![]() And the answer turned out not to be what Artyom had been expecting. The answer to all his doubts, hesitations and searches. In those unfathomable eyes he suddenly saw in a fraction of a second the answer to everything that had, for him, been left incomprehensible and inexplicable. 'You are the chosen one!' The world had been turned upside-down. Sensing Artyom, the Dark Ones then desperately tried to convince Artyom to trust them, completing his visions and elaborating to him their message of peace, and that he was their adopted chosen one that would unite humans and the Dark Ones.Īrtyom knew what he would see and understood that now he must not fear it, and, therefore, he simply lifted his head and looked at the huge black eyes without whites or pupils. In the end of the novel, after Artyom reaches Ostankino Tower he can see the Dark Ones moving around their 'beehive' much like ants around a nest. ![]() As Artyom ages, however, he remembers his journey to the Gardens but forgets his encounter with the Dark One - leaving him well equipped to be their demise, when he should have been their savior. Through their brief psychic contact, Artyom is rendered immune to the Dark Ones - who in turn, accept and "adopt" him to be the chosen - the bridge between the two races. Stating he is alone in the world without his mother, in Metro: Last Light, the Dark One reassures Artyom that he is not alone - but "the first". ![]() As a child, Artyom's sanity is not affected by the Dark One - who on the contrary, empathizes with Artyom. Moments from imminent slaughter, he is saved by a Dark One. While exploring, Artyom is attacked by mutants (dogs in most cases, watchmen in Last Light). In one adventure, they traveled north to the gardens and opened the hermetic door there to get to the surface - the same door the Dark Ones would one day use to enter the Metro. Sometime after arriving in VDNKh, Artyom, along with Eugine and Vitali, often went exploring as children. Though afflicted by a reoccurring set of ever-expanding visions in the novel, it was never enough to make Artyom stop and consider the possibility of peace.Īs revealed vaguely in the novel, but more so in the epilogue to the Metro 2033 novel: "The Gospel According to Artyom", and Metro: Last Light, Artyom's past also involved the Dark Ones. They projected peaceful and non-threatening images at several points in the game such as visions of children playing happily in a pre-war playground or leaves on a tree to show him that they only want peace and understanding. Equally so in the novel, it's somewhat implied that the Dark Ones were also committed to protecting Artyom throughout his journey by telepathically sending various protectors that would help him when the time came. Despite this, throughout the Metro 2033 video game, the Dark Ones continually try to get Artyom to understand their intent. It's because of the "threat" of the Dark Ones that Hunter first arrives in VDNKh, and is through him that Artyom begins his journey in the metro, to save his home. It is revealed in The Gospel According to Artyom, and suggested by the opening scene in Metro: Last Light, that the Dark Ones never intended for the death of humans, yet their very presence and psychic influence drove the humans mad, and they subsequently killed each other. As the Dark Ones would approach VDNKh in long strides, trying to simply walk into the station, the station guard would fire upon them out of fear, desperation, and a sudden onset of madness. Metro citizens didn't understand their desire to live in a symbiotic society, thus "striking back" before any attempt to create peace was ever made. Eventually, the Dark Ones found this entrance and explored the Metro, VDNKh being the first station and human contact they came across. They were not bloodthirsty beasts as most of the inhabitants of the Metro believed, but sentient beings wanting nothing more but peace with humanity. They were first revealed to mankind not long after a young Artyom opened the great Hermetic Door of Botanicheskiy Sad to glimpse the surface. In both the novel and game, the Dark Ones began their existence living in a beehive on the surface at Botanicheskiy Sad (Botanical Gardens) metro station, which is located north of VDNKh station, Artyom's home. Though rarely seen, the Dark Ones serve as the driving antagonists throughout both iterations of Metro 2033, in which they pose as a new mutant threat aggressively descending from the surface to Artyom's home station of VDNKh (Exhibition, in the video game).
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