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Resolving to stop the Witch Queen's plan, Ikora would take a calcified worm the Guardian had collected during their investigations in [[Savathûn's Throne World]] and would discover a shocking revelation: using her Worm Familiar, The Witness had lied to Savathûn during her time as her previous self, Sathona, tricking her into leading her siblings into the oceans of Fundament, which resulted in their pact with the Worms Gods and the rise of the Hive species. The Witness did this because the Traveler was poised to uplift the Krill species and sought to claim them first. Ikora shared this secret with the Guardian and tasked them to use this truth to help them in destabilizing Savathûn, thereby undoing her spell to seal away the Traveler within her Throne World. After a grueling battle against the Lightbearing Witch Queen, the Guardian succeeded in defeating Savathûn and saving the Traveler, though her Ghost, [[Immaru]], would escape. Despite taking it as a victory, the Guardian would nonetheless state that humanity must be prepared for The Witness's return. | Resolving to stop the Witch Queen's plan, Ikora would take a calcified worm the Guardian had collected during their investigations in [[Savathûn's Throne World]] and would discover a shocking revelation: using her Worm Familiar, The Witness had lied to Savathûn during her time as her previous self, Sathona, tricking her into leading her siblings into the oceans of Fundament, which resulted in their pact with the Worms Gods and the rise of the Hive species. The Witness did this because the Traveler was poised to uplift the Krill species and sought to claim them first. Ikora shared this secret with the Guardian and tasked them to use this truth to help them in destabilizing Savathûn, thereby undoing her spell to seal away the Traveler within her Throne World. After a grueling battle against the Lightbearing Witch Queen, the Guardian succeeded in defeating Savathûn and saving the Traveler, though her Ghost, [[Immaru]], would escape. Despite taking it as a victory, the Guardian would nonetheless state that humanity must be prepared for The Witness's return. | ||
Such preparations would include slaying a powerful Disciple of the Witness, [[Rhulk]], that had been imprisoned with the Witch Queen's Throne World and later making a true permanent alliance with Caiatl's Imperial Cabal. Though the Empress was initially angry with the Guardian engaging her Red Legion forces when their investigations into Savathûn began, Zavala is able to convince her to forgive the Guardian and focus on a shared foe, the Lucent Brood. The Empress agrees and together, the Cabal and Guardians battle against the Lucent Brood from stealing the Light from fallen Guardians and using it to create a portal to launch an invasion of Earth through the Scarlet Keep on the Moon. The campaign makes strides in uniting the two factions, with Lord Saladin reaching an understanding with Caiatl but the alliance would be jeopardized by Crow's naivety and recklessness. Having grown against the methods in which the Vanguard gained the intel vital to stop the Lucent Hive's invasion, using Psion's to search through the Hive lieutenants minds while they are trapped in a neither dead-or-alive state, Crow shut down the Psissorum on the H.E.L.M. but doing so in haste led to a malfunction and inadvertently killed Caiatl's Psion Envoy. Though Crow was left remorseful, he was willing to face Caiatl's judgement, who demanded he give his life for the one he had taken, as per the Cabal way. Zavala however, was unwilling to surrender Crow's life, leading Caiatl to attempt to take it herself but Saladin steps forward, offering his life in exchange. Caiatl commends the Iron Lord's bravery in the face of death and accepts, stating that his life is forfeit but serving as a Bracus on her War Council for the remainder of his days. Zavala agrees despite Crow's pleas, as Saladin's actions had preserved the Vanguard's alliance with the Cabal. Saladin's actions would also grant humanity a voice on Caiatl's council and the Iron Lord would in time prove his mettle to the Cabal, rising to the rank of Valus. | |||
The Vanguard would later have to contend with the return of the former emperor of the Cabal, Calus, when his massive pleasure craft, The Leviathan, appears derelict near Luna. Worse, the Leviathan appeared to be transmitting a signal towards the Lunar Pyramid beneath the moon's surface, leading the Nightmare phantoms to resurge. With Eris Morn leading the investigation, the Guardians discover that Calus's true intent was to seize control over the Lunar Pyramid and become the Witness's newest Disciple. Though the Guardians managed to contain the Nightmares, sever the Leviathan's connections to the Pyramid and prevent Calus from absorbing the Lunar Pyramid's power, the former emperor had succeeded in giving himself over to the Witness, becoming it's herald of the Second Collapse. | |||
Though the Vanguard wouldn't take an active part in dealing with Eramis's return, with Ikora's Hidden looking for the Shipstealer from the shadows and Zavala preparing for when Calus will make his move, they would make efforts in strengthening their relations with Mithrax, his House of Light and, albeit reluctantly, with the Eliksni mob boss, [[The Spider]]. The Vanguard agreed to grant the Spider a safe haven within the Eliskni Quarter as long as he helped arm the Guardians in battling Eramis and the pirates of the Old Crews as they searched for the Relics of Nezarec, pieces of a dead Disciple and gathered their treasures to improve conditions within the Eliskni Quarter. The Guardians succeeded in gathering the relics before Eramis could and with them, Mithrax was able to turn the Darkness essence within them into a benign substance that was given to Osiris, allowing the former Warlock to finally awaken who spoke of seeing some of the Witch Queen's memories, specifically a city found on [[Neptune]]. | |||
Though Ikora had her Hidden search through Neptune to find the city Osiris spoke of, they found nothing, leading the Warlock Vanguard to think that Osiris may still be compromised due being possessed by the Witch Queen. Angered, Osiris approached Ana to see if she made any progress in repairing [[Rasputin]] but unfortunately, she hadn't. Desperate for answers that the Warmind may possess, Osiris suggests that they seek out [[Clovis Bray I]], one of the Warmind's chief creators, but Ana vehemently objects, citing her grandfather's amoral nature but relents due to Rasputin's deteriorating condition. After saving the Bray patriarch from the Wrathborn, who have reemerged and gained partial control over the Warmind's security systems, Clovis agrees to aid in restoring Rasputin but for the selfish desire to ensure his legacy and self-preservation. The Guardians were instructed to gather Rasputin's subminds and reintegrate them into Rasputin's core, working hastily before Xivu Arath and her Wrathborn corrupt the Warsat Network and turn its arsenal against the Last City. However, after restoring enough of the Warmind, Rasputin informs the Guardians of Clovis Bray's true intentions: he intended to use Rasputin to upload himself into Seraph Station, the main hub of the network, assume control over the Warmind's arsenal and replace the Traveler as Clovis couldn't see anyone other than himself in being humanity's savior. Furious, Ana and her sister [[Elsie Bray]], confront Clovis and cast him out, allowing the Guardians to continue in their mission without fear of Clovis's interference. | |||
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