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Captain Li offers them tea. Mara cannot imagine the ways in which she is butchering what must be an intricate and meaningful tea ceremony. Li serves some very battered pre-Traveler ceramic sloshing with hot green tea, then immediately adulterates her own cup with milk from the Cow Thing on the biodeck.
Cow Thing?
Cow Thing
maybe its a cowlike thing?
Im thinking of a robocow apparatus
Omg, someone genuinely interested in the weird things of lore, thatās rare
So what are those pillars shooting out of the monolith in the pale heart? They seem to have appeared after the raid but before excision
like the calus nipple lore?
Still waiting on whatever multimedia shit Bungie agreed to be acquired by Sony for
The same shit which they promoted Luke Smith to specifically oversee
They also hired an exec from Warner Bros/Discovery (who also previously worked for Crunchyroll), a guy who directed LoL animated shorts, a former Riot exec who worked on Arcane...
So spoilers from the first act.
||when saint was being controlled, did his ghost do anything about it? I dont own the season pass so im curious on what he did||
No
I don't think we've heard from Gepetto about the incident at all
I assume gepetto and saint are on good terms right?
One of the trials of osiris lines seek to make it that way (kinda)
As much as any other Ghost that isn't named Ophiuchus
So they are on good terms?
I lowk believe the Guardian can solo most characters in fiction, like marvel and dc and shi
I very much doubt that. People like batman can survive architects. The guardian doesnt.
The Witness can likely do something along those lines
it knew the history of several characters like Zavala and Crow
Do u think his powers stem from his species or his connection to the veil
it also has access to advanced Deepsight (which is what happened to Mars)
most likely due to the Primordial Darkness from the Veil

Jojo alone has such bullshit it directly counters our Guardian with at least two of them
if saint is a vex copy then how does he have light
last time i checked vex cant simulate light
i thought he was just from another timeline is he actually a simulation
Because he isn't a Vex copy.
I feel that the Guardian's ability to "make their on fate" could counter many of the stronger stands
since predetermined fate is a huge theme in JJBA
I ment like WOY unless we propose a guardian can conjure nothing into existence
And GER is a literal direct counter to paracausality
Because those are bullshit and only a significant ass pull could ever handle those
could argue paracausality is immune to WoU in the same way go beyond is
also technically WoU can't fully kill a guardian unless ||the guardian's ghost tries to chase it|| (part 8 spoilers)
Hey ive had this discussion before
Uh WoU Can't affect guardians
I assume
Due to their Paracausality
Requiem would work against a guardian
Love Train
No
love train is purely defensive
Yeah
so a guardian cant hit it
Also
wanna know whats fucked up
Due to all Pre Golden Age info being lost
Guardians will not know the peak of uhhh
like
Pink
Floyd?
Not really lore, but does anyone know exactly or roughly when Destiny was first conceptualized? I know thereās a Destiny awaits poster in ODST back in 2009. But does anyone know if they had plans for the game since maybe 2007 or 2008 possibly?
Development Began in 2010
It USED to be named "Project Tiger"
or that was its codename
Iām more so talking about pre development if that makes any sense
Like more of the spitballing phase
I think in 2009
Alright
After their Split from Microsoft in '07 they discussed how they wanted a new IP
So 07 was the idea of a new ip then
Yeah
"The press release from Bungie states, "It is also the intent of both parties to expand their partnership to include new IP created and owned by Bungie.""
Thatās actually insane to think about
Obviously destiny wasnāt a thing in 07 but itās crazy to think that the idea of a new game that would eventually become Destiny was present nearly 17 years ago
I think Destiny being even like
In Development for 7 Years is kinda great
Combining Non Active/Active Development
It's awesome to see how it all ended up
Yea
The main reason I wanted to know is cause I just found out about the !letting go YouTube video
Fun fact regarding that, it's not actually anything canon or any significance to lore
While it is made by someone either a dev or inside information, it is also technically a fan animation
Yea i get that but considering it so closely represents some things in game currently and also the fact it was made 2 whole years before destiny was officially announced it makes you think thereās more to it
The video literally has black armory symbols
7 years before black armory would release
Also I get the exo from the video is a reused asset from another game but perhaps it was just a placeholder for what Rasputin would be

Thatās the edited version of the photo
Shocking how someone with insider info can make something with official assets before theyāre used properly
I can tell it's edited, because that's the Marathon logo.
Yeah I can probably guess a video from 10 years ago didnāt have a screencap of the witness
Because the creator had inside information
That rasputin model was not even conceived of in d2 y1
We can ask the devs later,
so its likely just "random exo lmao"
Remember the uhhh, image of a bloodied exo sitting by a wall?
i do not
o yea

Hell of an underbite on that guy
Destiny 2's lore is so vast. Very shocking most games don't put anywhere near as much effort in their lore as destiny 2 does.
Because it doesn't sell
The average player skips cutscenes in most games

I was watching a destiny 2 lore video to get knowledge on the game's lore then I watched a bunch of cutscenes on youtube. When I first played I'll admit I didn't know what the heck was going on
Aye, it does go quite deep.
The Destiny Wiki is even more cursed than Destinypedia but let's hear it
Joe Biden, along with Lord Shaxx and Lord Saladin, were all present at the Battle of Twilight Gap, which Joe Biden was treated as a hero of. well whaddaya know
Yes
Joe Biden is the current Titan Vanguard of the Tower. He is a leader with a will of iron and works tirelessly to keep the people of the City safe. He was partnered with the Ghost Targe.
At least they know Targe died
Destiny 2 Sad Lore Fact: No Guardian has ever heard a Weezer song
Oo ee oo I look just like Cayde 6
They might have
Who knows whatās survived the Collapse
AC/DC apparently did
Wait fr???
But first: ACD stands for Active Contact Defense. It is not an AC-DC Feedback Fence and it is not named for any work of pre-classical music.
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weird thing, but I just realised I have no understanding of what happened to Sagira that caused her to die. what exactly happened to her?
Got attacked by xivu's high celebrant
did we ever see this happen or get revenge on the Celebrant, or was this one of those things that just "happened" and we don't see or learn about it until later like it's not a big deal
The while point of season of the hunt was to hunt down wrathborn including the high celebrant
Iirc she sacrificed herself to protect Osiris
As Xivuās forces cornered him deep in the moon
After Osiris had like wiped out the rest of Oryxās bloodline
I choose you @night rock
bro picked from his quick access wheel 
Their
apologies
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@jagged badge u sad for sitting in this chat all day
pattin up
my child
am the witness u the crota

its my off day i have a job unlike u
nah

be nice
Check the logs itāll be a real shocker
we good
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move along
also hi nbk
So you decided to waste that time being hostile in a discord channel
yeah
did we ever get any lore about how rhulk became a disciple?
Move along, donāt bother engaging
Stop giving this guy attention
nah do it
Pretty sure thatās the entire point of the Vow lore book
id win
Check byfs 10 hour
i will
i own u all
You talk too much not gonna lie
willy1669 muted.
Thanks sepiks
Itās basically the only thing he ever talked about
Thanks ven, was getting crazy thanks to this yapper
Also question
all i remember hearing about is how the witness approached him in some way no?
Do we agree that Savathunās little fight in the Queens mission was just her genuine strength?
i never got any specifics
Like the WQ fight only lasted that long because she had a bunch of hexes going on
And the Wellspring.
What if I drop a lighteater ogre into the wellspring
Nom nom nom
could be an indicator of strength/free will said Taken has
then again, Primevals are some of the oldest Taken there are, and they're fully Taken
Summarize the most important plot points from the dark age and city age
Warlords (dark age)
Iron lords
We did everything we did in d1
Dark Age: In the wake of the Collapse, humanity had regressed and Ghosts had begun ressurecting people as Risen. Many of these RIsen would become feudal Warlords who fought for territory and often ruled it with an iron fist oppressing the Lightless. Eventually, a group called the Iron Lords rose against them to protect the Lightless. After much fighting, humanity would start to unite and gather under the Traveler in an encampment that would develop into the Last City. The Warlords would also be either killed off or abandoned their status. Important to note that it was during this era where Awoken began arriving on Earth.
this is pretty much the basic summary of the Dark Age
City Age I feel I could not give a quick rundown of it
a lot of relevant stuff happened during the City Age
Can I eat a ghost
It's made of metal and glass.
thats not a no
there was an instance in a shitty in-universe fanfiction where we tricked Drifter to eat his
... rephrase that please
I didnt understand it
at some point, Calus, in his deluded mind, had his scribes record what he believed would happen in the future up to the end of all things
the result was a lore book called the Chronicon
the future Calus claimed to see was so full of innaccuracies and pure bs that it is comedic
and Savathun gave us the pages of this book which I'm certain is the lore reason as to why we no longer associated with him post-Opulence because we saw how crazy that mf was
anyways, at some point in the Chronicon, we invite Drifter to dinner where he eats a lot of food including a special pastry we had made for him
when he finished eating it, we told him it was his own Ghost before forcing more food down his throat until he suffocated to death
that's not even the most stupid thing to happen in the damn book too
let's see, Zavala and Hawthorne drinking "beer of roots" and eating "nuggets of chicken" while contemplating their doom
us killing Eva Levante because she didn't want to organize Calus' shitty hollidays then Shaxx gladly takes her place
us killing Osiris by going to a random Vex Goblin and asking them to divide something by zero or something like that causing the entire Vex Network to collapse allowing us to get to him
us killing Toland by using the song of life to restore his body so we can kill him
it just gets so bonkers man
like what sort of Ahimsa Park Cloud Accretions was he on?
so... World Greatest Fanfic
Fanfic-ception
Are there Lore Reasons for Ghosts having Shells?
like Custom Shells
Cuz like, HOW THE FUCK DOES THIS HAPPEN?
is he okay???
yeah, it's just a shell
it can be changed around
like hermit crabs
Basically
I canāt see it being for protection consideringā¦.
Perhaps you weren't aware of this, but Xivu Arath has lost control of her Throne World, but not her overall power and status as their God of War.
Ur so real thatās why ur my favourite
Want there a frame that went bezerk and killed a ton of cabal or was that a fever dream
Was the Fallen that we were fighting in Misraakās arc in the Final Shape campaign his mother?
Ohhhhhhhh
So like
Why dont we just use our Riven wish to just ask for the witness to combust and die?
It doesnāt really work like that
Ahamkara materialize desire
Itās not literal wishing
Theyāre not rewriting existence, theyāre just adding small footnotes
Plus the witness was connected to the traveler itself
It literally couldnāt be killed until Salvationās Edge happened and even then it was only possible with 12 ghosts funneling the travelerās light directly into it
Did zavala and ikora ever learn that cayde was there cuz of crows wish?
i believe so
Hi I'm a returning player going through the campaigns I missed to catch up a bit, just completed witch queen and got the "of queens and worms" quest. Ikora said it helps me prepare for the witness or something, is it just another exotic quest or does it have relevant events for the story?
Itās not specially relevant
You learn a bit more about Savathun and her past and get development for Mara
oh ok just wanted to know if it adds anything no matter how small
do you happen to know approximately how long it takes?
didn t manage to find that on google either
shouldnāt be more than an hour or so
great,ty
to add to the points waltz made against this, theres also the monkey paw affect of ahamkara wishes, so even in the theoretical world you could wish this, the monkey paw effect would probably be devastating
I wish for the witness to die
Granted, in 16 billion years the witness will temporarily suffer a heart attack, and revive itself with a defibrillator. During its death everything experiences tremendous suffering beyond comprehension
yo can we get a lore recap from the very beginning until rn
That does exactly that
Gimme a sec
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i am actually invested bruh d2 lore goes HARD.
Agreed
ight see you all in 10 hours 1 minute 11 second and an extra 30 minutes for the overthinking post watching
10 hours and it covers only the fucking basics and essentials of the known chronological timeline as of season of the wish
ty
It even skips over some parts for the sake of time
Like the Leviathan the sisters met
I mean Destiny lore is pretty broad
A full everything video would be three times as long if not more
He only goes over the main sort of story in those 10 hours ye?
None of the smaller side stories like Dredgen Yor or whatever
"this lore is so fucking vast you gotta spend almost half a day explaining the main story chronologically"
Said lore being fucking fire
It's exceptionally rare for anything to also be able to make that claim
Let alone support it
destiny 2 gets a movie when
what's the lore today, friends
Monday, which sounds like moonday, and the moon was often associated with madness (hence the word Lunatic), we can thus conclude Monday fucking sucks
That's the lore of today, because today is Monday
What would that even be about
Theres so much to choose from
Years ago I remember people liking the idea of a show that takes place around the great hunt
aye d2 lore is like crazy huge and vast. its own universe
it would be crazy if it gets tons of movies just timeline based
hell yeah that sounds crazy
I personally also really liked the idea of turning the lorebook of the K1 Crew on the Moon into a sort of horror show
Really good read I definitely recommend
I like the idea of the Dark Ages because you can create a totally fresh set of characters, no ties.
I mean tbh they could do that with basically any point in the story
Theres so much shit happening in the system no matter when
You could always introduce some new guardians and have them in a little self contained story
Like a love murder robots thing but with destiny characters, new and established
You mean love, death and robots?
to be specific, you are referring to an anthology
as in a series that is a collection of separate stories
Ah
Yeah that
I figured if we get a destiny show, it might be difficult to make some stories without potential retcons or have it tie in with the story well
But of it's a anthology that might make it easier to go a bit more loose
How many alone in the dark in there
Infinite, it never stops
But after 6 all cysts are unlocked
Uh how many for to unlock the savathun thing
Oh the dual destiny?
SORRY
Zero
So we know that the Pale Heart is constructed out of the memories of those who enter it
Do we have any clue what it looked like before we or the Witness went there?
Probably nothing.
So the Travelers memories dont affect the pale heart?
Probably only ever even gained a physical state due to the witness
Probably do, but I don't think it had physical form
Not until the witness came along
Hm
I still hope one of these days theyll explain what exactly the Traveler is physically
I know this is just concept art but thats the design of those traveler collectibles from the Pale Hart
And it gives us arguably the best look at whats beneath the shell
It does seem very much like machienery
Yeah
Its so weird cause nothing else regarading the Traveler reflects this fact
lol
Dark Future where the Traveler gets imprisoned and used as a weapon
This is what the witness saw 

But yea, traveler being mechanical and alien, like an artificial garden 
Its even more confusing when it turns out that Unveiling wasnt a load of horseshit after all
what if the Witness had given itself a ghost
It had the theoretical power to do so no?
Or would they have had to make a ghost for each of the untold number of voices within them
Would say the ghost would refuse but, immaru?
I mean could have just made ghosts that dont have the will to choose
Also would the witness accept the light?
They actively use it for the final shape so yeah why not
Oh wait, can the witness make a ghost?
Savathun had to convince a bunch for her brood, I donāt think so
Yeah but the Witness had power to just do it no?
Im trying to think why they couldnt
Maybe they didnt have enough time
Id say a Ghost is a rather complicated thing
But then again the Witness had been chilling in the pale heart since Lightfall
hm
The witness wasnāt properly āaliveā to begin with
hm?
Itās not a dead person that can be resurrected
A ghost has to have a corpse it can link to
You canāt make any facsimile
Not like with ultimate power they could have just yk changed the rules lol
All it did was mix darkness into the heart of the traveler and effectively try to ratatouille it
It didnāt have proper control over the light itself
Well it had enough to start initiating the final shape lo
Sure first attempt didnt work
Actually
Why didnt the first attempt work
Did the Traveler resist?
The traveler was resisting every time that big cry is heard
The witness didnāt have control over light, it was literally a tumor in the travelerās brain
I say āRatatouille itā in the most literal sense
Then how could it start carving away and make new structures? In order to create new stuff you need both light and dark no?
create/destroy
what structures
Darkness for the idea
Light to manifest
Like the monolith
The monolith was just formed out of the pyramid ships that it brought
Aka the transformed Tree of Silver Wings
You know at the end of LF
oh yeah it did that
Yeye
So it just parked the thing there and changed it into the spire/monolith
Basically just made a new Lego set
But the carvings? Splitting the world apart and shit
Shouldnt that only be possible with both Light and Darkness
It had control over the traveler itself, not light as a whole
It used the travelerās power of creation and mixed it with darkness
If the witness had total control over the light itself we just wouldnāt have any of our power
It would just self destruct our ghosts like the traveler can
hm
You know when Rhulk tried to steal a ghost, the traveler possessed and exploded it to tell him to fuck off
The traveler can just do that
Well I probably shouldāve mentioned the part where the ākidnappingā was Rhulk plucking it out of the air and taking it apart piece by piece because he wanted to pull a Ghaul
The ghost was already going to die
So all the shit we did in Season of the Risen could have been avoided had the Traveler locked in?
Free wall
It hoped the hive would be getting a new lease on life after the witness and worm gods stole it away from them
And itās sort of worked out, tbh
Luzaku is proof that there can be defectors
Im more on about all the Guardians that got killed and got their light sucked out and stored in batteries for whatever deranged shit they wanted to pull
Years of killing hive Lightbearers doesnāt really mean anything, the same thing happened with Warlords
The light was stolen from the guardians themselves and their ghosts were just killed
Traveler canāt do anything about that
Blow up the Ghosts of those Lucent hive
See my above point
Could have retaliated against the Warlords too
Again thatās literally my point
If the traveler said āwell this was a dead end all of you dieā guardians literally just wouldnāt exist
Then what makes the Traveler say its okay to pull shit if you are one of my chosen but Rhulk? Nah man thats where I draw the line
Ghost stories and that one ghost leaving
Rhulk was actively killing the ghost.
The Traveler mercy killed to prevent him from scrapping it for parts.
Guardians also did that
Again why is a lightbearer permitted to do evil shit but others not
Game
I mean in lore lol
When
Felwinter right? (If guardian is used vague)
To reiterate, Rhulk was literally trying to pull a Ghaul
He was never chosen
He was actively killing a ghost to steal the light
Before the ghost was taken apart to be studied, the Traveler detonated the shell to leave no remains
It told Rhulk directly āthis is not for youā
There have also been guardians who meddled with their ghosts no? Drifter for example or that other guy who was like old d1 lore, Spider probably also tried his luck a few times
Rhulk had no capacity to be chosen
Rhulk pullled an early savathun 
He was not being given the light
Thatās not modification
He was literally taking it apart piece by piece
He was killing it
He wanted to take the light directly out of it for himself
He says the exact phrase āI have worth beyond worthā
So traveler gets mad if you try to get the light when you aint chosen by it
To reiterate: see Ghaul
āYou do see meā second before being ripped apart by rays of light
Asher technically too
Not really no?
Ashers Ghost just got corrupted by Radiolaria and never talked to the bro again
Oh I thought he had to fix his ghost with Vex parts
!ban <user> <reason>
Permanently bans a user from the server.
Step over here please other me
Force them to name change
Nuh uh
You shall now be known as
wdym force them I can just change it myself
Nah
Similar to Asher it took a partial dip in the Radiolaria
What happened to Asherās fireteam again
Vex
Did they get dunked or just leave
Exploded
Pretty sure one died and the other also never talked to him again
Asher mentions just not making contact with them after he recovered I think
Just like with his Ghost yeah
At least one of them got blown to pieces by a Fanatic
Yes
Well his ghost was incapable of talking
It just stared
He had no idea if it even functioned as a ghost anymore
But he couldnt bring himself to mercy kill it
He was too scared to try self destructing in an attempt to fix his condition, and also too afraid to put the ghost out of its misery
Yeah he wasnt sure what he'd come back as
Mf could have become the first Vex lightbearer for all we know
And this began his deep hatred for the Vex
nah he was always interested in them
He just hated uuuh
the mind that was chilling inside the pyramideon
Yes that guy
But yeah Ashers interest in the Vex never faded
Bro literally walked his ass into their network at the end of Arrivals
Well he was moments away from dying/converting into a vex frame
It was actively turning his lungs to metal
Was that mentioned really?
He just bit the bullet and managed to integrate into the network, at least for a while
at the very least he was coughing up blood with no actual injuries
Mice racks later confirms Ashir can no longer be heard in the network 
Good ol Asher
Hates everything and everyone
Gets his ass kicked in the Pyramideon
Hates everyone even more
Digitalizes himself
Still hates people
Helps us once
Calls us dumb regardless
Refuses to elaborate further
Deletes himself
Was there ever a bigger hater
Rasputin or oryx maybe
Iron Lords fair
Traveler not so much towards the end
Bro came around
And tbf the Traveler did steal his son
Id be pretty mad too
Killed like a thousand people just for his bastard son
then also killed said son
Thousand? Oh right there were like a shit ton of Iron Lords
I always forget cause we only ever hear of like 5
Every single iron lord aside from Saladin and efrideet was killed by Rasputin
Yeah idk to me Iron Lords were like a small gang of fellas
Understandable
Taniks was a pretty big hater
Bro hated the concept of death so much he just said nah every time
He wasnāt really a hater he was just pissed all the time
He kept being brought back and then killed like five minutes later
Haters tend to do that
Fikrul had actual motivation and was driven
Mf was so pissed he jumped out of the coffin and started punching shit
Taniks just went āoh not these fucks againā and then activated nuclear descent
Iām sure Taniks was just fucking around with the terminal in Rapture enough that the AI got pissed and decided to destroy the moon
And Deep Stone Lullaby always gets interrupted by my teammates dying
Turn up the volume lol
I was about to say lol
Turn down the sound effects
he already initiated it post Atraks fight
Idk why he waited so long since the Fallen had already swarmed the station at that point
So he could start yapping about Clarity
Waits till we step foot on the station till he goes "oh noooo my space ship is compromised!!!!11!! better nuke the entire fucking planet"
actually wait
Nvm im stupid
The Ai activated when we fucked up the Security system
Decides to nuke the station
Gets mad when it gets destroyed
The Fallen simply went around it but we destroyed it triggering the Ai to wake up
The station was armed with nuclear warheads and meant to destroy the entirety of Europa when it crashed
It was by design
I think the Fallen modified it so that itād kill is
No
It was Clovisā own protocol
No I mean the Security System
It was literally called Nuclear Descent Protocol
Clovis had always planted those nukes so he could emergency destroy Europa cause aint no way anyone gets their hands on HIS research but him
The security system is already designed to kill you
And the failsafe is destroying the entirety of Europa
Yeah thats the sort of shit Clovis would pull
Dude didnt give a fuck about human life besides his own
Remember that standard procedure for basic employed guards is to shoot on sight
Even when the intruder is very clearly a child
the only reason Micah didnāt die was Cayde fumbling with his gun
In the name of progressā¢ļø
Something something fountain of youth something something Clarity yap yap yap fire the missile now
āBefore the events of the War of Salvation, House of Salvation would uncover and occupy the Crypt, securing and repurposing the systems and tech inside, the Crypt Security systems includedā
This may just be an assumption
Wait wait wait
Youāre reading Destinypedia which is not accurate
I was gonna say
Crypt security is actually just designed to kill you
Clovis activates the moment itās disabled
Also pretty sure pre DSC no one neither the fallen nor us had set foot in the actual crypt
Its still unclear whether anyone went in there post DSC
Eramis told Atraks to go to the Crypt and prepare the body
The biggest point of the crypt is Clarity
We basically went into the lobby but then left for the morning star space station
What I thought the whole point is that the Crypt isnt anywhere we actually set foot in

The only parts actually inside are walking past clarity and the bottom floor of Atraks
Security encounter is getting past the very complicated door
The actual DSC honestly isnāt incredibly important beyond an absolute abundance of advanced exo tech
Ok so Encounter 1 and half of encounter 2 are actually in the crypt ye?
Itās not like some big citadel
The main thing Clovis wanted to keep from everyone was Clarity
He was so protective heād rather destroy the entirety of Europa than let an intruder leave even with the knowledge of it
To my knowledge the crypt proper was further down and we didn't actually go there or anyone else for that matter
Iām sure the only reason they went there was
- Atraks to Atraks-1 pipeline
- They had the equipment needed to bring back Taniks
Eramis wanted to put her whole army into exo frames
More arms and legs 
Atraks was rough but she was the prime example
Itāll be aksis all over again
Wouldnt that just cause DER
It worked and wouldāve been really bad
Elsie just said āarmy of darknessā
Nothing else was elaborated upon
Clarity was also a new prime source of darkness that wasnāt just cruxes shitting out some stasis prisms
Shouldnt Eliksni Exo have the same kind of issues that human Exo have
Yes thatās the point of the Mask of Bakris tab
Then why would you start converting Eliksni into Exo
Cant modify them for shit
Atraks had is so bad that she had to rip her old face off just to cope
Clarity subclass when 
Atraks has to convince herself that her old corpse is an imposter and āunmasksā it by tearing the flesh off her own skull
Ik ive read that tab
when the voices make a bet that I canāt rip my skin off
As long as its not anything body related*
Upgrade? Technology?
More arms or eyes or legs or whatever

When you think about it being an Exo really aint that great
I always thought the plan was go to Clarity and get more Stasis
What benefit do you event get, besides a more than usual durable body
That you cant use to its fullest extend cause if you perform any task that goes too far beyond what flesh could do you just go insane and gotta reset your brain
Eh not really
Imagine using your sick steel legs to kick in a heavy door and your brain just goes "wait hang on a fucking minute this aint right I shouldnt be able to do this wtf" and then just dies
Itās not like an automatic āoh Iām made of metal now I dieā
That was mainly an issue with the earliest models
Thereās some leeway
Adaās mouth literally doesnāt even move
She just has a speaker
And thatās assuming they donāt go insane and rip their bodies apart
iirc thatās what happened to Alton
If you were to throw an exo to the bottom of the ocean theyre still gonna die cause at some point they realize they dont need to breathe which'll cause DER
Alton was never an exo
I swear he was?
He was just shuffled off to the sidelines because Clovis literally did not care about him
Good question actually
Without a mouth she doesnt eat or drink which afaik is needed to continue the brains delusion
Because quote āwomen are easier to controlā, so he didnāt want Alton around
I know a weird lore type of question but can guardians reproduce/ get children?
no
They can adopt as seen with Zavala
Its never been mentined and or explored
I thought someone in the bray family went crazy when they became an exo
I donāt think exos can get children
The closest we have to confirmation is Saladinās ghost telling him directly āyou will never have childrenā
They cant
Which tbh could be more about his personality/line of work
Is there any context to why the ghost said it
Well obviously itād be after he had children
Basically we dont know and it doesnt seem like Bungie ever wants to explore it for well obvious reasons
Dread?
Are just enhanced types of enemies we saw
Yes
Yeah
Like psions
Some
Only the Weavers and Attendants
It does include species weāve never seen
Witness did some funky stuff and merged shit around a bunch
Werenāt tormentors like nezarec clones
I think I recall something along those lines but I dont remember
Subjugators are clones of Rhulk but no tnearly as powerful as him
Theyre still pretty cool tho
Forget the living witness stuff, it made some weird statues
I wonder if there has been any progress regarding their language
Any update in cryptarchy?
Because my question is. I recall to have read something like that tormentors are clones of nezarec but also that nezarec was something like a clone of rhulk i donāt remember.
I had wondered that a few times
Like how we are supposed to translate them
What exactly
Rhulk was only powerful because of Upended shit
got no clue I just remember that Bungie said their language is translatable and that was that
The tormentor language?
Watch it be a hoax and we make the language for them
Nezarec was just based on Rhulk in job
Yea the dread people
In Byfs raid stream he gave an possibility
Basically theres a loretab that states that it is a text that has been translated from somewhere inside the pale heart
maybe if that original text can be found ingame we can reverse translate it and thatll be a good lead
Rhulk fucked up his work and got sent to babysitting duty
So the Witness basically appointed Nez as āhead discipleā and sent him to lead the charge on sol
And he then got himself killed
Imagine 2 pyramids on the moon 
We need more Nezarec lore :(
So the witness went a different direction with Calus and just used him as a distraction
Imagine the moon being a big pyramid
I doubt Bungie would pull that
I should maybe check in Raid Secrets if anyone got something on that whole language thing
Sounds like their kind of thing
do we have any list of all species that gotādevouredā by the witness and made them a part of him or smth
Havent been in that place in ages now that I think of it
Untold thousands probably
Thatās not really how it worked
They maybe found a way to beat the witness toes but not to decrypt a language
?
The witness just conquered civilizations and only kept knowledge/experience from outliers
I remember 3 got mentioned alr somewhere in lore tabs
We have dread names
And thatās it
Ghost just says āa previous conquered speciesā
The flying ones are completely new
Just the flying ones?
Considering that the Witness has been chasing the Traveler for a shit ass long time there are probably a lot
Some old species the witness destroyed/conquered
Oh are the other ones acolytes?
The rest are all things weāve seen
Husks are never directly mentioned but theyāre pretty clearly hive
Yea should be
They have the acolyte grenade animation and their little soul thing looks like a worm infected with resonance
Actually they might just be worms puppeting hive corpses
Ok so I looked it up and I got Clovis Bray II and Alton Bray mixed up
Clovis Bray II became an Exo and got so disassociated that he ripped his body apart
Pretty sure thats the implication
Since they just fall down like empty husks once the worm thingy exits
Yeah I think the FS vidoc said something about pilots
kind of the same thing
Holy shit dread Titanfall

Lore
No
Who tf told you that?
Iām guessing
Educated
Half of lore is guessing anyways
So thereās like a 10% chance Iām right
No, it's a 0%
Real
why do people like Mara
bad as hell
Sheās a complex and fascinating character
duality of humanity
Where's the loretab that says Ana's goldie shots are still burning? Classidied 62 says they left pools of light but not that they're burning today
Read Marasenna 
LMAO
I have a few questions:
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What exactly is the Witness?
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Does the Darkness prefer the Witness over the Guardian, what does it want?
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If the Witness is empowered by Darkness, why does the Darkness also empower us to destroy it? (When we embrace it to destroy the statues.)
The witness is the result of an ancient civilization using darkness to meld into one being for the sake of their idea of āpurposeā
They though the traveler and the light brought pointless chaos and suffering to the universe
Darkness is just a power, it doesnāt act, people use it for what they want
āEmbracing darknessā was just tapping into the primordial darkness linked to the statues so we could destroy the statues
So the Traveler is a being that uses the light?
The traveler creates light
When was it created?
Oh
Is there an entity that creates darkness?
Unknown
The earliest recorded history of the Traveler is when the Witnessā people found it buried on their homeworld
The Veil is the Travelerās counterpart
Is the Veil responsible for giving us the darkness powers? Or did we just find it on our own?
The witness tried to give us stasis as a kind of manipulation
We discovered the power of strand on our own
The Witness is like... an entire civilisation put into one mf
do all the people in the civilisation look like the witness?
Somewhat unknown but as far as we know, no
iono...
They werenāt giant cloud heads if thatās what youāre wondering
did they have the unibrow
and the hands
Just two arms and hands
oh ok lol
They were very similar to humans
Does the Veil care about humans like the Traveler or nah?
Itās debatable whether itās even sentient
I mean it gave us strand and it powers the cloudark
But it really hasnāt had any positive events related to it
it didn't give it to us
we found strand
Is it?
The veil? Yes
The way Witness and Nezarec refer to it could indicate a degree of sentience
How about the lore tab for the ritual SMG this season?
Isn't there some implication that we were actually being taught Stasis by the Dissenters rather than the Witness itself
Or well not implication but, possibility
I feel like the Dissenters call into question any interaction with the veiled statues that isn't made explicitly clear to be the Witness proper
I quite disagree. The Dissenters never put a step out of line until the Pale Heart, and the Black Fleet that opened a line of communication to us on Io - which Savathƻn tried to stop - told us that power awaited on Europa.
The veiled statues only represented Dissenters as a force in the pale heart
Every time prior they were utilized by the witness
And also yknow the ghost possession telling us directly that stasis is a āgiftā
What guns in destiny actually smell/taste like something
@trim grotto please confirm my crack fueled suspicions
they would smell like gun and taste like gun. the ones made of enemies or enemy parts would smell and taste like that
lol
I've been doing lore for years and have never been asked this question
Hmmm
You sure
I just doubt it
Like
What if paracausal energy actually tastes like candy corn
Or Dr Pepper
i would think different forms of light or dark would have different tastes
and what about plain kinetic weapons, depending on the weapon it wont taste like paracausal energy
Light tastes like Sour Watermelon
They taste like funnier jokes
Vanilla
Humor is subjective
I was making a joke about taste
Justice wins again
No justice lost
I decide the truth 
is that from that one quote where the guy says the inside of the traveler smells faintly of vanilla
Yes
My stand will be the judge
And I stand on the floor
Lame
Why canāt the traveller smell like some shitty American deodorant
Like LIQUID TURNPIKE
or DEATH SLICK
i forgot his name lol
i think vanilla is fitting, or maybe mint or cilantro. perhaps cinnamon or anise?
Liquid Turnpike
nah
What happened to Elsieās accent
It got frozen
Elsie's got a pretty varied background of culture. Her accent shifts may simply be a byproduct of that. I, for one, fan sympathise with this.
The real answer is that her original VA was unavailable/expensive. The headcanon lore answer is that the various time travelling she's done has affected her accent enough that it kinda just changes whenever
Source it 
Thatās not the case
At least, itās not an explanation for the accent change from Beyond Light - Seraph that people bring up
In D1 the Exo Stranger had a different VA. In Beyond Light she was recast, for whatever reason. In Season of the Seraph she has the same VA as in BL
would Nic Cage still be as talented as he currently is Post Ghost Revival
(Do people retain personality traits post revive)
Considering your personality is shaped by your experiences id say thats unlikely
so world is doomed...
Who?
Id love for just, Nicholas Cage to just appear in the tower
*the world
Hes an amazing actor
Debatable
...
I never know what to make of him
Hes like Tobey Maguire where he almost always seems just a bit out of place
Anyway lore chat
To me ones personality is not a thing youre born with but something that develops as you grow up based on your experiences and environment
So since Guardians retain no memories their personalities also get wiped in a sense
And they develop anew from then on
what abt Shaxxsphere? doesnt that poke holes in that theory
What about who?
The Theory Shaxx is Shakesphere
That is indeed a theory
yeah so wouldnt that poke holes in that theory
That afaik has no proper evidence
Why did Shakesphere tend to backhand peoples heads off when he lived?
But Shaxx is very sane
proof
Interact with him like once
he runs a murder pit which he televises
also how do Motes = Currency
what is the drifters scheme to turn that into money
He plays dodgeball with the city kids
lmao
He prob has some kind of deal with the Nine thatd surprise me the least out of all possible explanations
The space dust?
Ye
I dont think he even hangs out with them anymore
The Nine have been kinda absent from the narrative for a while now
Eversince....30th Anniversary I guess?
Even there they werent really involved
Guess it really has been since Arrivals since they did anything

Man im still so sad that they seemingly abandoned Neomuna for future plot stuff
I wish we had gotten a seasonal storyline of Nimbus becoming the new leader type Cloudstrider and having to teach the new rookie
Neomuna sucked man...
it was like
the weirdest designed Nothingburger of a city
like, the design alone is so confusing and boring
Thats just wrong man
Neomuna was cool as hell
One of my favorite destinations easily
And a million times better than the Throne World
It is extremely boring to look at and it feels insanely empty
The Architecture alone is better than Anything Neomuna has
the swamp style stuff doesnt appeal to me and the other area while neat on first glance is....eh
I rather take my sci fi city than boring swamp
You know you shouldnt use that term@small quartz
why
aite
Anyway
Its not even cooly designed
This doesnāt have to be an argument
Eh to each their own
You both have different tastes
the coolest designed modern Sci Fi city is Night City, and buddy it aint no night city
Cyberpunk is not sci fi its cyberpunk
... which is science fiction
hi pookies
doesnt cyberpunk branch off from scifi
A different subtype
Night City is purposefully not overly futuristic
?
ultimately is scifi no?
yes but a different subtype than what Neomuna is
oh i getcha
Star Wars and Cyberpunk are both sci fi but are in almost no ways similar to each other
It explores a different type of sci fi
it goes a different path
Cyberpunk is generally not overly futuristic with a healthy dash of dystopia
Exactly
Neomunas just lame in design
Nah they can voice their opinion
lol
Sorry if i dont like grey blocky buildings
You dont have to agree but its still their opinion
mb jokes
Anyway Europa clears them all anyway
shouldve added /j
at least its better than the fuckin moon
Simply for the dynamic weather it gets the top spot
just gonna remind yall #šlore-discussion
Yeah we should finally nuke it
Like Clovis said
YEAH
The only thing he was ever right about

CONTROLLING THE TIDES OF THE OCEANS
The Traveler is in no way large enough to replace the moon
Like its not even close
TOGETHER, WE WILL STEAL THE MOON
seriously can we ask the devs to do a moon heist
pleath...
No
Calm down eggman
Yes he told us that idea during season of Seraph
Wait hes alive


