: I was reading through the Leveller section in the
: Delusions section, and a question occured to me. What
: if no hero emerged to challenge the leveller, or the
: leveller killed the hero? If the goal is population
: control, what happens when the leveller succeeds in
: his genocidal plans? His armies are almost entirely
: undead, and the living creatures he uses seem to lack
: the intellect to ever become a dominant species (I
: love the ghols and myrkridia, but they ain't exactly
: rhodes scholars). I just have this feeling that if the
: ghols inherit the earth, they would eat eachother into
: extinction. That is a rather short-sighted solution
: for a god seeking balance. This has probably been
: discussed to death, but please humor me, I'm new here.
The balance theory of the Leveller assumes that there is one single entity responsible for both Savior and Destroyer. This indeed was Bungie's original intention as announced in an old Jason Jones interview I don't recall the location of and, IIRC, on their original TFL website. Clearly though it has now been revised such that there is a Savior and Destroyer both every 1000 years (instead of one or the other alternating every 500 years), and The Leveller is just the one responsible for the Destroyer. There is no official word, but good number of people including me (and MJ too, at least at one point) believe there is also a Hero responsible for the Saviors each time. And then there's the whole A/B spirit thing determining who exactly is being incarnated as what each time.
