The Destiny series has had some longstanding mysteries since its birth almost nine years ago. Destiny 2 Since its release, they’ve only gotten deeper. So it’s a little surprising that Bungie, after years of providing more mysteries than answers, decided to drop a massive lore bomb on a random Tuesday in the middle of the event. Destiny 2: Deep sea season.
A new cutscene appears after the fifth week part of the “Into the Depths” quest, explaining the origins of the series’ great villain, “The Witness,” as well as the mystery of “The Veil,” where the MacGuffin player Start uncovering the mystery you’ve been chasing the most. In his recent Lightfall expansion, we learned nothing about it after all. More importantly, the cutscene ultimately gives players an idea of what The Traveler, the giant space sphere that has been sitting in Destiny’s skyline for almost a decade, really is.
[Spoiler Warning: This post contains spoilers for a new Destiny 2 cutscene, as well as the end of the Lightfall campaign. If you don’t want to be spoiled, go play the Week 5 part of the “Into the Depths” questline and complete the Lightfall expansion first.]
A cutscene begins with a group of people from the same alien race that The Witness is from. Thrawn (his long-forgotten NPC) tells the player about the ancestors of The Witness and how they suffered alone on Earth. It turns out that the Traveler had been buried in his home world all along.
After being freed from the planet, the Traveler blessed the Witness people with a golden age, which they called the Gardener. This name is important because it confirms that the Traveler and the Gardener, who for many years were potentially thought to be two different entities of light, are in fact one and the same.
In this Golden Age cutscene depiction, we see that these people have built a spooky pyramid ship that has been terrorizing players since the end of the game. Destiny 2‘s Red War Campaign. However, after the “long years” of prosperity, the people grew tired of the Traveler’s silence and demanded that the Traveler be given some form of further guidance. This has led people to seek out beings who share a connection with gardeners: winnowers, or veils as we know them.
This is the most important lore revealed in the cutscene. Bungie has long teased players about the identities of the Light and Dark mainstays, calling one the Gardner and the other the Winower, and the Guardians have spent years guessing who or what they are. have spent Now we know that the Gardener is a Wayfarer (a being of pure Light) and Winower is a Veil (a Traveler’s Dark Being).
Witnesses discovered the veil, which in turn taught about the nature of light and darkness. They discovered that light has the ability to both create and destroy. So they thought light to be a chaotic force and argued that it needed to be tamed. Darkness was their answer, as this chaos was formed by “thought and consciousness.”
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The people of The Witness believed that by using The Darkness to tame The Light, they could create the perfect universe they called “Final Form”. This is another important discovery as it gives meaning to the name of Destiny 2The following expansion of: final form.
However, when the people of The Witness tried to use The Veil to tame The Traveler, the Orb deserted them. Unable to accept that their final form would never materialize, they used the darkness to make themselves (all the remaining members of the species) witnesses (“witnesses of the truth in the dark”). ) under this name).
Since then, The Witness has followed travelers through space to “impose meaning into a meaningless universe.” The cutscene ends with an image of the Traveler and Veil merging. light fall motion.
In just over three and a half minutes, Bungie explained the entire setup for Destiny’s Light and Dark saga. final form. And while it’s still unknown at this point who or what created the Traveler and the Veil (and who knows if we’ll ever get those answers), this is the origin of Light, Darkness, and Darkness. This is the most information we have ever received about witness.
This cutscene is a welcome taste of clarity after Bungie’s all too baffling. light fall Extended.I hope the studio establishes a solid landing point final formwill be formally announced in its annual report on August 22. Destiny 2 Showcase.
