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The '''Confirmer''' was a [[Forerunner]] [[Promethean]] who commanded the [[Fortress-class vessel]] ''[[Deep Reverence]]''.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 169''</ref> He was an old friend of [[Ur-Didact|the Didact]]. | The '''Confirmer''' was a [[Forerunner]] [[Promethean]] who commanded the [[Fortress-class vessel]] ''[[Deep Reverence]]''.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 169''</ref> He was an old friend and mentor of [[Ur-Didact|the Didact]]. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
The Confirmer | The Confirmer provided the Didact's [[Forerunner mutation|brevet mutation]] and later served alongside him during the [[human-Forerunner wars]].<ref name=c178>'''Halo Cryptum''', ''page 178''</ref> He was the commander of the warship ''Deep Reverence'', and led legions of soldiers into battle. Following the removal of the Prometheans from the [[Ecumene Council]] around [[101,000 BCE]], he was placed in charge of maintaining the quarantine around the San 'Shyuum homeworld [[Janjur Qom]]. He spent the next 1,200 years serving aboard the ''Deep Reverence'' as it watched over the planet.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 170''</ref> 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 name=c182>'''Halo Cryptum''', ''page 182''</ref> | ||
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>'''Halo Cryptum''', ''page 198''</ref> He even came as far as to allow them to come aboard the ship to repair it and travel between their two worlds.<ref name=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>'''Halo Cryptum''', ''page 198''</ref> He even came as far as to allow them to come aboard the ship to repair it and travel between their two worlds.<ref name=c182/> | ||
In [[100,000 BCE]], 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>'''Halo Cryptum''', ''page 170-185''</ref> However, he secretly alerted Builder | In [[100,000 BCE]], 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>'''Halo Cryptum''', ''page 170-185''</ref> However, he secretly alerted [[Builder Security]] as the Didact and his crew left, allowing them to be captured by [[Master Builder]] [[Faber]].<ref>'''Halo Cryptum''', ''page 192''</ref> | ||
==Description and personality== | ==Description and personality== | ||
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The Confirmer was energetic in personality, though that appeared to be thanks to being alone from over a millennium until the Didact returned. He had grown very careless in his old age, allowing his weapons and ship to fall into disrepair, and did not even check if the Didact still held his rank after his exile.<ref>'''Halo Cryptum''', ''page 187''</ref> Bornstellar suspected he had spent his time building useless trinkets within the ship, diminishing its resources and design.<ref>'''Halo Cryptum''', ''page 180''</ref> | The Confirmer was energetic in personality, though that appeared to be thanks to being alone from over a millennium until the Didact returned. He had grown very careless in his old age, allowing his weapons and ship to fall into disrepair, and did not even check if the Didact still held his rank after his exile.<ref>'''Halo Cryptum''', ''page 187''</ref> Bornstellar suspected he had spent his time building useless trinkets within the ship, diminishing its resources and design.<ref>'''Halo Cryptum''', ''page 180''</ref> | ||
The Confirmer was fond of San'Shyuum art, and he valued it especially because it was worthless to Forerunners.<ref>'''Halo Cryptum''', ''page 171''</ref> He kept himself away from the business of [[Lifeworker]]s and [[Builder]]s, since they were a higher rate than Prometheans.<ref name=c178/> | The Confirmer was fond of San 'Shyuum art, and he valued it especially because it was worthless to Forerunners.<ref>'''Halo Cryptum''', ''page 171''</ref> He kept himself away from the business of [[Lifeworker]]s and [[Builder]]s, since they were a higher rate than Prometheans.<ref name=c178/> | ||
==Trivia== | |||
His translated title may have been derived from his notable act of providing the Didact's brevet mutation, a process which has a social function comparable to [[Wikipedia:Confirmation|confirmation]], a rite of initiation in several branches of Christianity. | |||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||
