The Pyramid

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Lore

"I remember seeing the pyramid from outside, during the day, and thinking that it looked empty and abandoned. I couldn't have been more wrong."

— Claude

The strange pyramid rising above the jungle canopy.

The Pyramid was a strange ruin located in the Yucatan Peninsula, over the site of a Dreaming God that had been dormant on Earth since its arrival 64 million years before the present day.

Overview[edit]

The pyramid was built over the location of an ancient "god" that had arrived at Earth in prehistoric times, causing the K-Pg extinction event.

Despite its location, the pyramid was neither Aztec nor Mayan in construction. It was supposedly of Jjaro design, built as a prison for the sleeping god.

Layout[edit]

A ladder going down from Pathways Into Darkness.

Its interior was built in a series of maze-like levels, descending through:

A layout of the pyramid's levels from the Pathways Into Darkness Official Hint Book.
A more accurate mapping of the pyramid's upper levels by Marathon.Bungie.Org user "Hopper".
An accurate map of all the pyramid's levels, also by user "Hopper".

History[edit]

The pyramid is successfully destroyed by the nuclear blast.

An indigenous tribe, the Tlecoatcha, had lived near the pyramid for centuries.^[1] Rumors of the pyramid's existence began circulating in archeological communities in 1930. In 1938 a German expedition ventured into the pyramid. In 1978, Spanish-speaking treasure hunters found and entered the pyramid.

In 1994, US Special Forces were deployed to the pyramid to detonate a nuclear device two kilometers beneath its surface to prevent the awakening of a sleeping god. Sergeant Eddings successfully detonated the nuke, destroying the pyramid and extracting as the only surviving member of the task force.^[2]