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Following this, the Vanguard fully made an alliance with the Reefborn Awoken, allowing them to set up a command center within H.E.L.M., having the Guardians work with Mara Sov in combating Xivu Arath's Horde and in providing the Reef Queen needed for the ritual to excise Savathûn's worm. Though this campaign would take months, the Guardians succeeded in aiding Mara and the Awoken in clearing the [[Dreaming City]] and providing what Mara needed for the ritual: her Techeun Coven lost in the Ascendant Realm. After the ritual succeeded, Savathûn escaped but the Witch Queen kept her end of the bargain by safely returning Osiris, albeit weakened and comatose. | Following this, the Vanguard fully made an alliance with the Reefborn Awoken, allowing them to set up a command center within H.E.L.M., having the Guardians work with Mara Sov in combating Xivu Arath's Horde and in providing the Reef Queen needed for the ritual to excise Savathûn's worm. Though this campaign would take months, the Guardians succeeded in aiding Mara and the Awoken in clearing the [[Dreaming City]] and providing what Mara needed for the ritual: her Techeun Coven lost in the Ascendant Realm. After the ritual succeeded, Savathûn escaped but the Witch Queen kept her end of the bargain by safely returning Osiris, albeit weakened and comatose. | ||
Following their missions in the Reef, the Vanguard would launch new investigations on the surprise return of Mars with the planet experiencing some form of temporal distortion. Ikora would lead this investigation but it would take a wicked turn after Savathûn made a reappearance on her ship, [[The Lure]]. Ikora sent in the Guardian to investigate the ship for any sign of the Witch Queen but while they did indeed find the Hive god, they discovered something far worse: the Witch Queen and her followers, the [[Lucent Brood]] possessed the Light, with some having their own Ghosts. Worse, their investigation would lead them to learn that after Savathûn escaped the Reef, she actually was critically wounded but managed to appear before the Traveler before she died, where it appeared the Traveler allowed a Ghost to revive Savathûn as a Lightbearer. Further, they discovered the Witch Queen's plan to "protect" the Traveler from and entity called [[The Witness]], supposedly the being in command of the Black Fleet, by sealing it away in her Throne World. Doing so however, would leave the Last City defenseless. The Guardian would bring these truths to the Vanguard and it shake its members to the core, with Zavala in near denial, unable to understand why the Traveler would give one of humanities most devious foes the Light. Ikora, however, states that regardless of the Traveler's reasons, if Savathûn succeeds then humanity won't survive The Witness's return. | |||
Resolving to stop the Witch Queen's plan, Ikora would take a calcified worm the Guardian had collected during their investigations in [[Savathûn's Throne World]] and would discover a shocking revelation: using her Worm Familiar, The Witness had lied to Savathûn during her time as her previous self, Sathona, tricking her into leading her siblings into the oceans of Fundament, which resulted in their pact with the Worms Gods and the rise of the Hive species. The Witness did this because the Traveler was poised to uplift the Krill species and sought to claim them first. Ikora shared this secret with the Guardian and tasked them to use this truth to help them in destabilizing Savathûn, thereby undoing her spell to seal away the Traveler within her Throne World. After a grueling battle against the Lightbearing Witch Queen, the Guardian succeeded in defeating Savathûn and saving the Traveler, though her Ghost, [[Immaru]], would escape. Nonetheless taking it as a victory, the Guardian would nonetheless state that humanity must be prepared for The Witness's return. | |||
==Vanguard Leaders== | ==Vanguard Leaders== | ||