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[[File:InsulaThesaurariaBook.jpg|300px| | [[File:InsulaThesaurariaBook.jpg|300px|thumb|The cover of Cayde-6's book. It bears the same image as the Insula Thesauraria [[emblem]]. ]] | ||
'''Cayde's Treasure Island Book''' is a piece from [[Destiny: The Taken King Collector's Edition]]. Inside this book are notes from [[Cayde-6]], recounting his memories from the past. These notes reveal a substantial amount of information concerning not only Cayde's own backstory, but also of the [[Exo]], the [[Ahamkara]], the [[Ishtar Collective]], and | |||
'''Cayde's Treasure Island Book''' is a piece from [[Destiny: The Taken King Collector's Edition]]. Inside this book are notes from [[Cayde-6]], recounting his memories from the past. These notes reveal a substantial amount of information concerning not only Cayde's own backstory, but also of the [[Exo]], the [[Ahamkara]], the [[Ishtar Collective]], and other objects in the Destiny universe. | |||
==Introductory letter== | ==Introductory letter== | ||
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And what you're holding in your hands - this book - that's mine, and it's precious to me. | And what you're holding in your hands - this book - that's mine, and it's precious to me. | ||
Don't sweat it. I'm not upset. In fact, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. I wanted you to find this book - whoever you are. I figure you must be clever, | Don't sweat it. I'm not upset. In fact, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. I wanted you to find this book - whoever you are. I figure you must be clever, discreet - good at finding things other folks miss. | ||
You're a collector - the intel and acquisition sort - and if you're acquiring said intel from the [[Speaker]]'s personal library, well, then I figure you must fancy yourself the adventurous, risk-taking type. | You're a collector - the intel and acquisition sort - and if you're acquiring said intel from the [[Speaker]]'s personal library, well, then I figure you must fancy yourself the adventurous, risk-taking type. | ||
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''We got issues.'' | ''We got issues.'' | ||
See, the reboots, they don't wipe it all away. Not everything. And the new life-plus the Light-it does something real funny to what's left. Amplifies it, scrambles it, reshuffles the fragments like a dealer riffling a deck of cards, putting the hands we've already won and lost back into play. | See, the reboots, they don't wipe it all away. Not everything. And the new life - plus the Light - it does something real funny to what's left. Amplifies it, scrambles it, reshuffles the fragments like a dealer riffling a deck of cards, putting the hands we've already won and lost back into play. | ||
Most of us do what we can on our own to forget. Let the itch go ''unscratched.'' | Most of us do what we can on our own to forget. Let the itch go ''unscratched.'' | ||
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So here's a little bit of what I remember. Strike that. Here's a little bit of ''what I know''. | So here's a little bit of what I remember. Strike that. Here's a little bit of ''what I know''. | ||
It ain't all right, | It ain't all right, but I'll be damned if it ain't the truth. | ||
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''Time to go to work. I'll spare you the gory details.'' | ''Time to go to work. I'll spare you the gory details.'' | ||
Afterwards, fuming. [[Clovis Bray]] sends me a bill for the hull damage. My fault the target put a blast wall between us. My fault things went wrong and we had to let our rifles do the talking. | Afterwards, fuming. [[Clovis Bray (corporation)|Clovis Bray]] sends me a bill for the hull damage. My fault the target put a blast wall between us. My fault things went wrong and we had to let our rifles do the talking. | ||
I tear the packet open. Tattered pieces of the envelope drift to the floor. [Spade insignia pencil drawing] | I tear the packet open. Tattered pieces of the envelope drift to the floor. [Spade insignia pencil drawing] | ||
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Saturn. No, someplace else. ''Someplace colder''. | [[Saturn]]. No, someplace else. ''Someplace colder''. | ||
This moon has been almost completely converted, a sarcophagus of ice and iron. | This moon has been almost completely converted, a sarcophagus of ice and iron. | ||
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There's no bounty. No Hive. I'm out in plain sight. Sky is torn open and there's nothing and nobody left in this ruined world but me and the boiling shadow all around. Whatever it is hits me before I can level my gun. Doesn't matter. Tendrils of pain crawl over my splayed fingers, my outstretched arms, my shoulders, my neck, my screaming mouth as it consumes. I'm being enveloped. Everything is wrong. Primordial. My systems go sideways. All but my sensors. It wants me to witness this, the world. | There's no bounty. No Hive. I'm out in plain sight. Sky is torn open and there's nothing and nobody left in this ruined world but me and the boiling shadow all around. Whatever it is hits me before I can level my gun. Doesn't matter. Tendrils of pain crawl over my splayed fingers, my outstretched arms, my shoulders, my neck, my screaming mouth as it consumes. I'm being enveloped. Everything is wrong. Primordial. My systems go sideways. All but my sensors. It wants me to witness this, the world. It's world now. Suffocating in the black poison. I collapse. We all collapse. | ||
[Drawings of black creatures that we haven't seen - may be Taken or The Darkness] | [Drawings of black creatures that we haven't seen - may be Taken or The Darkness] | ||
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[[Category: | [[Category:Collector's edition books]] | ||
[[Category:Lore]] | |||