: I wouldn't do anything in game to achieve it (beyond having to perform
: actions to reach the end of the game).

: Is the Chief the chosen one? Who chose him? Does the idea of the chosen one
: matter any more? The Precursors have shown shit judgment so who cares if
: they chose him? It's not a ringing endorsement.

: And the mantle was their idea and look how it has worked out for them the
: forerunners, and the rest of the galaxy.

I don't get the sense (yet?) that the ultimate goal fo Halo is to 'achieve' the mantle. I even get the feeling the we may en route to "dis"-mantling it because the concept is faulty and/or implemented by, essentially, our enemies.
And all of this change coming about in a very short period of time, considering the hundreds of thousands of years' time scale for past events...

: L has been too devious, betrayed her husband and has removed all sense of
: agency from the people who should be our protagonists. She made Halsey
: make the Spartans and Cortana. And her geas make people dance to her
: 100,000 year plan. Humans are her pets and her puppets.

: Are 343 going to play against expectations? Will everybody realize that the
: mantle is a bad idea and that L's tampering has messed up any hope of
: humans amounting to anything. Will the other races save us from the dead
: hand of the Precursors and the taint they cast over the Forerunners ->
: L -> to humans?

I feel it leaning in that direction.