#Rasputin attacked the pyramid ships: LOST

[zinogirl]

Got some feelings about Rasputin rn

[flowers-of-io]

Oh man I was asleep and I wake up to this 😂 *rolls up sleeves* so this is just the most basic recap of the biggest plot points, but if you want to pick up a single DLC that is a self contained, great story, then I'm seconding @under-the-arch and thoroughly recommending Witch Queen. You don't have to know a lot of the new lore (except like, one specific plot thread) to understand it, and it's a brilliant narrative.

SHADOWKEEP

Savathûn is secretly in control of the Hidden Swarm on the Moon

A pyramid, relic of the Collapse, found under the lunar surface, and the Hive draw some power from it

The pyramid also causes Nightmares to appear

We enter the pyramid and find a Darkness relic that transmits messages to us and tells us to go to the Black Garden

The Vex Sol Divisive are now on the Moon

2019-20 seasons

Saint-14 comes back

The Cabal try to blow up our Sun with the Almighty (the huge ship from the Red War) but Rasputin shoots it down

A fleet of pyramids appear, landing on Io, Mars, Titan and Mercury -- the Darkness arrives in Sol and disables Rasputin

A Tree of Silver Wings grows on Io, Savathûn tries to prevent the Darkness from communicating with us but we fight her

Asher Mir enters the Pyramidion and we can't contact him, Vance enters the Infinite Forest, Sloane chooses to stay, Ana evacuates to the City

The Traveler repairs itself, the Darkness eats the four assailed planets and moons

BEYOND LIGHT

An Eliksni House worshipping Darkness and wielding its powers found on Europa, Variks calls us there to help

Exo Stranger reappears and teaches us to wield the Darkness along with Eris and Drifter so we could defeat Eramis, Kell of Darkness

Eramis turns into a popsicle when we fight her (literally)

Deep Stone Crypt found

Lots of great Exos and Clovis Bray lore

2021 seasons

Savathûn is deemed a heretic by the Hive and disappears completely, even her court can't find her

Osiris loses his Ghost

Uldren Sov found resurrected as a Guardian and going by the name Crow, working for the Spider and later for the Vanguard

Xivu Arath's forces show up in Sol

Savathûn is Big Sad but keeps cool about it

What's left of the Cabal Empire rolls into Sol feeing from Torobatl which was destroyed by Xivu, we're at a brief war but ultimately strike a truce

Vex attack the Last City, we find it is Savathûn commanding them through Quria

Mithrax's House of Light relocates to the City and Mithrax helps us with the Vex problem; we kill Quria

Mara Sov returns

Turns out Savathûn has been impersonating Osiris this whole time since he lost his Ghost and hanging out with us in the City

Savathûn wants to get rid of her worm and Mara Sov helps her with it

Crow finds out about his past

We deworm Savathûn but she escapes

THE WITCH QUEEN

Mars reappears but is weird

Savathûn's Hive have the Light now

(Spoilers for the expansion follow)

Turns out Hive Ghosts are normal Ghosts but edgy

Sav was resurrected by one after she died post-deworming and asked the Traveler to save her (a BEAUTIFUL cutscene)

She tries to seal the Traveler away in her throne world to protect it from the Darkness but we stop her

We find out about the Voice in the Darkness going by the name "the Witness" and we kill its disciple Rhulk

Turns out Savathûn saved our asses during the Collapse

2022 seasons

Lord Saladin is on the Cabal War Council now (long story)

The Leviathan reappears oozing with Nightmares, Calus wants to become a disciple of the Witness

Eramis thaws out and goes on a rampage stealing body parts of someone called "Nezarec" and we steal them back

Rasputin is put into an Exo frame

Xivu Arath's forces join with Eramis', Eramis attacks the Traveler but Rasputin sacrifices to stop her

Traveler is now in Earth's orbit

LIGHTFALL

The Witness arrives and attacks Earth

The Traveler has a laser now

We go to Neptune to find and secute "the Veil", something Savathûn hid there that the Witness needs

There's a cyberpunk-vaporwave style secret colony on Neptune that was founded by Ishtar scientists

Calus is a full-on disciple now

We learn new Darkness powers

The Witness either kills or disables the Traveler, creates a portal within it, and enters it

Turns out Nezarec is also a disciple and we kill him (unsurprisingly)

Hall of Heroes audiologs // Calcified Fragment: Curiosity

what could have been