History Fridge / Destiny2

** Confirmed in the Season of Plunder: Nezarecs's remains were discovered in the Lunar Pyramid by Mithrax's mother, and the Fallen Pirate crews harvested the remains for their dark power.

* Though Nezarec's fate and alignment are up in the air as of ''Season of the Haunted'', the various reveals strongly implying he is or was a Disciple one-up the reveals of Clarity Control and the Lunar Pyramid (which he himself is implied to be the owner of.) As he was worshipped as a god ''before'' the Golden Age, this pretty much confirms that the Darkness was ''always'' a leg up over the Traveler if it could influence humans through him.

* Notes in the book shipped with the Collector's Edition of ''The Witch Queen'' indicate that Stasis, being an amalgamation of perfect crystals (structures totally devoid of entropy) and time crystals (structures capable of molecular motion without interacting with energy), has a nonzero chance that every crystal formed from the stuff contains a constant evolution race of '''simulation computers''' due to the Darkness's evolutionary tendencies connected to the "final shape." Comparisons are, of course, made to the Vex, raising some serious questions of whether or not many of the Stasis fragments (often frozen Vex tech) are ''just'' garbage and dysfunctional equipment given symbolism by the Winnower. Not to mention, if the Darkness came first, is it any wonder that the Sol Divisive would idolize it like so?

* [[spoiler:Lakshmi's failed coup against the Vanguard has made it clear that the Vex tech the Future War Cult uses is not just for seeing into the future, but even has the power to summon Vex right into the City. If she wanted to, Lakshmi could have dropped an entire army's worth of Vex wherever she wanted, and there would have been significantly more damage. Hell, she might have been able to drop a really powerful mind on top of Zavala and/or Ikora, making it much more likely for them to die and for the factions to take over. It's only due to Lakshmi's IrrationalHatred of the House of Light that the City still stands after her attempt to take over.]]

* The Darkness makes it very clear that it wants the Guardians to join it, or at least leave the Traveler behind. With the way it just casually lifts the player character into the air on the Moon and on Io, and how those Pyramid ships seem invincible... it raises a rather frightening prospect. The Darkness has chased after the Traveler who quite a long time, and yet this go around, it's not trying to attack. If it wanted to, it could probably annihilate the Traveler and its Guardians for good, and humanity with it. As it stands, humanity is extremely lucky that the Darkness seems more interested in conversing with them instead of turning them into little more than dust and ash.

* During Expunge: Corrupted Tartarus, Osiris explains that Tartarus itself serves as what amounts to a glorified garbage dump for the Vex, sending failed projects and scrap to be recycled back into other assets. As with all of the other regions of the Nexus in Expunge, the Oppressive Mind in charge (Dimio in this case) helps prop up the Endless Night... and with Dimio managing Tartarus, its intended role in the collective can be described as "head janitor." If the ''janitor'' can help maintain such a devastating simulation, then humanity should be counting their lucky stars none of the Vex with even slightly better occupational roles have managed to reach the City with their work.

* The Lament exotic quest contains a huge revelation you never expected. [[spoiler: After you completed the final step to create The Lament sword with the help of Clovis Bray's AI, you discover that part of Clovis Bray is none other than Banshee-44, the gunsmith in The Tower. And the sword originally belonged to him. He tore through several Vex in his bid to save how many Exos he could in the Bray Exoscience facility and escape from Europa by using this sword, and you get to give it a field test as the Vex try to raid the facility again, this time to stop you from getting the sword. Now you look at Banshee's number right along his name and it hits you: He went through a lot of hell to survive the worst that the galaxy had to offer during and after his escape from Europa until he found his place in the Last City, This makes his case extra special, as no other Exo went through reboots/revives as Banshee-44 did... and that he was also quite the badass in that distant past.]]

* The Darkness makes it very clear that it wants the Guardians to join it, or at least leave the Traveler behind. With the way it just casually lifts the player character into the air on the Moon and on Io, and how those Pyramid ships seem invincible... it raises a rather frightening prospect. The Darkness has chased after the Traveler who quite a long time, and yet this go around, it's not trying to attack. If it wanted to, it could probably annihilate the Traveler and its Guardians for good, and humanity with it. As it stands, humanity is extremely lucky that the Darkness seems more interested in conversing with them instead of turning them into little more than dust and ash.

* Mara not only likes theater/TheTempest but sees herself as a Prospero analogue as she weaves her mystical machinations on her island (read: The Reef/wherever she is post-Forsaken) and has no concern about being seen as villainous as she works at her goals.

* Osiris has spent subjective decades inside the Infinite Forest, exploring uncountable timelines, witnessing more Bad Futures than any sane man could handle...and now he's found something that not only made him leave the Forest, but walk right up to Rasputin, rifle in hand, and ask the last Warmind what side he's on. What the hell did Osiris see?

* The lore tab for the Truth exotic, and the associated quest, reveals something rather unsettling in hindsight: we didn't just find it, we '''stole it''' from someone else who was supposed to find it. Even worse, it's implied that Mithrax, the one Fallen trying to start uniting his people with the city, had intended it as a gift for another Fallen he rescued long ago as a hatchling and considered a daughter, even stipulating that she was supposed to find it while allied with other Guardians. Our greed might've just shot down our chance at a City-Fallen alliance.

** The trailer also gives a good reason why everyone was singing the player's praises so early in the first game: we saw that it took time and a lot of deaths for Zavala to become the badass we know and love, even a Fallen Vandal being too much for him at one point. Meanwhile, the Young Wolf not only killed a boatload of Fallen immediately after resurrecting, they then killed an Archon on their first official mission. Granted, they were fortunate enough to find a workng weapon and get some new armor at their arrival at the Tower, but even then their skill would have been obvious to the Vanguard at that point, i. e. "this is someone to watch out for." [[spoiler: Even the Traveler seems to have taken note of it, since the player character was given the vision instead of the Vanguard or other more experienced Guardians like Saladin or Efrideet.]]

* With the Joker's Wild update, we learn that Shin Malphur [[spoiler: [[ActuallyIAmHim not only leads a double life as Dredgen Vale]], but we learn that [[TheManBehindTheMan he founded the Shadows of Yor]]. Granted, [[DarkIsNotEvil he's doing all of this with good intentions]], but it still begs the question... [[HiddenDepths how much]] [[WhatYouAreInTheDark do we really know]] [[OhCrap about Destiny's other prominent or beloved figures?]] ]]

* With the Joker's Wild update, we learn that Shin Malphur [[spoiler: [[ActuallyIAmHim not only leads a double life as Dredgen Vale]], but we learn that [[TheManBehindTheMan he founded the Shadows of Yor]]. Granted, [[DarkIsNotEvil he's doing all of this with good intentions]], but it still begs the question... [[HiddenDepths how much]] [[WhoYouAreInTheDark do we really know]] [[OhCrap about Destiny's other prominent or beloved figures?]] ]]

* With the Joker's Wild, we learn that Shin Malphur [[spoiler: [[ActuallyIAmHim not only leads a double life as Dredgen Vale]], but we learn that [[TheManBehindTheMan he founded the Shadows of Yor]]. Granted, [[DarkIsNotEvil he's doing all of this with good intentions]], but it still begs the question... [[HiddenDepths how much]] [[WhoYouAreInTheDark do we really know]] [[OhCrap about Destiny's other prominent or beloved figures?]] ]]

* With the Joker's Wild, we learn that Shin Malphur [[spoiler: [[ActuallyIAmHim leads a double life as Dredgen Vale]], but we learn that [[TheManBehindTheMan he founded the Shadows of Yor]]. Granted, [[DarkIsNotEvil he's doing all of this with good intentions]], but it still begs the question... [[HiddenDepths how much]] [[WhoYouAreInTheDark do we really know]] [[OhCrap about Destiny's other prominent or beloved figures?]] ]]

* With the Joker's Wild, we learn that Shin Malphur [[ActuallyIAmHim is not only Dredgen Vale and Zyre Orsa]], but we learn that [[spoiler: [[TheManBehindTheMan he founded the Shadows of Yor]]. Granted, [[DarkIsNotEvil he's doing all of this with good intentions]], but it still begs the question... [[HiddenDepths how much]] [[WhoYouAreInTheDark do we really know]] [[OhCrap about Destiny's other prominent or beloved figures?]] ]]

** Due to the radar perk and low-damage drop off allowing for 3-shot kills, the MIDA is a weapon that should be expected to be seen at least once a match. Seems the enemy the MIDA kills best is ''Guardians.''

** [[spoiler: Furthermore, it's unlikely that Gaul would have wanted to be dependent on something like a Ghost anyway; look at what he did to his consul, the person who he owed his life and literally everything else to when he basically told Gaul to get real or he was going to lose the empire in his pursuit of the Traveler's Light. A Guardian has to trust their Ghost implicitly to have their back, that's why the PlayerCharacter and his Ghost make such a good team as Ghost searched for days in an occupied city to find you and risking his own existence; Gaul, like any ambitious Cabal that had to claw his way from a place even lower than the bottom of his society, likely trusts ''no one.'' Gaul would have left someone for dead in that same situation and, given the WeHaveReserves mentality of the Cabal military, probably has.]]

** Even worse still, what if you DID play through the original campaign, but on a different device entirely? The Young Wolf's exploits are spoken of in the game, whether or not you technically ARE the Young Wolf. Since the champion you created wouldn't be able to be imported from one device to another, it's possible that the champion you previously created- a legend who slew foes of godlike status- actually met their permanent end during the Red War.