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===Destruction=== | ===Destruction=== | ||
{{Quote|It is your task to kill this servant. That another may be freed.|The Primordial speaking to the Didact.}} | {{Quote|It is your task to kill this servant. That another may be freed.|The Primordial speaking to the Didact.}} | ||
After reclaiming Installation 07, the [[IsoDidact]] imprisoned the Primordial within a reverse-[[Timelock|stasis chamber]], and alongside the wounded [[Chakas]], interrogated the entity. During the course of their conversation, they came to realize that the Primordial was not what they initially thought it was. Even as it was being broken down by the reversed stasis chamber, the Primordial claimed that the Flood and the Precursors were synonymous, though despite the Didact's queries, it did not disclose the precise nature of their relationship. The Primordial provided further clarification on the subject of the Mantle, the purpose of the Flood, and the role of the humans in its ancient plan: the Forerunners were never meant to inherit the Mantle, and that humanity would succeed them in order to be tested for inheriting the Mantle.<ref name="prim362">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 362-365''</ref> | After [[Battle for Gyre 11|reclaiming]] Installation 07, the [[IsoDidact]] imprisoned the Primordial within a reverse-[[Timelock|stasis chamber]], and alongside the wounded [[Chakas]], interrogated the entity. During the course of their conversation, they came to realize that the Primordial was not what they initially thought it was. Even as it was being broken down by the reversed stasis chamber, the Primordial claimed that the Flood and the Precursors were synonymous, though despite the Didact's queries, it did not disclose the precise nature of their relationship. The Primordial provided further clarification on the subject of the Mantle, the purpose of the Flood, and the role of the humans in its ancient plan: the Forerunners were never meant to inherit the Mantle, and that humanity would succeed them in order to be tested for inheriting the Mantle.<ref name="prim362">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 362-365''</ref> | ||
It also implied that there is no true cure for the Flood, but that it could choose whether or not a victim was infected. Once this conversation was complete, the Didact, enraged about the revelation, fully activated the reverse stasis chamber, forcing an artificial decay process equivalent to a billion years to transpire over the course of several seconds, killing the Primordial, and breaking its body down to a state of complete physical entropy.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 364-367''</ref> | It also implied that there is no true cure for the Flood, but that it could choose whether or not a victim was infected. Once this conversation was complete, the Didact, enraged about the revelation, fully activated the reverse stasis chamber, forcing an artificial decay process equivalent to a billion years to transpire over the course of several seconds, killing the Primordial, and breaking its body down to a state of complete physical entropy.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 364-367''</ref> | ||
However, as later demonstrated during the [[Ur-Didact]]'s encounter with the [[Gravemind]], the Primordial's consciousness had survived the destruction of its physical body, having [[mind transfer|transferred]] itself into the Flood's compound mind intact.{{Ref/Reuse|mythos 32}} Intent on exacting its vengeance on the Didact in its new form, the Primordial inflicted unspeakable horrors upon the Promethean before releasing him and allowing him to return to the ecumene, aware that the Didact's resulting madness would demoralize the Forerunners and engender chaos and indecision among their ranks.<ref name="s167">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 167'' (''"This being was not the Primordial I encountered on Charum Hakkor, but something else entirely-though it retained the Primordial's motives and thoughts and memories. It was a Gravemind-the Gravemind, more accurately. It was the Primordial's final act of revenge."'')</ref> Now synonymous with the Gravemind, the Primordial had ensured its consciousness would survive for as long as the Flood prevailed.{{Ref/Reuse|mythos 32}} | However, as later demonstrated during the [[Ur-Didact]]'s encounter with the [[Gravemind]], the Primordial's consciousness had survived the destruction of its physical body, having [[mind transfer|transferred]] itself into the Flood's compound mind intact.{{Ref/Reuse|mythos 32}} Intent on exacting its vengeance on the Didact in its new form, the Primordial inflicted unspeakable horrors upon the Promethean before releasing him and allowing him to return to the ecumene, aware that the Didact's resulting madness would demoralize the Forerunners and engender chaos and indecision among their ranks.<ref name="s167">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 167'' (''"This being was not the Primordial I encountered on Charum Hakkor, but something else entirely-though it retained the Primordial's motives and thoughts and memories. It was a Gravemind-the Gravemind, more accurately. It was the Primordial's final act of revenge."'')</ref> Now synonymous with the Gravemind, the Primordial had ensured its consciousness would survive for as long as the Flood prevailed.{{Ref/Reuse|mythos 32}} The Didact later suspected that the Primordial had opened a crack in his mind during their meeting on [[Charum Hakkor]] that the Gravemind exploited to corrupt him.{{Ref/Novel|Epi|19}} | ||
==Appearance== | ==Appearance== | ||
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**''[[Untitled story (Halo: Fractures)|Untitled story]]'' {{Mo}} | **''[[Untitled story (Halo: Fractures)|Untitled story]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
*''[[Halo: Point of Light]]'' {{Mo}} | *''[[Halo: Point of Light]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
*''[[Halo: Epitaph]]'' | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||