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4/12/2025 8:18:56 PM
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Lord of every nothing- Mercury’s IF maybe?

The whole willing into existence and its lack of memory implies it’s wholly new. Especially with lore setting the precedent for it happening in other ways. So I’m hoping it’s something new but we all know to hedge our bets when it comes to guessing. If it is new. the name seems problematic. Cause what does “every nothing” have to do with the ascendant plane? I can’t think of anything. So with that doubt in mind, I speculated on the Nine angle. Mercury was Taken to the Ascendant plane and hasn’t returned. They are bands of dark matter threaded through planetary cores. The DM bands are the mind, the cores are the body. Destiny lore, though, separates the mind and body. The mind can live without a body, the body without a mind. Mercury was hollowed out and its core repurposed into the Infinite Forest, a massive simulator. This however never killed the Nine based on Mercury, so despite its core being changed, it still lives. So the IF is a simulator for what? They experiment with what-ifs scenarios and paths to victory. All of which do not truly exist and 99.9999999% will never exist. Only one will, the path for victory but obviously that won’t happen. So almost quite literally, everything that won’t ever happen. Every nothing. And by being moved, it lost its interaction with life. Which essentially made it brain dead. Would returning bring back its old memories or start over? If it lost its mind and only regained its body, it would only know what it is. A giant what if simulator, every nothing. And it’s sorta paracausal too in nature, as things it simulates can escape into reality wholly real, as we found out with Saint-14. A bit of a word game, sure, but hardly the first clever semantics has been used to connect dots. Anyway, I’m hoping for something new but given the thought had some merit to me, I wanted to share. Thoughts?
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  • Mercury returned after RoN, Bungie talked about it in the act 2 livestream, Io is still gone (despite the lore saying otherwise) but other than that the rest of the celestial bodies that were gone were returned.

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