This week celebrates the Halo World Championship, a Halo eSports event with quite a community character. In this event, in addition to showing things about the forge and things that are coming to Halo Infinite multiplayer, they taught us several news that you cannot miss. And it is that the new book Halo: Epitaph has been officially announced, where they will tell us what happened to the Didact after Halo 4.
The book will be written by gay Kelly, the author of the recent Halo: The Rubicon Protocol. With this precedent, and speculating a bit, we can think that the history of the Forerunners, Forerunners and Eternals will have a connection that explains a lot about what was seen in Halo Infinite. Despite this, we will officially know more about the Didact and his supposed death in the fourth part.
The Didact is not dead in Halo 4.
What if, despite what most believe, the Didact hadn’t actually died in that final Halo 4 battle with the Master Chief. If you haven’t read Halo Escalation, this might seem a little strange, so we explain it to you:
After the events of Halo 4 and Cortana’s sacrifice, the Didact fell into the Beam of the Composer, a Forerunner weapon that scans and disintegrates organic matter. In Halo Escalation we have an answer to this, and that is that Team Blue and the Master Chief encountered the Didact and introduced him to the Composer; at this point, The Boss comments that it doesn’t really affect the Didact, but it disables it for a while. On page 297 of the 2016 book Halo Escalation Library Edition, Brian Reed, former maintainer of the 343 script, had already confirmed the information that the Didact was alive and would one day return.
In Halo 4, we explicitly state that the Composer has no effect on the Didact or Master Chief, thanks to the Librarian. What we see here is not standard Composer usage by any stretch of the imagination. It’s six more composers blasting them all at once, their energy expelled out of control. It’s not ‘Composite’ in the traditional sense because there’s nothing to process it. What is it…well, what it is is a surprise. But he is there. He is alive. We’ll see each other again.
So yes, the Didact is back with his new book, which has no release date yet.
