The incredibly abstract and distorted imagery is very interesting in what it implies. That’s the one-sentence summary.īut for those who are familiar with the expanded universe, particularly the Forerunner Saga, one can infer a lot more of the specific detail of what is actually happening in this scene. The Didact wants a device called the Composer, which he will use to ‘imprison’ humanity in his Promethean war machines – making us his slave army. It doesn’t have to go any further than that, no additional lore is needed to ‘get’ what the high-level situation is here. I feel it necessary to begin by stating that, within the context of the game’s story, the depth of specifics of what’s happening here don’t really matter.įor the average player, all you need to understand is that the Chief is experiencing some sort of vision, like the Cortana and Gravemind moments in Halo 3. Within the high-level structure of Halo 4’s plot, this is how the Master Chief becomes ‘immune’ to the later use of the Composer, something the Librarian says he cannot defeat the Didact without…īut there are at least two other “gifts” that we have seen take hold.īefore we get to those, let’s first break down what actually happens in this scene. While I have previously written ( at great length) about how I feel this scene has been misinterpreted by many with regards to how it deals with the Chosen One trope, something I haven’t talked about in quite some time is the nature of the “many gifts” that the Librarian refers to. It’s been a hot minute since I last wrote an article about Halo 4 (by which, I of course mean it’s been about a week), and I’ve recently been thinking about this particular story beat with the Librarian as a kind of connective tissue across the Reclaimer Saga. She says that she seeded many hidden “gifts” within humanity, and that the Didact can only be defeated by unlocking this dormant potential in the Master Chief, granting him ‘immunity’ to the Composer.īut, in both Halo 4 and Halo 5, we see hints of other “gifts” awakening, which may also come into play in Halo Infinite…

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