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SHE'S BACK

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Spinfoil hat time

So with the reveal of next season, and the image of Sloane, the giant eye, and what might happen.

So, the biggest thing is Sloane, still alive after these few years. Although, Taken, but only partially. Which is interesting. And with all of the buzz around everything, I saw something that caught my eye and has me thinking.

When you finish the Winterbite quest, we get a piece of info saying “The enemy of the Witness is on Titan.” And of course its fun to think it could be Sloane, but for as an accomplished titan she is, I don’t think she is quite on the level of say, Saint, the scourge of both eliksni and vex back in the day. So of course a lot of people are saying that it could the the Long Boy in the Soup. That it could be a leviathan similar to the one on the Fundament that the young hive siblings encountered before becoming gods. And it would make more sense for that to be the “enemy of the witness” than Sloane.

So of course the speculation is how is it an enemy? And for that I remembered some stuff back during the Season of Arrivals. It was during that time, with the pyramid ship hanging over the oceans, was the first time there was taken on Titan. There was actually dialogue from Drifter during the public event where he was commenting how weird it was to see them there, that that was the reason he didn’t have gambit maps on Titan for so long. He couldn’t get the taken to cooperate.

So what if, before the pyramid ship showed up, the leviathan was keeping the taken away? I wonder if it can hamper the Witness’ power somehow, seeing as how Sloane has hints of being taken, but doesn’t seem to be taken entirely. And it wasn’t until the Black Fleet entered the system properly that they were finally able to manifest on Titan without hindrance.

Of course, if Sloane is actually properly taken than all of this goes out the window, and I don’t know how much this theory actually holds up, but it is fun to speculate. And now with all of the new knowledge we have, that old line from Drifter really made me wonder.

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