Wishing All the Best

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Wishing All the Best
Release:	Season of the Wish
Quest giver:	Mara Sov
Objective:	Secure Riven's eggs

Wishing All the Best is the main quest for the Season of the Wish.

How to Unlock

Complete Final Wish. Seasonal pass is required

Steps

"And my vanquisher will read that book, seeking the weapon, and they will come to understand me, where I have been and where I was going."The following is a verbatim transcription of an official document for archival reasons. As the original content is transcribed word-for-word, any possible discrepancies and/or errors are included.

Start

Mara dislikes Riven's bargain but knows there are no other options. She tells you to cooperate with Riven for now while she thinks of a contingency plan.

Step 1

Speak to Riven to learn the location of her last clutch of eggs.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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Vanguard Orbital Command, Hub for Emergency Logistics and Maneuvers

The Guardian takes the constructed Awoken portal to Spirit’s Anchor, where the Spirit of Riven is conjured by a circle of Techeuns with Riven’s Heart as the locus.

Spirit’s Anchor, The Dreaming City

• Riven: Greetings, O Guardian mine. I always knew we could work together. I speak to you with my true voice. Consider it... a sign of trust. The need for deceit has passed. My corporeal death freed me from the Taken curse. My bargain with their king has expired. These Techeuns strain themselves to conjure my essence. They cannot do so forever. Savathûn’s wish will be the last I grant. Mara has made clear the terms of our agreement. Retrieve my last clutch of uncorrupted eggs, and I will uphold my end of the bargain. Obviously, I cannot gather the eggs myself. Instead, I will guide you to them, through the halls of my former lair. And beware, Guardian. You may find it a place most unwelcoming.

Riven expresses delight at working with you one final time. She explains that, given the immense reserves of energy required to sustain Riven's spirit, Savathûn's wish will be the last she grants.

Riven tasks you with retrieving her last clutch of eggs from her lair within the Confluence.

Step 2

Riven believes she knows the location of her eggs. Enter Riven's Lair and retrieve them.

• Search for Riven's eggs in Riven's Lair.
  • Riven's Lair completed: 0/1

Notes

See Riven's Lair (First Clear) activity for transcript.

Step 3

Petra is ready to relay the Techeuns' findings.

• Speak with Petra at the holoprojector.
  • Holoprojector visited: 0/1

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Petra Venj appears on the Wing of the Wish’s holoprojector.

• Petra Venj: Bad news, Guardian. I bring word from the Techeuns: Riven's clutch has dispersed across the Ley Lines of the Ascendant Realm. They now orbit our reality, like comets around a sun... hopefully not beyond our reach. The Techeuns are uncertain how this happened, but they've detected a massive surge of paracausal energy across the entire transit system. The residual energy has allowed us to predict each egg's trajectory across the Lines. The Techeuns themselves were once scattered across the Lines in kind. Guardians were there to guide them home, and we can secure the clutch using the same strategy. Riven has caused so much strife... and yet we prostrate ourselves to placate her once again. And too many Corsairs will die on this quest to give the Ahamkara a second chance. As I said, we once utilized the Ley Lines to find lost Techeuns. We can use them again. Fight your way into the Blind Well and reroute the Lines through Riven's Lair. We'll prepare landings for the clutch as best we can.

Petra briefs you on the Techeuns' findings: the eggs have been cast adrift on the Ley Lines of the Ascendant Plane, and now orbit your reality like comets around a sun.

The Techeuns don't know how the eggs were cast into the Ley Lines, but the Techeuns' knowledge allows them to predict each egg's trajectory.

Just as Guardians once aligned the Ley Lines to find Mara's lost Techeuns, you must use the Blind Well and reroute the Ley Lines through Riven's Lair to "catch" the eggs as they get close to your reality.

Notes

The Guardian receives a Charge of Light—Tier II, Charge of Light—Tier III, and an Unstable Charge of Light.

Step 4

Move the Ley Lines into position by completing the Blind Well activity in the Dreaming City.

• Complete Blind Well runs in the Dreaming City. Higher-tier completions reward additional progress.
  • Progress: X%

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The Guardian begins to calibrate the Blind Well.

• Petra Venj: Charge the wells, and we can adjust the Ley Lines. With any luck, that'll put Riven's egg within reach.

The Guardian completes Blind Well calibrations.

• Petra Venj: Nicely done. I'll handle the final calibrations from here. Come on back. We’ve got an egg to chase down.

Step 5

With the Ley Lines in position, enter Riven's Lair to recover an egg.

• Complete the mission "Polysemy" and retrieve Riven's egg.
  • "Polysemy" completed: 0/1

Notes

See Polysemy mission for transcript.

Step 6

Mara, still reluctant to trust Riven, seeks alternate solutions from Osiris.

• Listen to Mara and Osiris in the H.E.L.M.
  • Mara and Osiris's conversation observed: 0/1

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In the sublevel of the Wing of the Wish, Mara Sov ponders the hologram of the Veil on the table.

• Queen Mara Sov: Tell me, Guardian, does helping Riven sit with you as it does me? She's a blade held in our hand. Held too tightly — or trusted not to slip — and it will draw blood.

Osiris transmats in.

• Osiris: Airing your concerns to the Guardian as well? Doubt is a useful tool, Queen Mara, but double-edged, is it not?
• Queen Mara Sov: This wish was crafted by Savathûn. Riven cannot be trusted with it. Has the Veil offered any answers?
• Osiris: My study has yielded many interesting curiosities. I understand how the Witness opened the Traveler, but not yet how to replicate it. I need more time.
• Queen Mara Sov: I wish we had more, if you'll pardon the phrase. Time would allow me to insulate us from Riven's ulterior motives. But we've left the Witness undisturbed for too long. We must act.
• Osiris: Risk is a thing I've learned should be managed, not provoked.
• Queen Mara Sov: Riven is risk incarnate.
• Osiris: To follow the Witness, I must reconstruct the bridge it forged through the Guardian's Ghost. But the Veil is not a docile subject. Abuse it, and a similar fate suffered by the Dreaming City could repeat on Neomuna.
• Queen Mara Sov: So we bide our time, while you seek an answer. Until then... We have a dragon to charm.

Step 7

You have acquired the first Ahamkara egg, but there is still more to accomplish.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: Back from scheming with Mara, are you? Fear not, O Guardian mine. I hold no contempt for those who prepare... contingencies. In fact, that is what I respect most about Mara. She is wise not to trust me, as I have never trusted her. For ages, Awoken and Ahamkara were both allies and adversaries, each seeking to extract a victory from the other. That is the nature of all bargains: to relinquish as little as possible while securing all you desire. Our bargain is no different. It is not built on trust, but on the knowledge that upholding it will benefit us both... And that breaking it will result in more suffering than you can imagine. We must wait for another egg to drift across the Ley Lines and re-enter our reality. Continue securing my lair until then. Those who trespass within it have nothing to bargain with, and are thus of no use to me. You would do well to keep that in mind.

For ages, the Reef and the Ahamkara were both allies and adversaries, keeping a watchful eye on each other.

Riven is aware that Mara does not trust her, and maintains that it's wise not to do so. SHe doesn't trust Mara either. YOu have struck a bargain, and nothing more.

Riven encourages you to clear out the combatants from within her lair while waiting for the next egg's orbit.

Notes

The Guardian receives Supercluster.

Step 8

Mara's Techeuns continue to calculate the trajectory of Riven's clutch as they move between realities.
Buy them time by continuing to defend Riven's Lair against incursions.

• Mara Sov will call upon you once the Techeuns have calculated the location of another Ahamkara egg. Until then, continue to defend Riven's Lair against trespassers.

Step 9

Riven eagerly awaits your arrival, so that she can deliver good news.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: A timely arrival, Guardian. Another egg from my clutch will soon pass by our reality. You should prepare to claim it. It is a strange turn of events that they were cast into the Ascendant Plane. Strange... but not unintentional, I suspect. Ask yourself: who would benefit from such a situation? Who wields the requisite mastery over the Ley Lines? Who has a history of sequestering the Ahamkara to keep them hidden? I said before that I do not trust Mara Sov. Tell me... do you? She offers you praise and gifts. Bequeaths to you a share of her power. Is she so different from an Ahamkara? From me? Do you truly believe she wishes for nothing in return? Know this, Guardian: I have been forthright about what I stand to gain from our arrangement... a future for my otherwise extinct kind. Mara, on the other hand... what does SHE stand to gain?

Riven welcomes you back to the Dreaming City and bids you to delve into her lair once more, as another egg will soon pass within the reach of your reality.

She insists that it was not by her doing that the eggs have been scattered across the Ascendant Plane. Riven asks you to consider who might stand to gain from such a development—and insinuates that Queen Mara would be motivated to keep the eggs hidden.

Step 10

Delve back into Riven's Lair and retrieve a second egg.

• Complete the mission "Tautology" in Riven's Lair.
  • "Tautology" completed: 0/1

Notes

See Tautology mission for transcript.

Step 11

Before any more eggs can be retrieved, Petra has a task for you.

• Speak with Petra at the holoprojector.
  • Holoprojector visited: 0/1

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Petra Venj appears on the Wing of the Wish’s holoprojector.

• Petra Venj: You've made excellent progress, but the remainder of the clutch will never reach us if they remain on their current trajectories. Queen Mara and her Techeuns once communed with the Harbingers, entities that can traverse the weft and weave of the Ley Lines. Mara's personal Harbinger can bring the clutch home. But she'll need to guide it with a signal. We need you to retrieve a Starlight Lodestone. It's a channeling medium the queen can use to signal the Harbinger. All this to help Riven while the dreaming halls remain locked in her curse... The temporal loop that bonds the Dreaming City could continue to plague the Reef indefinitely. I wish my people could rest. I wish I could aid the trapped Corsairs across our shores. But Riven's curse is just a preamble compared to the final shape. The Witness seeks to finish what it started with the Collapse. And so we remain occupied... and Rheasilvia burns. I regret we can do no more to advance your position in the field. But I'll be in touch as soon as the queen finishes her communion.

Petra reports that the plan is working, but the remaining eggs won't pass as close to your reality for quite some time. Mara has a plan to address that, but the Techeuns need to prepare a special reagent for her first: a Starlight Lodestone, located within the Chamber of Starlight in the Dreaming City.

Petra goes on to lament the state of the Dreaming City, likening it to the final shape.

With the Witness so close to achieving its goals, your priority must remain to secure the eggs as soon as they enter your reality.

Step 12

The Techeuns require a Starlight Lodestone, acquired from within the Chamber of Starlight.

• Complete the Chamber of Starlight Lost Sector in the Dreaming City.
  • Chamber of Starlight Lost Sector completed: 0/1

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The Guardian enters the Chamber of Starlight.

• Petra Venj: How many ceremonies did I attend here? They weren't all lofty, serious affairs. The lights, the singing... It was beautiful, once.

The Guardian completes the Lost Sector, and acquires a Starlight Lodestone.

• Petra Venj: Inkasi is slain... until she rises again. She'll go on haunting the Chamber of Starlight forever. Shuro Chi says, "If beautiful places cannot survive, why fight at all?" I'll have to come up with an answer for her. Bring back the Lodestone, Guardian. Let's move on.

Step 13

Crow and Petra are grappling with the current situation.

• Meet with Crow and Petra.
  • Crow and Petra's discussion observed: 0/1

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• The Crow: So this is what, the third bargain we've struck with a compulsive liar?
• Petra Venj: Having your back to the wall is never a good feeling.
• The Crow: It's so much worse, being back in the Dreaming City.
• Petra Venj: Now that you remember?
• The Crow: I know every inch of it. The gardens, the palace... How it used to be — before Riven's curse.
• Petra Venj: Uld—

Petra stops herself.

• Petra Venj: Crow.
• The Crow: If it wasn't for me, the curse would never have happened.
• Petra Venj: Riven used you. Used us. Our grief, our desperation. I wanted vengeance more than anything. [sighs] The truth is, if I thought hiding from my guilt would help anyone, I'd be on the far side of the system.
• The Crow: Hmph... You don't think we're just making the same mistake?
• Petra Venj: Uldren used to say, “If you don't like the odds, don't sit at the table.” Trusting Riven is a risk. But without her, we have no way of pursuing the Witness. I'd rather risk failing than wait here for the final shape.
• The Crow: Right there with you.

Step 14

Osiris has an update on his investigations of the Veil.

• Speak with Osiris at the holoprojector.
  • Holoprojector visited: 0/1

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Osiris appears on the Wing of the Wish’s holoprojector.

• Osiris: Guardian, we are coming to the final moments. These choices, these risks... They mean everything. Mara requests I provide some small... measure of insurance should Riven prove too perilous a gamble. I've learned the Veil is linked to the Traveler. That this link was not created. It is a primal truth of their existence, er... a pairing. The Witness accessed this link through your Ghost. The motions of what it did are written in the Veil's own memory. But like an incantation, without the ritual, the understanding — the words, so to speak — the motions are useless. My attempts to recreate what the Witness did, to follow it, have been... inadequate. And dangerous. I — I must temper my ambitions. The Veil is the power of consciousness, made manifest in our physical world. It whispers an electromagnetic language that resonates with our minds... One that can be deciphered, but not by the laws we wield in this universe. Ah, it's no easy task. If there is another way to follow the Witness, I'll find it here, on Neptune. It will take time, as all things do. Continue to aid Mara, and I will uncover what knowledge I can.

Osiris provides you with an update on his investigations of the Veil.

His attempts to find a way through the portal continue to be unsuccessful, though he's gained more insight into its connection to the Traveler, and thus the connection between Light and Darkness.

He's been able to determine how the Veil opened the way to the Pale Heart within the Traveler, but has yet to determine a way to replicate that effect.

Step 15

Riven wishes to discuss your progress.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: Another egg safely retrieved. I may have to make good on my word. Though from what Techeuns whisper, the rest will prove... more elusive. Mara may have to take drastic measures to catch them. All reward requires risk. Mara knows this truth better than most. That is what first enticed me to stay with the Sov siblings. Their penchant for adventure... their unquenchable ambition... Each of them deliciously reckless in their own way. Your Crow hides it well, but I can still smell Uldren’s daring nature on him. Imagine what he could accomplish if only he'd embrace it. Ah, but you... you charge headlong into danger without a second thought. All for the promise of power. I knew from the first moment I set eyes on a Lightbearer that your kind would change everything for the Ahamkara. And oh... how right I was.

"Another egg safely retrieved. I may have to make good on my word."

Riven commends you on securing another egg. She reflects on her early days with Mara and Uldren, and admits she admired thier daring natures.

She sees Guardians as similarly driven to enormous risks by the allure of power.

"I know from the first momemnt I set eyes on a Lightbearer that your kind would change everything for the Ahamkara."

For now, change must wait—until the Techeuns have located the remaining eggs.

Notes

The Guardian receives Lethophobia.

Step 16

Mara's Techeuns continue to calculate the trajectory of Riven's clutch as they move between realities.
Buy them time by continuing to defend Riven's Lair against incursions.

• Mara Sov will call upon you once the Techeuns have calculated the location of another Ahamkara egg. Until then, continue to defend Riven's Lair against trespassers.

Step 17

Riven has another lead for you.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: You've returned. Would that the queen's witches had your punctuality, O warden mine. The Techeuns have started work on the Lodestone. But they can't finish it without help. I would love to find amusement in their inadequacy — make a meal of it. However... The task of helping those who can't help themselves has fallen on your shoulders again. Something of the Ahamkara in you, perhaps? The lodestone must be attuned to the Confluence. Like teaching a compass where north lies. I've simplified, of course. For your sake. The calibration will take some time. Should I pray for you to make it out alive?

Riven welcomes you back.

"The Techeuns have started work on the Lodestone. But they can't finish it without help."

"The task of helping those who can't help themselves has fallen on your shoulders again. Something of the Ahamkara in you, perhaps?"

Riven suggests that you delve into The Coil so that the Techeuns can finalize thier preparations for the Startlight Lodestone.

Step 18

Delve into The Coil to finish preparing the Starlight Lodestone.

• Calibrate the Starlight Lodestone by completing pathways and collecting Wishing Glass Shards as a fireteam in The Coil.

Find Wishing Glass Shards by defeating combatants, destroying pots, and opening hidden chests.

• • Starlight Lodestone calibration: X%

Notes

See The Coil activity for transcript.

Step 19

With the Lodestone attuned, Petra has an additional task for you.

• Speak with Petra at the holoprojector.
  • Holoprojector visited: 0/1

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Petra Venj appears on the Wing of the Wish’s holoprojector.

• Petra Venj: The Techeuns are in final preparations for the Lodestone. Your work in its calibration was invaluable. It will serve as a beacon for the queen to make contact with her personal Harbinger. She'll commune with it — ask it to guide the remainder of the clutch back to us. It's the last of its kind... and it's good to see a Harbinger, normally a weapon of war, used for diplomacy. Even with Riven. In the past, the pinnacle of the Spine of Keres provided the open sky the queen needed for this communion. It will suffice again. But the Taken contest that region, as they have since Riven’s curse rang out. They will hinder your every step. So cut through them. Secure the spine, and the queen will do the rest.

Petra gives you a grateful nod.

"The Techeuns are in final preparations for the Lodestone. Your work in its calibration was invaluable."

"It will serve as a beacon for the queen to make contact with her personal Harbinger. She'll commune with it—ask it to guide the remainder of the clutch back to us."

Petra grows reflective. "It's the last of its kind... and it's good to see a Harbinger, normally a weapon of war, used for diplomacy. Even with Riven."

"In the past, the pinnacle of the Spire of Keres provided the open sky the queen needed for this communion. It will suffice again."

Petra warns you that the Taken will hinder your every step.

"So cut through them, secure the Spine, and the queen will do the rest."

Step 20

Petra has sent you to the Spine of Keres, where the Oracle Engine awaits.

• Complete "The Oracle Engine" mission in the Spire of Keres to facilitate communion with the Harbinger.
  • "The Oracle Engine" mission completed: 0/1

Notes

See Oracle Engine (Wishing All the Best) mission for transcript.

Step 21

Mara's Harbinger is guiding the clutch within reach. Now is your opportunity to save another of Riven's eggs.

• Complete the mission "Enthymeme."
  • "Enthymeme" completed: 0/1

Notes

See Enthymeme mission for transcript.

Step 22

Riven's appearance must be challenging for Crow. He and Mara need a chance to talk things out.

• Observe the exchange in the H.E.L.M.
  • Mara and Crow observed: 0/1

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• Queen Mara Sov: I heard you over the comm channels. I... am sorry that we are forced to entreat with Riven. She and I have our own histories to navigate, but what she did to you... how she wormed her way into your mind... That was inexcusable. It pains me to put you through this.
• The Crow: Even after all that's happened, you still think I need to be protected.
• Queen Mara Sov: No, that is not —
• The Crow: It's all right, Mara. I understand. We've always shared a connection. Even when you were lost in the Ascendant Plane, I could still feel your presence. Your heartbeat. I knew you weren't truly gone... Riven was only able to manipulate me because of how strong our connection was... Is. I've made choices I'm not proud of. But I'll never apologize for the reason I made them. It's the same reason you reach out even now, when — when you see me struggling. You're my sister. Nothing can break that bond. Not death. Not Riven... Not even the Light.
• Queen Mara Sov: Like Ager and Rega, finding each other in the storm.
• The Crow: Heh. Yeah, well... All that we've been through... that's no fable. We stood together as the world collapsed around us.
• Queen Mara Sov: And we'll stand together again.

Step 23

Osiris has an update to give on his investigations into the Veil.

• Speak with Osiris at the holoprojector.
  • Holoprojector visited: 0/1

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Osiris appears on the Wing of the Wish’s holoprojector.

• Osiris: Guardian, I'm afraid progress is slow. The Veil is a clever tangle in and of itself. It reforms as the consciousnesses connected to it ebb and flow. They rush in, awash with dreams and wonder, and then drain away. I believed that once I understood the Veil—mechanically—once I understood Strand, that I would see its patterns with new clarity. That has not happened. This is not like charting a course through the currents of a sea or the depths of space. It is an architecture defined by how we intend to imagine it. Not dissimilar to the Ascendant Plane... but if more like its opposite. The Ascendant Plane mirrors aspects of our world, aspects of will and import to those who traverse it. Those aspects are decided upon through our actions. The Veil, conversely, weaves not with our will, not our decisions, but with intent, unfiltered by logic. What we feel, not what we decide. Mapping such a thing would be like... rebuilding a creature from the calcified remains we’ve found aboard the Pyramid ships. They are an image of a dissection. A deadened echo of existence. But to look at them as they are, to see their disparate parts... even understanding their anatomy does not give us the knowledge to make them as they were. I will continue to seek the path the Witness forged into the Traveler, but I am... no longer confident that it could ever be walked again. Riven may be our only option.

Osiris admits some frustration.

"Guardian, I'm afriad progress is slow..."

"I believed that once I understood the Veil—mechanically—once I understood Strand, that I would see its patterns with new clarity."

"That has not happened. This is not like charting a course through the currents of a sea or the depths of space."

Osiris explains that the Veil's effects exhibit some similarity to the Ascendant Plane. "The Ascendant Plane mirrors aspects of our world, aspects of will and import to those who traverse it..."

"The Veil, conversely, weaves not with our will, not our decisions, but with intent, unfiltered by logic. What we feel, not what we decide."

The complex nature of charting such an abstract and mutable space has shaken Osiris's confidence. "I will continue to seek the path the Witness forged into the Traveler, but I am... no longer confident that it could ever be walked again."

"Riven may be our only option."

Step 24

Riven has her own perspective on the Sov siblings.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: So many wish to be closer with their family. The absent and the estranged cause rifts in a person's psyche. I hear them even now: “Let me speak to my father again, one last time.” “Let my daughter see me for who I am.” One of the stranger human impulses, don't you find? Above all, Ahamkara want to feed. To drink deep of the gulf between desire and reality. Other Ahamkara are competitors for limited resources, not allies. The only exception... is a mate. Sometimes, we reach beyond ourselves. Perhaps if we stood by one another more, we'd have survived the Great Hunt. If we were a little more... Human. But that bargain is not within our natures to make.

"So many wish to be closer with their family," Riven observes. "The absent and the estranged cause rifts in a person's psyche. I hear them even now: 'Let me speak to my father again, one last time.' 'Let my daughter see me for who I am.' One of the stranger human impulses, don't you find?"

She explains that things are different among the Ahamkara.

"Above all, Ahamkara want to feed. To drink deep of the gulf between desire and reality. Other Ahamkara are competitors for limited resources, not allies."

But there are exceptions, even among her kind. "A mate. Sometimes, we reach beyond ourselves."

"Perhaps if we stood by one another more, we'd have survived the Great Hunt. If we were a little more... Human. But that bargain is not within our natures to make."

Notes

The Guardian receives Scatter Signal.

Step 25

Mara's Techeuns continue to calculate the trajectory of Riven's clutch as they move between realities.
Buy them time by continuing to defend Riven's Lair against incursions.

• Mara Sov will call upon you once the Techeuns have calculated the location of another Ahamkara egg. Until then, continue to defend Riven's Lair against trespassers.

Step 26

Riven has another lead for you.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: You return again, Guardian. And so does another egg from my clutch. It seems Mara’s Harbinger has succeeded in pulling it close enough for you to catch... How convenient. Though it would have been far more convenient for them not to have been scattered at all. I have never taken Mara at her word. But she is not a fool. Had she been the one to set my eggs adrift, then she would have devised an easier way to retrieve them. One that requires less... risk. But if Mara was not the one responsible, then who was? And what did they stand to gain from it? Manipulating the Ley Lines like this reeks of paracausal magic — an Ahamkara’s doing. Someone wished for this. And when I find out who it was... ...Then I will feast.

Another one of Riven's eggs is making an approach. Riven now believes the culprit was someone other than Mara.

"Had she been the one to set my eggs adrift, then she would have devised an easier way to retrieve them. One that requires less... risk," Riven says.

"But if Mara was not the one responsible, then who was? And what did they stand to gain from it?"

Riven is furious at the thought that this might be another Ahamkara's doing.

Someone wished for this. And when I find out who it was," Riven promises, "then I will feast."

Step 27

Another egg is making an approach. It's time to enter Riven's Lair and bring it home.

• Complete the mission "Apophasis."
  • "Apophasis" completed: 0/1

Notes

See Apophasis mission for transcript.

Step 28

The Vex stole away the egg before it could be secured, but Crow thinks he's got a lead on where they've brought it.

• Speak with Crow in the H.E.L.M.
  • Crow visited: 0/1

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• The Crow: Hey, Guardian. The Vex may have snuck in ahead of us, but we're not out of the race yet. Osiris thinks that a Vex mind must have figured out how to simulate the Techeuns. So long as they have access to those algorithms, the Vex can track the eggs, same as we can. So... we'll just have to steal them back. I managed to pick up the trail. Looks like the Sol Divisive tucked the egg away in the Black Garden. Lucky for us, that's familiar territory. I remember how to get in. All we need is the head of a Vex Gate Lord... Kidding. [chuckles] Turns out Riven had her own path into the Garden. You'll have to get in there and put that Vex mind out of commission. I'll be on comms, keeping an eye on the tracking signal. And watching your back, of course.

"Hey, Guardian," says Crow. "The Vex may have snuck in ahead of us, but we're not out of the race yet."

Osiris has hypothesized that the Vex have simulated the Techeuns to build an algorithm that can trace the eggs just as well as the real Techeuns.

Crow's picked up the trail to the lost egg, and it's leading right to the Black Garden.

"Lucky for us, that's familiar territory. I remember how to get in."

Crow will guide you over comms as you enter the Black Garden and rescur Riven's egg.

Step 29

Crow's tracked the egg to the Black Garden. Crow's been there before, and he'll serve as guide for the journey.

• Complete the Exotic mission "Starcrossed."
  • "Starcrossed" completed: 0/1

Notes

See Starcrossed mission for transcript.

Step 30

Riven has been reminded of Taranis, and of the risks of an Ahamkara granting their own wish.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: Taranis was always a sentimental fool. His last wish has caused us no small amount of trouble. All wishes come at a cost. Even those we Ahamkara grant ourselves. Especially those we grant ourselves. My kind feeds on the difference between “what is desired” and “what comes to pass”. That is why we grant wishes the way we do. In granting our own wish, we eliminate that difference. We smother the flame and our voices fall silent. Our existence ends. Ahamkara are selfish creatures, not prone to such acts of sacrifice. But Taranis... He was different. His sacrifice might save us all. You destroyed the Vex mind simulating the Techeuns’ work. The Vex will not reach the eggs first again. But they still hold my lair. Put Taranis’ gift to good use, O Guardian mine. It is your turn to grant a last wish.

Riven thinks back to Taranis, her lost mate. It was his wish that scattered their clutch to safety, beyond even Riven's reach.

But, Riven adds, Taranis paid for that wish. "My kind feeds on the difference between 'what is desired' and 'what comes to pass.' That is why we grant wishes the way we do. In granting our own wish, we eliminate that difference."

An Ahamkara who grants their own wish dies. Taranis sacrificed himself for his children: an unusual move for an Ahamkara.

Riven suggests you go return to the Vex-infested Garden. "Put Taranis's gift to good use..." she says, "It is your turn to grant a last wish."

Notes

The Guardian receives a Wish Engram.

Step 31

Mara's Techeuns continue to calculate the trajectory of Riven's clutch as they move between realities.
Buy them time by continuing to defend Riven's Lair against incursions.

• Mara Sov will call upon you once the Techeuns have calculated the location of another Ahamkara egg. Until then, continue to defend Riven's Lair against trespassers.

Step 32

Riven summons you back to her side on an urgent matter.

• Speak to Riven
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• Riven: Something is wrong. Its stench lingers in the air, wafting up from the shadows of the Confluence. I remember this sensation. The creeping whispers, putrid oil on water. Taken corruption seeps into my lair, as it once did into me. Mara’s Techeuns expect another egg will enter our reality soon. Cut the strings of those Taken puppets as you traverse the Confluence. As I said before, Oryx’s bargain with me has expired. I owe him nothing. The same holds true for the Witness. If it seeks to take something from me without reaching an accord... ...Then I will reclaim what is mine with vengeance in my heart. Make haste. Reach my offspring before the Taken. Taranis’s sacrifice must not have been made in vain.

"Something is wrong," says Riven.

Taken corruption has seeped into the Confluence. It's a sensation she knows well, thanks to the deal she once made with Oryx, the Taken King.

Another egg is about to appear. "Make haste. Reach my offspring before the Taken," Riven says. And more softly: "Taranis's sacrifice must not have been made in vain."