#高塔藏書庫第四期#
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Foreword
前言
故事背後有故事。
在我寫這篇文章的時候，這個故事可以追溯到二十五年前，通往黑暗的道路和尤卡坦半島下沉睡的外星神。這不是一個神秘的計劃，也不是一個秘密的啟示，但它仍然是一個傳統：Bungie的元宇宙的傳說，一組主題被分享，遺忘，然後重生，就像守護者一樣，繼續進入新世界。無論你是在馬拉松的終點站和最後一隻血淋淋的手的形象中長大的，無論你是在光明與黑暗的神話戰爭中選擇了一方，還是你只是想知道，只是想順便問一下，Bungie和七到底怎麼回事——你已經看到了細微的跡象。
這本魔典遵從這個傳統。它讓新一代的述說故事的人潛入不屬於傳統的電影故事的神秘奧秘和直接的領悟。在《命運》中的隨機對話中，我們沒有其他地方可以為九個人的身份設置暗示，然後在幾年後，在《遺落之族》的擴展內容裡填上坑。還有一些老謎題等待解決——機靈碎片到底是怎麼回事：至少，機靈是怎麼回事？
但這本魔典隱藏著另一個秘密。神話背後的人的故事，以及合作、靈感和致敬之網，將他們聯繫在一起。在命運簡史中，或者在它之後的書中，沒有一個字可以被稱為一個人的工作。
墮落者是這個過程中一個令人難以置信的例子。我們寫的關於墮落者的每一個字，都會被他們語言的聲音所觸動，被他們的模型和動畫所觸動，甚至被賦予他們斗篷和橫幅的布料模擬所觸動。如果沒有這些藝術家和工程師的工作，你在這本書中讀到的任何一個故事都不可能存在。即使是投資設計師，幫助建造這個世界的人值得一次又一次地感謝，通過教導我們在與墮落者戰鬥時得到學到的東西，塑造了我們想象中與墮落者的關係。
作家能增加些什麼？我們希望增加更多的意義。在槍戰和掠劫之後讓你的大腦咀嚼。這些墮落者為什麼會在這裡？他們想要什麼？他們面對我是什麼感受，當我們如此難以戰勝的時候，是什麼促使他們繼續戰鬥下去？也許他們的故事會讓你對那個急急忙忙服從隊長命令的渣滓有一點同情。或許你開始在墮落者中看到自己。他們只想生存。我們也是。也許我們會像他們一樣，如果我們遭受同樣可怕的墜落。也許那個地方，倘若沒有旅行者的恩典，我們也去。
《命運簡史》第二卷 是一個故事的集合，這些故事牽涉到Piotr Jabłoński、Bungie的概念藝術家和平面設計師的作品。它記錄了墮落者作為種族滅絕襲擊者與墮落者作為令人同情的艱難時期倖存者之間的深刻緊張關係。它問我們，物種之間暴力和恐懼的鴻溝是否太大，無法彌合。
許多作家在這個傳說中留下了不可磨滅的印記，無論是直接的還是通過強大的靈感和合作。許多人致力於設計、說明和出版它。我們欠本地化團隊一個特別的人情，他們耐心地、寬容地翻譯我們發明的單詞和奇奇怪怪的經文——如果沒有他們的巨大的努力，這一切都不可能實現。
最重要的是，我們非常感謝那些收集和研究命運傳說的人。你是這本書存在的原因，也是更像它可以被寫出來的原因。但它的存在也是因為如此多的人投入瞭如此多的成長命運的世界。哪怕去掉其中一個，哪怕是一個小時的工作，一切都會不一樣。
銘記他們。
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