War against the Witness
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The War against the Witness was a conflict that was fought all across Sol between the forces of the Coalition and the forces of the Witness, with other parties being involved as well. After dealing with the threat Savathûn and her brood posed on Sol, the Vanguard began to shift their attention to prepare for the Witness's arrival. The Vanguard and its allies would stop the influence of Rhulk and the Psions on their future, take on the threat imposed by Calus's connection to the Lunar Pyramid as he ascends into a Disciple of the Witness, task the Guardian with securing the relics of Nezarec before Eramis can use it, and assist Ana Bray and Osiris with rebuilding Rasputin in order to both have a means of defense against the Witness and also help Osiris confirm his visions of Neptune were true.
Shortly after the final assault on Seraph Station the Witness would arrive with its fleet, along with its newest Disciple, Calus. Despite their best efforts, the Witness managed to establish a link with The Veil after hijacking the Guardian's Ghost and thus begun the Final Shape by creating a portal into the Traveler's Pale Heart. While the Guardian aided in prison break operations across Earth, the Vanguard would repeatedly try to find a way through the portal, all attempts ending in failure. After the reemergence of Titan, the Vanguard would discover that Sloane had survived the disappearance, although she was no partially infused with Taken energy. The Vanguard also discovered that Sloane had befriended Ahsa, a proto-worm that had fled to Titan after the Witness caused her species to slaughter itself in the name of the Sword Logic. After strengthening their psychic connection, Ahsa would reveal to Sloane, and the rest of the Vanguard, about the origins of the Witness and the Final Shape, and that the key to getting through the portal was held by none other than Savathûn herself. After some reluctance, The Vanguard reached an agreement with Immaru, Savathûn's Ghost, in which he would help them bring back Savathûn, under one condition: they deal with her sister, Xivu Arath, first. In order to combat Xivu without a direct conflict, Eris Morn would turn herself into a Hive God of Vengeance, and using the tithes collected by the Guardians, would eventually grow in strength, temporarily becoming the strongest Hive God in existenc. Eris would then use her power to sever Xivu Arath from her throne world, rendering her mortal.
Shortly afterwards The Guardian and Eris would find out that Savathûn kept the end of the bargain reached between Immaru and The Vanguard, revealing to them the way into the Traveler, that being the 15th wish. After responding to an incursion of Sol Divisive and Taken forces in the Dreaming City, The Guardian would attempt to initiate the 15th wish, before being denied by the spirit of Riven who was brought back by Mara Sov and her Techeuns. Revealing to them that her clutch needed to be saved and brought back to her, The Guardian sought out to collect Riven’s missing clutch across the Dreaming City and the Riven's Lair to find them. After securing the final egg, Riven granted the wish, and the cost of her continued existence, allowing Crow to safely cross into the Pale Heart via the Ley Lines as his bond to his sister Mara allowed for a connection to be established between them.
In the weeks after Crow’s passage, The Witness would launch an assault against the Last City and its defenses. The Vanguard would task Shaxx with the counteroffensive of the attack, which required him to bring out previously banned and restricted weapons under Vanguard policy back into circulation. Once the attacks were repelled, Osiris contacted The Guardian about an interference that prevented Crow from fully crossing the portal, reporting it was coming from the Black Garden. The Guardian was sent to investigate, only to discover the Black Heart was remade by the Sol Divisive under direction's from The Witness. The Guardian would successfully destroy the Black Heart once more, finally allowing Crow to cross into the Pale Heart as he awaited for support to stop the Final Shape from occurring.
Prelude[edit]
Birth of the Witness[edit]
Being the first civilization uplifted by the Traveler's Light in recorded history, the species that would eventually become the Witness lived in a Golden Age and would prosper under its influence as it terraformed their desert home planet into a lush paradise. However, their people demanded purpose, so they discovered the Traveler shared a connection with the Veil, an enigma associated with Darkness.[1] The species could not agree on how the Final Shape could be carried out, as it was recorded in a conversation between HNW047622 and RS6243199. HNW047622 followed the beliefs of the Nihilists: a faction who believed that the Final Shape is the result of the species' self-destruction and that they should leave the universe alone while RS6243199 followed the beliefs of the Penitents: a faction who believed that the Final Shape is the result of perfection through the intervention of the universe.[2] Both of these individuals oppose the views of the Solipsists: a faction who believe that the Final Shape can be achieved by the will of the species that believes them.[citation needed] These factions were ruled by the Consensus.[2] They eventually learn that the Light affects the physical world and the Darkness affects the mental world.[citation needed] After recovering the Veil from the cosmos, they would link it to the Traveler to enact the Final Shape, but the Traveler would refuse the connection and leave their home planet.[1] The species finally found purpose when the Consensus ruled in favor of the Penitent majority, who were undeterred in their pursuit of the Final Shape, so they waged war with the Nihilists and the Solipsists. Once the civil war of their species was over, the Consensus would use the power of the Darkness from the Veil to become one singular, unfathomable being. Thus, the Witness was born.[1][3]
Over time, the Witness would use its philosophy of the Final Shape to recruit other species into its fold,[citation needed] imprison its dissenters who disagreed with its pursuit of the Final Shape within its own mind, cause suffering to various species that were uplifted by the Traveler,[citation needed] and swiftly conquer any species who used Darkness to benefit their society.[citation needed] It caused the extinction of the Noesis, a friendly alien species that met its form first,[4] and the Eurhythmia, a mysterious species that welcomed the Witness's presence until it saw that the Traveler uplifted them and subsequently wiped them out.[5] It then uplifted the last Lubraean named Rhulk, who became the first of its Disciples upon destroying his home planet of Lubrae.[6] The next species to be influenced by the Witness were the proto-Worm Gods living on Fundament. The proto-Worm Gods would become seduced by the power it offered and accepted it through their invention of the Sword Logic, but one of their kin escaped Fundament through unknown means.[7]
It would trick the Krill into accepting the Darkness once it saw the Traveler's intention to uplift them, so it used the Worm familiar to drift into the Osmium Court and warn the Osmium King of an incoming syzygy on the planet.[8] The King then warned his daughter Aurash of the event. Aurash fled with her sisters Sathona and Xi Ro as the Osmium Court was overthrown by Taox, the neighboring Helium Court and its residents, the Helium Drinkers.[9][10] Sathona recovered the same worm familiar that warned the Osmium King and now her of the God-Wave forming as a result of the syzygy, but it also told her salvation lies within the depths of Fundament's oceans.[11][8] The sisters would discover the Needle Ship and commandeer the vessel after making the necessary repairs to navigate Fundament's depths.[12] The sisters would encounter a creature called The Leviathan, who was injured as a result of Rhulk's subjugation of the Worm God Xita[13] and warn them to turn away, lest they get lost in the Deep.[14] The sisters ignored the Leviathan's warning and discover their salvation in the Worm Gods Akka, Yul, Xol, Eir, and Ur. The sisters accept the bargain with the Worm Gods and transform the Krill into the Hive.[15] Aurash took on the King morph and transformed into Auryx,[16] who would become Oryx after discovering the secrets of Taking;[17] Sathona took on the Mother morph and transformed into Savathûn;[18] and finally, Xi Ro took on the Knight morph and transformed into Xivu Arath.[19] The Worm Gods would provide the technology needed to escape Fundament,[20] and the Hive's crusades begin after defeating the Ammonites and causing the Traveler to flee from Fundament's orbit.[21]
The Collapse[edit]
- Main article: The Collapse
Before the Traveler arrived in the Sol System, it would uplift more civilizations to use its Light. They would range from the Harmony that lived in orbit of a black hole thanks to the Gift Mast[22] to the Eliksni native to planet Riis, but each time it would flee, and the forces of the Witness and the Hive would arrive soon after.[citation needed] The Eliksni survived their cataclysmic event known to them as the Whirlwind but would degrade into vicious pirates and raiders as they searched the galaxy for the Traveler in a desperate attempt to regain their former glory.[citation needed] After it fled from Riis, the Traveler would uplift Humanity in the Sol System. Its arrival in the Sol System began the Golden Age, caused human lifespan to expand threefold, and enabled humanity to colonize other planets in the Sol System. However, like those the Traveler uplifted before, the Golden Age would not last long.[citation needed]
As the Traveler was busy terraforming Io's surface, a period of great calamity known as the Collapse would begin. It would first be seen on Titan, when the Black Fleet used its weapons to alter Titan's gravity and destroy the structures supporting the New Pacific Arcology domes.[23][24] Ahsa, the same proto-Worm that escaped Fundament long ago and sought refuge on Titan's methane seas, was injured by an unknown entity.[7] The Traveler would flee to Earth and defend humanity as a result. It would also affect the people aboard the Yang Liwei, where the clash between the Traveler and its ancient enemy resulted in the existence of the Distributary and subsequently the birth of the Awoken.[25][26]
At the final moments of the Collapse, Savathûn would betray the Witness by killing Nezarec and hiding the Veil on Neptune,[27] and then the Traveler would sacrifice itself to create the Ghosts and push back the Black Fleet, temporarily stopping the Witness from enacting the Final Shape.[citation needed] Humanity would soon enter the Dark Age with the arrival of the Cabal, the Eliksni who are now known to the humans as the Fallen, and the existence of tyrannical Lightbearers called Warlords in the Sol System.[citation needed]
The Dark Age would soon end with the formation of the Last City and the fall of the Warlords. The Lightbearers defending the Last City became the Guardians led by different members of the Vanguard. The Last City faced many challenges before the arrival of the Guardian, from the clash with the Fallen united under the banners of the House of Devils, House of Kings, and House of Winter to the attempted reclamation of the Moon ending in a Great Disaster.[citation needed] The people of the Last City soon discovered that the Traveler's ancient enemy is coming back to finish what it started during the Collapse, and that they were unable to survive it this time.[28]
Ascension of the Young Wolf[edit]
On the eve of the Darkness's return to the Sol System, a lone Ghost would discover his Guardian's corpse on the outskirts of the Cosmodrome whilst avoiding the Fallen House of Devils. They soon acquire their first jumpship after dealing with the Fallen and make their way to the Last City[29] to meet the various individuals there: the Titan Vanguard Commander Zavala, the Warlock Vanguard Ikora Rey, the Hunter Vanguard Cayde-6, the Crucible handler Lord Shaxx, the Gunsmith Banshee-44, and the Speaker, a disciple who speaks for the Traveler.[citation needed] After meeting the people of the Last City, they return to the Cosmodrome to acquire a warp drive, eliminating a Devil Archon named Riksis in the process. They would soon discover their purpose as a Guardian from the Speaker,[28] who tasked them with investigating what was stopping the Traveler from healing after it conflicted with the Darkness during the Collapse.[citation needed] They began solving the mystery upon discovering the Hive's presence in the Cosmodrome[30] and traveled to the Moon to stop the Hive from commencing an invasion on Earth.[31]
They first investigated leads from another Guardian who went missing and eventually died near the entrance to the Temple of Crota,[31] then enter a Hive fortress called the Hellmouth to seek out the World's Grave, a compendium of Hive knowledge and their plans to invade Earth.[32] They learned of the Hive's plans to conduct a ritual to drain the Traveler's Light and warn the Speaker about the revelation. He organized the forces of the Last City to stop the ritual. As the Guardian traveled near the ritual site, the Exo Stranger issued a challenge to them: if they stop the Hive ritual and return alive, she can meet them face to face and discuss a threat more troubling. Ghost tracked the coordinates of the message to Venus. They discovered the ritual in the Chamber of Night involved the Hive using a piece of the Traveler, and successfully stopped it.[33] They then met the Stranger in the ruins of Ishtar Academy, who informed them of the Black Heart,[34] a failed replica of the Veil created by the Vex of the Sol Divisive.[35] She instructed them to find a way into the Black Garden and destroy its heart for the Traveler to heal.[34] They would seek counsel from the Awoken of the Reef, who revealed that to gain the coordinates to the Black Garden gate, they must first confront a Gate Lord and retrieve its eye.[36] After returning to Venus to lure out and defeating Zydron,[37] they'd get the eye and learn the coordinates to the Black Garden gate lies on Meridian Bay.[38] However, they had to get past the Exclusion Zone set up by the Cabal scout legions.[39] They would enter the Black Garden after charging the Gate Lord's eye[40] and destroy the Black Heart by defeating three frames comprising the Sol Progeny: the Primeval Mind, the Imminent Mind, and the Eschaton Mind.[41]
After destroying the Black Heart, the Guardian continued their mission to push back the minions of the Darkness. They infiltrate the Vault of Glass to prevent the Vex from using time-altering powers to destroy them,[42] then assist Eris Morn with delaying the return of an Ascendant Hive warrior named Crota, who had his brood build the Hellmouth close to Nezarec's dormant Pyramid and slayed thousands of Guardians during their attempt to reclaim the Moon,[43] then work alongside Mara Sov and Petra Venj to stop the House of Wolves led by Skolas from uniting other Fallen houses.[44] Finally, they would participate in the Taken War by infiltrating the Dreadnaught and stopping the Skyburners invading it and Oryx, the father of Crota, who arrived in the Sol System to seek vengeance for the death of his son. The Guardian would challenge and defeat Oryx in the Ascendant Plane, slaying the God-King of the Hive.[45] They then had to return to the Cosmodrome to stop the spread of SIVA, nanotechnology produced by Clovis Bray, and the House of Devil Splicers who worship it with assistance from Shiro-4 and Lord Saladin, the last surviving Iron Lords along with Lady Efrideet.[46] They confronted the Devil Splicers within the Plaguelands and defeated Aksis, Archon Prime.[47] With Aksis's defeat, the Last City begins to celebrate the Age of Triumph.[48] However, the Age of Triumph did not last, for it was the calm before the storm, and the storm would become the Red War.
- Main article: Red War
The Red War began as the Cabal Red Legion under the command of Dominus Ghaul would activate the Traveler Cage, strip all Guardians of their Light, and invade the Last City.[49] The Dominus aspired to claim the Light for his own, under the mad belief that he was more worthy of it.[citation needed] The Guardian would leave the Last City and reclaim their Light from the Shard of the Traveler after dealing with the Fallen from the House of Dusk,[50] a conglomerate of the Fallen, as their continued losses against the Guardians forced the Houses to unite in desperation.[citation needed] After reclaiming their Light, they help the civilians of the Farm and EDZ before they discover a message from Zavala instructing them to travel to Titan.[51] They do so and discover a Hive presence as they work along with Zavala, Deputy Commander Sloane, and Amanda Holliday to restore power to the New Pacific Arcology rig.[52] Afterwards, they retrieve a CPU deep in the Arcology to decrypt Red Legion transmissions, which revealed that the Red Legion has placed the Almighty, Ghaul's prized warship, near Sol to destabilize it and destroy the entire system, using Mercury as its fuel,[53] leading Zavala to task the Guardian with reassembling the Vanguard since they are the only one with the Light.[54] They retrieve Cayde-6 from the planetoid Nessus and Ikora Rey from Io, disrupting Vex and Red Legion operations[55][56] in the former and encountering a Taken resurgence in the latter.[57] The Vanguard and Suraya Hawthorne would formulate a plan to take back the Last City: the Guardian would board the Almighty and disable its star-killing weapon.[53] After the Almighty is disabled, the counterattack began. However, the Vanguard were unable to continue the assault, forcing the Guardian to confront Ghaul themselves inside his flagship. They were able to defeat him despite his forced acquisition of the Light and reawaken the Traveler from its long-dormant slumber as it sends out a wave of Light across the Milky Way Galaxy. The wave would cause the Black Fleet to mobilize and begin making its way back to the Sol System.[58]
The Black Fleet's Return[edit]
- Main article: Hunt for the Scorn
Despite the death of Dominus Ghaul, the Red War would still carry on until the death of Val Ca'uor. Before they can confront Val Ca'uor, they first had to help an exiled Warlock named Osiris and his Ghost Sagira stop the Vex from taking advantage of the Traveler's reawakening,[59] then confront Xol and his herald Nokris near Hellas Basin on Mars with the returning Ana Bray and Rasputin.[60] The death of Val Ca'uor would mark the end of the Red War, but another tragedy soon struck. While containing a prison break within the Prison of Elders, the Guardian discovered Cayde-6 had been murdered by Uldren Sov and the Scorn,[61] a race of Fallen brought back to life through Dark Ether.[citation needed] The Guardian would seek vengeance for the death of Cayde-6 by traveling to the most lawless frontier within the Reef: the Tangled Shore. They would accept a deal with a shady Fallen mob boss named the Spider to remove the Scorn's influence on the Tangled Shore and isolate Uldren.[62][63] After defeating the Scorn Barons, they would confront Uldren Sov at the Watchtower, a gateway into the Dreaming City, where they find that Uldren was corrupted by Riven, the last living Ahamkara who was Taken by Oryx shortly before his defeat and now served Savathûn,[64][65] but the Guardian would kill him and bring Cayde justice.[66] Petra eventually opened the Dreaming City to them and made contact with Mara, who orders them to slay Riven.[67] Unbeknownst to the Guardian, Riven would grant one last wish before her death: the curse on the Dreaming City.[68] They soon enter the throne world of Mara Sov, Eleusinia and confront Dûl Incaru, the daughter of Savathûn, but they discover that Dûl Incaru's death caused the curse to reset itself every 3 weeks. The Guardian would face more threats in the Sol System. They would first help a mysterious Exo named Ada-1 recover Black Armory technology stolen by the Kell's Scourge and its leader Siviks,[69] then investigate Drifter, the Gambit handler with a mysterious connection to the Nine,[70] and finally accept an invitation sent by former Cabal Emperor Calus to participate for glory through the Menagerie.[71] They soon learn from an apparition of Toland that a dark secret is hiding under the Lunar surface, and the Vanguard would soon return to the Moon.[citation needed]
- Main article: Haunting of the Moon
The Hive would reemerge, this time under the Daughters of Crota: Hashladûn, Besurith, Kinox, and Voshyr, who instructed them to build the Scarlet Keep above the Lunar Pyramid.[72] The Pyramid would later be uncovered by Eris Morn, unintentionally unleashing Nightmares across the Lunar surface, leading the Vanguard to push back the Hive resurgence and discover the existence of the Lunar Pyramid.[73] Eris Morn would task the Guardian with collecting enough Nightmare Essence to craft the Dreambane Armor and bypass the Lunar Pyramid's warding.[citation needed] While exploring the derelict Pyramid, a Voice in the Darkness contacted the Guardian through their Ghost and informed them of the Light's failures. Undeterred, the Guardian would recover an Unknown Artifact and receive a vision in the Black Garden.[74] At the same time, the Sol Divisive begins their invasion on the Moon led by the Undying Mind, whose purpose was to keep the Black Garden locked out of space and time and recreate the Black Heart.[citation needed] Ikora Rey and the Guardian worked together to lure out the Undying Mind across different timelines and slay it.[75] With the final copy of the Undying Mind dead, Osiris discovered a future in the Infinite Forest where a Pyramid hovered over the skies of the Last City and made his way back to Mercury's surface.[76] But he learned that a quartet of Psion Flayers had found his Sundial, planning to use it to undo the Vanguard's victory in the Red War.[77] Thus, he tasked the Guardian with stopping the Psion Flayers' plot and rescuing a legendary Titan named Saint-14, accomplishing both objectives by defeating Inotam, Oblivion's Triune and changing Saint-14's fate.[78][79] They would open the Trials of Osiris for the first time since the Red War through the billions of Fractalline donated to them as part of the Empyrean Foundation, along with the Lantern of Osiris.[citation needed] However, the Psions had one last plan: they would cause the Almighty to move in the direction of the Last City, so Zavala and Ana Bray would convince Rasputin to arm the Warsats on the Almighty before it could crash into the Last City.[80]
- Main article: Arrival of the Black Fleet
As the Vanguard was busy dealing with the Almighty Crisis, Rasputin revealed to Zavala and the Guardian that the Black Fleet's arrival in the Sol System was imminent as it began to enter its outer edges. Zavala would put aside his suspicions of the Warmind and declare that they will work together to prepare for the arrival of the Black Fleet.[81] As Rasputin began arming his Warsats on the Almighty, he would also keep watch on the Black Fleet's movement as it begins to enter the Sol System through a 2D map displayed in each Seraph Bunker the Guardian powered up. As the Black Fleet approached Saturn's orbital path, Rasputin was finally able to use the Warsats on the Almighty with success, as it blew up in the Last City's skies.[citation needed] However, the Black Fleet would soon disable him and then make landfall above the Cradle on Io, ushering in the Arrival of the Black Fleet proper.[82] They would also make landfall on Titan, Mercury, and Mars as the Guardian worked with Eris to decrypt messages from the Ionian Pyramid by first clearing Hive interference, then meeting her under the Tree of Silver Wings at the Cradle to receive the messages. After the Guardian defeats Nokris and teleports to the Ionian Pyramid, the Voice would instruct them to go to Europa to seek out an ancient power waiting for them there.[83] Additionally, the Guardian would seek an audience with the Nine to answer a question: What is the Darkness? The Nine reveals their answer: Darkness is a neutral force, much like the Light. The Nine also revealed the fate of the planets and moons where the Black Fleet made landfall, as well as their inevitable battle against a Fallen Kell as part of that answer.[84]
- Main article: War of Salvation
The Guardian would follow the Voice's instructions after the Traveler healed from its wounds during the Red War, and then Io, Titan, Mercury, and Mars disappeared. They would also intercept a distress signal sent by Variks, the Loyal, who told them about Eramis, the Kell of the Fallen House of Salvation and the first Fallen member known to use Stasis.[85] Variks then instructed the Guardian to infiltrate Riis-Reborn, a Fallen city built in honor of their home planet Riis, where they witness a sermon and escape from Salvation forces.[86] After they help Variks reactivate the communications array, the Voice contacted them again via a Crux of Darkness and invited them to follow it into the icy flats of Beyond, where The Europan Pyramid projected a Ziggurat in anticipation of the Guardian's arrival.[87] There, the Guardian reunited with the Exo Stranger, who was on Europa to teach them how to use the power of Stasis for good.[citation needed] The Guardian would work to defeat Eramis by understanding the power of Stasis and using intel provided by Variks to track down and eliminate the Barons of the House of Salvation.[citation needed] They would defeat Eramis as they remember the Stranger's advice to "look within, focus your power", and finish their understanding of Stasis.[88] After the defeat of the House of Salvation near the Deep Stone Crypt,[89] the Guardian would next face the rise of the Wrathborn, mindless soldiers forced to serve Xivu Arath, the Hive God of War, via the Cryptoliths. They world work alongside Uldren Sov, who is now reborn as Crow, to track down and slay Xivu Arath's High Celebrant,[90] eventually slaying the High Celebrant within the Ascendant Plane and granting Crow freedom from Spider's service as a reward.[91]
Formation of the Coalition[edit]
- Main article: Clash of the Chosen
Following the High Celebrant's death at the hands of the Guardian, Empress Caiatl would arrive in the Sol System after the fall of the Cabal home planet Torobatl occurred. She sought an alliance with the Vanguard on the condition that they bend the knee to her, but the Vanguard refused and went to war with the Imperial Cabal.[92] The Guardian engaged in the Rite of Proving to stop Caiatl from filling a seat on her War Council.[93] As the Guardian continued engaging in the Rites of Proving, they would also uncover a plot to assassinate Zavala.[citation needed] After the failed attempt to assassinate him, Zavala proposed the final Rite of Proving and anointed the Guardian as his champion,[citation needed] as Empress Caiatl anointed Ignovun as hers. The champions meet inside the Halphas Electus and duel, with the Guardian emerging victorious. Afterwards, the Vanguard and the Cabal Empire under Empress Caiatl would sign an armistice despite an attempt by the Psion Conclave to sabotage it.[94][95]
- Main article: Endless Night
After the Vanguard signed an armistice with Empress Caiatl, they discovered a Vex simulation threatening the Last City where the Sun wouldn't rise, which was dubbed the Endless Night. With no way to dispel the Endless Night on their own, Ikora asked the Guardian to seek out Mithrax, Kell of the Fallen House of Light and the last Sacred Splicer who was last seen helping Variks evacuate defectors of the House of Salvation on Europa. They cleared the Skiff's crash site of the Vex and finally met him in Asterion Abyss. He taught the Guardian how to explore the Vex Network through splicing and instructed them to slay the curator of the domain and claim the living code from its corpse. They do so and return to him, where Ikora proposes to integrate the House of Light into the Last City, which Mithrax agreed to.[96] After settling the House of Light into the Last City, the Guardian began their mastery of splicing after retrieving a Splicer Gauntlet from the Splicer Servitor.[citation needed] As they continued their mastery of splicing, Lakshmi-2 of the Future War Cult would begin spreading anti-Eliksni propaganda throughout the Last City,[97] and they gain the ability to penetrate the deeper enclaves of the Vex Domain and defeat the Oppressive Minds occupying them.[98] Mithrax would discover that Quria, Blade Transform was the Vex Mind responsible for the Endless Night, so they worked together to pinpoint its location within the Vex Domain.[citation needed] After the Guardian finished their mastery of splicing, they infiltrated Quria's lair within the domain and destroyed it, finally dispelling the Endless Night.[99] The House of Light would celebrate their first Solstice as a reward for dispelling the Endless Night and enter an official alliance with the Vanguard.[citation needed] Despite the Endless Night ending, Lakshmi-2 continued spreading her propaganda and would attempt a coup. However, the coup backfired on her as she was killed by Vex gunfire, forcing the people to defend the Last City.[100][101] As the skirmish ended, Savathûn, who used the body of Osiris to divide the Vanguard from within and learn the secrets of the Light, fled to the Dreaming City.[citation needed]
- Main article: Hunt for the Lost
The Guardian, along with Crow and Saint-14, pursued Savathûn throughout the Dreaming City, battling the forces of Xivu Arath along the way. They ambushed her as she conversed with Mara Sov, who had returned to the Dreaming City. Savathûn finally revealed her true form, but Mara contained her in a crystalline prison.[102] After the Guardian acquired the Wayfinder's Compass, Mara and Petra explained the plan: to conduct a ritual to remove Savathûn's worm, they must use the Wayfinder's Compass to navigate the Ley Lines, bridges between the material plane and the Ascendant Plane, and rescue the Techeuns lost within the Ley Lines from Xivu Arath's forces.[citation needed] The Guardian would also help Mara foil Kelgorath's plan to steal Ager's Scepter. Once enough Techeuns were rescued from the Ley Lines, Mara forbade all access to Savathûn until the ritual was ready for alignment.[citation needed] Months later, the ritual was ready, but it came under assault from Xivu Arath's forces, who are desperate to stop the ritual separating Savathûn from her worm, so Mara requested the Guardian's assistance. They arrive at the ritual site along with Saint-14 and defend Mara, Ylaia, Austyn, and Sjari as they perform the exorcism ritual from Xivu Arath's forces led by Kelgorath.[103] The ritual succeeded; however, Savathûn escaped and transported herself near the Traveler and eventually becomes the first Hive resurrected in the Traveler's Light.[104] Meanwhile, the Coalition formed as result of signing an armistice with Empress Caiatl, integrating the House of Light into the Last City, and helping the Awoken rescue their lost Techeuns, with both Caiatl's Cabal and the House of Light celebrating the Dawning for the first time.[citation needed]
Operation Elbrus[edit]
- Main article: Lucent War
- "Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack."
- — Empress Caiatl quoting Sun Tzu.
After Mars suddenly reappeared in the Sol System, the Hidden immediately investigated the presence of the Relic, a structure of Pyramid origin and witness Catatl's Cabal set up a cannon to use to aim at Savathûn's ship, the Lure, as it landed above the Cradle on Mars. The Guardian arrived at the scene and came under fire from Cabal troops loyal to the Empress despite the armistice. They would use themselves to launch into the Lure, where they would find traces of Void Light on the ship and manage to recover an artifact of the Black Fleet. Before they could follow Savathûn into her throne world, they were forced to defeat a Lightbearer Knight and crush its Ghost. They followed her and defeated her illusion before she ejected them from the throne world.[105] They landed at the Enclave, a camp used by Hidden agents to investigate the Relic. With the artifact they recovered earlier used to interact with the Relic, they discover Deepsight, an aspect of Darkness used to reveal echoes of past events and enable weapon crafting, by using the Relic to create their first weapon: the Enigma. After creating their first weapon, Ikora instructed them to return to the throne world to gain more clues on how Savathûn was able to acquire the Light.[citation needed] While exploring the throne world, they discovered a Scorn presence and a mysterious Ghost named Fynch contacted them. After dealing with the Scorn and a Lightbearer Wizard, they finally met him.[106] Later, they would attend a meeting with Empress Caiatl alongside Saladin Forge, Zavala and Crow in the Tower Hanger, with the Empress furious over the Guardian killing her people on Mars. Eventually, Zavala defused the situation and asked for Caiatl's help to stop the Lucent Hive on Earth.[107] She agreed and, in return, she supplied Light-suppressing tech in the form of a Synaptic Spear.[citation needed]
The Guardian received the Synaptic Spear from Ikora Rey after learning more information about the Lucent Hive.[citation needed] Caiatl then briefed them on a plan to extract the different Lucent Hive lieutenants and bring them to the Psisorium in the H.E.L.M. to discover intel on the Lucent Hive's plans, explaining that to extract the Lucent Hive lieutenant, the Guardian would use her Psions to enter the Mindscape to connect the Guardian's Light to the Lucent Hive lieutenant's Light, and then use the Synaptic Spear to sever the latter's connection through the phantasms of Savathûn. The Psions would then lock down the lieutenant for extraction.[citation needed] With the plan now set in motion and the coalition between her Cabal and the Vanguard forged, the Guardian would track down the first Lucent Hive lieutenant in the EDZ: a Lightbearer Acolyte named Mor'ak, Lightstealer, who was stealing the Light from missing Guardians patrolling there.[108] Determining that more intel was needed, the Guardian would locate the second Lucent Hive lieutenant within the Cosmodrome: a Lightbearer Knight named Uul'nath, Lightcleanser, who would repurpose the stolen Light for a purification ritual and distribute Lucent Beacons throughout the battlegrounds that spawn Lighthoarders.[109] When enough intel was gathered from both of them, Caiatl deployed her forces to the Scarlet Keep on Luna, with the Guardian following soon after. They discover an invasion force led by the third and final Lucent Hive lieutenant: a Lightbearer Wizard named Korosek, Thronebringer, which the Guardian puts an end to.[110]
While the Guardian was deployed on Luna, Crow attempted to shut down the Psisorium out of concern that the experiments on the Lucent Hive were unethical, but he inadvertently killed the Psion running it.[111] The Guardian and Saladin would discover the destruction upon the Guardian returning from Luna, the latter informing Caiatl of Crow's actions.[citation needed] They, along with Zavala, would meet back in the Tower Hangar to discuss Crow's life debt per Cabal tradition of a life for a life. Saladin would repay the life debt on Crow's behalf by becoming a member of her War Council. Caiatl would name him "Bracus Forge" and they both depart from the Tower,[112] although she would allow him permission to continue to run the Iron Banner in the Tower albeit with some new ideas of her own.[citation needed] Three days after this meeting, Caiatl gave Saladin a promotion to "Valus Forge" after he defeated another member of her War Council: Valus Guhrn Or'ohk.[113]
After finishing the operations across Earth and Luna, the Guardian returned to Savathûn's throne world to work alongside the Hidden and Fynch, who pointed them to the first object of interest: Sagira's Ghost shell, located inside the Temple of the Wrathful, a temple dedicated to Xivu Arath. Fynch explained the Scorn were sent in by a powerful wielder of Darkness as a counter to Savathûn's Light. They recovered Sagira's shell, which played a memory of Savathûn revealing the identity of the Voice in the Darkness, the Witness.[114] They were unable to decipher the memory further, so Eris and Ikora asked them to return to the Europan Pyramid to enhance their Deepsight abilities, dealing with the Cabal forces invading the Pyramid.[115] After communing with the statue, they returned to the throne world to find the Altar of Reflection, a location of overwhelming psychic energy. Taking Sagira's shell there, it replayed the memory they heard earlier, and played the memory of Savathûn planning to use Osiris's body to learn the secrets of the Light.[116] Return to Fynch, he pointed them to the next object of interest: the Tablets of Ruin, located in the Temple of the Navigator, a temple dedicated to Oryx. They recover[117] and then take it to the Altar of Reflection, where it played the memory of Savathûn's plans to conduct a ritual to place the Traveler into her throne world using the powers she borrowed from the Witness.[citation needed]
They warned Ikora of Savathûn's plan before they reported to Fynch, who instructed them to recover the next object of interest: a calcified Worm familiar, located in the Temple of the Cunning, a temple dedicated to Savathûn's younger self, Sathona. After they got past the security measures set by Savathûn and the Scorn invading the temple, they were forced to fight the illusion of an Ahamkara and escape upon recovering the Worm familiar.[118] They were unable to take the Worm familiar into the Altar of Reflection, forcing Ikora to take a temporary leave. After which, Eris revealed the final object of interest the Guardian must recover: a shard of the crystalline prison used to trap Savathûn, located in the Apothecary, the site of Savathûn's experiments with the Light.[119] They take the shard to the Altar of Reflection, where it plays the memory of Savathûn's final moments before her resurrection in the Traveler's Light.[104] They would inform the Vanguard of the terrifying revelation, making Zavala question his faith in the Traveler, before Ikora rallied them. She and the Guardian left the Last City to stop Savathûn's plans from coming to pass,[120] but first, she used the Relic to unlock the memory of the Worm familiar, which revealed the Witness's plan to trick the Krill into accepting the Darkness and stop them from being uplifted by the Traveler.[121] She relayed the memory recorded in the Worm familiar to the Guardian[citation needed] before they arrived at the throne world, seeing the ritual to move the Traveler into Savathûn's throne world was already underway. To stop the ritual, they were forced to confront the Witch Queen by showing her the memory recorded in the Worm familiar. They defeated her, but she gave them one last warning before she died: the Witness is coming.[122]
History[edit]
Duel with the First Disciple[edit]
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- "The Witness sees you. Grants you opportunity. And you squander it!"
- — Rhulk's taunt to the Guardians.
After Savathûn's death at the hands of the Guardian, the Witness finally revealed itself and informed the Traveler that it had run out of pieces left to place and nowhere left to escape, beginning the first phase of the war. It revealed that the key to the Final Shape lies within the Traveler's Pale Heart.[123] The Guardian convinced the Coalition to begin making preparations for the Witness's arrival in the Sol System.[citation needed] They met Mara Sov at the Enclave, who formed a plan to gain information regarding the end of the Collapse from Savathûn's Worm she obtained after performing the exorcism ritual on the Witch Queen.[124] They infiltrate Harvest, a Worm distribution facility, to recover an incubator. During the mission, Mara revealed that the Witness tried to recruit her as one of its Disciples, but she refused and allied with the Coalition forces instead.[125] They eventually get the information from Savathûn's Worm after Mara binds the Worm to a grenade launcher through a ritual and instructing the Guardian to keep the Parasite handy in the future as she parts ways with the Worm.[126]
Meanwhile, Rhulk sent the Scorn to invade the throne world en masse and destroy The Wellspring, the main source of Light distribution across the throne world and of the curse which had kept him trapped within the Sunken Pyramid. Instead, the Guardians would repeatedly quash their attempts and keep the Wellspring secured from both Scorn and Lucent Hive parties. Fynch would also inform Ikora Rey and the Vanguard of the curse surrounding the Sunken Pyramid, albeit unaware that the Disciple inside it kept from escaping.[127] Eventually, the Guardian would lead a raid fireteam to investigate the Sunken Pyramid. Mara Sov would warn them of the threat posed by Rhulk, only to be cut off by his own whispers greeting the Lightbearers and inviting them to enter; cryptically warning them to either "drown in the Deep" or "rise from it".[128]
The Guardians would first approach Acquisition, a vast repository of artifacts from Rhulk's past conquests, including a rib he took from the Leviathan of Fundament. The Disciple would then explain that the Witness would see the Light fall and glimpse the potential Guardians would possess, freed of its chains. Despite opposition from both Scorn and Taken forces, the Guardians journeyed deeper into the Pyramid. They then looked upon the Upended in the distance, which Rhulk described as a "triumvirate" of the three core tenets of the Witness: opportunity, preservation, and salvation. After the Guardians killed the Caretaker, Rhulk remarked that those "defiant" of the Witness's campaign would be subjugated in service of the Final Shape, which he described as an "ailing, endless, void". They would discover a prophecy inside the Pyramid that foretells the Witness's plan: "The Hive and the Scorn will love the Darkness and worship the Witness. The Black Fleet will enter Earth and stop the Guardians. The Witness will commune with the Traveler and drink the Light. The Witness will kill ____." As they approached the Upended, Rhulk further complimented the Guardians as resilient yet credulous. In blindly killing scores of Scorn and Taken, however, the fireteam had aided Rhulk by powering the Upended with their bloodshed. With the machine reaching full power, Rhulk was prepared to seal the throne world permanently off from the Light, leaving both the Guardians and the Lucent Hive to suffer. As a final rebuke, the Disciple told the Guardians they were not fit to serve the Witness nor its goals, instead deserving to drown in Darkness.[128]
With the Guardians having reached the Upended, Rhulk emerged from a sarcophagus to personally greet them. Stating that he had no use for them anymore, the Disciple commenced a climactic battle with his interlopers by dropping his glaive and unleashing a massive resonant barrier of Darkness to push them back. The fireteam retaliated in turn by exploiting the resonance from his attacks to push back the barrier, all while Rhulk taunts the fireteam as they fight Scorn and Taken reinforcements. With the barrier having pushed inward and reached the Disciple, Rhulk disabled it before inviting the Guardians to the inner sanctum of the Upended. There, Rhulk would challenge his opponents in person, to which he toys with the fireteam and even kicking them to death on occasion. His composure was only short-lived as they found and took advantage of four chinks in Rhulk's impervious defense, enraging the Disciple as he became vulnerable to their attacks. In his final moments, Rhulk cried out to the Witness for forgiveness as his body was warped by his own out-of-control powers, transforming him into what appeared to be a petrified, lifeless tree with gnarled vein-like roots of Darkness growing from it.[128] With the death of Rhulk, the Scorn within the throne fell under the control of the Witness and would attempt to take control of the Sunken Pyramid. Mara tasked them with stopping them and learning more about Rhulk's origins.[129]
Vox Obscura[edit]
- "We must remain united if we are to forge a different path."
- — Empress Caiatl
Following the events of Operation Elbrus, Caiatl discovered that a sect of Psions were using Psionic propaganda to force her Psions to defect to the forces of the Witness. She asked the Guardian to return to Mars, near the city of Freehold, to stop the Psions responsible. The Guardian deployed to the abandoned Cabal bunker near Freehold with Caiatl and Zavala monitoring their activity and Amanda Holliday providing support for the assault on the bunker. They discovered that Qabix was the Psion Flayer spreading Psionic propaganda, and Caiatl ordered them to eliminate the Psion Flayer. Afterwards, they learn that the Psions Conclave had allied with her father, Calus, and to a certain extent, the Witness. They would also learn from the Psionic propaganda on subsequent incursions, including the history of the Psions prior to Cabal enslavement, the supposed resurrection of Eramis, the Traveler's Light tainted with Darkness, the fall of Neomuna and the return of the Leviathan. Caiatl declared that the existing alliances in the Last City must grow stronger if the possible futures are to be prevented from coming to pass and to fight against the forces of the Witness.[130]
Calus's Ascension into a Disciple[edit]
- Main article: Severing of the Nightmares
- "You could have stood by my side, but instead, you chose this!"
- — Emperor Calus before attacking Empress Caiatl
The Psions' prediction would come true as the Leviathan suddenly returned in the Sol System, but derelict, heavily infested with Egregore, and in Luna's orbit. The Vanguard would receive intelligence from Eris Morn that Emperor Calus has begun communing with the Lunar Pyramid and unleashed the Nightmares, once intended as the Lunar Pyramid's security mechanism.[citation needed] They investigated the Derelict Leviathan and would eventually come under assault from the Loyalists after the Nightmare of Safiyah led them to a broken effigy of Calus.[131] Upon their return from their investigation into the Derelict Leviathan, they participate in a seance with Zavala, Crow, and Eris, who was using the Nightmare Harvester to bind the Nightmares to the Crown of Sorrow.[132] After the seance is complete, she and the Guardian worked together to sever Calus's connection to the Lunar Pyramid by helping various allies confront their worst traumas made manifest through the Nightmares haunting them. They begin with Crow, facing up against the Nightmare of Uldren, his pre-Guardian self. Though the original severance attempt failed as Crow refused to accept his past,[133] the next attempt was successful when Crow turned his Nightmare into a Memory and learned from it not to ignore his past as Uldren Sov.[134] Eris later tasked the Guardian to enter Calus's mindscape and find his worst fear inside, revealed to be the Nightmare of Caiatl, Princess-Imperial. By recovering the broken Bells of Conquests, they learn more about Calus's plan to become another Disciple of the Witness.[135]
They next turn to Zavala, who was facing up against the Nightmare of Safiyah, his former wife. He would fail the ritual when he surrendered to his grief for Safiyah and Hakim.[136] Before they try the severance again, Eris recounted the story of Zavala's relationship with Safiyah during the Dark Age, how it brought their son Hakim into the family only to be killed during a Fallen raid, forcing Zavala to abandon his relationship with Safiyah. He would attempt to seek forgiveness from her and her descendants, with no answer.[137] They tried the ritual again and succeeded, turning his Nightmare into a Memory when he let go of his grief for Safiyah and Hakim.[138]
Finally, they turn to Caiatl, who was facing up against the Nightmare of Dominus Ghaul, her former idol. Unfortunately, since she didn't have the protection against the Nightmare, she was vulnerable to its influence. Caiatl would fail the severance as the Nightmare berated her for her alliance with the Guardian and her failures during the Fall of Torobatl.[139] After Eris gave her the protection needed, she was able to turn her Nightmare into a Memory and finally realized she was more worthy than her idol in leading the Cabal Empire.[140] The Guardian, Eris, Crow, Caiatl, and Zavala all began to strike, but Calus anticipated their arrival and had his forces ambush them. The Guardian made their way to the Chantry of the Darkest Hour within the Lunar Pyramid and, with Empress Caiatl, faced a projection of the Herald of the Witness. Although they were able to banish his influence from the Lunar Pyramid, they were too late in stopping Calus from becoming a Disciple of the Witness.[141]
The Reliquary Hunt[edit]
- Main article: Search for Nezarec's Relics
- "The House of Light are citizens of the Last City now. It is our duty to assist."
- — Eido, Scribe of the House of Light
The Psions' prediction would come true once again when Eramis broke free of her Stasis prison. Drifter would task the Guardian with recovering a valuable asset on Europa, revealed to be the Spider, who fled the Tangled Shore in fear of Mara's punishment for his attitude towards Crow before the Guardian freed him. Spider lent his assistance as the Guardian worked to repel House Salvation forces attempting to board his Ketch, allying with SCUR-V, Halsiks, the Sniper, and the Skiffblades to recover it. After driving out the borders, they discover that Eramis had broken free from her Stasis prison and begun rallying the old crews of pirates, Ketchkillers, and Skiffblades. The Guardian would assemble a crew to hunt the Pirate Lords scattered throughout the Themis Cluster after retrieving the Skeleton Key, consisting of them, the Drifter, the Spider, Eido and Mithrax, to prevent Eramis from acquiring powerful relics.[142]
As they recovered Nezarec's relics, Eido would attempt to understand Mithrax's past, but he repeatedly refused to reveal that information.[citation needed] After she attempted to learn from the Spider,[143] Mithrax would intercept her conversation with the Spider, scolding him and addressing him with his real name, Rakis.[citation needed] Eido would later parlay with Eramis as the relationship between Mithrax and his adopted daughter continued to be more distant.[citation needed] Eido, Mithrax, Eramis, and the Guardian would meet in a Neutral Asteroid,[citation needed] where Eramis revealed Mithrax's past to Eido, explaining that the House of Wolves led a raid on the Lunar Pyramid and harvested Nezarec's body parts to be used as relics. Mithrax became one of the relic's owners until he gave up his pirate life by marooning the Spider and Siviks on the Reef.[144] Mithrax became regretful for not revealing this information and would be more protective of his daughter as she attempted to recover the final relic of Nezarec alone. After driving out the Lucent Brood, the Guardian and Eido witness a duel between Eramis and Mithrax, which ended with Mithrax granting Eramis mercy and the Dark Kell fleeing from the Themis Cluster in defeat.[145]
With the relics of Nezarec recovered and the relationship between Eido and Mithrax on good terms again, the Guardian shifted their attention to helping their Fallen allies improve the Eliksni Quarter so Mithrax could use the relics to bring Osiris out of coma.[citation needed] After making enough improvements to the Eliksni Quarter, Mithrax finally discovered a way to use the relics for good. He purified them and reduced the Darkness within into a concoction to be delivered to Osiris. After drinking the concoction, Osiris was finally awake from his coma and revealed to Saint-14 a secret Savathûn had hidden on Neptune after they had embraced each other, finally reunited.[146] Meanwhile, the Hidden manage to recover information regarding Nefele Stronghold within Mars' temporal anomalies.[citation needed]
Rasputin vs. the Wrathborn[edit]
- Main article: Battle of the War Gods
- "If I am to be humanity's war god, then I will smite those who threaten it."
- — Rasputin
With time running out for the Coalition to prepare for the Witness's arrival in the Sol System and the looming threat it posed, Osiris attempted to inquire Rasputin about the visions he had experienced of Neptune, but he learned from Ana Bray that Rasputin was still offline after his disastrous confrontation with the Black Fleet. Much to Ana's chagrin, she agreed to Osiris's proposal to seek out Clovis Bray I, who possessed the knowledge needed to rebuild Rasputin.[147] They would travel with the Guardian to seek an audience with Clovis I, but discovered a Wrathborn presence within Bray Exoscience. Clovis I would request the Guardian's assistance in driving out the House of Salvation forces corrupted into Wrathborn along with Hive forces. Afterwards, the Guardian, Ana and Osiris would meet Clovis, who agrees to help Ana restore Rasputin.[148] After being installed into an experimental Exo frame in the H.E.L.M.,[citation needed] Clovis would instruct them to recover data from Malahayati on Luna and Charlemagne on Mars, along with an AI framework from Europa.[149][150][151] They would follow Clovis I's instructions, but Rasputin remained offline, so he and Elsie hatch a plan: the Guardian would infiltrate Seraph Station and upload a virus to speed up Rasputin's recovery efforts.[152] Despite the plan succeeding, Rasputin still remained offline, so Ana proposed that the Guardian return to the Iron Temple and recover data from Felwinter's Ghost, Felspring as the Iron War Beasts defend it from the House of Salvation. Rasputin finally came online upon recovering data from Felwinter and warned them of Clovis I's deception.[153][154] Ana would be able to transfer Rasputin out of the Pillory Engram she used to place Rasputin's data before she evacuated from Mars and into the Exo Frame, kicking Clovis out.[citation needed]
As they work on rebuilding Rasputin, the Hidden informed Osiris of the Ares Spire's discovery within the temporal anomaly on Mars. He tasked them with stopping the Sol Divisive invading the spire from recovering the information stored inside. After the Guardian defeated Akelous, the Siren's Current, the Sol Divisive would activate the nuclear reactor in an attempt to destroy the spire through a nuclear meltdown, forcing the Guardian to stop them. They were able to stop the nuclear meltdown by defeating Persys, Primordial Ruin,[155][156] freeing the AI trapped within the spire: an Augurmind named Soteria, who was stored inside a caster bow.[157] After the Guardian finished their mission, Ana led a fireteam to clear out the Sol Divisive still remaining around the spire and managed to share data on Soteria with Osiris.[158][159][160]
After assisting the Bray family and Osiris in bringing Rasputin back online, Mara Sov would inform the leaders of the Coalition that the usage of the Warsats would allow Xivu Arath's forces to invade Earth. Eventually, with persuasion from Ana, they agreed to refrain from firing the Warsats, thus denying Xivu Arath her tribute.[161] However, Rasputin would ultimately sacrifice himself to destroy all of the Warsats after Eramis infiltrated Seraph Station and activated his ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE protocol and allowing Xivu Arath a foothold to commence her invasion on Earth. The Traveler, seemingly attempting to leave Earth, would remain high above it after Rasputin's sacrifice to confront the Black Fleet, beginning the second phase of the war.[162][163] In its absence, the Vanguard declared that the Guardians, the Awoken, the House of Light, and the Imperial Cabal will unite to stop the Witness and its Disciples together.[citation needed] In place of the Traveler, the sky above the City was filled with Awoken Galliots, House Light Ketches, and Imperial Cabal Carriers.
Siege of Neomuna[edit]
- Main article: Invasion of Neptune
- "Though failure, through loss… we can overcome the impossible."
- — Osiris
When the Witness and its forces finally arrived at Earth's orbit to confront the Traveler, the forces of the Coalition moved to defend it, but the defense failed as the pilots went down in the fight and the Witness soon learned the location of the Veil in a city set among the waves of Neptune. The Guardian and Osiris would follow the Shadow Legion fleet heading for Neptune. Upon landing on Neptune, the Coalition began an alliance with the people of Neomuna by assisting the Cloud Striders in the fight against the Shadow Legion led by the newly risen Disciple of the Witness, Emperor Calus.[164] Through a holoprojector on Neptune, Mara informed the Guardian that she was responding to the Vanguard's aid and they are fighting a two-front war with the Shadow Legion, with one front on Neptune, and the other front on Earth.[citation needed] With the information in mind, the Guardian worked to prevent Calus and the Witness from establishing a link with the Veil alongside Osiris, Nimbus and Rohan.[165]
They first broke into the Typhon Imperator, a Pyramid vessel used by Calus as a staging ground for the Shadow Legion's siege on the city, in an attempt to destroy the Radial Mast before it can be linked to the Veil. However, they would fail and be forced to flee from the Typhon Imperator with assistance from Empress Caiatl.[166] They then help the Cloud Striders restore power to the CloudArk, an infrastructure network that powers the defenses scattered throughout Neomuna and also a digital space inhabited by the Neomuni. After restoring power to the CloudArk and using the power of Strand to escape an ambush set up by the Shadow Legion,[167] the Guardian worked to learn more about its nature. After Osiris explained to them the nature of Light and Darkness, Nimbus instructed the Guardian to travel to Maya's Retreat to learn the philosophy of Strand. They successfully use the power of Strand when they let go of the control used by their philosophy for Stasis and defeat the Inquisitor Mind.[168]
When the Shadow Legion attempted to link the Veil with the Radial Mast, the Guardian was unable to use their Strand to destroy it, forcing Rohan to sacrifice himself to destroy it, leaving Nimbus as the sole Cloud Strider to defend Neomuna.[169] Now burdened with the responsibility of protecting Neomuna on their own, Nimbus tasked the Guardian with stopping the Taken from invading the CloudArk.[170] As they explored the CloudArk, Nezarec reveals his voice after the Traveler's terraforming power inadvertently resurrects his physical form inside the Witness's Pyramid, and he plans to torment the Neomuni living inside the CloudArk.[citation needed] After driving out the Taken, they would work to make their final assault on Calus by having Caiatl rally the Cabal to fight alongside the Guardian, Nimbus reactivate the remaining CloudArk defenses throughout Neomuna, and Osiris assist the Guardian in their mastery of Strand.[171]
The Guardian finally learned to master the power of Strand inside the Vex Domain. Once the mastery of Strand was complete,[172] the Guardian began the final assault on Calus by first disabling the AA turrets set up by the Shadow Legion, then defending the plaza containing the Veil Containment entrance alongside the Empress before Calus's projection eventually blasted open the entrance. They confronted Calus at the Veil Containment site underneath the Veil and defeated him, but the victory was short-lived as the Witness possessed the Guardian's Ghost to establish a link with the Veil and open the portal to the Traveler's Pale Heart using its energy so it could subsequently begin the Final Shape.[173] Despite the setback, the Guardian worked to assist Nimbus in tracking down Rohan's notes leading into the Black Garden,[174] repair Cloud Strider monuments damaged by the Vex,[175] and end Nezarec's influence on the Neomuni by confronting him inside the terraformed Pyramid once inhabited by the Witness.[176] After repairing all of the Cloud Strider memorials in the Hall of Heroes, the Guardian would receive a message from Soteria that an enemy of the Witness was hiding somewhere on Titan and urged them to not waste time.[177]
Invasion of Earth[edit]
- Main article: Invasion of Earth
- "I remember where I came from and who I'm fighting for."
- — Amanda Holiday
The Guardian returned to Earth after pursuing Emperor Calus and the Shadow Legion to Neptune and met with Mara, Devrim, and Mithrax at the Farm.[citation needed] They would follow Amanda's distress signal into the EDZ, breach the Pyramid outpost's warding with the Ascendant Scepter and kill the warden in charge and rescue the prisoners and Amanda captured by the Shadow Legion.[178] They later rescued more prisoners in the Cosmodrome[179] and a Shadow Legion prison ship.[180] After intercepting a distress message from inside the EDZ Tunnels, Amanda, Mithrax and the Guardian would move to free the prisoners there. They managed to after defeating the Tormentor Vereziia, Reverent of the Witness, but Amanda would be killed when the prison facility exploded.[181] The Coalition held a vigil for Amanda at the Farm as Crow began forming a plan to avenge Amanda.[citation needed]
Some time later, Crow told the Guardian the plan: they would infiltrate the Shadow Legion Flagship while he, Devrim, and Mithrax would assist them in eliminating the forces occupying it. After dispelling the Pyramid beacons, Crow detonated the charges set up in the hangar. The Guardian then made their way to the engine room and used the powers sent by Mara Sov to destroy the cooling fans and the engine. They finally scuttle the flagship and escape back to the Farm to see it be blown from the sky.[182] The forces of the Coalition would celebrate their victory and honor Amanda's memory.[citation needed] The Coalition soon turned their attention to a Cabal warbase in the EDZ. Empress Caiatl dispatches her Psions to secure the warbase, but they are soon captured by Shadow Legion forces led by a new Bracus Zahn. The Empress, with Devrim's assistance, tasked the Guardian with freeing her forces so her Ascendant Guards can fight alongside them in their assault on the warbase. They follow the new Bracus Zahn to the top of the warbase and, with their Cabal allies, put an end to Bracus Zahn.[183] They would also stop the Taken and Shadow Legion forcs poisoning the Reservoir again using the Resonant Splinter reverse-engineered by the Imperial Cabal and then killing Gor'ath Gath.[184]
Titan's Return[edit]
- Main article: Skirmish of Titan
- "RISE FROM THE DEEP! DROWN THEM IN BATTLE!"
- — Xivu Arath
The Vanguard would be forced to follow Soteria's lead as their attempts to follow the Witness into the Traveler's Pale Heart have failed. As Titan reappeared in the Sol System, they discovered Deputy Commander Sloane's distress signal. Zavala organized a rescue team, including himself, Saladin, Saint-14, and the Guardian. As the rescue team explored the derelict rig, Xivu Arath announced her presence on Titan by sending in Hive and Taken forces to hamper the rescue team's efforts to find Sloane. After pushing back her forces, the Drifter arrived in the Derelict to assist the rescue team. Zavala would discover that the origin of the distress signal lay in the depths of Kraken Mare at a kilometer. After diving into the methane sea, the Guardian, Drifter, and Zavala would reunite with Sloane, who revealed the Taken corruption inhabiting her body and introduced them to Ahsa,[185] who had bonded with Sloane after saving her from a ritual being conducted by forces of Xivu Arath.[186] Sloane would tell them Ahsa had vital information regarding the Witness, but to do so, she would need Egregore coral and technology salvaged from the New Pacific Arcology so she could form a psychic connection with Ahsa and get the message delivered to the Coalition.[187]
As the Guardians gathered Egregore coral, they learned that a Lucent Brood vessel had crash-landed near the New Pacific Arcology.[188] Sloane would task the Guardian with investigating a Lucent Hive ritual, but was unable to provide further instructions due to the ritual blocking the comms. The Guardians discovered that the Lucent Brood were conducting a ritual to resurrect Oryx, and managed to put an end to the ritual by defeating Šimmumah ur-Nokru, the Lucent Necromancer and crushing the Ghost. After stopping the ritual, the comms were restored, and Sloane requested that the Hidden recover Oryx's body.[189]
After enough Egregore coral was used to strengthen Sloane's connection with Ahsa, Ahsa was able to tell the Coalition of the Witness's origins and its plan for the Final Shape.[1] However, the connection would be lost before Ahsa could explain the next step that will allow the Vanguard to follow the Witness.[190] Later, the Coalition would discover that Xivu Arath had ambushed Ahsa during a Deep Dive.[191] The Guardian would find Ahsa and Xivu's Wizards in the Hadal Sunken Shelf, the latter engaging in a ritual to Take Ahsa. With assistance from Iron War Beasts led by Saladin, the Guardian managed to stop the ritual. After escorting Ahsa to safety, she finally revealed the next step: resurrect Savathûn.[192]
Meanwhile, Osiris and Nimbus worked together to gain more information about the Veil through various logs left behind by Dr. Chioma Esi. It was soon revealed by Osiris through data acquired from the Conceptual Mind's core and Dr. Esi's notes on the Veil that the Witness used it to open a portal inside the Traveler's Pale Heart and that the Traveler was responding to the Witness's incursions as the reason why it was dormant.[193]
Clash of the Hive Gods[edit]
- Main article: Clash of the Hive Gods
- "I am your ruin."
- — Eris Morn before striking down Savathûn
After Ahsa revealed to the Vanguard that Savathûn held the instructions they needed to follow the Witness into the portal inside the Traveler unscathed, the Vanguard would find Immaru, but he refused to bring back Savathûn until they dealt with her sister Xivu Arath. He and Eris craft the Acolyte's Staff, a relic of Hive arcana used to dispel the illusions scattered throughout the Witch Queen's throne world, and give it to the Guardian upon their arrival in the throne world, which they used to discover Savathûn's Spire.[194] After exploring the spire, Eris would perform a ritual to transform herself into the Hive God of Vengeance, explaining that, to be powerful enough to challenge Xivu Arath, the Guardian must tithe to her by invoking the Sword Logic, using the Witch Queen's oubliette to do so.[195][196][197]
As they continued empowering Eris, Xivu Arath responded to Eris's ascension to the Hive God of Vengeance by sending in Wrathborn forces to occupy her sister's throne world.[198] After dealing with the Wrathborn invading the spire, Eris instructed the Guardian to return to the oubliette and stop Xivu Arath's attempt to steal tribute from her. Xivu Arath responded by sending in her greatest champion to test the Guardian's combat capabilities: the Leviathan-Eater, Bane of the Ammonites. It would retreat from combat after a brief fight to assemble Xivu Arath's brood, buying Eris time until she was ready to challenge the Hive God of War.[199] Meanwhile, they learned from Sloane that Ahsa chose to become a willing participant in Eris's tithing ritual as the latter invoked the names of the Worm Gods alongside the former's fallen sisters, Sel, Ora, and Leis.[200][201]
After finishing Savathûn's experiments with the Light and discovering the secrets contained within the Imbaru engine above the oubliette, Eris was ready for the final tithing ritual. She requested that Ikora bring Savathûn's body out from vault security and deliver it to Savathûn's throne world.[202] She then met the Guardian at the oubliette for the final tithing ritual, where they tithed the death of the Leviathan-Eater.[203] Eris would use the tithes from the Guardian and the power claimed from the resurrected Savathûn to sever Xivu Arath's connection to the Black Terrace, making Xivu Arath mortal and vulnerable. Eris would give up her Hive form soon after,[204] and both Ikora and the Guardian helped her recover. Before they left the throne world, Savathûn would be resurrected again and allow Immaru to fall under Vanguard custody. She also revealed the secret they need to follow the Witness into the portal, but she refused to elaborate on what it was.[205] The Guardian would discover the riddles on their own as they recovered one of Riven's eggs from the Imbaru Engine and uncovered the mystery of the 15th wish revealed on her wings.[206][207]
The Hunt for Riven's Clutch[edit]
- Main article: Hunt for Riven's Clutch
- "Last words, last wish..."
- — Riven of a Thousand Voices
With Xivu Arath out of the battle thanks to Eris Morn, the Vanguard began its efforts to bypass the portal inside the Traveler. The Witness would send the Sol Divisive to invade the Dreaming City while it continued its plans to enact the Final Shape, since the Scorn and Taken forces have become leaderless within the Dreaming City.[citation needed] The Guardian pushed back the Sol Divisive and assisted the Techeuns in conjuring Riven's spirit to enact the 15th Wish. However, Riven refused to grant it until the Guardian recovered more of her eggs from her lair.[208] Later, Osiris would find himself unable to replicate how the Witness used the Guardian's Ghost to link the Traveler to the Veil and decided that Riven was the only solution[209] as the Guardian used the last remaining Harbinger to locate more of Riven's clutch after attuning it to the Starlight Lodestone.[210][211]
As the Vanguard and its allies continued their efforts to bypass the portal through Riven, Crow discovered a Scorn presence within the EDZ and reported his findings to the Hidden.[212] A Guardian fireteam followed the last known location of a Scorn sighting to a snowy mountain within the EDZ, where they'd enter a Dark Age castle and confront a powerful Chieftain partly infused with Taken energy named Rathil, the leader of a band of Knights sent by Fikrul to bring home the Scorn raised from House of Kings along with Malaris, Vrysiks, Nymeks, and Sirloks.[213] The Guardian would defeat Rathil by capturing corrupted Ether Totems and being empowered by the wishes of the former Warlord Naeem, but the Chimaera bearing the avatar of the Ahamkara Hefnd would reveal itself and transport the Guardians to the castle's jail ceĺls. The Guardians escape from the jail cells using the stone tablets lying next to the skeletons and pursue the Chimaera throughout the castle before arriving at the ramparts where the Locus of Wailing Grief awaited them. They would survive the tempest and defeat the Taken Ogre before continuing their pursuit of the Chimaera. They would finally confront it at the top of the castle at the mountain's summit and, after a difficult battle, defeat the Chimaera, allowing them to collect the bones of Hefnd scattered throughout the castle. They would discover Hefnd's Cairn and discover that Shaxx was responsible for Hefnd's death, with Crow and Petra discovering the truth behind the castle's history,[214] concluding the investigation by reporting additional findings to Ikora Rey.[215]
As the Guardian worked to recover more of Riven's eggs, the Sol Divisive would respond by creating an Axis Mind to match the capabilities of the Techeuns[216] and also deploy the Oracles into the Dreaming City that mimic the resonance used by the Witness and its Disciples. The Guardian would arrive too late to recover one of the eggs, as the Sol Divisive was able to steal the egg and place it in the Black Garden.[217] The Guardian would explore a new section of the Black Garden that was once used as an Ahamkara lair, while Riven and Crow assisted them as tactical support. Using the sparks inside fields of green and red flowers, the Guardian was able to dispel paracausal locks and cross a mist that would otherwise be hazardous to them, respectively. Riven would reveal that she and another Ahamkara left behind the sparks scattered throughout the Black Garden. By combining the sparks, the Guardian would defeat Akardon, Pitiless Mind, where they and Riven would discover that her mate, Taranis, had died as a result of granting his own wish to scatter the clutch.[218] Riven would reflect on his death, then instruct the Guardian to use Wish-Keeper to honor Taranis.[219] She would later discover that the Taken are attempting to corrupt one of her eggs and instructed the Guardian to stop them. They defeat a Taken Knight once loyal to Xivu Arath and learn that the Taken have succeeded in corrupting the egg.[220] Mara would propose a solution to cleanse the egg, but first they must acquire Taken essentia from completing an Ascendant Challenge,[221][222] then defeating foes within Riven's lair.[223] After cleansing the egg, Osiris would update Mara on how the Pale Heart can be entered, and Riven would reveal that only one individual can enter the Pale Heart through the Ley Lines, per her previous bargains with Savathûn. Mara would threaten Riven for her deception before Osiris stopped her. Mara and Osiris would both leave,[224] with the latter informing the Guardian that his investigations on the Veil's ability to replicate the Witness's actions have concluded.[225]
They would recover the final egg, but first, the Guardian had to destroy the Sol Divisive Oracles around the Confluence so that the Oracle Engine could be reactivated.[226] Once the Oracle Engine was brought back online, Crow would present his plans to them, Mara, Osiris: that he would be the one to enter the Pale Heart and use his link to Mara as a bridge. Although she was reluctant to lose her brother again, Mara accepted the path laid before him.[227] The Guardian managed to stop the Scorn forces led by Fikrul from making a wish on the final egg and save the Ahamkara from extinction.[228] Before they return to the Wall of Wishes to enter the 15th and final wish, Crow reflected on his journey as a Guardian before he bid them farewell for now.[229] After entering the final wish, Riven would grant it and her spirit would fade away.[230] Mara later informed the Guardian that while Crow and Osiris form the bridge to bypass the portal to the Pale Heart, they must gather the Coalition allies to stop the Witness once amd for all. The upcoming battle to stop the Final Shape will soon decide the fate of the universe.[231]
Defense of the Last City[edit]
- "So if the enemies of humanity want war, let's give them war."
- — Ikora Rey
The Witness would respond to Crow and Osiris's attempts to forge the bridge necessary to pass through the portal to the Pale Heart by sending in both forces of the House of Salvation and Xivu Arath's Horde to attack the Last City and other Coalition areas of interest. To combat the coming threat of the Final Shape as the Witness perceived it, the Vanguard permitted Lord Shaxx to create weapons once deemed heretical to wield: the BRAVE Arsenal. He also opened his personal Hall of Champions as a base of operations to coordinate the Last City's defenses against the forces of the Witness.[232]
Assistance from all aspects of the Coalition was called upon, with various figures devoting their expertise and knowledge to supporting the effort. Elisabeth Bray informed Shaxx of the varying weaknesses of the Last City in the many Dark Futures she has experienced, with Shaxx guaranteeing her that with the information given, he wouldn't let the City fall like it had so many times before.[233] Ada-1 once more began weapons development after previously turning her hand to non-violent support of the City, pressuring the forges of the Last City to abandon their self-interest for the good of all, even looking towards improving their output beyond what they currently do.[234] Devrim would visit human settlements of the EDZ to warn them and prepare them for incoming assaults, especially after the invasion of Earth by the Shadow Legion just under a year prior, with his fears being unfounded as the settlers had taken the lessons of before to heart.[235] With the actions of these people, the Coalition looked forward to fortifying itself on Earth, so that Guardians were free to go after the Witness when the time came.[citation needed]
As the Last City finished setting up its defenses against the forces of the Witness, Eido would travel around the Sol System to gain information on the Witness and compile the information found on data recovered from Simiks-Fel, Taliks-Syn, CloudArk archives, the Black Armory Papers, etc. Ada-1, Quinn Laghari, and the Reef Cryptarchy would assist Eido in her search for knowledge. Before she submitted the information she had found along with her notes into a book titled Entelechy, she interviewed with Mara, who revealed more of the Witness's plan, that the Final Shape as the Witness perceived it was a twisted calcification of reality made manifest by the union of Light and Darkness.[236] She also assisted in the creation of an autograph book written by Guardians, children of the Last City, Coalition allies, and Hidden agents, wishing them good luck as they prepare to enter the Pale Heart and stop the Witness from enacting the Final Shape.[237]
Stopping the Final Shape[edit]
- Main article: Operation Ahamkara
Before Crow could enter the Pale Heart, Osiris uncovered a plot by the Sol Divisive to replace the Veil with the recreated Black Heart, and instructed the Guardian to return to the Black Garden.[238] After entering it using the passageway provided by Riven, they learn the Witness had instructed the Sol Divisive to recreate the Black Heart as its final attempt to keep them out of the Pale Heart. After destroying the Withdrawn Mind along with the Transfer Gates throughout the Black Garden, they returned to the site where they found the Black Heart and destroy it again by defeating the Temporal Progeny; the Established, Synchronal, and Inevitable Minds. Destroying the Black Heart allowed Crow to enter the Pale Heart safely. After spotting the Witness's monolith on the horizon, he briefly engaged in a duel with Cayde-6, which ended when Glint revealed himself to Cayde.[239] Osiris would reveal that Crow has made it through safely, and the Vanguard planned to accompany the Guardian once Osiris could replicate the Witness's link to the Veil.[238]
After the Witness began to enact the Final Shape, only to be stopped by the Traveler's resistance, the Vanguard launched Operation Ahamkara and traveled through the portal with the Guardian in tow. However, the Guardian would crash-land in the threshold between the outside world and the Pale Heart and discover the existence of the Dread, a new faction of Darkness creatures made up of various creatures that have had their DNA warped by the Witness. They eventually push their way out of the Threshold, with Mara Sov's connection severed by the Witness. Within the Pale Heart, they discover a place made up of the amalgamation of memories of those within it, but slightly changed into new and unfamiliar ways. After discovering the "Lost City," a place built from the memory of the Tower prior to its destruction in the Red War and the Last City, they eventually discover Prismatic, a fusion of Light and Darkness energies. They find a Vanguard signal and are ambushed by the Taken and Dread forces, including a Subjugator, but they are able to fight it off and reunite with Cayde-6, who revealed that when Guardians and Ghosts die their final deaths, they return to the Traveler as beings of pure light and are integrated within it.[240] After, he also revealed that Crow had gone missing while doing patrols around the area and sent the Guardian to help find him. They find Glint in the Landing, who tells them Crow had been called into a mysterious cave full of Darkness before being trapped inside. The Guardian would punch a way through the cave entrance as Cayde ordered Glint to stay outside. Within the cave, the Witness began to speak to the Guardian, temporarily incapacitating them before their Ghost shut it out. The Witness then attempted to explain what it offered to Crow, but he rejected it all for what the Witness said was "suffering." The Guardian then found Crow standing before a statue, listening to its whispers. Glint suddenly appeared and convinced Crow to never leave without him ever again. Crow agreed and left the cave.[241] The three of them then regrouped to discuss what to do next, eventually deciding to look for Ikora as Crow and Glint had seen her crashed ship.[242][243] The three embark to seek out Ikora and discover her crashed ship, where they find a recording from Ikora saying she would be at the replica of the Tree of Silver Wings to meditate and hopefully commune with The Traveler. The Guardian finds Ikora but has to defend her as she's meditating from hordes of Dread. Once the coast was clear, Ikora came out of meditation and met back at camp, where she found Cayde and briefly fought with him before reconciling.[244][245]
The Guardian was then tasked with finding Zavala, who was nearby. While looking for him, the Guardian pushed through another cave of darkness, where the Witness talked of lifting the burdens of guilt from Zavala's shoulders, as he still carried doubt and shame from his years of loss. Afterwards, the Guardian discovered a small home in a field, a replica of the one Zavala had with Safiyah and Hakim in the Dark Age. The House of Salvation attacked the home, and Zavala and the Guardian fought them off. After entering the house to say goodbye to Safiyah, Zavala received a vision of a veiled statue calling for help. The group of five then spent the night camping there, reconciling and reminiscing about those they had lost.[246] The next day, Crow, Cayde, and the Guardian went to scout ahead, bantering with each other as they entered a replica of the Cosmodrome wall. There, Crow revealed to Cayde that it wasn't the Traveler that brought him back, but a wish to Riven that he made subconsciously when wishing to enter the Pale Heart. Cayde told Crow not to let the others know about this, and the three pressed onwards. After fighting through the Sol Divisive and Taken, the Guardian encountered an area that was a partial replica of the location in the Cosmodrome where the Guardian was first risen. There, they discovered a large fissure of Light, which granted them new Supers from the Traveler.[247] The group made camp again and discussed what to do. Zavala suggested they talk to the statues, which Ikora quickly shot down.[248] Later on, the Guardian was sent to scout for sources of Light to commune with the Traveler. After failing to find a source in the Impasse and Landing,[249][250] they find one in the Blooming being guarded Luzaku, a friendly Lightbearer Wizard who infiltrated a Black Fleet vessel and snuck into the Traveler under orders from Savathûn but broke off to follow her own path in service of the Traveler. After clearing the Taken from the area and Luzaku promised to guard the Light fissure from further attacks, Cayde transmitted in and stepped within the fissure, receiving a vision from the Traveler where his Ghost, Sundance, spoke to him about how Guardians, Ghosts, and the Traveler were all connected and recited the Guardian tenets "Devotion, bravery, sacrifice" before the vision was cut off by the Witness.[251]
The group reconvened, and Zavala talked to his Ghost, Targe, about the vision. Targe urged Zavala to keep fighting and that the two of them would be together.[252] The Guardian was once again called on to find a path towards the Witness's monolith, where they discovered the remains of an Ahamkara deep within the caves beneath the surface, its bones and guts integrated within the architecture. They also found a city beneath the surface and realized that it was a manifestation of memories of the Witness's precursors and their home planet. There, they found another statue, which told them, "Give yourself to Darkness, only there will you find the answers you seek." Zavala wanted to follow through with this request, but Ikora objected, leading to the two to get into a verbal fight. The Guardian eventually defeated the powerful Tormentor guarding the path to the monolith.[253] Regrouping, Zavala got into another fight with Ikora and Crow about what to do next, his faith in the Traveler fully shattered.[254] Frustrated, he went off to seek answers himself, leaving even Targe behind. The Guardian was tasked with assisting Targe to find him, who gets the idea to speak to the statues to learn about Zavala's whereabouts. From them, they learn the statues hold "dissenters", parts of the Witness that disagreed with its plans and were imprisoned within for it. The Guardian moved on and defeated a powerful Scorn, but once that happened, the area became unstable and began to crumble away. They run forwards and find Zavala standing in front of a cave of Darkness, with Ikora, Crow, and Cayde not too far behind. The group urged Zavala not to walk in, but Zavala ignored them and entered, experiencing a vision from the Witness and the Dissenters of how it came into being, merging the collective consciousness of its precursor species led by the Penitent with Darkness from the Veil to become the Witness. During the vision, a dissenter whispered into Zavala's ear, "What was made can be unmade. Meet us where we destroyed ourselves." The Witness then reached out and offered Zavala to join its cause, but Targe suddenly appeared to prevent this and accused the Witness of being afraid. The Witness denied this and destroyed Targe, the explosion sending Zavala out of the cave.[255] Outside, the group mourned the loss, but they now had a clear plan ahead.[256]
Zavala knew where to go, and the Guardian was tasked with bringing him to the site where the Penitent created the Witness. Along the way, Ikora realized what the Dissenters were talking about: that they could use the Light to destroy the Witness and unmake it. The Witness would speak to the Guardian, offering them freedom from the Traveler, freedom from the constant struggle to seek glory, and instead to become a god of the Final Shape. Ghost realized that the Witness would not make this offer unless it was truly desperate, making the Witness lash out in anger and disappointment. The Guardian finally entered the memory of the place where the Penitent was able to create the Witness using the Veil, where the Witness appeared and began to fight them as the rest of the group moved in closer to assist. After some fighting with the Witness's forces, the Traveler manifested a sword made of Light, which the Guardian took into the realm of Darkness, where the Dissenters reside, who called on the Guardian to use the sword to kill them, which would rip apart the collective consciousness of the Witness. They obliged and greatly wounded the Witness before being forced out of the realm, repeating the sequence once more, after which Ikora, Zavala, Crow, and Cayde all arrived to deal with the Witness's forces, allowing the Guardian to enter the realm immediately and destroy a final dissenter before the Witness attacked them and Ghost directly, gravely wounding them both. They were both teleported into an area where the Witness attempted to shred them apart with debris and Darkness, but the Traveler manifested the Aegis, which they used to escape the trap. However, Taken and Dread forces chased the pair down until Mara Sov appeared with the H.E.L.M. and picked them up. Zavala, Ikora, Cayde, and Crow would also escape a wounded Witness before it transforms and attacks them. After the attack, the Witness retreated to its monolith to finish its plans for the Final Shape. Mara revealed that the rest of the Coalition had made it through into the Pale Heart and were grouping up for one last major offensive against the Witness.[257]
During the preparations of this assault, Mara Sov recruited Micah-10 of the Six Coyotes to oversee a solution to heal the Traveler from the Witness's influence, along with Empress Caiatl and Mithrax.[257] After arriving in the Pale Heart, the Coalition set up a base of operations within the Lost City and assisted the Guardian in preparing for the assault on the Witness's monolith. They first fought off a Lucent Brood attack on the Lost City, which turned out to be a trick by Savathûn to test their strength.[258] The Guardian then took up arms against the killer of Mithrax's mother, an Eliksni Captain named Korha, the Hollow by tracking him down to Europa. Mithrax demanded that Korha duel him, but Korha's consciousness had been completely lost to the Darkness and was instead crushed to death by a House of Light Brig.[259] The Guardian then turned to the Shadow Legion, who were planning to harvest Light from the Pale Heart. Caiatl assisted the Guardian with sabotaging the Light-harvesting machines. Zavala and Caiatl bonded over their shared loss of home, and Caiatl reinvigorated Zavala's confidence to lead.[260][261] After this, Savathûn reappeared and baited the Guardian and Mara in to "stop" her plans. During this, Mara learned how to find fissures of Light within the realm of the Taken, which could be used to help heal the Traveler. Savathûn laughed at another plan well executed,[262] and Ghost managed to use this knowledge to create a Dyadic Prism, something that merges Light and Darkness.[citation needed] The Guardian took this prism to the place where they confronted the Witness and claimed a sword made of Light, the Ergo Sum, a gift from the Traveler.[263] Soon after this, Crow, Cayde, and the Guardian took a trip to investigate a Dark Ether theft around the Pale Heart. During which, the pair bond and Crow fulfilled his wish by apologizing to Cayde, while Cayde urged him not to worry about it anymore. They tracked down the Dark Ether theft to a Scorn-infested cave and encountered an Abomination which had become engorged with Ether. The trio cornered the beast into a cave where they subsequently crushed it with a cave-in. After the mission was done, Cayde handed the cloak of the Hunter Vanguard over to Crow, telling him he didn't intend to return to the Tower and take up command again. Crow was initially hesitant, but Cayde urged him to think on it, even daring him to.[264]
The War Ends[edit]
The Guardian would recruit a fireteam and begin their assault on the Witness's monolith, fighting off the Sol Divisive, Taken, Shadow Legion, Scorn, and Dread forces along the way. They assaulted the monolith to prevent the Witness from acquiring Traveler's Light and finishing its vision of the Final Shape. As they ascended towards the monolith's summit, the Witness taunted the fireteam, explaining that it was not the Winnower but merely a champion of it and that the Final Shape was a way for the Winnower to end its game with the Gardener. The Guardians pressed on and ascended to the monolith's summit, where a gargantuan Witness stared down at them, preparing for the Final Shape. The Guardians managed to use the Light to gravely injure the Witness once again, forcing it to halt the Final Shape and retreat onto the surface of the Pale Heart.[265]
With the threat of the Final Shape over, the Coalition rallied its forces to finish the fight. A massive Coalition fleet arrived in the Pale Heart and dropped in hundreds of Guardians, House of Light Eliksni, Imperial Cabal, and various forces of humanity like Eris Morn, Drifter, Nimbus, Osiris, and Elise Bray. Savathûn would also appear to lead the Lucent Brood in a temporary alliance with the Coalition. Zavala would give a speech to the army before leading the charge against hordes of the Witness's remaining servants. The battle was fierce, but the Coalition eventually punched through the Witness's last line of defense with the Guardian leading the charge. After finding the Witness, Saint-14 placed his Ward of Dawn in the center of the arena to give the Guardians cover as Valus Forge, Mithrax, Nimbus, and Savathûn dropped in weaponry for aid against the remaining forces of the Witness. Fissures of Light began to pool on the surface of the arena as its forces were beaten back. Once enough Light was collected, another portal to the realm of Darkness was created. More swords of Light are manifested within the realm, which the Guardians would use to destroy the remaining Dissenters. This further exposed the Witness to attacks, and the Guardians damaged it even further. But after the Witness conjured an unbreakable barrier, the Ghost called for his Guardian to channel the Traveler's Light through him and together, the pair blast the Witness with a beam of pure Light that finally kills it. With its final words, the Witness simply remarked that it doesn't understand.[266]
Ghost, already weakened from the Witness's previous attack, collapsed and died. The Guardian scrambled to pick up their Ghost and was transported to a realm of Light, where they pleaded the Traveler to bring him back. The Traveler did not answer, but Cayde-6 appeared and chose to push his Light into Ghost, effectively dying but resurrecting Ghost in the process. The pair were returned to the Pale Heart, victorious. The Vanguard and Guardian returned to the Last City with Crow fully initiated as Hunter Vanguard. The four considered the future ahead but decided to celebrate their victory for now, releasing floating lanterns into the sky as thousands of others in the City did the same.[266]
Aftermath[edit]
The death of the Witness would cause an aurora to begin leaking from the portal to the Pale Heart, venting both Light and Dark into the void of space. The Coalition would establish a no-fly zone around it. At the time of the aurora's formation, several pieces of anomalous material called Echoes all jettisoned themselves out of the portal, with one being reported by Crow as having travelled to the area between Jupiter and Neptune before stopping in Nessus's orbit.[266] These "Echoes" of the Witness were a result of memories splitting from its collective consciousness, with these objects holding immense power.[267] In addition, before the allied attack on the Witness's Monolith, it was revealed that Xivu Arath had defected from the Witness and was now in hiding along with her brood. Eramis's whereabouts were unknown as House Salvation began to turn on itself, Savathûn and the Lucent Hive were contesting for control over the Pale Heart, Scorn and Taken forces were lashing out violently with no leader to command them, and Fikrul was still alive. Crow would report all of this to Zavala, before finishing that he'll track Fikrul's trail himself.[266] Shortly after The Witness's defeat, the Guardian, Osiris and Saint-14 were dispatched to Nessus by Ikora Rey to investigate the crash site of the Echo that landed there and assist Failsafe against the strange new Vex forces led by the Conductor, who acquired the Echo.[268] Fikrul acquired another Echo, and he was able to use its power to convert living Eliksni into Revenant Scorn.[269] A third Echo eventually landed on the Dreadnaught which led to a new faction of Taken to be created by the Deep, the Dread to be under the command of Keit'Ehr, and Hive pantheon to battle each other over the Echo as it possessed the memories of Oryx himself.[270]
Additionally, the Guardians would uncover a secret source of power deep within the Pale Heart after using their mastery of Light and Darkness in the form of the class items that would enhance their Prismatic abilities: Solipsism, Relativism, and Stoicism.[271]
With the Witness's death, the Nine became more divided. While some reacted to its death with anger, others were glad of its defeat.[272]
Engagements of the Conflict[edit]
1st Phase[edit]
2nd Phase[edit]
Final Phase[edit]
- The Imbaru Engine (A Parting Gift)
- Hunt for Riven's Clutch
- Onslaught
- Operation Ahamkara
- Transmigration
- Temptation
- Exegesis
- Requiem
- Ascent
- The Message
- Liminality
- Dissent
- Iconoclasm
- Destined Heroes
- Queens
- Found in the Dark
- Lost in Light
- Hope
- Convalescence
- Lost Ghosts
- Salvation's Edge
- Excision
List of appearances[edit]
- Destiny 2
- The Witch Queen (First appearance)
- Season of the Risen
- Season of the Haunted
- Season of Plunder
- Season of the Seraph
- Lightfall
- Season of Defiance
- Season of the Deep
- Season of the Witch
- Season of the Wish
- Into the Light
- The Final Shape
- Episode: Echoes (Mentioned only)
- Episode: Revenant (Mentioned only)
- Episode: Heresy (Mentioned only)
- Entelechy
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- ^ Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny - A Guardian Rises
- ^ Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny - The Dark Within
- ^ a b Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny - The Dark Beyond
- ^ Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny - The World's Grave
- ^ Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny - Chamber of Night
- ^ a b Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny - A Stranger's Call
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Lightfall - What Remains
- ^ Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny - The Awoken
- ^ Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny - Eye of a Gate Lord
- ^ Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny - A Key Awaits
- ^ Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny - Exclusion Zone
- ^ Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny - The Garden's Spire
- ^ Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny - The Black Garden
- ^ Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny - Vault of Glass
- ^ Bungie (2014/12/9), Destiny: The Dark Below
- ^ Bungie (2015/5/19), Destiny: House of Wolves
- ^ Bungie (2015/9/15), Destiny: The Taken King
- ^ Bungie (2016/9/20), Destiny: Rise of Iron
- ^ Bungie (2016/9/20), Destiny: Rise of Iron - Wrath of the Machine
- ^ Bungie (2017/3/28), Destiny: Age of Triumph
- ^ Bungie (2017/8/9), Destiny 2 - Homecoming
- ^ Bungie (2017/8/9), Destiny 2 - Spark
- ^ Bungie (2017/8/9), Destiny 2 - Combustion
- ^ Bungie (2017/8/9), Destiny 2 - Hope
- ^ a b Bungie (2017/8/9), Destiny 2 - 1AU
- ^ Bungie (2017/8/9), Destiny 2 - Utopia
- ^ Bungie (2017/8/9), Destiny 2 - Six
- ^ Bungie (2017/8/9), Destiny 2 - The Inverted Spire
- ^ Bungie (2017/8/9), Destiny 2 - Sacrilege
- ^ Bungie (2017/8/9), Destiny 2 - Chosen
- ^ Bungie (2017/12/5), Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris
- ^ Bungie (2018/5/8), Destiny 2: Warmind
- ^ Bungie (2018/9/4), Destiny 2: Forsaken - Last Call
- ^ Bungie (2018/9/4), Destiny 2: Forsaken - High Plains Blues
- ^ Bungie (2018/9/4), Destiny 2: Forsaken - Scorned
- ^ Bungie (2018/9/4), Destiny 2: Forsaken - Nothing Left to Say
- ^ Bungie (2018/9/4), Destiny 2: Forsaken - Item Description: Hood of the Great Hunt
- ^ Bungie (2018/9/4), Destiny 2: Forsaken - Item Description: Boots of the Great Hunt
- ^ Bungie (2018/9/4), Destiny 2: Forsaken - Awakening
- ^ Bungie (2018/9/4), Destiny 2: Forsaken - Last Wish
- ^ Bungie (2018/12/4), Destiny 2: Season of the Forge
- ^ Bungie (2019/3/5), Destiny 2: Season of the Drifter
- ^ Bungie (2019/6/4), Destiny 2: Season of Opulence
- ^ Bungie (2019/10/29), Destiny 2: Shadowkeep - Lore:Inquisition of the Damned, XI.X: Apocrypha
- ^ Bungie (2019/10/1), Destiny 2: Shadowkeep - A Mysterious Disturbance
- ^ Bungie (2019/10/1), Destiny 2: Shadowkeep - Beyond
- ^ Bungie (2019/10/1), Destiny 2: Season of the Undying - Vex Offensive
- ^ Bungie (2019/12/7), Weblore:Season of Dawn - Actions of Mutual Friends
- ^ Bungie (2019/12/8), Weblore:Season of Dawn - Sisters
- ^ Bungie (2019/12/10), Destiny 2: Season of Dawn - The Sundial
- ^ Bungie (2019/12/10), Destiny 2: Season of Dawn - Corridors of Time Part 2
- ^ Bungie (2020/3/10), Destiny 2: Season of the Worthy
- ^ Bungie (2020/3/10), Destiny 2: Season of the Worthy - Seraph Bunker: Io
- ^ Bungie (2020/6/9), Destiny 2: Season of Arrivals - A Shadow Overhead
- ^ Bungie (2020/6/9), Destiny 2: Season of Arrivals - Interference
- ^ Bungie (2020/6/9), Destiny 2: Season of Arrivals - Prophecy
- ^ Bungie (2020/11/10), Destiny 2: Beyond Light - Darkness's Doorstep
- ^ Bungie (2020/11/10), Destiny 2: Beyond Light - The New Kell
- ^ Bungie (2020/11/10), Destiny 2: Beyond Light - Rising Resistance
- ^ Bungie (2020/11/10), Destiny 2: Beyond Light - The Kell of Darkness
- ^ Bungie (2020/11/10), Destiny 2: Beyond Light - Deep Stone Crypt
- ^ Bungie (2020/11/10), Destiny 2: Season of the Hunt
- ^ Bungie (2020/11/10), Destiny 2: Season of the Hunt - Coup de Grâce
- ^ Bungie (2021/2/9), Destiny 2: Season of the Chosen - Peace
- ^ Bungie (2021/2/9), Destiny 2: Season of the Chosen - Battlegrounds
- ^ Bungie (2021/2/9), Destiny 2: Season of the Chosen - Proving Grounds
- ^ Bungie (2021/2/9), Destiny 2: Season of the Chosen - Unmasked
- ^ Bungie (2021/5/11), Destiny 2: Season of the Splicer - The Lost Splicer
- ^ Bungie (2021/5/11), Destiny 2: Season of the Splicer - H.E.L.M. Radio Message: Lakshmi's first broadcast
- ^ Bungie (2021/5/11), Destiny 2: Season of the Splicer - Expunge
- ^ Bungie (2021/5/11), Destiny 2: Season of the Splicer - Expunge
- ^ Bungie (2021/5/11), Destiny 2: Season of the Splicer - H.E.L.M. Radio Message: Lakshmi's final broadcast
- ^ Bungie (2021/5/11), Destiny 2: Season of the Splicer - Override: Last City
- ^ Bungie (2021/8/24), Destiny 2: Season of the Lost - Cocoon
- ^ Bungie (2021/8/24), Destiny 2: Season of the Lost - Exorcism
- ^ a b Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - To be Chosen
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Arrival
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Investigation
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Risen - Alliance
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Risen - PsiOps Battleground: EDZ
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Risen - PsiOps Battleground: Cosmodrome
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Risen - PsiOps Battleground: Moon
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Risen - Lore:Quintessence, IV - Shutdown
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Risen - Life
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Risen - Lore:Quintessence, V - Rite Proven
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Ghosts
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Communion
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Mirror
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Lightblade
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Cunning
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Last Chance
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - Council
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - Worm
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Ritual
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Witness
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - With Mara
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - Birthplace of the Vile
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - Parasitic Pilgrimage
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Wellspring
- ^ a b c Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - Vow of the Disciple
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - Preservation
- ^ Bungie (2022/2/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Risen - Vox Obscura
- ^ Bungie (2022/5/24), Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted - Operation: Midas
- ^ Bungie (2022/5/24), Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted - Herald
- ^ Bungie (2022/5/24), Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted - Sever - Shame
- ^ Bungie (2022/5/24), Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted - Sever - Reconciliation
- ^ Bungie (2022/5/24), Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted - Duality
- ^ Bungie (2022/5/24), Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted - Sever - Grief
- ^ Bungie (2022/5/24), Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted - Sacrifice
- ^ Bungie (2022/5/24), Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted - Sever - Forgiveness
- ^ Bungie (2022/5/24), Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted - Sever - Rage
- ^ Bungie (2022/5/24), Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted - Sever - Resolve
- ^ Bungie (2022/5/24), Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted - Catharsis
- ^ Bungie (2022/8/23), Destiny 2: Season of Plunder - Salvage and Salvation
- ^ Bungie (2022/8/23), Destiny 2: Season of Plunder - Semephore Signals: Eido messages Spider
- ^ Bungie (2022/8/23), Destiny 2: Season of Plunder - Nezarec
- ^ Bungie (2022/8/23), Destiny 2: Season of Plunder - Pirate Hideout: The Lucent Brood
- ^ Bungie (2022/8/23), Destiny 2: Season of Plunder - Awake
- ^ Bungie (2022/12/6), Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - Frustrations
- ^ Bungie (2022/12/6), Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - Hierarchy
- ^ Bungie (2022/12/6), Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - Heist Battleground: Moon
- ^ Bungie (2022/12/6), Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - Heist Battleground: Mars
- ^ Bungie (2022/12/6), Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - Heist Battleground: Europa
- ^ Bungie (2022/12/6), Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - Operation: Seraph's Shield
- ^ Bungie (2022/12/6), Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - Heist Battleground: Mars
- ^ Bungie (2022/12/6), Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - Operation: Son of Saturn
- ^ Bungie (2022/12/6), Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - Heist Battleground: Mars
- ^ Bungie (2022/12/6), Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - Spire of the Watcher
- ^ Bungie (2022/12/6), Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - Item Description: Hierachy of Needs
- ^ Bungie (2022/12/6), Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - Item Description: TM-Cogburn Custom Suit
- ^ Bungie (2022/12/6), Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - Item Description: TM-Earp Custom Suit
- ^ Bungie (2022/12/6), Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - Item Description: TM-Moss Custom Suit
- ^ Bungie (2022/12/6), Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - Quorum
- ^ Bungie (2022/12/6), Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE
- ^ Bungie (2022/12/6), Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph - Ascent
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Lightfall - First Contact
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Lightfall - Under Siege
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Lightfall - Downfall
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Lightfall - Breakneck
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Lightfall - On The Verge
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Lightfall - No Time Left
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Lightfall - HyperNet Current
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Lightfall - Final Fight Plan
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Lightfall - Headlong
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Lightfall - Desperate Measures
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Lightfall - Unfinished Business
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Lightfall - Welcome to the Hall of Heroes
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Lightfall - Root of Nightmares
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Lightfall - Strider: Step 7
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Season of Defiance - Defiant Battleground: EDZ
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Season of Defiance - Defiant Battleground: Cosmodrome
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Season of Defiance - Defiant Battleground: Orbital Prison
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Season of Defiance - Mission: Jailbreak
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Season of Defiance - Mission: Retribution
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Season of Defiance - The Arms Dealer
- ^ Bungie (2023/2/28), Destiny 2: Season of Defiance - Lake of Shadows
- ^ Bungie (2023/5/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Deep - The Descent
- ^ Bungie (2023/5/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Deep - Item Description: NPA "Weir-Walker" Cloak, Bond, and Mark
- ^ Bungie (2023/5/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Deep - Into the Depths: Step 1
- ^ Bungie (2023/5/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Deep - Rise
- ^ Bungie (2023/5/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Deep - Ghosts of the Deep
- ^ Bungie (2023/5/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Deep - Into the Depths: Step 34
- ^ Bungie (2023/5/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Deep - Into the Depths: Step 36
- ^ Bungie (2023/5/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Deep - Barotrauma
- ^ Bungie (2023/5/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Deep - Parting the Veil
- ^ Bungie (2023/8/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Witch - Way of the Witch
- ^ Bungie (2023/8/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Witch - Transformation
- ^ Bungie (2023/8/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Witch - Toil and Trouble: Step 4
- ^ Bungie (2023/8/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Witch - Altars of Summoning
- ^ Bungie (2023/8/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Witch - The Bladed Path: Step 16
- ^ Bungie (2023/8/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Witch - Mission: Conjure
- ^ Bungie (2023/8/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Witch - The Bladed Path: Step 25
- ^ Bungie (2023/8/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Witch - Eris Morn: "Not all are Hive. Sel, Ora, Leis... they were Ahsa's sisters. Dead, or lost. She whispered their names to me, and I invoked them alongside the worm gods both slain and living."
- ^ Bungie (2023/8/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Witch - The Bladed Path: Step 48
- ^ Bungie (2023/8/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Witch - Mission: Sunder
- ^ Bungie (2023/8/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Witch - Rejection
- ^ Bungie (2023/8/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Witch - Lore:Rites of Passage, A Deal's a Deal
- ^ Bungie (2023/8/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Witch - The Imbaru Engine
- ^ Bungie (2023/8/22), Destiny 2: Season of the Witch - The Last Wish
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Final Wish
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Wishing All the Best: Step 23
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Wishing All the Best: Step 11
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - The Oracle Engine
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - In the Shadow of the Mountain: Step 1
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Item Description: Buried Bloodline
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Warlord's Ruin
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - In the Shadow of the Mountain: Step 9
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Wishing All the Best: Step 28
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Apophasis
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Starcrossed
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Wishing All the Best: Step 30
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Synchysis
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Wishing All the Best: Step 34
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Wishing All the Best: Step 35
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Wishing All the Best: Step 37
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Wishing All the Best: Step 38
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Wishing All the Best: Step 39
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Wishing All the Best: Step 44
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Wishing All the Best: Step 48
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Chiasmus
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Wishing All the Best: Step 53
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Final Words
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Wishing All the Best: Step 55
- ^ Bungie (2024/4/9), Destiny 2: Into the Light
- ^ Bungie (2024/4/9), Destiny 2: Into the Light - Item Description: Elsie's Rifle
- ^ Bungie (2024/4/9), Destiny 2: Into the Light - Item Description: Blast Furnace
- ^ Bungie (2024/4/9), Destiny 2: Into the Light - Item Description: Edge Transit
- ^ Entelechy, "Scribe Archive XI-23-1C"
- ^ Autograph Book
- ^ a b Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Veiled Threats
- ^ Bungie (2023/11/28), Destiny 2: Season of the Wish - Closer to the Heart
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Transmigration
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Temptation
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - The Final Shape: Step 3
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - The Final Shape: Step 5
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Exegesis
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - The Final Shape: Step 6
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Requiem
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Ascent
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - The Final Shape: Step 13
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - The Message, Part I
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - The Message, Part II
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - The Message, Part III
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - The Final Shape: Step 20
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Liminality
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - The Final Shape: Step 22
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Dissent
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - The Final Shape: Step 25
- ^ a b Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Iconoclasm
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Queens, Part I
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - The Hollow, Part II
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Home, Part I
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Home, Part II
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Queens, Part II
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Hope
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Wild Card
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Salvation's Edge
- ^ a b c d Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Excision
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: Episode: Echoes - Echoes Act II: A Distant Reply
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: Episode: Echoes
- ^ Bungie (2024/10/8), Destiny 2: Episode: Revenant
- ^ Bungie (2025/2/4), Destiny 2: Episode: Heresy
- ^ Bungie (2024/6/4), Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Dual Destiny
- ^ Bungie (2025/2/4), Destiny 2: Episode: Heresy - Item Description: Division
