History WMG / Destiny

* Subverted: We meet Dominus Ghaul, the current Cabal Emperor in {{VideoGame/Destiny 2}}. He's not really a GodEmperor, just TheEmperor of the Cabal after usurping the last emperor; however, just because he has no divine power doesn't mean that he won't apply AuthorityEqualsAsskicking on you...especially not when he's brought TheCavalry with him.

The Slayer is a Titan. The Makyrs created/were created by the Traveller. The Darkness symbolizes Hell, and the Hive and Taken are demons. Argent energy symbolizes the Light that the guardians wield. Samuel Hayden is the Slayer's Ghost.

[[WMG: The grand finale of Destiny 2 will be a SadisticChoice between a graceful CosyCatastrophe and a betrayal that reincarnates the universe]]
You cannot defeat The Witness. But you can ultimately undo his victory by forging your Destiny out of their rigid Fate. And it will ''hurt'':
* Option 1: Shapes. The guardian chooses to willfully embrace the Darkness and fulfill the Witness' ambition of subduing the light - only to backstab them at the very end with the last of their willpower and alter the 'final shape' into an endless cycle of 'consistent shapes', akin to a universal terrarium. The guardian has trapped the universe in a stagnant status quo, where Guardians will be forced to fight the same enemies in an endless war with almost no hope of peace for all eternity. Almost. Zavala closes the narration with the simple wisdom that humans are, if anything, capable of defying all scripts in due time.
* Option 2: Seeds. The guardian chooses to embrace the hope of light, knowing they must betray everyone they've ever known so that the future is filled with endless possibility. They overload the Traveler and the Witness at the same time, transforming the fusion into a bomb strong enough to destroy the entire multiverse. Zavala screams in rage and betrayal as the Enlightened Darkness is used to erase the Last City, followed by the solar system, and finally the universe. From this mass sacrifice of unprecedented proportions, new universes are born - filled with endless suffering, and endless hope.

The Slayer is a Titan. The Makyrs created/were created by the Traveller. The Darkness symbolizes Hell, and the Hive and Taken are demons. Argent energy symbolizes the Light that the guardians wield. Samuel Hayden is the Slayer's Ghost.

The entries in the Grimoire, particularly the Ghost fragments, seem to have a running theme that minions of the Darkness claim the Traveler and the Darkness are NotSoDifferent. There's also emphasis on idea that both Ghosts and Guardians can fall to the Darkness, and even wield it the same as they do the Light. The Exo Stranger has a weapon that shouldn't exist yet, and her Ghost Fragment seems to imply that she's experienced the same events multiple times.

All of this is leading up to the revelation that the universe is locked in a StableTimeLoop: The Darkness chases the Traveler, pursuing it to Earth, where it makes its last stand. There's a reason for that: here is where the possible timelines converge, which is also why the Vex are so interested in our solar system. Hence the added symbolism of the Collapse; it's a reference to the waveform collapse in quantum mechanics and the many-worlds hypothesis. There are are a number of possibilities here: one, supported by concept art and Grimoire entries that associate the Black Garden with the interior of a spherical body, is that the Heart of the Black Garden was actually inside the Traveler, and is the beginning of the Traveler's transformation into the Darkness; the Traveler and the Darkness are the same entity at different points in time, hence their NotSoDifferent nature and the equivalency of Light and Dark. By destroying it, you've temporarily prevented the Traveler from falling and becoming the Darkness. Now think a minute: who told you to destroy the Heart?

The Slayer is a Titan. The Makyrs created/were created by the Traveller. The Darkness symbolizes Hell, and the Hive and Taken are demons. Argent energy symbolizes the Light that the guardians wield. Samuel Hayden is the Slayer's Ghost.

[[WMG: The "internal war" Lakshmi-2 has foreseen will be of her own making]]
She believes that the House of Light will be the cause of a major, disastrous conflict in the City, but in truth, it will be her own fault. Due to the [=FWC's=] actions, eventually a large enough group of civilains (and possibly even Guardians) will become radicalized enough to stage an armed uprising against the Vanguard, demanding that the House of Light be expelled from the City and the standoff ultimately leading to a firefight. For an added dose of irony and SelfFulfillingProphecy, it will be Mithrax and the House of Light that ultimately help resolve the crisis, which explains why Lakshmi saw him and his House at the "heart" of the conflict in her visions.

The Slayer is a Titan. The Makyrs created/were created by the Traveller. The Darkness symbolizes Hell, and the Hive and Taken are demons. Argent energy symbolizes the Light that the guardians wield. Samuel Hayden is the Slayer's Ghost.

The Traveler represents the Prothean technology cache discovered on Mars, the Darkness represents the Reapers, and the Guardians may be a distorted idealization of Shepard, particularly his supposed ability to return to life. The Hive are Husks, the Vex are Geth, the Fallen and Cabal were mostly invented to pad out the story or they're demonized, anachronistic versions of races relevant to the Stargazer's time (like Saracens in some versions of King Arthur).

Everytime you redo a stage at a higher difficulty, via the daily, weekly, or Nightfall mode; that's the Vex doing it over again. [[WMG/VideoGameLives They win any reality you lose.]]

It's dark. It's evil. It's cosmic in scale. Just because it seemed to oppose change on Camazotz doesn't mean that wasn't one of it's projects in surviving to the End of All Things (by creating a homogeneous culture, it maybe sought a way to understand the subatomic homogeneity of a post-heat death universe?).

* Actually, he might be hiding under our noses right now, just in a different form, considering [[EternalHero his nature]]. Which begs the question: '''Who could he be?'''

It's dark. It's evil. It's cosmic in scale. Just because it seemed to oppose change on Camazotz doesn't mean that wasn't one of it's projects in surviving to the End of All Things (by creating a homogeneous culture, it maybe sought a way to understand the subatomic homogeneity of a post-heat death universe?).

[[WMG: The First Guardian to ever live. The one who fought against the darkness for so long. The one who first drew might from the Traveler. They are...]]
[[spoiler:The Security Officer]]

[[WMG: [[MassEffect Commander Shepard]] is or will be resurrected as Guardian and the Reapers will appear as agents of The Darkness.]]

It's dark. It's evil. It's cosmic in scale. Just because it seemed to oppose change on Camazotz doesn't mean that wasn't one of it's projects in surviving to the End of All Things (by creating a homogeneous culture, it maybe sought a way to understand the subatomic homogeneity of a post-heat death universe?).

This would explain why Ghost has a normal voice in the opening to Destiny 2. That was his living form's voice before he died, perhaps in the Collapse. Those it was unable to be turned into a Guardian, the Traveler made them into Ghosts and sent them out to find those that it would be able to revive. Perhaps Ghosts are drawn to their Guardian because it was someone they knew or are related to. Perhaps it's even an aspect of a Guardian's past life. As for why the Traveler would not be able to revive everyone or directly turn people into Guardians, well, it's shown that many things can potentially block the light and there may also have been many mundane factors too - perhaps without a body to work from or without very close proximity, the Traveler could not revive someone directly.

* Subverted: We meet Dominus Ghaul, the current Cabal Emperor in {{VideoGame/Destiny 2}}. He's not really a GodEmperor, just TheEmperor of the Cabal; however, just because he has no divine power doesn't mean that he won't apply AuthorityEqualsAsskicking on you...especially not when he's brought TheCavalry with him.

* Subverted: We meet Dominus Ghaul, the current Cabal Emperor in "Destiny 2." He's not really a GodEmperor, just TheEmperor of the Cabal; however, just because he has no divine power doesn't mean that he won't apply AuthorityEqualsAsskicking on you...especially not when he's brought TheCavalry with him.

As for why he serves something that will turn his people into a mockery of everything they once were, that's still unknown-but in the end, all the Darkness had to do was [[AwfulTruth be honest with him when revealing what the Guardians are]]; the kind of enemy the Cabal cannot defeat through imperial strength would be enough to send any of them hurling past the DespairEventHorizon and setting them on the same road the Hive walked before.

Dr. Shim believes that the Traveler pulled this venus from a different reality. I also like the little shout out to the moon’s gravity, as that was one tiny Destiny mystery that was never brought up

The Light represents a possible outcome of the universe where things like life, unity, civilization, knowledge, goodness, etc., are able to overcome entropy and create a perfect state where everything is able to exist in perfect harmony. The Darkness represents a possible outcome of the universe[[note]]One explicitly described in a Grimoire card![[/note]] where entropy and “the law of the jungle” pre-empt everything, and all that exists is a brutal, selfish, nihilistic entity that exists to destroy anything else that might exist to compete with it. And until the waveform collapses (i.e., the end of time), from our perspective they both exist simultaneously at the end of the universe.

The Living Cat will want the box to be opened sooner rather than later, and will try to influence everything and everyone it can to do so. The Dead Cat will want to delay the opening of the box as long as possible, in order to increase the likelihood of its own existence. And both cats must balance their potential retroactive erasure if the box is opened against the possibility that a favorable waveform collapse will allow them to operate free from their counterpart’s interference.

The Light represents a possible outcome of the universe where things like life, unity, civilization, knowledge, goodness, etc., are able to overcome entropy and create a perfect state where everything is able to exist in perfect harmony. The Darkness represents a possible outcome of the universe where entropy and “the law of the jungle” pre-empt everything, and all that exists is a brutal, selfish, nihilistic entity that exists to destroy anything else that might exist to compete with it. And until the waveform collapses (i.e., the end of time), from our perspective they both exist simultaneously at the end of the universe.

Both of these entities are sufficiently powerful/advanced that they can operate in an “acausal” or “anti-causal” manner (phrases and concepts that get dropped a lot in Destiny fluff), which allows outputs to precede inputs (basically, it allows them to affect the past from the future). And both of them are conspiring to affect the “past” (our “present”) in such a way as to guarantee their eventual supremacy—the Light encourages the harmonizing and organizing aspects of civilization, while the Darkness encourages war and a hyper-Darwinian philosophy of chaos. The Traveller and King Oryx are both agents of the Light and Darkness, respectively, but are also both potential identities of each—fluff indicates that King Oryx might have one day become the core of the Darkness (before you killed him), and it seems likely that the Traveller might also one day be the core of the coming Light.

Ultimately, the War between Light and Darkness is just our slow-motion perspective of the waveform collapsing. Or, from the Vex perspective, it’s one set of timelines warring on another set of timelines for territory/dominance.

He's searching for the true Kell of Kells, what Skolas called himself. Sadly, Variks might never find this Kell of Kells, as they will be in the last Fallen he thinks of, himself.