Halo 3's Strange Ending FINALLY EXPLAINED

Not everything Halo 3 in Halo 3 is explained in the game. Today, we FINALLY explain the strangest element of Halo 3's ending.

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Setting The Scene
0:41 - A Brief History
7:22 - The Theory

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[HiddenXperia]

I've wanted to make this video for years, but thanks to a recent discovery (that I want to slap myself for only just realising) I CAN FINALLY EXPLAIN HALO 3'S STRANGE ENDING

[Titanos-vczh]

Mendicant Bias is easily the most confusing part of Halo for me. I'm glad I have Xperia to help with that!

[TheBigCabezon]

I love your videos like these, because they're so cool. I just wish 343 could actually give us this in the games. I cannot understand at all why they don't pay off story beats set up over years via Greg Bear's books and the OG games. That's not fan service, it's just good narrative story telling. I was so sad that Infinite didn't even scratch the surface of Forerunner / precursor / mendicant bias lore.

[SpartanBrix]

I don’t think we’ll ever see the Primordial’s “Final Test” before Halo as a franchise comes to an end. Seeing how 343 hasn’t done it yet, I don’t think they’ll do it ever. They wouldn’t wait over a decade to incorporate it into the story if they wanted to.

[Deustch__keisserreich]

The fact people put so much work into Halo Lore for one game is insane.

[joshuamunoz]

Hopefully halo recovers this forerunner, precursor path and lore, this is really the essence of the game

[brianorta-smith]

Wouldn't be a HiddenXperia video without some Mendicant Bias lore. Love your content my dude, keep up the good work!

[johnballentine]

For a youtuber he youtubes pretty good

[EternalFount]

I really hope Epitaph is a turning point towards whatever the Reclaimer saga is suppossed to be. 3 games in and we have no idea. Halo 4 was about the Didact rejecting Humanity as reclaimers and then Librarian giving us the Janus key that never actually happened. Halo 5 is about Cortana seizing the Mantle as the Didact seemingly was going to. Halo Infinite is about Squidwards decendant telling us the Forerunners didn't have the right to the Mantle and then dieing.

[HeIIfire]

I've been faithfully playing Halo since 2006 and I always love learning new info 15+ years later. Says a lot about Halo's worldbuilding and storytelling.

[Richard-From-Richard-And-Clark]

The Master chief and the Marathon Man are the same person.

[LongTimeAgoNL]

To think this started as a "Robot must shoot aliens on planet" type of game for Macintosh without a big story, only to become entwined with an insane yet beautiful story that is being butchered by 343 studios... Oh the humanity...

[StrikeAxl]

What's sad is that your lore theory is infinitely more interesting that anything we've gotten so far and anything we'll get in the future. As much as I love halo and as much good will 343 has generated with the fan base with the current updates (not with me), I remain cynical and not optimistic at all about the future of this franchise.

Thank you for the amazing lore theory video. Everything you put out is far more interesting than the current lore lol.

[erozion]

I’ve long figured that song Atonement was referring to Mendicant Bias; however, I never made the connections and put the puzzle pieces together like you did. Awesome work Hidden! I love your deep dive lore videos!

[Kieshadilla]

I really love this theory and hope its true, but "Atonement" could just mean the Didact's atonement that the Librarian wanted him to undergo by putting him in the Cryptum.

[bobdmz]

For how smart the forerunners were. Putting 1 being in control of your entire military, even if you think they’re impervious to infection, is a dumbass move.

[CerberusGenesis]

There's few games where I do dive heavy into the lore.

Halo and Dark Souls being 2. I kept to myself during Halo 3 and Reach's prime. Only really started discussing my thoerys around 5 but since Halo 2 I had thought Cortana had the logic plague.

I'm still big into Halo lore and have read or listened to basically every book. There's things I wanna see to continue or finish plot points.

Such as we little of the galaxy outside the halo universe and have visited it extremely briefly in a book or 2, that includes the ark as being outside the universe.

I also just wanna see the flood return in general. However... really dive into the horror aspect. I'm all about atmosphere environmental story telling for horror.

[votago]

I don’t really play halo anymore, but your enthusiasm and knowledge really shines in your videos. I enjoy watching your content

[the_underworld]

Wort wort wort!
I love HiddenXperia, he creates videos and doesn't afraid of anything

[HaloVFX]

Always love me a good bit of HiddenXperia Lore video