Board Thread:Destiny Forum/@comment-4814368-20140916164127/@comment-5650583-20140916183530

Far out, man. In all seriousness, you raised some good points.

The way I see it, though, is that maybe the Darkness is claiming to be The Traveller. (Maybe the two are related?) It probably told the Hive, Fallen, etc. that the Traveller and all who serve it are evil, so they must destroy said evil in order to survive.