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Greetings guardians, my name is Byf here
So a lot of you are either new to Destiny and want to jump in at Destiny 2 for the first time
Or alternatively you've been playing the game for three years now, and you know nothing about what's going on
It's time to fix that. This video is going to go over the entire story of Destiny leading up to Destiny 2
Now keep in mind.
I'm going to include everything that I think is really important for newly-minted players or someone who's just jumping back into the world again
So that you can all understand the base story and the world that Bungie has constructed
So don't expect me to jump into too many deep stories. For example
I'm not going to be exploring the Book of Sorrows or full achievements of the Iron Lords
I'm
Certainly not going to be talking about Dredgen Yor and Jaren Ward because their story is not
Too relevant to everything we do in game
and I'm also going to be avoiding things about mysterious topics that we have clearly got so much left to discover such as the Nine
Regardless, I have a few other things to say before we start firstly note that whenever I go into the city age portion of this
Video and all of the history of Destiny things are going to get a little bit nondescript
And that's purely because we don't have a lot of timeline references for what happened when in the city age
the way that I'm presenting this is going to be the most logical string of events and
hopefully
It's something which is close to the most accurate version of events
also
There are two people that deserve shoutouts for the help that they've given on this video the first of which is
Octavius who has helped create a lot of the skeleton for this script which is now about 17 pages long
He most certainly worked his heart out for this and I know that he is someone who deserves praise as a result and secondly
Xander who is the one who has done a lot of the graphics work and doing cutouts of the various Guardians that are being
Represented throughout Destiny's timeline thanks and praise for both of those two in the comments section would be greatly appreciated
They have put a lot of work into this video. Just as I have but without much further ado. Let's begin
starting with the Modern Day
And principally with an event that will change humanity forever
imagine that tomorrow when you will wake up you turn on the morning news and all of a sudden you see that a
Mysterious object has appeared over Mars. This is the premise for the start of our modern timeline to Destiny
something where all of a sudden humanity is presented with the notion that they are indeed not alone in the universe and
14 months later
Humanity has prepared its response
the Globe has for but a small period of time united and the
Astronauts of America taikonauts of China and cosmonauts of Russia have each chosen one of their best
To take on this great honor and responsibility of the first manned mission to Mars
The mission that would live in history and would be known as Ares I
these three would then take it upon themselves to
Explore the surface of Mars to approach the unknown object and to understand what had happened
Mars of course is a planet with little to no atmosphere and yet when, Ares I, the craft came down
Onto the Martian Surface it came down in the middle of a storm the breath of God as the wind rattled off of their craft
This was no coincidence
As the three explorers left their craft and set their sights upon the alien object they realized for the first time one of its functions
it was terraforming Mars and
so together an astronaut a cosmonaut and a taikonaut stood and bore witness to the first Martian rains
And set their eyes upon the traveler
This would begin
what is known as humanity's Golden age
A time of incredible accomplishment in which humanity has made so many wonders that have now been lost
Human Lifespans for starters were tripled those that lived 200 in our day would be seen as some of the most long-lived of our species
but in their times
90 was considered to be young
300 year old humans finally existed all fundamental hatreds and in tolerances quickly vanished and
in a similar sense the peoples of many nations merged
Nations meaning so much less when the people themselves are united in a common understanding that was born from this simple idea
That we were not bound for our petty grievances and poorly thought-out wars, but instead we were born to conquer the stars
Our culture became founded in reasoning
intellectualism and science supporting core principles of debate on all sides and on all topics
Centers were founded in the name of progress and reason
the Ishtar Academy on Venus for example or the city of Freehold in the dusty red sands of Mars
And then there are other great human marvels the Baikonur Cosmodrome was set into a
massive center of exploration and colonization, and that great metropolis
cityscapes of Titan rose above the waves
Truly these are some of humanity's greatest
miracles. Our technology advanced tenfold as well; the centres of science and reasoning and the Ishtar academy on Venus
discovered an ancient Alien race and their ruins these were the Vex and they had existed for many
Millennia before we had but even then they were greater discoveries still made by Clovis Bray
The fourth state of matter, known as Engram, was finally unveiled
this is a state in which data was free from the physical restraints of matter and
In which all sorts of ideas could be created and stored with the simplest of actions
But there were so many more inventions than simply these
Take the war minds for example which were the pinnacle of Golden age technology
From their massive complexes of underground bunkers they could go forth bearing
Weapons capable of scorching the skies of a thousand world's black with dust and fire
with their vast
artificial
intelligence they could draw battle plans to counter and defeat the most ingenious of foes in but the blink of an eye and with their
Armies of constructs and frames they could shatter regimes and blunt offensives from entire legions one at a time
or all at once
These were some of humanity's greatest weapons in the Golden age our greatest defenders
But in addition to this came yet more curious forms of life the Ahamkara are one of particular note
but there are none as well known to us now as the Exos
these sentient machines
Appear to have been created by the Clovis Bray corporation as well
It's speculated by some that these are humans who are able to transfer their consciousness
Into a mechanical body and thus theoretically live forever
Regardless science by this point it advanced so much that the Exos were considered as valid members of society just as anyone else would be
Though their programming also hints that their nature is a more violent one
They are built and programmed for a relentless war some great battle long ago forgotten
This is remembered as every single one of them dreams of the Deep Stone Crypt
Where they fight an army of thousands of those that they know but finally yet another of the inventions of the Clovis Bray corporation
Would be once more something that would bear fruit during the Golden age in its colonization efforts the invention of a
Nanotechnology that could be programmed into anything imaginable this was seaver
it could be simply directed with one's own will and could do anything from creating habitation to
Rebreather suits such was the marvel of Cephas a technology that immediately it began to be used by Golden age
Colonists looking to expand out into the stars at this point
Humanity's greatness shone like a beacon in the night
Illuminating the stars and convincing us that our destiny was not to remain on Earth alone
Falling prey to our petty squabbles from so many years ago, but was instead to ascend to Greater heights
but as Icarus and Daedalus learned in the stories of Old pride can quickly turn to hubris
And so it was the way for us
Our Golden age and it's days of Glory were numbered
From Beyond the reaches of our solar system the war minds detected something a subtle set of signs
But they knew how to interpret their meaning
Something was approaching
Something that spelled out doom
It was at this moment that the Exodus project truly began our great effort to save our people from near certain annihilation
Millions of people were loaded onto colony ships bound for destinations beyond the reaches of the oncoming catastrophe
but in spite of our efforts in spite of the work of all the Warminds in
Spite of the sub-minds like Mullah Hayati and in spite of the general Chen Lanshu and her valiant efforts it was too little
too late as
The thousands of vessels began to reach the outer edges of the Asteroid Belt something terrible began to sweep through the Solar System
The Warminds raised their mighty weapons to respond with forceful blows that could shatter the stars and yet EVEN this
Could not stop the oncoming tide
This force swept through the space that we had known and conquered and decimated all that stood in its way
Those unfortunate enough to be on board the colony ships died in their stasis pods and the debris from the destruction
Caused the creation of a vile wreath of dead ships and orbiting stations in the Asteroid Belt
the rubble from this terrifying event still remains to this day
In the chaos and struggle the Warmind Rasputin the first and greatest of the Warminds the very defender of Earth itself
Our home planet the jewel of our stars could comprehend the terrible power of this new threat
It was not simply the many alien races that had come and conquered our diverse territories
No, this was something more powerful something that reached beyond the bounds of the physical universe
Something that defied simple causality something that could even bend to the universe to its will much like the traveler could
This was our ultimate enemy the one that we would come to know as The Darkness
This terrible miasma that would wind its way through every coiled path
Choking and draining the life from all that it touched, but even here
Rasputin could sense yet another threat the Traveler was on the move
Once more it was leaving the system and without the traveler all of humanity was certainly doomed
What happened next is not clear
Records of this time are all but lost our best source being the journals of Cayde-6
They speak of a terrible time of cataclysm of how The Darkness took hold of entire worlds and every living being on those worlds
Taking each of them individually in its grasp leaving them in agony, but allowing them to maintain their clarity of vision
It wanted them to see this it wanted them to see the engulfing of worlds around them
Letting every last one of them every lost life echo undeniably with one bit of knowledge
Our worlds no longer belonged to us
they belonged to The Darkness and
Our destruction at its hands were for the sin of our strength not being great enough
Some speculate that what happened next was the actions of Rasputin who might have attacked The Traveler in order to prevent its departure
others state that The Traveler simply took pity upon us all and would have died regardless to save us
And some still state that The Traveler was not retreating at all but merely trying to find the perfect patch of ground
From which it might be able to battle The Darkness
But what is clear is this
The Darkness and The Traveler both battled above Earth in a contest of power that would shake the heavens and the very
foundations of the Universe and what is more
The Traveler won
Crippled and broken but victorious and those last moments of its dying breath The Traveler created the Ghosts
Small autonomous drones filled with its light these ghosts would be the salvation of humanity
By seeking out those amongst the long dead who would be capable of wielding The Traveler's Light as a weapon
Something to fight back The Darkness something that could save us
Whilst they would first be known as the risen and would eventually be called
Warlords or Iron Lords these brave souls chosen to fight again within The Traveler's Light
Would be known to us today by a single name
They would be known as the Guardians
On the fringes of the Solar System just as this was occurring yet another new form of life was appearing
With their grey skin and the potent mixture of both Light and Darkness running through their veins
The Awoken began to first appear but even on the Horizon
There was yet more ill news
Strange and deadly alien forces that had arrived with the collapse were encroaching still on the
territories of what remained of our Golden age colonies
These four races would come to be known by the remaining peoples of Earth as the Fallen, Hive, Vex, and Cabal
And so with humanity crippled our
Golden age lost and our system being overrun by hostile forces the near apocalyptic events that would come to be known as The Collapse
came to a close
And the Dark age of humanity began
At first there were very few people who remained united
Some formed into small towns and banded together for safety
But many on Earth came to be ruled over by the Warlords
These were some of the first risen who instead of using their power for good would come to use their powers for dominance
They ruled over Earth and would use their powers to control the vast tracts of its territory
In opposition to these forces however there were some that stood against the despair of autocracy
That had been wrought some who stood against the tyranny of the Warlords and stated that hope
Should still be at the center of the human life
Everyone deserved a chance
Led by a man named Radegast the first protectors of humanity would rise to defend us
They would be known as the Iron Lords and whilst refugees and small towns
Cowered under the tyranny of the Warlords the Iron Lords came to their defense
Liberating them and defending those who stood against Tyranny
All the while there were refugees still seeking a place to call home
Long continuous columns of Exo survivors
Humans cropping up from everywhere the occasional Awoken traveling far from their Reef-borne home
Many traveled to below The Traveler to the spot of its final climactic battle with The Darkness
These refugees would organize into a massive camp
Defended once more by those risen with The Traveler's Light great men and women like raised Alessia
But as time went on the dissolution of those within this camp of refugees turned into something more violent
Rudimentary factions began to rise each with their own opinions on how we should lead humanity
Back to prosperity from these differences the first Faction Wars arose
Had it not been for those that stood and stopped the terrible violence
Humanity might well have been snuffed out right then and there
but from the aftermath of this first faction war the leaders of the city
Created a new system of governance the factions would be forever tempered by each other's wills as well as the newly created
Vanguard a council of three one of each discipline Hunter Warlock
and Titan
all proposals would be voted upon and would be sent to The Speaker the Grand leader of the City and
the Ruler of the Guardian orders all of this had to go through him for approval and
so the passion of the factions was put in check the authority of the Guardians was made clear and
the first ever consensus Council of the City
Resolved to be better and greater than those that came before and that resolve would soon be put to a test
For the next challenge would not come from within
but from without
The alien races that had arrived in force at the close of The Collapse had taken root in both our outer
colonies and in the vast territories on Earth
from the Mumbai push to the European Dead Zone from the swamps of Old Chicago
To the abandoned Cosmodrome at Baikonur with this the City had to face against incursions by one particularly
Craven Alien Race
known as The Fallen
Previously they had been known as Eliksni
But these bipedal aliens had changed ever since they had been uplifted by The Traveler
It had left them too and this had turned them from a once noble race into a race of spider-like pirates
Scavengers forever hunting The Traveler or the great machine as they called it in their time
They sought to return it to their fold so that their species might hopefully enjoy the bounties of a second golden age as a result
But this would not be accomplished without bloodshed
And so what started as a small band of raiding parties taking on a small settlement
evolved into a perpetual siege that would define the very existence of those that lived within the walls of this small city and
So in response the Titans of the city devised a plan
they built a great series of walls to encompass the city and keep those that they protected safe from harm and
So the walls were built the city grew and those within this final bastion
Found some small vestige of harmony
This is not to say that the city was the only place in which humans dwelled
Many towns within the wilds of Earth such as the fabled settlement of Palamon still stood
Providing shelter and respite for those outside of the city
But such small towns whilst occasionally raided by The Fallen were but petty distractions
The true prize for the Fallen was the great machine itself that rested in the sky above this last safe city
This well defended Bastion and
So day by day
They sat in envy of humanity
until that envy became too great to contain
The House of Devils located primarily within the abandoned territories of Europe Russia and Asia Minor
Marched upon the city in force bringing the full might of their House to bear
This was a true test of the city's new defenses which had only recently been erected
But the Titan orders of the city were prepared
Four orders of Titans came together and with coordination and steel held a defense that covered the six approaches of the city
The Fallens artillery roared and their legions of Soldiers howled a thousand curses at the battle-lines of the city
But by the time the dust had settled
The Devils were forced to retreat on mass and not a single one of these six fronts had broken
this was the first true trial of the city and its defenders and
From this day forth would be known as The Battle of the Six Fronts
it would forevermore be remembered as a symbol that marks Titan iconography to this day
And would also give rise to some of the most legendary Guardians the city has ever known
but most importantly of all
This marked the beginning of a new age an age where humanity could find newly restored hope under The Traveler's shadow
This would be known as The City Age the time where we started to fight back
in the aftermath of The Battle of the Six Fronts one of the most notorious defenders of the city
Was a Warlock who was said from eyewitness reports to have appeared as if he was fighting in multiple places all at once
the name of this powerful Warlock was Osiris and
So great was his power that many of the other heroes of the city began to rally around him
most notably the honored Exo Titan known as Saint-14
He called upon The Speaker to appoint
Osiris to the Vanguard as its Warlock mentor
Such was The Speaker's relationship to Saint-14 that the two took to each other's words with great care
They even referred to each other as father and son
And so Saint-14 joining the chorus of supporting voices
Convinced The Speaker to appoint Osiris to the Warlock Vanguard position
to join them
Going even as far as to take him as his own apprentice to teach him what he knew so that one day perhaps
He might become the new Speaker for The Traveler
However there was one dissenting voice amongst the cheerful applause when this decision was made
Lysander of the Concordat a faction that had grown in the infancy of the city
stated that Osiris was a mistake that he had been mis-incarnated
A faulty resurrection by a damaged Ghost perhaps or maybe simply someone who wasn't supposed to be a Guardian
His claims were quickly dismissed and the consensus continued its work
With Osiris now was one of the most senior members of its council
Meanwhile as some new legends rose
Others were sadly doomed to fall
the Iron Lords had grown considerably in their strength and had conquered the Warlords entirely from their fortress temple at
Vostok Observatory
From above they watched over the vast lands of our forefathers and kept a steady vigil
Defending the city and the rest of humanity from afar
But as their ranks swelled to hundreds and the fires of The Iron Temple grew stronger their leader
Radegast was filled with discontent
Him and many of the other Iron Lords sought a way to rekindle the Golden age that they had lost
Lord Timur believed that he had discovered it in the form of a Golden age technology left behind by Clovis Bray
namely
Siva, the nanotechnology that could not only aid in the colonization efforts so far out in the far-flung colonial worlds
but could also
Reconstruct the marvels of Humanity's Golden age here at home
Returning us to our place amongst the stars
But Radegast who held so firmly to his belief that the technology of the past was the key to our future
Was blinded to the true danger that Siva presented more than a hundred Iron Lords
Marched into The Cosmodrome to reclaim Siva, but Rasputin who still maintained control of the nanotechnology
Gave a directive to the billions of nanites that would spell doom for the Iron Lords
The directive was simple; three words initiated upon finishing a conversation he'd had with the Iron Lord
Exo Warlock Felwinter
These three words?
"Replicate"
"Eliminate"
"Immunize"
And with that
Siva was unleashed upon the Iron Lords within the northeastern sector of The Cosmodrome
Breaking them and consuming them all one at a time
only nine Iron Lords managed to reach the replication chamber
That was the source of all the Siva in the end Lady Jolder set off an explosion and sealed the doors of this chamber
Thus preventing more Siva from escaping out onto the surface
By the end of the battle the Iron Lords were crippled only two Iron Lords remained
the Hunter Lady Efrideet who quickly fled in abandoned her warlike ways for a path of peace
And Lord Saladin who would be the lone sentinel to stand over the Iron Temple and watch its braziers dim
once more
All the while more threats were marshalling and the city once again would have to face these terrible threats
without the Iron Lords defending the territories of Earth or pushing back the Fallen Houses further the city became vulnerable once more and
So The Fallen once again began to create a great plan to reclaim The Traveler
however in the light of The Devils' failure at The Battle of the Six Fronts
it was clear that no single House could conquer the City
And so four Fallen Houses united to attack the city in unison
the Houses of Devils Kings Winter and Wolves
United their forces into one of the greatest armadas that the System of Sol had ever bore witness to
And they began their march to Earth so that eventually
even after a long bloody battle they might finally stand atop the corpses of those humans that have defied them previously and
together
reclaim the Great Machine
The might of these four houses combined would have been crushing to the city
particularly with the House of Wolves who maintained a mighty fleet and a vast army of over a million Fallen soldiers
And so The Fallen descended upon the city and the greatest battle that we had ever seen within the city's walls ensued
The defense of the city was to be taken up by three Guardians
Lord Saladin the former Iron Lord would coordinate the defenses with his two protegees Commander Zavala and Lord Shaxx
They would each take command of considerable forces within the city's walls and all three were vital to the defense
once again the Guardians took to the walls which were now heavily defended with salvaged weapon emplacements and
thousands upon thousands of combat frames
Warlocks worked in concert
Using great waves of void and solar Light to drown the oncoming waves of Fallen aggressors
the Titans manned the walls of the city with zeal and fortitude like they had done before
and the golden guns of the gunslingers rang out in song to answer the onslaught
But in spite of it all the efforts of our great defenders weren't quite enough
The Fallen made significant advances and eventually tore a hole in our defenses at Twilight Gap
with but a single breach in the walls and the city's defenses our defenders could all in time be outflanked and
Every last one of them could be brought to their knees
whilst Lord Saladin ordered a tactical retreat Lord Shaxx took action
He disobeyed this order and took all of the combat frames under his command
Sending them to flood the breach
Plugging the hole he himself was found at the heart of this battle along with the Guardians under his command
holding the line in spite of the lack of
fortification holding against almost all odds
The magnitude of this decision should not be understated
the frames and forces that Lord Shaxx had committed to the breach were vital parts of the defense force of the city
If his gambit failed
The city was doomed
There would not be enough forces to hold on the waves as all others retreated to the secondary lines of defense
but luckily for us
The gambit worked
The breach was plugged and Lord Shaxx stood victorious with his frames atop a mountain of Fallen corpses
The battle was won and the city lived to see another day
the House of Devils Kings and Winter lay defeated
But what of the House of Wolves and their millions of soldiers?
They had been noticeably absent from The Battle of the Twilight Gap and this was no accident
Despite the bravery of Lord Shaxx and his forces that day the city's true savior lay far out in the vacuum of space
Within the territories of The Reef an Awoken monarchy had begun to grow in power
This was the Vestian Dynasty and from their fold many noble names and houses rose
With an entire society at their heels
This was absolutely departed from the city
The Awoken as a society were matriarchal
Fiercely territorial a spacefaring people with an isolationist streak that demanded that they should live without revealing their presence to others
but before The Battle of the Twilight Gap
The sixth monarch of the Vestian Dynasty the sixth ruler and the throne beneath the howling dark Mara Sov Queen of the Awoken
Was gifted with a choice
the house of wolves had positioned their fleet of the asteroid of ceres and
Were poised to move further into the core worlds to strike at Earth when they had refueled from the asteroids Bounty
the wolves had breached awoken space and had violated their territorial borders in doing so
Leaving Mara solve with two choices
She could simply let the wolves pass letting their violation of awoke in space go unanswered and thus dooming the city
Or alternatively she could engage the wolves at her door
Showing them that the awoken of the reef were not a force to be trifled with
Two choices one of peace potentially and the other of certain war a choice that would affect millions across the solar system
both Human and awoken not to mention the Fallen and
Marisol
chose war
She unleashed a weapon upon the fallen house of Wolves fleet called the harbinger
this was a powerful enough weapon to destroy over half of their ships and more than
500,000 fallen Soldiers along with the entire asteroid of ceres in the process
This would mark the beginning of a series of deep-space sieges and great skirmishes known as the reef wars
Where the house of wolves led by its newly founded Kelce?
Coalesce the rabbit would face off against Amara self and her awoken paladins of the reef in the end
Thanks to the intervention of Air rex a Fallen Scribe of house judgment scola's was captured
Vericsson the queen offered to the fallen of the wolves a choice
Either join and served Nobly under Mara or joints coalesce and languish within the prison of elders
most of the Wolves Joined Mara
Given that their succession rule was actually dictated that she technically should be their leader
She had slained the former kell when she unleashed the harbingers and scholars had merely picked up the pieces
But she paid for this victory with many awoken lives in the end however
As a consequence of her actions whether she meant it or not
Whether she knew that it would be a bargaining chip later in her existence, or whether it was completely unexpectedly?
she had saved the city with that choice and
Back on Earth they had sorely needed such relief
The battle of the Twilight Gap had left the city weakened and desperate the leader of the concordat
Lysander Had chosen at this time when the City was at its weakest and its defenders were weary to rise up against the speaker
but this
Rebellion was swiftly crushed by the troopers and guardians that had aligned themselves with new Monarchy their final battle at Banner fall
Shows still the scars that lysander has left on this city
Lysander himself Spend the rest of his time in exile fleeing the boundaries of our walls leaving for the wilds
planning his inevitable return
Plotting all the wire in the meantime
The Concordat was officially disbanded and a new faction was chosen to Join the council of the consensus
namely the Future War cult
This Sudden Rebellion by lysander along with the major wounds that the fallen had dealt to the City's defenders
led those within the city of great inspiration to come up with ways to improve our defenses and to hone our skills once again if
We would be attacked in the future for these measures. We would most certainly be stronger
Fasal Crux and Victor Lamar of the Crooks Lamar foundry were some of the first
they decided to honor the guardians that had fallen under the banners of the city at Twilight Gap and
They made such honors within a new weapons project from their foundry known as project heimdall
This honored those that had died in service of the city
forging their armor into a design of immense power the yala horn shoulder-mounted launcher system a
Weapon that roared with the fury of those guardians that had fallen in battle and allowed their light to fight on
even after they had perished
Meanwhile Lord Shaxx had a plan of his own
Many of the Guardians that had died at twilight gap may well have been veterans of great skill and power
legends may have been lost in that battle that may never have been replaced and
Replacing them with younger guardians who were less wise left to the city unquestionably weaker not to mention the thinned numbers
So Lord Shaxx presented the consensus with a plan
To clear out small portions of land and turn them into training areas in which guardians would battle each other to hone their skills
and earn Glory the approval for such a training system was given and
For the first time guardians faced each other in the greatest challenge
They had ever been provided this would be a new venue a new sport a new pastime
But most importantly it would be the moment in which the crucible was founded
Eventually the crucible games grew to such a great magnitude that even for those in the city it became a televised
Pastime with gambling on Matches becoming commonplace and citizens wearing proudly the colors of their most beloved
crucible champions
Legends such as thal or dread gain your and Bohanon rose to prevalence because of the crucible
At such a founding time of the crucible the city was still weakened and so such happiness as being
elated by the Victory our champion was far off the city was still in its weakened state at this point and
So little time for such frivolity was found this of course not only
Included the regular citizens of the City
But also those on the consent council and the vanguard our next tale turns to Osiris
who of course as a member of the vanguard was central to the question of how the city should be defended and
He saw only one answer he saw that the fallen the hive the vex and the cabal
Weren't truly our enemy
No, they were puppets puppets of a darker power that moved Beyond the system's edge slowly regrowing in magnitude and strength
whether they were conscious and willing like the hive or
unconscious and uncontrollable like the fallen they all served as but a distraction as a means of weakening the City by attrition the
true enemy
Was the darkness and as iris believed that if we were to defeat the darkness. We would need to understand it
So at this time of great cost and great peril to the City Osiris began to stray away from his duties as a vanguard mentor
Instead he chose to dabble in taboo
exploring for natin nautics the art of gleaning knowledge from Beyond Death
He chased the dragons of the ahankara for yet more of the law surrounding them and their mysterious
bargains and even went on a hunt for the agents of the nine the mysterious organization
That occasionally visited the city with one of its agents bringing incredibly rare gear in the process
by this point
Osiris had become a cult of personality amongst the guardians of the city in the end
him and the speaker were found at odds because of these taboo practices
Master and Apprentice One day Gathered in the speaker's Chambers
What was said that day is not recorded?
But it is known that Osiris left that day in exile taking many of his followers with him
Whether this was by his own choice or by the speaker's Decree is something not known even to this day
However his influence would have long-lasting effects on the tower
For many of those who had followed Osiris remained within the City
Following his ways with their actions if not with their feet
Whilst all of this was happening there was one who decided to take it upon himself to be the vengeance of the city
the Titans SainT-14
who had originally called for the appointment of Osiris to the vanguard had studied well the Codex of the
firebreak titan order and had come to a single conclusion
The best defense for the City was a strong offensive campaign of retribution and so he began
What would be known as the crusades of SainT-14 against the fallen houses?
decimating their forces that still surrounded the city wherever he found them as
Each of these great houses was dealt a significant blow
the city ignited flares in Great colors to Celebrate Saint Fourteens victory
after enough time and destruction all that remained was the fallen house of Devil's and their kells sulcus the
Kal and St.
14 engaged each other in single combat and had looked at first as though the mighty titan had at last found his match
The kell was strangling him to death with but one of his four mighty arms
as a final desperate Gambit Saint-14 summoned all the lights that he had left all the remaining strength and
Channeled it into a single mighty blow
The kell of the house of Devil's fell his skull caved in from a single blow from SainT-14 Zoned skull
with such a mighty feat accomplished Saint-14
Contacted the speaker and was informed by him personally that there would like the final one of the flares
devil Red
But something's still concerned to the speaker
Osiris had been sighted on Mercury a place known for
Common vex incursions an entire world that had been converted into one of their machine planets
Knowing of this exiled Warlock and the danger that he might pose
SainT-14 began a hunt for his former friend in
The end both the SainT-14 and Osiris disappeared and neither have been seen to this day
However, Osiris still inspired many of the guardians at home to action one of those most famously driven to
Action by his words was a titan known as Kabir the legion 'less a Maverick much like Osiris
Kabir took it upon himself to begin a monumental tasks
He would enter the vex stronghold below venus known as the vault of glass and purged the vex from it
for this task he enlisted two other guardians a
Renowned Guardian known as per Hannon
whose quips and phrases are commonly remembered by hunters to this day be it the calling of their cloaks as frabjous or
simply telling them not to remind warlocks that they were taught to blink by Warlocks and
secondly a Warlock known as praedyth a warlock of the future war cult who themselves are always obsessed with time and
Thus the vex were always of interest of the three of them that entered the vault only one survived
Bohannon Fled for his life from the vault after
Seeing the vex within and the fact that they had the power to remove all those that entered
from the very reality of time itself
He would forever be haunted by the realization of their power and would even install an artificial
intelligence into one of his favorite weapons to ensure that he was never alone for
Being a raised by of x is, not simply to die it is to never have existed
To have all memory of your name
rewritten and removed from the timeline itself
Praedyth found himself lost among the warp and weft of time
imprisoned within the vault by the vex until such a time as he was useful to them and
Kabir Kabir as fate was the worst
For he drank of the oracles the vex constructs that are designed to solve
unfathomable computations
but when consumed the radial oreo within them began to turn kabir into a vex and
So his memory was lost
Save for his light which he stored within a shield so the bows that followed
Might have hoped have breached the vault for themselves, and to finally defeat the terrible creatures within
Meanwhile time passed and
Despite the loss of many guardians and the loss of many of those that had followed Osiris the city returned to strength
The vanguard turned its attention away from the defenses of the city and back to what it had thought of before
Further reaches an expansion of its territory and borders Beyond its walls
It was at this point that the city began to hunt down the ahamkara
The great Dragons had granted wishes in the past the bargains had gained the city considerable power
But they needed great power in those times, so desperately that no one had thought of a great price
That was also asked for every bargain came with a debt to be repaid in time and so the ahamkara
Themselves being deemed too dangerous to coexist with the city were hunted to extinction
The only remains to this day are the bones?
Which some graft to weapons or armor?
It is said that the bones of the arm Cara whisper to those that hold them
Guiding them sometimes to glory and sometimes to ruin
there are some rumors but out in the Jovian moons the ahamkara still live a
Few small outlying colonies perhaps clinging on to life
But they are far removed from the care of the city now which once again had grown to great strength
becoming a thriving metropolis
With many towers lining its walls and many defenders ready and willing to hold against any aggressor that might come their way
As time passed and the city grew in strength it also became much less of wise
Hubris was waiting in the wings for humanity's last a bastion to grow Bold again and
They began to expand their reach into the wilds further and further it was a perfect time for yet, another calamity
eventually it was decided that a time of great reclamation should begin and
So our City's consensus set its sights on the first giant leap that had brought humanity closer to the traveler closer into space
The City set its sights on Luna our only moon
The moon for the longest time had been occupied by the armies of the hive that had invaded it during the collapse
They had burrowed into its surface and made a massive lunar fortress
The consensus believed that a united host of Guardians could break the hives hold on the moon
Lord Shaxx knew better he burst into the consensus Chambers just before the final decision was made
but in spite of his protests
He was overruled and so the first great guardian
Army United under the banner of a cormorant seal and marched on the moon
their force met resistance from the armies of the hive who united by a great champion wreathed in green flame
pushed back the Guardians at the Battle of Mari imbrium
this great hive champion was one of their lesser gods an
Undefeatable monster that slaughtered hundreds of guardians upon his blade destroying their ghosts in the process making each of their deaths
True and finally a warlock of the praxic order known as Eriana-3 would learn from a captured Hive Wizard
That this champion was known as crota the light eater
With guardian casualties rising on all fronts. They onslaught against the hive was called off
Guardians fled the surface of the moon on Mass and the events that Mara ibrahim would be remembered in infamy by a simple name
It would be forever known to those who lived within the city as the great disaster
Eriana-3 was amongst the guardians that fled the moon and she was amongst those that had lost a friend in the battle
Her name was waning a famous titan that had died at Crotas very hands
She was everything that a titan could aspire to be headstrong strong in other ways too for her fist was unbreakable
She had once claimed that if she met the darkness and personal combat
She would simply defeat it by beating its skull with her fists as well
but when faced with a true champion of the hive an immortal God
She was not strong enough to stand
Eriana-3 having lost such a dear friend was amongst those who immediately felt a burning desire for revenge and
So she gathered other guardians who felt the same?
Five in total were brought to her side and they set out to make an assault on the Hellmouth once again
with her were the Guardians Eris morn
Omar agha Sai Motor vell Tarlowe and the exiled Warlock Master of Hive Arcana
Toland the Shattered one they ventured into the Hellmouth and made a final assault on Crotas forces
Hoping to slay the God prince once and for all
Unfortunately the fireteam was met with a great deal of opposition and such an endeavor was doomed to failure from the start
Vell tarlowe the lone titan of the group fell to the dark blade and his army of hive Thrall
Sai Motor died at the Hands of Omnigul the will of crota
Omar agha was tortured to death by the heart of crota and
His light was used to birth new generations of Hive Thrall
Arianna threes last recorded logs came from the stills before the netherrealm gates
It is perhaps possible that she made it through the keyhole into Crotas reality where his true soul resided
before being snuffed out by Crota himself who supposedly was unmoved by her light and
Toland
He did not die that day instead. His soul was torn from his body
Which was destroyed by the death singer yet?
His presence would continue to float in the nether realms
Guiding those who made an effort to resist to the hive all the while floating between their dark nether realms
Finding new power and knowledge along the way
finally there was only Eris morn
Eris who had lost her ghost in the fighting eris who had lost her sight and clawed it back from those eyes of an acolyte
Eris who was the lone survivor of this ill-fated second fireteam to assault the Hellmouth?
She would survive in the darkness of its reaches for centuries
Before she would be found again and would return to the city the city would never fully recover from the losses of a great disaster
The walls that the titans maintained would no more be manned by thousands of Guardians now
They were thinly posted and the eight towers that had been manned at the height of the City's power
Were reduced to but one and all around the forces of the darkness began to close in
This persisted for what must have been centuries the city was counting every day that it still stood
but then
One Day
something happened
your guardian was reborn in
the lost mounds of corpses in the cosmodrome of old Russia your ghost discovers you and
your rebirth occurs
Quickly you're assaulted by the fallen house of Devil's and your first initiative is to reclaim an old jump ship
Just enough to reach the last safe city once again
Returning to a home that you've never known but a home that you will adopt nonetheless
When your ship is repaired you head back to the cosmodrome killing Rix's the Archon rising of the house of Devil's?
He held within his possession a near light speed
Drive thus something which could be used to upgrade your basic Arcadia jump ship into something that could now Roam the stars
With such a great victory you return home and speak with the speaker himself
He told you of the terrible darkness that awaits outside the system
telling you of how the stories that children used to be told of
The darkness and those terrible enemies are no longer being told at all for fear that the children might be frightened
But now it makes no difference
Because the children are frightened anyway
With this you swore to fight the darkness and to push them back no matter where you might find them or who they might be?
You would fight for the city for the light and for the traveler
You eventually returned to the cosmodrome?
Discovering the hive and their foul nests on Earth and realized in a separate instance that the fallen were attempting to access
Rasputin the Last Known War mind to still be alive
You activated a hidden array on old Russia's soil as well
Unwittingly connecting rasputin to all the third offense constructs across the system
Already in so little time
Quite an exciting little adventure
But now it was time to take on greater threats
The prime servitor of the House of Devil's *** prime had to be crippled and in doing so you crippled the leadership of the house
Creating such a great blow meant that you had to set your sights on another territory
and so
Discovering the hive on Earth was a perfect reason for you to start venturing to the moon
You arrived there to find the house of x nails a new group of fallen that had no house and were simply
rebels disbanded from other Fallen groups
we trekked the trail of a fallen guardian to a structure made by the hive known as the temple of crota and
We got our first glimpse of the exo stranger
The one with no time to explain and yet one of the most important characters in our City's survival
We learned from the dead ghosts we found within the temple of crota
That the hive were planning a massive invasion of Earth and had been preparing for it for centuries
ever since they had infested the moon we ventured further into the depths of the Hellmouth and
Discovered in the high fortress the ancient archive of these aliens known as the world's grave
through this we uncovered to the hives plans for the invasion of Earth and
More importantly the fact that they had been making this plan for centuries and that they had conquered
thousands of Worlds before ours
We heard about a legendary hive sword next from the Crypt docks and find this lost sword in the depths of the Hellmouth once more
This is the Sort that belonged to the hive God crota the son of the hives taken King Auryx
Who rules from Afar?
We use this sword and it's dark power to slay the swarm princes found within the Hellmouth before the blade itself
shattered in our hands
We destroyed the shrine to crotas father the hive. God oryx and defeated its guardian Sar. Doc his eye
Then when we had dealt so much damage
Harrell had found us once more
The speaker contacted us on an emergency channel
Telling us and all other guardians that were listening that the hive were participating in a ritual to drain the traveler of its light
With this we assault the hives innermost depths of the Hellmouth once again and this time
Before we enter to the temple of crota?
We heard a message from the exo stranger
She told us the rock homes to head to venus to deal with a yet greater threat that rested somewhere within the ishtar region
We still however?
entered the Hellmouth and defeated the wizards who were corrupting what turned out to be a shard of the traveler and
Using it to drain the light of the traveler
Venus contained worse enemies than this somehow and so we ventured forth
Towards the Sun
Towards venus and the ishtar sink where for the first time we encountered the vex and learned from the exo stranger
in the ishtar academy of the Black Garden
where the heart of darkness resided and the traveler was being slowly wounded from
She told us that the location of the black garden could only be learned from the reef born awoken
And so we would endeavor to head to the reef and meet with the awoken, Queen Mara Solve
she promised us in a bargain that we would be able to access the black garden with a key and
She would provide such a key if we could only bring her the head of a vex gate Lord
Following this search in the ancient ruins of the academy the ishtar collective archives were found
And we prevented their knowledge and information from falling to the house of winter who is persistently a threat within the bounds of venus
Here we also learned for the first time of the vault of glass that infamous place that had consumed so many guardians
To prevent further assaults on venus we assailed for the stronghold of the house of winter killing their kelder access in the process
returning to our
investigation of the vex we discovered by analyzing of Ex mind core that the vex
Themselves are beings of one mind that can travel through time in order to accomplish their objectives
We also discovered in the process how to draw out of ex gate lured from their gate system and with this knowledge
We began our assault on the largest collection of vex gates in Venus's ishtar sink a place known as the endless steps
We drew out a gate lord known as as I drawn and we killed it taking his head to the awoken who reluctantly
Removed its eye. It turns out that the gate lords
I would be our key into the black garden, and it turns out that it also needed to be charged
They told us then that the black garden could be found on Mars in Meridian Bay
We arrived in such a place and find it occupied by yet a fourth race
The cabal who have a running war with the vex there? We make our way to the black Garden gate?
Realizing that we need to fight through the cabal to make it into the black garden with this uncharged gate lords eye
Next we investigated the vex below the city of freehold and realized the favor in fact
Returning home that the black Garden was indeed the birthplace of the vex themselves
we followed the cabal into the reaches of the dust palace and
Discovered that rasputin had indeed used the array that we had activated on Earth
To worm his way into the cause of the war mind of mars as our ghost would put it rasputin is everywhere now
Next we decided to take the fight to the cabal within their own war base
But this was not a meaningless assault within the inner reaches of their base
The cabal Blind Legion had contained a vex spire that would be capable of charging the gate lords
Eye allowing us Entry into the black Garden
with this we also killed the primus of the blind legion dealing the cabal efforts on Mars a serious blow and
Finally with a charged gate lords eye. We took the fight to the vex in the black Garden
entering its folds and confronting the heart of the black Garden a
manifestation of the darkness itself that there was being worshipped by the vex
They bound this in material object this terrifying presence of the true darkness
into their own frames so that it could be corporeal and
Destroyable, but also so that they might drain its power as a result
we destroyed the minds that had harbored this darkness and
in doing so
the traveler was free to slowly heal after
Confronting this threat we returned to the city to find the exo stranger waiting for us
She offered us her weapon as thanks, but more importantly warned us of the dark tidings. That would be on the Horizon
and so unwilling to let these warnings go unheard or unanswered we assembled a team and
assaulted the vex stronghold of the vault of glass
With the light of Kabir's shield that he had left behind
We were able to break the unbeatable shields of the templar and a theon that lay within
such was the reality of the vault a
Terrifying testament to the full power of the vex who could bend time to their very will
Erasing us from it if needs be and yet, we prevailed all the same
Guardians are able to shape their own fate. It would appear Para causality is not a trick of darkness alone
We too could bend to the universe to our will
But darkness would soon test us
Eris morn who had lost herself for so many years in the harrowing passage of the Hellmouth's tunnels?
would finally returned
She heralded the arrival
once again of a great threat the City had faced long ago of
crota the son of Oryx
Telling us that we must face this terrible threat of the hive or we would be destroyed
Crotas Forces had begun the innovation of Earth and so our first directive was to kill the fist of crota
One of his commanders in the major theater of war that had erupted across Earth's cosmodrome
Finally having killed him the hive that had remained were left leaderless and unorganized
But a new leader quickly emerged in the form of omnigul the will of crota the mother of his spawn
She took over and then decided that a new Target had to be set she attempted to take over or at very least defeat
the defenses of Rasputin
His internal warmind bunker was not defended by the same nuclear weapons of Armageddon that he held
This required us to enter his bunker the seraphim vault and pushed back the forces of omnigul
By doing this we banished not only the power of the will of crota for but a time, but also destroyed crotas might?
Following up after this we hunted down his eyes and his heart and all those other appendages of him that reached
into our reality and
finally the hunt for Omnigul herself, began
she who had escaped would finally be found and thwarted as she attempted to breed a new brood under the
Skywatchers Jovian complex and with her death the hive would learn a new fear
Finally we headed to the moon to find the soul of pro to himself
Within the chamber of night we would discover this terrifying beast
We would destroy the crystal containing his soul and thus prevent him from taking on a corporeal form within our reality
But eris requested one last thing of us. We had yet another task
Crota had only been killed in a corporeal form the crystal was not his end
To kill him truly
We had to venture into his nether world all
Ascendant hive have a form of pocket universe that their souls retreat into went badly wounded
It is within these nether verses that they can express their true power
they are most dangerous here, but also if one is killed within their own realm they are dead forever and
so eris requested that we hunt down Crota's true form
by venturing into his ascendant realm and
Seeking out his true form we challenged crota in the thought logic the hives rule of unending slaughter in the universe
Using the combined might of our fireteam and one of Crotas own blades
We sunder to the gold prince of the hive from existence once and for all
But with a terrifying scream that he let out in his final breath across the night
protocol doubt and
the night
would answer
it would take some time for that retribution to reach our shores and
Since then there had been other smaller political movements that had cropped up
Scholars of a house of wolves had previously been kept by the queen of the reef in the icy
containment of a Stasis Pod in the prison of elders
She had since
Bargained him away to the nine so that they might returned some of her crows that had ventured into the Cauldron of Raya
Scola's had been freed by the nine and was given a catch one of the fallens great ships
He then used this newfound authority
Took in sight Rebellion amongst the fallen house of wolves
Forcing them to betray the queen of the reef and then he set out to unite all the fallen houses under his one banner
Led by Scola's the self-appointed kell of kells for this treachery of the fallen wolves and the sudden
re-emergence of her great enemies Scholars the rabbit Queen Mara saw of the awoken reef born
Promised to repay the debt of blood with as much suffering as she could offer scholars
with this she opened the borders of the reef to the guardians of the last city and
Told them all that if they wished great bounty they should do no more than look to the reef and it would be provided
We were summoned to the reef by queen Mara self of the awoken to repay the debt we owed for them aiding us in our
infiltration of the Black Garden and
In order to repay her we would need to aid her in the capture of Skolas the newly appointed kell of Kells
Firstly we hunted him to the ishtar sink of venus where he escaped before we could capture him he was however
Uniting both his house and the leaderless house of winter in the process and with them rallied to his banner. He had grown stronger
Next we had to stop him from uniting any other houses and so we headed to the cosmodrome
Attempting to stop Skolas Elite silent fang assassins from assimilating the house of Devil's into their newly formed kell ship
These devils might have followed well enough if their leadership hadn't been spared by her action that day
We confronted the deadly assassins and one
killing a fine commander in the process and
Next we hunted the command server tours of the wolves through the cosmodrome
destroying them before cutting down the King Barons Baskin and Vecas and
The Wolf Baron Javik who were potentially breeding an alliance between the Fallen house of wolves and the house of Kings
To this day, it's worth noting that the kell of the house of Kings has now have been found
He is merely staying in the shadows ruling like one of the machiavelli's of old
With no other fallen houses in the system that might bend the knee to him
Scola's was quickly running out of options
And so we found him next in the most unusual of places in the weakened vault of glass that we had previously
assaulted
We stopped him from tampering with vex
Technology and bringing the systems of the vault to his knees in the form of the oracles that might erase us from existence
But most importantly we realized the scholars had Gathered valuable information about vex technology
And finally we tracked him to the heights of the vex citadel where he had scaled to the top
There we would find the fallen wolf's forces had been empowered by vex technology
Scholars could now pull them through time to aid him and so we battled through them
Finally engaging the kell of care in personal combat and after he was subdued
The Fallen was no longer at our Mercy
but at the Mercy of the queen
Mara Sauvé captured him and returned him to the reef so that he might languish once more within the prison of elders
She promised us great rewards when we returned and we collected our rewards with the queen's guard Petra
When captured skolas mentioned to the queen and to variks the loyal' who still stood at the queen's right hand that he was afraid
Scola's was partly creating this new house as a way of more effectively shoring up the fallen in general for he had seen something
Becoming shadow on the Horizon that he feared
This was an effective small hint for the queen and queen Mara gifted scholars to Varrick's as a result
Barracks returned him to the prison of elders, but the queen left to ponder this matter more and what it might mean
The prison of elders was the fallen arena of combat that verax had created those that wished to be tried would be tried by combat
And so we faced scola's one last time in the trial of the wolf kell and two defeated him
once and for all as
This occurred and as the bonds between the city and the reef warned awoken became stronger Eris morn found herself
Travelling to the reef she met there with either, Osiris or a
Representative of Osiris his cult they met first with their queens cantankerous brother and then with the queen herself
She listened to their words and all of them are firmed what they knew
The death of Crota and his cry across the night was being answered they would need to prepare for what came next
For Crotas father would not take the death of his only son lightly
Oryx was coming and
Mora agreed on that day to fight the hive, so
that she might be able to give us and chance at defeating the taken King and
So with their fleets engaged the awoken would horrocks
His fleet would be mostly decimated
but so would the queen in return
It is not known to this day whether the queen lives or died to that day, but what is known as this?
Oryx had announced his presence in the system, and when he did so
He destroyed not only the awoken fleet, but also brought to bear his most terrifying weapon
Oryx had the ability to abduct those that he saw as his enemies
Even those he saw as his allies
with this he could send them to a dimension where they would stand before the darkness their
Personality would be disseminated and they would be corrupted and filled with darkness itself
Returning them in portals that he would create through his own will oryx could then summon these troops to battle for him
These would be known as the taken and they would be a scourge upon our system forevermore
But this was all before our intervention. We headed to a cabal firebase on phobos one of the two moons of Mars
Initially we were there to investigate an openly broadcast cabal signal this was of great concern to the vanguard
It could be the prelude to war if they were willing to break transmission ciphers, but once we arrived we discovered
What could only be described as a slaughter scape?
cabal were fleeing their base on mass ships had been shot down the base itself was in Ruins and
strange Dark Porter's dotted its walls and
For the first time we encountered not only a village of oryx who told us that our?
Infection would die the light that he saw within us, but also we encountered for the first time his mysterious taken
At this point we had no choice
We left as fast as we could fleeing from phobos posthaste, so that we might get further advice from the vanguard
Eris morn at this point took it upon herself to explain the doom that had been
By the taken King the fact that the city was in grave Danger
But cade the Hunter vanguard was most certainly not going to take any of this lying down
He devised a plan and told us to take on the trail of a stealth drive that he had left in old Russia
We would mount this to eris morn's hive covered ship and would then use this to trade the dreadnought
Oryx his command ship that would also be his nether realm a paradox within our universe
We use the stealth drive to board the dreadnought knock out its weapons systems and establish a transmat Zone
So other guardians could land and invade with our Beachhead established
We began our hunt for oryx finding that the cabal were assaulting a high of rupture
They had crashed one of their ships that on tallien exodus six into the side of the dreadnought
Primarily so that they could destroy it but also so they could hunt down oryx and interrogate him
Oryx was not so easily captured such was the Hubris of the cabal and
Their commander the primus of the sky Burners was taken by Oryx
We investigated the rupture that the cabal had been assaulting for ourselves?
But soon realized as we attempted to enter it and thanks to Eris
That the only thing that could enter or will the ruptures to open wisner Cendant hive
Therefore, we needed some way to pass ourselves on as an Ascendant hive as eris said become your enemy
Next we returned to the moon to the chamber of night that held Crotas soul
From this we could take a shard from the crystal that had been used to transfer his essence
Between that of his sword realm and the physical universe the very vessel that we had destroyed earlier
Barely escaping with our lives and a shard of the crystal oryx attempted to eradicate us once more
But our resolve was strong enough that even within the depths of the hive fortress we found a way to escape
Next we needed to head to rasputin the stealth drive that had been destroyed with Eris's ship
was valuable and the stealth code that rasputin held was possibly one of the only things we could use to hide in crotas realm and
Here we would indeed need to infiltrate
For we would need to IMprison
What remained of his soul within the Crystal that held it?
The Crystal itself was left Barren and his soul was being prepared to move on in a death ceremony of Sorts
We entered the Hellmouth once more with Rasputin's stealth codes going straight to the stills the darkness before the oversoul throne
And there we allowed the crystal to drink deep from the essence of the hive prince of nightmares
On our way out once again. We were ambushed, but thanks to the help of eris. We made it out unscathed
finally we returned the dreadnought with the soul of crota in our grasp and
With this the ruptures were opened, and we were allowed to pass as an Ascendant hive
We entered the inner sanctum of the dreadnought finding our way to the alter of Oryx who challenged us
Telling us that darkness was liberation and that by devouring our light. We would be pure oryx fought us
But in the end all of his power was naught
We defeated his physical form there at the altar and in an act of desperation to save himself
Oryx took himself
transporting himself to a realm before the darkness in
Doing so he did a referal and opened his throne world to be assaulted by our forces
This was unprecedented
This was the first time the taken king in all of his majesty
Had truly been defeated by the light he had even left his own sword behind
will breaker the sword that drank the very essence of life and
Eris
Ventured to the alter of Oryx and claimed for herself a shard of will breaker
she made this available to us and from this process of purification and
Crafting of hey diem we forged the crystal into our own blades so that we might battle oryx in his realm
Finally we made our assault on the taken king in his own nether realm found within his dreadnought
facing powerful
Ascendant hive including the war priests Golgoroth and his two daughters or a hook and a holic
We finally faced oryx the taken king first a navigator. Lord of shapes and Ruler of the Osmium throne
Blighted shadow of a thousand graveyard worlds and Heir to the high court of war
But even with all of his might and titles even with all of those times that he made
Doxologies in praise of the darkness his body
was destroyed and
Oryx his pure form
Was finally defeated
his form floated Towards Satin a
Crystalline giant husk that might fall eventually
into that world that
Might never be seen again
Most many would try to take the place of Oryx in the hierarchies such as moloch and allah cool
We defeated them all to the skee
pipette Sually leaderless and
disorganized
Never again, would they be the threat that they had been in sol?
the actions of but a single guardian had done all of the damage of the great disaster and
Instead had wrought the hive a terrible fate to suffer under other enemies
But we had not finished our business on the dreadnought
We also killed in the process a pair of cabal commanders who were attempting to detonate the dreadnoughts core?
Upon defeating them dead orbit traced a signal from the crashed cabal ship within the dreadnoughts hull
the Dan Tally in Exodus 6
We traced back this signal to the ship and discovered after defeating many taken and cabal that the signal was being sent to the cabal
Empire
more specifically
to the leader of the cabal Empire itself
This was a threat that we would have to answer at some point soon, but there were other menaces lurking on the Horizon
The Fallen Had come back into resurgence the force of the house of Devil's had made its way into the cosmodrome once more
but more specifically into a sector of the cosmodrome that had been dark for decades a
Sector known as the Plague lands
Lord Saladin at this left his post of the iron Banner the tournament within the crucible that for a long time had trained Guardians and
Then took charge of the situation personally
much to the Bewilderment of Guardians in the tower at
Saladin's request we personally scaled fel winter peak and defended it from a retooled epics prime
Epics that had been resurrected and appeared to have been augmented with some kind of unfamiliar technology
For some reason this great mechanical construct was capable of regeneration
We destroyed septics prime once again, but with such regenerative power it quickly retreated and so
Saladin instructed us to pursue it back to the cosmodrome, but before doing so we entered to the iron temple for the first time
Saladin had not ventured here for long long periods of time himself and so the honor was given to us
The Iron Lords were returning and to signal this to the world the braziers atop fell winter peak
By us were lit once more
We arrived finally in the cosmodrome and encountered Fallen forces in great numbers
nevertheless
We pushed through and Gathered what data we could from a sensor grid near the entrance of this new area of the cosmodrome
This was a strange instance as it had been almost completely consumed by the same technology that covered six
the Fallen
Responded to this invasion coming from an entrance to a new area of the cosmodrome
This area was the plague lands
and it had been locked away by the iron lords after
Their final assault had been made on the ceva replication chamber during the early City age
From the Plague lands as we were downloading. What remained of the archives
augmented fallen assaulted our position they had been colored in the new technology that had graced sepik s--
The one that had also graced the sensor grid we were trying to salvage
They turned themselves into cyborgs with this powerful newfound substance
The substance that was the nanotechnology that had destroyed the iron lords that we call
Siva
Next after discovering such a terrible fate had befallen the iron lords and the fallen we went into the plague lands
Destroying a fallen stronghold there we discovered that Siva had even resurrected the guns of the Golden age that had fallen during the collapse
After taking down those guns shiro for the vanguard scout assigned to Saladin in the iron temple
Reinforced our beachhead that we had created by destroying these guns and all the while
Lord Saladin told us to meet him back at the iron temple
So he could tell us the story of the iron lords, and how they fell to siva
Saladin told us this tale with great pain
He told us of how they failed to truly destroy the siva replication Chamber within the Plague lands in spite of Yoda's detonation
With this the task now falls to us to destroy this threat once and for all
after recounting the tale of the Iron lords
we're told to seek out the cryptarch Tyra kahn and her advice on the nature of Siva and
she pointed us to the Golden age labs of its creation on Mars under clovis Braze Roof in the dust palace and
so there we went
Finding out more about Siva and the befall had had in fact
Learnt of the substance there and had known to unleash it within the cosmodrome because of such research
Finally we headed back to the plague lands to Destroy Siva once and for all
Having established that the devils had a limited control over siva. We overloaded their systems within the reactor that they had maintained
Breaking their defenses and giving us a much needed chance to get into the siva replication chamber that they had built their Archons fortress around
This replication chamber was where the iron lords for Siva, and it was also where we would find their tomb?
There we found that Siva had done something far more horrifying than simply create cyborgs fallen
The unrestrained Siva within the chamber that had survived had taken the bodies and light and presence of those iron lords and had
Augmented and corrupted them we faced
Siva Iron lords
File creatures that had been corrupted by sivas influence light forced to fight our light and yet unable to stop themselves
due to severs
Nanotechnology and its influence their bodies their armor and their weapons had been twisted to the will of rasputin
Whose final order had not simply been to immunize, but now was a new directive?
consumed in hearts
replicate but this great technology of the Golden age was not enough to compare to our light and
So we slew the terrifying forms of the reanimated Galleon fell winter and yoda
We destroyed the siva replicator and recovered yoader's helm
Upon presenting it to Saladin we proved ourselves worthy of an honor that none before us would know
We would be the first of a new generation of iron lords our title put to great use
our honor and legacy born anew and
So our job was now extended. No longer were. We simply a guardian
We were a lord guardian and after reforging a yala horn with sivir and other
Technologies at our disposal our job became clear the house of Devil's had been stopped from creating more, Siva
But this did not stop them from using that which they already had at their disposal
the House of Devil's was on the move
Access the new Archon prime of the Fallen Devils had made a call to all fallen across the system
He told them to turn themselves to the perfection complex in old Russia
Where he resided he offered them cybernetic augmentations?
Which the fallen is akin to becoming a demigod for they wish to ascend in machines?
We assaulted this new stronghold of the house of devils and destroyed the Archon prime once and for all
So that he would never be able to unite those
millions of Fallen still across our system and to begin a new assault on the city that will surely spell our doom and
now with this moment of brief peace
Began the age of triumph
the last age of the City
We had faced all the threats that we had seen
We had seen peace in our time
The children who had once been told of the darkness and were afraid regardless of the stories no longer told
They were no longer afraid they had heard our heroic deeds done, and they wished to imitate them
pretending to be guardians
They were no longer living in fear
but even with this
darkness still loomed on the Horizon a darkness that we could not predict a
Darkness that once again, we would be weak to in our Hubris
the Fallen
Had shown signals of retreat in the cosmodrome during a routine scouting rung the fot see the forces of the city
discovered that fallen had retreated on Mass and had piled all of their armor and
heraldic flags in Massive pyres
And set them ablaze the fallens retreat signaled the end of the hundred year siege that surrounded
The City Which ordinarily would be a point of great joy
but in reality it was an omen of the coming war and
finally
We had the state the city was in now you as an exalted guardian of the City a lord guardian of the iron lords
the Guardian who had Slain Oryx the taken
king one of the darkest threats we had known the one who had found justice for Ariana and Toland and Val and
Omar
and Sai and Eris
the one who had defeated the vex within the vault of glass and the one who had slain the kell of kells and
At your side always were the three vanguard mentors
Icore array of the Warlocks
commander Zavala of the Titans and Kate six of the Hunters
But finally on one fateful stormy night in the tower
The danger of the situation at present would be finally revealed and our new enemy
would at last
unmask themselves
Acorah if you tell me this is a practical joke
Well, it kills me to say it, but I would be really impressed
Impressing you kade is the easiest thing. I'll do all day. Let's get serious people zavala. This is my serious face
Can't you tell I cora what have you got?
Someone or something has sabotaged the skyline defense systems and comms have been spotty for the last few hours
Every sensor Beyond the wall was gone dark
Hmm. Maybe it's just the storm
Maybe it's what are the set feet stones
Nothing. That's good right. No, I
Mean they're not there. There are no satellites and does not
battle stations
everyone
Of course this is not the full history of destiny. We haven't got into ancient history
We haven't touched the story of the thorn and the last word we've barely touched the ishtar collective and their experiments on the vex
We have not even seen the full events of the reef wars or whatever the nine end up being that's for the exo stranger
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