Editing Forum:Fanfic Banes

{{Forumheader|Fan Fiction}}
'''Banes''' are a combatant-oriented PvE [[modifier]] introduced in [[Episode: Revenant]] that grants a special ability to any combatants except for [[Champion]]s and bosses. These Banes are found exclusively in higher difficulty activities like Legend Nightfalls and are randomized. Banes are identified by a colored orb or arc floating above their head. They can also be noted by their lack of shield as all Banes lose their [[Absorption Shield]]s. Even combatants who gain one in higher difficulty activities. Prior to Edge of Fate, all Banes could still have Absorption shields.
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==Canon Banes==
{{Main|Bane}}
===Current Banes===
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| [[File:Protected Bane.png|center|50px]] || Protected || [[Call to Arms]] 2025 || All Event Activities while event is ACTIVE {{C|Formerly}} <br> [[Reclaim]] activity <br> All Portal Activities {{C|As of 01/27/26}}
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| [[File:Pumpkin Bane.png|center|50px]] || Pumpkin || [[Festival of the Lost]] 2025 || All Event Activities while event is ACTIVE
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| [[File:Caltrops Bane.png|center|50px]] || Caltrops || [[The Edge of Fate]] || All Activities
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| [[File:Cascade Bane.png|center|50px]] || Cascade (Avalanche) || [[The Edge of Fate]] || All Activities <br> [[The Desert Perpetual]] {{C|'''Feat: Battalions''' modifier active}}
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| [[File:Promoted Bane.png|center|50px]] || Promoted || [[The Edge of Fate]] || Any activity with '''Battlefield Promotion''' modifier active
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| [[File:Rage Bane.png|center|50px]] || Rage || [[The Edge of Fate]] || All Activities <br> [[The Desert Perpetual]] {{C|'''Feat: Battalions''' modifier active}} <br> [[Equilibrium]] {{C|'''Feat: Battalions''' modifier active}}
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| [[File:Screeber Bane.png|center|50px]] || Screeber|| [[The Edge of Fate]] || All Activities
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| [[File:Shield Bane.png|center|50px]] || Shield (Front Shielding) || [[The Edge of Fate]] || All Activities
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| [[File:Shroud Bane.png|center|50px]] || Shroud || [[The Edge of Fate]] || All Activities
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| [[File:Threaded Bane.png|center|50px]] || Threads (Threaded) || [[The Edge of Fate]] || All Activities
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| [[File:Grasp Bane.png|center|50px]] || Grasp || [[The Edge of Fate]] || All Kepler Activities <br> Kepler Destination <br> Contested Territory Jobs on the [[Lawless Frontier]] for the [[Pikers]] <br> All Portal activities {{C|As of 01/27/26}}
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| [[File:Gravity Bane.png|center|50px]] || Gravity || [[The Edge of Fate]] || All Kepler Activities <br> Kepler Destination <br> All Portal activities {{C|As of 01/27/26}}
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| [[File:Matterspark Bane.png|center|50px]] || Matterspark || [[The Edge of Fate]] || All Kepler Activities <br> Kepler Destination
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| [[File:Hypernova Bane.png|center|50px]] || Hypermova (Nuclear) || [[Episode: Heresy]] || [[The Desert Perpetual]] {{C|'''Feat: Battalions''' modifier active}} <br> Contested Territory Jobs on the [[Lawless Frontier]] <br> All Portal activities {{C|As of 01/27/26}}
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| [[File:Zealous Bane.png|center|50px]] || Zealous || [[Episode: Heresy]] || [[The Desert Perpetual]] (Epic) {{C|'''Feat: Battalions''' modifier active}} <br> Contested Territory Jobs on the [[Lawless Frontier]]
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| [[File:Drain Bane.png|center|50px]] || Drain || [[Episode: Revenant]] || [[The Desert Perpetual]] (Epic) {{C|'''Feat: Battalions''' modifier active}} <br> [[Equilibrium]] {{C|'''Feat: Battalions''' modifier active}}
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| [[File:Meteors Bane.png|center|50px]] || Meteors || [[Episode: Revenant]] || [[The Desert Perpetual]] {{C|'''Feat: Battalions''' modifier active}} <br> [[The Desert Perpetual]] (Epic) {{C|'''Feat: Battalions''' modifier active}} <br> Contested Territory Jobs on the [[Lawless Frontier]] <br> All Portal activities {{C|As of 01/27/26}}
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| [[File:Mines Bane.png|center|50px]] || Mines || [[Episode: Revenant]] || [[The Desert Perpetual]] {{C|'''Feat: Battalions''' modifier active}} <br> Contested Territory Jobs on the [[Lawless Frontier]]
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| [[File:Shock Bane.png|center|50px]] || Shock || [[Episode: Revenant]] || [[The Desert Perpetual]] (Epic) {{C|'''Feat: Battalions''' modifier active}}
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| [[File:Slow Bane.png|center|50px]] || Slow (Stasis Field) || [[Episode: Revenant]] || [[The Desert Perpetual]] {{C|'''Feat: Battalions''' modifier active}} <br> Contested Territory Jobs on the [[Lawless Frontier]]
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| [[File:Shields Bane.png|center|50px]] || Shields || [[Episode: Revenant]] || All Portal activities with Healing Bane present {{C|As of 01/27/26}}
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| [[File:Healing Bane.png|center|50px]] || Healing || [[Episode: Revenant]] || All Portal Activities {{C|As of 01/27/26}}
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===Inactive Banes===
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| [[File:Pummel Bane.png|center|50px]] || Pummel|| [[Episode: Heresy]] || None, Currently
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===List of Canon Banes===
===='''Legacy Banes'''====
=====Added in [[Episode: Revenant]]=====
*'''Meteors''' - ''Affected combatants will periodically release devastating waves of meteors.''
**''No longer limited to Ignovun, Chosen of Caiatl, combatants with the Meteor bane will send out tracking [[Solar]] meteors. Destroy or dodge them quickly.''<ref>https://x.com/DestinyTheGame/status/1851700628000530526|- VANGUARD GUARDIAN DISPATCH THREAT ASSESSMENT: BANES (Meteors)</ref>
**Meteor Combatants send out 3 Solar projectiles every so often. Projectiles have a long tracking range and deal moderate Solar daamge upon contact. These projectiles cannot target Invisible players, and can be destroyed. Suppression does not stop the spawning of these projectiles in anyway.
**(for a similar ability, see [[Ignovun, Chosen of Caiatl]]) 
*'''Shock''' - ''Combatants with the Shock bane build up a charge over time, dealing massive [[Arc]] damage to a single Guardian on the field.'' <ref>https://x.com/DestinyTheGame/status/1849148802613055647|- VANGUARD GUARDIAN DISPATCH THREAT ASSESSMENT: BANES (Shock)</ref>
**Guardians at a moderate range or out of line of sight will break the deployed arc tether, obviously killing the Bane will remove the tether. This Bane cannot target invisible players and Suppression temporarily disables accumulation of Arc charge.
*'''Mines''' - ''When defeated, affected combatants drop proximity mines.''
**''Combatants with the Mines bane drop several exploding mines upon being defeated. Tread carefully and watch your step.'' <ref>https://x.com/DestinyTheGame/status/1859340973945319537|- VANGUARD GUARDIAN DISPATCH THREAT ASSESSMENT: BANES (Mines)</ref>
**Land Mines can be manually destoryed by any source of damage. If Suppression is used on the Mines Bane, they will not spawn mines on death so long as they die while supressed.
*'''Drain''' - ''Combatants with the Drain bane will sap health from Guardians in their line of sight. Move between cover and dispatch them quickly.''<ref>https://x.com/DestinyTheGame/status/1864353988952404186|- VANGUARD GUARDIAN DISPATCH THREAT ASSESSMENT: BANES (Drain)</ref>
**Guardians at a long range or out of line of sight will remove the ''Umbral Drain Debuff'', obviously killing the Bane will remove the debuff. This Bane cannot target invisible players and Suppression temporarily removes the debuff.
**Most source of Healing for Players will negate this debuff. This Bane cannot kill you with its effect alone.
*'''Healing''' - ''Affected enemy combatants provide a buff to nearby allies based on shield type.''
**Combatants with the Healing Bane will passively regenerate health for nearby allies. It does not heal champions or bosses, nor can it heal itself.
**The Healing Bane can target any ally of it within 20 meters.
**Suppression does not stop healing when applied to any combatants receiving the benefits from the combatant, however if the Healing Bane combatant is hit then its healing effect ceases immediately for the duration of the suppression.
**(for a similar ability, see [[Renewal Wizard]]s)
*'''Slow/Stasis Field''' - ''Affected combatants emit a Stasis field that slows and freezes nearby Guardians.''
**''Combatants with the Slow bane will freeze nearby Guardians using a [[Stasis]] aura. Don't let them close the distance.'' <ref>https://x.com/DestinyTheGame/status/1861862613061111963|- VANGUARD GUARDIAN DISPATCH THREAT ASSESSMENT: BANES (Slow)</ref>
**Contact with the aura applies 10 stacks of Slow. However being inside it will incure 5 stacks over a quick duration.
**Suppressing the Slow Bane will disable their aura and its ability to apply Slow. Kill the Bane removes the Aura permanently.
**(for a similar ability, see [[Duskfield Shank]]s)
*'''Shields''' - ''Combatants with the Shield bane grant Void overshields to nearby enemies. These foes are unavoidable. Take them out quickly.''<ref>https://x.com/DestinyTheGame/status/1856774036585361626|- VANGUARD GUARDIAN DISPATCH THREAT ASSESSMENT: BANES (Shield)</ref>
**The [[Void]] overshield granted by these Banes regenerate at a high rate. They cannot give themselves an overshield, nor can they give champions or bosses an overshield.
**Suppression does not stop the overshield regeneration when applied to any combatants recieving the benefits from the combatant, however if the Shields Bane combatant is hit then its Overshields effect ceases immediately for the duration of the suppression.
**Combatants with an overshield from the Shields Bane receive significantly increased damage. If the Bane is killed all overshield are immediately removed.

=====Added in [[Episode: Heresy]]=====
*'''Zealous''' - ''When defeated, affected combatants emit a wave, causing nearby combatants to become faster and more aggressive.''
**Killing a combatant with the Zealous bane causes other combatants nearby to enrage. Enraged combatants will self destruct on death or after a short time dealing a moderate amount of Void damage to those nearby. Enemies enraged in this way are extremely aggressive, and are immune to stagger, Blind and Suppression.
**Freezing and Suspend effects will temporarily the Enraged combatants aggression for the duration of the effect.
*'''Pummel''' - Combatants with the Pummel bane are immune to all ranged damage and damage from status effects until they are hit with a melee attack. When hit with any melee attack, their immune shield pops and staggers any nearby enemies for a short time. {{C|Unofficial description}}
**Pummel Banes can be targeted by Stagger, Blind, Slow, Freeze, Suspend and Suppression like any other combatant while their immune shield is active. 
*'''Hypernova/Nuclear''' - ''Upon taking significant damage, affected combatants begin a countdown sequence that ends in massive explosion. Defeat the combatant before it explodes to cancel the explosion.''
**Once a unit with the Hypernova bane reaches to 2/3 health, it begins an arming sequence. During the arming sequence, the combatant gains a moderate damage resistance and regenerates health at a slow rate. If the unit is not defeated before the sequence completes, it explodes in a massive fiery explosion after 7 seconds.
**Guardians outside the range of the shockwave or behind cover will be safe from the blast. The blast can be survived with high damage reduction sources. Suppression does not stop this arming sequence in any way.

===='''Year 8 Banes'''====
=====Added in [[The Edge of Fate]]=====
======Kepler Only Banes======
*'''Matterspark''' - Shielded by Dark Matter, Matterspark could disrupt these powerful shields. {{C|Unofficial description}}
**Have a shield that requires Matterspark Burst to break.

======All other Banes======
*'''Caltrops''' - ''Affected combatants drop damaging Elemental pools during combat and after being defeated.''
**Any combatant empowered by this Bane cannot be finished.
*'''Cascade/Avalanche''' - ''Affected combatants periodically release Stasis crystals that target Guardians and Slow them on impact.''
*'''Grasp''' - ''Affected combatants create Strand constructs, which produce projectiles that seek and unravel nearby Guardians.''
**Spawns a destructible Strand Turret which fires seekers that Unravel you.
**Originally was Exclusive to Kepler this changed with Renegades.
*'''Gravity''' - ''Affected enemy combatants fire Void projectiles that detonate into damaging Void fields.''
**Throws a void grenade that generates a damaging field that pulls you toward the center. This field lasts for a short time. When its about to end it launches those in it up while hitting them with damage again.
**Originally was Exclusive to Kepler this changed with Renegades.
*'''Promoted''' - ''You may encounter combatants who were recently promoted. When a combatant defeats a player or another combatant, they get promoted.''
**Affected combatants gain more health and the bane status, which grants 60% damage resistance to everything.
*'''Protected''' - ''Affected combatants are invulnerable until you destroy the shield drones orbiting them.'' 
**Acts like combatants with [[Shield Drone]]s but they do not regenerate. Protected Banes possess three of these Drones. They not full immune, but resist damage almost completely. [[Sleeper Simulant]] can kill these Banes in two direct hits.
**Appeared initially exclusive to [[Call to Arms]], and [[Reclaim]] activities. It now appears in Portal Activities and the Shooting Range.
*'''Rage''' - ''Affected combatants deal increased damage and have increased damage resistance as their health declines.''
**When they reach 30% Health they grow like a Promoted combatant and up their Damage Resistance to 90%.
*'''Screeber''' - ''When defeated, affected combatants will create multiple mini Screebs.''
**They also spawn mini screebs periodically, in addition to on death.
*'''Shield/Front Shielding''' - ''Affected Combatants have a Shield that protects them from frontal damage. Try shooting them from behind.''
*'''Shroud''' - ''Affected combatants provide nearby allies with stealth. Affected combatants do not have stealth.''
*'''Threaded/Threads''' - ''Dealing non-critical damage to affected combatants will spawn hostile Threadlings.''
**They also spawn Threadlings on death if not killed with precision damage.

=====Event Exclusive Banes=====
*'''Pumpkin''' - Throws Pumpkin grenades at you and leaves behind a tombstone on death. They can also appear wearing a Rahool mask, a Holographic Pumpkin, or nothing on their head. Appears exclusively during [[Festival of the Lost]]. {{C|Unofficial description}}

==Fanfiction Banes==
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| [[File:Beacon Bane.png|center|50px]] || Beacon || [[Renegades]] || All Activities
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| [[File:Bulwark Bane.png|center|50px]] || Bulwark || [[Renegades]] || All Activities
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| [[File:Mirage Bane.png|center|50px]] || Mirage || [[Renegades]] || All Activities
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| [[File:Nullifier Bane.png|center|50px]] || Nullifier || [[Renegades]] || All Activities
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| [[File:Thorns Bane.png|center|50px]] || Thorns || [[Renegades]] || All Activities
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===Fractures Banes===
*'''Beacon''' - ''Combatants with the Beacon bane mark targets, drawing enemy aggression and focus. You will be hunted.''
**Combatants with the Beacon bane mark targets and draw the attention of nearby allies. Affected enemies become more aggressive and will prioritize marked Guardians.
**Countering this Bane is straightforward; Kill the Beacon Bane immediately to break focus behavior, use cover to disrupt enemy pathing, Invisibility breaks target priority temporarily, Displacement (forced movement, blinds, freezes) reduces pressure.
*'''Bulwark''' - ''Guarded from Long Range, you must breach their bubble to slay these powerful combatants and any of their Guarded allies.''
**The combatant has an Immunity Dome that negates long range attacks, in order to damage the combatant and any allies around it, the dome must be entered. The combatant when Suppressed loses this dome for the duration of the Suppression.
*'''Mirage''' - ''Combatants with the Mirage bane create decoys that mimic them. Find the real one quickly.'' 
**Combatants with the Mirage bane create decoy duplicates during combat. These illusions mimic movement and attacks but vanish when struck.
**Decoys are destroyed on taking any damage, Precision damage reveals the real target, AoE effects clear multiple illusions quickly, tracking abilities ignore decoys (except for swarm like grenades and Threadlings), Killing the Bane despawns all decoys.
*'''Nullifier''' - ''Combatants with the Nullifier bane suppress abilities and disable active effects. Keep your distance or shut them down fast.''
**Combatants with the Nullifier bane emit a suppressive field that disables abilities and active effects on nearby Guardians. Entering their presence strips buffs and prevents ability usage for a short duration.
**Stay outside the suppression radius, use Burst damage to eliminate quickly, Suppression does not disable this effect, Line of sight does not matter, Mobility tools help disengage if activated prior to exposure.
*'''Thorns''' - ''Whenever an Affected combatant would take damage, its attacker would take half the same damage.''
**The combatant deals half damage that it takes back at its attackers.

==Gameplay Preview==
{{Quote|The following links are all Bungie gameplay clips}}
*'''Meteors and Shock'''- https://youtu.be/BMrJeez2W8g
*'''Zealous''' {{C|formerly known as '''Berserk'''}} - https://youtu.be/tkKsQipRJ0M
*'''Pummel''' {{C|formerly known as '''Punchable'''}} - https://youtu.be/A93yfEGdT1w
*'''Hypernova''' {{C|formerly known as '''Nuclear'''}} - https://youtu.be/0PI8cSt0Vgo

==Trivia==
*The Promoted Bane can affect ally forces as well such as the Turrets that can be purchased in [[Onslaught]] or the Specimens that can be recovered within [[NODE.OVRD.AVALON]]; [[Specimen Gamma]], [[Specimen Iota]], and [[Specimen Mu]].
*As of Renegades, Hypernova would make a return via a modifier on the [[Lawless Frontier]]. This modifier would uses its old code name ''Nuclear''.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Drain Bane.jpg|A [[Minotaur]] with the Drain bane
Healing Bane.jpg|A Minotaur with the Healing bane
Meteors Bane.jpg|A Minotaur with the Meteors bane
Mines Bane.jpg|A [[Colossus]] with the Mines bane
Shock Bane.jpg|A [[Phalanx]] with the Shock bane
Slow Bane.jpg|A [[Gladiator]] with the Slow bane
Shield Bane.jpg|A [[Chieftain]] with the Shield bane
Hypernova Bane.jpg|A [[Goblin]] with the Hypernova bane
File:Acolyte (Rahool).jpg|An Acolyte with the Pumpkin bane and a Rahool mask
</gallery>

==References==
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