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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Crossing the Threshold=== | |||
{{Quote|You live without purpose. Anguish. Bliss. A meaningless cycle... of action and reaction. Let us bring an end... to your futile exertions. A final shape is coming. Chaos untangled... made knowable... with immaculate intent. Let us know you... and be reborn into perfection.|The Witness speaking to humanity as it finalizes earth}} | |||
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As the people of the [[Last City]] were continuing their everyday activities, they would be interrupted by the unnoticeable voice of the Witness. It would pronounce that they lived a purposeless existence of both anguish and bliss before finalizing the entirety of [[Earth]] into a frozen stillness. With the finalization complete, the Witness would declaring that a final shape is imminent, which would see the malicious chaos of the Light made knowable. However [[The Traveler|the Traveler]] would successfully undo the finalization, resulting in the Witness continuing to torture it for its resistance. Back at the [[H.E.L.M.]], Mara Sov as she looked at her hand in horror would reveal to [[Zavala]] and [[Ikora Rey]] that the Witness is close to enacting the Final Shape. Understand this was their only chance, Zavala declares that they are now initiating Operation Ahamkara to enter the portal into the Pale Heart. Mara would warn them that the Traveler could not prevent it for much longer and that the portal was unstable. Remaining determined despite the danger, Zavala would enter the portal alongside Ikora and the Guardian. While Zavala and Ikora successfully entered the portal into the Pale Heart, the Guardian would be unable to avoid the hurdles in their way, crashing into the [[The Threshold|Threshold]] between the outside world and Pale Heart. | |||
With their ship destroyed, the Guardian is forced to traverse the Threshold on foot, while Mara uses her power to keep the portal open long enough for them to enter. Defeating Taken sent by the Witness, the Guardian discovers a fount of Darkness and interacts with the resonance shell in the middle, manifesting a pathway of possibilities. Using the icon of Light dropped by a [[Will-Crushed Centurion|Taken Centurion]], the Guardian interacts with the shell once more to make the pathway physical, thus allowing them to traverse closer towards the portal. As they navigate across the platforms, the Guardian encounters the Witness's new army the [[The Dread|Dread]], specifically [[Weaver]]s, reshaped [[Psion]]s wielding the power of [[Strand]]. | |||
==Aftermath== | ==Aftermath== | ||