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{{Article Quote|We don't have much time.<ref name="Call">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[A Stranger's Call]]''</ref>}} | {{Article Quote|We don't have much time.<ref name="Call">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[A Stranger's Call]]''</ref>}} | ||
The '''Exo Stranger''' is an [[Exo]] that roams the wild without a [[Ghost]].<ref name="Stranger"/> Her purpose and intentions are unknown,<ref name="Stranger"/> but she appears to be interested in the player's activities and keeps tabs on them when they venture outside of the [[City]].<ref name="Stranger">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire | The '''Exo Stranger''' is an [[Exo]] that roams the wild without a [[Ghost]].<ref name="Stranger"/> Her purpose and intentions are unknown,<ref name="Stranger"/> but she appears to be interested in the player's activities and keeps tabs on them when they venture outside of the [[City]].<ref name="Stranger">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/The_Exo_Stranger#The_Exo_Stranger|The Exo Stranger]]''</ref> | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
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The Stranger appears to be working for an unknown faction who know more about the war against the [[Darkness]] than [[Guardian]]s do.<ref name="Call"/> She possesses much technology that even Ghosts don't fully understand; she is capable of appearing and disappearing out of reality,<ref name="Stranger"/><ref name="Call"/><ref name="Garden">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[The Black Garden]]''</ref> and her [[The Stranger's Rifle|weapon]] has parts that "shouldn't yet exist."<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Item Description, [[The Stranger's Rifle]]''</ref> Those who have seen her are divided on who she is: some claim she is the remains of a forgotten Exo squadron fighting a long ago war while others believe her intervention has saved their lives. A few believe she is a hallucination caused by exposure to Vex technologies.<ref name="Stranger"/> | The Stranger appears to be working for an unknown faction who know more about the war against the [[Darkness]] than [[Guardian]]s do.<ref name="Call"/> She possesses much technology that even Ghosts don't fully understand; she is capable of appearing and disappearing out of reality,<ref name="Stranger"/><ref name="Call"/><ref name="Garden">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[The Black Garden]]''</ref> and her [[The Stranger's Rifle|weapon]] has parts that "shouldn't yet exist."<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Item Description, [[The Stranger's Rifle]]''</ref> Those who have seen her are divided on who she is: some claim she is the remains of a forgotten Exo squadron fighting a long ago war while others believe her intervention has saved their lives. A few believe she is a hallucination caused by exposure to Vex technologies.<ref name="Stranger"/> | ||
At an unknown time she encountered [[Rasputin]], who recognized her but did not understand her purpose; and thus asks her how he could imitate her.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire | At an unknown time she encountered [[Rasputin]], who recognized her but did not understand her purpose; and thus asks her how he could imitate her.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost_Fragment:_Rasputin_4|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 4]]''</ref> This meeting may have occurred during one her numerous reappearances to stave off an unknown future, as in another point in time—or times—she observes the [[Traveler]] and the [[Last City]] falling to numerous unknown enemies, and among the dead sees herself appearing occasionally.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/The_Exo_Stranger#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Exo_Stranger|Ghost Fragment: The Exo Stranger]]''</ref> | ||
She became interested in [[the Guardian]] after going to the [[Moon]] numerous times, expecting the [[Vex]] and the [[Black Heart]] but instead encountering the [[Hive]], an enemy who has much in common "with the machines than [ordinary] enemies alone."<ref name="Exo 2">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire | She became interested in [[the Guardian]] after going to the [[Moon]] numerous times, expecting the [[Vex]] and the [[Black Heart]] but instead encountering the [[Hive]], an enemy who has much in common "with the machines than [ordinary] enemies alone."<ref name="Exo 2">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/The_Exo_Stranger#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Exo_Stranger_2|Ghost Fragment: The Exo Stranger 2]]''</ref> She concludes that the Moon was their "[[Oversoul Throne|black heart]]", and that it led to the same end she wished to stop.<ref name="Exo 2"/> After witnessing an unknown [[Fireteam]] of Guardians stopping [[Chamber of Night (mission)|the ritual]] in the [[Chamber of Night]], calling it an "extraction", she went back in time to the rediscovery of the Hive, finding another Guardian, whose [[Ghost]] mentioned [[Venus]].<ref name="Exo 2"/> Believing this particular Guardian to be "the one", she went backwards in time again, following the Ghost to the [[Cosmodrome]], intent on watching for her own purposes.<ref name="Exo 2"/> This purpose is apparently that they have succeeded where others have failed,<ref name="Exo 2"/> which may be stopping the Black Garden and the Heart.<ref name = "Destiny: Official E3 Gameplay Experience Trailer"/><ref name="Call"/> This is later borne out as being true,<ref name="Garden"/> and she presents them with her personal weapon to aid them in the coming fight before vanishing.<ref name="Garden"/> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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*"[[The Black Garden]]" | *"[[The Black Garden]]" | ||
In the mission [[A Stranger's Call]], she was talking to an unknown person or group of persons, whose identity has yet to be revealed. Additionally, according to the flavor text of the last quest step in the "Not Forged From the Light" quest, [[Praedyth]] or his Ghost may have seen her at some point. This is implied to have been a recurring occurrence.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Item Description, [http://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/classified-30 Talk to Lakshmi-2]''</ref> While she is completely absent in the Taken King campaign, she plays a pivotal role in investigating the odd fate of Praedyth and the effects [[Oryx]] brought to the Vex. Eventually her rifle, not worn but enhanced by time itself, surfaces in the hands of the [[Future War Cult]] researchers as [[No Time to Explain]], who give it to the Guardian. With contradictory clues on the rifle's origin, the truth behind it may never be known.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire | In the mission [[A Stranger's Call]], she was talking to an unknown person or group of persons, whose identity has yet to be revealed. Additionally, according to the flavor text of the last quest step in the "Not Forged From the Light" quest, [[Praedyth]] or his Ghost may have seen her at some point. This is implied to have been a recurring occurrence.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Item Description, [http://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/classified-30 Talk to Lakshmi-2]''</ref> While she is completely absent in the Taken King campaign, she plays a pivotal role in investigating the odd fate of Praedyth and the effects [[Oryx]] brought to the Vex. Eventually her rifle, not worn but enhanced by time itself, surfaces in the hands of the [[Future War Cult]] researchers as [[No Time to Explain]], who give it to the Guardian. With contradictory clues on the rifle's origin, the truth behind it may never be known.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Inventory/Primary_Weapons#No_Time_To_Explain|No Time To Explain]]''</ref> | ||
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