The bare story essentials for ‘Destiny 2’ on the way to ‘The Final Shape’

Destiny YouTuber MyNameisByf just released his absolutely epic, 10-hour summary of the entire story of Destiny 1 and 2, ahead of the release of the game’s latest Light and Darkness expansion on Tuesday. I’m a few hours into it and unsurprisingly this is the kind of high quality work he always delivers.

I absolutely recommend everyone to check it out, but… it’s admittedly a tall order and we’re now about 72 hours away from release, so I’d understand if you couldn’t dedicate 10 to one video. That’s why I wanted to write an essential piece here about the story that I think will set you up for the finale.

This is not a complete timeline piece. Not at all. This is mainly about last year’s content and what I think are the most essential elements going into The Final Shape, based on what we know about it from recent events and the marketing. So let’s go. Bullet points baby!

MAIN STORY

• Long ago, a race of people on a distant planet found The Traveler, a great sphere that granted them miraculous progress for their civilization, but was completely silent in terms of guidance as they grew.
• Then they found The Veil, an object of “darkness” unlike the Traveler’s Light. It was structure and silence and a different kind of power. The race attempted to merge both the Traveler and the Veil, which they believed would form a perfect entity. The Traveler rejected this and fled the planet, causing destruction.
• Combining all their forces, civilization formed into a single being to pursue the Traveler, the Witness, who aims to complete what civilization began to create The Final Shape, the perfect silence and the preservation of all life without much of anything really. to live.” It has pursued the Traveler endlessly with a black fleet of pyramid ships and has finally overtaken him on Earth.
• Using The Veil and our Guardian’s connection to the Traveler, the Witness cut a hole in the Traveler and entered. We couldn’t track until recently where we sent new Guardian Crow through the portal using a combination of Veil energy and Wish Dragon magic. Now we follow him, and that’s where the events of The Final Shape begin. We are in the heart of the Traveler. The Witness is currently corrupting as he attempts to form the Last Form. We, the Guardians, given power by the Traveler, are tasked with stopping him and saving the entire universe.

CHARACTER SPECIFIC STORYLINES

• Crow was a man named Uldren, who killed Cayde-6, our friend, and the Hunter Vanguard. We killed Uldren as revenge, but he was resurrected by a ghost and became a Guardian named Crow, whose memory was erased. He’s slowly getting those memories back, but he’s still cool. Now Crow may have been tricked by a Wish Dragon into wishing he had never killed Cayde, and that may be why he arrives in the Pale Heart and finds Cayde there, who doesn’t know how he got there or why he’s still alive . . But the Wishing Dragon’s wishes are often monkey’s paws, so there may be some trouble ahead. The wish concept has not yet been confirmed, but is heavily implied by recent revelations.
• The leader of the last city, Commander Zavala, comes with us in the Traveler. Centuries ago, he had a son who was killed by the Fallen in one of the first conflicts with that species. This caused a rift between him and his wife, who divorced him and eventually died of old age due to his immortality as a Guardian. The most recent Final Shape trailer indicates that The Witness is specifically trying to corrupt him. We don’t know exactly how, but I think it might have something to do with bringing his family back (since I’m not sure what else could tempt him this way).

• The surviving Hive gods are hanging around, but we don’t know what/if they will play a role in The Final Shape’s story. But just in case, we should know that Hive imposter Savathun, now a Guardian, has been resurrected and is currently busy doing something… something… and that she has played such an essential role in Destiny’s storyline that it’s hard to believe that at some times she won’t appear. point. Meanwhile, her sister Xivu Arath is a servant of The Witness, but has recently been made mortal by a ritual by Eris Morn, our brooding witch friend.
• Our greatest non-human allies are Mithrax, leader of House Light, a friendly faction of Fallen who follow the Traveler and support our cause. And then there’s Caiatl, the current Cabal leader with whom we have a permanent alliance after Xivu Arath destroyed their homeworld. She may or may not be in love with Zavala. We know they will help us in this battle to some extent, as seen in trailers.
• Xivu Arath’s Hive, the Witness-controlled Taken and a faction of the Vex are the main forces of the Witnesses, but we also learned that he has created a new race from a dead world population, Lubrae, who conduct experiments with light and darkness. They are the Dread and we will be fighting them for the first time in this expansion.

Those are the basics? Again, a very brief overview and not for players who know absolutely nothing about the story, but I hope this helps. See you on Tuesday.

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