originally posted in:The Lore Seekers
The first step to learning who the nine truly are is to look out our only window and way of knowing that the nine exist. Most of the guardians have seen this window, this window can be known as xür.
Even though xür is a mysterious vendor that is known and is one of the only vendors that guardians visit every week. He is visited so much because of his inventory, he sells only exotic weapons and gear. He is in the tower every Friday and leaves before Monday, and he is always in a different spot in the tower carrying different gear and weapons.
Xür is related to the nine because he is labeled as "The agent of the Nine" and we haven't ever seen the nine in the game, but if u stand near him he will say something that indicates his race; and he indicates that he is a Jovian. So what I did was I looked up what a Jovian is and I came up with this,
"A Jovian in science fiction is an inhabitant of the planet Jupiter"
Now that we know where xür is from we need to learn the relation of the number 9 to Jupiter although I found nothing that was unrelated to destiny I believe that the key to what the nine really are lies in plain sight.
I have heard great talk about how the nine are the warminds before the collapse, or how the nine are the greatest guardian minds the tower has known. But there is a grimoire card that talks about the nine it says
"The Nine are survivors of the cis-Jovian colonies who made a compact with an alien force to ensure their own survival.
The Nine are deep-orbit warminds who weathered the Collapse in hardened stealth platforms.
The Nine are ancient leviathan intelligences from the seas of Europa or the hydrocarbon pits of Titan.
The Nine arrived in a mysterious transmission from the direction of the Corona-Borealis supercluster.
The Nine are the firstborn Awoken and their minds now race down the field lines of the Jupiter-Io flux tube.
The Nine are Ghosts who pierced the Deep Black without a ship and meditated on the hissing silence of the heliopause.
The Nine are the aspects of the Darkness, broken by the Traveler's rebuke, working to destroy us from within.
The Nine is a viral language of pure meaning.
The Nine are the shadows left by the annihilation of a transcendent shape, burned into the weft of what is."
If you look at this grimoire card there are 9 different statements about what the nine could be. I think that each one of these is one of the nine, I know for sure that if each of these describe the nine then here are the characters that I believe are the nine along with their description:
Rasputin the warmind of earth-
The Nine are deep-orbit warminds who weathered the Collapse in hardened stealth platforms.
The queen of the reef -
The Nine are the firstborn Awoken and their minds now race down the field lines of the Jupiter-Io flux tube.
Toland the shattered communicated with the darkness-
The Nine are Ghosts who pierced the Deep Black without a ship and meditated on the hissing silence of the heliopause.
The exo stranger-
The Nine arrived in a mysterious transmission from the direction of the Corona-Borealis supercluster.
The rest are unknown I'm not even sure if this is correct keep in mind that all of this is just speculation and is open to your opinion.
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The queen can't be one of them. In a seprate grimoire card it reveals the prison of elders, and a servant who told the queen how the nine were upset by her brother's scouting parties. So she sent them one of the archons captured from the House of Wolves as a apology gift for her brother's stupidity.
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This is some good stuff. I was just reading a theory on Reddit that suggested that the nine are actually nine separate beings (nine descriptions in the prose, each one describing a single member of the nine). The theory was shot down, but I think it may have some merit. Time to do some thinking myself.
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Edited by The Steel Arc: 2/10/2015 12:19:34 AMThat's genius! I never would think that the Nine could be in plain sight...
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Great theory :)