#Warlock Praedyth

[marmaladedcroissant]

So I went and tried to get further details on Kabr's fireteam, and as I was listening , I decided to make a list of what I could hear from him:

"They want me to send a message. The creatures will soon reach the heart of the vault. When they do they plan to destroy(?) the Vex. Once they take the Vex, they'll come for the light."

What creatures did he mean? Was he talking about the Taken?

"I have no idea where I am. My name is Praedyth, and I was a member of Kabr's fireteam. I just hope that someone will hear this. "

"I don't know why they're letting me speak(?). Now, after so long. But if anyone is listening, I came into the Vault with two others, Kabr was intense sometimes. And Pahanin was always talking to himself. But they don't deserve this. No one does."

Again, who is they?? Why wouldn't they let him speak?? What did Kabr and Pahanin not deserve?? Was it a reference to Kabr being corrupted by the Vex mind?? Was it a reference to their deaths, or something worse? And for him to ask why after so long, how long has he been there already???

"I think that's it. They're closing the door. I lived! Just remember, tell them, I live-!"

Once more, we see 'Them'. Who are they? The Vex themselves? Some branch off of the Vex? He must have been so happy to have survived the encounter, only to slowly wither away in the small chamber(?). Or was it some sort of room and he died of his wounds before he could actually get out?

[eventiderookery]

so like, the "singular friend" is praedyth right???

[thefirstknife]

you just reblogged a (very very cool) piece of riven art where she has wings and it got my wondering. i never imagined the ahamkara with wings because riven doesnt have them, but is it mentioned anywhere in the lore that other ahamkara may have had wings? or are there instances of ahamkara descriptions that differ from what riven looks like in general? or did all ahamkara look basically like riven? (tho i have to say, after seeing that art of riven i love the idea of them having wings, whether its lore-accurate or not)

Ahamkara are shapeshifters! They can look like anything they want. And more often than not, they take on forms as requested by those they fight so in a way, they reflect their enemy's desires. Riven could alter her form and did so fairly often, mostly by presenting in different sizes. It sometimes also included wings!

Mara sits cross-legged in the canopy shade of Riven's wing.

The same tab describes Riven with a different size and colours:

Riven turns to watch. On this day, her head is the size of a Fallen pike. She is vibrant blue with a yellow and red crest, and her pupils are crescents within her lidless eyes.

When Uldren first brought Riven to Mara, she was small enough to fit in his hand:

In time, he returned to the Reef with a creature not larger than his hand, saying, "Behold, Sister, the lie that makes itself true. This is an Ahamkara."

Another ahamkara explicitly said to have had wings is Azirim:

He spread his wings and flew out into the empty air beyond the steep cliffs that bordered the gardens.

They can also turn into other species! The ahamkara that ate Talullah Fairwind, the first Hunter Vanguard who bet on her life in a game against an ahamkara, appeared in the shape of a human:

The Ahamkara looked like somebody's kindly old grandpa just now. And it could play a mean hand of cards.

Praedyth fought one that looked like this:

In the middle, between them, Praedyth smiled. A winged and scaled lion with a boar's tusks leapt at him, and he could swear he saw the thing wink at him as he tore it apart.

A Warlock called Gallida who fought in the Great Ahamkara Hunt alongside Taeko-3, wished for an ahamkara to take the form of a Vex so she could study it:

The massive Vex construct that was the Ahamkhara towered over them... ... "The rear ventral plate, please?" Graciously, the construct shifted its superstructure and allowed the researcher a detailed look at the thing's internal workings.

And of course, Lord Saladin wished for his ahamkara to appear in the form of an actual dragon:

"Why in the Traveler's crack did you wish to fight an actual DRAGON, old man?"

Saladin Forge grinned inside his helmet. The enormous wyrm towered above them, bleeding wounds covering its gleaming scales as it reared up for another breath. The massive axe in his hands was dented, scarred, and melted at the tip. But it still held an edge. "We are knights, Lady Efrideet. Do you not want to be a dragon slayer?"

They're incredibly cool creatures, and really ancient. They're mentioned in the Books of Sorrow; the Harmony tried fighting the Hive with the use of their wish magic, but they were unsuccessful against Xivu Arath.

I would love to see more of them, though the Great Ahamkara Hunt happened so they're now extinct. There's a chance that some ran away into hiding or that there's more of them somewhere in the universe, but as far as our system is concerned and ofc barring some major new reveals, they're gone.

[ahungeringknife]

365: May 8

Venus' sky was a slick yellow-green. A soft rain slipped from the perpetual clouds that always seemed to cover the campus around the Ishtar Collective. It muddled Kaley's vision as she was laid on her back in the mud and grass. The rest of Glitterbomb was doing the same. All silent and still as corpses. A bird flew over them. A Venus Poppycock, that's what they were called. Technically a lizard with wings, since avians hadn't spawned from the Traveler's Light here on Venus, but everyone called it a bird. They weren't like the little flying dragonets. It was small. Only the size of a wren, or a chickadee.

"We should go, right?" Nef asked from a few feet away.

"I think I need to lay here a bit longer," Grey said.

Comms fell quiet again for a few more minutes. Behind them the massive unwinding gate was closed but hummed softly with Vex energy. The spire hung as a mocking lattice in the air off towards the cliffs, curling with potential energy.

"Anyone want to talk about it?" Archie asked.

"No," Kaley's voice said, joining everyone's chorus over comms.

There was quiet again.

"We should though," Archie said. She turned her head when he sat up. Like the rest of them he'd long since lost his regular armor amid the unbuilding of Vex construction and Reggie had had to remake it all a new out of Vex pieces. Kaley could feel every piece of her new coat and armor. She could feel the way the dead Vex reached out to connect to her Light. It didn't speak but the helmet shivered and shimmered around her head like a living thing. The Vex that Amelia had made all this from were long dead but if she listened too closely she could hear it still.

"I don't even know what to talk about," Grey said, still on the ground. "I don't even know what happened."

"Rigel, Kaley, you know anything about this?" Archie asked.

"The Vex are not my area of expertise," Rigel said, voice strangely droning, glitchy almost.

"Kaley?" Archie prodded when she wasn't forthcoming.

She looked over at Rigel laying next to her. His helmet was almost a mirror of her own, a Vex head cracked open around a glass void. His was the shape of a harpy, while her's was a goblin. He looked back at her in that unflinching facade. But she knew. He'd seen it too. They'd both seen it. Down amid the Gorgons. She'd almost gotten lost but a voice in the network had brought her back to the others. She'd just seen a Warlock against the darkness of the labyrinth, a Vex lattice around his head like a noose. She thought it had been Rigel. When she'd found the others Rigel had said she'd been followed by something the others couldn't quite see. A figure in the dark.

When little Kassy had first asked her to help her on Venus weeks ago now she'd read up on some papers about the place. Nothing by Osiris. Mostly because everyone just wrote around him and included him. There was nothing about the Vex or Venus that didn't have his thoughts trailing through and personally Kaley found Osiris' research dry, difficult, to read, and completely self important to the point it was boring. And she'd come across Pahanin and his rambling madness a Warlock had written down one time. Probably just to shut him up. But she remembered the names he'd said. Over and over like if he stopped he wouldn't remember them. That no one would remember them. Kabr, a Titan, and Praedyth the Warlock, who'd been lost in a Vault of Glass where time stretched to the ends of the cosmos in all directions, melting together into the Black Garden and the fabric of reality.

They had both seen a Warlock down in the labyrinth. And all she could think of were the ramblings of a mad man. She knew Rigel had read the same report. She knew because she'd sent it to him. They'd had a little giggle about it at the time. What foolish things Hunters could think.

He was not telling Archie.

"I study birds, Archibald. Not the Vex," she said as the silence started to stretch almost too long and turned back up to face the sky.

She was also not telling Archie.

[sapphic-scylla]

Short Sera Story, my guardian OC. She’s known as the Pale Shade and is a master of summoning, be it threadlings, turrets, or void souls. @ebevkisk, enjoy!

The Pale Shade

Months before Seraphina had become the Queen’s Mercy for a second time, a guardian was pulled from the wreckage of a ship attempting to flee the system. A traitor to the will of the Last City and an acolyte of Calus. In a last ditch effort to escape punishment, he attempted to flee deep beyond the reaches of Sol before his ship was rent asunder by Seraphina’s own fighter. Restrained and knocked out cold, he was hauled back to the city in shame.

A day later, he awoke in a chair across from a warlock the tower knew very well. A legend, a godslayer, and her reputation preceded her to stand on par with legends. Saint-14, Wei Ning, Ikora Rey, Praedyth, and her.

“You know, I’m not one to follow orders, but fleeing the system in the midst of a war seems almost certainly like cowardice, Hunter.” Seraphina stalked as the hunter felt the sweat drip from his brow. “Don’t tell me you’re one of them. Like Aunor. One of them ‘see things in black and white types.’”

Seraphina felt a twinge of spite. Reaching into the air, she pulled a purple orb. As she did, flowers on her bracers seemed to pulse very ominously with void light, almost like they were reacting to the new presence. One very many guardians had seen, but this one seemed strong. Very strong.

“Hunter, I’d like you to meet Abby. I know you’ve seen Void Souls before, but as most among the tower know, summoning is my specialty.” She let it go and it flew directly behind him and he felt as though his soul was being torn from his body. The pain was incredibly uncomfortable and deeply unsettling. As if his bones were on fire but seated even deeper than that.

“This can’t be sanctioned by the Vanguard.” The Hunter stuttered out through labored breaths.

Seraphina snapped and the void soul returned to her side. “Come on, Hunter, you know I won’t harm your ghost. In fact, he’s welcome to resurrect you as many times as he likes. I won’t harm him. However, pain like that will continue unless you answer a few questions.”

The hunter’s face was trained in deception, but Sera had read liars before. Savathûn had been here and Sera had an eagle eye on her every single second. Telling the Vanguard would have forced her to run and as much as that would have been better for everyone, Savathûn was unfortunately useful and disrupting her plan would have cut off resources.

“Where is Calus? I know you worked with him on the Glykon. Guardians were found dead and worse aboard that ship. You knew what the Crown of Sorrow was capable of.”

The Hunter snarled and fell silent. She flicked the Void Soul over to him again. Again, that searing astral pain shot through his body.

“He’s not here. He shot back out into deep space.” The Hunter said through gritted teeth. She pulled the Void soul back.

“Why? Why did he leave?” Sera said, trying to keep calm.

“I’m not sure. He said he was preparing for the big event and nothing more. I felt guilty for helping him this long and tried to leave the system. I don’t want any part of this. Our vanguard is gone and most hunters won’t even set foot in the tower anymore. I swear that’s all I know. I just wanted to leave.”

Sera sighed and stood. “I don’t like deserters. The lack of care and honor for the people you protect? It’s disgusting you think you don’t have a job here.” And she opened the door and left.

Eris was standing a few feet from the door.

“Another pariah?” She said in her grim yet calming tone.

“Another attempt to flee the system. We don’t have enough answers and even our would-be comrades are starved for info. We need something to stay on the Witness’s tail. I can’t keep hoping for people to trust that the Vanguard knows what they’re doing. Zavala and Ikora mean well, but we’re all flying in the dark. Even Mara’s visions have become nebulous at best.”

Eris nodded, her eyes as green and insightful as they had always been. “Even the Tower’s so-called Pale Shade doesn’t have to carry the whole weight of this problem. The Hive do not rest and I cannot have you unprepared for the future. Your summons make you strong. However, I do know that our enemies are making moves. You are well-regarded and you have people that trust you. Make our enemies feel every cut you inflict. I have trained you well.”

As they were having this conversation, a young warlock sprinted up to Sera and Eris and, as she got close, Sera realized that her cheeks weren’t flushed from running, but from Sera’s presence.

“Um uh, Ms. Shade, I mean, Sera. Ikora would like to see you immediately.”

Sera gave her full attention. “What does she need?”

“The Leviathan was found above the Moon. She wants you to investigate immediately.”

[shalalalalaw]

Vault of Glass trio, flowers?

There’s a rosy tint to Pahanin’s cheeks, warm and delicate, like the flowers he wreaths with deft fingers. Bright white lilies and dazzling daffodils and daisies in the gaps between the stems. It sits a little crooked on Kabr’s head. ‘Too narrow for a big ole Titan!’ he says, taking Kabr’s smiling face in his hands and kissing the taste of mulled wine from his lips. Praedyth feels the tinge of jealousy for not doing it himself earlier. It only lasts until Pahanin worms his way into his lap, giggling and tucking a bright-hued iris behind the warlock’s ear. The warm breath tickling his neck when Pahanin leans in sends tickles down his spine. “Merry Revelry…”

[walk-the-void]

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a lesson in （ finding joy even in the darkest hours, following one's passions, learning from past mistakes && loving despite it all ）

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[graveyard01]

The Purrfect Timeline, inspired by Cat Pictures Please

“Cats?” Asked Kabr in confusion and risked a glance at his fire time members. They were equally bewildered, but Praedyth was the first to put aside his surprise and respond.

“I think I should be able to bring a few kittens from the Last City, but what will they eat.” He asked before he stopped in consideration. “Do any of you know how to take care of cats?”

The large Vex Minotaur was silent for a moment before it turned towards one of the oracles floating near it for a moment.

“Now we do.” It rumbled.

?

Oh.

The strongest Vex in recorded (and unrecorded) history, and it just used its powers to learn about cat care. Was this what being high felt like? Was this a hallucination caused by the Hive? Kabr was already dreading the after-action report.  

“We will also require some cattle and seeds of the plant called Nepeta Cataria. In time, we will learn if the local fauna is suited for the feline diet.”

“I see…” Praedyth said in a way that meant anything but. “And in exchange, you will allow humanity access to the Vault of Glass and its treasures and help humanity against its enemies, both living and Vex?”

“Yes,” It spoke, sounding pleased with itself. One of the Oracles did a little celebratory bop in the air while the others lazily spun around the Axis Mind. “No harm will befall any cat in our watch. And as the end of their life process, we will fashion them a new body so that they will live eternally.”

…

…

…

“Okay,” Praedyth said with a sigh.

And then things became weirder.

***

They were finally here, in the heart of the Vault, staring down the Axis Mind.

The Aegis was heavy in her arms, both physically and metaphorically. An artifact of sacrifice, made from the flesh of the Vex and a Guardian’s last light. Just a moment longer, she thought, seconds passing in eternity as the entire weight of time threatened to crush her under, one agonizing moment after another. For her friends, for her team… for humanity…

She would sooner die her last death than let the shield down.

And then theworldb r o k e -----

Between one moment and the next, there was another fire team there.

She instantly recognized Pahanin, the only survivor of the Vault of Glass and a victim of Dredgen Yor. But that meant…

She looked at the once-aggressive Axis Mind as it stared at the Warlock of the other fire team, and she then turned her attention to the Warlock

“Cats. Cattle. Catnip.” Spoke the Warlock in a pure deadpan, and her train of thought crashed and burned. Behind her, she heard someone drop their rocket launcher, but she didn’t turn around to check who.

“Cats. Cattle. Catnip.” Parroted the Axis Mind as if that made complete sense.

[ad-astra-de-luna]

Destiny au amber eyes is just solar warlock Leland with Red, their emotional support ahamkara, and an Audra who got yoinked from the timeline a la Praedyth

[heavenlyeros]

praedyth to go with the kabr from a couple days ago

commissions open c:

[bottledvexmilk]

I was thinking about praedyth in the vault of glass and I could not get this out of my head. Take this.

[transmechanicus]

Sorry, got passionate. Praedyth is one of the original Guardians to explore the Vault of Glass. He's been...stuck in there for an indeterminate amount of time, and seems to have been erased from "our" timeline. We got to talk to him once in a single mission in D1, and until the Season of the Undying in Destiny 2, we had no mention of him at all. That season's lorebook ends with Praedyth using the Vex being distracted with us to try and escape through a Vex gate, with the last lines being "Somewhere, the door is always open. Somewhere, they are always stepping through." I just want to see my cool Warlock friend again

RELEASE THE TIME TRAVELING SPACE WIZARD

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

No Time to Explain

A single word etched onto the inside of the weapon's casing: Now.

Type: Pulse Rifle

Slot: Kinetic | Energy | Heavy

Element: Kinetic | Stasis | Strand

Perk: Rewind Again - Precision shots and shots against combatants slowed or frozen by Stasis will return to the magazine.

Trait: Time-Slip - At 10 stacks of Rewind Again, a small portal will open, shooting bullets from an alternate timeline version of this weapon. Precision hits extend the portal's duration.

Masterworked Trait: Blast from the Side - Projectiles from the time portal shoot more frequently.

Ornaments: Frozen in Time, Golden Days, Chronos Exegesis

Origin & Description: What do you think Guardians would do if they discovered how to manipulate timelines? If you said, "Make a gun out of it," congratulations! you've read too many of these entries. The real physics must be fiendishly complex, but in Guardian math it goes, "I have one gun, but what if...two gun." Thus No Time To Explain is a pulse rifle that, in order to increase its rate of fire, casually punches through the multiverse and snags another version of itself from an alternate timeline where it's also firing, piping those rounds through a small portal-friend who hovers around spitting bullets at your targets like the Arc-Buddy from a Warlock Rift. I feel like there might be a less dimension-ripping way to double your fire rate, but hey, I'm not Elsie Bray.

Speaking of Elisabeth "Elsie" Bray, this is her weapon, except not, except now it is. D1's No Time To Explain was an exotic retooling of the Legendary weapon The Stranger's Rifle made by, of all people, Praedyth. Yeah, the warlock held captive in the Vault of Glass. From his vantage point in the Vault, which stands outside normal spacetime, Praedyth could see Elsie stepping from time to time - and the Pyramid ships advancing on us. Knowing Guardians pay attention to their gear above all else, he fashioned the first No Time To Explain and, just before he set it adrift in the timestream to make its way back to us, etched a warning inside its casing: "Soon."

Elsie Bray has a hard life cleaning up other people's messes, and the name of this gun comes from her days serving as "the Exo Stranger,"* holding together the patchwork storyline of base Destiny 1 with both hands. She got stuck playing tour guide because of whatever time shenanigans incidentally created Worldline Zero, since at least getting locked into a Groundhog-Day loop of the darkest timeline also lets her teleport in at important moments to aim the player at the next objective. When both players and characters demanded an explanation, or at least narrative consistency, she famously replied, "I don't have time to explain why I don't have time to explain," and hence this weapon was named.

*We didn't find out Elsie was the Exo Stranger until D2's Warmind DLC, but since her D1 outfit and this weapon's perk symbol use the same split-circle Bray emblem worn by Ana Bray and Banshee, she was likely always a Bray.

In Beyond Light Elsie's back (from outer space!) and she comes bearing gifts, with plenty of time to explain, and inside her rifle's casing is written only: "Now."

Turns out there's a bleak future in our...future, a grim potential outcome in which the Guardians - including Elsie's sister Ana, whom she desperately attempts to save, every time, and loses, every time - fall to Darkness. Her efforts as the Exo Stranger directing us to slay the Black Heart were part of her latest attempt, but so far we're still on track to destruction. To help us avert it, she brought us two things. The first is the D2 version of this gun, but its penchant for time manipulation isn't the lead item. In fact it's barely a footnote compared to the second thing: Stasis, the first Darkness-empowered subclass.

See, in her playthroughs of the bad ending Elsie always sees Guardians lured in by the paracausal power of Darkness manipulation, a shadowed mirror of the abilities granted by the Light, and slowly corrupted by their influence. All her attempts to stand between Guardians and a new paracausal toy have, predictably, failed. So this time she's decided that if she can't keep Guardians from using Darkness she'll introduce it to us up front instead so that we learn how to control it instead of letting it control us. In other words she's the Cool Mom of Darkness Powers: she'd rather we try it at home first to make sure we're being safe, except it's not so much "safe" as "not wholly corrupted by Darkness' own avatar and bent into instruments of its will." I don't know what type of Cool Parent that calls for. But Elsie's trying!

When, during the events of Beyond Light, we first encounter wielders of Darkness - eliksni of House Salvation on Europa learning to use Dark Splinters - Elsie intervenes to tell us what that power is and how we can learn to use it ourselves before we try to work it out on our own. She confirms an old lore theory: that though the Traveler and the Pyramids (or "the Entity," or "the Voice," or even "the Veil" - we haven't settled on a name) function as avatars of their respective powers, both Darkness and Light exist ambiently as universal, amoral forces. That ambient paracausal power can be harnessed by anyone through training and intermediaries like the Splicer Gauntlet or the Splinters; harnessed by anyone, not just Guardians, though we have a head start. A substantial head start, since it only takes the story campaign of Beyond Light for us to work out the basics of our new powers and start shredding face with them.

Stasis is the first Darkness-based subclass of Destiny (players anticipate it won't be the last, but Bungie hasn't confirmed.) Its three iterations, Behemoth (Titan), Revenant (Hunter), and Shadebinder (Warlock), are ice-themed, maybe a deliberate inversion of the fiery Light-based Solar subclass. Its three keywords/action verbs are Slow, Freeze, and Shatter. Despite the chilly aesthetic and us first encountering it on the frozen moon Europa, Stasis itself is less "frosty cold" and more "cosmic ice." It invokes a primordial stillness, energetic motion quieting into an underlying universal structure typified by a distorted, gridlike pattern that appears when Stasis crystals form.

Mechanically Stasis is less about direct damage and more about battlefield control. The abilities and grenades don't pack much of a direct punch, but they slow, freeze, and block enemies, locking them in place and silencing their own abilities. Some Stasis abilities create Stasis crystals, large blocks of paracausal ice, which can incapacitate enemies, create temporary barriers, and even build platforms to let Guardians jump, crouch, and worm their way even further out of bounds. Stasis crystals can then be shattered in a number of ways, dealing sharp AoE damage as the shrapnel takes out whatever's nearby. Because it doesn't do much direct damage, Stasis is built for combos, especially weapon combos, and has many knock-on mechanics built around freezing and shattering enemies. It's also a hell of a lot of fun, for the record. If Darkness has this caliber of stuff on tap, no wonder all those Guardians fell for it.

Stasis also comes with a new system for subclass trees, by which I mean "not subclass trees." Light subclasses have three trees, each with its own twist on the Super plus benefits based around an expected playstyle; for example the Solar Warlock tree "Attunement of Sky," meant for aerial play, comes with a special mid-air dodge and the ability to hover while aiming down sights. Stasis on the other hand debuted the new system, Aspects and Fragments. Instead of three preset ability trees, players equip 2 Aspects and some number of Fragments from a pool of options. Aspects are class-specific and have a significant effect on your gameplay, while Fragments are class-agnostic and let you mix and match minor benefits. You pick up new Aspects and Fragments via research questlines from Elsie as together you work out new ways to wield Darkness (and get some good lore tidbits in the process.)

This experimental new system has been a hit with both players and devs - players because it allows more fine-tuning, and devs because it greatly expands the creative space for unusual non-Super powers like the Shadebinder's Bleak Watcher turret-creation ability. Following on this success Bungie announced in Fall 2021 that instead of designing new Darkness subclasses they'll be overhauling the Light subclasses to use the same system with brand-new abilities. Void is up first, dropping with Witch Queen in February, and personally I'm very much looking forward to the Warlock ability that lets you create a tiny black hole to be your friend :D. So really Elsie, how bad can this timeline be?

Destiny 2 Compendium Armarum Exoticarum

[ Ace of Spades | Ager's Scepter | Anarchy | Arbalest | Bad Juju | Bastion | Black Talon | Borealis | Cerberus+1 | The Chaperone | Cloudstrike | Coldheart | Collective Obligation | The Colony | Crimson | Cryosthesia 77K | DARCI | Dead Man's Tale | Deathbringer | Dead Messenger | Devil's Ruin | Divinity | Duality | Edge of Action/Concurrence/Intent | Eriana’s Vow | Eyes of Tomorrow | Fighting Lion | The Fourth Horseman | Forerunner | Gjallarhorn | Grand Overture | Graviton Lance | Hard Light | Hawkmoon | Heartshadow | Heir Apparent | The Huckleberry | Izanagi’s Burden | The Jade Rabbit | Jötunn | The Lament | The Last Word | Legend of Acrius | Leviathan’s Breath | Lord of Wolves | Lorentz Driver | Lumina | Malfeasance | Merciless | MIDA Multi-Tool | Le Monarque | Monte Carlo | No Time to Explain | One Thousand Voices | Osteo Striga | Outbreak Perfected | Parasite | Polaris Lance | Prometheus Lens | The Prospector | Queenbreaker | Rat King | Riskrunner | Ruinous Effigy | Salvation's Grip | Skyburner’s Oath | Sleeper Simulant | Sturm | Sunshot | SUROS Regime | Sweet Business | Symmetry | Tarrabah | Telesto | Thorn | Thunderlord | Ticuu's Divination | Tommy's Matchbook | Tractor Cannon | Traveler's Chosen | Trespasser | Trinity Ghoul | Truth | Two-Tailed Fox | Vex Mythoclast | Vigilance Wing | The Wardcliff Coil | Wavesplitter | Whisper of the Worm | Wish-Ender | Witherhoard | Worldline Zero | Xenophage ]

[thefirstknife]

Do you have any favorite lore-only warlocks? Was trying to think of some but the only ones that come to mind are felwinter and shayura 🤔

Shayura and Felwinter definitely yeah!

Also consider: Praedyth!!! Eriana-3!!! Pujari 👀Fenchurch 👀 Other Iron Lords as well like Timur. Aunor Mahal!! The new one from last season, Moss-2 who can let his Ghost take over and use supers and abilities in his stead.

If I missed something obvious, feel free to add!

[phantom-wolf]

Okay but can we acknowledge the tragedy of Pahanin's story. Long ramble below (I don't think it's finished or makes sense)

I'm not sure if this is before the vault or after but he looses Wei Ning and eventually Erianna (he introduced the two of them so we can infer he was friends with at least one of them)

He goes into the vault with his fireteam Kabr and Praedyth. *If the lore tab Epistemic is to be believed, they were a team for five years. They end up getting trapped inside the vault having to either fight or avoid an insurmountable amount of Vex forces. There is quite littlerly no hope of escape whatsoever. At some point he sees Kabr drink radiolaria which slowly begins to covert him and Praedyth gets imprisoned by the vex and is brought to the cells in the gorgon maze.

* this is conflicted in the original D1 lore where Pahanin states that him and Kabr were not friends but rather he knew of and respected the Titan. Either Bungie retconned this or the Praedyth recalling this is not from our timeline

This leaves him and Kabr. Pahanin apparently was always talking to himself (I like to interpret this as him being stressed and just trying to sort things out. Give himself some companionship). Kabr doesn't remember him. Pahanin and Praedyth's existences are wiped from his mind, for that is the fate for those who fall in the vault. Not just fall but become apart of the vault. Still he watches this sturdy, respectable Titan fall to the vex alone. This terrifies him. Since he notes that Kabr fought the Vex alone we can infer that Pahanin watched from the shadows or used his invisibility to help him get out (he is a void weilding hunter after all).

He manages to escape after Kabr cracks the Vault in as his final act as Kabr. This allowed Pahanin to escape. Pahanin is afraid. His friends existences are wiped from people's minds of those outside the vault. He's afraid of being alone.

So what does he do? He creates a gun with an ai that talks to him so he is never alone again.

Pahanin is somewhat scholarly. He reads and writes, giving advice to other hunters (for example how to get Titans and Warlocks how to agree to do something). He seems to be at least somewhat well liked, and well known. Still he carries around the Super Good Advice.

Then there's one fateful crucible match. He is up agaisnt no other then Dredgen Yor. Yor takes his light and in the end he dies alone with nothing but a jagged thorn sticking out of his corpse and his drained ghost.

Now this part isn't 'canon' but I can speculate. I doubt Yor would kill him in front of any surveillance cameras. He could've sure, as a message and a show of prowess but that also runs the risk of creating too many complications for Yor himself. Anyone that could've seen probably was either distracted or taken care of in one way or another. Pahanin's gun may have been tossed or dropped in the exchange. So not only is he facing fear of permanent death he is also facing his overwhelming fear of being isolated. And in many ways I'm sure that's almost worse for him.

[propheticdancer]

The Whispering One

Name: Velkhanyn/Vanessa Kal’shara

Age: Unknown

Race: Appears Human. Born Ahamkara.

Class: Warlock

Pronouns: She/her

Known Aliases: Vara, Ouroboros, Nessa

Orientation: Homosexual

Preferred Subclass: Voidwalker

Ghost’s name: Ivara

Fireteam: Obscleras Avant (now disbanded/deceased)

Fireteam members (3): Vanessa Kal’shara (human warlock), Scatha-2 (exo titan), Akylla Avant (Founder and leader, awoken huntress)

Favoured Arms: Witherhoard, Bad Juju, One Thousand Voices

Favoured Armour: Claws of Ahamkara, Nezarec’s Sin, Skull of Dire Ahamkara. Typically wears the Corrupting Echo, Great Hunt or Luxe suits.

Guardian Origin: Riven’s secret offspring, a young Ahamkara named Vesharah, made a wish: she, too, wished to be a Mother, and so wished for a Daughter, and her name would be Velkhanyn. After living for years as a child Wish-Dragon, Velkhanyn was discovered during the Great Hunt, Vesharah’s skull taken as a trophy by Praedyth, and Velkhanyn slaughtered – until a Ghost hovered by her side, resurrecting a teenage girl. Ushered to the Tower in secret by Praedyth, the girl who became Vanessa Kal’shara was then taken by Petra Venj and Mara Sov, whose suspicious parenting skills brought about the young woman (not very) known today.

Personality: > Reserved, cryptic, afraid, timid.

                   > Curious, affectionate, wary, deep trusting

                   > nervous laughter “did I just say that-“

                   > fumbling, the type of girl to fall asleep on your shoulder

Physical Appearance: Pale-skinned, with deep purple eyes, long, straight-controlled raven-black hair with accents the same colour as her eyes. About 180cm tall, thin physique, the type that looks good in cloaks and capes and wraparounds. Wears glasses.

Other Features: Ahamkara bone protrusions on the upper arms and along entire legs and middle back, like vertebrae. Sharpened set of teeth, extended tongue. Constant black eyeliner wings.

Noteworthy extras: Imbued with a sliver of her Mother’s Wish-Magic. Hears voices. Incites hallucinations and voices in others. In the Ascendant Plane, reverts back to Ahamkara.

Occupation: Vanessa spends most of her time cataloguing the history of the known universe and the entities that presided within it, especially the Dreaming City, Savathûn’s Throne World, the Black Garden and the realms of the Nine. She prefers to research, record and document than fight, but when pushed, is able to hold her own – provided there’s someone else with her. Despite her Mother’s wishes for a warrior, she shied away from that life, and yet offers support for Guardians in the field and beyond, assisting Ikora’s Hidden, Eris Morn and the Exo Stranger. Well-versed in Ahamkara and Taken history and etymology, and most other aspects of the races that inhabit the universe. Spends most of her time trying to investigate her past, and the mysterious deaths and disappearances of her former five fireteams under questionable circumstances. Can be found in the Tower, mostly, and Mara Sov’s Throne World. Apprentice Cryptarch.