The End of Everything.

The Great Revelation, which the Emperor Calus received at the end of the universe, was described by the Emperor to his Royal Scribes. His description is indeed what came to pass, and is happening now, 118 years after the Emperor brought liberty to the Sol system.

First, a veil of darkness descended on all the worlds of this universe, such that the people of these worlds looked into the sky and saw only night. All worlds, no matter their natural or synthetic geographies or climate, grew cold. The people of these worlds, having been subjected to this strangeness and adversity, began to grow afraid and suspicious of one another. Many deaths occurred in this intervening time before the end.

Next, a great war broke out across all varieties of civilization, be they naturally war-minded or peaceful. This warring, which goes on even now, is due to a futile desire to postpone the end of things when no such deferment can possibly occur; as such, the civilizations of the Sol system do not partake, for they accept the coming end as shown to them by their beloved Emperor. Even so, these good creatures are not exempt from the miserable clawing of others, who thrash blindly against the inevitable end.

But, we know from the words of the Great Emperor, the suffering will end. Death will soon arrive to the universe, and claim all of it for Itself. This will be the end of everything: all living things and non-living things, all that is real or theoretical.

The last to see it, to see Death as It consumes everything in this world, will be the great Emperor himself.

This is the polished version of what Calus saw when he went outside his ship, and it really seems like this is talking about the Pyramids, but what if something more sinister is occurring under our feet and we don't even know about it?

The first very curious thing I want to point out is the fact that the Pyramids are never mentioned by Calus. He never brings up the fleet in any of his voicelines, he only refers to the Darkness. But never triangles, or pyramids, or "black fleet". He only describes the fact that all of these civilizations started warring with each other, not fighting a singular force. And he never describes WHY this End occurred, only that it DOES occur. We need more info, let's go back to when it originally happened to get a better picture.

Where did Calus get the vision? Interestingly, he had it in a space of Emptiness. This is really important to note because it's very specifically noted that there is no such thing as true emptiness, in Destiny and our reality. It is simply impossible, so what happened that caused this region of space?

The Leviathan journeys through a void in the galaxy, without stars or even dust to relieve its nothingness. The astronomers say that an ancient cataclysm blasted open an abscess in the cosmos here. I feel the absence of spirits like a pressure headache, as if everything inside me wants to come rushing out.

Now, the fact that even this Psion couldn't feel anything either is also important to note because the entry before this, he says,

The enemy is yet worse. All Psions live in a world of minds. I believe in the cup and all its spirits because I feel those spirits every day—the prints left by other minds on the things I touch and see. These Hive... have no spirit. Their souls are emaciated. Some horrible solvent has stripped them of everything but hate, cunning, and the will to survive. I think they worship death because it is the only salvation from their existence.

But there is nothing in this region of space! Absolutely nothing.

This scar in our galaxy was cut long before he was born.

And so, we reach the point where...SOMETHING happened to them and the Leviathan.

God answers god! The void in Calus's soul called out and THIS is what replied—the Leviathan's control system failed when it saw what awaits us—we are drifting into it!

Is this the edge of the universe? Space cannot have an end: it goes on forever. But a hole in forever would be a kind of edge... a flaw, a defect, a place outside place...

After many days of uninterrupted flight, the Leviathan experienced a violent malfunction. This Scribe prefers not to lean on metaphoric language when the accuracy of history is at stake, but in these unusual circumstances, the record may forgive a departure into the subjective: It was as if the ship had been plucked from the cosmos like a berry by some gargantuan hand, rolled between forefinger and thumb, squeezed and tested for ripeness, and then, having been found satisfactory, slung backward in an unknowable direction toward an unknowable maw.

We are buffeted by intermittent tremors, which are strong enough to dash even the steadiest guards against the walls. Shagac and several dozen others have been knocked unconscious. Zhozon, the Emperor's dearest confidante since his exile, complains of a mounting pressure in his skull; twelve others are bleeding from their ears. The Royal Beasts bay with incessant fury.

What the fuck? Crazy right? So, we move on to what Calus described right after he came back inside after experiencing the space outside.

"Outside the ship, the Emperor looked over the edge of the universe, and saw nothing. That is, it wasn't that he saw nothing unusual, but he saw Nothing: the absence of light, dark, life, death, the absence of anything, even of absence itself. And out of the Nothing, there came whispering in a dark language, which filled his head so loud that he forgot for a moment his own language, and suddenly the Nothingness dispersed to show Something, which was a fleet of foreign ships. He saw next the destruction of a great many worlds and creatures, including all his enemies, and himself, and he saw the rot and fragmentation of his own corpse and skeleton. And last, before he was released, the whispers grew louder and granted him the honor of spreading the news of the end."

Now, in Destiny, there is no such thing as true emptiness. What Calus saw, an end, is not something that is desired by either the Traveler nor the Darkness. Both the Gardener and the Winnower even specifically mention that they have no concept of what an ending, or Death, even is.

Aren't they beautiful? I asked, as the flowers opened and closed in patterns beyond the scope of entire universes to encode, all-devouring and perhaps everlasting. Not even we could know whether a pattern in the flowers would cycle forever, or someday halt.

The gardener is all in. They are playing for keeps. And they are wrong. Or so I argue: for, after all, the universe is undecidable. There is no destiny. We're all making this up as we go along. Neither the gardener nor I know for certain that we're eternally, universally right. But we can be nothing except what we are. You have a choice.

So what did Calus find in that region of space with absolutely nothing? It can't be the Pyramids, he was given an hallucination of the Pyramids, the Pyramids were not there. Calus entered a true vacuum, and experienced a hallucination of the end of everything, something that not even the Gardener and Winnower know about. But you're not convinced. FAIR ENOUGH. So let's look at this,

And out of the Nothing, there came whispering in a dark language, which filled his head so loud that he forgot for a moment his own language,

This dark language is something that shows up a HUGE amount in the lore. It's even been theorized in the lore that this is a real thing in the universe of Destiny, and look at what they use for reference to study it,

Both causal and paracausal laws of the universe might… share a common… language. Getting a sample of the Hive's… music… will help me… study it.

[j:01] We're going in, getting what Adonna wanted, and getting out. Do you copy?[j:02] …Hey. You listening?[g4:01] Eir… Ur… Xol… Yul… Eir… Ur… Xol… Yul…[j:03] What are you doing? Hey—[g4:02] EIR. UR. XOL. YUL. AKKA![j:04] Ahhh—

Watch this video and watch how his Ghost responds as soon as he says, "Akka,' it's fucking creepy. Now, Cryptarch Adonna is immensely important to Toland when he was trying to discover the meaning behind these words, so we can infer that Adonna was immensely close to discovering something important. So where do we see this language? We have to look for similarities to other characters experiences to get the whole truth, Probably the most famous I found is the similarities encountered by Rezyl Azzir who wrote down all of his understandings into the 7th Book of Sorrow,

He could hear her moving just beyond his sight as her laughter rose in pitch, cutting into Rezyl’s mind and soul like a tempered blade.

Rezyl flinched as the wicked woman began to speak in a tongue that resembled torture more than language.

The pain was searing, complete.

The demon approached the writhing hero.

As she spoke her violent words began to take shape, morphing from syllables of death to a known offering of haunted human languages.

The demon woman leaned in close... and whispered, intimately.

Rezyl’s ears bled as she spoke.

It was only later, and far too late, that the first whispers came and the bones revealed their true, jagged purpose.

Eris encountered it in the Hellmouth,

[em:01] What have I done?[b:01] No time! Run![chorus:01] Eir… Ur… Xol… Yul…[b:02] The song! Don't listen!

Mara also encountered a simliar experience when she first met the Ancients,

Mara lengthened her stride, taking the steps three at a time so that she could duck into a little-used transport gate. She emerged in a small coastal observatory—then nothing more than a grand dormitory—and found Kelda Wadj, the Allteacher, hovering four feet off the ground. Blood poured from her ears and nostrils. Her eyes saw nothing.

Most interestingly, this is seen more prominently with Malkanths experiment on her sister,

SING, O SISTER… OF DEATH AND ITS MANY GIFTS

From the first, there has been war.

Wars of the self. Wars of conquest. Wars of desperation. Wars of greed.

From war, death.

From death, an end.

From endings, beginnings.

One such is now sung in the key of pain—Azavath's truth, the all of her, torn free with a surgeon's grace.

Malkanth's ears bleed as her sister's unmaking reveals her being.

In the echoes of Azavath's screams, ancient histories reveal themselves…

The First Conductor was assassinated by one who sang an Aria of her own making. She, whose name has been stricken, had found notes hidden in the frequencies. Reversed and mirrored in pitch, she weaved them together and sang her beautiful abomination, until the Conductor wept and bled and screamed and fell.

Malkanth braces as the pain of her sister's screams threatens to turn her mind to liquid.

But she is strong.

And almost finished.

Azavath's being was tied intimately to her purpose—to learn the Song, perfect her notes, write her own Aria, and become death. That she held so tightly to legends of the Song's true power surprised Malkanth.

So what do I think? I think there is a power that both the Light and Dark draw upon for their power, and this power is connected to the Worm Gods and the Ahamkara. I think the Worm Gods and Ahamkara are antithetical to what the traveler and the Darkness represent, and they're taking advantage of this to twist us to their personal uses. I think that there's a power directing the Ahamkaras and the Worm Gods that we still don't know about, and it's a greater threat than what the Pyramids represent. I think whatever this being is tricked us into thinking that it is the Darkness.

BUT! It's just a theory, and I welcome any and all criticism.