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Harbinger: the title of First Strike's epilogue, and so much more...
Paul (paul01@dart.net.au) writes:
Hi guys,
firstly, I just wanted to say that you guys rock and that as a huge bungie.org fan and halo fan that you're work on keeping all us loonies informed is not without great thanks and kudo's.
Ok - I have been doing a bit of dictionary and thesaurus work of late on Halo names and one that got me quite excited was when I plugged in "Forerunner" into dictionary.com (not plug intended) and heres what a got:
a. One that precedes, as in time; a predecessor. b. An ancestor; a forebear.
a. One that comes before and indicates the approach of another; a harbinger. b. A warning sign or symptom.
Ok - so most of us are like "duh" about the first result, as in #1. But #2 has some major implications on who the Forerunner are. And I doubt seriously that Bungie would have chosen the word and its meanings by chance.
No, never by chance. There has been mention lately of the possibility of a new race and/or species in Halo 2. Could this be the "harbingee" Paul's theory would allude to? If so, the Forerunner link would have to indicate that the Forerunner themselves knew this possible "other" was to come. Intriguing!
-mnemesis
