The Speaker
Voice 1: (In deep, serious tones) "There has always been a Speaker."
Voice 2: Wait, what do you mean by 'always'? Are we talking ever since the Traveler first showed up? Like, there was a guy standing there on Mars with white robes when the Ares One mission approached the Traveler?
Voice 1: No, no, it just means since the Traveler went quiet.
Voice 2: But it never talked to begin with.
Voice 1: Well, right, but…
Voice 2: So it would have needed a Speaker then, right?
Voice 1: Well, maybe. I don't know. All I know is what they say. "There has always been a Speaker…"
Voice 2: Was it the same guy?
Voice 3: He'd have to be super, super old.
Voice 2: And that was before (in deep, serious tones) "…human lifespan tripled…" or the Traveler even met humans, so he couldn't be human.
Voice 3: Ohh, maybe he's a squid-face like Xur!
Voice 2: And that's why he never takes his mask off!
Voice 3: And why Xur likes to show up near his office!
Voice 1: The Speaker isn't a squid face!
Voice 3: How do you know?
Voice 2: Yeah, have you ever seen him take his mask off?
Voice 1: Well, no, but…
Voice 3. Squid face.
(Silence.)
Voice 2: What if he's worse than a squid face? What if he is something scarier, with super sharp teeth?
Voice 3: Or no face at all. Like… like a black hole. And he eats the Motes of Light Guardians give him? Just sucks them right up.
Voice 1: The Speaker is not a squid face. He's not a sharp fanged monster or a black hole. The Speaker is… well, he's the Speaker.
(Silence.)
Voice 3: (Whispered) I'm gonna pull his mask off.