The TRUE Identity of The Endless: Their Flood Immunity & The Next Halo Campaign

I spent way too long turning that Chieftain's Gravity Hammer into a clock

The Endless: "We're immune to Halo and the Flood" Precursors rewrite laws of reality with their neural physics magic to make them susceptible: Surprise, mothafucka

The amount of times she quotes the gravemind in the game and in the rubicon protocol leads me to believe the endless are nothing else other than precursor in origin

What you’re describing as the retroactive plot for the endless is exactly how I feel about the banished. The covenant were the ultimate threat, pushed humanity to extinction in a 20+ year war. But the idea of “they never came close to stopping the banished”, when it’s ran by 1 guy.. that’s how that story sat with me. Love the content, keep it up!

The Endless being a continuation or enclave of the Precursors that survived was how it read to me in Infinite. Possibly it was a group of Precursors that survived, and when discovered by the Forerunners, were locked away/exiled as the Forerunners could not bear to exterminate them as they thought they had before. Unless it's a complete shoehorn on the part of 343, that's really the only narrative that works with the overall canon of everything else that I can think of.

I was literally just thinking about this yesterday and here you are with an endless video wtf

I know its off topic but The way you described the problems with the retroactive addition of the endless is almost an exactly perfect description of the problem with the timeless child in doctor who.

Who’s to say they’re not the Meddlers? Somebody crashed at Halo before we got there, it’s in one of the anniversary cutscenes, theres also that one Flood Map, that somebody changed the teleporters to not connect to the outside? The idea of a new species has always been hinted before

It's also worth noting that in the 2022 halo encyclopedia, it is said that the endless have knowledge of the precurser concept of living time.

I wonder if the ship that crashed into the halo and contained by 343 guilty spark was an endless ship. If I remember correctly, it happened pretty early after the halos had fired. perhaps they were looking for their lost comrades

Thank God somebody explained the endless because I wasn't even sure if the harbinger was even a part of the endless species, because they don't explain ANYTHING throughout the campaign

This scene of Cortana talking about the Endless after reading Epitaph hits different, poor didact can't catch a break

In Halo: Silentium it describes a Precursor artefact on the Didact's homeworld, Nomdagro. The Didact and IsoDadact have their back and forth there. The description of it is exactly like the ring statues on Zeta Halo in Halo Infinite. So far I seem to be the only one who's noticed this. 🤷‍♂️

The name Endless also implies a precursor origin, since theyre the only species who are immortal in their own way, or, put differently, the only species with an endless existence

The Encyclopedia where it said that "a few Xalanyn managed to escape from their species' imprisonment" also contradicts itself (since this would imply that the species is just another >Tier-2 species, as it also states that the xalanyn where "attuned" to living time itself, which would mean they where a tier-0 species.

Considering what the Precursors are, I'd love to see the Endless being like "We are immune to the Flood." Then an infected Endless just shows up as a giant "Lol you thought" moment because the Precursors made themselves able to infect them. They are builders of life down to the cells of life. They could do it.

I think that the endless worship the precursors like the covenant worshiped the forerunners. They’re a space cult using the powers that their “gods” left behind. But the difference between the covenant and the endless is that the endless have actually been in contact to the precursors. The precursors made the endless to be immortal for a very specific reason. They are those who care for the the sacred cycle of creation and consumption. The precursors create, the flood devour, and the endless are meant to keep the cycle going. They care for the precursors. They were granted the gift of “life grafting” which allows them to re-write life which allowed them to turn the flood back into the precursors whenever they devoured all life in the universe. However the gift of life grafting was given with one simple rule. Do not use this power to create original life out of nothing. But when they broke that rule, and the precursors left them behind, right before the forerunners betrayed the precursors. Sot he endless were completely left out of the loop.

The head shape of The Harbinger is also reminiscent of the Primordial in the few pictures we have. The 2 flaps on the side of her mouth/head also look similar to the ones on the Gravemind.

I always assumed they were the precursors. There is so much that implies it in thr game, especially the audio logs.

I just kinda figured they were another child species of the precursors. Cousins to the flood