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Moots tell me if you know where this is from. āWhen you are at your lowest. When hope has faded and you're all aloneāin the world, inside your head. When the odds are stacked and despair has taken hold. Remember your fire. It's always there. Once sparked, once the angerāonce fearāhas lit the fuse, the flame will remain, alwaysāa beacon signaling to eternity that you are here and you will stand, no matter the obstacle.ā
Feelings tonight
#destiny 2#destiny#destiny the game#destiny lore#yeah Iām a big lore buff for destiny#itās chock full of good stuff to read
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Am I okay? No. I just read the Still Hunt lore.
#destiny 2#destiny#cayde#cayde 6#crow destiny#destiny 2 crow#destiny crow#still hunt#destiny lore#glint#destiny spoilers
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thinking again about the tragedy of the hive. something is changing the tides of your world and it is a god wave that will destroy your civilization. you search to stop it and discover the power to save your species from extinction. but your species never would have been extinct -- the god wave was a lie and the force causing it was a god coming to save your kind, uplift them, extend their lives and bestow knowledge for a golden age. the deal you made was from that god's opposing force. you've doomed your entire race to an endless cycle of violence to survive. you trade ten fragile years of life for immortallity at the cost of killing endlessly. you never learn the truth, not until milleniums later, and far too late.
thinking about the tragedy of the osmium siblings. their desparations turned against them like a knife which they used to carve away anything in existence that challenged them -- because it is a threat against their life, and this all started to save their lives. how ironic it is, then, that at the cost of immortality, they worship death.
thinking of xivu's stubborness, her steel chitin and flaming heart, twisted into a blinding hatred of anything that goes against her beliefs -- her brother's will. "Iāll beat the world until it changes! Iāll kill anything in the way!"
thinking of oryx's thirst for knowledge, for answers, because what you know can't harm you. of his love for his sisters, which he would do anything for. "Let us go down, down, where we may discover truth, some power to avenge ourselves upon our betrayers, some hope of survival."
thinking of how love is violence is love is violence to the hive. it is a circle. "I love mighty Xivu more than a moon loves the tide. I'll kill her for this. Over and over, forever and ever."
thinking.
#love hate my insomnia#god i want to sleep but i can only seem to write good when i *don't* sleep#idk if this is even good. i'm tired and prob got some things wrong but#the sentiment is there. you understand.#i love my sibling relationships tragic#pigeon talks#destiny#destiny 2#destiny lore#oryx#xivu arath#savathƻn
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an excerpt from the background dialogue in prophecy (full transcript here)
#drifter#the drifter#orin the lost#the emissary of the nine#destiny 2#destiny the game#destiny lore#my art#comics
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Since Destiny lore is inaccessible (I've seen the question, "Do Guardians need to eat?" cross my dash several times and it's Driving Me Nutsā¢), here are some users and resources I use when searching for lore/grimoire:
@thefirstknife on Tumblr
My Name Is Byf on YouTube
Destiny Lore Vault on YouTube
www.Ishtar-Collective.net
Destinypedia.com
Destiny Dialogue Archive
Destiny Definitions [flavor text] Archive
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Destiny 1 Grimoire lore (PDFs)
Destiny Collector's Edition lore (Reddit links)
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Destiny 1 beta archive & cutscene archive
Destiny 2 Cutscene Archive [Seasons 13-20]
#feel free to add on!!#NOT exhaustive#destiny the game#destiny 1#destiny 2#destiny lore#destiny canon#fanfiction resources#writing resources#oc-posting
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Look, I was willing to give the Veil a shot. I was. I was willing to let Bungie cook. But they made the Veil the Travelers opposite, and I couldn't figure out why I didn't like that. Until a random ass reddit comment and it clicked.
The visual storytelling between the Pyramids and The Traveler is such a beautiful way of portraying two opposing forces without explicitly saying what those forces represent. It's all in their design.
Angular/Spherical
Many/One
Black/White
They have "We are opposites" written on their forehead and the Veil kind of fucked it up.
While I'm on the subject, I've been revisiting my favorite lore book "Unveiling" and MAN, that shit was awesome.
I really really really liked when the overarching conflict was about two Gods giving themselves physical form in the universe to win a cosmic argument on whether the conplexity of life made it worth living. I also really liked its interpretation of the Vex: the manifestation of the perfect pattern. Microorganisms that always came out on top before a new rule were forced upon the game. And yeah, i get it, "Unveiling had no reason to be truthful. The Witness had every reason to lie to us to make us fight each other. Untrustworthy narrator." Blah blah blah.
But, I think it would've been way cooler and scarier if it wasn't lying. It would show that The Winnower truly believes what it's saying. It's simply acting in its nature. It doesn't even know if it's 100% correct, but chooses to follow its path anyway.
This part altered my brain chemistry fundamentally. I am NOT normal about this section and I never will be.
Ok. I'm done. You can tear me a new one or pick my apart. You can tell me the new story is better in every conceivable way. But the Unveiling lorebook was P E A K to me
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This fight scene with these two hunters made my puthy quiver~
Crow honestly doesn't deserve the hate that so many in the fanbase give him, HE'S COME SO FAR SINCE WE MET HIM! LOOK AT HIM GO!!
#destiny 2#destiny the game#destiny#destiny gif#destiny 2 gif#destiny 2 the final shape#destiny the final shape#cayde 6#crow#crow destiny#guardian crow#destiny lore#destiny art#uldren sov#prince uldren#destiny hunter
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Realizing that, while I like Destiny lore, what I love is Seth Dickinson's writing.
The Final Shape was a lovely story and the characters' archs were all emotional and satisfying. Maybe a nostalgic tear was shed for Cayde bonding with his reformed, resurrected killer.
But the things that have kept me coming back for 9 years were missing. I thought there'd be concrete answers about the Traveler, or some more thorough insights into the Witness, or even good lore on the Dread. I was hoping for another great lore book to join the ranks of Books of Sorrow, Unveiling, Mysterious Logbook, Marasenna, Last Days of Kraken Mare, etc. Some philosophy and horror, a genesis or exegesis or thorough backstory on a yet unexamined character/species.
Sadly, I didn't find those. The Dread's origin is that the Witness made them. Do they think and feel? TBD. The Traveler's conclusion was something like "you just have to have faith <3." Fine for the characters, but not for the readers/players of a 10-year-old mystery.
There's some nice things. The Micah-10 Traveler interpretations are cool, as is her origin story. And the foreshadowing still has me excited for the Dreadnaught, a yet unseen Disciple, etc. But I think key parts of what made Destiny lore so alluring for me are diminished.
Maybe it's the layoffs at Bungie. Maybe it's new writers going in a different direction. Either way, the aspects of sci-fi/space fantasyāancient mysteries, metaphysical warfare, _____āhave taken the back seat to personal drama that frankly isn't that interesting or fleshed out.
Maya could be an interesting antagonist, but she needed more backstory than "this simulation was evil or something" and more nuance than "the Vanguard are coercive, so I will coerce all of humanity." Why not explore what her presence means for the Vex, or the other simulations helping Praedyth escape the Vault?
The Witness trying to sway various characters was fine, but that has been covered so many times, especially in Beyond Light.
All that said, back to Seth: their absence in TFS made me realize how huge their presence in the lore was for my love of Destiny. I finally went and read their original works. What an incredible writer.
First, I read Exordia, the first/only entry into a dark mindfuck of a space opera. Its horrific in abstract ways: mysterious alien monoliths that poison reality around them. It's horrific in grounded ways, too: the alien invasion plays off of parallels with the Anfal campaign and the US involvement in Iraq. It's campy at times (with a villain who shouts "I love genocide!") but also profound. There's souls and date, but also math. There's also my favorite trope: mysterious, ancient architects.
After that, I read Baru Cormorantāall three books in a month. It's tragic and inspiring and genius. Originally I couldn't get through the first chapter because of the "fantasy" label. I've already read Earthsea and wasn't in the mood for wizards on boats. But I had the wrong impression. Understandable, because there is just no succinct way to label it.
Is it even fantasy? Honestly, I still don't know.
What it is is its own world. One that the inhabitants haven't fully mapped. One whose past is a must and whose future is uncertain. It's about hegemony. It's about purpose, obsession, and revenge. It's about revolution and community.
The colonizer culture is a kaleidoscope of different influences. Seafaring. Peri-industrial. Eugenic. It strikes me as something like 17th century Britain with a 20th century grasp of science. They don't have guns, but they do have both Greek fire and lobotomies. The story plays with different cultural views on indigenous rights, race, sexuality, and gender in ways that commentary real life while serving as interesting world building.
This story also weaves an insane amount of intellectual concepts into it. But rather than bog it down, they lift it up. The fate of the republic hinges on a myriad of different questions: is evolution Lamarckian or Darwinian? Can mathematical proofs usurp cultural hegemony? How do economics influence history? Most importantly, can you destroy the enemy from within before it destroys you?
It is not just cerebral, but tragic and heartbreaking. I saw the end of the first book coming, and yet I was devastated by the last chapter. Crushed like no ending has ever really crushed me. I didn't want it to happen.
There will likely be some time before the final book comes out, which is understandable. So much research goes into these. So many plot threads need to be woven together. So many mysteries not yet confronted.
This is all to say: if you like what I like about Destinyāthorough examinations of ancient mysteries, sci-fi takes on souls and magic, fantasy takes on science and technology, obsessive characters and vividly fucked up monsters, cancer and math as motifs, metaphors manifesting, and genius characters written by genius authorsāgive Seth Dickinson a chance.
#destiny the game#destiny lore#seth dickinson#baru coromorant#exordia#destiny 2#the final shape#nerd rant#self
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It is done, and Iām half sorry for this
#destiny 2#destiny art#destiny fanart#destiny the game#destiny hunter#cayde 6#destiny cayde#andal brask#destiny lore
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my honest reaction to the veiled threats lore:
when can ghost get a break bungo itās not fair </3
itās like that part in the hidden dossier all over again iām sobbing
the fact that the witnessās invasion of ghost was so traumatic that he wouldnāt even wish it on the vex, the basically unfeeling robots who have hunted humanity for centuries. also the shivering :(
i think osiris and ghost really could have a good talk about it. ghost obviously doesnāt want to burden the guardian (even though it wouldnāt), and osirisās trauma is similar (although not the exact same of course) and heās good at giving advice people need to hear.
saint being a sweetheart and comforting him of course, the reminder that heās safe <3
hey ghost :)) what do you mean by that :)) that you wish that your guardian had done what :))
another gut-wrenching lore tab by bungie! thanks, i had almost stopped crying from the excision mission
#the fact that it was so bad on neptune he wished that the guardian had just shot him#also the fact that he was aware when that happened#the hug in the excision cutscene was NOT enough#there needs to be a button or something to hug him#at least the witness is dead now#good riddance!#so many thoughts about this#at least saints a sweetie#destiny 2#destiny#destiny 2 spoilers#destiny the game#the final shape#the final shape spoilers#spoilers#destiny spoilers#echoes spoilers#tfs spoilers#long post#destiny lore#destiny ghost#destiny 2 ghost#saint 14
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Just want to address something really quick: I've been seeing a weird increase in people who think Guardians age.
This is. Factually not the case and is indeed a very important plot point of Zavala's past.
Some other notable lore entries that talk imply it or outright state it:
A small band of humans emerge from the woods at Osiris's flank. Some carry rust-laden firearms. The one who leads them jaunts forward. "Stand up, old man." The words are slung over his shoulder, wet and heavy. "No." (5: Moths to Flame Part II)
Saladin Circa Dark Ages vs. Saladin at Present
Osiris (and Ikora!) Early City Era (~200 years ago) Vs. Osiris at Present
And, if you haven't set aside time to rewatch Zavala's story then there's this: He has remained the same through hundreds of generations.
It's not "headcanon" if you think otherwise it is directly in opposition to why guardians are the way they are and how they function. Genuinely I have no idea where this idea of Guardians aging came from but it completely defeats the purpose of many tragedies and driving forces Guardians face because of their unaging immortality.
#dude what the hell is happening this is basic guardian lore 101#lore.exe#destiny lore#destiny the game#destiny 2#lord saladin#osiris#zavala
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"Cute cat." š
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[SCREECHING NOISES]
#josh plays#destiny#destiny 2#o14#destiny spoilers#osiris#saint-14#destiny lore#im finally playing tfs and just found this weapon#aahhhhhhh themm š¤§š¤§#i missed them interacting and being in love
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Currently obsessed with this lore card
#destiny#destiny the game#destiny 2#into the light#elsie bray#exo stranger#lord shaxx#shaxx#destiny lore
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