Editing Growth-Through-Trial-of-Change

{{Status|Canon}}
{{New content|[[Promises to Keep]]}}
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|homeworld=[[Rostrach a]]{{Ref/Book|Id=EN|Enc22|Page=369}}
|birth=[[101,295 BCE]]{{Ref/Reuse|EN}}
|death=100+ years after [[97,445 BCE]]
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|height=274.3 centimetres {{C|9 ft 1 in}}{{Ref/Reuse|EN}}
|mass=196.7 kilograms {{C|433.7 lbs}}{{Ref/Reuse|EN}}
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|affiliation=[[Forerunner|Forerunner ecumene]]
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|notable=Sacrificed herself to restore the [[Domain]]{{Ref/Anthology|Id=ptk|Fra|Promises to Keep}}
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'''Growth-Through-Trial-of-Change''', or simply '''Trial''', was a [[Forerunner]] [[Lifeworker]]. She was one of the few Forerunners to survive [[Great Purification|the activation]] of the [[Halo Array]],{{Ref/Novel|Id=Rebirth|Rebirth}} although she would ultimately sacrifice her life in order to repair the [[Domain]].{{Ref/Reuse|ptk}}

==Biography==
===Early life===
Trial was born to a family of [[Builder]]s. However, she was unwilling to become a Builder and instead desired to join the [[Lifeworker]] [[rate]]. Her family rejected her as a result, and she was adopted by a foster family. Her family died long before the [[Forerunner-Flood war]] as they were caught in the explosion of a star while they were traveling to another world.{{Ref/Reuse|Rebirth}}

===Post-Forerunner-Flood war===
Trial, serving under the new [[Lifeshaper]] [[Chant-to-Green]], was tasked with [[Conservation Measure|cataloging]] humans on the [[Installation 00|lesser Ark]] and later overseeing the [[reintroduction]] of [[humanity]] to [[Earth|Erde-Tyrene]]. During the process, she personally oversaw the awakening of [[Riser]] and the other human specimens on a Lifeworker ship that had survived the destruction of the [[greater Ark]], and guided them to an artificial settlement on the surface of the lesser Ark. The humans would remain there until they were scheduled to be reseeded back onto [[Earth]]. Some time after the activation of the Halo rings, she was also present in the trial of [[Mendicant Bias]] for the [[Metarch-class ancilla|Metarch]]'s betrayal of the ecumene.{{Ref/Reuse|Rebirth}}

Over a century later, Growth-Through-Trial-of-Change accompanied the IsoDidact and a number of other Forerunners on a mission to [[Maethrillian]] with the goal of restoring the [[Domain]], which had been rendered inert by the [[Great Purification|Halos' activation]]. After an encounter with the [[Precursor]] intelligence known as [[Abaddon]] in the [[Ecumene Council|council]] chamber, Trial, Bornstellar, and Chant pushed deeper into the capital in order to locate Abaddon's physical housing, where they believed the Domain could be reactivated by using a [[deadbolt]] key. With Abaddon intent on stopping the Forerunners from interacting with its core, vaporizing several of them in the process, Chant-to-Green rushed forward with the deadbolt. While none of the Forerunners knew for certain what would happen to the individual inserting the key into Abaddon's matrix, Trial and Chant believed a Lifeworker mind or genetic pattern would be necessary as a template to revive the Domain—along with the suspicion that this process may be fatal. Unwilling to let Chant sacrifice herself, Trial incapacitated the other Lifeworker and seized the key from her, then inserted it into Abaddon's core. She was momentarily caught in an intense glow, then vanished entirely, apparently having successfully initiated the Domain's slow process of regeneration.{{Ref/Reuse|ptk}}

==Personality and traits==
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==List of appearances==
*''[[Rebirth]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Fractures]]''
**''[[Promises to Keep]]''

==Sources==
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[[Category:Forerunner characters]]
[[Category:Lifeworkers]]