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*"It spoke in a Forerunner dialect, one I could barely understand—archaic [[Digon]]. I remembered clearly what it said, but it took time for the context to become clear. Context is everything, across all those centuries. It spoke to me of the greatest of Forerunner betrayals, the greatest of our many sins." - the Didact's imprint recalling his conversation with the Primordial. | *"It spoke in a Forerunner dialect, one I could barely understand—archaic [[Digon]]. I remembered clearly what it said, but it took time for the context to become clear. Context is everything, across all those centuries. It spoke to me of the greatest of Forerunner betrayals, the greatest of our many sins." - the Didact's imprint recalling his conversation with the Primordial. | ||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "There can be no misgivings. [[Forerunner mutation|Mutation]] is a personal journey, not to be coerced." | *'''Ur-Didact''': "There can be no misgivings. [[Forerunner mutation|Mutation]] is a personal journey, not to be coerced." | ||
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*"Your humans will find immortality as a new kind of weapon. They are now Prometheans - an honor I have granted them, though they do not deserve it." - On the [[Promethean Knight]]s in the process of being created. | *"Your humans will find immortality as a new kind of weapon. They are now Prometheans - an honor I have granted them, though they do not deserve it." - On the [[Promethean Knight]]s in the process of being created. | ||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "No war, no fighting. Eternal bliss, progress and development without pause! Impossible dream." | *'''Ur-Didact''': "No war, no fighting. Eternal bliss, progress and development without pause! Impossible dream." | ||
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*'''Ur-Didact''': "Not at all. She understands life! How could [[Precursor|they]] not? Peace and cooperation, never painful or deadly competition - that's what they must have desired. They understood nothing about their creations, really - else why open themselves to that sort of rebellion? Madness! It could only lead to madness." | *'''Ur-Didact''': "Not at all. She understands life! How could [[Precursor|they]] not? Peace and cooperation, never painful or deadly competition - that's what they must have desired. They understood nothing about their creations, really - else why open themselves to that sort of rebellion? Madness! It could only lead to madness." | ||
:—Conversing with [[Catalog]] in his former family home on [[Nomdagro]] while waiting for the IsoDidact and the Librarian to arrive. | :—Conversing with [[Catalog]] in his former family home on [[Nomdagro]] while waiting for the IsoDidact and the Librarian to arrive. | ||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "We are no longer the same. Look at that forsaken sky. The shadowy dust of old suns glowing deep inside with young light. New stars being born. Planets condensing like rain, covering themselves almost immediately in a velvet of life. When I was young, I saw a universe filled with threat and constant danger. It took the Librarian to teach me it was more beautiful than I could bear... Beauty second only to her own." | *'''Ur-Didact''': "We are no longer the same. Look at that forsaken sky. The shadowy dust of old suns glowing deep inside with young light. New stars being born. Planets condensing like rain, covering themselves almost immediately in a velvet of life. When I was young, I saw a universe filled with threat and constant danger. It took the Librarian to teach me it was more beautiful than I could bear... Beauty second only to her own." | ||
*'''IsoDidact''': "And now?" | *'''IsoDidact''': "And now?" | ||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "All I see are the colors of nightmare. Every star turned against us." | *'''Ur-Didact''': "All I see are the colors of nightmare. Every star turned against us." | ||
*'''IsoDidact''': "What else do you see?" | *'''IsoDidact''': "What else do you see?" | ||
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*'''Ur-Didact''': "And loose damnation on the stars? My wife sympathizes with our enemies. This quest to fulfill the Mantle has haunted me my entire life. And for countless millennia, we have failed to realize the one truth that could have saved us from the beginning. The Mantle isn’t to be inherited by the noble, it is to be taken by the strong." | *'''Ur-Didact''': "And loose damnation on the stars? My wife sympathizes with our enemies. This quest to fulfill the Mantle has haunted me my entire life. And for countless millennia, we have failed to realize the one truth that could have saved us from the beginning. The Mantle isn’t to be inherited by the noble, it is to be taken by the strong." | ||
:—A conversation during the two Didacts' reunion on Nomdagro. The Ur-Didact's quote "And loose damnation on the stars?" references a line spoken by [[Cortana]] on the level ''[[The Covenant (level)|The Covenant]]'' in ''[[Halo 3]]'' (''"For a moment of safety, I loosed damnation upon the stars."''). | :—A conversation during the two Didacts' reunion on Nomdagro. The Ur-Didact's quote "And loose damnation on the stars?" references a line spoken by [[Cortana]] on the level ''[[The Covenant (level)|The Covenant]]'' in ''[[Halo 3]]'' (''"For a moment of safety, I loosed damnation upon the stars."''). | ||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "What wisdom have you acquired, buried in my pattern, in the shape of my flesh? Am I to be set aside, and you, no doubt screaming under all that ''pattern'', perhaps hope to return to what you were? Or do you find this pattern more suitable - and hope to replace me?" | *'''Ur-Didact''': "What wisdom have you acquired, buried in my pattern, in the shape of my flesh? Am I to be set aside, and you, no doubt screaming under all that ''pattern'', perhaps hope to return to what you were? Or do you find this pattern more suitable - and hope to replace me?" | ||