UserWiki:Dante the Ghost

Greetings! My name is Dante. I am a Ghost but with no Guardian. Why does that surprise you? Well, as you very well know, Guardians, citizens, we Ghosts spend years searching the solar system for warriors worthy to wield the Light to defend humanity and the Traveler from the Darkness. Some of us never find our Guardians; a few decide to choose Guardians from the living rather than the dead. I am neither one.

No, I am alone. But to fill the lonely days I have taken to helping the Vanguard with organizing their archives, utilizing my memory storage to clear away clutter and/or update outdated information. Many such Ghosts who don't find a Guardian often lend their aid to the Vanguard. Did I ever tell you Cayde is as disorganized as a Reaver Dreg? His library is a mess! knives and melting engrams everywhere! Master Rahool was so very disappointed in him when I brought this in the open. So was Ikora. Well, she too is disorganized, but that is another story. Needless to say Cayde has never forgiven me since.

Anyhow, my ramblings aside, I am here to serve the City in whatever capacity I can. One day, I'll find my Guardian, but until then I better make myself useful. I just hope to the Traveler I never have to go to Mars…

Description
I'll spare you what others have said about Ghosts and tell you straight up. We have a uniform design and shape, as we're born of the Traveler itself, but several of us can be of any size from ping pong ball to baseball-size. I don't know of any Ghosts that are Servitor sized, but should we happen to get a Eliskni (ahem, "Fallen") Guardian—ha! imagine that!—that will unfortunately remain in obscurity.

My basic form is a "baseball" in shape, but a little smaller, but don't get any ideas. I may delight in describing myself in such lowly terms but I will not be used in games. Now, what was I saying… oh yes. Like all other Ghosts I have a shell, except mine is what is called a "Mythological shell". This is courtesy of a Guardian who braved the Vault of Glass and managed to get the Gorgons' designs locked into his head. I know of quite a few Ghosts who look like mini-Gorgons. Nearly gave Master Rahool a heart-attack one night, but that is another story for another time.

Now, basic description is as follows:


 * Shell-color: Vex Templar colors, obviously.
 * Shell-material: My original shell was composed of the Traveler; the Vanguard still has it when I chose this one. My Mythological shell is made up of a mixture of Vex metals and Relic iron. Fancy, no?
 * Shell-pieces: Again, the original had eight pyramidal sections. My new one has three very large, irregularly shaped Harpy "wings".
 * Guardian: Don't have one, yet.
 * Where to be found?: Vanguard Archives, of course. Level A.R. 24/6, sublevel 078. That is roughly halfway down the Tower, and in the East Wing. Warlocks make for great company I'll add.
 * Favorite places?: Earth. Such a fascinating and ancient place. Once full of culture, beauty, and art, now desolate. I can see why the Traveler chose it. So much potential, now dormant. Oh, and I suppose Venus. Lovely place, the Ishtar Collective is very facinating, all of those files and books full of knowledge. Just watch out for Vex, Fallen, and Taken. I hear the Cabal are planning on going there…
 * Favorite Tower resident?: Why, it is Master Rahool, of course! I just love being next to him whenever a Guardian comes back with an Engram. Treasure troves of knowledge and history and technology! So much lore to be found! (Although… rumours have been going around that I've chosen him as a Guardian, but I assure you I have done no such thing. Please don't spread them.)
 * Least favorite Tower resident?: Don't go spreading this around, but… I think Eris Morn's crazy…
 * Favorite alien race: I know, I know, you're thinking, "What, a Ghost who has a favorite race among our enemies?" but seriously, a Ghost with no Guardian must have some things he likes outside of the Tower, no? Anywho, I actually have two of them. The Vex and the Cabal. The Vex… well, they are the least known enemy of ours, apart from being a demigod collective of hyperadvanced, microbial robotic aliens. The Cabal are easy. *deep monotone* "We like to stomp things flat, umph, umph!" *normal* No, seriously, their organization and, I hate to admit this but, their perseverance. Centuries of warfare with the Vex and Guardians is a long time to be fighting a war, but still they hang on.
 * Least favorite alien race: The Hive. No question. Many of my brothers and sisters fell to their blades, were drained on their Light. Murdered. I hate Crota and his overblown papa as much as Crazy Eris… Ooooh, if I had a Guardian right now I'd show them! I even have Solar-dealing cannons equipped! (Though… those take a lot out of me, but I digress.)

Well, I suppose that's it then. Got to go. {|align=left |

Destinypedia Article Progress
This is a reference list for when I have pages to work on. (If I ever need prompting, because I am a notorious forgetter.)

The following below is what I am focusing on to better meet this wikia's standards. We are not only an archive for Weapons, Enemy Races, Allies, what-have-you, but also a record of Destiny's, admittedly, lacking story. Destinypedia will not have a reputation for lacking "story" content like her namesake.

Any and all are welcome to add to my work. I can use all of the help I can get, and the more eyes the better. It's what a wikia is all about.

Grimoire Musings
Here is where I'll post my musings on the Grimoire cards that is embedded in Destiny's lore. I'll be linking to the Ishtar Collective as well as Bunge and this very wikia to better cross-reference, and to help you understand where I am coming from. They'll be organized by subject and interrelatedness.

Do note that, as much as I'd like to spend working on this, developing theories that may or may not be true (I'd like to consider all possible alternatives), I also spend equal amounts of time editing Destinypedia, helping everyone know more about our favorite game. Plus, I'm actually not that great at keeping timetables, or organizing my priorities right.

Grimoire from Others
Sometimes the Internet gives out things that are utterly fantastic. Take, for example, this Grimoire card, about Primus A'arn from someone on Tumblr (which is where I found it originally). Building off of the Shotgun, the Silence of A'arn, this Grimoire card was crafted to resemble Destiny's own cards.

Based on this fan card's flavor-text, the boss' special ability is to turn briefly invisible, disappearing from the radar completely, and surprise Guardians from unawares. This would have been a cool enemy to face in King's Fall, or even in the Court of Oryx as a Tier 3 boss. Like Ta'aun he would be armed with the Hive-version of a Heavy Slug Thrower, be armored in purple, but unlike Ta'aun he would command Taken, probably exclusively Taken Cabal.

The card above is from the same person, and is again masterfully crafted.

This enemy's ability would very probably be duplication, like the Taken Psion, but spectral ones; as in, each Taken Servitor you shoot, they disappear instantly. All of them are a bunch of copies, and what's more, they'll all be that way until all but one is left. Just a thought of what a unique Taken enemy would be like. This is my interpretation of how such an enemy would function.

The card above is from the same person, and is again masterfully crafted. I wonder if they had read this reddit thread before making it?

This one is a bit of a conundrum. In that reddit thread I have linked it was unanimously agreed that (1) Taken Dregs become Taken Vandals because a Dreg is simply a docked Vandal and (2) if taking a Dreg were possibly they would flatly refuse to a man (Eliksni?) because they have their own indomitable dream of being the Kell of Kells, and that is more motivating than being a servant of Oryx. I think this Grimoire card takes the second one and turns it on its head; Oryx here promises the Dreg that he can become his own Kell of Kells, the hero of the Eliksni, if only they would accept his help. Pretty tempting, no? A god offering you his help to gain you whatever you want.

Now, here's what I speculate their powers would be: they are all a weaker version of the the lower-level Taken, a Taken "Jack-of-all-Trades" if you will—of Goblins, Thrall, and Psions. They can simultaneously duplicate, teleport sideways, and protect others all at once but with limitations: their "invincible" Goblin shield, for one, can be broken by Guardian weapons; their sideways teleportation is not perfect, and they can only duplicate once or twice. They'd probably have a fourth ability, that of the Hobgoblin's defensive trio of blasts. These also would be weaker because they can sometimes miss, even at point-blank range.

Aha, Skolas, now Taken. I added "the Lost" to his title because there was none provided by his fan-made card. Warning, that blog is potentially NSFW. Now, onto his powers.

I think Skolas' new powers would be to give killed Taken a second life. Rather redundant, yes, but instead of warping back to wherever they go when they die the same rupture just spits them out again inside of closing. Imagine killing that one Taken Lieutenant who had been annoying you while fighting Skolas and he suddenly pops up behind you and kills you again. As for offensive powers, he would have the powers of the Taken Fallen we currently have, the Vandals and the Captains. It makes sense, really, to have both powers. Protecting the Fallen, and blinding their enemies.

Now that'll be it for Grimoire cards from this person, because while they're about Earth and Saturn, they don't fit the flavor text of the other Grimoire cards that we already have and are thus jarring and a bit OOC. Breaking of character, if you will. But these others, they are perfect.

My Own Grimoire
I'll be working on writing out a bit of "grimoire cards" for a little something, just for idling purposes. I want to combine the Taken Grimoire language with the Fallen command structure and see where that goes. Different ranks may be added on there.