Just about each week brings one thing new to Destiny 2, whether or not it is story beats, new actions, or attention-grabbing new mixtures of parts that permit gamers devastate one another within the Crucible. Iron Banter is our weekly have a look at what is going on on on this planet of Destiny and a rundown of what is drawing our consideration throughout the photo voltaic system. (Sorry, I haven’t got an April Fools’ joke prepared, so that is simply going to be an precise, severe column.)We’re six weeks past the launch of The Witch Queen, and issues have slowed down and relaxed a bit. The main story beats of the Season of the Risen appear to be over, Rhulk has been handled, and we’re coasting by way of some high-level content material like Grandmaster Nightfall Strikes and the Master model of Vow of the Disciple as we await Destiny’s subsequent content material season to roll round on the finish of May.
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Now Playing: Opinion: The Witch Queen Is Destiny 2’s Best Campaign Yet
The lull makes this a superb time to look to the long run to invest the place issues are going subsequent. Coming out of The Witch Queen’s marketing campaign, with Savathun and Rhulk now useless, it is an open query as to the place issues are headed. But The Witch Queen has left us with some clues as to what is likely to be on the horizon, as has the Season of the Risen. We might need simply wrecked a few tyrants, however there are two extra who appear to be about to step again into the highlight: Calus and Rasputin.Given all the things that is been taking place these days, it appears it is solely a matter of time till deposed Cabal emperor Calus exhibits again up within the photo voltaic system. He was a reasonably main drive for many of Destiny 2’s life, hanging out within the Leviathan and offering leisure to Guardians who favored his complete vibe. There’s a ton of attention-grabbing Calus lore, however most just lately, his makes an attempt to commune with the Darkness–and, it now appears apparent, the Witness itself–have made a huge impact.Last yr, we heard about Calus’s seemingly profitable makes an attempt aboard the Glykon in the course of the Presage mission. After combating Rhulk and Savathun, we now have a barely higher thought of what Presage was presaging.It actually appears like Calus is trying to turn into a brand new Disciple of the Witness, similar to Rhulk was, and it appears very seemingly that we’re quickly going to face Calus as an actual enemy, as soon as and for all. That’ll be a shakeup, since Calus has been our semi-evil pal for fairly some time. Before there was an alliance with Caiatl, Calus’s daughter and the brand new Cabal empress, we have been not less than on fairly pleasant phrases with Calus. That was earlier than he went full nihilist with the Witness, although.Calus obtained extremely near the Darkness–what did it do to him?The Vox Obscura mission has arrange Calus’s return fairly considerably. He apparently has new loyalist forces working on the returned Mars, utilizing a base there as a method to contact different Cabal and switch them to his trigger. And it is working–Caiatl mentions throughout among the Vox Obscura missions that she’s affected by a ton of defections, partially due to Calus’s affect and partially due to her determination to workforce up with the Vanguard in opposition to him. We additionally hear about how Calus can rebuild his military by way of genetic engineering and cloning capabilities aboard the Leviathan–that’s the place he obtained all these troopers to start with.The query is the place these efforts will go away Calus and what he’ll be like when he ultimately returns. He has all the time been a gluttonous, hedonistic character, within the pleasures of life. But for those who learn among the lore from the Season of Opulence, you get a behind-the-scenes have a look at Calus. He’s not the large, vibrant, highly effective creature we fought in the course of the Leviathan raid (in truth, that Calus was a super-strong robotic lookalike and never the emperor himself, and there are lots of and even 1000’s extra of these aboard the Leviathan). Instead, he is a frail previous man who’s approaching the top of his life, and that seemingly is what has pushed him to seek for the Witness in earnest.Will Calus be modified by the Darkness and the Witness, and in that case, into what? Or will the Witness reject him–and what’s going to that do to the emperor? Destiny’s story might go a few other ways with this, and that is to say nothing of the concept there may very well be some severe problems when the sport combines our previous with Calus and our present alliance with Caiatl. There’s loads of baggage to unpack there, and it appears we’ll be coping with all of it fairly quickly.That mentioned, we’re at the moment in what may very well be thought of a Cabal season, which suggests it may very well be a bit earlier than we have now one other one. There’s additionally one other tyrant, Rasputin, to contemplate. The AI warmind’s story was left hanging, because the extremely highly effective laptop was completely annihilated by the Darkness within the Season of Arrivals. As we have since discovered, nevertheless, that wasn’t the top of Rasputin’s story.There’s extra about Rasputin we’ve not discovered–and uncovering it will make a superb dungeon….Back when the fleet arrived, Ana Bray managed to nab a part of Rasputin’s program and put it aside earlier than the entire laptop system was torched. She’s been working for greater than a yr to get the warmind built-in into an Exo physique. That story thread might get picked up any time, however it appears seemingly it will occur pretty quickly, because of a touch on the finish of The Witch Queen.After finishing The Lure case on the Evidence Board and claiming your Exotic glaive, there’s one final file that mentions a Rasputin bunker referred to as “Nefele Stronghold.” The case does not have many different particulars and the Hidden principally put the investigation on maintain after that, however even getting a lead on Rasputin stuff feels vital.Current hypothesis is that Nefele Stronghold is probably going one of many dungeons Bungie is releasing in Destiny 2 this yr, however heading to that location would dovetail properly with a season coping with the Rasputin scenario. Before Beyond Light, within the Season of the Worthy, we discovered about Rasputin’s ties to the Iron Lords, particularly Felwinter, and SIVA, the Golden Age nanotechnology that took over an enormous chunk of the Cosmodrome in Destiny 1. All these concepts are simply hanging proper now, however we might simply return to them–especially given how massive part of the story Saladin has been these days. It looks like Rasputin might nicely present up in Destiny 2 as an actual character in a human-size physique quickly, and when that occurs, there’ll most likely be a reckoning with the stuff that Rasputin is answerable for, each constructive and damaging.We might also discover out, lastly, whether or not Rasputin shot the Traveler. It’s a little bit of hypothesis that I’m again to considering might need truly happened–which is stunning on condition that the speculation has been a spinfoil hat joke for years.Ever discover how the Traveler appears all wrecked on the underside? Almost like somebody shot it…from the Earth….The very last thing that is actually pointing towards the long run is all of the stuff Savathun left behind earlier than her death–namely, the communications we get from the Altars of Reflection every week, and the “two lies, two truths” recreation she retains enjoying. It’s unimaginable to know if any of the issues she says are lies or truths (actually, I feel even the “two lies, two truths” premise might be a lie), however she does a superb job of blending in truthful-sounding issues and concepts which might be supported by Destiny lore and storytelling. It’s arduous to say what’s deception and what’s reality with Savathun, however the query of why she would go away these messages for us in any respect is a crucial one. She desires one thing from us, and I proceed to assume it is that she’s attempting to steer us towards friendship relatively than extra animosity.A latest “two lies, two truths” recreation is of specific curiosity to me, not simply due to the ideas however as a result of Bungie stole it for a tweet, which feels prefer it elevates it somewhat–this is one thing the developer thought extra gamers ought to see, even when they did not get it within the recreation. Maybe that is simply because it is a enjoyable Savathun second, or possibly it is as a result of there’s further significance right here.Two lies. Two truths. Savathûn’s video games proceed.💠 The Traveler will go away.💠 The Traveler will fall.💠 The Traveler is just not the one one in all its form.💠 The Hive aren’t the final to be chosen by the Light.What is true and what’s false? 🤔 — Destiny 2 (@DestinyTheSport) April 1, 2022 It appears fairly clear that we’re dealing with both the Traveler’s destruction or its desertion sooner or later; the subsequent growth is named Lightfall, in any case. But I feel the final merchandise on Savathun’s listing, that “The Hive are not the last to be chosen by the Light,” is enjoyable to consider.Back earlier than The Witch Queen, I speculated that the Hive would not steal the Light, however that it will be freely given to them by the Traveler, and we discovered in the course of the marketing campaign that that was true. We do not know why the Traveler made that selection, however my guess on the time was that the Traveler is getting slightly nervous about humanity getting too cozy with the Darkness. We’re wielding Stasis, we’re accepting weapons from the Black Fleet, and now we have now particular skills granted to us by each Light and Darkness. Some Guardians have already fallen to the darkish aspect. The Traveler is likely to be searching for a brand new military to guard it, and that is why it selected the Hive.In one clip from the Altars of Reflection, Savathun says one thing alongside these lines–the Traveler gave her the Light as a result of we’re making it nervous. And if the Traveler picked the Hive as a backup plan ought to the Guardians fall to Darkness, it will make sense that it might do the identical factor once more, for the reason that Hive scenario hasn’t essentially labored out in its favor; as a substitute of gaining an additional military, the Traveler by chance created a scenario the place Guardians and Hive Lightbearers are combating one another, relatively than the Witness.If the Traveler have been to choose one other race, possibly because it will get determined within the run-up to Lightfall, I might see it trying to the Fallen. Apart from humanity, the Eliksni are most dedicated to the Traveler, and a few nonetheless worship it. The Eliksni chased the Traveler throughout the cosmos after it deserted them; it would see them as a viable various to humanity and the Hive. That might have some significantly necessary penalties itself, although.Right now, we have now a tenuous alliance with a bunch of Eliksni refugees, and it is constructing towards mutual understanding. Like with our alliance with the Cabal, there’s loads of dangerous blood between humanity and the Eliksni, however there are scarier enemies on the horizon that necessitate working collectively. What’s extra, the Eliksni want us. They’re in a nasty method and we have taken them in, and we have helped one another by way of that association.An glorious lore tidbit in among the many Hidden’s information in The Witch Queen mentions a former Eliksni Archon in Mithrax’s home, who we discovered within the Achilles Weaves a Cocoon lore e-book was answerable for the sack of London.The factor is, the Eliksni within the City sort of haven’t any different selection however to be cool to people. Guardians are, in any case, tremendous highly effective immortal beings who’ve spent centuries killing Fallen. To some extent, that makes the Eliksni subordinate to humanity; it is of their curiosity to disregard the terrible historical past between the species to facilitate survival proper now, and if that historical past influenced them to combat us out of anger or vengeance, Guardians would annihilate them. They haven’t any selection however to be good to us, as a result of we’re highly effective.That dynamic would change drastically if the Eliksni have been gifted the Light. Suddenly, each species could be on equal footing by way of energy, and the Eliksni won’t see their present association as a profit. With Eliksni Guardians within the combine, the House of Light would now not have to simply accept humanity dictating the phrases of our alliance. And possibly some Eliksni would begin to consider the dangerous issues which have occurred over the centuries, and even over the last yr, in addition to their emotions of abandonment by the Traveler, and begin to surprise how they may use their new energy to take revenge.That’s a scenario that is not too removed from the conflict we’re seeing with the Hive proper now, however the concept the Traveler would possibly go for an additional species to guard it, just for it to backfire once more, matches properly within the Lightfall framework and the story because it’s at the moment being informed. We’re clearly working towards a scenario during which enemies have gotten associates as we face the Darkness’s full would possibly, however there isn’t any method that scenario will not be with out problems. The existence of Hive Lightbearers calling into query the Traveler’s motivations is one such complication. Angry, empowered Eliksni Guardians could be one other glorious one.But hey, that is all speculative. We do have a way that Calus and Rasputin are on the docket for the close to future, and there isn’t any method Savathun is completed with us but. I’m very to see what form the story takes over the subsequent yr, with Lightfall on the horizon. Bungie went and made itself some massive sneakers to fill with the lead-up to The Witch Queen, and it ought to need to have the lead-up to Lightfall be equally highly effective and dramatic–at least, as a lot because it probably can with out years of backstory to construct on in the identical method it did for Savathun. I feel we are able to anticipate some massive twists this yr.