The basics of the bare story for ‘Destiny 2’ start in ‘The Final Shape’

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Destiny YouTuber MyNameisByf just released his absolutely epic, 10-hour recap of the entire story of Destiny 1 and 2 ahead of the release of the game’s final Light and Darkness expansion on Tuesday. I’ve been there for a few hours and, unsurprisingly, he always does a high quality job.

I absolutely recommend everyone to watch it, but… it’s admittedly a tall order and we’re now about 72 hours away from release, so I’d understand if you can’t dedicate 10 of them to the video. As such, I wanted to write here the most basic part about the story that I think will prepare you for the finale.

This is not complete time section. Not at all. This is mostly about the last year of content and what I consider to be the most important elements going into The Final Shape based on what we know about it from recent events and marketing. Well, let’s go. Points baby!

MAIN STORY

  • Long ago, a race of humans on a distant planet found the Traveler, a large sphere that allowed them miraculous progress for their civilization, but was completely silent in terms of leadership as they grew.
  • They then found the Veil, an object of “darkness” as opposed to the Traveler’s Light. It was structure and silence and a different kind of power. The race tried to fuse both the Traveler and the Veil which they believed would make a perfect whole. The traveler refused and fled the planet, causing havoc.
  • Gathering all its power, civilization has formed into a single being that will follow the Traveler, the Witness, who aims to complete what civilization began to create the Final Form, perfect silence and preservation of all life without much of anything actually “life.” It is endless. stalked the Traveler with a black fleet of pyramid ships and finally caught up with him on earth.
  • The Witness, using the Veil and our Guardian’s connection to the Traveler, cut a hole in the Traveler and entered inside. Until recently we couldn’t track where we sent the new Guardian Crow through the portal using a combination of veil energy and wish dragon magic. Now we follow him and this is where the events of The Final Shape begin. We are in the heart of the Traveler, which the Witness is currently corrupting as it tries to form its final form. We, the Guardians, empowered by the Traveler, are tasked with stopping him and saving the entire universe.

SPECIFIC STORIES ABOUT CHARACTERS

  • Crow used to be a man named Uldren, who killed our friend Cayde-6 and Hunter Vanguard. We killed Uldren in revenge, but he was resurrected by a ghost and became a memory-wiped guardian named Crow. He’s slowly getting those memories back, but he’s still cool. Crow may have been tricked by the Wish Dragon into wishing he had never killed Cayde, and that could be why he arrived at the Pale Heart and found Cayde there, who doesn’t know how he got there or why he’s alive. But Wish Dragon’s wishes are often monkey paws, so there could be some problems. The concept of desire has not yet been confirmed, but is heavily implied by recent discoveries.
  • The last leader of the city, Commander Zaval, will come with us to Putnik. Centuries ago, he had a son who was killed by the Fallen in one of the first conflicts with the species. This caused a rift between him and his wife, who divorced him and eventually died of old age because he was immortal as a guardian. The latest trailer for Final Shape suggests that The Witness is trying to corrupt him. We don’t know exactly how, but I believe it might have something to do with getting his family back (because I’m not sure what else could tempt him like this).
  • The surviving Hive Gods are hanging around, but we don’t know what/if they will play a role in The Final Shape story. But just in case, we should know the rogue from the Savathun hive, now a guardian, has been resurrected and is currently doing…something…somewhere and she had such an important role in Destiny’s story that it’s hard to believe she won’t show up at some point. Meanwhile, her sister Xivu Arath is a servant of the Witness, but has recently been made mortal by the ritual of Eris Morn, our imaginary witch friend.
  • Our greatest Inhuman allies are Mithrax, leader of the House of Light, a friendly faction of the Fallen who follow the Traveler and aid our cause. And then there’s Caiatl, the current leader of the cabal with whom we have an ongoing alliance after Xivu Arath destroyed their homeworld. She may or may not fall in love with Zavala. We know that it will help us somewhat in this fight, as seen in the trailers.
  • Xivu Arath’s Hive, Witness-controlled Taken, and the Vex faction are the main forces of the Witness, but we also learned that he created a new race based on the world’s dead population, the Lubrae, who conduct experiments with light and darkness. They are the Dread and we will be fighting them for the first time in this expansion.

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

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