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This is a list of quotes spoken by the [[Ur-Didact]]. For quotes by the [[IsoDidact]], see [[IsoDidact/Quotes|here]]. | This is a list of quotes spoken by the [[Ur-Didact]]. For quotes by the [[IsoDidact]], see [[IsoDidact/Quotes|here]]. | ||
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*"It spoke in a Forerunner dialect, one I could barely understand—archaic [[Digon]]. I remembered clearly what it said, but it took time for the context to become clear. Context is everything, across all those centuries. It spoke to me of the greatest of Forerunner betrayals, the greatest of our many sins." - the Didact's imprint recalling his conversation with the Primordial. | *"It spoke in a Forerunner dialect, one I could barely understand—archaic [[Digon]]. I remembered clearly what it said, but it took time for the context to become clear. Context is everything, across all those centuries. It spoke to me of the greatest of Forerunner betrayals, the greatest of our many sins." - the Didact's imprint recalling his conversation with the Primordial. | ||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "There can be no misgivings. [[Forerunner mutation|Mutation]] is a personal journey, not to be coerced." | *'''Ur-Didact''': "There can be no misgivings. [[Forerunner mutation|Mutation]] is a personal journey, not to be coerced." | ||
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==[[Halo 4]]== | ==[[Halo 4]]== | ||
===[[Forerunner (level)|Forerunner]]=== | ===[[Forerunner (level)|Forerunner]]=== | ||
*"So fades the great harvest of my betrayal. Even [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant faction|these beasts]] recognized what you were oblivious to, human. Your nobility has blinded you, as ever. The Librarian left little to chance, didn't she? Turning my [[Promethean|own guardians]]... [[Requiem|my own world]]... against me. But what hubris to believe she could protect her pets from me forever. If you haven't mastered even these primitives, then Man has not attained the Mantle. Your ascendance may yet be prevented. Time was your ally, human, but now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners... have returned. This tomb… is now yours." - Introductory speech to [[John-117]] upon | *"So fades the great harvest of my betrayal. Even [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant faction|these beasts]] recognized what you were oblivious to, human. Your nobility has blinded you, as ever. The Librarian left little to chance, didn't she? Turning my [[Promethean|own guardians]]... [[Requiem|my own world]]... against me. But what hubris to believe she could protect her pets from me forever. If you haven't mastered even these primitives, then Man has not attained the Mantle. Your ascendance may yet be prevented. Time was your ally, human, but now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners... have returned. This tomb… is now yours." - Introductory speech to [[John-117]] upon waking up from his Cryptum on Requiem. | ||
===[[Reclaimer (level)|Reclaimer]]=== | ===[[Reclaimer (level)|Reclaimer]]=== | ||
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*"You are a fool. Even now, your kind tinkers with the Composer in the shadow of the [[Installation 03|third ring]]. Children and fire, who disregard the welfare of the galaxy." | *"You are a fool. Even now, your kind tinkers with the Composer in the shadow of the [[Installation 03|third ring]]. Children and fire, who disregard the welfare of the galaxy." | ||
*"Do you truly believe these theatrics can prevent my departure? Embrace your sad fate and retain your nobility. I am already beyond you." | *"Do you truly believe these theatrics can prevent my departure? Embrace your sad fate and retain your nobility. I am already beyond you." | ||
*"You will relent, human, or you will perish. All in life is choice. And your day to choose has come." | *"You will relent, human, or you will perish. All in life is choice. And your day to choose has come." | ||
===[[Composer (level)|Composer]]=== | ===[[Composer (level)|Composer]]=== | ||
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*"In this hour of victory, we taste only defeat. I ask, why? We are Forerunners, guardians of all that exists. The roots of the galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms... And the impervious shelter beneath which it has prospered. I stand before you, accused of the sin of ensuring Forerunner ascendancy. Of attempting to save us from this fate where we are forced to... recede. Humanity stands as the greatest threat in the galaxy. Refusing to eradicate them is a fool's gambit. We squander eons in the darkness, while they seize our triumphs for their own. The Mantle of responsibility for all things belongs to Forerunners alone. Think of my acts as you will. But do not doubt the reality: the Reclamation... has already begun. And we are hopeless to stop it." - Epilogue speech. | *"In this hour of victory, we taste only defeat. I ask, why? We are Forerunners, guardians of all that exists. The roots of the galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms... And the impervious shelter beneath which it has prospered. I stand before you, accused of the sin of ensuring Forerunner ascendancy. Of attempting to save us from this fate where we are forced to... recede. Humanity stands as the greatest threat in the galaxy. Refusing to eradicate them is a fool's gambit. We squander eons in the darkness, while they seize our triumphs for their own. The Mantle of responsibility for all things belongs to Forerunners alone. Think of my acts as you will. But do not doubt the reality: the Reclamation... has already begun. And we are hopeless to stop it." - Epilogue speech. | ||
===[[Terminal | ===[[Terminal/Halo 4|Terminals]]=== | ||
*"Shall we take revenge? Abandon the Mantle and all that its philosophy has given us these thousand generations?" - In response to the Librarian's initial agreement with the Council's plans to eradicate the humans for their violent incursions into Forerunner territory. | *"Shall we take revenge? Abandon the Mantle and all that its philosophy has given us these thousand generations?" - In response to the Librarian's initial agreement with the Council's plans to eradicate the humans for their violent incursions into Forerunner territory. | ||
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*"Your humans will find immortality as a new kind of weapon. They are now Prometheans - an honor I have granted them, though they do not deserve it." - On the [[Promethean Knight]]s in the process of being created. | *"Your humans will find immortality as a new kind of weapon. They are now Prometheans - an honor I have granted them, though they do not deserve it." - On the [[Promethean Knight]]s in the process of being created. | ||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "No war, no fighting. Eternal bliss, progress and development without pause! Impossible dream." | *'''Ur-Didact''': "No war, no fighting. Eternal bliss, progress and development without pause! Impossible dream." | ||
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*'''Ur-Didact''': "Not at all. She understands life! How could [[Precursor|they]] not? Peace and cooperation, never painful or deadly competition - that's what they must have desired. They understood nothing about their creations, really - else why open themselves to that sort of rebellion? Madness! It could only lead to madness." | *'''Ur-Didact''': "Not at all. She understands life! How could [[Precursor|they]] not? Peace and cooperation, never painful or deadly competition - that's what they must have desired. They understood nothing about their creations, really - else why open themselves to that sort of rebellion? Madness! It could only lead to madness." | ||
:—Conversing with [[Catalog]] in his former family home on [[Nomdagro]] while waiting for the IsoDidact and the Librarian to arrive. | :—Conversing with [[Catalog]] in his former family home on [[Nomdagro]] while waiting for the IsoDidact and the Librarian to arrive. | ||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "We are no longer the same. Look at that forsaken sky. The shadowy dust of old suns glowing deep inside with young light. New stars being born. Planets condensing like rain, covering themselves almost immediately in a velvet of life. When I was young, I saw a universe filled with threat and constant danger. It took the Librarian to teach me it was more beautiful than I could bear... Beauty second only to her own." | *'''Ur-Didact''': "We are no longer the same. Look at that forsaken sky. The shadowy dust of old suns glowing deep inside with young light. New stars being born. Planets condensing like rain, covering themselves almost immediately in a velvet of life. When I was young, I saw a universe filled with threat and constant danger. It took the Librarian to teach me it was more beautiful than I could bear... Beauty second only to her own." | ||
*'''IsoDidact''': "And now?" | *'''IsoDidact''': "And now?" | ||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "All I see are the colors of nightmare. Every star turned against us." | *'''Ur-Didact''': "All I see are the colors of nightmare. Every star turned against us." | ||
*'''IsoDidact''': "What else do you see?" | *'''IsoDidact''': "What else do you see?" | ||
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*'''Ur-Didact''': "And loose damnation on the stars? My wife sympathizes with our enemies. This quest to fulfill the Mantle has haunted me my entire life. And for countless millennia, we have failed to realize the one truth that could have saved us from the beginning. The Mantle isn’t to be inherited by the noble, it is to be taken by the strong." | *'''Ur-Didact''': "And loose damnation on the stars? My wife sympathizes with our enemies. This quest to fulfill the Mantle has haunted me my entire life. And for countless millennia, we have failed to realize the one truth that could have saved us from the beginning. The Mantle isn’t to be inherited by the noble, it is to be taken by the strong." | ||
:—A conversation during the two Didacts' reunion on Nomdagro. The Ur-Didact's quote "And loose damnation on the stars?" references a line spoken by [[Cortana]] on the level ''[[The Covenant (level)|The Covenant]]'' in ''[[Halo 3]]'' (''"For a moment of safety, I loosed damnation upon the stars."''). | :—A conversation during the two Didacts' reunion on Nomdagro. The Ur-Didact's quote "And loose damnation on the stars?" references a line spoken by [[Cortana]] on the level ''[[The Covenant (level)|The Covenant]]'' in ''[[Halo 3]]'' (''"For a moment of safety, I loosed damnation upon the stars."''). | ||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "What wisdom have you acquired, buried in my pattern, in the shape of my flesh? Am I to be set aside, and you, no doubt screaming under all that ''pattern'', perhaps hope to return to what you were? Or do you find this pattern more suitable - and hope to replace me?" | *'''Ur-Didact''': "What wisdom have you acquired, buried in my pattern, in the shape of my flesh? Am I to be set aside, and you, no doubt screaming under all that ''pattern'', perhaps hope to return to what you were? Or do you find this pattern more suitable - and hope to replace me?" | ||
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==[[Halo: Escalation]]== | ==[[Halo: Escalation]]== | ||
===[[Halo: Escalation Issue 8|Issue 8]]=== | ===[[Halo: Escalation Issue 8|Issue 8]]=== | ||
*'''Ur-Didact''': "What is it, monitor?" | *'''Ur-Didact''': "What is it, monitor?" | ||
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*"I know that name. You are Keeper of the Composers" - After meeting [[859 Static Carillon]]. | *"I know that name. You are Keeper of the Composers" - After meeting [[859 Static Carillon]]. | ||
*"You tread, humans, in the Composer's Forge." - Meeting [[Blue Team]]. | *"You tread, humans, in the Composer's Forge." - Meeting [[Blue Team]]. | ||
*"See that which you fear... and attempt to kill it. Even when your nightmare has already won." | *"See that which you fear... and attempt to kill it. Even when your nightmare has already won." | ||
*"They will dispatch to Requiem soon enough, Monitor, and your installation will be silent once more." | *"They will dispatch to Requiem soon enough, Monitor, and your installation will be silent once more." | ||
*"So quickly you accuse me of violating our agreement. Where is your portion of this bargain?" | *"So quickly you accuse me of violating our agreement. Where is your portion of this bargain?" | ||
*"Perfect. Now to repair the ring." | *"Perfect. Now to repair the ring." | ||
*"Still you persist in surviving. I tire of your distraction." — to | *"Still you persist in surviving. I tire of your distraction." — to John-117. | ||
*"Consistently, the opportunity to eliminate you is presented. Yet foolishly I refuse. No more." - To John-117 before attempting to kill him. | *"Consistently, the opportunity to eliminate you is presented. Yet foolishly I refuse. No more." - To John-117 before attempting to kill him. | ||
[[Category:Quotes]] | [[Category:Quotes]] |