#高塔藏书库第四期#
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Foreword
前言
故事背后有故事。
在我写这篇文章的时候，这个故事可以追溯到二十五年前，通往黑暗的道路和尤卡坦半岛下沉睡的外星神。这不是一个神秘的计划，也不是一个秘密的启示，但它仍然是一个传统：Bungie的元宇宙的传说，一组主题被分享，遗忘，然后重生，就像守护者一样，继续进入新世界。无论你是在马拉松的终点站和最后一只血淋淋的手的形象中长大的，无论你是在光明与黑暗的神话战争中选择了一方，还是你只是想知道，只是想顺便问一下，Bungie和七到底怎么回事——你已经看到了细微的迹象。
这本魔典遵从这个传统。它让新一代的述说故事的人潜入不属于传统的电影故事的神秘奥秘和直接的领悟。在《命运》中的随机对话中，我们没有其他地方可以为九个人的身份设置暗示，然后在几年后，在《遗落之族》的扩展内容里填上坑。还有一些老谜题等待解决——机灵碎片到底是怎么回事：至少，机灵是怎么回事？
但这本魔典隐藏着另一个秘密。神话背后的人的故事，以及合作、灵感和致敬之网，将他们联系在一起。在命运简史中，或者在它之后的书中，没有一个字可以被称为一个人的工作。
堕落者是这个过程中一个令人难以置信的例子。我们写的关于堕落者的每一个字，都会被他们语言的声音所触动，被他们的模型和动画所触动，甚至被赋予他们斗篷和横幅的布料模拟所触动。如果没有这些艺术家和工程师的工作，你在这本书中读到的任何一个故事都不可能存在。即使是投资设计师，帮助建造这个世界的人值得一次又一次地感谢，通过教导我们在与堕落者战斗时得到学到的东西，塑造了我们想象中与堕落者的关系。
作家能增加些什么？我们希望增加更多的意义。在枪战和掠劫之后让你的大脑咀嚼。这些堕落者为什么会在这里？他们想要什么？他们面对我是什么感受，当我们如此难以战胜的时候，是什么促使他们继续战斗下去？也许他们的故事会让你对那个急急忙忙服从队长命令的渣滓有一点同情。或许你开始在堕落者中看到自己。他们只想生存。我们也是。也许我们会像他们一样，如果我们遭受同样可怕的坠落。也许那个地方，倘若没有旅行者的恩典，我们也去。
《命运简史》第二卷 是一个故事的集合，这些故事牵涉到Piotr Jabłoński、Bungie的概念艺术家和平面设计师的作品。它记录了堕落者作为种族灭绝袭击者与堕落者作为令人同情的艰难时期幸存者之间的深刻紧张关系。它问我们，物种之间暴力和恐惧的鸿沟是否太大，无法弥合。
许多作家在这个传说中留下了不可磨灭的印记，无论是直接的还是通过强大的灵感和合作。许多人致力于设计、说明和出版它。我们欠本地化团队一个特别的人情，他们耐心地、宽容地翻译我们发明的单词和奇奇怪怪的经文——如果没有他们的巨大的努力，这一切都不可能实现。
最重要的是，我们非常感谢那些收集和研究命运传说的人。你是这本书存在的原因，也是更像它可以被写出来的原因。但它的存在也是因为如此多的人投入了如此多的成长命运的世界。哪怕去掉其中一个，哪怕是一个小时的工作，一切都会不一样。
铭记他们。
Seth Dickinson
2019
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原文：
Foreword
There is a story behind the story.
At the moment I write this, that story reaches back more than twenty-five years, to Pathways into Darkness and an alien god slumbering beneath the Yucatan. It is not a secret plan or a coded revelation, but it is, nonetheless, a tradition: the lore of Bungie's metaverse, a set of motifs that are shared, forgotten, and then reborn, like Guardians, to carry on into new worlds. Whether you grew up haunted by Marathon's terminals and that final image of a bloody hand, whether you chose a side in Myth's war between Light and Dark, or if you've just wondered, in passing, what's going on all with the Bungie sevens—you've seen the hints.
The Grimoire belongs to that tradition. It let a whole new generation of storytellers dive into cryptic arcana and intimate insight that doesn't belong in a traditional cinematic story. Nowhere else could we set up hints to the identity of the Nine in random dialogue in Destiny, and then pay them off, years later, in an expansion to Forsaken. There are old puzzles still waiting to be solved--what's with Ghost Fragment: Ghosts, anyway?
But the Grimoire hides another secret tale. It is the story of the people behind the myths, and the web of collaboration, inspiration, and tribute that binds them together. There is not a single word in Destiny's Grimoire, or in the lore books that came after it, that can be called one person's work.
The Fallen are an incredible example of this process. Every word we write about the Fallen is touched by the sound of their language, by their models and animations, and even by the cloth simulation that gives them capes and banners. Not a single story you read in this volume could exist without the work of all those artists and engineers. Even the investment designers, who help make this world worth returning to over and over, shape our imagined relationship to the Fallen by teaching us what we gain when we fight them.
What can a writer add? More meaning, we hope. Something for your brain to chew on after the shooting and the looting. Why are these Fallen here? What do they want? How do they feel about me, and what motivates them to fight on and on when we are so very hard to kill? Maybe their stories will make you feel a scrap of empathy for that Dreg scurrying to obey her Captain's orders. Maybe you start to see yourself in the Fallen. All they want is to survive. So do we. Maybe we'd end up like them, if we suffered the same terrible fall. Maybe there but for the Traveler's grace go we.
This second volume of the Grimoire anthology is a collection of stories that pull on those threads, punctuated by the works of Piotr Jabłoński, Bungie's concept artists, and graphic designers. It captures that deep tension between the Fallen as genocidal raiders and the Fallen as sympathetic hard-times survivors. It asks us whether the chasm of violence and fear between our species is too wide to heal.
So many writers left their indelible mark on this lore, whether directly or through powerful inspiration and collaboration. So many others worked to design, illustrate, and publish it. We owe a very special debt to the localization teams who patiently, tolerantly translate our invented words and alien scripture--none of this could have happened without theirmonumental efforts.
Above all, we are incredibly grateful to those who collect and study Destiny's lore. You are the reason this book exists, and the reason that more like it can be written. But it also exists because so many people put so much into growing Destiny's world. Take away even one of them, even one hour of their work, and everything would be different.
Remember them.
Seth Dickinson
2019