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The nature and purpose of the Black Garden is one of the longest-running mysteries known to the scholars of the Tower. | The nature and purpose of the Black Garden is one of the longest-running mysteries known to the scholars of the Tower. | ||
According to Pujari, the Black Garden is a reflection of the Traveler's actions: when it terraformed the "iron world," the Garden either came to be or changed to match. The mesa-like structure in the | According to Pujari, the Black Garden is a reflection of the Traveler's actions: when it terraformed the "iron world," the Garden either came to be or changed to match. The mesa-like structure in the centre of the Garden strongly resembles the [[Cradle]] left behind by the Traveler on [[Io]], which was also seemingly a product of the Traveler's terraforming activities. However, it was not created by the Traveler.<ref name = "Pujari"/> When the Vex arrived, they attempted to control it and impose their own changes through rigorous engineering and earth-moving.<ref name="In the Garden">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The_Forsaken_Prince#In_the_Garden|In the Garden]]''</ref> | ||
The Black Garden is a sentient place where ''"everything grows"'' and where ''"abstract patterns war for survival, fighting to propagate themselves by preying on each other."''<ref name = "In the Garden"/><ref name="On the Hunt">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The_Forsaken_Prince#On_the_Hunt|On the Hunt]]''</ref> Thoughts such as ideas and concepts are carried on the wind in the form of whispers, ''"sentences with just the beginnings of syntax"''. Introducing new ideas into its conceptual environment, such as through speech, causes those ideas to "take root" in the Black Garden, changing the concepts present. Uldren conversing to a [[Cabal]] [[Legionary]] in Ulurant led to the whispers taking on aspects of Ulurant grammar. The Vex there sing (''"faint, wraithlike notes of inhuman clarity"'') to ''"see how the Garden changes their song."''<ref name="On the Hunt"/> The Vex are particularly interested in the Black Garden because its effects on them ''"[growing] them toward what they want to be."''<ref name="After Part 2">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The_Forsaken_Prince#After_the_Heart_.7C_Part_II|After the Heart Part II]]''</ref> | The Black Garden is a sentient place where ''"everything grows"'' and where ''"abstract patterns war for survival, fighting to propagate themselves by preying on each other."''<ref name = "In the Garden"/><ref name="On the Hunt">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The_Forsaken_Prince#On_the_Hunt|On the Hunt]]''</ref> Thoughts such as ideas and concepts are carried on the wind in the form of whispers, ''"sentences with just the beginnings of syntax"''. Introducing new ideas into its conceptual environment, such as through speech, causes those ideas to "take root" in the Black Garden, changing the concepts present. Uldren conversing to a [[Cabal]] [[Legionary]] in Ulurant led to the whispers taking on aspects of Ulurant grammar. The Vex there sing (''"faint, wraithlike notes of inhuman clarity"'') to ''"see how the Garden changes their song."''<ref name="On the Hunt"/> The Vex are particularly interested in the Black Garden because its effects on them ''"[growing] them toward what they want to be."''<ref name="After Part 2">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The_Forsaken_Prince#After_the_Heart_.7C_Part_II|After the Heart Part II]]''</ref> | ||
Prolonged exposure to the Black Garden's environment can be dangerous. The concepts being whispered there are potentially a contagious brainstain hazard. The Legionary who Uldren spoke to, who had been exposed to the Garden for an unknown length of time, ended up having its "secrets" grown into him in the form of thousands of tiny seeds pockmarking his skull, incidentally imparting him with some knowledge of the Vex.<ref name="On the Hunt"/> It is even stated that everything that is in the Garden becomes of the Garden as in it becomes an extension of its growth, whether it be shedding leaves that fertilize soil, or the bones or unspoken thoughts of individuals. It is described that the structures of the Vex such as the pathways are the only straight lines in the Garden, the Vex weave themselves into the Garden and it does the same. Even somewhere in the Garden, despite having lost the Black Heart, the event even though it happened in the past, is still happening somewhere in the garden, this would mean past events would happen currently or events that will happen is happening now. Even overgrown from the Garden covers Vex machinery and they would still function | Prolonged exposure to the Black Garden's environment can be dangerous. The concepts being whispered there are potentially a contagious brainstain hazard. The Legionary who Uldren spoke to, who had been exposed to the Garden for an unknown length of time, ended up having its "secrets" grown into him in the form of thousands of tiny seeds pockmarking his skull, incidentally imparting him with some knowledge of the Vex.<ref name="On the Hunt"/> It is even stated that everything that is in the Garden becomes of the Garden as in it becomes an extension of its growth, whether it be shedding leaves that fertilize the soil, or the bones or unspoken thoughts of individuals. It is described that the structures of the Vex such as the pathways are the only straight lines in the Garden, the Vex weave themselves into the Garden and it does the same. Even somewhere in the Garden, despite having lost the Black Heart, the event even though it happened in the past, is still happening somewhere in the garden, this would mean past events would happen currently or events that will happen is happening now. Even overgrown from the Garden covers Vex machinery and they would still function afterwards <ref>[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/realis#book-aspect Realis]</ref>. | ||
The sky of the Martian Black Garden appeared as a thick green veil and after the destruction of the Black Heart, it appeared more clear and | The sky of the Martian Black Garden appeared as a thick green veil and after the destruction of the Black Heart, it appeared more clear and centred in what appeared to be in a cave of the Martian landscape. The Lunar Black Garden appeared as a misty sky with three Suns along with a planet and its orbiting moon. | ||
===Accessibility=== | ===Accessibility=== | ||
The Black Garden exists on a separate plane that the Vex keeps locked in a void outside of time; the only known way to initially access the Garden was through the gate network requiring the authority of a [[Gate Lord]]. After the Black Heart was destroyed, however, the Garden became a part of contemporary time and space, accessible from an anchored gateway at the [[Valley of the Kings]] on [[Mars]]. During the Taken War, an [[Echo of Oryx]] and a coven of [[Taken]] broke into the Garden by burrowing a new gate from [[Tharsis Junction]], creating a new separate entrance that was closed sometime afterwards. Eventually, the gate at the Valley was destroyed upon the [[Red Legion]]'s invasion of Mars | The Black Garden exists on a separate plane that the Vex keeps locked in a void outside of time; the only known way to initially access the Garden was through the gate network requiring the authority of a [[Gate Lord]]. After the Black Heart was destroyed, however, the Garden became a part of contemporary time and space, accessible from an anchored gateway at the [[Valley of the Kings]] on [[Mars]]. During the Taken War, an [[Echo of Oryx]] and a coven of [[Taken]] broke into the Garden by burrowing a new gate from [[Tharsis Junction]], creating a new separate entrance that was closed sometime afterwards. Eventually, the gate at the Valley was destroyed upon the [[Red Legion]]'s invasion of Mars. | ||
During the events of "''[[Shadowkeep]]''", a new Vex gate was uncovered hidden beneath the lunar battlegrounds on [[Luna]]. This gate is very likely the reason | During the events of "''[[Shadowkeep]]''", a new Vex gate was uncovered hidden beneath the lunar battlegrounds on [[Luna]]. This gate is very likely the reason how [[Crota]] and his broods appeared on the moon after being thrown into the Vex gate network. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||