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The '''Cabal Booklet''' is an untitled book included in the [[Destiny 2 Collector's Edition] | [[File:Joseph-biwald-d2-ce-01.jpg|thumb|300px|The cover art of the Cabal Booklet]] | ||
The '''Cabal Booklet''' is an untitled lore book included in the ''[[Destiny_2#Limited_Editions|Destiny 2]]'' Collector's Edition, written by {{Plain|[https://twitter.com/sethjdickinson/status/904118835237793792 Seth Dickinson]}}. It consists of a formal invitation written by [[Emperor Calus|Calus]], the former [[Cabal Emperor]], to an unidentified prospective champion to assassinate the Cabal leaders who overthrew him in a [[Ghaul's coup|coup]]. The invitation reveals significant details about the history, government, and culture of the [[Cabal]].<ref>[http://imgur.com/a/afsXN '''Imgur''' - ''Cabal Booklet'']</ref>{{Citation needed}} | |||
==An Invitation== | ==An Invitation== | ||
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Do you desire eternal greatness? Do you seek true freedom? I, alone, hold the power to grant you these gifts... if you prove yourself to me. | Do you desire eternal greatness? Do you seek true freedom? I, alone, hold the power to grant you these gifts... if you prove yourself to me. | ||
Know that I am [[ | Know that I am [[Emperor Calus|Calus]], the last and greatest [[Cabal Emperor|emperor]] of the [[Cabal]]. For centuries, I led the revels of my empire, and the stars themselves burnt sweet and clear. But in time the jealous and the tight-fisted rose up and sent me into exile. And when the people called out for me, these envious rebels battered my Cabal down into grey submission. | ||
Now I offer my gifts and delectations to you, young celebrant! Together we might restore laughter and great excess to the golden halls of [[Torobatl]] and all the stars beyond! | Now I offer my gifts and delectations to you, young celebrant! Together we might restore laughter and great excess to the golden halls of [[Torobatl]] and all the stars beyond! | ||
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It was not enough for this vile council to overthrow me. These mendacious and murderous villains, these dear companions who I kept so long at my side: they gave my Cabal to brutal military rule. Now armored tyrants stain golden Torobatl with their dark designs. [[Dominus Ghaul|Ghaul]] is the epitome of their creed. An innocent orphan simmered in their poison hate. He will infect the whole Cabal with his emptiness - I have foreseen it! His life will be a quest to fill the hollow in his soul! | It was not enough for this vile council to overthrow me. These mendacious and murderous villains, these dear companions who I kept so long at my side: they gave my Cabal to brutal military rule. Now armored tyrants stain golden Torobatl with their dark designs. [[Dominus Ghaul|Ghaul]] is the epitome of their creed. An innocent orphan simmered in their poison hate. He will infect the whole Cabal with his emptiness - I have foreseen it! His life will be a quest to fill the hollow in his soul! | ||
They would have killed me, but I was too beloved and too glorious. So they sent me away into resplendent exile upon this [[Leviathan | They would have killed me, but I was too beloved and too glorious. So they sent me away into resplendent exile upon this [[The Leviathan|Grand Leviathan]]. | ||
And from that exile I call on you, the brave, to execute my justice upon the traitors. Save the Cabal from grey enslavement. Join me in my search for the glorious and absolute powers of the universe! | And from that exile I call on you, the brave, to execute my justice upon the traitors. Save the Cabal from grey enslavement. Join me in my search for the glorious and absolute powers of the universe! | ||
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He loved me through all the hard times. Oh, friend! How could my ''happiness'' turn you against me? How could you grow disgusted with my joy and revelry? How bitter to lose a friend because your friendship was made only of shared pain. | He loved me through all the hard times. Oh, friend! How could my ''happiness'' turn you against me? How could you grow disgusted with my joy and revelry? How bitter to lose a friend because your friendship was made only of shared pain. | ||
On the dark day, Shayotet led the soldiers into my house. Shayotet let the soldiers plunder my collections, feast on my larders, and shoot down those who tried to save me. Shayotet said he was doing this in the name of the man I'd once been, but I knew he was jealous of | On the dark day, Shayotet led the soldiers into my house. Shayotet let the soldiers plunder my collections, feast on my larders, and shoot down those who tried to save me. Shayotet said he was doing this in the name of the man I'd once been, but I knew he was jealous of the emperor I'd become. | ||
Shayotet must die. | Shayotet must die. | ||
He's a bodyguard, centuries old and always vigilant. He has only one weakness: he will stand and fight. | He's a bodyguard, centuries old and always vigilant. He has only one weakness: he will stand and fight. He doesn't know how to run. Make him feel like he's protecting something, and he'll battle to end. | ||
Without me, what has Shayotet to protect? Why, brave adventurer, he's like you. He does love his guns. | Without me, what has Shayotet to protect? Why, brave adventurer, he's like you. He does love his guns. | ||
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I invited the builder to join me at a fete in her honor. She was called Otzot, freeborn Psion, and she glowed with the power of her thoughts. She said, "Is this not Calus's new Empire, an empire of achievement? Can't the Psions grow fat in thought, as you grow fat with power?" | I invited the builder to join me at a fete in her honor. She was called Otzot, freeborn Psion, and she glowed with the power of her thoughts. She said, "Is this not Calus's new Empire, an empire of achievement? Can't the Psions grow fat in thought, as you grow fat with power?" | ||
I said, you have a deal! I name you Imperial Dreamer, and you will have all that you need. All of us are stronger when we join hands in song - Cabal and Psion, Sindû and Clipse, [[Arkborn]] and all the others. | I said, you have a deal! I name you Imperial Dreamer, and you will have all that you need. All of us are stronger when we join hands in song - Cabal and Psion, [[Sindû]] and [[Clipse]], [[Arkborn]] and all the others. | ||
If only I could have sensed her thoughts, as she so ably sensed mine. When I moved to free the indentured Psions, I threatened Otzot's superior status as a freeborn. She joined the conspiracy against me. She used the OXA to transmit messages in secret - the military's plans for their coup. | If only I could have sensed her thoughts, as she so ably sensed mine. When I moved to free the indentured Psions, I threatened Otzot's superior status as a freeborn. She joined the conspiracy against me. She used the OXA to transmit messages in secret - the military's plans for their coup. | ||
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If only Moli hadn't soothed the people after my exile. If only he'd let them rise up in rage. | If only Moli hadn't soothed the people after my exile. If only he'd let them rise up in rage. | ||
But that's Moli, isn't it, my brave champions? He just can't bear to see the people angry. Unhappiness leads to uprising, and uprising | But that's Moli, isn't it, my brave champions? He just can't bear to see the people angry. Unhappiness leads to uprising, and uprising leads to bloodshed, and few know this: Moli was once the Colossus of [[Bru'unth]]. As a loyal soldier of the old corrupt Praetorate, he drove the republicans into the sea. He massacred innocent citizens for the crime of supporting me. | ||
He renounced war forever, and devoted himself to joy and revelry as Aedile. Oh, Moli, what happiness you brought to us all! Now the Everjoy celebrates false happiness. He paints a smiling face on the grim legionary helm. | He renounced war forever, and devoted himself to joy and revelry as Aedile. Oh, Moli, what happiness you brought to us all! Now the Everjoy celebrates false happiness. He paints a smiling face on the grim legionary helm. | ||
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Umun'arath must die. | Umun'arath must die. | ||
Her flagship's hull is adamant, her weapons crack planets, and she stands ever vigilant. For Umun sees terror all around her: [[Vex|machines]] who can eat her worlds, [[Fallen|barbarians]] who corrode her frontiers, [[Hive|wizards]] who thirst for her soul, and worse. | Her flagship's hull is adamant, her weapons crack planets, and she stands ever vigilant. For Umun sees terror all around her: [[Vex|machines]] who can eat her worlds, [[Fallen|barbarians]] who corrode her frontiers, [[Hive|wizards]] who thirst for her soul, and [[Darkness|worse]]. | ||
Umun is afraid of the outside. See that her doom comes from within. | Umun is afraid of the outside. See that her doom comes from within. | ||
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Thus the king led the great people into slavery to their fear. Ghaul will do the same. | Thus the king led the great people into slavery to their fear. Ghaul will do the same. | ||
The Praetorate chose Ghaul to overthrow me, but they could not master him, for he had a fearsome strength. They tried to control him, to temper and delay his coup; now he drags them forward by their own reins. ''Anyone can be great,'' Ghaul says, ''if they work their hardest.'' But what he means is ''no one can be great, except in the way I approve.'' He says I was born to luxury and corruption; I say he was made only to fear and hate! Whose universe would you choose to live in, I ask you? | The Praetorate chose Ghaul to overthrow me, but they could not master him, for he had a fearsome strength. They tried to control him, to temper and delay his coup; now he drags them forward by their own reins. ''Anyone can be great,'' Ghaul says, ''if they work their hardest.'' But what he means is ''no one can be great, except in the way I approve.'' He says I was born to luxury and corruption; I say he was made only to fear and hate! Whose universe would you choose to live in, I ask you? Ghaul's miserable slog? Ghaul's age of closed fists? Or my world of plenty and delight? Do not mistake my joy for weakness, oh just one! I fight to make a haven in a bloody cosmos. Ghaul fights so that he can keep fighting forever. | ||
He has refused the title ''Emperor'', although some of his soldiers call him so. He says there will be no more emperors. I am the last emperor, the epitome of the true Cabal. | He has refused the title ''Emperor'', although some of his soldiers call him so. He says there will be no more emperors. I am the last emperor, the epitome of the true Cabal. | ||
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<big>''Emperor Calus''</big> | <big>''Emperor Calus''</big> | ||
==Trivia== | |||
*A ''lictor'' was, in Ancient Rome, a bodyguard to an important civil authority. This furthers the similarities between the Cabal Empire and the Roman Empire of old. | |||
*Similarly, ''Aedile'' was a term applied to Ancient Roman officials who oversaw public projects and festivals. | |||
*''Escadrille'' is a French term meaning squadron. | |||
==Gallery== | |||
<gallery> | |||
File:Lictor Shayotet, the Emperor's Protector.jpg|Lictor [[Shayotet]] | |||
File:Psions.jpg|[[Freeborn Otzot]] | |||
File:Aedile Moli Imoli, The Everjoy.jpg|Aedile [[Moli Imoli]] | |||
File:Evocate-General Umun'arath, Primus of all Legions.jpg|[[Umun'arath]] | |||
File:Iska'al of Fantor.jpg|[[Iska'al]] | |||
File:Caiatl, the Princess-Imperial.jpg|[[Caiatl]] | |||
File:The Consul booklet.jpg|[[The Consul]] | |||
File:Ghaul booklet.jpg|[[Dominus Ghaul]] | |||
</gallery> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Cabal]] | [[Category:Cabal]] | ||
[[Category:Lore]] | |||