#id be climbing them like a tree' which is still one of my favorite drifter quotes

[devotedlystrangewizard]

somewhat major lore moments & vaulted moments that live in my brain rentfree despite my 2 - 3 year ish hiatus

"Get off this line Osiris." "Make me." "You would not survive that."

"im on the moon.... its made of cheeeese...." and the subsequent "is shaxx fucked?" discussions we all had

"So feel free to kill yourself."

osiris writing poetry, sagira sending it to saint, and saint sending a PHYSICAL LETTER WITH CUSTOM WAX SEAL back

"But there is one where Osiris finds happiness. He finds atime away from strife. He finds Saint--a dream of warm serenity. The peace to his purpose. With Saint, there is a future that could have been enough."

AND "So many unlived moments lost between calls to action. He wishes Sagira had not come to watch him die. His faithful companion. His guiding starlight. His hope, his humanity. "Sagira. For as many lives as we had..you were always my better."" BACK TO BACK.

"More than anything, I hate the idea that we will be remembered as a tragedy." - Eriana's letter to Wei Ning

eriana making a new titan mark out of her old robes for wei

"Mother, I asked to be your sister rather than your daughter, and so I denied you the chance to tell me your secret, the mothertruth that is mapped in the negative space defined by the lies mothers tell their daughters. Wel here are my secrets. I love you. I have always loved you. Without you, I could never have been anything at all." from mara

the efrideet launching saladin fun fact

"I loved Sjur, as I love all we have lost, and I grieve her. But if we divert our attention now to vengeance against an unknown enemy..." "Then let it be my diversion."

"Sjur, on the day you worship me, you cannot love me anymore, for to worship is to yield all power, and I cannot love what has no power over me."

"UIdren is my brother too. I love him, and I would follow him anywhere. I would follow him into death, if he asked. Just as he would for you. And if you call that treason, so be it."

"Sjur, can you hear what I'm thinking?" "Everyone's been feeling spooky, but I'm not sure that extends to transmitting-- Mara! Good grief!"

"You're the devil," Sjur says. "You're the lone power who made death. You allowed the possibility of evil. You might be responsible for more preventable suffering than anything that has ever existed."

sjur being canonically at LEAST shaxx's size (and shaxx is repeatedly referred to as Large TM throughout several lore pieces)

"Okay, listen, JEFF. You're not THE Order. I don't give a SH --"

the drifter tapes

"[Shaxx] walked to a Hunter in a few long strides and clapped him on the back. The Hunter tumbled to the ground so hard, his weapons reloaded."

"If you fear the hearts of your brothers and sisters, speak to them. If the heart you fear is your own, speak to me." from shaxx to a recruit regarding stasis

do the new people know about "Cayde unit? Ghost? Kindly delete yourselves."

"Life does not wait for us, no matter how long we live it. Drink your drink," Zavala chuckled, his glass to his face. "Before the Lord of Pigeons summons us to attack the Pyramids."

(back to the devil's ruin quest) saint to shaxx: "brother, i have always hated you."

"What does this rifle do?" "It's a gun, Saint. It shoots bullets."

please if you somehow dont know about the devils ruin quest watch it on youtube i love it deeply and text cannot do the line delivery justice

the CoO quest where you find Saint's signal on Mercury and find a shrine with his dead body at the center. The image was so powerful. oh my god

"You can't blame yourself for every missing Guardian, Osiris." "For him I can."

The fact that they had hope that he would be alive. Only to find his body. This was WAYYYY back when o14 barely existed. this was before i was a delusional little guy saying "hey this is kind of gay". osiris says "my friend" during that quest. its insane to look back on it

that quest leading into season of dawn a WHILE later where osiris tells you he tried to break time and find saint and he failed every time. by the time saint left the infinite forest osiris had already given up on the idea of rescuing him

every day i yearn for season of dawn

season of arrivals was fun as hell too

the entire marasenna actually

shaxx beheading felwinter

felwinter not letting this stop him and sticking arond for WEEKS challenging shaxx daily

""How long will your people survive out there?" "Longer than you." It was true. A flying knee separated the Iron Lord from his head within seconds of a short melee."

"Iron Lord Shaxx?" "No."

weblore in general (because the felwinter/shaxx lore was weblore) just. hurts me

because immolant part 2. the one with what i consider to this day to be the two most painful osiris paragraphs ever written. is fucking weblore

like the early crow & glint lore where crow literally just. cradles glint in his hands

all of osiris's character development is also just lost. btw. im looking at immolant for this post and all i can think is how much of osiris's growth from his exile up until right now isnt there for new lights

obviously he wasnt the same osiris from the pre exile lore back in coo but he was still arrogant. working on being not awful. when he calls sagira his better in immolant part 2 its not empty hes acknowledging the fact that he kinda sucked. and she still gave her life to save his. because she knew what he could be. taking sagira out of the picture forces osiris to both more rely on others (because he can now Die Forever) AND to maintain his own relationships with those he loves rather than just. you know. pretending to be reluctant whenever sagira made him go

anyway everyone say hi to my favorite old man

speaking of osiris his friendship with mara. like before either of them got their recent major character development

mithrax originally being from a mission on titan where he locks you in boxes. repeatedly

zero hour in its original context. mithrax hanging out in the basement. hanging out with mithrax in the basement.

"my fiery bird"

the weblore about the sundial where drifter asks osiris why hes going this far just to save one guy and osiris is like. really vague about it

"i owe him" "i owe a lotta people" "he should get a chance to walk to the end" "he already did"

ana's canonical girlfriend who doesnt show up ingame ever

the quest for the ace of spades catalyst iirc. finding cayde's stashes and having the events of forsaken hit even harder

FORSAKEN.

"they made a recap" at the start of forsaken cayde dies right in front of you. you dont find his dead body you find him dying. you cant do anything about it. you are a guardian. he is a guardian. you dont know how to handle grief.

to be fair, neither did he

another thing about destiny that still bothers me is how often ive had people say like "oh i dont get why you like this character/dynamic so much" and i had to inform them that 90% of my time with destiny was just reading lore. saint & osiris pre season of the lost. marasjur. jolyon till. ana having a girlfriend. ikora's qpr. mara sov around forsaken/shadowkeep. wei ning & eriana. andal brask. the iron lords. i can keep going