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| {{about|the [[Leviathan (ship)|Leviathan]] [[Dungeon]]|the [[Exotic]] [[Shotgun]]|Duality (Exotic)}}
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| |name= Duality | | |name= Duality |
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| [[File:Dualitydun.jpg|360px]] | | [[File:Dualitydun.jpg|300px]] |
| |player= 1-3 | | |player= 1-3 |
| |light= 1600 | | |light= 1600 |
| |place= [[Leviathan|Derelict Leviathan]], [[The Moon]] | | |place= [[Leviathan|Derelict Leviathan]], [[The Moon]] |
| |objective= Journey into Calus's mind and find what secrets he holds. | | |objective= Journey into Calus's mind and find what secrets he holds |
| |factions= [[Nightmare]]s
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| |races= [[Cabal]]
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| |nowalk= Yes | | |nowalk= Yes |
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| ===Other Rewards=== | | ===Other Rewards=== |
| **[[Mandate of Strength]] - Exotic [[Jumpship]] | | **[[Mandate of Strength]] - Exotic [[Jumpship]] |
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| ==Transcript==
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| *'''Eris Morn''': You arrive. Good, yes. We have only a brief window of opportunity. The Darkness is thick here, coalesced inside this effigy of Emperor Calus. It is tethered to his very mind. I have snared that thread. Caught it between my fingers and woven it into a tapestry. One that I can weave you into. Enter Calus's consciousness. Use this opportunity to steal his darkest secrets from him.
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| ''The Guardian enters Calus's mindscape.''
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| *'''Eris''': What you feel may seem like reality, but it is not the one you know. Your mind now stretches across a vast gulf. Though while this world is born of Calus's thoughts, it is no less dangerous than physical reality.
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| ''The Guardian explores the mindscape.''
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| *'''Eris Morn''': This... is not what I anticipated. The imprint of Calus's consciousness is... fractured, straining. As if Calus's mind is at war with itself.
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| *'''Calus''': All my history is etched here, from humble beginnings to my rise as emperor. It is an ancient tradition of our people.
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| *'''Eris Morn''': Calus? No, not Calus, but an echo of him. This is a recollection of a time since past.
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| *'''Calus''': My Bell of Conquest is so grand because I have lived a grand life. One day, my daughter, yours will be just as majestic.
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| *'''Eris Morn''': You are experiencing echoes of Calus's personal torment. Glimpses into his past which may provide insight to the future. I must focus to maintain your connection to this mindscape. From here, you must navigate these memories on your own.
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| ''The Guardian explores further.''
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| *'''Calus''': [grunts angrily] Exile? Is the mighty Ghaul too great a coward to kneel down and take my head from my shoulders?
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| *'''Ghaul''': I am as you made me, and I would kill you were it my choice. But it is not. Caiatl stayed my blade. Remember that.
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| ''The Guardian encounters the Nightmare of Gahlran.''
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| *'''Calus''': You were bred to be a sorrow-bearer. I seek a Hive commander, but those are not so readily available. So I made you.
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| ''The Nightmare is defeated. The Guardian explores further.''
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| *'''Calus''': There was a time I would have gladly laid in death beside you, here in these crypts. But we were both different then.
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| ''The Guardian explores further.''
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| *'''Calus''': No one of honor will be interred here. The dead are raw materials, and nothing more.
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| ''The Guardian discovers the Vault.''
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| *'''Calus''': Shadows were cast here. History made.
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| ''The Guardian fights the Nightmare of Ka'hok, Sworn of Umun'arath.''
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| *'''Calus''': Do not open doors you cannot close!
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| ''The Guardian fights the Nightmare of Emonut, Sworn of Moli Imoli.''
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| *'''Calus''': Stop. Stop! I command you!
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| ''The Guardian fights the Nightmare of Uroa, Sworn of Shayotet.''
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| *'''Calus''': Please! No, please! Don't do this!
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| ''The Guardian opens the Vault.''
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| *'''Calus''': No...
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| ''The Guardian explores the Vault.''
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| *'''Calus''': She is more beautiful than any star I have ever beheld. I name her Caiatl, for the brightest star in our sky. May be outshine it always.
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| ''The Guardian fights the Nightmare of Princess Caiatl.''
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| *'''Calus''': My daughter, my star... my betrayer.
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| ''The Guardian defeats Calus's Nightmare of Caiatl and returns to reality.''
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| *'''Eris Morn''': Breathe. Breathe. You have returned to reality. I shared your experiences and am uncertain of what to make of it all. But I believe there is yet more to find within... should you be willing to delve into his nightmares again.
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| ''Or if the Guardian discovers Heartshadow''
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| *'''Eris Morn''': And so Calus's truth is laid bare. From his rise... to his fall... to whatever it is he is becoming now. Calus is seeking transfiguration. He believes it will help him better understand the goals of the Witness. The final shape? This is something I have heard spoken in Hive apocrypha, and from the lips of Toland the Shattered, According to the Hive, the final shape is "that which remains when all that can be removed has been removed." It is as vague a notion as it is fascinating. If this is the Witness's true end game, we must strive to understand it.
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| ==Mind Heist==
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| ===First repressed memory===
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| *'''Calus''': The Praetorate's time has come to an end. Too long have the people of Torobatl languished under their heel. A world that knows only war has no future. We were not always conquerors. We were not always tyrants. If violence carved us into the shape of what we are now, then so shall violence be that shape's undoing!
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| ===Second repressed memory===
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| *'''Calus''': Ever since she was born, Caiatl has shown a curiosity for the world beyond. She shares my fascinations. I worry for her, for the galaxy she will grow up in, for the future of our people. But perhaps the time for worries is at an end. My daughter will grow up knowing only celebration, triumph, and peace. This is the world I made.
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| ===Third repressed memory===
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| *'''Calus''': [drunkenly] Peace has its detractors, hahaha! I was too kind in my coup against the... [stutters] Praetorate. Drank too deep of the cup of mercy. Now there are long shadows in the night, hands clutching knives, eyes at my back. I hear them, whispering. I hear them. But soon, those whispers will become screams. The Ghost Primus is the answer to this sedition. My Red Legion, anointed in blood... [grunts]
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| ===Fourth repressed memory===
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| *'''Calus''': My servants come, but I refuse their succor. I will not feast, I will not drink! I will wither away until there is nothing left. My love has been turned to poison in my veins. They do not appreciate all that I had done for them. My sacrifices! [sighs] All betrayal is inevitable. We are a ring of beasts, feasting upon one another.
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| ===Fifth repressed memory===
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| *'''Calus''': At the edge of the universe, I stared into the infinite deep. It stared back, and was pleased. I would become the herald of its victory and bear witness for all creation. The key is to realize the future isn't an enemy to be fought. It is a friend to embrace. A closing of the circle. And when the end comes, I reserve the right... to be last.
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| ===Sixth repressed memory===
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| *'''Calus''': The Light is a fascinating thing, and in my ignorant youth, I may have seen it as aspirational. Like Ghaul. I see this force for what it truly is. Eternal life after death is a trick of the Light. An illusion! Nothing is forever. But these Guardians entertain me. I will use their ignorance. Shower them with lavish gifts, with praise. I will watch them dance into the grave of creation for my amusement.
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| ===Seventh repressed memory===
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| *'''Calus''': Savathûn, Savathûn. She nearly had me. Had I not birthed Gahlran, had he not donned the Crown, I would be lost. The Voice warned me of her, but I did not heed it, and the Voice is so... silent now. The promised end is at hand as worlds are swallowed into nothing, and I... I heart nothing. Excruciating silence. Perhaps I have displeased it. Or perhaps... I am not listening hard enough.
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| ===Eighth repressed memory===
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| *'''Calus''': In my haste to find a suitable bearer for the Crown of Sorrow, I failed to see a more elegant solution. The Hive were not those who could most elegantly bear the Crow. My Shadow, Katabasis, found the alternative. Mindless corpses of Fallen, risen through an Ahamkara's wish magic, fuelled by Darkness-infused Ether... the Scorn. The only component that was missing was a connective tissue, and this, the Egregore spores would provide.
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| ===Ninth repressed memory===
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| *'''Calus''': Through the Crown of Sorrow, the Voice in the Darkness called out to me, beckoning me to the absence of Mercury. At first, I feared the Leviathan would not survive the journey, as the Glykon had been rent asunder by a similar journey. By my Leviathan, it is strong. Its heart beats anew, and as it pierced the veil of creation... the Voice greeted me. There were such sights to behold.
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| ===Tenth repressed memory===
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| *'''Calus''': There, in that gravity shadow, I was truly seen. There, I understood my role in the closing of the circle. The Witness opened its mind to me, and I saw my darkest desire made reality. I would be the last. It is my right. I am the herald. I am the end.
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| ===Eleventh repressed memory===
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| *'''Calus''': The Witness's voice is so strong now. I hear it clearer than my own. I understand now what true paracausality is. The Light and the Dark are threads on a loom, woven into the tapestry of the universe by those who wield it. The Witness would see things differently. The gaps between those threads. Freedom from the greater design. Freedom... for all.
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| ===Twelfth repressed memory===
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| *'''Calus''': I have reached the limits of what this crumbling body can offer, and yet there is so much more that I must do. I must shed my remaining attachments to this flesh, and ascend. The others have, and a path is laid before me. There is fear in this. Fear of losing myself. But there is no other way. I must prove my loyalty, or wither. To understand the final shape, I must become more than myself.
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| ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
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| *When traveling through Calus's mindscape, the Cabal in the mindscape change. In the normal realm, the Cabal are those from the [[Loyalists]], in the Nightmare realm, the Cabal are those from the [[Red Legion]]. | | *When traveling through Calus's mindscape, the Cabal in the mindscape change. In the normal realm, the Cabal are those from the [[Loyalists]], in the Nightmare realm, the Cabal are those from the [[Red Legion]]. |
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| ==Appearance== | | ==List of appearances== |
| *''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Haunted]]'' {{1st}} | | *''[[Destiny 2]]'' |
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| ==References==
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| [[Category:Dungeons]] | | [[Category:Dungeons]] |