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After being composed, [[Forthencho]] and the Ancestors were sent to the outer boundaries of the [[Domain]]. It took the Ancestors tens of thousands of years to adjust, and finally heal their souls, to remember their past and reform themselves into a complete presence within a rift in the Domain's outer boundaries where the [[Warden Eternal]] kept them out of the Domain itself. According to Forthencho, this was because being composed had kept the Ancestors from any sort of a human afterlife and instead sent them to the Forerunner one.{{Ref/Reuse|Epi22}} | After being composed, [[Forthencho]] and the Ancestors were sent to the outer boundaries of the [[Domain]]. It took the Ancestors tens of thousands of years to adjust, and finally heal their souls, to remember their past and reform themselves into a complete presence within a rift in the Domain's outer boundaries where the [[Warden Eternal]] kept them out of the Domain itself. According to Forthencho, this was because being composed had kept the Ancestors from any sort of a human afterlife and instead sent them to the Forerunner one.{{Ref/Reuse|Epi22}} | ||
While in the outer boundaries of the Domain, the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]] met the composed essences of Forthencho and millions of other Ancestors. After the Didact mentioned the current human race to the Ancestors, they were greatly relieved, revealing that they had not known whether or not their kind had survived. The Didact told the Ancestors everything that he knew about human history, from the firing of the [[Halo Array]] to the state of humanity as the Didact found it when he had awakened on [[Requiem]]. That humanity had miraculously survived thanks to the [[Librarian]]'s planning and was once again colonizing the stars caused a wide spectrum of emotion: grief for the enormity of their own loses, and pride for the dogged nature of humanity and the achievements made in their absence. After hearing the story and of the danger of [[Cortana]] and the [[Created]], Forthencho and his warriors agreed to ally with the Didact and the other [[Forerunner]] essences to free the Domain from Cortana's control.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi22|Epi|22}} The Ancestors and the Forerunners later attacked the | While in the outer boundaries of the Domain, the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]] met the composed essences of Forthencho and millions of other Ancestors. After the Didact mentioned the current human race to the Ancestors, they were greatly relieved, revealing that they had not known whether or not their kind had survived. The Didact told the Ancestors everything that he knew about human history, from the firing of the [[Halo Array]] to the state of humanity as the Didact found it when he had awakened on [[Requiem]]. That humanity had miraculously survived thanks to the [[Librarian]]'s planning and was once again colonizing the stars caused a wide spectrum of emotion: grief for the enormity of their own loses, and pride for the dogged nature of humanity and the achievements made in their absence. After hearing the story and of the danger of [[Cortana]] and the [[Created]], Forthencho and his warriors agreed to ally with the Didact and the other [[Forerunner]] essences to free the Domain from Cortana's control.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi22|Epi|22}} The Ancestors and the Forerunners later attacked the Warden Eternal as a distraction, giving the Didact the chance to destroy the construct.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi25|Epi|25}} | ||
Following the destruction of the Warden Eternal, the Didact invited the human essences to join the Forerunners in the halls of the Domain.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi26|Epi|26}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi27|Epi|27}} | Following the destruction of the Warden Eternal, the Didact invited the human essences to join the Forerunners in the halls of the Domain.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi26|Epi|26}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi27|Epi|27}} | ||