The EXTREMELY Strange (and Quite Disturbing) Origin of Halo's Prophets

[@HiddenXperia]

Were we alive 100,000 years ago, there's a high chance at least 50% of us would've been married to a Prophet. Hell - one of us could theoretically be the Prophet of Truth's Great⁷⁷⁷⁷ Grandfather/Grandmother! Food for thought :)

[@Scourgeisoptimusprimeyt]

I am disturbed thanks hidden you do your April fools video and then this you are trolling us at this point 😂

[@FilthyCasualYT]

Sleek, beautiful, and a neck like that? Fuck yes, sign me up!

[@adithyakosgi222]

I can't believe you've done this.

[@Scourgeisoptimusprimeyt]

@@FilthyCasualYT nah

[@FilthyCasualYT]

@@Scourgeisoptimusprimeyt But... the deepest of throats...

[@Stuntmachine14]

In finding this Truth, i now seek Mercy in my Regret.

[@HiddenXperia]

touché

[@IfeedDrugsToKidsAndOldPeople]

@@HiddenXperia Iconic

[@Baldus-the_bald_guy]

poetry

[@morphius747]

lame

[@Sirhc2003]

You want mercy in regret? 😏

[@ariseharbinger4799]

"Report back to the Council Chamber. We'll bang okay?" - Prophet of Flacid

[@jalenmcdermaid1186]

Bro wtf😭

[@Baraxes]

Commander shepherd 😂

[@Lamp37820]

For a bloke called restraint, he had a pretty weak pull out game.

[@HellbirdIV]

Like 90% of the Prophets in the lore have ironic names, like Truth being a massive liar and Mercy being quite brutal, and later, left to die in agony.

[@FallOnThese]

hahaha....oh man. this is a funny comment

[@brianstanton2721]

😂😂😂😂

[@benthomason3307]

@@HellbirdIV Don't forget Regret recklessly rushing headlong into conflicts and getting yelled at by Truth for it later.

[@HellbirdIV]

@@benthomason3307 Johnson was right. "Dear humanity: We (I) regret coming to Earth."

[@adamcowen9062]

"To prevent any Prophets from getting stuck in washing machines " I fucking love you Xperia

[@logicplague]

Step-prophet, what are you doing?

[@HiddenXperia]

i aim to please ;)

[@Sypitz]

@@HiddenXperiaRestraint knows what the concubines like.

[@pandakun8556]

@@logicplague😂😂

[@DarkcIoud1111.]

It is a little ironic that the prophets were one of humanity's greatest allies, only to become one of our worst enemies after the firing of the Halo rings.

[@animo9050]

They species continued, but their history and culture was lost so this is a new version memetically.

[@JohnnyTightlips2007]

I honestly would have preferred there to not be a Forerunner Trilogy at all and keep it as Humanity were them.

[@JohnPeacekeeper]

Then they got replaced by the Sangheili as Humanity's partner and greatest ally. Extra irony in that they also went in reverse, starting as enemies.

[@Raeinok]

And then they hate f***ed a space god into existence. O wait, wrong universe.

[@kestrels-in-the-sky]

I mean the forunners created the Eldridge horror of the flood because they were genocidal as they learned humanity should hold the mantle

[@AdamJones-tu9lx]

dark eldar san'shyuum collab when

[@mendigodascavernas1746]

​@@AdamJones-tu9lxI hope NEVER

[@benvoli0c977]

Uhh... What's the right universe? I'm concerned lmao

[@MishraArtificer]

@@benvoli0c977 Warhammer 40,000. The Aeldari, specifically.

[@maxhall5260]

12:55 The heart transition 💀

[@Insanity_Crow]

Lifeworker Captain: All right, time to catalog the SanShyumm for re-seeding. Who has the DNA vial? Lifeworker Intern: *looking around nervously, having spilled a vial of elephant seal, turkey, and the Sanshyuum into a puddle. Scrapes it back into the vial* Right here sir! Absolutely nothing wrong with this sample. Its going to be great!

[@bigyoshi5170]

“Yo dudes, the Great Journey is pretty real. Maybe you can like travel it or something.” -Truthful

[@A_Productions]

Awesome refernece

[@jalenmcdermaid1186]

W reference

[@RiposteBK]

"beat Regret's meat at the highest of framerates" was not a sentence I expected to hear today hahahahaha

[@KeyvanJuanez]

I appreciate how we found room in the epic sci-fi space opera/cosmic horror franchise to take a moment and be like "Oh by the way, THESE guys fuck"

[@justanotheraccounthere2014]

5:40 Don't worry. Way worse things have happened in the Halo series. An ancient Human-San'Shyuum or Forerunner-San'Shyuum "love story" is still orders of magnitude better than what the freak happened in E1S8 of the Halo TV show. Thank the Rings that abomination is non-canon.

[@jittercritter]

Oh god what happened

[@justanotheraccounthere2014]

Season 1 Episode 8 of the Halo TV show. You don't want to know. If you really want, you can find the review on his channel.

[@jittercritter]

@@justanotheraccounthere2014 Oh dear, im gonna have to subject myself to whatever it is later. Ty lol

[@forthehonorforge4840]

​@@jittercritterYou don't want know. I shouldn't have learned, but now I'm telling you, you don't wanna know.

[@matthewslates]

Slight correction: Regret made the speech about the "tyranny of the roll". Truth simply helped come up with the idea of it as part of their joint plan to become hierarchs.

[@adapperdragon8822]

When you mentioned the population of the prophets being around 1000 after the war, I knew what would follow and there’s an actual term for this as well. To quote from google, “A genetic bottleneck occurs when a population is greatly reduced in size, limiting the genetic diversity of the species. Scientists believe cheetahs have already survived at least two genetic bottleneck events.” Basically the population gets so low that piping your sister becomes your only option.

[@Deadassbruhfrfr]

So incest becomes wincest. 😎👍🏼 gotta keep the species alive at all costs.

[@TitanATX]

I imagine they looked very similar to the Kaminoans from Star Wars before they turned into the ball sacks we saw in halo 2 & 3

[@jalenmcdermaid1186]

Those fish people who live in an Apple Store are *not* handsome.

[@Bird-wz7nx]

​@@jalenmcdermaid1186 But add some muscle tone and hair to that sense of grace, throw in some space drugs and poetry, and things start making a lot more sense. I mean, I imagine there's some sexual dimorphism, and that those ugly... we'll generously call them eyelash-covered lobes hint at the potential for real hair. Hair-covered flesh ribbons sound horrible, but actually describe, say, the ears of many animals. I'm... really trying.

[@Alpha121198]

The Prophets won their civil war game of Sid Meyer’s Civilization because of a science win where they just fucked off and left. That is honestly one of the most fitting outcomes I could possibly imagine for them.

[@Jedi_Spartan]

That makes me want to see a Forerunner era of Door Monster's 'Doing Something About Gandhi' sketch which ends with the San'shyuum saying "You guys do what you want, we're going to Andromeda..."

[@plasmawolf7960]

Wait Greg Bear passed away? That’s sad. I especially liked his Halo books, but War Dogs was interesting too. God watch over him.

[@calmingwhitenoise1446]

I just had a crazy realization. The old halo map cold storage had records of it being accessed via portals by a sentient race after the halos were fired. There was also a notable ship crash on Alpha halo with again an unknown sentient species active after the halos were fired. What if the endless form halo infinite are the meddlers. They are the only species on record that survived the halos being fired.

[@nezarecdiscipleofthewitnes3823]

That thumbnail is wild

[@HiddenXperia]

It's a masterpiece right?

[@nezarecdiscipleofthewitnes3823]

@@HiddenXperia indeed it is

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

That smile...

[@Warrior-Of-Virtue]

Here's one to think about. We know that the Ancient Humans were never actually targeting the Forerunners. They were waging war against the Flood and the Forerunners were simply caught in the crossfire. Which raises the question, what if the Humans _had_ warned the Forerunners and the two had allied against the Flood?

[@spark_bears]

Yeah, the Ancient Humans being too busy sterilizing Flood infected worlds to explain to anybody why they were doing it is a pretty weak point in the lore.

[@fadelsukoco3092]

Most likely the Forerunners would never believe Humanity, and I can think of several reasons why (to which the Forerunners doubtlessly would have infinitely more). The Forerunners have resented Humanity since the Precursors favored them for the Mantle instead of the Forerunners, and that was over 10 million years before the Flood was a thing. Unlike Humanity, which underwent an unknown number of technological dark ages and had to essentially restart their civilizations a bunch of times, the Forerunners never had that problem. Despite them having their fair share of internal conflicts and loss of old knowledge into myth, Forerunner civilization stayed more or less cohesive across all that time, and one constant would be their ironclad belief that they and only they would ever be worthy of championing the Mantle. Humanity believed that they instead were more worthy (which is what the Precursors intended) and the Forerunners saw that belief as insolent and heretical. Therefore, the two species have always been rivals of each other, to the extent that the Ancient Human Empire (AHE) we know of purposefully expanded towards the galactic rim with Earth being on the fringes in order to get further away from Forerunner influence. With the two powers being such constant rivals, it stands to reason that anything the other's government or military says or does would be put into question by the other. The Forerunners would be perfectly reasonable to assume that the Flood was just a false flag attack by the AHE to justify an invasion. Or they could believe it was an elaborate hoax. Or they could think the Flood is a bioweapon purposefully engineered by the AHE to use against the Ecumene, and that may be it got out of control. The only thing that mattered to the Forerunners is that the AHE was attacking them out of nowhere, and even if they believed the Flood was an actual thing and did what the AHE said it did, all they would see is another problem caused by the humans.

[@RapidSteve]

The "Elegant" san'shyuum were seen again. Its even talked about in Halo Broken Circle. The san'shyuum we know are this way because of centuries of inbreeding and living on a low gravity enviroment. Theres even a part in the book about how the females taken from the san'shyuum homeworld had to "adjust" to the appearence of the males on High Charity So its to assume that the san'shyuums became the frail ugly way they are because of inbreeding and living on high charity for untold generations

[@kianamarrie]

3:23 - San’Shyuum is about to become my most searched images of the day. Literally slim thick.

[@lukeskywalkerthe2nd773]

It never ceases to be hilarious to me that the species of the old farts that are the Prophets were at one time basically keepers of the Mantle of Intergalactic Rizz at one point lol 😂😂😂

[@jalenmcdermaid1186]

Lmaoo

[@JamesonMusic808]

Intergalactic rizz is a phrase that I think would MELT the brains of anybody born before 1970😂

[@blackdog6969]

Bet ancient San'Shyuum looked like Twi'leks. They just got lazy and let themselves go over 100k years. It's the only thing that makes sense, right? RIGHT?

[@forthehonorforge4840]

Pretty sure they looked like goats. Cross breeding lead to what we see now.

[@e-wall199]

My personal hypothesis on that is that the guys in the covenant are grossly malformed imbreeds, and the good loking ones are still around in Janjur Qom, cuz let's be real, the ship that took them off world couldn't possibly carry enough individuals to mantain genetic diversity.

[@GenericProtagonist7]

They can't just look like Twi'leks because they're supposed to be beautiful to nearly every species, it's impossible to imagine because you're trying to imagine what wide variety fictional aliens AND humans think is incredibly attractive.

[@saytaylor3603]

"Prophets stuck in washing machines" I was not ready for today...

[@Jedi_Spartan]

Faber learning ancient San'shyuum: "BURN IT!" *Activates a Halo Ring.*

[@benthomason3307]

Cheetas actually once bounced back from under twenty members at one point in the prehistoric past. While they do suffer a number of problems as a result of basically all being genetically siblings, they still show that it's possible.

[@XVII_RONIN]

the word "iconic" by hiddenxperia has now been taken over by "what if i told you"

[@ljhawesstudios]

Can't wait for the prophet dating sim

[@doootuz]

“Stuck in washing machines”

[@FRIEND_711]

I honestly am curious if these three previous prophets survived, I wonder how they could be part of the halo story if they did.

[@derrick5518]

We all know that the Prophet of Regret is just built different

[@Ripa-Moramee]

"If she had a neck I could not distinguish it from her folds" LMAOO regret is a g

[@JustinsYTchannel43]

Can’t believe you’re this close to 600k. Gonna see a million soon hopefully 🙏

[@JoeFilms5420]

Dude that thumbnail would make for the perfect Valentines Day video

[@mitwhitgaming7722]

Imagine if Halo was an RPG and there was an ancient datalog entry called 'The Lusty San'Shyuum Maid"..... ... I'm sorry...

[@SlurpeeBoy9999]

Don't give Paramount any ideas.

[@mitwhitgaming7722]

@@SlurpeeBoy9999 Oh god!

[@HolySilverStrike]

Broken circle did a great job delving a little into the prophets. After the writ of union. And that Elites people survived. During that huge gap of time the San Shayum lost their homeworld to their star going nova, right?

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

Supposedly. It is claimed to have "surprisingly" or "suddenly" gone supernova. Which is why I say supposedly, because stars don't suddenly and unexpectedly explode. So either the writers didn't research that topic, the prophets are horrendous astronomers, or somebody's lying in-universe.

[@TheeJasonReyes]

The Prophets clapping cheeks is ok-ish but Master Cheeks getting some is where we draw the LINE??

[@xunk16]

Yeah well... Clapping cheeks and clergy does go easier on the minds than with army regulations nowadays. It is strange, though... is it?

[@EtgGhoST]

I think I read somewhere that the San’ shyuum appearance changed after their population was decimated and the gene pool was smaller… resulting in altered appearances like the Habsburg’s

[@dogbert14]

Truth was so stressed by the events of Halo 2 that he smoked over 100 packs of cigarettes on the journey to Earth.

[@TheKingdomEntertainment]

Interesting that you didn't mention the prelate character that showed up on the ark, and how she hinted that the sand shayyum are planning a major comeback

[@ZenAlphaFire]

oh god... they are what the Asari are from mass effect... (throws up uncontrollably)

[@miniaturejayhawk8702]

With more than a thousand individuals available incest shouldnt have been an issue. But then again most people on tge internet have no idea about genetics so to them any relationship between people who are vaguely related will lead to issues.

[@LilFeralGangrel]

I feel the need to point out that the Didact your quoting is the Ur-Didact who hated humanity and everything he said was coloured by this fact. (IsoDidact > UrDidact)

[@iso-didact789]

Chief is the Iso-Didact.

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

​@@iso-didact789 He has the Iso's gaesh, but he is not the Iso-Didact.

[@TexasDinoHunter]

Great video! Though I think you left out a couple things, such as how Mercy became a prophet (in Contact Harvest) and the prelate aboard the dreadnaught after halo 3 (I think in divine wind). But other than that a very interesting video😂.

[@arbiter1272]

This is the content we have to give since Halo 7 doesn't exist

[@AwesomeRando]

So a few prophets are still out there. It would be nice to see them in a future Halo game.

[@JohnnyTightlips2007]

If they are, I would love to see them make a new military using the Prelates.

[@craftyard9217]

I just hope Vadum doesnt be done dirty , like killed off for "reasons" during his mission

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

3:53 So they're the Halo asari. Never would've thought if I didn't already know this before watching.

[@woodsyjones]

The prophets are one of my favorite species in all of Halo. They are dearly missed in my opinion 💔

[@suryaselvakumar5385]

The prophets rejected decadence, embraced religion.

[@WiseOakDakota]

Those aren’t mutually exclusive

[@gameslayer3976]

Nah they just became decadent zealots

[@redaug4212]

@@WiseOakDakota To creative writers it shouldn't be, but because 343 writers probably had "progressive" themes in mind, they didn't want to associate "free love" and "lol dude weed" with the bad guys. In the Bungie-era lore, the prophets are meant to represent the false prophets from the Book of Revelation, so it would make sense to have them be decedent hedonists in addition to being self-righteous zealots.

[@cplhotpockets]

​@@redaug4212based

[@thecynicaloptimist1884]

Which ended up cleaving their species in two, ruining their world, and destroying countless lives across the galaxy.

[@Finger112]

Wasn't HiddenXperia once an Ancient San'Shyuum? 🤣

[@greatgrungustwo904]

truth is the andrew tate of the prophets

[@adaptcap115]

"There are those who said this day would never come, What have they to say now? - Prophet Of Truth

[@osirisjojo6876]

My Restraint was weak as I hunt the Truth of the spartan program without Mercy. But in the end, I'm left with Regret in my eyes.

[@jacobhuot3056]

I can't say I was expecting a cursed Halo video to be released today

[@ChkthDeats]

Greg Bear sure had fun writing this jazz 😂

[@isimiel3405]

once you go San’Shyuum you never go back

[@foreverfree101]

This is honestly one of the videos I never thought that would be so weird and so out of left field but during this video I was thinking what happened to the other side of the prophet species the ones that stayed on their homeworld I didn't want to touch the forerunner technology and also having a video dedicated to maybe what happened to them and a separate one on was Mercy that bad compared to the other prophets remind me personally I don't think he is but I don't know

[@lonewolf5565]

Cant wait till Hidden hits 1 MIL subs its well deserved ive been around since 20,000 subs im a huge fan! :D

[@kenpanderz]

beauty is in the eye of the beholder. apparently eyeballs did not exist before the forerunners disappeared

[@miniaturejayhawk8702]

I wouldnt exactly use the word "decadent" in a positive way. Thats basically praising someone for being spoiled and naive. Also all the species (and by extention their factions) that werent as aggressive or expansionist as humanity, the elites, the brutes and the prophets all either got enslaved or eradicated. As far as I am concerned the change from pacifist hedonists to militarist imperialists was a good thing, at least for them.

[@anasevi9456]

Halo universe is one of those old-school ones where the writers went there, and here and everywhere. For better, and worse. 🤣 Same reason I love mainline elder scrolls games, pick up a book and learn WAY more than you bargained for.

[@Gmanunit13vers2]

"big brother prophet what are you doing?"

[@xunk16]

"Clearing my mind for what is to come afterwards. Come on in, don't be shy, there is enough here for at least the both of us."

[@Gmanunit13vers2]

@@xunk16 oh no...I didn't think it could get worse lol

[@OptimisticSturmmann142]

No

[@SixPickles6644]

The ironic meaning behind the prophets names: Restraint had no restraint Truth told lies Regret came to earth and regretted his decision Mercy was shown no mercy

[@nick_lego]

Great video Luke!👍🏽

[@jshrhrgahhuehtnmppl]

"To prevent any prophets from getting stuck in washing machines" caught me so off guard

[@nsgswitchblade1455]

The RuneScape music @5:17 made me 10x more a fan of you lol

[@Tallacus]

man the Halo Universe before the first firing of the Rings felt like it was one big Star Trek hippie fest

[@EternaIShark]

Yeah so I'm dead inside thank you hidden Xperia I love you man now I'm gonna cry myself asleep tonight

[@blakebaker6726]

you know i clicked on this video thinking it was gonna be some kind of disturbing oni kind of stuff, i wasnt ready for this

[@Blimbus-Blombo]

You’re telling me that the species that almost wiped out humanity has never heard of vasectomies?

[@xunk16]

Neither did the Mongol hordes...

[@DeviltoGeorgia34]

I lost it at "Great Journey & Chill."

[@HolySilverStrike]

Glad then I follow your discord. Even if the algorithm doesn’t push this through I will always see and watch your content.

[@OUR08OROS]

I'm never gonna see that smug Truth scene the same every again.

[@BrassMaster117]

The way the prophet kept looking at me....unsettling haha

[@N_COutdoors]

“Beat Regret’s Meat” -HiddenXperia 2024

[@MistakingManx]

Oh wow, you aren't a multi-million subscription channel?? Weird, I've been around for a really long time I just assumed you'd be in millions by now. Your quality certainly matches.

[@theunderdog9353]

Man, 20 minutes just flew by. I'm not sure whether to thank you for expanding my Halo knowledge, or curse you for the contents of said knowledge, but atleast I enjoyed myself watching 😂

[@zbelair7218]

Chugging Fierce Hatchling Moonshine mid-raid is inadvisable...

[@tslfrontman]

"X! He's a Ballchinian!"

[@barracuda6900]

Obligation was in fact the Prophetess of Obligation. I really wish we could have heard more about her.

[@forthehonorforge4840]

I never wondered why the prophets looked like a cross between a forerunner and a goat. But I guess I now know why.

[@haydenfloyd9561]

Y’know, hearing Regret’s description of Restraint’s wife makes it a LOT easier to beat him down in his space wheelchair 😅

[@torchbaugh]

Nice little moonshine on woods at 4 min mark.

[@panzerviiimaus1581]

Y'know at first I was expecting to see le funny sex video but instead this got me way more interested in how the covenant political system works. Booba and politics name a more iconic duo.

[@feralprocessor9853]

I'm getting 40k Ancheint Eldari vibes from the Ancheint San,Shyuum.

[@chesney1995]

The Roll of Celibates? Mfw the Prophets had literal incels

[@natedog101591]

"help me, step-prophet. Im stuck!" -ancient humans

[@zackmarkham4240]

So, I'm gathering that the ancient san'shyuum were Halo's equivalent to Elves.

[@iissacc]

can still be a throat goat 🤷‍♂️

[@barracuda6900]

Rtas does say that some San 'Shyuum should be spared though. So they aren't all deserving of extinction.

[@attila535]

They could've solved their problems by occasionally returning to their home planet and recruiting some of the stoics living there.

[@3mpt7]

I'm simply wondering what the Prophets would have used as weaponry, and what their tactics would be. Oh, and the Prophets being hedonistic probably is a nod to Jabba the Hutt. Some kind of enemy that needs to be punched to death would be different, I guess. Maybe they could all use the floating chairs and if one of them is downed, they could leap or scurry from one chair to another. They'd probably use the needler and sentinel beam as their primary weapons, but I wouldn't put it past them to use a gravity gun. With less health they'd make an interesting alternative to the Hunters.

[@Inactive_Account29283]

I find it funny that the prophet world building is on the edges in between smutty fanfiction and decent worldbuilding

[@Baldus-the_bald_guy]

me after learning the ancient prophets betrayed the ancient humans: some things never change

[@b7arg]

Literally only 5 seconds into the video, I say out loud to myself "nuh uh they're sexy af, the forerunners said so"

[@wyvernrock3041]

I'd love to see more origins halo species, if you haven't already!

[@wheatknight124]

I did not need to know Truth was clapping cheeks. But it's too late to be ignorant, the time has come to Great Journey and chill.