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The '''Primordial''', also called the '''Captive''' or the '''Timeless One''',{{Ref/Site|Id=CryptumGlossary|URL=http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/intel/related/text/cryptum-glossary/62e29c59-a3f9-4b63-af76-def71fda5459|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Cryptum Glossary|D=14|M=03|Y=2014|LocalArchive=Halo: Cryptum/Glossary}} and the '''Beast''' by the [[Tudejsa]],<ref name="p67">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 67-68''</ref> was a mysterious being of great power once detained on [[Charum Hakkor]], and supposedly the last surviving [[Precursor]],<ref name="Cryptum">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 342''</ref> its physical form altered to survive enormous stretches of time.<ref name="mythos 9">'''[[Halo Mythos]]''', ''page 9''</ref> While its body was ultimately destroyed, the Primordial would transfer its consciousness into the [[Gravemind]], the [[Flood]]'s compound intelligence, using the parasite as an instrument with which to exact its final vengeance on the [[Forerunner]]s.<ref name="mythos 32">'''Halo Mythos''', ''page 32''</ref> | The '''Primordial''', also called the '''Captive''' or the '''Timeless One''',{{Ref/Site|Id=CryptumGlossary|URL=http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/intel/related/text/cryptum-glossary/62e29c59-a3f9-4b63-af76-def71fda5459|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Cryptum Glossary|D=14|M=03|Y=2014|LocalArchive=Halo: Cryptum/Glossary}} and the '''Beast''' by the [[Tudejsa]],<ref name="p67">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 67-68''</ref> was a mysterious being of great power once detained on [[Charum Hakkor]], and supposedly the last surviving [[Precursor]],<ref name="Cryptum">'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 342''</ref> its physical form altered to survive enormous stretches of time.<ref name="mythos 9">'''[[Halo Mythos]]''', ''page 9''</ref> While its body was ultimately destroyed, the Primordial would transfer its consciousness into the [[Gravemind]], the [[Flood]]'s compound intelligence, using the parasite as an instrument with which to exact its final vengeance on the [[Forerunner]]s.<ref name="mythos 32">'''Halo Mythos''', ''page 32''</ref> | ||
== | ==History== | ||
===Origin=== | ===Origin=== | ||
Following [[Forerunner-Precursor war|their defeat]] at the hands of the [[Forerunner]]s circa [[10,000,000 BCE]], many of the remaining Precursors transmuted themselves into organic particles that would re-constitute their original forms—themselves highly variable—at a later time. Over the millions of years that followed the Precursors' fall, this powder degraded and became defective; instead of re-forming the Precursors as they used to be, it instead resulted in misshapen life-forms that ravenously assimilated biomatter they came in contact with - the earliest stages of the Flood parasite.<ref name="s174">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 174''</ref> Not all Precursors chose this fate; some entered deep suspended animation without reducing themselves as thoroughly,{{Ref/Reuse|s174}} although only one would evidently survive to the latter days of the Forerunners intact.{{Ref/Reuse|mythos 9}} | Following [[Forerunner-Precursor war|their defeat]] at the hands of the [[Forerunner]]s circa [[10,000,000 BCE]], many of the remaining Precursors transmuted themselves into organic particles that would re-constitute their original forms—themselves highly variable—at a later time. Over the millions of years that followed the Precursors' fall, this powder degraded and became defective; instead of re-forming the Precursors as they used to be, it instead resulted in misshapen life-forms that ravenously assimilated biomatter they came in contact with - the earliest stages of the Flood parasite.<ref name="s174">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 174''</ref> Not all Precursors chose this fate; some entered deep suspended animation without reducing themselves as thoroughly,{{Ref/Reuse|s174}} although only one would evidently survive to the latter days of the Forerunners intact.{{Ref/Reuse|mythos 9}} |