Back when Destiny first got here out in 2014, one of many issues that it most struggled with was telling the story of its huge and unusual world. Set in a distant, alien-filled post-apocalypse wherein flying robotic flashlights resurrect the useless to show them into immortal superheroes, Destiny packed a lot seemingly random stuff into its unique marketing campaign that it was really difficult to comply with.Part of what made Destiny 1 sort of a multitude was that whilst you have been being bombarded with all of these worldbuilding components, Bungie determined to inform about half of 1 story, toss it out halfway, and begin one other one. And that was all of the fault of a bizarre character who confirmed up, pointed you at a brand new menace, famously gave you no rationalization, after which disappeared for years: the Exo Stranger.With Destiny 2’s Beyond Light growth, we have lastly seen the return of the Exo Stranger six years later. Along along with her return, Bungie is, in the end, taking the time to elucidate. In reality, there’s a complete lot of story baked into Beyond Light–and all of it lastly fills within the gaps of what occurred in Destiny 1. In a giant approach, Beyond Light simply recontextualized every thing that has occurred in Destiny thus far, upending our understanding of the story. After six years, Destiny 1’s story sort of is smart now.What Happened In Destiny 1In order to grasp what Beyond Light has clarified, it’s worthwhile to know what really occurred in Destiny 1. Not solely has it been some time since that recreation got here out, however as talked about, its story would not offer you a lot to go on. It begins along with your character getting resurrected by your robotic buddy Ghost, turning you right into a Guardian for the primary time in a spot known as the Cosmodrome in outdated Russia. The gist of your job as a Guardian is to struggle on behalf of humanity in opposition to varied alien threats. More particularly, you are meant to face in opposition to a super-powerful entity or race or pressure known as the Darkness, which invaded the photo voltaic system centuries earlier to finish the age of human prosperity in an occasion known as the Collapse. The Darkness has since left the photo voltaic system, nevertheless it so devastated every thing that Guardians are always anxious about coping with it someday sooner or later.Newly (almost) immortal, you come throughout the Hive, Destiny’s death-worshipping monster enemies, who’re hiding at midnight down within the ruins in Russia. They shouldn’t be there.See, the Hive largely hang around on the moon, which they invaded years previously. They bought a superb foothold there, too, creating an enormous subterranean tunnel community full of ritual areas and temples. Eventually, the Vanguard, the army command construction in command of Guardians, bought the superheroes collectively in numbers in an effort to go kick the Hive off the moon.Most of Destiny 1 is a few looming Hive menace on the moon–until the Exo Stranger exhibits up, making a complicated, meandering plot.That counterattack failed spectacularly and a multitude of Guardians died, largely by the hands of Crota, one of many Hive’s pantheon of leaders who’re successfully immortal dwelling gods. Crota had a sword that might soak up Guardians’ Light, the facility that makes them immortal, and he used it to bloodbath a complete bunch of them. Guardians deserted the moon and quarantined it, leaving the Hive there–until you uncover proof that the Hive are beginning to drop “seeders” on Earth that may permit them to begin constructing an invasion pressure.So you go to the moon to determine what the Hive’s deal is, the place you uncover they’re performing a ritual that drains the Light from the Traveler, the large robotic god that confirmed up within the photo voltaic system centuries earlier, bringing humanity right into a Golden Age of discovery and prosperity. All the aliens wish to destroy or subjugate the Traveler, and it is from the Traveler that Guardians get their energy. You put a cease to among the Hive’s fast plans, with out actually figuring out the scope of what they’re as much as. But you additionally do not actually have time to fret about it, as a result of there’s one thing extra vital taking place.Partway by your time on the moon, you obtain an odd message directing you to Venus. Head there, and also you’re met by the voice on the opposite finish of the radio, belonging to the Exo Stranger. At this level, you are not anxious in regards to the Hive anymore–the Stranger tells you a few a lot worse menace from the time-traveling alien robots often called the Vex. They have a bizarre house that exists exterior of regular area and time known as the Black Garden, and within the Garden is a wad of Darkness, known as the Heart of the Black Garden. If you do not kill the Heart, regardless of the hell it’s, uh…unhealthy issues will occur. (“I don’t even have time to explain why I don’t have time to explain,” she famously says, later resulting in the introduction of a tongue-in-cheek Destiny gun known as No Time to Explain.)The Exo Stranger sends gamers to destroy the Heart of the Black Garden, though she by no means explains why.So the remainder of Destiny is about discovering a approach into the Black Garden, which takes you throughout Venus, to the distant Reef (the colonized identify for the Asteroid Belt), and to Mars. Eventually, you struggle your approach into the Black Garden, smash the Vex faction there often called the Sol Divisive, and destroy the gooey Heart. Darkness is stopped, apparently. The day is saved. The Exo Stranger tells you that you just did a superb job after which vanishes. Six years go by, with extra scary alien threats rising, solely to be put down by your gun.It by no means turns into particularly clear what you probably did within the Black Garden or why it was vital, past the same old “kill Darkness because it’s bad” reasoning. In Beyond Light, nevertheless, we have found what killing the Heart was all about, and the way it was a vital second for all the remainder of the Destiny story.The Exo Stranger’s PreviousThe particulars in regards to the Exo Stranger took years to drip out by Destiny lore. Over time, nevertheless, we began to grasp that the rationale she confirmed up in Destiny 1 for 3 minutes to level us on the Black Garden is that she was from the longer term. Her intervention within the unique recreation’s story was an effort to alter that future, nevertheless it took fairly some time for us to search out out what, precisely, she was attempting to forestall.Beyond Light fills in an enormous a part of the Stranger’s background. We discover out that she’s really Elsie Bray, the granddaughter of famed industrialist Clovis Bray. You’ll see Clovis’s identify throughout buildings in Destiny, and his firm had an enormous presence on Mars. Clovis Bray was liable for creating Rasputin, the large AI Warmind that managed the photo voltaic system’s defenses, and the Exos, a race of robots with human minds (and one in all your three race selections when creating a personality).The Exo program is what we’re considering. Back throughout the Golden Age (the time earlier than the Darkness invaded), Clovis was struggling to show people into Exos, which he was doing in pursuit of immortality. He lastly cracked the key of transferring a human thoughts right into a robotic physique by using a combination of Vex expertise and “Clarity,” Clovis’s identify for the power generated by the Darkness.On Europa, Clovis Bray lastly cracked the Exo program, permitting him to switch a human consciousness right into a robotic physique.See, when the Darkness exited the photo voltaic system, it left some issues behind. On the moon, Clovis Bray scientists found an enormous black pyramid that additionally doubled as a spaceship, which turned out to be one of many vessels of the Darkness. The power coming off the vessel corrupted the scientists, however Clovis acquired messages from the Darkness directing him to Europa. There, he found Clarity Control, an enormous Darkness artifact that appears like a statue and which supplies off the power Clovis dubbed Clarity. With it, he was capable of resolve his Exo downside, whereas learning and attempting to harness Darkness power. Elsie joined him in his analysis and finally grew to become an Exo, saving her life from a degenerative genetic illness that was killing her.During the Golden Age, Elsie helped struggle off a Vex invasion of Europa, one which was made potential by Clovis’s analysis. In doing so, she seemingly gained some fairly intensive information of the time-traveling robots and their capabilities. That’ll be useful later.Beyond LightNow we skip approach forward to the current in Destiny 2, kind of. The Collapse occurred, the Darkness left, Guardians rose and fought off varied threats. Those Guardians embrace Ana Bray, Elsie’s sister.In Beyond Light, the Darkness has returned to the photo voltaic system. It’s not simply right here to wipe everybody out, although; as an alternative, it is actively attempting to deprave Guardians to its trigger, providing them unbelievable energy to purchase their allegiance. When we have interacted with no matter intelligence composes the Darkness, it hasn’t threatened destruction, however as an alternative has claimed to function our salvation. The Darkness desires to manage Guardians, which sounds much more insidious than one other large alien planning to blow every thing up.Though the Darkness is a significant menace, what makes it scary is the seductive draw of its energy and what it would really price Guardians.The growth sees the Darkness main gamers to Europa to supply them a present, the Darkness-infused ice energy known as Stasis, seemingly in hopes of turning good Guardians unhealthy. But it is Elsie who leads you to the Darkness’s energy, and he or she tries to coach you in using it. The plan in Destiny 2 proper now’s to make use of Stasis in opposition to the Darkness. As the pondering goes, identical to you need to use the facility of the Light to do unhealthy, you need to use the facility of Darkness to do good.The corrupting energy of Darkness is a significant difficulty, although. There are a bunch of tales in Destiny lore about individuals who fell, like Jedi in Star Wars, to the seductive energy of the Dark Side. There’s Dredgen Yor, a Guardian who slowly turned evil after the Hive bought into his mind by his gun, Thorn. There was the Kentarch 3, a fireteam who headed into the Black Garden, solely to succumb to whispers of the Darkness discovered inside and activate one another. There was the K1 Artifact staff again throughout the Golden Age, who labored carefully with the moon Pyramid till its affect over them grew to become too nice. There’s Clovis Bray, who acquired route from the Darkness that led him to Europa to create his Exo program, throughout which he did a complete lot of horrific experiments on folks. And there’s Eramis, a Fallen chief and Beyond Light’s main antagonist, who’s twisted through the use of the Darkness till she abandons the concept of making a secure house for the Fallen and as an alternative decides to construct an empire.So far, the specter of corruption hasn’t actually manifested itself within the recreation as we’re experiencing it. The menace of corruption is one thing characters point out, however we have not seen it occur but.But it could occur, and it in all probability will occur. We know due to Elsie Bray, the Exo Stranger, and one key aspect that alters every thing we predict we find out about Destiny up to now: time journey.Eris Morn is a Destiny character nearer to the Darkness and different evils than every other.The Dark FutureElsie Bray is a time traveler. This is one thing we have been getting hints about in relationship to the Exo Stranger for fairly some time. Beyond Light would not simply verify it, however–it fills within the blanks about precisely what Elsie is attempting to do with time journey.In Beyond Light, we uncover that all the story of Destiny up to now has really been about one factor: Elsie’s makes an attempt to avoid wasting Ana.The lore e-book Dark Future, which you’ll be able to unlock in Beyond Light by finishing quests for Elsie, particulars precisely what she’s been afraid of this complete time. In Elsie’s timeline, Guardians took the facility of Stasis from the Darkness, and it rapidly started to deprave them. Soon, Dark Guardians have been ravaging the world. They killed and conquered nearly everyone, everywhere in the photo voltaic system, destroying the Last City and annihilating the Vanguard. Anybody who did not be part of them was killed.The lore e-book offers a way of how issues go down, as Elsie rallies Ana, a maimed (and bearded) Zavala, and the final surviving Awoken in an try and defeat the brand new evil: Eris Morn. Destiny gamers will acknowledge Eris as a Guardian who was touched by the evil of the Hive after she and her fireteam tried to destroy the Hive god Crota, again earlier than the occasions of Destiny 1. She’s been round because the first Destiny growth, The Dark Below, serving as an advisor to the Vanguard on all issues Hive. Eris has been a significant a part of the Destiny 2 story because the Shadowkeep growth, however in Elsie’s timeline, Eris was corrupted by the Darkness and joined up with Savathun, one other Hive god who has been menacing the photo voltaic system from the shadows since Destiny 2 was launched.Elsie is motivated by attempting to assist her sister, Ana.Elsie, Ana, and the opposite survivors mount a closing assault in an try and destroy Eris and Savathun, however they’re betrayed on the final moment–by Ana. It seems that Darkness corrupted Ana too, and he or she secretly serves Eris. When she turns, it destroys the final resistance. In the Dark Future lore e-book, we discover out that that is one thing Elsie sees coming–because she’s lived it, again and again.We do not understand how lengthy Elsie has lived, what number of lifetimes she’s seen, or what number of timelines she’s tried to right. We do know she made a number of makes an attempt to cease the Darkness from corrupting Ana and the opposite Guardians, successfully bringing on the top of the world. She retains failing, however one way or the other, she retains touring again in time to attempt once more.The story we have been taking part in by in Destiny because the very first recreation is Elsie’s newest try to alter the longer term. We, the gamers, are the lynchpin in her plan, actually. At some level, Elsie realized in regards to the Black Garden sooner or later, and as an alternative of ignoring it or letting it achieve energy, she confirmed up in Destiny 1 and advised us about it. Destiny 1 gamers destroyed the Heart of the Black Garden, setting the Darkness again in its plans.So Destiny 1’s complicated story was all a part of Elsie’s plan to rewrite historical past, setting a brand new course to cease Guardians from finally turning into corrupted by the Darkness. We’ve lastly reached a degree the place issues may begin to go in a different way on this timeline, based mostly on Elsie’s interference.In the brand new timeline, Elsie is attempting one thing new–working with others to be taught in regards to the Darkness.Elsie’s GambitSo now we’re right into a future Elsie has by no means seen earlier than, wherein she has teamed up with the Drifter and an uncorrupted Eris Morn to attempt a brand new method. Instead of preventing the Darkness with the Light, which ends up in it creeping into the minds of Guardians and corrupting them, she and the others are working collectively to harness the facility of Stasis and use it in opposition to the Darkness.This is a significant change-up from what occurred in Dark Future, the place Elsie and few others used Stasis, however the Vanguard largely forbade Guardians from the facility. That was a significant mistake in different timelines, as a result of it led to folks like Eris utilizing Stasis in secret, in opposition to Vanguard orders, in an try and struggle the Darkness–and finally succumbing to it.Instead, Elsie is working with Eris, the Drifter, Ana, the Vanguard, and also you to make Stasis secure to make use of, and to cease Guardians from going to the Dark Side due to it. She’s additionally utilizing her presence and affect to assist folks like Eris and Ana perceive Stasis with out being overwhelmed by it. She’s hoping to offer them the assist they should maintain them from going to the Dark Side. We’re seeing the final stage of Elsie’s gambit to alter the longer term, along with your assist. In Destiny 1, she used time journey to affect occasions by sending you to the Black Garden. Now she’s again, hoping to work with you to alter how the Darkness impacts the remainder of the Guardians.So lastly, the overarching story of Destiny has some coherence, and the story of Destiny 1 makes sense–we simply did not know what it was all about on the time. Now now we have to attend to see how issues shake out because of Elsie’s adjustments. We could make some guesses that not every thing can be profitable, nevertheless: Bungie is planning two extra main expansions over the subsequent two years. The 2021 growth is known as The Witch Queen, with sounds prefer it’ll lastly see gamers dealing with down Savathun, adopted by Lightfall in 2022, which sounds fairly, uh…unhealthy. What’ll occur between every now and then, although, is anyone’s guess.
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