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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
He was the commander of the warship ''Deep Reverence'', and led legions of soldiers into battle. The Confirmer provided the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]]'s [[Forerunner mutation|brevet mutation]] to his second-[[form]]. This occurred on the ''Deep Reverence'' in the chaos of battle. Without that quick and immensely painful mutation, the young cadet might not have survived.{{Ref/Novel|Id=c178|Cry|Page=178}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi9|Epi|9}} The Didact later served alongside him during the [[human-Forerunner wars]].{{Ref/Reuse|c178}} | ===Early career=== | ||
He was the commander of the warship ''Deep Reverence'', and led legions of soldiers into battle. The Confirmer provided the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]]'s [[Forerunner mutation|brevet mutation]] to his second-[[form]]. This occurred on the ''Deep Reverence'' in the chaos of battle. Without that quick and immensely painful mutation, the young cadet might not have survived.{{Ref/Novel|Id=c178|Cry|Page=178}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi9|Epi|9}} The Didact later served alongside him during the [[human-Forerunner wars]].{{Ref/Reuse|c178}} | |||
===Guarding the San'Shyuum=== | |||
Following the removal of the Prometheans from the [[Ecumene Council]] around [[98,445 BCE]], he was placed in charge of maintaining the quarantine around the San'Shyuum homeworld [[Janjur Qom]].{{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}} He spent the next 1,200 years serving aboard the ''Deep Reverence'' as it watched over the planet.{{Ref/Novel|Cry|Page=170}} As time went on, his ship became regarded as a memorial, and as his colleagues died over the centuries their [[Durance]]s were shipped to the ''Reverence''.{{Ref/Novel|Id=c182|Cry|Page=182}} | |||
Over the centuries that followed, [[San'Shyuum]] delegates from Janjur Qom would regularly visit the Confirmer and his ship, offering gifts of fine artwork and tending the Durances in their displays. The Confirmer enjoyed their gifts and grew to think favorably of the San'Shyuum, in the process becoming inattentive and allowing the San'Shyuum to build up a cache of weaponry and ships in secret.{{Ref/Novel|Cry|Page=198}} He even came as far as to allow them to come aboard the ship to repair it and travel between their two worlds.{{Ref/Reuse|c182}} | Over the centuries that followed, [[San'Shyuum]] delegates from Janjur Qom would regularly visit the Confirmer and his ship, offering gifts of fine artwork and tending the Durances in their displays. The Confirmer enjoyed their gifts and grew to think favorably of the San'Shyuum, in the process becoming inattentive and allowing the San'Shyuum to build up a cache of weaponry and ships in secret.{{Ref/Novel|Cry|Page=198}} He even came as far as to allow them to come aboard the ship to repair it and travel between their two worlds.{{Ref/Reuse|c182}} | ||
In the final years of the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], the Didact returned to Janjur Qom following the clues left by his wife, the [[Librarian]]. He met with the Confirmer aboard the ''Reverence'', who confirmed his wife had just been at the planet, collecting specimens to take to [[Greater Ark|the Ark]]. Telling him about the massacres by a Halo at [[Charum Hakkor|Charum]] and [[Faun Hakkor]], the Didact requested to head to Janjur Qom's surface, which the Confirmer allowed provided he turn over [[Didact's ship|his ship's]] weapons.{{Ref/Novel|Cry|Page=170-185}} However, he secretly alerted [[Builder Security]] as the Didact and his crew left, allowing them to be captured by the [[Master Builder]] [[Faber-of-Will-and-Might|Faber]].{{Ref/Novel|Cry|Page=192}} According to the Confirmer, he was promised that the Didact would be brought before the [[Ecumene Council]].{{Ref/Novel|Id= | In the final years of the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], the Didact returned to Janjur Qom following the clues left by his wife, the [[Librarian]]. He met with the Confirmer aboard the ''Reverence'', who confirmed his wife had just been at the planet, collecting specimens to take to [[Greater Ark|the Ark]]. Telling him about the massacres by a Halo at [[Charum Hakkor|Charum]] and [[Faun Hakkor]], the Didact requested to head to Janjur Qom's surface, which the Confirmer allowed provided he turn over [[Didact's ship|his ship's]] weapons.{{Ref/Novel|Cry|Page=170-185}} However, he secretly alerted [[Builder Security]] as the Didact and his crew left, allowing them to be captured by the [[Master Builder]] [[Faber-of-Will-and-Might|Faber]].{{Ref/Novel|Cry|Page=192}} According to the Confirmer, he was promised that the Didact would be brought before the [[Ecumene Council]] to await fair judgment.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi9|Epi|9}} | ||
===Death=== | |||
The Confirmer later perished, presumably in the [[Great Purification|firing]] of the [[Halo Array]] as he was both aware of the event and the [[Librarian]]'s [[Conservation Measure]], but not of the outcome.{{Ref/Reuse|Epi9}} | |||
===The Domain=== | |||
Following his death, the Confirmer was uploaded to the outer boundaries of the [[Domain]] and, along with the rest of the Forerunners who had perished in the firing of the Halo Array, was trapped, unable to enter the ancient repository. Unlike many of the other Forerunners, the Confirmer was able to pull himself together enough to be coherent with the Confirmer's madness possibly helping to keep him more grounded.{{Ref/Reuse|Epi9}} | |||
100,000 years later, following his own death, the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]] encountered the Confirmer in the outer boundary of the Domain where the ancient Promethean was throwing rocks at and cursing out the other Forerunners in the valley.{{Ref/Novel|Epi|8}} Having not seen his old mentor since the Confirmer's betrayal, the Didact furiously confronted him and the Confirmer expressed remorse, admitting to the betrayal, but having had no idea that the Didact would be sent into a [[Burn]] rather than to the [[Ecumene Council]] to await fair judgment as Faber had promised him. The Didact called it as a stain on his existence to carry the Confirmer's imprint, but the Confirmer reminded him that he would not ''be'' the Didact without his imprint. After the Confirmer asked what had happened to him, the Didact's anger was blunted enough so that he could see more clearly the circumstances leading to the Confirmer's betrayal. The ancient Forerunner's age and isolation at the time that the Didact and his companions had encountered him above [[Janjur Qom]] had lent to his mental instability with the Confirmer's derelict ship being even more unstable, making him an easy mark for the Master Builder's machinations and honeyed promises. Although unable to forgive his old friend, the Didact was relieved to find another coherent Forerunner to talk to.{{Ref/Reuse|Epi9}} | |||
The Confirmer explained that they were all dead and stuck here, sealed off from the Domain which had closed itself up when the rings fired, although the Confirmer optimistically thought that the Domain would sort itself out soon. The Confirmer admitted that he was maddened with envy at the thought of their ancestors inside, roaming the halls, learning and communing with those who came before while the Confirmer and the others were trapped outside. The conversation drew the interest of a number of other Forerunners, including the [[Grammarian]], who wished to know the state of the galaxy, although these were more ghostly and less grounded than the Confirmer. The Didact informed the gathered Forerunners of what he had learned from the [[Halo: Cryptum|Bornstellar Relation]], but deflected questions about his own demise and asked for information on the [[Warden Eternal]]. The Confirmer informed the Didact about the seemingly-unstoppable threat that the construct posed and about a rift nearby that was occupied by [[human]]s. The Confirmer admitted that he hadn't seen the [[Librarian]], but that she might be present as well.{{Ref/Reuse|Epi9}} | |||
The Confirmer later joined the Forerunner and human forces that gathered to help the Didact fight the Warden Eternal. The Didact noted that the jovial old Forerunner that he knew so well was gone, replaced by a savage figure with a fevered light shining in his mad eyes. After 100,000 years without the Domain, the Confirmer wanted in now that the time had come, no matter the cost. Together, the gathered essences attacked the Warden, providing the Didact with a distraction at a pivotal moment, allowing him to destroy the Warden Eternal.{{Ref/Novel|Epi|25}} | |||
Subsquently, all of the Forerunners and humans were welcomed into the Domain.{{Ref/Novel|Epi|26}} After the Didact returned from speaking to [[Cortana]], the Confirmer and [[Forthencho]] joined him and [[Unidentified Haruspis|the]] [[Haruspis]]. The Confirmer surveyed the Domain with delight, actually smiling which the Didact hadn't thought possible within the Confirmer's stiff, rickety face. After Haruspis reported that there were still a few rogue [[Created]] AIs and splinters hiding in the interior of the Domain, the Confirmer took his leave, stating that he had better things to do and ancestors to see. As he walked away, the Confirmer muttered something about remembering where he left off the last time that he was in the Domain.{{Ref/Novel|Epi|27}} | |||
==Description and personality== | ==Description and personality== | ||
