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The Black Garden is a 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 (expansion)|Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The_Forsaken_Prince#On_the_Hunt|On the Hunt]]''</ref> 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 ''"[grow] them toward what they want to be."''<ref name="After Part 2">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken (expansion)|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 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 (expansion)|Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The_Forsaken_Prince#On_the_Hunt|On the Hunt]]''</ref> 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 ''"[grow] them toward what they want to be."''<ref name="After Part 2">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken (expansion)|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 | 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"/> | ||
===Accessibility=== | ===Accessibility=== | ||