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Chiasmus

There's something that's been knocking around my head for a couple years now about Destiny's general narrative structure, and this entry brought it to mind and made me think. Bungie is keeping secrets, not deep in the files but in things unsaid. In the telling of the story, below the event horizon. In the shape of it.

"Do you know how to make a strong password?" he asked. "I don't know if I do," I said. "Tell yourself a story," he said. "Use that one good story you'll never forget, that you can carry forever. Let your story take odd turns and wear a few surprising marks, make sure it belongs to you, so you can keep it secret."

This echoes something I believe said by Savathun that the greatest form of encryption is secrets, because they can only be unlocked by true understanding. When I think about stories like Truth to Power, there is such deliberate structure and subtext to them despite being confusing and intentionally obscured, and that structure is seen elsewhere in Destiny. We've even seen Ikora and Arach Jallal discuss the narrative structure, called "chiasmus."

REY >> JALAAL

We are headed inward, as if moving from parent to child universe.

Then we proceed in reverse. Savathûn is revealed to be a fiction of Dûl Incaru. Dûl Incaru a simulation by Quria, and so on.

So in the end, Truth to Power moves outwards.

Just as Savathûn plans to move. In from our universe and out to the Distributary—

Or out from our universe to its parent.

JALAAL >> REY

Oh. I see. I see! A literary structure like that is called a chiasmus, and chiasmus means "crossing point"! Like a wormhole or a portal! It was hidden in plain sight.

Chiasmus is a sort of chiral structure defined as a "reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses – but no repetition of words", and this achieves a fascinating effect; it leads you down a path of understanding, and sometimes does so by leaving your understanding up to the inferrence of the structure itself rather than stating the point directly and then leading you there

This is a scalable and somewhat flexible technique that can be used in sentences, paragraphs, or whole texts to convey very particular meaning. It's even used in the national anthem of the Netherlands, the oldest living national anthem (this one is interesting because it bounces back and forth—verse 1 mirrors verse 15, 2-14, 3-13, and so on until they meet at 8). I believe something like this is the basis for the entirety of Destiny's story; start with two presupposed points set in stone, set one as the start and one as the end, hide the end, and then slowly build from there. Bungie gets a lot of guff for perceived retcons, but in the broad strokes, and thematically, when it comes down to it, they know their stuff and have always seemed to have a long view in mind.

Chiasmus derives its effectiveness from its symmetrical structure. The structural symmetry of the chiasmus imposes the impression upon the reader or listener that the entire argument has been accounted for. In other words, chiasmus creates only two sides of an argument or idea for the listener to consider, and then leads the listener to favor one side of the argument.

We begin with resurrection in D1, new life. There's hints of Darkness, but it's buried in the lore and is explicitly taboo. It's confusing, but we slowly learn to see the world from an all-Light perspective. Year 2 we learn about the basics of Darkness via the Sword Logic, the Hive, and the Taken. Then, we press on and lose everything in year 4. We begin to learn more and more until year 5, Forsaken. Year 6 we get the Luna Pyramid, Unveiling, and the arrival. Then, in year 7, we get to *use* the Darkness. In Year 8, we begin to learn about it and seeing the unseen from Savathun via Deepsight, before learning about the Witness. This is also when we see one of our enemies go the other way, crossing our path by going from Dark to Light. Year 9, we learn about the Veil and a new perspective on Darkness, and year 10 we return to the center to defeat the First Knife and are left with only echoes of its victims and the Darkness that bound it

What is the main plan in Forsaken, year 5? For Uldren to enter the Watchtower with the Shard and the Darkness within him, where he unleashes the Voice of Riven, who acts as proxy. Riven enacts the curse upon her defeat, which is maintained inside Elusinia by Dûl Incaru, Eternal Return. Light and Dark to enter a hidden realm where a being in a tower creates a curse which is unleashed upon their defeat, and beyond which another being in a further nested realm maintains said curse. This is strikingly similar to the Witness: it enters the Pale Heart via the Traveler and the essence of the Veil, where it builds a tower and tries to make a sort of curse which infests the Heart. And when we defeated it, the energy from that process was released.

Guess what the mission where Crow entered the portal with the 15th Wish was called? Chiasmus.

Bungie loves secrets, but datamining makes them hard to pull off. They even put a reference to this in an unnamed entryegg in the API for Truth to Power:

O you wonderful curious things. Do you believe you're the only ones with the power to see what should not be seen? Did you believe you can use such power blithely? For your trespass, I would ruin your luck, wreak havoc on your drops, poison your engrams, and fill your lines with static. Thus I would curse you and dissipate the bond that ties you to your tasks. How frail you Guardians can be! How many millions have fallen silent, never to return, because the bond did not hold them strongly enough? But you have already cursed yourselves. You have walked the Anathematic Arc and glimpsed creation from below. You will never forget the tenuous, provisional framework you found here. You will never forgive the mortality and fallibility that underlies a world you thought was everything. Those who use this power to seek unearned knowledge will see more than they ever desired. There is a price for glimpsing the Cord. You will pay it.

This episode, we're learning about Maya, who has a direct link to the Veil, Vex, and Darkness via Clarity ("Take me to the garden’s seed. Take me. Take me. Take me. Take me. Take me. Take me. Take me. Take me—"), and now this strange Pyramid in act 3 of Echoes. Next, we have Fikrul, the Scorn (Dark Ether), and Mithtrax (Curse of Nezarec). And then we're ending on the Dreadnaught with Savathun, who hid the Veil, and Xivu Arath, who wants to emulate Oryx, the First Navigator with the implication that we will become Navigators. We reached the end of the line in defeating the Witness, but now we're beyond it. I think we're about to come full circle and see secrets beyond even the Veil.

Something else I like about this idea on a narrative and meta level; if the beginning and end of this leg of the story is already decided by its inherent structure, like life, then anything we do is futile. We will wind up there eventually, as everything does in the end. The only difference is the path we walk to get there

I. Guardians make their own fate. But what if the process by which they decide upon their own fate could be understood and manipulated?

But we are transcendent now; we walk a path as yet unimagined by both Light and Dark. What we do now— unshackled from HOPE—that is who we are; because only in the end are we free.

I.VII The cutting word is a doorway—the first syllable of hated salvation.

Better make sure you've got a strong password, wouldn't want to spoil the unveiling.

"What are you thinking about?" I asked. "When I was a little boy," Father said. "During the Before," I said. "Yes." He reached down to brush my hair. "I was recalling how very smart I used to be. When I was your age, I was a genius." "You're smart now," I said. He laughed hard. "Look around," he said. I always look around. "Miss nothing," he told me. Father was standing beside a big gray building. "This is what I want you to see," he said. The building had no doors or windows. "Do you know how to make a strong password?" he asked. "I don't know if I do," I said. "Tell yourself a story," he said. "Use that one good story you'll never forget, that you can carry forever. Let your story take odd turns and wear a few surprising marks, make sure it belongs to you, so you can keep it secret." Father kneeled, putting our faces close... "I want to show you something special," he said. "Something rare." I tried to imagine what that might be. "No," he warned. "You can't guess." Inside the gray building was a diamond wall...A projected sky floated above us. It wasn't our sky, alive with metal and light. Nothing about the grayness was wet and nothing looked alive. I had never seen a sadder piece of ground. "This was our world," Father said. "When I was your age." I touched the diamond wall. He watched my hand jump back. "Hot," I said. He laughed quietly. I shook my burnt hand, and it felt better. "Our world was this. The entire planet was a furnace. Acidic. Dead in so many ways. And I was your age." I was bored with the dead world. I looked at Father's face, asking, "Can we leave?" He started to reach for my hair again but decided not to. I was bored with everything. "When I was your age, people thought they knew almost everything. We had scientific laws and human truths, even a model of the universe. People carried pictures of the past and tried to have a clear vision of their difficult future. I didn't know everything, of course. But when I was a boy, I had every expectation of living a smart short life and learning quite a lot more. "Then the Before was finished. "You know why. "That's when everybody, particularly the smartest of us, learned that we knew nothing. We were children and our little ideas were toys, and the universe was cut apart with great ideas and magnificent, immeasurable potentials." Father stopped talking. I stepped away from the hot diamond wall. "Do you know what I wanted to show you?" Father asked. "Dead rock," I said. "Guess again." He wasn't happy with me. We stepped back into the real sun, the real world. I blinked and looked around, surprised by how green and bright everything was. How happy everything was. Even the saddest face was happy. "I know what you want me to see," I said. "Don't tell me," he said. I didn't tell him.

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ruvviks · 19 days

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everybody say hi to marshall he's the main character of a new story i'm working on. he's having a horrible time | [x]

#picrew games #basically grew up in a town where a c/ult was slowly taking shape and left before it could get bad but then has to return years later #for a funeral. and then there's an unexpected eclipse followed by a massive power cut and then shit's FUCKED #i have two pieces of writing i want to post for it but idk how to format them so that's a problem for future me to figure out #i wanted to make an edit for him but it's impossible to find fitting pictures so! picrew it is. give him a kiss #story would be written mostly from his perspective but i may actually weave his sister's perspective into it because #she's also affected by the urges the townspeople suffer from. and marshall is very much left unaffected. giggles

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grirnoires · 2 years

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awesome bachelor ideological contradiction moment

#CLAIMS TO BELEIVE IN PROGRESS. DEDICATED TO A BUILDING THAT PUTS YOU IN STATSIS #daniil dankovsky #pathologic #phone art #like. the way the polyhedron both contains children who do not grow up inside and the powers that be (representations of the game. which is #stagnant in that the game exists forever and repeats infinitely) . and how dankovsky is all about defeating death which is like. life witho #without death is stagant even regressive. you are not at all interested in the future of humanity baby #ANYWAY. painting tge polyhedron freehand is so much fun. she is so shapes

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palatinewolfsblog · 2 years

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In the light of certain events - on the first Advent.

Long time ago the biblical prophet Zechariah foresaw the coming of a king promising true peace and justice.

One who renounces external power and chooses a donkey to show himself to his people.

Show, what he stood for... (Zech 9:9-10)

Centuries later a man named Jesus connects to this word and enters the state capital on on the common man's mount. (John 12:14-15)

An unworldly, hopeless idealist?

A dreamer?

A detached visionary?

Well, what would this world be without ideas and dreams and visions?

This world needs people who take a stand against war and weapons.

Against the power of money, against elbow mentality.

This world needs a revolution in thinking.

This story is a demonstration against the age-old will to power.

It's an old story - but highly topical.

Have a good time everyone.

Peace be onto you.

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aria0fgold · 4 months

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Doodled the pretty lady from my dream...

And her fancy earrings, with some added details that wasn't included in my dream.

#ariart #i also used some new brushes and its just an overally experimental drawing #honestly tho her hair is curlier than that but alas... tis be a mere doodle with easier shapes #ill draw her properly someday. she dont even got a name yet too-- my brain just gave me pretty lady design and went fuck all #she only had black eyes in my dream but i have the power to give her prettier and fancier eyes so i did #also lipstick. she didnt have lipstick in my dream but i am powerful so i gave her some to match her eye colour #WAIT YEAH I DO HAVE A NAME FOR HER well not-- a name Name but smth to call her by. i thought it up while doodling her #basically Seer. i plopped her down in the same world as hal and feli so she gets smth to call her by that isnt her true name #ill find a name for her tomorrow as her true name but yea shes mainly known as seer. easy to remember #easy to detach from considering that she IS a seer in the way that she can see the future. simple and to the point #ariaoc #nearly forgot that tag once again

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halfyearsqueen · 5 months

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something about her always sitting at the base of the iron throne

#something about it always looming over her something about her father always looming over her and not even necessarily in the sense of him #doing anything to her or being cruel to her in any way shape or form but how consistent making him proud and pleasing him is always in the #corner of her mind effecting how she behaves in his presence and like #she loves her father - but her future- the stability of her children’s future and legitimacy lies entirely in her never falling out of favor #with him and that’s such a massive burden #but like #her never reaching the top because when she should’ve it was stolen from her #aegon reached the top BEFORE she did #the way viserys would take Jace on his lap on the iron throne and proclaim that ‘ one day this would be his seat ‘#the stress placed on jace’s claim as if to assure viserys’ leal lords that rhaenyra would only be one exception #one ruling queen in a lineage of ruling kings #something about the power she desperately craves always being just slightly out of her reach #it drives me so genuinely #SO GENUINELY INSANE THAT SHE COMES THE CLOSEST TO IT #LIKE SHES ACTIVELY ACTUALLY SITTING ON IT #the closest since the conqueror’s sisters but she’s only sitting at her father’s feet

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moocowmoocow · 10 months

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silvreflames · 1 year

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things you'll be hard pressed to learn about nesta from nesta so i am telling you, pt 1:

the grooming she was made to endure at the hands of her own mother to prepare her for marriage, first in the hopes of securing her family's place in society and then in saving her family from poverty

#aka phase one in the death of an openly soft-hearted nesta #her mother did everything in her power to shape nesta into ~wifey material~ at the expense of a healthy relationship with her daughter #and also at the detriment to said daughter #and as much as nesta had been taught that her only worth was what she could do for others #particularly her family but also for men (i.e. a future husband).#in some ways. there is freedom in fulfilling this sense of duty that was practically beaten into her from a very young age #if she can just save her family. if she can protect her sisters.#nesta was to be the 'breeding mare' of her family. that was what she was raised to be. in order to take care of her sisters #to save them from the fate of a loveless marriage of a cruel husband of the scorn of her parents and of society #and when she failed again and again to be successful in securing this future for all of them #she was subjected to her mother's ire. her father's disdain. her sisters' unspoken disappointment.#the last thing her mother said to her before she died was that she was born wrong.#that she was a waste.#and then every person she met after that said essentially the same thing in one way or another #and i think that this is the exact way that nesta views herself #privately of course though it wouldn't be difficult to see this if anyone bothered to pay attention #and even though she is no longer shackled to the human's way of life and those societal expectations attached to it #she still upholds the expectation that she must be the one who sacrifices in order to keep her sisters safe #that's why she hated rh.ysand [disgust]. because he took away f.eyre's choice which meant that nesta didn't keep her sister safe #she was made fae and humans hate fae and there was no chance she could save her family #i have a lot to say about the misogyny that is rampant in this stupid series but it's also deeply connected to who nesta is as a person #why she is the way she is #and how i will use it to unwrap her. to see her through her healing process.#desperately desperately itching for an emerie. for a gwyn. perhaps i will drabble some things to make up for it #they are so integral to nesta's growth and healing #a sisterhood that chose her and that she chose #one that she can love right because she never could with her blood sisters #emerie and gwyn love nesta so much just the way she is and i love them too for it!!!!!!!!!!

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kavehater · 8 months

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sighhh what a time to be alive pedophiles and pedo supporters getting exposed and mercilessly dragged

#*sips tea* ☕️#dora daily #I feel like this is my own catharsis too after what’s happened lols #tho it’s interesting that that happened given there was mass outrage at the thought of a fictional character undergoing that #i can’t explain help #which makes me wonder what would have happened had I opened my mouth and told everyone …#Eris would’ve been dead LOL and virtue too 😮‍💨#I can always drag them in the future LOL #but unfortunately or perhaps fortunately for them it’s not my style I’m afraid #feels sort of powerful knowing I have the ability to shape how they turn out and I’m incredibly unstable nowadays bpd splitting core #SO maybe if I’m particularly enraged I’d do something and maybe put an end to rhy too for leaving me out cause she saw everything I’m sure #but did nothing ! so did everybody else #somebody sedate me 😣

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cheaphousespending · 9 months

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dredshirtroberts · 9 months

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me looking at houses for sale online because it's fun and exciting: *having a great lil time enjoying the various ways houses are built the Same*

new listing: *is available*

me: Oooh i'll check this one out, certainly because i've never been in this state before now, and have been to a limited and very specific number of residential houses here, I definitely won't recognize the interior as having been something I dreamed about multiple times in my life in great detail to the point that i know where all the rooms are and what they look like already.

new listing: hello boy it's me the house from inside your mind, star of all your stress dreams in particular.

me: AAAAAAAAH

#i don't talk about my Semi-prophetic dreams often because who the fuck dreams about Places #i've seen pictures of buildings on the other side of the planet that i've dreamed about #before having seen pictures of them before #it is Uncomfortable and Weird every time #even in the Good Vibes houses were uncomfortable to recognize because like #why is this my super power??? i don't like it it's stressful #it is in fact my single Absolutely Not about any place we look at in the future for a house #if i've dreamed about that house prior to seeing it i'm - no. absolutely not #too many times of bad experiences with this i know a pattern when i see one i'm autistic #if the place hadn't been so Uniquely Shaped i wouldn't have had such a visceral reaction but like #the inside was very specific and boy howdy have i not enjoyed my dream trips there!#it did not help that every image was taken with a fish-eye lens which only exacerbated the dream-like quality (neg) of the architecture #anyway that was fun and exciting

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reallytoosublime · 10 months

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