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Fridge Brilliance

  • The Vex are named so because their origins are mysterious and vexing to the rest of the galaxy. Even better, the Vex have chosen to worship the Darkness and the Dark Seed because even with their immense intellect, they don't understand it. They're just as vexed by the true nature of the Darkness as everyone else!
  • The Dregs are the lowest of the Vandals lows. Even amongst them they're considered mongrels. And yet, they're the ones who carry around grenades! Why? Well have you seen one of those things explode?! They're highly unstable! Using one is as liable to get the thrower killed as the one they were throwing at! No wonder they're the only ones who carry them! By this point, they have nothing left to lose.
  • Upon shooting a Vex in the head, they don't take critical damage, but rather, they lose their head and chase you down, like you pissed them off. Considering they're machines, losing their head is hardly going to kill them - hence why shooting their exposed power source is their weakspot.
  • Out of all the enemies in the game, the Fallen are the only enemies why release some "Light" upon death, by headshots. The Speaker refers to them having souls, so if one can assume all Creatures in the game were by Light at some point, maybe Fallen is a faction of Light-based creatures trying to gain ground? Which would make them not so different from humanity. They're fighting every race on every world, just like the Guardians are.
    • This actually isn't too far off the mark; the Fallen, or Eliksni as Variks calls them, were the last race to be blessed by the Traveler. They had the Light, Guardians, and a big thriving civilization, possibly better than the Golden Age of Humanity. Then the Darkness caught up with them, the Traveler fled, and they had to make do with synthetic Light called Ether and built their Servitors as idols to the Traveler they lost. The whole reason they're fighting us to begin with is that they want to get the Traveler back to save their dying race.
  • Read the lyrics to "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and consider how Destiny relates to it. Little Light...
  • Rasputin is a powerful, incredibly intelligent AI named after something famously hard to destroy who despite undergoing A.I. Is a Crapshoot might still have humanity's best interests at heart, and is in a Bungie game. Now who does that remind you of?
  • Some have complained about the alien's Theme Naming, where they are given titles (The Fallen, the Hive, the Cabal, the Traveller, the Darkness, etc.) rather than original names. But when you think about it, it makes sense for them to just be named after their defining characteristic, because how would we know what their true names are?
    • In fact, it is only after we meet a friendly member of the Fallen race that we discover that their species name is Eliksni
  • Patrol Missions - Particularly the "Kill Stuff" type missions, some of them have the audio clip say that they want you to clear the area of enemies because they have a strike coming through the area. There are sometimes when doing patrol missions you will notice a group of players heading off in the direction of the nearest Strike area. When this happens, you really ARE clearing the area for a Strike team to pass through!
  • Pahanin, creator of the gun Super Good Advice, made the gun sentient and able to speak, because he was afraid of being alone, or more specifically, wiped from existence by the Vex. He speaks of stars when trying to remember Kabr's last words, which refers to the Oracles. Because the Oracles are not considered a target when shooting at them, SGA's signature perk (missed bullets have a high chance of returning directly to the magazine) makes the gun ideal for dealing with them, since the game thinks you're not actually hitting anything. Pahanin literally created a gun that wrecks the embodiment of what he fears.
  • One of the theories on the Darkness, espoused in the third darkness Ghost Fragment in the Grimoire, is that it is simply a cosmic force imposing its will on the universe, and that the ultimate end goal of all the conflict between the Darkness and the Traveler is to rule the universe so utterly that its will and existence are fundamental laws. The Vex worship the Darkness and are trying to remake themselves in its image. Making themselves a fundamental part of the universe is exactly what the Vex are trying to do in the Vault of Glass.
  • It's stated that there was once (and perhaps still is) a Warlock by the name of Toland, the Shattered. It is said that he held more knowledge on the Darkness, and the Hive in particular, than anybody that didn't directly work for either. Now, you can eventually pick up a weapon bounty called "Toland's Legacy", which rewards you with the Bad Juju exotic pulse rifle. The unique perk on Bad Juju? Bonus damage and refilled weapon magazine whenever you score a kill, and doubled super energy from non-Guardian kills. Works great against hordes of low-to-mid-tier enemies, like Fallen Dregs or Cabal Legionaries. But who most often employs such hordes? Who else than the ones Toland knew the most about?
  • As of this writing (February 2015), the only two raids in the game are the Vault of Glass and Crota's End. Both feature an enemy at some point called a "Gatekeeper", but the two are very different- the Vault of Glass' being a shieldless Hydra and the Crota's End being a Knight that's only vulnerable to the weapons dropped by the Swordbearers. Now, you could brush this off as unoriginality on Bungie's part, but then you remember that the two races have something in common- they both worship the Darkness in some form or another. Perhaps they have the same name because of some common purpose that each holds in the worship of the Darkness, or because they're both parts of some greater puzzle that the Darkness has laid out for them. Tying into this, there is a clear relation between the Vex's alternate temporal dimensions and the pocket universe that Crota dwells in. The Gatekeeper may well be a component of the Darkness that serves to protect these alternate dimensions.
  • It's stated in the Grimoire that Warlocks taught Hunters how to Blink. The Warlock's starting subclass, Voidwalker, has the skill whilst Hunters need to unlock the Bladedancer subclass to learn it.
  • In the backstory, a massive army of thousands of Guardians were assembled to contest the Hive's invasion of the Moon, and were brutally defeated by Crota's armies. How are only a few Guardians able to defeat what thousands couldn't? They're not an army. An army of thousands of Guardians would be very visible, and the massive hordes of the Hive could brig their full weight to bear on them. By comparison, a small fireteam of Guardians can penetrate the Hive complexes, reach a vulnerable target like the Shrine of Oryx or Phogoth, and destroy it before the Hive even realizes the Guardians are there and can mobilize their massive numbers to stop them.
    • Adding to that, there may be additional reasons why Crota, slayer of thousands of Guardians, has ended up becoming the Butt-Monkey of the community in the actual story. His crystal in the final story mission Dark Below's main questline was destroyed while he was in the middle of making his way back to destroy humanity for good. As a result, his power was fractured, leading to his ethereal and skeletal form. Not only a small force was able to more easily infiltrate a throne world, where Hive god's are supposed to be at their strongest, but we've weakened him to the point where just a small team could take him out.
  • The Gunslinger's Super, Golden Gun, takes on the same model as The Last Word wreathed in flames. It seems like simple reuse of current assets already in the game. Until you read the newest Grimoire Card for The Last Word; in which Shin Malphur, the inheritor of The Last Word, slays the fallen Guardian Dredgen Yor with what sounds very much like the Golden Gun. This means that Shin either invented the technique, or it takes its current form as celebration and dedication to one of the Guardians' greatest heroes.
  • Despite The Fabian Strategy and Tlaloc being of Hakke and Omolon design respectively, their perk trees don't follow the format of weapons of those foundries (Hakke weapons feature perks first, modifiers later; Omolon has choice between two secondary perks). Meanwhile, the new and improved Suros Regime does. Why? Because the Fabian and Tlaloc are crafted by Banshee-44 himself, not by their respective foundry by design.
  • Ever felt something was outta place in The Shadow Thief strike with how the swarm of dregs comes pouring out after Taniks' death? When you know how the Fallen society works, it makes perfect sense: you just killed the leader of a sizable army, and now the small fry are comin' outta the woodwork to try and fill in that empty spot even if they die trying!
  • The first two groups of Future War Cult weaponry all start with "C" and "F", respectively. Makes perfect sense, the next group will probably all start with "W", right? Except not, the third group of weapons actually all start with "V". This is because FWC's weaponry isn't named after the Future War Cult, but instead after the Cabal, Fallen and Vex, with "H" for Hive weaponry presumably on its way at some later date. Given the FWC's philosophy, this makes perfect sense.
  • Cayde-6 was already showing that he was far smarter than he lets on from the start of The Taken King's campaign. His response of "Oh, I know. It's why I'm leaving." when Zavala tells him their discussion wasn't over when he and Ikora started bickering wasn't just Cayde acting like his sly self. Cayde was quite literally telling him that discussing battle plans meant they were wasting precious time, and the Vanguard had to act.
  • In the "Last Call" teaser for Destiny 2, it seems rather strange that out of all factions launching a full-scale invasion on the Last City, it's the Cabal. Until you remember the events of the story mission "An Outbound Signal" which concludes with the revelation that the Cabal are contacting their Empire. After the devastation they've suffered throughout the events of The Taken King, it's safe to say that like the Fallen, they've become completely and utterly desperate as they're stuck between the time-manipulating Vex, the eldritch Hive, and the immortal Guardians.
    • Likewise, you'd expect the civilians to be scornful that the Guardians have failed to protect the Last City. Except as seen in "Rally the Troops", they're not. In fact, they're happy to help you get back on your feet despite the disaster. But if you read up on those who first received the Traveler's power, it's easy to see why. This isn't the Dark Age, where the Guardians' precursors abused their power as warlords. And besides, you've killed Gods and given the City hope! What's a little payback?
  • Hawkmoon's exotic perk is called holding aces. Fully upgraded, the gun has two random rounds in the magazine as well as the final round that deal extra damage. That's three aces. Which ace is missing? The hunter specific weapon in the Taken King is Ace of Spades. Bungie certainly loves its Continuity Nods

Fridge Horror

  • The Kell from House Of Winter used to prevent war between the Houses, but with the Kell gone (thanks to you), who knows what the Fallen will resort to now?
  • Skolas would eventually break into the Vault of Glass and steal the Vex technology to try pulling the entire House of Wolves out of the timeline. If the Fallen are capable of adapting this technology to their use, imagine what would happen if any other force tried to do so, most notably the Cabal.
  • It's been confirmed that some Exos, including Cayde-6, are transhumans. We also know that the number in an Exo's name comes from how many times they've been rebooted, apparently with a new personality and no memory of their old life. So chances are whoever Cayde was originally is long dead. Though for some reason yet to be revealed, Cayde-6 actually remembers at least his other five reboots.
  • One for Arachnophobes: Exploring the Moon's catacombs will frequently bring you to the sight of huge chasms filled with natural stone pillars, an eerie fog, and giant webs. There's no sign that the Moon can naturally sustain an ecosystem and with it life as we know it, even with what the Traveler's done with the system. So then just what in the world made those giant webs?
  • The SIVA virus starting as the villain of the Rise of Iron expansion is a creation of mankind during the Golden Age. With how idealized the Golden Age is described to be in Destiny's lore, this suddenly lands a stain on its image; one that raises more questions: if this threat, which by gameplay mechanics, is to be worse than Oryx and his Taken, what other mad creations were made during the Golden Age?
  • The Fallen were once blessed by the Traveler like humanity was during its Golden Age. The largest Fallen, like their Kells and Archon Priests, are what the Eliksni looked like naturally, with the smaller Fallen actually being stunted by their lesser rations of Ether. The Ether itself is a stand-in for the Traveler's Light, and the Fallen need it to survive, but there's no indication that they need to eat like other species. In other words, the Eliksni became so dependent on the Traveler's Light that it fundamentally altered their biology so they no longer us food and water to survive, but instead became linked to the Traveler for basic survival, and were forced to turn to their Servitors to survive. Humans don't suffer from that flaw, but that may be because the Golden Age collapsed before they became that dependent on the Light. Humanity could have ended up in the exact same state as the Fallen: stunted, misshapen creatures feeding on synthetic life-giving energy gathered from the scraps recovered from yet another species.
  • SIVA. A technological breakthrough created by the Bray Corporation to alter matter down to its very molecules. Want to know what else has this ability? The Vex. As seen in assorted lore throughout the game, the Brays had an ongoing rivalry of sorts with the Ishtar Academy, which procured a piece of Vex technology. Who's to say that spies for the Bray family didn't manage to infiltrate the academy and bring back a sample? It's very likely SIVA was reverse-engineered, or worse, made from Vex technology. If the later, who knows how long it would be before the Vex find out and their networks take over, at least before your Guardian destroys the replication chamber.

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