My guess is that Atriox is essentially freeing The Endless from their captivity and that the voiceover is meant to sell the threat they represent (at least in The Forerunners’ minds) as well as possible additional measures the Forerunners may have taken to prevent them from being freed. Halo Infinite’s mysterious post-credits sequence sees Atriox use mysterious Forerunner technology as voiceovers discuss what certainly sounds like the logic behind the imprisonment of The Endless. In fact, there’s another part of Infinite’s story that seemingly helps support that particular theory. Maybe the Harbinger is simply trying to free The Endless, and maybe The Endless are enough of a threat on their own. Maybe some people are overthinking this, though. While The Flood carried out the basic will of the Precursors (which is to say “vengeance against the Forerunners”), they weren’t “true” Precursors in terms of their form and abilities. While I’m pretty confident that the Harbinger is trying to free The Endless, some fans are already speculating that the Harbinger is ultimately interested in restoring the Precursors: an ancient and powerful race that created (and were eventually destroyed by) the Forerunners.įollowing the end of the Forerunner-Precursor war, some of the remaining Precursors turned into an infectious “dust” that eventually gave birth to The Flood (which is kind of a simplification of the process, but you get the point). So far as that goes, though, we do have another theory… The Precursors and The Forerunners There’s a scene towards the end of Halo Infinite in which The Harbinger relays a sense of bitterness towards the Silent Auditorium (a place the Forerunners used to judge, imprison, and punish their enemies), which is really the strongest piece of evidence that she is indeed one of the Endless (or someone who represents their interests) and is trying to free her people.Įven if we assume that the Harbinger is one of The Endless (which seems likely even if there are a couple of holes in that theory that haven’t been filled quite yet), that still wouldn’t explain why they are known as the Harbinger. Given that the Forerunners instituted similar measures to contain The Flood, that should tell you a little bit about how powerful The Endless are. In fact, the Forerunners eventually decided to imprison The Endless on Zeta Halo and instituted a number of (quite extreme) safeguard measures designed to contain/eliminate The Endless should they ever be freed. However, we do know that the Forerunners considered The Endless to be one of the greatest threats to their society. What are The Endless? Well, that’s another one of those great questions that Halo Infinite doesn’t exactly bother to clearly answer. One thing that we can say about Harbinger’s origins with some level of confidence is that they are, in some way, related to The Endless.
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