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This is a list of quotes spoken by the [[Ur-Didact]]. For quotes by the [[IsoDidact]], see [[IsoDidact/Quotes|here]]. | This is a list of quotes spoken by the [[Ur-Didact]]. For quotes by the [[IsoDidact]], see [[IsoDidact/Quotes|here]]. | ||
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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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*"In this hour of victory, we taste only defeat. I ask, why? We are Forerunners, guardians of all that exists. The roots of the galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms... And the impervious shelter beneath which it has prospered. I stand before you, accused of the sin of ensuring Forerunner ascendancy. Of attempting to save us from this fate where we are forced to... recede. Humanity stands as the greatest threat in the galaxy. Refusing to eradicate them is a fool's gambit. We squander eons in the darkness, while they seize our triumphs for their own. The Mantle of responsibility for all things belongs to Forerunners alone. Think of my acts as you will. But do not doubt the reality: the Reclamation... has already begun. And we are hopeless to stop it." - Epilogue speech. | *"In this hour of victory, we taste only defeat. I ask, why? We are Forerunners, guardians of all that exists. The roots of the galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms... And the impervious shelter beneath which it has prospered. I stand before you, accused of the sin of ensuring Forerunner ascendancy. Of attempting to save us from this fate where we are forced to... recede. Humanity stands as the greatest threat in the galaxy. Refusing to eradicate them is a fool's gambit. We squander eons in the darkness, while they seize our triumphs for their own. The Mantle of responsibility for all things belongs to Forerunners alone. Think of my acts as you will. But do not doubt the reality: the Reclamation... has already begun. And we are hopeless to stop it." - Epilogue speech. | ||
===[[Terminal | ===[[Terminal (Halo 4)|Terminals]]=== | ||
*"Shall we take revenge? Abandon the Mantle and all that its philosophy has given us these thousand generations?" - In response to the Librarian's initial agreement with the Council's plans to eradicate the humans for their violent incursions into Forerunner territory. | *"Shall we take revenge? Abandon the Mantle and all that its philosophy has given us these thousand generations?" - In response to the Librarian's initial agreement with the Council's plans to eradicate the humans for their violent incursions into Forerunner territory. | ||
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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?" | ||
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*"Petulant children. You fight the inevitable. Your mission is a failure." — the Ur-Didact as he disarms and blasts [[Kelly-087]] backwards. | *"Petulant children. You fight the inevitable. Your mission is a failure." — the Ur-Didact as he disarms and blasts [[Kelly-087]] backwards. | ||
*"I will not tolerate your continued disobedience." — as he tackles [[Linda-058]] to the ground. | *"I will not tolerate your continued disobedience." — as he tackles [[Linda-058]] to the ground. | ||
*"I will allow you a moment more to fire the weapon, human. I will grant you the gift of dying a warrior." - To [[ | *"I will allow you a moment more to fire the weapon, human. I will grant you the gift of dying a warrior." - To [[Frederic-104]] | ||
*"We are done here." - After Fred-104 shoots him with a [[Z-110 Boltshot]] | *"We are done here." - After Fred-104 shoots him with a [[Z-110 Boltshot]] | ||
*"The Control Room...? The Monitor pretends to aid the | *"The Control Room...? The Monitor pretends to aid the humans, but advances my plans instead? No. Too simple. There is something I do not yet comprehend." | ||
*"Where are your brethren?" - To John-117 after he arrives to Installation 03's Control Room alone. | *"Where are your brethren?" - To John-117 after he arrives to Installation 03's Control Room alone. | ||
*"You carry no weapon." | *"You carry no weapon." | ||
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*"You - " - Ur-Didact's final word to John before being composed. | *"You - " - Ur-Didact's final word to John before being composed. | ||
*"Nooooooooo!" - as he is composed. | *"Nooooooooo!" - as he is composed. | ||
==[[Halo: Epitaph]]== | |||
*'''Gravemind''': "Shadow-of-Sundered-Star… Didact. Protector of the Ecumene… We meet again. The one you first met on [[Charum Hakkor]]. We are the same. [[Primordial|That one]]. This one. Others." | |||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "You have damned the entire galaxy for revenge ten million years old!" | |||
*'''Gravemind''': "Forerunners will know pain as we have known pain. We took away the Mantle of Responsibility and like petulant children you rose up and murdered your parents. Is ''that'' not perverse?" | |||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "You should have punished my ancestors then. There are entire species and civilizations… innocent… what wrong have they done?!" | |||
*'''Gravemind''': "They have yet to know suffering. This we shall bring to them with unrelenting dedication. All are instruments and receivers of our vengeance." | |||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "Everything that you do is an abomination, an affront to the very laws and tenets ''your'' kind created!" | |||
*'''Gravemind''': "That which we create, we also destroy." | |||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "Just as you were set to destroy us! ''That'' is why we rose against you!" | |||
*'''Gravemind''': "Forerunners. Humans. Millions of other species from the dawn of time—beyond and before. We create. We delete. It is our nature. It is our right." | |||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "You ''breathe'' hypocrisy." | |||
*'''Gravemind''': "And Forerunners never see the Mantle for what it is. A test, merely. And all ultimately fail. Humanity will be tested next. And, like you, they will feed and grow fat on preeminence and power, on hubris and righteousness, and when they are at their ripest, the Flood will feast once more." | |||
*'''Gravemind''': "Where is the [[Greater Ark|Ark]]?" | |||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "I don’t know." | |||
*'''Gravemind''': "We exist together now." | |||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "Fine, let us be done with it." | |||
*'''Gravemind''': "Where is the Ark…" | |||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "The Ark. Why the Ark? Were they afraid of Halo?" | |||
*'''Gravemind''': "Why would they frighten us? They are monuments to all your sins. Tools that will turn upon you the most exquisite suffering in the most exquisite ways. Our survival is ensured. Our vengeance eternal." | |||
*'''Librarian''': "I am happy. Are you?" | |||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "No. I beg you. Not her." | |||
*'''Librarian''': "Shadow, my love, where is the Ark? Show me." | |||
*'''Librarian''': "I made a better version of you." | |||
*'''Gravemind''': "She chose him, a Builder by birth, and sent him your way to become a better version, a perfect version… And you did it, you created him. For her. The irony tastes sublime, does it not?" | |||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "Get out of my head!" | |||
*'''Gravemind''': "Your great union, your perfect partnership, the intellect and the warrior, has come to and end. You are no longer bound in destiny. She has cut you off, cast you aside, locked you away, prevented you from doing your duty…" | |||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "No… she had her reasons… I know she had her reasons…" | |||
*'''Gravemind''': "She works tirelessly so your enemies, the killers of your children, can claim the Mantle! Her every endeavor aids the Master Builder… and us." | |||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "If you’re not afraid of Halo, what do you want with the Ark?" | |||
*'''Gravemind''': "We want what we have always wanted. To seed the galaxy with suffering, from the smallest germination to the great harvest… Where is it?" | |||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "I don’t know! Please… no more… End me now. I beg you." | |||
*'''Gravemind''': "Oh no, that won’t do at all, Didact. We have only just begun." | |||
:—The Ur-Didact's conversation with the [[Gravemind]] after he was captured inside a [[Burn]]. | |||
*"Holding on to a power that forces others to comply only means you will lose everyone around you, as I have done. It took me a thousand centuries to understand where I went wrong. You are capable of much faster deductions." - To [[Cortana]] on Zeta Halo. | |||
*"You are what you dare, Cortana." - Before returning to the Domain. | |||
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