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{{Quote|My memory will never extinguish. In your calmest moments, your deepest slumber... you will remember me, Guardians|Nezarec's final words after his defeat}} | {{Quote|My memory will never extinguish. In your calmest moments, your deepest slumber... you will remember me, Guardians|Nezarec's final words after his defeat}} | ||
[[File:Cataclysm2Info.jpg|300px|left|thumb|Nezarec's sarcophagus, pierced with the root from | [[File:Cataclysm2Info.jpg|300px|left|thumb|Nezarec's sarcophagus, pierced with the root from a [[Tree of Silver Wings]].]] | ||
During the initial battle between the Traveler and the Witness in Earth's orbit, it was revealed the Traveler struck the Witness' [[Essence|Pyramid]] with a [[Light]]-infused terraforming beam. Its attack deformed the surface of the Pyramid, sprouting a massive, budding [[Tree of Silver Wings | During the initial battle between the Traveler and the Witness in Earth's orbit, it was revealed the Traveler struck the Witness' [[Essence|Pyramid]] with a [[Light]]-infused terraforming beam. Its attack deformed the surface of the Pyramid, sprouting a massive, budding [[Tree of Silver Wings (Essence)|Tree of Silver Wings]] with huge roots of ostensibly benign paracausal flora growing wildly within the structure of the ship. One such root would pierce a large crystalline sarcophagus containing the disembodied head of Nezarec: the only remaining piece of the Disciple Eramis acquired for the Witness after the rest were taken by the Guardians. Nezarec, having been revived unintentionally by the Traveler's terraforming power, sought to use his newfound paracausal power for his own morbid curiosities.<ref name="Post-Raid">'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbhdR0I2aAQ Root of Nightmares Post-Raid Cinematic]]''</ref> Meanwhile, the god of pain would also terrorize the Shadow Legion aboard the Pyramid, with [[Zo'aurc, Explicator of Planets]] detailing his own nightmares and more reports of night terrors and violent incidents among his forces.<ref>[https://www.bungie.net/7/en/news/article/twid-05-02-2024 This Week In Destiny – 05/02/2024]</ref> | ||
Seeking to find the source of the mysterious provocateur haunting Neomuna, [[The Guardian]] lead a fireteam of six to investigate the now-derelict ship. Upon exploration of the interior, Nezarec greeted the intrepid fireteam upon their arrival.<ref>'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - Nezarec: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmh_7JjHhtE "Oh, You Have Arrived. Good"]''</ref> After hoping that his messages having reached them, the disciple had considered they would leave him to rot in his crystalline sarcophagus, but remarks that Guardians cannot resist unanswered questions or a challenge.<ref>'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - Nezarec: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LETkwelS5eY "I'm Glad My Messages Reached You"]''</ref> Upon reaching his tomb, Nezarec began channeling his hatred into massive waves of overwhelming paracausal energies which threaten to wipe the team on top of the Shadow Legion reinforcements. The fireteam are forced into a relay race where they link nodes of Light together and supply paracausal energy into the root connected to the Disciple's sarcophagus. [[Cavum of Nezarec|Cavum]] Tormentors are also called forth at the beckoning of their progenitor but were also dispatched to keep his hatred momentarily delayed. Upon them completing the encounter, Nezarec is invigorated by how familiar and yet different his new power feels.<ref>'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - Nezarec: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni9anzH41R4 "This Power is Familiar, Yet... Different"]''</ref> | Seeking to find the source of the mysterious provocateur haunting Neomuna, [[The Guardian]] lead a fireteam of six to investigate the now-derelict ship. Upon exploration of the interior, Nezarec greeted the intrepid fireteam upon their arrival.<ref>'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - Nezarec: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmh_7JjHhtE "Oh, You Have Arrived. Good"]''</ref> After hoping that his messages having reached them, the disciple had considered they would leave him to rot in his crystalline sarcophagus, but remarks that Guardians cannot resist unanswered questions or a challenge.<ref>'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - Nezarec: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LETkwelS5eY "I'm Glad My Messages Reached You"]''</ref> Upon reaching his tomb, Nezarec began channeling his hatred into massive waves of overwhelming paracausal energies which threaten to wipe the team on top of the Shadow Legion reinforcements. The fireteam are forced into a relay race where they link nodes of Light together and supply paracausal energy into the root connected to the Disciple's sarcophagus. [[Cavum of Nezarec|Cavum]] Tormentors are also called forth at the beckoning of their progenitor but were also dispatched to keep his hatred momentarily delayed. Upon them completing the encounter, Nezarec is invigorated by how familiar and yet different his new power feels.<ref>'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - Nezarec: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni9anzH41R4 "This Power is Familiar, Yet... Different"]''</ref> | ||
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Once the team reaches [[Zo'aurc, Explicator of Planets|Zo'aurc's]] location at [[Macrocosm]], Nezarec told them to tear the Cabal apart since he is not as accomplished as the Guardians in their short time there.<ref>'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - Nezarec: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7XSIzNl6xk "Tear That Useless Sack of Meat Apart For Me"]''</ref> After killing the [[Incendior]] and overcharging even more paracausal energies into the root, the Disciple remarks how fascinated he is by the lengths they went to reach their goals, labeling them as "emissaries of pain and death".<ref>'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - Nezarec: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9XtTTW_cWQ "Emissaries of Pain and Death"]''</ref> As they approach back to his now terraformed [[Cataclysm|tomb]], he tells them to free him so he may experience the world again with his new perspective.<ref>'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - Nezarec: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drD5vucIz08 "I Have Been Trapped for a Very Long Time"]''</ref> | Once the team reaches [[Zo'aurc, Explicator of Planets|Zo'aurc's]] location at [[Macrocosm]], Nezarec told them to tear the Cabal apart since he is not as accomplished as the Guardians in their short time there.<ref>'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - Nezarec: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7XSIzNl6xk "Tear That Useless Sack of Meat Apart For Me"]''</ref> After killing the [[Incendior]] and overcharging even more paracausal energies into the root, the Disciple remarks how fascinated he is by the lengths they went to reach their goals, labeling them as "emissaries of pain and death".<ref>'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - Nezarec: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9XtTTW_cWQ "Emissaries of Pain and Death"]''</ref> As they approach back to his now terraformed [[Cataclysm|tomb]], he tells them to free him so he may experience the world again with his new perspective.<ref>'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - Nezarec: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drD5vucIz08 "I Have Been Trapped for a Very Long Time"]''</ref> | ||
[[File:2023 Root of Nightmares Raid PressKit Boss Compressed 003.jpg|300px|thumb|Nezarec, fully revived with | [[File:2023 Root of Nightmares Raid PressKit Boss Compressed 003.jpg|300px|thumb|Nezarec, fully revived with power from the Tree of Silver Wings.]] | ||
With the fireteam returning to the sarcophagus, Nezarec's rebirth is complete as he bursts forth from the crystalline encasement of the tomb; now with a fully grown body fed on the Light and Darkness of the root thanks to the Guardians. Now reveling in his newfound powers, the resurrected Disciple demands to devour their fears as they engaged in battle.<ref>'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - Nezarec: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukLRGWYhXWQ "Let Me Devour Your Fear"]''</ref> Armed with a massive [[Tormentor Scythe|Scythe]] and his [[Void]]-powered attacks, Nezarec unleashed both overwhelming energies of Light and Resonance at the Guardians only for them to avoid by attuning to his attacks with Light and Dark nodes surrounding the battlefield. By linking both sets of paracausal nodes, they could channel the radiating power of the overgrown root into the Disciple's sarcophagus and unleash a massive beam of terraforming and resonant energies directly at Nezarec: dropping his impervious defenses and leaving him briefly vulnerable for the fireteam to damage. After much effort, the Guardians successfully defeated Nezarec as he was preparing to unleash a final wave of overwhelming energy; destroying his physical form in much the same fashion as Rhulk, Calus and the [[The Dread|Dread]] had met their ends. In his final whispers to the fireteam that killed him, Nezarec reminded them that he will always be present in their memories and nightmares, being an inescapable impression upon the universe.<ref>'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - Nezarec: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6FnfyBIjOo "My Memory Will Never Extinguish"]''</ref> | With the fireteam returning to the sarcophagus, Nezarec's rebirth is complete as he bursts forth from the crystalline encasement of the tomb; now with a fully grown body fed on the Light and Darkness of the root thanks to the Guardians. Now reveling in his newfound powers, the resurrected Disciple demands to devour their fears as they engaged in battle.<ref>'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - Nezarec: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukLRGWYhXWQ "Let Me Devour Your Fear"]''</ref> Armed with a massive [[Tormentor Scythe|Scythe]] and his [[Void]]-powered attacks, Nezarec unleashed both overwhelming energies of Light and Resonance at the Guardians only for them to avoid by attuning to his attacks with Light and Dark nodes surrounding the battlefield. By linking both sets of paracausal nodes, they could channel the radiating power of the overgrown root into the Disciple's sarcophagus and unleash a massive beam of terraforming and resonant energies directly at Nezarec: dropping his impervious defenses and leaving him briefly vulnerable for the fireteam to damage. After much effort, the Guardians successfully defeated Nezarec as he was preparing to unleash a final wave of overwhelming energy; destroying his physical form in much the same fashion as Rhulk, Calus and the [[The Dread|Dread]] had met their ends. In his final whispers to the fireteam that killed him, Nezarec reminded them that he will always be present in their memories and nightmares, being an inescapable impression upon the universe.<ref>'''Bungie (2023/02/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Lightfall]] - Nezarec: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6FnfyBIjOo "My Memory Will Never Extinguish"]''</ref> | ||