Darkness is consuming much of the galaxy, and the Traveller is the only thing (or one of very few things) left to repell it, making our solar system one of the last inhabitable regions, and logically drawing various races here in their search for survival. This would explain why the Fallen call us "the Darkness", each race sees the other races as enemies, and assumes they work for the Darkness.