The bare story basics of ‘Destiny 2’ heading into ‘final form’

Destiny YouTuber MyNameisByf has just released an epic 10-hour recap of the entire story of Destiny 1 and 2 ahead of the game’s final Light and Darkness expansion on Tuesday. I spent a few hours and, unsurprisingly, it’s the kind of high-quality work he always delivers.

I highly recommend everyone watch it but…admittedly, it’s tough and we’re now about 72 hours away from release, so I’ll understand if you can’t dedicate 10 hours of it to a video. As such, I wanted to write a basic article on the story here that I think will prepare you for the ending.

This is it no A complete time piece. never. This is mainly about the final year of content and what I consider to be the most important elements in the final form based on what we know about it from recent events and marketing. so let’s go. Bullet points, baby!

Main story

• Long ago, a race of people on a distant planet found the Traveler, a great domain that gave them great advancement for their civilization, but remained completely silent in terms of guidance as they grew.
• Then they found the Veil, a body of “darkness” in contrast to the traveler’s light. It was structure, stillness, and a different kind of strength. The race attempted to merge both the Traveler and the Veil which they believed would form a perfect entity. The Traveler refused and fled the planet, wreaking havoc.
• Gathering all its power, the civilization formed into a single being to pursue the Traveler, the Witness, who aims to finish what civilization started in order to create the final form, the perfect stillness and preservation of all life without much of anything in reality. Living.” He had been endlessly chasing the traveler with a black fleet of pyramid ships and had finally managed to catch up with him on Earth.
• The witness, using the veil and the contact of our guardian with the traveler, cut a hole in the traveler and entered inside. It wasn’t until recently that we were able to follow where the new Guardian Crow sent us through the portal using a combination of Veil’s energy and Wish Dragon’s magic. Now, we follow him, and from here the events of the final form begin. We are inside the heart of the traveler. The witness is currently messing up while trying to put together the final look. We, the Guardians, given power by the Traveler, are tasked with stopping him and saving the entire universe.

Specific personal stories

• Qrow used to be a man named Uldren, who killed our friend Cayde-6 and Hunter Vanguard. We killed Uldren as revenge, but he was revived by a ghost and became a ranger named Crow with his memory erased. He was slowly reliving those memories, but he remained calm. Now, Qrow may have been tricked by the Wish Dragon into wishing he had never killed Cayde, and this may be the reason why he arrives at Pale Heart and finds Cayde there, who doesn’t know how he got there or why he is alive. . But Wish Dragon’s wishes are often monkey’s paws, so there may be some problems in the future. The concept of desire has not yet been confirmed, but it has been heavily implied by recent revelations.
• The last city leader, Commander Zavala, will come with us to the traveler. Centuries ago, he had a son killed by the Fallen in one of the first conflicts with that species. This caused a rift between him and his wife, who separated from him and eventually died of old age because he was immortal as regent. The latest trailer for Final Shape suggests that The Witness is specifically trying to subvert him. We don’t know exactly how, but I think it might have something to do with getting his family back (because I’m not sure what could tempt him this way).

• The remaining hive gods are hanging around, but we don’t know what/if they’ll play a role in Final Form’s story. But just in case, we should know that the Hive rogue Savathun, now a Guardian, has been revived and is currently off doing… something… somewhere and she was so integral to Destiny’s story that it’s hard to believe she won’t show up Sometimes a point. Meanwhile, her sister Xivu Arath is a servant for The Witness, but has recently become mortal due to a ritual from Eris Morn, our witch friend.
• Our biggest non-human allies are Mithrax, leader of House Light, a friendly faction of the Fallen that follows the Traveler and aids our cause. Then there’s Caiatl, the current leader of the Cabal who we have a permanent alliance with after Xivu Arath destroyed their homeworld. She may or may not have a crush on Zavala. We know that they will help us in this battle to some extent, as we saw in the trailers.
• A Witness-controlled Xivu Arath and Taken cell and a faction of Vex are the Witness’s main forces, but we also learn that he has created a new race based on the inhabitants of the Dead World, the Lubrae, and is experimenting with light and darkness. They are the terrors, and we will be fighting them for the first time in this expansion.

Those are the basics? Again, a very brief overview and not for players who know absolutely nothing about the story, but I hope this was helpful. See you Tuesday.

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