History NightmareFuel / Destiny

* The Dark Below likely brought fear of the Hive back into more than a few Guardians, what with the first raid mission involving you being chased through complete darkness by an endless tide of Thralls, with only some short-lived pillars of light showing the way forward.

* The mental instability that Kabr and Pahanin became subject to. Kabr survived the Vault of Glass, seemingly alone, as a OneManArmy... And, if this quote ("No one can open the Vault alone. I opened the Vault. There was no one with me but I was not alone.") is any indicator, Kabr's entire fireteam was rendered RetGone, and he lost his mind because of it. Pahanin, however, knew Kabr and likely knew of the Guardians he trusted, but the RetGone also affected him... making him wonder if the same could ever, or [[ParanoiaFuel had ever]] happened to him. As a result, Pahanin became terrified of traveling alone.

****
* If the Grimoire card for Atheon is to be believed, there exist multiple timelines where the Vex were succesful in taking over the galaxy. In theory, that means everytime you restart a checkpoint, a timeline exists where Guardians failed to stop The Darkness and Vex.

*** Also to drive the point of how much shit you're in when doing the Vault of Glass are those Gorgons, white glowing Harpies that can kill your whole team if you so much as look at them. Really makes you wonder just what else is in the Vex's bag of tricks.

* [[spoiler:That... [[EldritchAbomination thing]]....the Vex were worshiping in the black garden. And then there's the possibility that it could be a part of the BigBad]].

** [[spoiler:In the Grimoire entries, we learn that the Vex are far more advanced than humanity in terms of technology and logical thinking. But when the Vex encountered the Heart of the Black Garden even they were unable to comprehend it, so they decided that the best course of action was to ''worship'' it.]]

* Mentioned below at the Vault Of Glass; What happens when you die in a Darkness Zone? Normally you just restart, but what would happen in-universe?

** The Hellmouth has entire rooms filled with bones. It's not clear whose bones they were or how they got there, but those are questions with no good answers.

* The lore for Thorn, which evidently belonged to a Guardian that gave himself over to the Darkness and was corrupted. The Guardian is... disturbing.

*** Also to drive the point of how much shit you're in when doing the Vault of Glass is those Gorgons, white glowing Harpies that can kill your whole team if you so much as look at them. Really makes you wonder just what else is in the Vex's bag of tricks.

** Also their [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice Melee Animation]], Which looks like they're trying to impale you, lets look at it at a real-life perspective, having a robotic arm Impaling you is [[Understatement very painful]].

** What happens if you ''die'' in the Vault of Glass? You get a chilling message saying "You are forever lost in the dark corners of time."
** Also what about the [[UniqueEnemy Oracle]]? They've never been encountered anywhere else, they also inflect the Marked for Negation '''On the Entire team''' Failure to kill them results in [[TotalPartyKill Total Party Wipe]].
*** Also to drive the point of how much shit your in when doing the Vault of Glass is those Gorgons, White Glowing Harpies that can kill your whole team if you so much as look at them. Really makes you wonder just what else is in the Vex's bag of tricks.

** The Thorn itself looks like it was made from ''something'' Hive-like. Heck one of the upgrades for it adds bullets that penetrate and deal prolonged damage to its target.

** What happens if you ''die'' in the Vault of Glass? You get a chilling message saying "You are forever lost in the dark corners of time."

* Also in the Vault of Glass Raid you got these new Vex Units called the Fanatics, Basically they're headless Vex Goblin with Black and Green Mist coming of their bodies and if they touch you are [[OneHitKill Marked for Negation]] so now you have to get into the circle or else [[ThatOneBoss The Templar]] will come and perform [[OneHitKill Ritual of Negation]] which will wipe out the people affected by the debuff.

* The lore for Thorn, which evidently belonged to a Guardian that gave himself over to the Darkness and was corrupted. The Guardian is... disturbing.

** Oh, that's nothing. Try reading the lore related to the Black Garden. It borders on SurrealHorror. [[spoiler: http://destinynews.net/destinys-mysteries/]]

* [[spoiler:That... [[EldritchAbomination thing]]....the Vex were worshiping in the black garden. And then there's the possibility that it could be a part of the BigBad]].

* Vex Minotaurs and their promoted versions, especially when playing missions on Hard. They might appear to be [[MightyGlacier Mighty Glaciers]], but are capable of [[LightningBruiser surprising bursts of speed]], and if you take cover from them long enough [[OhCrap they will teleport right next to you]] [[ImplacableMan to continue their assault.]] All while emitting a [[HellIsThatNoise noise like a charging elephant]] [[BrownNote mixed with an electronic shriek.]]

** Their Tombships can teleport even into underground. When they want someone dead, they mean it.

** Their Tombships can teleport even into underground.

* Pretty much ''everything'' about the Hive. They're essentially what would happen if HPLovecraft was ''an entire species.''