#queen mara sov

[brontios-helm]

Destiny 2: Stoic Standby

[pyramid-knight]

i was imagining how Clovis would be annoyed if his granddaughters and Rasputin, were doing witchcraft or something (with Mara)

[urlyngendary]

TLDR: The Dark Future

The Dark Future was a lorebook introduced in the Beyond Light expansion. It covers some of the anguise The Exo Stranger faced in the future she has returned from, the one we need to prevent. Here is the shortened version of the pages, so you can know what we were fighting to prevent in Beyond Light!

• Somewhere along the way, Humanity lost, an event called The Bombardment happened (assumedly House Salvation hit us using the warsat network) and Savathûn as well as the forces of Darkness are at large. The Traveler left us, we were left in ruins.

• Elsie Bray, also known as the Exo Stranger, is found by her sister Ana Bray, who is now lightless. Ana wants Elsie to teach her Stasis, Elsie doesn't want to in order to keep her safe. Ana says that with Stasis and what remains of Rasputin, they can beat Savathûn, and Elsie reluctantly agrees.

• They go to the Deep Stone Crypt, still intact, albeit sieged by House Salvation, to make an Exo Frame for Rasputin. Ana sympathizes with Clovis Bray for a moment, and they find the corpse of The Drifter¹ in the production room. After conversing about what Clovis has done, the exo frame emerges and Rasputin is reborn.

• Elsie and Ana return to a demolished Last City, and they argue about their past as a family. Zavala finds them and holds them at gunpoint, he is lightless, deteriorating, and missing a leg. Ana asks Zavala if Ikora is here, and Zavala responds by telling them that she's been buried underneath the Tower. Zavala is hopeless, it's heartbreaking, he says that whatever Ana has planned it will get her killed, and whatever she's looking for at the City isn't here. It is revealed that in this timeline, Elsie never helped us destroy the Black Heart³, and it corrupted Guardians. Zavala is impressed that they have Rasputin, but he reveals a large twist, that Savathûn, The Witch Queen, is pawn to another, that being Eris Morn.

• Rasputin finds the blueprints for Ghaul's Traveler cage in the Almighty's computers, and Zavala finally agrees to assist. Rasputin can track the Traveler, but they need numbers in order to build the Traveler's snare to bring it back, and Zavala points to one Mara Sov.

• On their space-voyage to find Mara Sov, Ana asks for Stasis again, and Elsie once again turns her down. Zavala overhears that Elsie is using Stasis and asks her to consider that it is not for the better to control a power alone, and she should consider what her sister asks of her. They finally make it to Mara Sov's new headquarters, aboard the Leviathan.

• Mara has Eliksni² and Cabal working alongside her Awoken, and Ana asks about the Vex. Mara answers, she says that Eris holds them under her control, they are trapped within time itself until summoned. Zavala and Mara has a conversation about how they do not trust Ana, and they soon capture the Traveler.

• Elsie asks Zavala about the conversation he had with Mara, Zavala confirms that she doesn't trust Ana, and her previous conversation with Elsie about her was to test her.

• They make landing on the moon and fight off Hive and Dark Guardian alike, and Zavala begins to siphon Light from the traveller as Ghaul did during the Red War. He advanced to the Scarlett Keep to kill Savathûn. Eris summons her Techeun turncoats that are defeated by the Warmind, but there's been a liar. Eris thanks Ana for bringing all of her enemies to one place, and with that, Ana stabs the Awoken Queen in the chest. Elsie fights Ana, and ends up killing her, but Eris has won, and the Traveller as a last resort encases all in it's light.

• When the Light fades, Elsie is back in time, she is in The Tower on the day that Cayde-6 is appointed Hunter Vanguard all those years ago. She laments about this scene, she's tired of seeing it over and over again, this clearly isn't the first time the Light has lost. Elsie believes she is being tormented, but makes a vow to save her sister.

¹ It is assumed that the Drifter did something big in this timeline. In ours Drifter and Ana don't have much of a connection, but Ana goes as far to say that Drifter got what he deserved. We cannot trust Ana as she is corrupted, so we do not know if the Drifter acted for good or for evil.

² For those who don't know, the true name of the Fallen is the Eliksni. The term "Fallen" is somewhat of an attack, saying that they have "fallen" from grace because of the Whirlwind.

³ We now know that the Black Heart was created as a replica of the Veil with Lightfall, this fact could imply something chilling about the Veil.

[theavocadojam]

Queen Mara Sov

[zavalas-bignaturals-lore]

"Aren't you tired, Eramis? I am"

The Awoken Queen of the Reef has long been an enigmatic character in Destiny, one that captured the obsessions of my best friend for quite some time. I've enjoyed her character as well, especially so the more we learn of her. Something about the Queen and her machinations behind the scenes really just works. Season of the Seraph has seen her occasional involvement, mostly through mission dialogue or in the weekly audio transmissions, and it's there that I was struck by Mara's admission to Eramis. There's something very moving about her character, one that comes off as aloof at best or totally unknowable at worst, showing this deep vulnerability, even more so to an enemy Kell.

I want to ask, even though I know the answer, how did we get here? What did Mara experience that shaped the character she is now?

To put it very simply, loss. Known, expected, predestined loss. Destiny 2 Year 2 brought with it the lore books Awoken of the Reef and Marasenna. Mara's story, from her voyage as a human aboard the Yang Liwei through the events of Forsaken. Within the pages of Marasenna, Mara knows every Awoken life that will need to be spent to save humanity. That cost came to weigh heavier upon her than even she could have predicted. She would lose her closest confidante (read: lover, partner), Sjur Eido, then her brother, Uldren. Season of the Lost saw her grappling most closely with her losses as the Witch Queen restored Uldren's memories to Crow.

Not to get too far off topic, but it's generally frowned upon for guardians to remember their life before being risen. Bungie used this narrative to make it clear that the Traveler does not rewrite someone's personality when choosing them to be risen (which was important to Savathûn in the Witch Queen expansion).

To get back on topic, Mara is faced not only with her brother's resurrection, but now with helping Crow reconcile who he is as a guardian with who he was as Uldren. Above all else, Uldren was "a man who would always express his love through loss and ordeal" (Imponent III). In this way, he and Mara are the same, though only us as players have this insight through lore books. All of her losses have added up over time. The weight is catching up to her. The weight has caught up to her. Now, with nowhere to go she extends a hand to Eramis, an enemy, to caution her from going any farther down a similar path.

I'd like to compare this to the subjugation of the House of Wolves. Mara fought alongside Sjur and Uldren with pistol and dagger to bring the Wolves to heel, but here she is trying a different tactic. It's clear that she learned a lot about herself after watching Crow grapple with who he is. Watching Crow become successful away from her, watching him make mistakes and lose just to show how much he cares and wants to help. It must have reminded Mara again of why she returned to Sol from the Distributary. It's easy to forget that the Awoken could have ascended to godhood out there at the edge of Light and Dark. It's easy to forget that Mara wrote the rules that made the Awoken mortal again. It's easy to forget that Mara did not want to become Queen. It’s easy to forget that Mara is a sister and a daughter and a partner. It’s easy to forget that Mara has suffered loss after loss after loss. Mara is ready to turn things over to those like Crow, Misraaks, and Eido. She’s ready to follow those who have learned from their mistakes. She's had enough of her imperial remove.

[cutelittleexo]

Hey! Hello! Frick! I'll be gone for the weekend, but I got some shorts scheduled on YouTube and here! I also started my Season of Defiance playthrough, please give it a watch!

[lavenderarts]

Mara and Orchidia deserve to have a fucking cigarette after revealing to each other their shared fear of succumbing to evil and ending up destroying the world which makes them consider whether it would be better to just kill themselves but they don't because they feel they have an obligation to do what they can to make things better

[diakiraiart]

a witchy Mara with a starcat for Halloween

[crispy0nion]

some destiny characters and ocs signatures :3

probably gonna remake some like Eris, Mara, Ikora and Osiris cause i don't really like them

personal favorites that i am now adopting as canon:

i am a big fan of Big Initial in signatures

[brontios-helm]

Destiny 2: Queen, Commander, Vanguard

[aghostsdestiny]

Ikora Week Day 2! "Memorable Moments"

When Space Mom & Space Queen had it out 👏

[awnrii]

umm… sov ponies

[tridentarii-trash]

Queens Part 3

[nidamanzoor]

Someone once told me the line between light and dark is very thin. Walk it alongside me.