Editing Endless Night

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|place=[[The Last City]]<br>[[Europa]]<br>[[Tangled Shore]]<br>[[Luna]]

|result= *[[Quria, the Dreaming Mind]] defeated

*Endless Night lifted

*[[House Light]] brought under the protection of the city

*Osiris vanishes  

*[[Lakshmi-2]] is killed, FWC disbanded, [[Dead Orbit]] and [[New Monarchy]] flee the city

*[[Savathûn, the Witch Queen]] exposed as the creator of the Endless Night

|side1=[[Vanguard]]<br>[[House of Light]]

|side2=[[Vex]]<br>[[Taken]]

|side3=[[Future War Cult]]

|commanders1=Commander [[Zavala]]<br>[[Ikora Rey]]<br>[[Mithrax, Kell of Light]]

|commanders2=[[Quria, Blade Transform]]<br>[[Dikast, Oppressive Mind]]<br>[[Dimio, Oppressive Mind]]<br>[[Fantis, Oppressive Mind]]

|commanders3=[[Lakshmi-2]] <br> [[Hideo]] <br> [[Jalaal]]

|forces1=Thousands of [[Guardian]]s<br>House of Light [[Splicer]]s

|forces2=Countless Vex programs and platforms<br>Countless Taken

|forces3=FWC Assets and Personnel <br> Faction Personnel and assets

|casual1= Several  Human and Eliksni  civilian casualties

|casual2= Quria, the Dreaming Mind defeated <br> Subjugated Minds and Nexus Collective greatly inhibited <br> Taken Influence expunged

|casual3= Lakshmi-2 <br> Large portion of [[Faction]] assets

|civilian= Several  Human and Eliksni civilian casualties

The '''Endless Night''' is a [[Vex]] created simulation that engulfed [[The Last City]] through an unknown means, plunging the entire city into darkness and draining its power. To end the simulation and save the Last City, the [[Vanguard]] allied with the [[House of Light]] and sheltered them in the City so that their [[Sacred Splicers]] could hack into [[The Outer Nexus]] and assist the [[Guardian]]s in weakening the simulation.

Sending the Guardian to the last place Mithrax was reported seen, they end up on Europa, finding the remains of a skirmish between Mithrax and the Vex. The Guardian learns that Mithrax was attempting to lead refugees fleeing from the violence of the Salvation Fallen but was intercepted by the Vex, crashing their escape ship and sending the survivors to flee into the frozen wastes. Fortunately, the Guardian was able to intercept the Vex before they could reach Mithrax and his people. Grateful for their aid yet still requiring to keep his people safe, Mithrax uses a splicer device that creates a breach into the Vex realm, [[The Outer Nexus]]. Asking the Guardian to aid him in "masking" his people and removing the immediate Vex around them, Mithrax has them enter the Vex domain and destroy the Subjective Mind in command of the local Vex. The Guardian traversed the Vex's realm before facing off with the Subjective Mind, destroying it and retrieving a piece of its code, as requested by Mithrax

Returning back to Europa before the Vex use a cleansing field to rid their realm of intruders, Mithrax is grateful for the aid the Guardians gave to his people but before he takes his leave to find a safe place for his people, Ikora Rey makes the Light Kell an offer: facing the same threat in the Endless Night, the Warlock Vanguard offers the House of Light a safe haven within the Last City. Surprised by the offer, Mithrax agrees, allowing his people to have a sanctuary but wonders if the eliksni's presence would cause discomfort in the Last City and if Ikora even has such authority. Ikora merely states that if anyone has a problem with her decision, they can take it up with her.

However, despite the House of Light lending aid to the Guardian's efforts, the presence of eliksni in the Last City has caused discontent and dissatisfaction in some of its denizens, [[Saint-14]] in particular, having fought them in his crusades for centuries and witnessed their brutality first-hand. [[Lakshmi-2]], leader of the [[Future War Cult]], once expressed a measure of optimism to the Vanguard's alliance with the House of Light but slowly grew paranoid of them, beginning to make public broadcasts warning the people to be wary of the eliksni, which angers Ikora. The broadcasts ultimately incite fear in the people, leading some to harass the eliksni or people who are sympathetic towards them. Lakshmi's radical decisions in the War Cult forced some of its members to resign, disillusioned with the path she is taking.  

The situation comes to a head as a mob ransacks the Eliksni Quarters and sabotaging their ether supply. Despite this event, Mithrax refuses to sever their alliance, understanding that the attack was motivated by fear, not malice. Ikora tasks Saint-14 to investigate the attack but finds no witnesses, further he finds it that its asking the people too much to have them live besides "monsters" they have fought for centuries. Mithrax counters this with a tale that the eliskni tell their young, of a monster, a nightmare, that hunted them without mercy, no matter how many times they slayed him, a monster they called "The Saint". Yet now to live in peace within the Last City, they must live beside that same nightmare everyday. Shaken by this story, Saint-14 slowly comes to an understanding with Mithrax and after further working together in combating the Vex, Saint-14 accepts the eliksni as different from the Fallen he fought in the past.

 

Despite Saint-14 and Mithrax cooperating, Lakshmi continues to make broadcasts against the House of Light, fully believing that the eliksni will have a hand in a coming tragedy that would befall the Last City. A belief compounded by Lakshmi's usage of the device that her faction venerates and allows one to see the future. Having had enough of Lakshmi's attempts to spread fear, Ikora interrupts one of Lakshmi's speeches, denouncing her attempts to sow discord and reminding the people of the Last City that humanity is not that different from the Eliksni. Humanity once struggled against tyrants of their own in the Warlords, no different from the Fallen Kells, before coming together and creating the Last City and that they need not let the violence of the past ruin their chance of having a brighter dawn together. Following this, Lakshmi would attempt to twist Ikora's speech as a means of "silencing" her which only convinces her that the Vanguard's judgement is no longer dependable.

 

Though the Guardians succeeded in destroying the architect of the Endless Night and their alliance with the House of Light brought back daylight to the Last City, Lakshmi-2 remained paranoid and wary of the eliksni, desiring to see them expelled from the Last City. Further, the War Cult leader becomes dissatisfied with the Vanguard's recent decisions and effectiveness, from allowing Guardians to wield [[Stasis]], their management of the conflict with the Cabal, their inability to stop the Black Fleet and now allowing the eliksni to stay within the Last City. Gathering her counterparts in [[New Monarchy]] and [[Dead Orbit]], Lakshmi convinces [[Hideo]] and [[Jalaal]] that new leadership is required for the Guardians, one more inclined to their point of view. However, their efforts to convince either [[Saladin Forge]] or Saint-14 to assume the role as leader of the Vanguard were rebuffed. Frustrated that a peaceful transition of power is no longer possible, Lakshmi instead attempts to forcefully expel the eliksni from the Last City and overthrow the Vanguard leadership with the combined efforts of Future War Cult, Dead Orbit and New Monarchy, thereby assuming full control over the Consensus. Galvanized with the supposed support of Osiris himself, Lakshmi instigates her coup, rounding up eliksni in the Botza District and activating a Vex portal to forcefully expel the House of Light. However, during a broadcast, her coup ends horribly as Vex enter through the portal, attacking indiscriminately, human and eliksni alike. Lakshmi-2 ultimately gets killed by the Vex during the slaughter.

Scrambling to defend the Last City and the Eliksni, the Guardians manage to breach into the Outer Nexus once more and destroy the Subjective Mind in command of the attacking Vex, closing the portal. However, the remaining Vex within the City still posed a serious threat, as they closed in the House of Light. Fortunately, the combined efforts of Ikora, Mithrax, Saint-14, [[Zavala]] and even [[Amanda Holliday]] were able to defend the eliksni and destroy the remaining Vex.

With Lakshmi's coup a failure, New Monarchy and Dead Orbit gathered all their members, supplies and anyone else affiliated with them and fled the Last City on Dead Orbit's fleet rather than face the Vanguard's wrath, thereby bringing an end the Factions. However, in Lakshmi's final broadcast before her death, she stated that she was aided by Osiris, leading Ikora to wonder if her old mentor was part of Lakshmi's coup attempt but his disappearance following the Vex attack only increased the suspicion towards Osiris.

With the combined efforts and unity of the Guardians and the eliksni of the House of Light, the threat of the Endless Night was put to an end, and despite Lakshmi's attempts, their alliance was reaffirmed. A memorial was later put together to celebrate their shared victory over the Endless Night and mourn those who had been lost in the Vex's attack. However, the suspicion of Osiris' involvement in the attempted coup remained, leading the Vanguard to conduct an investigation into Osiris' whereabouts.

Later on, the Vanguard was ultimately able to discover Osiris' location within the [[Reef]], sending the Guardian to bring him back to the Last City to answer for what he did. Saint-14 and [[Crow]] also join in the search to discern if Osiris really did have a hand in Lakshmi's attempted coup. However, after delving into the Taken-wracked Dreaming City, the three Lightbearers find Osiris speaking with the Reef Queen [[Mara Sov]] herself. However, to their horror, the "Osiris" that had aided them was in fact Savathûn, the mastermind of the Endless Night, herself before she was encased into a crystal prison by Mara Sov. The Witch Queen would reveal that she assumed Osiris' form, following the loss of his Light at the hands of the [[High Celebrant of Xivu Arath]], to hide herself from her sister, [[Xivu Arath]], who now actively hunts her. She further reveals that during her time posing as Osiris, she has "aided" the Guardians in their recent efforts, such as preventing war with the Cabal and bringing the House of Light to the Last City. Savathûn's part in Lakshmi's coup was in reality a ploy to expose her and the other Factions as traitors to the Guardians, making the War Cult leader nothing more than a pawn in the Witch Queen's schemes.

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