And then it got worse, dabbling in thanatonautics, Ahamkara-lore, chasing after Xur and the tricks of the Nine. Launching expeditions into the Reef and beyond at a time when ships were irreplaceable. Your quest split Guardians along ideological lines. This was your greatest crime: Hunters chose to pursue your visions instead of protecting refugees, Titans assembled teams to chase the legendary Vault of Glass instead of striking the Fallen, and Warlocks turned away from the study of the Traveler in favor of your ultimate obsession… learning the exact nature of the Darkness.
When debate became argument, and argument became acrimony, I realized you had already become a cult of personality, attracting Guardians who wanted a clear idea of why they were fighting, what they faced, and how they would ultimately win.
Here we see the true reasons that Osiris was exiled from society. It is the same reason that many visionaries are rejected by society; he questioned the status quo and he attracted others to question along with him. In other words, not so different from Socrates, Osiris was a philosophical threat to the establishment that needed to be removed in order to preserve law, order, and security.
It’s again interesting to note that Osiris is similar to us as players in behavior as he pursues Xur, explores the Reef, inspires guardians to raid the Vault of Glass, and questing to learn more about the Darkness which we are so valiantly fighting against. As the card wraps up, we find out more about the relationship between Osiris and the Vex:
I don’t know where you have gone, but I can no longer send Ghosts out to find you. Some come back– with tales of your death or how you went seeking answers from the far reaches of space and time. That you found a way to explore the Vex gate networks. That you’ve made breakthrough after breakthrough as to their origins– theories that a Guardian could not be simulated, that the Traveler might be an ontoformer or a god-incubator, that the Vex had diverged into multiple groups in order to secure ‘an end state for every possible configuration of reality’.
I fear you have become as obsessed with the Vex as Toland was with the Hive. I’ve heard your own insane prophecies about pits and dead Hive kings. And of Crota, which now I cannot deny…
Perhaps what drives a Warlock to madness is truth.
When the grimoire mentions that Osiris has made, “breakthrough after breakthrough as to their origins– theories that a Guardian could not be simulated,” this returns back to the story of Dr. Shim and his research team as they inspected a Vex mind and realized that the universe is probabilistically a highly advanced Vex simulation.
