Regarding final words of Marathon: Infinity (Destiny)

by Jabberwok, Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 14:01 (3936 days ago) @ iconicbanana

Can anyone suggest further reading or has anyone come across further analysis of the relationship between Destiny and the ending of Marathon: Infinity? I was reading through the terminals on marathon.bungie.org and that last screen made me feel dizzy.

We've watched while the stars burned out, and creation played in reverse. The universe freezing in half light. Once I thought to escape. To end the end a master, step out of the path of collapse. Escape would make us god. Yet I cannot help remember one enigma. A hybrid, elusive destroyer. This is the only mystery I have not solved. The only element unaccounted for. Even S'bhuth is no more, he saved his entire race, but in the end, frozen by despair, he joined the chaos he sought to evade. But you were dead a thousand times. Hopeless encounters successfully won. A man long dead, grafted to machines your builders did not understand. You follow the path, fitting into an infinite pattern. Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild. Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all becomes one. One moment left. One point of space and time. I know who you are. You are destiny.

It's a not uncommon topic on the Marathon Story Page, with some theories being more believable than others. Here are a couple threads.

http://forums.bungie.org/story/?read=67053
http://forums.bungie.org/story/?read=67308

But I think what it boils down to is that you have at least one of the people (Jones) who was working on the Marathon lore back in the day working on Destiny, so there end up being some similar ideas. Whether we want to envision these as a consistent thread through some reboot of the universe, I don't know that it matters. When they first announced the title, I was wondering how much of a connection there might be, but at this point, I'm not sure that it's any more than references, just like with Halo.