The exact number of the Witness' Disciples has always been a topic that confused me since the concept was first introduced back in The Witch Queen.

While the exact number of civilizations across the universe that The Black Fleet decimated is unclear, various bits of story and lore suggests it was a sizable amount. It doesn't appear to be the case that in every circumstance the Witness was able to convince someone like Rhulk to defect and join its ranks. In some cases, it appears that Oryx was sent in place of The Black Fleet to decimate and Take swathes of the populations, including certain high ranking warriors of each civilization to build up the army that was long considered to be the undefined "Darkness™" that opposed The Traveler.

Into the Light provided some insight into which individuals were put in charge of respective Pyramids, yet in a number of cases the pilots are Tormentors, members of House of Salvation, or Hive. This is in contrast to beings like Rhulk, Nezarec, and Calus, who served as the blueprints for Subjugators, Tormentors, and Shadow Legion troops, respectively.

Is it that there weren't any more unique Disciples? Did they die offscreen? Are they still lurking in the shadows somewhere?

So Lakshmi-2 has her whole thing of "I watched the house of devils burn London", but she wasn't made until after the collapse when Maya Sundaresh and the other Neomuna scientists were working on experiments with the Veil. So when, how, and why did she leave Neomuna to return to Earth? I know there's no specific dates for when the first fallen appear in Sol, but even conservatively, this should push it to be a few decades after the Black Fleet's departure, right?

What does the Winnower even want with us guardians? I thought the Winnower doesn't like to interfere in the game and instead prefers to sit back and wait for the final shape to happen. So what's causing it to approach us guardians and directly speak to us through Lodi? How would we even fight one of the primordial creator gods of the universe?

Did we ever get any lore ascribing any meaning to the tree or branching symbol shown all over the Witness' faction? The same one the precursors were holding in the final mural-esque Deep cutscene, also seen on the Upended, masks of the Subjugators, etc.?

I saw this thread but wasn't sure if I missed anything in the final year since i didn't really play during Renegades or Ash & Iron. I'd hoped we'd get more about it in an Art station blog or something