originally posted in:The Ashen Conflux
Hmm.... The Hive considering the Darkness good? I'd think all the bones that litter their caverns tells another story. The Hive are definitely evil but will admit that doesn't mean the Darkness is. I would tend to think of the Traveller and the Darkness like Yin and Yang where the Traveller creates through the Golden Ages of races and the Darkness tears everything down leaving the strong to rebuild and reforge themselves better. Likely there is a neutral player inbetween that trys to keep either side from getting too powerful but don't think we have seen this player or this third party has been taken out of action and is licking it's wounds. Might explain why the Darkness has been chasing the Traveller so long. Perhaps the third party were the dragons. I think they were known as the Ahamkara but I'm not sure. I don't think the neutral third party would be The NIne because with Xur they are obviously too meddlesome to be neutral and likely have some motive and agenda of their own.
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The Ahamkara are controlled by the same worm gods as the Hive.
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Ahamkara aren't controlled by the worms. The worms are ahamkara, but not all ahamkara are worms
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I wondered about that when I first read the book of sorrow. Through discussion I then decided that they were probably controlled. But your answer actually makes the most sense.
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The Hive are literally direct servants of the Darkness. They believe in its philosophy
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Likely true although I have the feeling that the darkness would take either good or evil followers so long as they served the Dark's purpose.
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You are right, i suppose. The darkness just want to advance one race as much as possible and feed on their ambitions in exchange. The way the darkness achieves this doesn't seem to matter to it much, as long as the results are the same.
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The Hive see the Darkness as good because it's helping them get revenge on the thing that destroyed their civilization: the Traveler