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When the Young Wolf left Io for the last time, Asher realized that he never truly expressed his high opinion of some of their work. He contemplated leaving a letter, but believed it would have been relegated to a backlog of tasks he would never be able to complete. Asher entered the Pyramidion, destroying any Vex security in his way. As he continued through the corridors of the Pyramidion, he found that it seemingly began to welcome him, with security laser grids bending to avoid touching him and gravitational anomalies leaving him unaffected by shifting ground under his feet, while the Vex simply observed. Asher found himself next to a pit under the radiolarian lake hidden in unusual geometry. He reached up with both his arms, and pulled the lake down to himself.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Duress_and_Egress#Asher:_Conclusion|Duress and Egress: Asher: Conclusion]]''</ref>
When the Young Wolf left Io for the last time, Asher realized that he never truly expressed his high opinion of some of their work. He contemplated leaving a letter, but believed it would have been relegated to a backlog of tasks he would never be able to complete. Asher entered the Pyramidion, destroying any Vex security in his way. As he continued through the corridors of the Pyramidion, he found that it seemingly began to welcome him, with security laser grids bending to avoid touching him and gravitational anomalies leaving him unaffected by shifting ground under his feet, while the Vex simply observed. Asher found himself next to a pit under the radiolarian lake hidden in unusual geometry. He reached up with both his arms, and pulled the lake down to himself.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Duress_and_Egress#Asher:_Conclusion|Duress and Egress: Asher: Conclusion]]''</ref>


It is unknown if Asher survived the ordeal. However, following Io's disappearance, both he and [[Sloane]] were declared MIA by Zavala.
The instant after Asher brought the lake down upon himself, he encountered a Vex terminal. Ordering it to register him into the Vex Collective and halt his transformation, Asher then escaped into the [[Vex Network|Nexus]] just as Io vanished. He would not be seen again for years, the Vanguard declaring him MIA with Sloane in the meantime.
 
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===Legacy===
{{Quote|I will do the same thing I always do: find answers. Then I will deliver them to you and you can use them to form some sort of plan.|Zavala's hallucination of Asher}}
{{Quote|I will do the same thing I always do: find answers. Then I will deliver them to you and you can use them to form some sort of plan.|Zavala's hallucination of Asher}}
Following the reformation of the Traveler, Zavala began to daydream of those lost on the disappeared planets, Asher included, while preparing a speech to the people of the City. He imagined Asher contacting him over comms requesting approval to develop a machine to disable the Pyramids, which he granted. After hanging up, the hallucinated Asher momentarily reconnected to give his thanks.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]] - [[Lore]]: [[Phobos_Warden_Armor#Lore_3|Phobos Warden Vest/Plate/Robes]]''</ref>
Following the reformation of the Traveler, Zavala began to daydream of those lost on the disappeared planets, Asher included, while preparing a speech to the people of the City. He imagined Asher contacting him over comms requesting approval to develop a machine to disable the Pyramids, which he granted. After hanging up, the hallucinated Asher momentarily reconnected to give his thanks.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]] - [[Lore]]: [[Phobos_Warden_Armor#Lore_3|Phobos Warden Vest/Plate/Robes]]''</ref>


Half a year later during the [[Endless Night]], Asher began to appear in Vex predictions regarding [[Lakshmi-2]], seemingly accompanying an invasion of the City.<ref>'''Bungie (2021/5/11)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Splicer]] - [[Lore]]: [[Stochastic_Variable#Lore|Stochastic Variable]]''</ref> On the [[Override: Last City|Last City version of the Override]] activity, a non-hostile Harpy overlooks the events near an array of computers; while it does not interact to a Guardian, it emits beeps that can be translated via Morse code to read "ASSISTANT", the term that Asher had given to the Guardian frequently on his missions.
Unbeknownst to the Vanguard, Asher continued to explore the Vex network as a digital entity for unknown reasons. He would only ever reveal his presence to the material world in the event that the Nexus itself bled into reality by either sending a Harpy or creating projections of his original body, and [[Mithrax, Kell of Light|Mithrax]] implies from his transmissions through radiolaria that his ventures are extremely painful to his consciousness.
 
Half a year later during the [[Endless Night]], Asher began to appear in Vex predictions regarding [[Lakshmi-2]], seemingly accompanying an invasion of the City.<ref>'''Bungie (2021/5/11)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Splicer]] - [[Lore]]: [[Stochastic_Variable#Lore|Stochastic Variable]]''</ref> On the [[Override: Last City|Last City version of the Override]] activity, the aforementioned Harpy overlooks the events near an array of computers; while it does not interact to a Guardian, it emits beeps that can be translated via Morse code to read "ASSISTANT", the term that Asher had given to the Guardian frequently on his missions.
 
At an unknown point in time, Asher discovered an access point to the portion of the Nexus connected to [[Neomuna]]. He would later use this to monitor the Guardian as they led [[Partition|excursions]] into the network to stop the [[Shadow Legion]] from damaging its integrity, with [[Quinn Laghari]] finding cryptic messages whose signatures matched his name.
 
A week after [[The Witness]] communed with [[The Veil]] and vanished into the resulting portal made on the Traveler, Asher would use the Nexus to contact Mithrax and the Guardian from the [[European Dead Zone]], using a Harpy like he had previously done during Lakshmi's coup. Following his guidance, the two discovered a rebuilt Brakion pursuing him for tampering with the Nexus's data. When Brakion is stopped, Asher rewarded them with [[Vexcalibur|a specialized glaive]] designed to break the Vex's security protocol and weaponize the barrier technology that Brakion had previously employed to fight him and the Vanguard.


==Personality and traits==
==Personality and traits==