Halo: Graveworld
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May 26, 2026 (part of Halo: Waypoint Chronicles Volume One) |
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Halo: Graveworld is a short story in the Waypoint Chronicle series written by Jeff Easterling and Alex Wakeford. It is exclusively included in the print compilation Halo: Waypoint Chronicles - Volume One, released on May 26, 2026.[1] It is the final story in the compilation.
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In 2560, in unknown space, as the artificial sun of the graveworld sets over the horizon, it is time for the faithful to cast their gaze outward and contemplate the infinite expanse beyond them. Much of the graveworld's outer wall has been riven, letting in shafts of starlight that illuminate many blessed areas in darkness that will become places of pilgrimage and prayer. The graveworld's construction is such that one could see through multiple layers of the concentric circles making up the installation with the most significant site of damage being a large maw-like opening in the outer shell.
While the battle that had gripped the graveworld has long ceased, many secrets and treasures are still held within. Only Ryn 'Alun and the most faithful like him remain on the graveworld, the rest having fled in terror when the Didact's Hand had tried to destroy it and enacted designs grander than even he could grasp. Ryn and the faithful have been reforged into beings of machine cells and hard light that can be reconfigured at will, including to resemble their original organic forms.
The faithful residing on the graveworld understand the true meaning of the Great Journey, that it isn't transcendence delivered by the Halo Array to reach the false paradise promised by the San'Shyuum, but rather through sublimation to attain a new divine form on this warrior-keep. Now and forevermore, the graveworld of Requiem is their home.
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According to Alex Wakeford, the story was first written in 2022.[2]
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- ^ a b Halo Waypoint, Canon Fodder - Casting Chronicles (Retrieved on Mar 27, 2026) [archive]
- ^ X.com, Alex Wakeford (@haruspis): "You’ll hear me narrate the book’s foreword and the final story, Graveworld—something I originally wrote way back in 2022, waiting for the right time and place to unleash it upon the Halo universe. Very excited to see the reactions to that one 👀" (Retrieved on Apr 13, 2026) [archive]
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