This takes on a new importance if Mercury is outside of normal spacetime
The psion flayer at 33s in the trailer is Kargen, the Technocrat from the Insight Terminus strike in Warmind.
Maya Sundaresh is in Shadowkeep (not saying where!) so teasing Kargen and possibly Otzot as antagonists is 
I know more about the history of the Cabal Empire than I do about Rome help
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Maya Sundaresh accidentally founding the Future War Cult is one of my favorite Destiny subplots.
[Jon To is showing his track jacket featuring a lion print in a nebula.]
Itâs a lion and itâs meant to remind me that lion doesnât try to be fierce, it just is. Just like Saint-14.
Thatâs not a joke.
Itâs, uh, itâs too bad heâs dead right and the players are going to have to pull a miracle out of their butts to save him.
Saint is probably the most lawful good character that weâve ever created. He loves pigeons. He loves pigeons so much that heâs named his ship after them. Heâs very large. Heâs very wholesome, and sometimes that gets him into trouble like the time that he died.
[Jon To turns to look directly into camera]
Heâs in trouble right now, guys, he needs your help!
The shotgun is called the Perfect Paradox. It is Saintâs signature weapon. It was forged by our players back in the Curse of Osiris expansion. I wrote the lore tab for that weapon that happened to insinuate that one day players would perhaps one day be able to bring that weapon back to Saint-14. Thereâs a huge problem right now, though, because heâs dead â heâs still dead â and, um, weâre going to have to solve that before we can give Saint back his weapon.
Jonâs deadpan is so god damn funny I love it
Something about all the Content Iâve consumed in D2 makes me think they really want to reiterate the so-gloriously-incandescent tone from Dork Souls but they never quite have the grace
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Itâs kind of cute, right? Iâd say itâs an iteration, though.
The thing they do that makes their spin work is acknowledging in-universe that the players/guardians behave like they actually do. Theyâre easily manipulated into doing literally anything with a chest at the end. They dance and play with balls in the courtyard of their stronghold.
Take this for example:
Kamala Rior climbs onto a railing at the top of the Tower in the Last City. âGuardians of the Tower!â she calls out.
A few look her way. One begins dancing at her feet. Others fool around with a purple ball.
Or this from D1, when the vanguard met around a table:
Records of the Vanguard, OS-6I 2
CY6: All right, whatâs the next option?
IR: If youâre so brilliant, you tell me.
ZAV: I suppose we should have known better than to tell Guardians to stand still.
CY6: Itâs not their strong suit. Theyâre not good at staying off my table, either. Stinkers.
Drifter and Calus gleefully remark at how easily motivated we are, and Riven fed on the playersâ desire to kill her as an ontological predator.
There are a handful of instances that wink at the fourth wall so it doesnât get away from them, but it also doesnât predominate the tone.
The Season of the Drifter books hit on the other new theme theyâre introducing to Joseph Campbellâs âHave You Ever Heard of Entropy?â: identity.
Youâre not the same person you were before you were resurrected. If youâve been alive long enough, youâre not the same person you were even in the same contiguous lifetime.
The Emissary has been reborn as awoken, then resurrected as a guardian, then came to be fused to the Nine. The Drifter has been alive for centuries and people distrust him because he isnât who he âsays he is,â but heâs been too many people to inhabit one identity.
From Ecdysis:
Wu Ming is ravenous for her stories of the Nine. He asks whether sheâs met them, whether they can give a man power, whether they know a way out of this solar system. Orin cannot answer any of his questions but she cannot keep her own stories down. She is sick with them; they come out in a compulsive bilious stream and when she is emptied, she talks of herself. Of her grief. Of her restlessness. How she feels the most alive in the empty spaces between blinks. How she feels she is a snake perpetually sloughing away its skin, except this last molt is all wrong and she is caught in the ghost-throat of her old self.
Wu Ming leaves his questions by the wayside as he is drawn inexorably into the gravity well of her desperate honesty. Her confessions lower his defenses. He talks of himself. Of his fear. Of his loneliness. How he feels he is one fingernail away from plummeting into an abyss. How he feels vicious resentment every time he is brought back from the dead: He never asked for the gift of the Light.
The Shadows of Yor write composition notebook poetry about how they need to âunmakeâ themselves to actualize.
I.I
Look upon the world with new eyes and know that you see for the first time.
I.II
All of your time before nowâevery choice, every momentâwas the antithesis of all you were meant to be.
I.III
To dwell on what was is the greatest sin.
I.IV
A new you hides, trapped and desperate to be freed in the instant beyond now.
I.V
Step confidentlyâforward into the unknown, beyond the present. There you will find yourself waiting.
I.VI
Evolution is constant for those who embrace tomorrow.
I.VII
Once unmade, you will be new, your eyes free to meet the lies of existence with unfettered judgment.
âOnly through new eyes can the burden of failed existence be cast aside that we may seeâtruly seeâfor the first time.â
â10th Understanding, 7th Book of Sorrow
Destiny is a land of contrasts, lore is absolutely a narcotic, and Iâm getting better at fighting the future
I just try to recall that Marathon was well written
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I just have a huge crush on the guy in the tiger track jacket tbh
i feel the usual inclination to play, but so did i last season, and i know how that turned out. blast on, space-farers
iâm so horny for pc/console crossplay please god
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i hopped on for Just One Game and then the graviton lance catalyst dropped lol
Momentum Control is so vicious
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Eater of Worlds is so easy now
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I would like this bugpunkish ship to go with the Last Sunset bugpunkish ship Iâm very fond of now
Symmetry seems neat, full auto scout rifle with a magnetic shot mode
I froth for all the breathless metagame analysis videos
ULDREN LORE ULDRE LORE ULDREN LORE
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If you havenât watched any of his, Aztecrossâs excitability and Louisiana accent are delightful
If only we could get him on the Street Fight guys, gals, nb pals
Thanks Bungie this is the perfect prologue to my drifter/crow slash fic
I sort of browse them all now
I think what most interests me about Uldrenâs current arc is the sheer tragedy of it. Manipulated by his sister, and then Riven, and murdered in cold blood, only to be revived with no memory in a world full of people who hate him like poison. I empathize a lot with his (now canon) loneliness, and I hope we get some interesting stories out of it.
This is the first time in the Destiny narrative where we can witness the process a Guardian goes through upon awakening from the âoutsideâ - our own resurrection doesnât count, especially since we donât talk - which means we finally get more context for the emotions and such the newly-Risen go through.
Wouldnât it be wild if they made him the Hunter vanguard? lol
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the lore book you get from the sundial involves the history of the speaker, particularly the collapse. and also includes the traveler speaking directly (well, as direct as this game gets) about what happened
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