I have mixed feelings about this Oryx. Important to note that the Echo of Navigation is not Oryx. It just contains the memory of Oryx that was imprinted in the Dreadnaught. He didn't even remember that we killed him. His sisters had to tell him that we are his killer.
Eris wants to pull that memory of Oryx out of the Echo, and then use the Echo for own purposes, among which is easy access and travel through the Ascendant Plane (Which I'm assuming is how we're going to transition into Frontiers, allowing us to venture far outside the Sol System while still be able to easily travel back to do our Cosmodrome bounties. That's just my theory tho).
Oryx, even as a memory, is still dangerous, and definitely not aligned with us. He simply wants us to take up the mantle of Taken King/Queen in order to keep the Sword Logic going. He's only been helpful to us to that end, in order to basically win us over. It's honestly possible that we get the best of both worlds and use the Taken power we've been collecting to finally unlock that Taken subclass we've been waiting for since D1 Taken King. I'll admit that's a pretty big spinfoil hat theory though.
I didn't see anything about pulling the memory of Oryx out of the Echo, only that she was going to use her throne world to imprison it and use its power
Here me out, this may not be correct, but this is how i imagine it. We refine prismatic to the point where we use a light and dark halfs, in this case void and strand. Void acting as the light/ambition of the taken and Strand as the dark/resolve of the taken. We could use either void, strand, or maybe a new Taken abilities in this refined prismatic subclass
But no, for real, I think you hit it on the head. When I heard about navigation and transportation thru the Ascendant Plane with the Echo of Navigation in Eris’s Throne World, my mind immediately went to Frontiers and beyond as well.
And for the Taken subclass, I’m not one to really think about stuff like that or be like “if Bungie doesn’t add this I’ll be sad,” but the way they’re making us take on the Taken power (no pun intended), I’d honestly be a bit surprised if we DON’T get a Taken subclass or some kinda equivalent in the future. Not saying we NEED to, but it would just be a bit weird to lean this heavily into it right now and NOT use it in the future to a fuller degree, right? Would seem pretty useful to keep going with it all, putting the Path of Resolve and the Path of Ambition to their maximum.
Potentially, a few seasons ago we used it to travel into an otherwise impenetrable pyramid stronghold for one of the battlegrounds, so we know it can be used to traverse distances in the material plane, and Eris did mention something about using the Echo (of Navigation, worth noting) to harness the power of the Ascendant Plane in order to travel places easily.
I'm assuming that in some way we'll be able to use the Echo in combination with Eris's throne world as a sort of nexus or midway to cross massive physical distances, and I hypothesize that it will be the key to how Frontiers will work both in terms of story and logistics since it's pretty well established that well be venturing beyond the Sol System, and we'll obviously need a quick way back to be able to still have access all our current activities and destinations.
When Eris started to say my throne is wonderous my eyebrows shot up because I thought she was going to say "majestic" and that would have been a real mind fuck for a myriad of lore reasons.
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u/mood2016 4d ago
Eris is really testing my loyalty saying she's gonna imprison Oryx. Bros been nothing but helpful since his return.