Guardian's ages (Destiny)

by TTL Demag0gue , Within the shadow of the Traveler, Monday, September 29, 2014, 11:20 (3949 days ago) @ Postmortem

Anyone given this stuff some thought?

Yes, as a matter of fact. I've currently got two competing theories:

1) Guardians are revived from the point they died and continue to age from that point forward, until they die and are revived again, continuing the cycle. This would explain why the dead body disappears almost exactly at the same time the Guardian is revived -- its matter is actually being recycled for use with the new one.

2) Guardians are revived from a data template their Ghosts store permanently after they initially bond to their Guardians, and Guardians are rebuilt on a molecular level from that same template each time, effectively resetting their current body's physical age with each death they experience.

I prefer the second explanation over the first, just because I like the idea it represents, but I wouldn't be surprised if the official explanation is actually closer to the first.