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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
===Early life=== | ===Early life=== | ||
Born ''First-Light-Weaves-Living-Song'',{{Ref/Reuse|H4EVG}} she received the name "Librarian" from her teachers because she enjoyed traveling through great stores of knowledge.<ref name="string11">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 11''</ref> When she was born, many Forerunners were confused about why her features made her different from the Forerunners.<ref name="PoL24">'''Halo: Point of Light''', ''Chapter 24''</ref> During her childhood her mother, a Lifeworker who was an expert in the study and nurturing life in ice worlds, died while she was on duty, with her upbringing being taken over by her father.{{Ref/Reuse|PoL24}} As a child, her first glimpse of the [[Living Time]] was a chaotic nightmare for her, not knowing how to cope with it. She had sleep problems because of those nightmares and cried a lot, with the chemical intervention given by the monitors in her house the only way to console her dreams.<ref name="PoL18">'''[[Halo: Point of Light]]''', ''Chapter 18''</ | Born ''First-Light-Weaves-Living-Song'',{{Ref/Reuse|H4EVG}} she received the name "Librarian" from her teachers because she enjoyed traveling through great stores of knowledge.<ref name="string11">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 11''</ref> When she was born, many Forerunners were confused about why her features made her different from the Forerunners.<ref name="PoL24">'''Halo: Point of Light''', ''Chapter 24''</ref> During her childhood her mother, a Lifeworker who was an expert in the study and nurturing life in ice worlds, died while she was on duty, with her upbringing being taken over by her father.{{Ref/Reuse|PoL24}} As a child, her first glimpse of the [[Living Time]] was a chaotic nightmare for her, not knowing how to cope with it. She had sleep problems because of those nightmares and cried a lot, with the chemical intervention given by the monitors in her house the only way to console her dreams.<ref name="PoL18">'''[[Halo: Point of Light]]''', ''Chapter 18''</ref> Even as a [[Manipular]], the Librarian had a thirst for knowledge and fascination for life. One of her tutors, and who would become her Mentor, was a 4,000-years old Lifeworker named [[Harmony-in-Gifted-Symmetry]], with whom the Librarian would record and analyze her nightmares; Harmony would also teach her in navigate though her nightmares, and help her in understand the Living Time and watch its strings and threads. After adopting her first form, she gained access to the Domain, being greeted not by her ancestors, but shapeless forms.{{Ref/Reuse|PoL18}} | ||
After her first-form mutation, she hoped her features would become more Forerunner-like, but with no success. After her sulking period, the Librarian began to study and trace her abnormalities to its source, with the help of her ancilla, which the Librarian suspected her mentor Harmony had a hand in their meeting. Searching through the Domain, the Librarian heard voices who urge her to look to the beginning, and finally found a clue when one of the voices whispered her to look to the lost rate. She travelled to the [[Master Library]] of [[Keth Sidon]], searching for answers for several days until she crossed with the Theoretical studies, and their conclusions of the Precursors being the creators of both Forerunners and humanity, and that humanity share a genetic structure homogeneous to the Forerunners. The Librarian found the idea preposterous but, even with resistance against the idea, she began her study.{{Ref/Reuse|PoL18}} | After her first-form mutation, she hoped her features would become more Forerunner-like, but with no success. After her sulking period, the Librarian began to study and trace her abnormalities to its source, with the help of her ancilla, which the Librarian suspected her mentor Harmony had a hand in their meeting. Searching through the Domain, the Librarian heard voices who urge her to look to the beginning, and finally found a clue when one of the voices whispered her to look to the lost rate. She travelled to the [[Master Library]] of [[Keth Sidon]], searching for answers for several days until she crossed with the Theoretical studies, and their conclusions of the Precursors being the creators of both Forerunners and humanity, and that humanity share a genetic structure homogeneous to the Forerunners. The Librarian found the idea preposterous but, even with resistance against the idea, she began her study.{{Ref/Reuse|PoL18}} | ||
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===War with humanity=== | ===War with humanity=== | ||
{{Main|Human-Forerunner wars}} | {{Main|Human-Forerunner wars}} | ||
[[File: | [[File:H4 - L&D tacdisp.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The Didact and the Librarian in the Prometheans' command center on [[Requiem]].]] | ||
When [[prehistoric human civilization|humanity]] first began to attack Forerunner worlds and vessels, the Librarian stood before the [[Ecumene Council]] and advocated immediate retaliation and total extermination of the enemy. This policy was opposed by the Didact, who proposed to follow the teachings of the Mantle and send humanity back to its homeworld; this proposal was supported by the [[Master Builder]], [[Faber]], and the rest of the Council. The Librarian did not agree with this outcome, but conceded to the Council's decision.<ref name="h4terminals">'''Halo 4''', ''[[Terminal (Halo 4)|Terminals]]''</ref> As war against humanity commenced, the Librarian found herself fearful for her husband; while humanity had always been aggressive in the past, she observed that they had never seemed as desperately violent as they did at the present.{{Ref/Reuse|h4terminals}} During the course of the war, all of her children were killed in battle.{{Ref/Reuse|cryptum}} | When [[prehistoric human civilization|humanity]] first began to attack Forerunner worlds and vessels, the Librarian stood before the [[Ecumene Council]] and advocated immediate retaliation and total extermination of the enemy. This policy was opposed by the Didact, who proposed to follow the teachings of the Mantle and send humanity back to its homeworld; this proposal was supported by the [[Master Builder]], [[Faber]], and the rest of the Council. The Librarian did not agree with this outcome, but conceded to the Council's decision.<ref name="h4terminals">'''Halo 4''', ''[[Terminal (Halo 4)|Terminals]]''</ref> As war against humanity commenced, the Librarian found herself fearful for her husband; while humanity had always been aggressive in the past, she observed that they had never seemed as desperately violent as they did at the present.{{Ref/Reuse|h4terminals}} During the course of the war, all of her children were killed in battle.{{Ref/Reuse|cryptum}} | ||
The reasons behind humanity's perceived violent expansion became clearer in the later stages of the war, after the Forerunners' advance into former human territory brought them into contact with the parasitic [[Flood]] which now appeared to be receding from the galaxy. Upon further study, the Librarian's conclusion was that the humans' intentions had not been attacking out of rebellion, but desperation: they had been attempting to halt the advance of the Flood, destroying infected Forerunner ships and bombarding planets that were in the Flood's path. Furthermore, the Flood's apparent retreat from the galaxy seemed to indicate that the humans had found a successful way to combat the parasite, perhaps even a cure. Despite her initial reaction to humanity's aggression, these realizations caused the Librarian's originally negative opinion on humanity to shift.{{Ref/Reuse|h4terminals}} | The reasons behind humanity's perceived violent expansion became clearer in the later stages of the war, after the Forerunners' advance into former human territory brought them into contact with the parasitic [[Flood]] which now appeared to be receding from the galaxy. Upon further study, the Librarian's conclusion was that the humans' intentions had not been attacking out of rebellion, but desperation: they had been attempting to halt the advance of the Flood, destroying infected Forerunner ships and bombarding planets that were in the Flood's path. Furthermore, the Flood's apparent retreat from the galaxy seemed to indicate that the humans had found a successful way to combat the parasite, perhaps even a cure. Despite her initial reaction to humanity's aggression, these realizations caused the Librarian's originally negative opinion on humanity to shift.{{Ref/Reuse|h4terminals}} | ||
[[File: | [[File:H4 - L Flood.jpg|thumb|250px|The Librarian studying a [[Pod infector]].]] | ||
At this time, the Librarian's political standing was rapidly rising alongside that of her husband. She had accompanied the Didact as he sterilized remaining Flood redoubts, and had already conducted significant research into the parasite. Thus, she was placed in charge of the ecumene's Flood research and given the prestigious rank of [[Lifeshaper]], becoming the third Lifeworker to ever receive the title.<ref name="string3">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 3''</ref> While the remains of humanity struggled in their last bastion of [[Charum Hakkor]], the Librarian appealed to the Council so that humanity and their culture would be spared, as this might be the only way for the Forerunners to decipher their apparent Flood immunity. However, the Council was not supportive of her pleas, deeming humanity as too much of a threat and advocating the complete eradication of the species to ensure that they would not threaten Forerunner primacy again.{{Ref/Reuse|string3}} | At this time, the Librarian's political standing was rapidly rising alongside that of her husband. She had accompanied the Didact as he sterilized remaining Flood redoubts, and had already conducted significant research into the parasite. Thus, she was placed in charge of the ecumene's Flood research and given the prestigious rank of [[Lifeshaper]], becoming the third Lifeworker to ever receive the title.<ref name="string3">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 3''</ref> While the remains of humanity struggled in their last bastion of [[Charum Hakkor]], the Librarian appealed to the Council so that humanity and their culture would be spared, as this might be the only way for the Forerunners to decipher their apparent Flood immunity. However, the Council was not supportive of her pleas, deeming humanity as too much of a threat and advocating the complete eradication of the species to ensure that they would not threaten Forerunner primacy again.{{Ref/Reuse|string3}} | ||
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During the genocide of the species in [[Path Kethona]], two Precursors had found shelter and were found by the Forerunners who hid them and tried to heal them. However, the Precursors were beyond their ability to save and although the Precursors possessed the ability to heal, they chose to let nature take its course. After dying, the two Precursors became flora that was later studied and encoded, seeds that germinated for a million years. Sprouts that climbed to the surface took even longer and bloomed only in the last million years. Unlike the [[Primordial]], these Precursors celebrated joy and life instead of relishing in suffering, pain and death. As a result, the blooms are not left corrupted with violence and misery but instead are clean, beautiful and bright. | During the genocide of the species in [[Path Kethona]], two Precursors had found shelter and were found by the Forerunners who hid them and tried to heal them. However, the Precursors were beyond their ability to save and although the Precursors possessed the ability to heal, they chose to let nature take its course. After dying, the two Precursors became flora that was later studied and encoded, seeds that germinated for a million years. Sprouts that climbed to the surface took even longer and bloomed only in the last million years. Unlike the [[Primordial]], these Precursors celebrated joy and life instead of relishing in suffering, pain and death. As a result, the blooms are not left corrupted with violence and misery but instead are clean, beautiful and bright. | ||
Driven by her own ''[[geas]]'' from the Precursors to fix the path and set right what the Forerunners did wrong, the | Driven by her own ''[[geas]]'' from the Precursors to fix the path and set right what the Forerunners did wrong, the Librarian located the specimens while in Path Kethona searching out the origins of the [[Flood]] and, returning home with the specimens, the Librarian kept her discovery out of her report to the Ecumene Council.{{Ref/Reuse|POL}} | ||
===Research on Bastion=== | ===Research on Bastion=== | ||
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Four years later, after the Ur-Didact had been recovered from deep within the [[Burn]]—the Flood-infested region of the galaxy—the Librarian ceased her work to reunite with ''both'' incarnations of her husband in their home on [[Nomdagro]]. During the reunion, it soon became apparent that the Ur-Didact's sanity had been severely shaken by his traumatizing encounter with the [[Gravemind]], which was now using her husband as a pawn in its own schemes. In his growing madness, the Ur-Didact declared the Librarian's favoring of humanity as contrary to the Mantle and that the Forerunners should hold onto their dominance through violence and subjugation. While she and her husband had always had a difference of opinion in regard to humanity, the Ur-Didact's newfound extremism greatly appalled and distressed the Librarian. | Four years later, after the Ur-Didact had been recovered from deep within the [[Burn]]—the Flood-infested region of the galaxy—the Librarian ceased her work to reunite with ''both'' incarnations of her husband in their home on [[Nomdagro]]. During the reunion, it soon became apparent that the Ur-Didact's sanity had been severely shaken by his traumatizing encounter with the [[Gravemind]], which was now using her husband as a pawn in its own schemes. In his growing madness, the Ur-Didact declared the Librarian's favoring of humanity as contrary to the Mantle and that the Forerunners should hold onto their dominance through violence and subjugation. While she and her husband had always had a difference of opinion in regard to humanity, the Ur-Didact's newfound extremism greatly appalled and distressed the Librarian. | ||
[[File: | [[File:H4 - Librarian leaves.jpg|thumb|250px|The Librarian after she imprisons the Didact on Requiem.]] | ||
The Librarian's worries for the Ur-Didact were proven true during the Flood's assault on the [[greater Ark]], when the Ur-Didact unexpectedly used a [[Composer]] to digitize the population of [[Omega Halo]], which harbored the last major population of humans, relocated from the greater Ark to make room for Forerunner refugees. Outraged and grief-stricken, the Librarian contacted [[Chant-to-Green]] to travel to Erde-Tyrene and gather any remaining humans there and transport them to the [[Installation 00|lesser Ark]]. She also ordered [[343 Guilty Spark|Monitor Chakas]], who had saved a number of humans aboard a [[Gargantua-class transport]], to find the IsoDidact and take him and the humans to the lesser Ark. The Librarian herself headed to [[Requiem]] with the intent of imprisoning the Ur-Didact within a [[Cryptum]], in order to prevent him from causing further harm and to allow him to recover via extended contact with the [[Domain]]. Upon arrival at Requiem, she discovered the Ur-Didact's scheme to use the harvested essences of both humans and Prometheans to build an army of [[Promethean Knight|mechanical warriors]] not only to fight an extended war against the Flood, but also to eradicate all potential threats to Forerunner power. | The Librarian's worries for the Ur-Didact were proven true during the Flood's assault on the [[greater Ark]], when the Ur-Didact unexpectedly used a [[Composer]] to digitize the population of [[Omega Halo]], which harbored the last major population of humans, relocated from the greater Ark to make room for Forerunner refugees. Outraged and grief-stricken, the Librarian contacted [[Chant-to-Green]] to travel to Erde-Tyrene and gather any remaining humans there and transport them to the [[Installation 00|lesser Ark]]. She also ordered [[343 Guilty Spark|Monitor Chakas]], who had saved a number of humans aboard a [[Gargantua-class transport]], to find the IsoDidact and take him and the humans to the lesser Ark. The Librarian herself headed to [[Requiem]] with the intent of imprisoning the Ur-Didact within a [[Cryptum]], in order to prevent him from causing further harm and to allow him to recover via extended contact with the [[Domain]]. Upon arrival at Requiem, she discovered the Ur-Didact's scheme to use the harvested essences of both humans and Prometheans to build an army of [[Promethean Knight|mechanical warriors]] not only to fight an extended war against the Flood, but also to eradicate all potential threats to Forerunner power. | ||
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File:H4-SO-S1E9-Librarian-Cinematic05.jpg|The face of the Librarian. | File:H4-SO-S1E9-Librarian-Cinematic05.jpg|The face of the Librarian. | ||
File:H4-SO-S1E9-Librarian-Cinematic06.jpg|The Librarian offering the Janus Key to Halsey. | File:H4-SO-S1E9-Librarian-Cinematic06.jpg|The Librarian offering the Janus Key to Halsey. | ||
File:Halo Escalation 23.jpg|The Librarian on the cover of ''[[Halo: Escalation #23]]''. | File:Halo Escalation 23.jpg|The Librarian on the cover of ''[[Halo: Escalation#23]]''. | ||
File:HM-Forerunners.png|The Librarian (far right) in ''[[Halo Mythos]]''. | File:HM-Forerunners.png|The Librarian (far right) in ''[[Halo Mythos]]''. | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||