“Boons I grant you, oh bearer mine, but debts must be paid in time.”
I noticed this text on the Knuckles of Eao. I think we can all agree that Eao was an Ahamkara, who were known for making deals with deadly consequences.
Ghost Fragment: Warlock says, “I’ve murdered a Guardian, I thought. She’s going to die. It’ll be my fault.
And I looked at the piece of spine in my hand and wondered - why did I say that? What moved me to such pride?”
So we know Ahamkara bones alone can lead a Guardian to these things, so my question is - will there be any repercussions to the use of the Knuckles of Eao?
I’m thinking that using Knuckles of Eao is making a deal with the devil. You get strength, power, etc, but you must repay that debt. How you repay the debt is interesting, and probably not for me to solve. The punishment could be insanity, or something similar.
Though I agree that there’s likely a debt to be paid, it’s worth noting that the Hunter (the she the Warlock was referring to) actually survived and likely killed the Ahamkara. This is evidenced by the Ahamkara Scale, a Hunter artifact, whose flavor text reads:
That’s a good point, but even so, the Warlock was still influenced to make a “bet”, clearly brought on my the Ahamkara fossil. The Hunter won against the Ahamkara because of her apparent skill and cunning, but what if some of the Guardians among us weren’t so lucky?
We are paying out debts. Very early on as well if you think about it. The knuckles brought us great fortune at a cost, and that cost was our enemies came back stronger than we could have realized. They have destroyed our great reserves of weapons because we understated them and grew complacent.
