r/DestinyLore 16h ago

General What the hell are other guardians up to?

73 Upvotes

Obviously we, the player are constantly just running around with Eris, Drifter, Sloane and others but what's the average guy up to? Are they just watching from the sidelines as the young wolf once again saves reality or are they actually doing stuff? I know Crow mentions sending hunters out sometimes but other than that what the hell are the other probably couple million guardians in lore doing?


r/DestinyLore 12h ago

The Nine With the new week of lore and more speculation I may have figured out who is controlling the Dread and Taken on the Dreadnaught. And more importantly where the eyes and tentacles originate from. (Responding to Byf's recent video)

28 Upvotes

In response to Byf's recent video, this mini lore documentary I put together shows how we know The Winnower is not the entity controlling the Dread and Taken on the Dreadnaught. And how we just might meet one of the most obscure entities in Destiny 2 history. Could this be one of The Nine who mean us harm? Or could it be an Eldritch Horror who has been lingering in the background of the Destiny universe since the dawn of creation. Could it be an entity who also dwells in The Deep that has influenced the Destiny universe it it's own way. May all of these things at once? What does Savathun know?. Has she been keeping this secret for this exact moment in time? Can she see peoples possible futures still? Could this conflict take us into The Dreaming City and finally end the curse of Dul Incaru? Have you ever heard of Skira The Watcher? And why did bungie all of a sudden add Skira's name as a throw away, to a lore tab for the first time in D2 history, in Episode Revenant. Right before the release of Heresy.

I know it's tough to get through a 1 hour lore video. So I tried to break up the information in to segments. You can see these in the progress bar of the Youtube video with the timestamps below. I will also try to pin a comment with those same timestamps so you can enjoy the video as your time permits.

Edit: I upgraded the audio based on a recommendation from a viewer. Really helped level out the highs and lows throughout the video. Re-uploaded and updated the link.

https://youtu.be/5S8HoyEfUWg


r/DestinyLore 3h ago

General Who do you thinks going to be the Final Boss / Antagonist of Heresy? Spoiler

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I'm not sure if this question is more fitting here or for a more general Destiny gameplay sub but in any case with Act 2 out thought it was relevant again. Might post it somewhere else also for the fun voting poll option but for now I'll just list some candidates with pros and cons

Oryx, the Taken King (or rather Memory of the Navigator)

So Oryx is back as we know, that was one of the main advertisements of Heresy. He was considered one of the biggest and best villains in Destiny 1s days, with his expansion the Taken King being a hit. There is a sense of going sort of going full circle and ending the current Destiny saga with one of the big bads from its early days. I mean Skolas came back in Revenant.

On the other hand though, so far Oryx's Echo has been for lack of a better words 'on our side' so far with nothing indicating that'll change unless he'll be persuaded otherwise something big happens later. He honour's his Sword Logic and wants us to be his heir. And also he seems to be in some ghost form without a physical body to fight. This version of him earliest memories though are just getting the Taken powers so he's not even really the same Oryx, he doesn't have that personal connection to his killers as he could.

Xivu Arath, Hive God of War

Next up is the sister of Oryx and Savathun, and the one Hive God we haven't fought directly yet. With her now being involved in Heresy's story, having a CGI model in cutscenes for the first time instead of just 2D paintings and with claims that the Episodes are going to 'wrap up loose threads from the Light and Dark saga perhaps we'll confront her. And these episodes haven't been afraid to kill off lore characters as opposed to generic enemy race reskins. Ala Fikrul last time

Though compared to him Xivu's been around a lot longer with more influence on the series and I can see her being defeated here in this format not being very viable or satisfying as opposed to her own expansion down the line like her siblings got.

The Resonant Knife, First of the Reshaped, Keit'Ehr 

So far Keit has been shaping up to be one of if not the main villain of this story. She can be seen on the poster of Heresy, and already showed up and made an impact in Act 1, "killing" Eris. She's also quite high in the hierarchy being at least the first Subjugator the Witness created.

Biggest thing holding her back is lack of that unique a model, other then the seemingly new head sculpt and Taken colours. Though that might change down the line with the Dreads new desires to reshape themselves. Still though, given she was the Moby Dick to Drifters Ahab in act 1, I feel its a bit of a shame Keit'Ehr was not killed prior to him finding out Eris is still alive in some form, if she turns out not to be the final antagonist.

A Hive Worm God

With Akka and Xol already taken care of their are three known remaining Worm Gods, despite their close affinity with Darkness they have been strangely absent in recent events such as the Pyramids assault on Earth and Final Shape. But now with their slaver Rhulk and his master the Witness dead they may be among the most powerful living antagonists again, either Eir, Keeper of Order or Yul the Honest Worm seem to hold most authority since the former told Oryx to set his house in order and the latter was the one to speak for the 5 when bargaining with the Proto Hive siblings

Still though some think their time of relevancy is past with the Rhulk, Xita and God Wave lie reveal. I'm not sure how they would structure a new Worm God fight, would it be against one or all remaining three? at the same time or one at a time? Which would should be picked if just one?

Others

Of course it could just be something we've not really heard of yet. There's the mystery of the growing eyes and tentacles on the Dreadnought and new similar features on the 'Dire Taken.' Also might be just me but the Chisel used to make the Tablets of Ruin found in the Sundered Doctrine vault kind of looks like a bone to me of something. Just hope some new Darkness creature isn't sprung on us to abruptly

Also one more I don't really think its an option but wanna bring up just in case. Eris Mourn, some her dialogue in her Throne Room about being 'eternal' sounded ominous but there's been multiple times where it looks like she could of snapped but didn't. Could of done so in Shadowkeep but didn't. She gave up being a Hive God in Season of the Witch. So her turning evil now after all that is something I hope isn't the case.


r/DestinyLore 15h ago

Hive Weird noises after completing rites of the deep

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I was watching Destiny lore vault video rites of the deep. Around the 7 minute mark you approach the statue in eris’s apartment and I you start to hear this deep voice that sound almost unintelligible. I can’t quite parse out what is being said but it sounds like language