![]() ![]() ![]() However, it eventually left, and the Lubraean civilization gradually descended into a military dictatorship restricted to a single city, with those who rejected the regime wandering the wilderness as nomads. īillions of years ago, the Traveler visited the Lubraeans and uplifted their civilization. ![]() Unwilling to abandon their quest, the civilization used the Darkness to bind their consciousnesses together, merging themselves into a single, unfathomably powerful entity: the Witness.Įmpowered by the Darkness and commanding a fleet of pyramidal ships, the Witness left its world behind and began a crusade to find the Traveler and unite it with the Veil, and in doing so bring about the Final Shape. However, the Traveler was apparently unwilling to allow this outcome, and responded by leaving the planet and fleeing into the distant reaches of space. They set out to locate and retrieve the Veil, and brought it back to their homeworld so that they could form a link between it and the Traveler. In order to achieve their goal, the civilization determined that they needed to bring the Traveler and the Veil into close proximity, strengthening their connection and in so doing granting them the ability to alter reality itself. ![]() In this, they found the purpose they had sought for so long. In studying the Darkness, they discovered that it held the means to guide the universe into a perfected, eternal form, a " Final Shape" that would last to the end of time and beyond. They named this entity the Veil, and determined that it was a source of power that was the opposite of the Light, one linked to the mind and consciousness rather than the physical world: the Darkness. In their studies of the Traveler, they also came to view the Light as a fundamentally capricious and chaotic force, equally capable of bringing life or death with no ultimate justification for either.Īt some point, the species discovered that the Traveler had a counterpart entity, located in a distant star system. As a result, the society began to crave meaning, and sought to find something that would bring order and purpose to an otherwise open-ended existence. This brought about a golden age for the species that lasted millions of years.Īlthough the Traveler brought the civilization great prosperity, it never made any attempt to communicate or impart wisdom or guidance. It then awakened, either of its own accord or as a result of the species' actions, and proceeded to terraform the planet and bestow paracausal gifts to its discoverers, much as it would later do with many other species. In one of her messages to the Guardian through Sloane, Ahsa makes reference to " two halves of a whole, long divided," which in context seems to suggest that the Traveler and the Veil were once part of a single entity, or at least share a common origin.Īccording to Ahsa, billions of years ago the Traveler lay dormant and half-buried on a desolate planet, where it was discovered by a humanoid species. Fenchurch Everis claims to have been inside the Traveler, but no one has been able to confirm the veracity of his story. Another Ghost named Peach was dismissive of this description, contending that neither she nor Balthazar can remember the time within the Traveler. The Ghost Balthazar claimed that Ghosts originate within the Womb, a place inside the Traveler described as a "cosmos inside a bottle" or an "infinite space enclosed within a celestial egg", where trillions of star-like souls orbit each other in a complex weave. The interior workings of the Traveler remain a mystery. Its outer shell is made of lead, neutronium and "electroweak matter", the latter based on a fundamental force that hasn't existed since the dawn of time. It is a source of Light, though not the only source in the universe. The Traveler is an ancient and immensely powerful machine entity, the source of Ghosts and the Light-based powers of the Guardians. ![]()
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