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!Season of the Deep contains examples of:
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* CanonCharacterAllAlong: The lore for the Exotic jumpship Valiant Memory reveals that it belonged to Reed-7, who died during the opening of ''Lightfall''. The way his past moments are described reveals that he was the Titan the Witness cut to ribbons, implying that Shayura's fireteam is the one seen on the game's original cover.
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** Should the Vex reach the Veil, they will be able to master paracausal simulations. This ''very'' critical piece of information appears to have been conveniently downplayed and/or dismissed by Neomuna.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The website page for the season reveals the Tirtha Bind and the Drowning are not products of the Titanian Pyramid's HostileTerraforming, but are in fact [[ColonyDrop part of the Pyramid itself and the impact crater respectively]].
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* ColonyDrop: After the Titanian Pyramid took Titan, it crashed itself into the ocean. It's later revealed that Deep Dives take place dangerously close to the impact crater, and the hidden Whetstone encounter takes place in the Tirtha Bind, the chamber of the Pyramid closest to an exposed pathway leading to the crater.
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* HopeSpot: A villainous example; Xivu Arath thinks her XanatosGambit from ''Season of the Seraph'' and the events of this season have finally paid off, as she has now manifested physically in Saturn's orbit. Then the Witness appears and informs her [[NotSoInvincibleAfterAll she's going to have to try a little harder than that, lest her ability to gain tribute from war reach its limit]].
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** Lakshmi-2 was a data copy of Maya Sundaresh. This also means she was NotBrainwashed during ''Season of the Splicer'' -- she has ''always'' been secretly a crazed, delusional scientist with a LackOfEmpathy.
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* EnemyMine: With Ahsa revealing that Savathun knows how to follow the Witness, the Guardians realize that they're going to have to resurrect Savathun and work with her to stop the Witness. Zavala tells Saladin that this is how they're going to keep Immaru in line as well: the Lucent Brood are also enemies of the Witness, so it's in Savathun and Immaru's best interests to work with the Coalition. Saladin and Saint-14 express understandable doubts about this.
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* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: The Witness reveals at the end of the lorebook "Purpose" that even though Xivu Arath's ability to use war as tribute seems like a XanatosGambit, her schemes with them are now running on borrowed time and are doomed to fail if the Guardians keep advancing on her fronts.
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* WhamLine: In the main climax of the seasonal story, Sloane is able to commune with Ahsa so she could serve as a direct conduit for voice. Ahsa explains how to follow the Witness, by [[EnemyMine allowing Savathun to be resurrected]]. "The true path lies obscured, but she knows the way. She who hides truth... in deception. The Witch Queen must rise."
* WhamShot: Following the Lucent Hive deep into the Arcology and down to the ocean floor it's discovered that they had discovered the body of Oryx, previously defeated on the Dreadnaught it had drifted around Saturn and landed on Titan. More disturbing is finding both a {{necromancer}} and Hive ghost messing with the corpse.
* WhamShot: Following the Lucent Hive deep into the Arcology and down to the ocean floor it's discovered that they had discovered the body of Oryx, previously defeated on the Dreadnaught it had drifted around Saturn and landed on Titan. More disturbing is finding both a {{necromancer}} and Hive ghost messing with the corpse.
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** In the main climax of the seasonal story, Sloane is able to commune with Ahsa so she could serve as a direct conduit for voice. Ahsa explains how to follow the Witness, by [[EnemyMine allowing Savathun to be resurrected]]. "The true path lies obscured, but she knows the way. She who hides truth... in deception. The Witch Queen must rise."
** This is followed by the conclusion of the lorebook "Purpose," where the Witness tells Xivu Arath to her face that [[NotSoInvincibleAfterAll unless something changes, none of her plans are viable permanent solutions]].
* WhamShot: Following the Lucent Hive deep into the Arcology and down to the ocean floor it's discovered that they had discovered the body of Oryx, previously defeated on the Dreadnaught it had drifted around Saturn and landed on Titan. More disturbing is finding both a {{necromancer}} and Hive ghost messing with thecorpse.corpse.
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->''MEAGER VICTORIES OF NO CONSEQUENCE; BLURRED BATTLES LOST WITHIN MY GREATER WAR.''\\
''[=-=]--No victory is of no consequence. They scheme.--[=-=]''\\
''WAR IS FED, REGARDLESS. THE SKY CAN GRANT NO PASSAGE.''\\
''[=-=]--That time will soon come to an end. Show her your love, Xi Ro.--[=-=]''
** In the main climax of the seasonal story, Sloane is able to commune with Ahsa so she could serve as a direct conduit for voice. Ahsa explains how to follow the Witness, by [[EnemyMine allowing Savathun to be resurrected]]. "The true path lies obscured, but she knows the way. She who hides truth... in deception. The Witch Queen must rise."
** This is followed by the conclusion of the lorebook "Purpose," where the Witness tells Xivu Arath to her face that [[NotSoInvincibleAfterAll unless something changes, none of her plans are viable permanent solutions]].
* WhamShot: Following the Lucent Hive deep into the Arcology and down to the ocean floor it's discovered that they had discovered the body of Oryx, previously defeated on the Dreadnaught it had drifted around Saturn and landed on Titan. More disturbing is finding both a {{necromancer}} and Hive ghost messing with the
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->''MEAGER VICTORIES OF NO CONSEQUENCE; BLURRED BATTLES LOST WITHIN MY GREATER WAR.''\\
''[=-=]--No victory is of no consequence. They scheme.--[=-=]''\\
''WAR IS FED, REGARDLESS. THE SKY CAN GRANT NO PASSAGE.''\\
''[=-=]--That time will soon come to an end. Show her your love, Xi Ro.--[=-=]''
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* GodzillaThreshold: Once again, the Taken being anywhere near Titan at all counts for this, as [[WeaksauceWeakness they're allergic to methane]]. Only this time, with the Witness actively working to invoke the Final Shape and Ahsa returning to Sol, the stakes are even higher than when Savathun deployed the Taken during the Arrival.
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** Once again, the Taken being anywhere near Titan at all counts for this, as [[WeaksauceWeakness they're allergic to methane]]. Only this time, with the Witness actively working to invoke the Final Shape and Ahsa returning to Sol, the stakes are even higher than when Savathun deployed the Taken during theArrival.Arrival.
** Ahsa's final words before going into hibernation force the Vanguard to consider this: the only one who knows how to cross the portal the Witness created is ''Savathun'', meaning the Coalition will have to resurrect one of their most personal foes to defeat their true enemy.
** Once again, the Taken being anywhere near Titan at all counts for this, as [[WeaksauceWeakness they're allergic to methane]]. Only this time, with the Witness actively working to invoke the Final Shape and Ahsa returning to Sol, the stakes are even higher than when Savathun deployed the Taken during the
** Ahsa's final words before going into hibernation force the Vanguard to consider this: the only one who knows how to cross the portal the Witness created is ''Savathun'', meaning the Coalition will have to resurrect one of their most personal foes to defeat their true enemy.
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* DemonicPossession: Sloane being partially Taken allows her to commune with Ahsa but also puts her dangerously close to Xivu Araths' control. In the final weekly mission, Sloane is briefly possessed by Xivu Arath before [[FightingFromTheInside managing to push her out]] and allow Ahsa to speak instead.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Every message Ahsa relays in the first four weeks of the season hints at the Witness' past, which is only revealed in full in week five.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Every message Ahsa relays in the first four weeks of the season hints at the Witness' past, which is only revealed in full in week five. Much of this information [[AllThereInTheManual previously existed across numerous lore tabs]], but this is the first to give definitive shape and context for all the UnreliableNarrator analogies and [[CrypticBackgroundReference dozens of vague terminology]].
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* WhamLine: In the main climax of the seasonal story, Sloane is able to commune with Ahsa so she could serve as a direct conduit for voice. Ahsa explains how to follow the Witness, by [[EnemyMine allowing Savathun to be resurrected]]. "The true path lies obscured, but she knows the way. She who hides truth... in deception. The Witch Queen must rise."
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** There is exactly one person who knows how to follow the Witness to wherever they went. Who is that? ''Savathun''.
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* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: Centrifuse's lore tab, which is about how the gun was built as part of a secret superweapon project by the New Pacific Arcology that exploited the research of its scientists. We later learn that this is exactly why the Witness wants the Light extinguished forever -- because it is driven by an utter lack of faith in the capacity for sapient life to do good on its own, with the NPA gearing up for interplanetary warfare in a time of peace being irrefutable proof of that.
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* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: Centrifuse's InnocuouslyImportantEpisode:
**The season started with a promise to reveal something important about the Witness, as Ahsa is said to be an ancient enemy of them. After ''Lightfall'', which notably [[KudzuPlot didn't answer much in that regard]], this was expected to be a kernel of information about their power, motivations or what they are doing to the Traveler. Week five instead gives a complete outline of the origins of the Witness, the Black Fleet and what the Veil is, while indicating deeper concepts about the Traveler and the Light. This turns out to answer LONG held questions about the Destiny setting, in particular finally explain the conflict between the Traveler and the Dark Fleet which lead to the Collapse.
**Centrifuse's lore tab, which is about how the gun was built as part of a secret superweapon project by the New Pacific Arcology that exploited the research of its scientists. We later learn that this is exactly why the Witness wants the Light extinguished forever -- because it is driven by an utter lack of faith in the capacity for sapient life to do good on its own, with the NPA gearing up for interplanetary warfare in a time of peace being irrefutable proof of that.
**The season started with a promise to reveal something important about the Witness, as Ahsa is said to be an ancient enemy of them. After ''Lightfall'', which notably [[KudzuPlot didn't answer much in that regard]], this was expected to be a kernel of information about their power, motivations or what they are doing to the Traveler. Week five instead gives a complete outline of the origins of the Witness, the Black Fleet and what the Veil is, while indicating deeper concepts about the Traveler and the Light. This turns out to answer LONG held questions about the Destiny setting, in particular finally explain the conflict between the Traveler and the Dark Fleet which lead to the Collapse.
**Centrifuse's lore tab, which is about how the gun was built as part of a secret superweapon project by the New Pacific Arcology that exploited the research of its scientists. We later learn that this is exactly why the Witness wants the Light extinguished forever -- because it is driven by an utter lack of faith in the capacity for sapient life to do good on its own, with the NPA gearing up for interplanetary warfare in a time of peace being irrefutable proof of that.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Every message Ahsa relays in the first four weeks of the season hints at the Witness' past, which is only revealed in full in week five.
** The first message tells of wanderers in the desert finding hope in an oasis, only to become for widest taken by the Deep. The Witness originates from the first race to find the Traveler, which was buried in the sands of their Homeworld. Said race would also become the first to wield the Darkness.
** Week two’s message mentions a city of Light and a garden, but also of unanswered questions and longing, ending with darkness falling as a new journey begins. The first race entered a golden age, but anguished over how the Traveler would not answer their questions and give them purpose, so they sought out its counterpart in Darkness after discovering that said entity existed.
** Week three's message mentions darkness, "something more", halves of something, and being reunited. The Witness' people found the Veil and learned that it was the counterpart to the Traveler, and that if they were fused together, they could be used to reshape the universe.
** The final message includes mentions of calamity, denial, betrayal, fleeing, and pursuing the Final Shape. Unwilling to help its first patrons any further, the Traveler fled, causing them to use the Darkness to fuse themselves into the Witness and chase it across the universe so that they could connect it to the Veil and enact the Final Shape.
** The first message tells of wanderers in the desert finding hope in an oasis, only to become for widest taken by the Deep. The Witness originates from the first race to find the Traveler, which was buried in the sands of their Homeworld. Said race would also become the first to wield the Darkness.
** Week two’s message mentions a city of Light and a garden, but also of unanswered questions and longing, ending with darkness falling as a new journey begins. The first race entered a golden age, but anguished over how the Traveler would not answer their questions and give them purpose, so they sought out its counterpart in Darkness after discovering that said entity existed.
** Week three's message mentions darkness, "something more", halves of something, and being reunited. The Witness' people found the Veil and learned that it was the counterpart to the Traveler, and that if they were fused together, they could be used to reshape the universe.
** The final message includes mentions of calamity, denial, betrayal, fleeing, and pursuing the Final Shape. Unwilling to help its first patrons any further, the Traveler fled, causing them to use the Darkness to fuse themselves into the Witness and chase it across the universe so that they could connect it to the Veil and enact the Final Shape.
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** The Final Shape is not a single species, as was previously implied - it is (or rather, will be) a perfectly ordered state of existence created by combining the power of Light and Dark. The Witness wants to bring about the Final Shape because [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife it wants meaning in meaningless universe]].
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** The Final Shape is not a single species, as was previously implied - it is (or rather, will be) a perfectly ordered state of existence created by combining the power of Light and Dark. The Witness wants to bring about the Final Shape because [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife it wants meaning in a meaningless universe]].
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** The Final Shape is not a single species, as was previously implied - it is (or rather, will be) a perfectly ordered state of existence created by combining the power of Light and Dark. The Witness wants to bring about the Final Shape because [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife it wants meaning in aeaningless meaningless universe]].
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** The Final Shape is not a single species, as was previously implied - it is (or rather, will be) a perfectly ordered state of existence created by combining the power of Light and Dark. The Witness wants to bring about the Final Shape because [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife it wants meaning in aeaningless universe]].
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* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: Centrifuse's lore tab, which is about how the gun was built as part of a secret superweapon project by the New Pacific Arcology that exploited the research of its scientists. We later learn that this is exactly why the Witness wants the Light extinguished forever -- because it is driven by an utter lack of faith in the capacity for sapient life to do good on its own, with the NPA gearing up for interplanetary warfare in a time of peace being irrefutable proof of that.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: It's revealed that the Witness comes from the first civilization blessed by The Traveler. While access to the Light made it prosper infinitely and worshipped as a god the citizens became wary of its power and never communicating what they should do. This made them seek the Darkness so they could more fully control the power of the Light. This provides some bit of {{irony}}, as the main characters have also had to acknowledge the inscrutable nature of the Traveler and the fact they perceived whatever they wanted it to be.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: It's revealed that the Witness comes from the first civilization blessed by The Traveler. While access to the Light made it them prosper infinitely and worshipped it as a god the citizens became wary of its power and never communicating what they should do. This made them seek the Darkness so they could more fully control the power of the Light. This provides some bit of {{irony}}, as the main characters have also had to acknowledge the inscrutable nature of the Traveler and the fact they perceived whatever they wanted it to be.
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* FusionDance: The Witness is revealed to be an entire ancient civilization merged into one being using the power of Darkness, for the purpose of chasing the Traveler across the cosmos. In lore tabs, once this knowledge is revealed Zavala wonders if all members of that [[TransformationHorror race agreed to the procedure]].
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: It's revealed that the Witness comes from the first civilization blessed by The Traveler. While access to the Light made it prosper infinitely and worshipped as a god the citizens became wary of its power and never communicating what they should do. This made them seek the Darkness so they could more fully control the power of the Light. This provides some bit of {{irony}}, as the main characters have also had to acknowledge the inscrutable nature of the Traveler and the fact they perceived whatever they wanted it to be.
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* WhamEpisode: Ghosts of the Deep, the dungeon for this season, has the Lucent Brood delve beneath the waves in search of something important. That something turns out to be Oryx, revealed to have landed on Titan after he died. Even as a corpse, he's dangerous, as he radiates Taken and Darkness energy. The Lucent Brood seek to bring him back to life forcibly, but they're stopped before it's achieved.
** In Week Five, we're told very clearly what the Witness actually is.
** In Week Five, we're told very clearly what the Witness actually is.
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** Ghosts of the Deep, the dungeon for this season, has the Lucent Brood delve beneath the waves in search of something important. That something turns out to be Oryx, revealed to have landed on Titan after he died. Even as a corpse, he's dangerous, as he radiates Taken and Darkness energy. The Lucent Brood seek to bring him back to life forcibly, but they're stopped before it's achieved.
** In Week Five,we're told very clearly what a cutscene explains the origin of The Witness actually is.and the significance of The Veil. The Traveler had blessed a civilization with the Light for eons and they accelerated into an advanced culture who created the Pyramid ships, but grew wary of the Travelers power and sought to use Darkness to control it. This is what instigated the pattern of the Traveler abandoning civilizations and fleeing once the Pyramid ships arrived, and is answers to the foundation of the ''Destiny'' setting.
** Ghosts of the Deep, the dungeon for this season, has the Lucent Brood delve beneath the waves in search of something important. That something turns out to be Oryx, revealed to have landed on Titan after he died. Even as a corpse, he's dangerous, as he radiates Taken and Darkness energy. The Lucent Brood seek to bring him back to life forcibly, but they're stopped before it's achieved.
** In Week Five,
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* ChekhovsGun: The emblems for Vow of the Disciple were initially suggested to be more of Rhulk's drawings aboard the Sunken Pyramid. Week 5 reveals their actual origins as how the Witness's creators portrayed the Light, additionally recontextualizing the name of the day 1 emblem ("The Cleaver") as the role ''they'' invented for themselves as the Witness, not Rhulk or the Hive.
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** The Witness and the Black Fleet are the remnants of the first civilization the Traveler blessed. Upon discovering the destructive potential of the Light, they had a crisis of faith so dire they immediately began looking for its opposites to neutralize it. They discovered the Darkness and the Traveler's actual antithesis, the Veil, and attempted to open the portal on the Traveler like the Witness did in ''Lightfall''. However, the Traveler abandoned them in the process, and feeling vindicated, the civilization used the Darkness to transform themselves into the Witness and the Black Fleet to pursue the Traveler.
** In light of the above, "Unveiling" is probably made-up, since the Witness's creators were the ones who invented the book's terminology to begin with.
** The art aboard the Sunken Pyramid is how the Witness draws things, not Rhulk -- meaning either [[WickedCultured the Witness was the one who actually put all of those murals up]], or Rhulk picked up the style from it.
** In light of the above, "Unveiling" is probably made-up, since the Witness's creators were the ones who invented the book's terminology to begin with.
** The art aboard the Sunken Pyramid is how the Witness draws things, not Rhulk -- meaning either [[WickedCultured the Witness was the one who actually put all of those murals up]], or Rhulk picked up the style from it.
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** The "original fireteam" from ''Destiny 1'' and Shayura's fireteam [[CanonCharacterAllAlong are implied to be one and the same]]. Also, only the Titan, Reed-7, died, [[KickTheDog leaving the other two to wallow]] in the ensuing SurvivorsGuilt.
** Oryx's body landed on Titan after his death, and ended up buried very deep below the ocean. The Lucent Brood seek to resurrect him once they locate the place where he fell.
** The "original fireteam" from ''Destiny 1'' and Shayura's fireteam [[CanonCharacterAllAlong are implied to be one and the same]]. Also, only the Titan, Reed-7, died, [[KickTheDog leaving the other two to wallow]] in the ensuing SurvivorsGuilt.
** Oryx's body landed on Titan after his death, and ended up buried very deep below the ocean. The Lucent Brood seek to resurrect him once they locate the place where he fell.
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** The "original fireteam" from ''Destiny 1'' and Shayura's fireteam [[CanonCharacterAllAlong are implied to be one and the same]]. Also, only the Titan, Reed-7, died, [[KickTheDog leaving the other two to wallow]] in the ensuing SurvivorsGuilt.
** Oryx's body landed on Titan after his death, and ended up buried very deep below the ocean. The Lucent Brood seek to resurrect him once they locate the place where he fell.
** After Rasputin used TWILIGHT EXIGENT to kill the Arcology scientists who discovered the Black Fleet, the protocol remained active on the moon. As a result, he continued to shoot down and kill every last civilian who managed to escape during the Collapse.
** The "original fireteam" from ''Destiny 1'' and Shayura's fireteam [[CanonCharacterAllAlong are implied to be one and the same]]. Also, only the Titan, Reed-7, died, [[KickTheDog leaving the other two to wallow]] in the ensuing SurvivorsGuilt.
** Oryx's body landed on Titan after his death, and ended up buried very deep below the ocean. The Lucent Brood seek to resurrect him once they locate the place where he fell.
** After Rasputin used TWILIGHT EXIGENT to kill the Arcology scientists who discovered the Black Fleet, the protocol remained active on the moon. As a result, he continued to shoot down and kill every last civilian who managed to escape during the Collapse.
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* CameBackWrong: Val Ca'uor returns as a Taken Incendior, but the process has left him so weak and unimportant (he's essentially a living component of a ShieldedCoreBoss) so as to be completely unrecognizable.
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* CameBackWrong: Val Ca'uor returns as a Taken Incendior, but the process has left him so weak and unimportant (he's essentially a living component of a ShieldedCoreBoss) so as to be completely unrecognizable. The biggest indicator of this is his model - he had a unique appearance in Spire of Stars, looking like a giant hybrid of Incendior and Centurion. His Taken form, on the other hand, just gives him a generic Taken Incendior look, completely wiping away his former identity.
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* GravityScrew: Titan has always been out of whack since the collapse messed with its gravitational field, and going into the ocean causes some disorientation. Nonetheless, there are sometimes water barriers that simply exist and not technology or obvious magic holding it back.
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* TheHeretic: The Lucent Brood continue to show how eager they are to flip tons of middle fingers at the Hive's core philosophy - that if you died, you didn't deserve to exist anyway, and to resurrect those who died is the greatest sin one can commit. They do this by trying to forcibly resurrect Oryx, the once Taken King, presumably to make him into a Lightbearer. Doesn't get much heretical for the Hive than that.
* TheHeretic: The Lucent Brood continue to show how eager they are to flip tons of middle fingers at the Hive's core philosophy - that if you died, you didn't deserve to exist anyway, and to resurrect those who died is the greatest sin one can commit. They do this by trying to forcibly resurrect Oryx, the once Taken King, presumably to make him into a Lightbearer. Doesn't get much heretical for the Hive than that.
* NotQuiteDead: Played with for Oryx. His mind is genuinely dead and gone. His corpse, on the other hand, is exhibiting strange behavior, having grown larger after his demise instead of rotting away, and radiating dangerous energies, alongside causing hallucinations for anyone that draws near. Even while dead, he's evidently still problematic to get close to.
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* VillainTakesAnInterest: Sloane's partial Taking has given her the unenviable position as being personally targeted by Xivu Arath. There is a very real risk of her succumbing to the overwhelming power of Xivu's battlesong, necessitating finding a way to undo her transformation while simultaneously salvaging what they can from the depths.
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* VillainTakesAnInterest: Sloane's partial Taking has given her the unenviable position as of being personally targeted by Xivu Arath. There is a very real risk of her succumbing to the overwhelming power of Xivu's battlesong, necessitating finding a way to undo her transformation while simultaneously salvaging what they can from the depths.
