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===Ur-Didact=== | ===Ur-Didact=== | ||
{{Quote|Not an interview. A deep, burning brand. An upwelling of hidden genetic contents... So many things I would never have imagined. Things I cannot repeat, lest I lose what remains of my sanity, my Warrior soul.|The Didact describing his experience at the clutches of the Gravemind.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 167-168''</ref>}} | {{Quote|Not an interview. A deep, burning brand. An upwelling of hidden genetic contents... So many things I would never have imagined. Things I cannot repeat, lest I lose what remains of my sanity, my Warrior soul.|The Didact describing his experience at the clutches of the Gravemind.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 167-168''</ref>}} | ||
The [[Ur-Didact]] was tortured and corrupted by the Gravemind in an encounter between the two, although this manifested in a far subtler manner than in most ancillas.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 166-168''</ref><ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 226''</ref> Whereas ancillary corruption is in most cases a simple, immediately obvious conversion to the Flood's side, the Didact did not exhibit deliberate hostility against his fellow Forerunners or a willful advancement of the Flood's cause.{{Ref/Reuse|s286}} Indeed, he maintained his firm commitment to the Forerunners' survival and believed his actions would help preserve his race's supremacy and their hold on the [[Mantle]]. In truth, however, having borne the strain of thousands of years of Forerunner history and the knowledge of the Precursors' true nature and their rejection of the Forerunners, the Didact was unable to maintain his sanity following the encounter;{{Ref/Reuse|s286}} this was intended by the Gravemind, which purposefully let the Didact go and return to the ecumene.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 193-194''</ref> | The [[Ur-Didact]] was tortured and corrupted by the Gravemind in an encounter between the two, although this manifested in a far subtler manner than in most ancillas.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 166-168''</ref><ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 226''</ref> Whereas ancillary corruption is in most cases a simple, immediately obvious conversion to the Flood's side, the Didact did not exhibit deliberate hostility against his fellow Forerunners or a willful advancement of the Flood's cause.{{Ref/Reuse|s286}} Indeed, he maintained his firm commitment to the Forerunners' survival and believed his actions would help preserve his race's supremacy and their hold on the [[Mantle]]. In truth, however, having borne the strain of thousands of years of Forerunner history and the knowledge of the Precursors' true nature and their rejection of the Forerunners, the Didact was unable to maintain his sanity following the encounter;{{Ref/Reuse|s286}} this was intended by the Gravemind, which purposefully let the Didact go and return to the ecumene.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 193-194''</ref> The Didact later suspected that the [[Primordial]] had opened a crack in his mind during their meeting on [[Charum Hakkor]] 10,000 years before that the Gravemind exploited to corrupt him.{{Ref/Novel|Epi|19}} | ||
The Ur-Didact was subsequently consumed by his personal delusions of Forerunner supremacy, opposition to the Halos, and antipathy towards humanity, eventually losing all sight of reality. His desperate actions and behavior near the end of the war, while not directly advantageous to the Flood, spread disorder and suffering among the Forerunners, among them [[Master Builder]] [[Faber]], the [[IsoDidact]], as well as the Didact's wife, the [[Librarian]], interfering with her plans for the galaxy on the whole.{{Ref/Reuse|s286}} The Gravemind also trusted the Ur-Didact with a message to the Master Builder from the Master Builder's family, who had been absorbed by the Flood, evidently knowing that the Didact would take pleasure in delivering the sadistic message to his enemy.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 251''</ref> This, in turn, greatly demoralized the Master Builder and contributed to his decision to die with [[Omega Halo|the last]] of his original Halos during the [[Battle of the greater Ark]].<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 270-275''</ref> | The Ur-Didact was subsequently consumed by his personal delusions of Forerunner supremacy, opposition to the Halos, and antipathy towards humanity, eventually losing all sight of reality. His desperate actions and behavior near the end of the war, while not directly advantageous to the Flood, spread disorder and suffering among the Forerunners, among them [[Master Builder]] [[Faber]], the [[IsoDidact]], as well as the Didact's wife, the [[Librarian]], interfering with her plans for the galaxy on the whole.{{Ref/Reuse|s286}} The Gravemind also trusted the Ur-Didact with a message to the Master Builder from the Master Builder's family, who had been absorbed by the Flood, evidently knowing that the Didact would take pleasure in delivering the sadistic message to his enemy.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 251''</ref> This, in turn, greatly demoralized the Master Builder and contributed to his decision to die with [[Omega Halo|the last]] of his original Halos during the [[Battle of the greater Ark]].<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 270-275''</ref> | ||
After all his efforts to discover a way to immunize biological beings from the Flood ended in failure, the Ur-Didact resorted to the use of the [[Composer]], which he used to [[Mind transfer|transform]] his [[Promethean]] [[Warrior-Servant]]s into powerful robotic [[Promethean Knight|Knights]]. The Didact believed that because the Flood could only assimilate living tissue, these mechanical warriors were therefore completely immune to infection and could fight and win an extended campaign against the parasite. This strategy, though reasonably solid, was morally questionable and ultimately futile, as the Flood had already expanded beyond all hope of defeat through brute force. However, the Ur-Didact merely assumed that he did not have enough Prometheans to bring victory, and forcibly composed Omega Halo's human population to bolster his mechanical army. The immorality and irrational cruelty of this act finally convinced the Librarian to stop the Didact, forcibly sealing him inside of a [[Cryptum]] on [[Requiem]]. The Librarian also did this in the hope that meditation and long exposure to the [[Domain]] would amend the Ur-Didact's motives and heal the damage wrought upon his mind by the Gravemind. However, with the activation of the Halo Array, the Domain, revealed to be a neural-physical Precursor creation, was destroyed. As a result, instead of his mind being healed in his meditation, the Ur-Didact was condemned to spend the next 100,000 years in complete silence, dwelling on his own insanity and rage.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium'''</ref> | After all his efforts to discover a way to immunize biological beings from the Flood ended in failure, the Ur-Didact resorted to the use of the [[Composer]], which he used to [[Mind transfer|transform]] his [[Promethean]] [[Warrior-Servant]]s into powerful robotic [[Promethean Knight|Knights]]. The Didact believed that because the Flood could only assimilate living tissue, these mechanical warriors were therefore completely immune to infection and could fight and win an extended campaign against the parasite. This strategy, though reasonably solid, was morally questionable and ultimately futile, as the Flood had already expanded beyond all hope of defeat through brute force. However, the Ur-Didact merely assumed that he did not have enough Prometheans to bring victory, and forcibly composed Omega Halo's human population to bolster his mechanical army. The immorality and irrational cruelty of this act finally convinced the Librarian to stop the Didact, forcibly sealing him inside of a [[Cryptum]] on [[Requiem]]. The Librarian also did this in the hope that meditation and long exposure to the [[Domain]] would amend the Ur-Didact's motives and heal the damage wrought upon his mind by the Gravemind. However, with the activation of the Halo Array, the Domain, revealed to be a neural-physical Precursor creation, was destroyed. As a result, instead of his mind being healed in his meditation, the Ur-Didact was condemned to spend the next 100,000 years in complete silence, dwelling on his own insanity and rage.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium'''</ref> | ||
After being composed and sent to the [[Domain]], the Didact believed that he continued to be afflicted by his corruption from the Gravemind. However, the [[Haruspis]] revealed that it had been burned away by the power of the Composers along with his physical form, restoring the Didact's sanity. All that remained were echoes that the Didact was holding onto and that he let go of once the Didact knew that he had been set free.{{Ref/Reuse|Epi20}} | |||
===Intrepid Eye=== | ===Intrepid Eye=== | ||
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*''[[Halo: Last Light]]'' {{Mo}} | *''[[Halo: Last Light]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
*''[[Halo: Divine Wind]]'' {{Mo}} | *''[[Halo: Divine Wind]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
*''[[Halo Infinite]]'' {{Mo}} | |||
*''[[Halo: Epitaph]]'' | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||