Savathun walks amongst us. The creepiest villain in Destiny 2–one Bungie has been slowly revealing over the course of the final 4 years–is seen apparently inhabiting some human type within the Last City in a latest lore entry for the Season of the Splicer. Some form of shape-shifted Savathun is wandering our streets, puking up black stuff, and attempting her damnedest to maintain from being uncovered whereas she unfurls her numerous evil machinations on the sport’s world.The manner Destiny 2 has been constructing Savathun, one of many three extremely highly effective Hive gods and seemingly the large dangerous of subsequent 12 months’s Witch Queen growth, has been completely masterful. Savathun has been a risk since vanilla Destiny 2, however we have solely seen the consequences of her affect as her many plans unfold out throughout the sport world. She’s popped up repeatedly, however not bodily or personally–only because the implied puppet grasp behind numerous occasions. The Dreaming City’s complete three-week time-loop curse? That’s Savathun. She engineered just about every thing that occurred within the Forsaken expansion–so far as we all know, anyway–and has been popping up right here and there to be the monkey within the wrench time and time once more since then.Now we all know she’s really behind the newest risk within the recreation, the Endless Night that is blanketing the Last City. We don’t know what she’s attempting to perform, however we all know the Endless Night is sapping the City’s electrical energy, rising illness, and gravely harming morale in a manner that is starting to brew civil unrest. Savathun’s machinations are significantly harmful and significantly damaging, and we’re struggling to even perceive them, a lot much less anticipate and circumvent them.But Destiny followers who’ve been taking note of the lore are already coming to the conclusion that I’ve, which is that every one these spooky Savathun plots are literally a sequence of purple herrings. Unlike massive scary enemies equivalent to Oryx and Ghaul, Savathun is not working diligently to overcome humanity. She’s not rigorously shifting pawns across the board to result in our final destruction. Instead, what I believe Witch Queen goes to disclose is that Savathun has been rigorously creating this huge, multi-year chain of occasions with the intention of tricking us. She desires to trick us into changing into her pals.For that to make sense, you must perceive how the Hive work, and particularly, how Savathun and the opposite Hive gods work. Before these within the Hive had been the Hive, they had been a susceptible, short-lived individuals whose lives had been typically fairly terrible. One of the kings of these individuals, the pinnacle of the Osmium Court, was betrayed by one in every of his advisers to his enemies and assassinated. That left the king’s three daughters, Aurash, Xi Ro, and Sathona, scrambling in an effort to not get picked off within the coup. The pair wound up discovering a ship and diving deep into the gasoline big known as Fundament, the place they lived. There, they found worm creatures that pledged to offer the three daughters immortality and energy, in change for consistently feeding the worms in a symbiotic relationship. The three agreed and began changing the remainder of the Krill individuals into the Hive.If you have performed Destiny or Destiny 2, you are most likely conscious of the Hive’s bizarre factor with these worms. The Hive have a symbiotic relationship with these worms, and typically you even see them drop from lifeless Hive if you kill them. Most of the worms feed on violence and death–it’s why the Hive have spent millennia conquering the universe and why they’re now in our photo voltaic system, messing issues up. The extra you feed your worm, the stronger you change into, however the extra it must be fed. So the Hive are consistently killing and conquering as a result of they actually can’t cease; in the event that they do, their hungry worms will devour them.For Aurash, Xi Ro, and Sathona, it was even worse. As the Hive’s founders and its strongest, they turned, primarily, dwelling gods. They discovered methods to safe their immortality (that is what the entire Ascendant Realm is about) and new methods to feed their worms. Aurash turned Oryx, the Taken King; Xi Ro turned Xivu Arath, the Hive god of battle; and Sathona turned Savathun, the Hive god of crafty and deception. The worms of the three unique Hive had been fed by the daughters pursuing their natures–Oryx needed to consistently pursue data, Xivu Arath needed to consistently pursue strengthening herself via fight and conquest, and Savathun needed to consistently work to deceive others. And like the remainder of the Hive, in the event that they cease doing the factor that feeds their worms, the three gods could be consumed by them, too.So Oryx, Xivu Arath, and Savathun turned extraordinarily, ludicrously highly effective, and have lived for, as talked about, millennia beneath this system–what the Hive calls the Sword Logic. It’s primarily survival of the fittest, prolonged to every thing within the universe. The Hive imagine that if one thing may be killed, it have to be killed, as a result of they wish to consistently reduce away any weak spot from the universe. They determine that no matter’s left would be the good form of life. It means killing is not simply of their nature, it is of their core ideology. They make the universe higher by eradicating something that is not good, and something that is weaker than the Hive have to be imperfect, and due to this fact have to be killed.Okay, again to Savathun. Her total deal is deception, not like a lot of the different Hive, who feed their worms largely by killing. For Savathun, being misunderstood by others, tricking them, manipulating them, and usually getting one over on them feeds her worm. But the entire schtick appears to be getting previous. The lore means that for a very long time, Savathun has been looking for a manner out of this complete worm deal she made.We noticed this first-hand within the Season of Arrivals, when Savathun teamed up with Oryx’s son Nokris particularly in hopes of breaking freed from the worm pact. Nokris’s complete deal is that he is a necromancer, elevating Hive from the lifeless, which is a heresy because the Hive imagine something that may die ought to die. But Savathun does not appear to have a lot use for these guidelines anymore. She’s in search of a greater manner.So if we take it as a on condition that Savathun is looking for a solution to do away with her worm, which is able to by no means be glad regardless of how a lot deception or homicide she does, then we will begin to see her actions in a distinct mild. Savathun cannot kill worm gods on her personal, however who can kill worms? Guardians. We took on Xol, Will of Thousands within the Warmind DLC and, , apparently killed it. And we beat Oryx and despatched his big physique falling into the environment of Saturn. We have a fairly good monitor document coping with these items.The factor is, although, Savathun cannot simply come to the Vanguard and say, “Hey, I’d love it if you’d kill this worm thing that makes me do evil.” First, would anybody imagine her? Second, Savathun’s complete existence is constructed on trickery and misunderstanding. If she stops doing cons, she actually dies. So what does she do as an alternative?She institutes a sequence of extraordinarily concerned schemes to get us geared as much as kill a worm god, in fact.That’s the place we’re at presently. Everything in Destiny 2 is telling us that no matter we predict we find out about Savathun is improper; she’s consistently scheming and all the time working to deceive. If we observe that logic, then probably the most elementary assumption we’ve got about Savathun–that she’s our enemy–is probably the most suspect piece of knowledge doable.Look at among the issues Savathun has been liable for recently. In the Season of Arrivals, she labored to intervene with us speaking with the Darkness, which does not make an entire lot of sense if she and the Darkness (which the worms serve and which gave rise to the Hive’s Sword Logic) are allies. In the Season of the Chosen, we discovered she helped engineer Xivu Arath’s assault on Torobatl, the Cabal homeworld, which drove Caiatl and the remainder of her individuals to our photo voltaic system–and we spent that season opening up a diplomatic discourse with some of us who had been beforehand our enemies. It’s a thorny discourse and never in notably nice form, granted–but it’s a discourse.And now, within the Season of the Splicer, Savathun has created a state of affairs wherein we’ve got to affix with the Eliksni, our age-old adversaries, with the intention to defeat a worse risk within the Endless Night. We’ve seen an entire bunch of issues come up from the Eliksni’s presence within the Last City, nevertheless it’s additionally breaking down obstacles between our two species and exposing plots by dangerous actors. The Endless Night could be very prone to go away us stronger, with extra allies and newer views, by the point it is finished.If Savathun is allied with the Darkness, why suppress its capability to deprave us to its aspect? If she desires to overcome and destroy us, why create conditions wherein former enemies are providing alliances towards larger threats? If she’s the last word schemer and deceiver, why will we preserve seemingly stopping her plans earlier than they will get off the bottom?It’s as a result of the best trick Savathun can pull in Destiny 2 is convincing us we’re enemies–until we do what she desires us to do. Savathun cannot simply ask us for assist, as a result of if she does not deceive, she’ll die. She cannot simply supply us an allegiance, as a result of if she stops conning individuals, she’ll die. She should deceive us (and everybody else) into serving to her.If we free Savathun from the worm gods and the Darkness, she’s abruptly freed from the Sword Logic, freed from the necessity to deceive, freed from an existence of fixed conquest. And possibly she’ll even get pleasure from having feelings that are not centered on killing individuals, since we preserve seeing lore entries the place she misses her previous pre-Hive household or finds herself feeling issues for the people round her whereas she deceives them.The themes of this complete 12 months of Destiny 2 content material have been about understanding our former adversaries, discovering frequent floor with them, and possibly discovering a path towards changing into allies–or at the least dwelling in peace. That’s going to culminate with Savathun’s machinations in Witch Queen. The thematic threads have an endpoint.Savathun desires to be greatest buds with us. She simply has to trick us to make that occur.