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'''Dust''' is a [[Lore]] book introduced in ''[[ | [[File:LoreDust.png|300px|thumb]] | ||
'''Dust''' is a [[Lore]] book introduced in ''[[Season of the Drifter]]''. It details the [[Cryptarch]] [[Lavinia Garcia Umr Tawil]]'s experiences studying the [[Nine]]. Entries are unlocked by scanning items found in the [[The Reckoning|Reckoning]]. | |||
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"Is that him?" Lavinia whispers. | "Is that him?" Lavinia whispers. | ||
"Oh yes. Nobody does 'unnervingly bewildered' like our boy [[Xûr, Agent of the Nine|Xur]]." The [[Titan]] points down into the shadows of the [[Tower (Destiny 2)|Tower]] hangar, where a cloaked figure hunches over nothing, as if run through by an invisible spear. "He comes here to trade. We didn't let him in, but we don't stop him, either." | "Oh yes. Nobody does 'unnervingly bewildered' like our boy [[Xûr, Agent of the Nine|Xur]]." The [[Titan (class)|Titan]] points down into the shadows of the [[Tower (Destiny 2)|Tower]] hangar, where a cloaked figure hunches over nothing, as if run through by an invisible spear. "He comes here to trade. We didn't let him in, but we don't stop him, either." | ||
Lavinia, as afraid of success as she is of failure, shivers through a thrill of nerves. "Xûr," she corrects the Titan, then, feeling like a pedant: "Sorry. Cryptarch habit." | Lavinia, as afraid of success as she is of failure, shivers through a thrill of nerves. "Xûr," she corrects the Titan, then, feeling like a pedant: "Sorry. Cryptarch habit." | ||
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>RESULTS | >RESULTS | ||
Shimizu et al. "Significant anomalies in dark matter detections cannot be explained by interactions of gravitational focusing bodies." Journal of Post-[[Collapse]] Cosmological Recovery Vol. 99 #1012 | [[Hassan Shimizu|Shimizu]] et al. "Significant anomalies in dark matter detections cannot be explained by interactions of gravitational focusing bodies." Journal of Post-[[Collapse]] Cosmological Recovery Vol. 99 #1012 | ||
Gonzalez, Hari-4, and Mwangi. "Anomalies in dark matter detections as a function of topological T-genic complexities in orbital dynamics." Journal of Post-Collapse Cosmological Recovery, Vol. 99 #1014 | [[Gonzalez]], [[Hari-5|Hari-4]], and [[Mwangi]]. "Anomalies in dark matter detections as a function of topological T-genic complexities in orbital dynamics." Journal of Post-Collapse Cosmological Recovery, Vol. 99 #1014 | ||
Shimizu et al. "Massive anomalies in dark matter detections cannot be explained without teleonomic models of CDM efflux self-interaction." Journal of Post-Collapse Cosmological Recovery, Vol. 99 #1015 | Shimizu et al. "Massive anomalies in dark matter detections cannot be explained without teleonomic models of CDM efflux self-interaction." Journal of Post-Collapse Cosmological Recovery, Vol. 99 #1015 | ||
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The channel disintegrates into digital static as the Corsair's ship accelerates away. | The channel disintegrates into digital static as the Corsair's ship accelerates away. | ||
Lavinia swears and beats her suited fist against her helmet. She's trapped in Cocytus! The last time the Awoken trapped anyone here, those poor souls went utterly insane. The doomed crew of the [[Dead Orbit]] scout ship Sophia called this place A113, an innocent catalogue number; they had no idea that the gates aboard—once a Golden Age experiment—had been captured by the Hive deity [[Crota]]. Those gates consumed them all. | Lavinia swears and beats her suited fist against her helmet. She's trapped in Cocytus! The last time the Awoken trapped anyone here, those poor souls went utterly insane. The doomed crew of the [[Dead Orbit]] scout ship [[Sophia]] called this place A113, an innocent catalogue number; they had no idea that the gates aboard—once a Golden Age experiment—had been captured by the Hive deity [[Crota]]. Those gates consumed them all. | ||
Now Crota is gone, and Lavinia has gambled everything that the portals have fallen into other hands. Ahamkara make the unreal real—Calus's ship is surrounded by a halo of unreal dark matter, like a ring of probing hands, Guardians can manipulate reality itself—there is a pattern here, a story, and it leads to Cocytus, to what these gates might do. | Now Crota is gone, and Lavinia has gambled everything that the portals have fallen into other hands. Ahamkara make the unreal real—Calus's ship is surrounded by a halo of unreal dark matter, like a ring of probing hands, Guardians can manipulate reality itself—there is a pattern here, a story, and it leads to Cocytus, to what these gates might do. | ||
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==The Declaration== | ==The Declaration== | ||
You want our source, our primal cause? | You want our source, our primal cause?<br> | ||
WE ARE THE SHADOWS OF YOUR WORLDS' MASS | WE ARE THE SHADOWS OF YOUR WORLDS' MASS<br> | ||
old dark dust ever gravity-flowing | old dark dust ever gravity-flowing<br> | ||
INTELLIGENCES WHORLED ROUND EACH WORLD'S CORE, | INTELLIGENCES WHORLED ROUND EACH WORLD'S CORE,<br> | ||
9 H O U R G L A S S P I N C H E S I N A G A L A C T I C W I N D | 9 H O U R G L A S S P I N C H E S I N A G A L A C T I C W I N D<br> | ||
Too large - to see | Too large - to see<br> | ||
too small + to miss | too small + to miss<br> | ||
our mass binds = your matter frees | our mass binds = your matter frees<br> | ||
.our philosophi | es lay divided. | .our philosophi | es lay divided.<br> | ||
We try to guard and nurture you. | We try to guard and nurture you.<br> | ||
AND WE CHERISH YOU AS SHADOWS CHERISH FLAME | AND WE CHERISH YOU AS SHADOWS CHERISH FLAME<br> | ||
watching your swift bright lives flicker, die | watching your swift bright lives flicker, die<br> | ||
SUSTAINED BY THE PATTERNS OF YOUR THOUGHT – | SUSTAINED BY THE PATTERNS OF YOUR THOUGHT –<br> | ||
B U T D I S T A N T U N R E A C H A B L E | B U T D I S T A N T U N R E A C H A B L E<br> | ||
Beyond - what we are - or what we were | Beyond - what we are - or what we were<br> | ||
the answer lies + in severing | the answer lies + in severing<br> | ||
two sides = a single coin | two sides = a single coin<br> | ||
.alliance and contact | solitude and silence. | .alliance and contact | solitude and silence.<br> | ||
Do you understand our fates are intertwined? | Do you understand our fates are intertwined?<br> | ||
FOR YOU SEED THE ANISOTROPY WE SUSTAIN | FOR YOU SEED THE ANISOTROPY WE SUSTAIN<br> | ||
but decay is decay is decay | but decay is decay is decay<br> | ||
A COLOSSAL FRAGILITY, A COMPLEX FIDUCIARY. | A COLOSSAL FRAGILITY, A COMPLEX FIDUCIARY.<br> | ||
T O N G U E L E S S W E T R Y T O S P E A K | T O N G U E L E S S W E T R Y T O S P E A K<br> | ||
There must be - another way | There must be - another way<br> | ||
we must become + more than we are | we must become + more than we are<br> | ||
always together = never touching | always together = never touching<br> | ||
.dependence i | s deathfated. | .dependence i | s deathfated.<br> | ||
==The Nine== | ==The Nine== | ||
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... and reborn, somewhere, somewhen, made of flesh again, shaking and dripping fear-sweat, mewling like a little baby. Her cheek presses against a warm wooden floor. There's a fireplace, and a fire in it, and strong wind outside that sucks at the flames. | ... and reborn, somewhere, somewhen, made of flesh again, shaking and dripping fear-sweat, mewling like a little baby. Her cheek presses against a warm wooden floor. There's a fireplace, and a fire in it, and strong wind outside that sucks at the flames. | ||
The clever-looking old lady at the desk looks up. "Ah," she says. "Lavinia! You made it." | [[Savathûn, the Witch-Queen|The clever-looking old lady]] at the desk looks up. "Ah," she says. "Lavinia! You made it." | ||
"Wh—" Lavinia gasps. "Wha—" | "Wh—" Lavinia gasps. "Wha—" | ||
She smiles, as if Lavinia's confusion is the sweetest greeting she's ever heard. "Don't be afraid. You've come to exactly the right place." | She smiles, as if Lavinia's confusion is the sweetest greeting she's ever heard. "Don't be afraid. You've come to [[High Coven|exactly the right place]]." | ||
"Where...?" | "Where...?" | ||
"Someplace where you're appreciated. Where we can really use everything you've learned." The old lady pours a thin stream of tea into a cup of bone. "Didn't I tell you that you were lucky, back when you were born?" | "Someplace where you're appreciated. Where we can really use everything you've learned." The old lady pours a thin stream of tea into a cup of [[Ahamkara|bone]]. "Didn't I tell you that you were lucky, back when you were born?" | ||
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