Wishing All the Best

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Wishing All the Best
Game:	Season of the Wish
Quest giver:	Mara Sov
Objective:	Secure Riven's eggs

The Bladed Path is the main quest for the Season of the Wish.

How to Unlock

Complete Final Wish. Seasonal pass is required

Steps

"And my vanquisher will read that book, seeking the weapon, and they will come to understand me, where I have been and where I was going."The following is a verbatim transcription of an official document for archival reasons. As the original content is transcribed word-for-word, any possible discrepancies and/or errors are included.

Start

Mara dislikes Riven's bargain but knows there are no other options. She tells you to cooperate with Riven for now while she thinks of a contingency plan.

Step 1

Speak to Riven to learn the location of her last clutch of eggs.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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Vanguard Orbital Command, Hub for Emergency Logistics and Maneuvers

The Guardian takes the constructed Awoken portal to Spirit’s Anchor, where the Spirit of Riven is conjured by a circle of Techeuns with Riven’s Heart as the locus.

Spirit’s Anchor, The Dreaming City

• Riven: Greetings, O Guardian mine. I always knew we could work together. I speak to you with my true voice. Consider it... a sign of trust. The need for deceit has passed. My corporeal death freed me from the Taken curse. My bargain with their king has expired. These Techeuns strain themselves to conjure my essence. They cannot do so forever. Savathûn’s wish will be the last I grant. Mara has made clear the terms of our agreement. Retrieve my last clutch of uncorrupted eggs, and I will uphold my end of the bargain. Obviously, I cannot gather the eggs myself. Instead, I will guide you to them, through the halls of my former lair. And beware, Guardian. You may find it a place most unwelcoming.

Riven expresses delight at working with you one final time. She explains that, given the immense reserves of energy required to sustain Riven's spirit, Savathûn's wish will be the last she grants.

Riven tasks you with retrieving her last clutch of eggs from her lair within the Confluence.

Step 2

Riven believes she knows the location of her eggs. Enter Riven's Lair and retrieve them.

• Search for Riven's eggs in Riven's Lair.
  • Riven's Lair completed: 0/1

Notes

See Riven's Lair (First Clear) activity for transcript.

Step 3

Petra is ready to relay the Techeuns' findings.

• Speak with Petra at the holoprojector.
  • Holoprojector visited: 0/1

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Petra Venj appears on the Wing of the Wish’s holoprojector.

• Petra Venj: Bad news, Guardian. I bring word from the Techeuns: Riven's clutch has dispersed across the Ley Lines of the Ascendant Realm. They now orbit our reality, like comets around a sun... hopefully not beyond our reach. The Techeuns are uncertain how this happened, but they've detected a massive surge of paracausal energy across the entire transit system. The residual energy has allowed us to predict each egg's trajectory across the Lines. The Techeuns themselves were once scattered across the Lines in kind. Guardians were there to guide them home, and we can secure the clutch using the same strategy. Riven has caused so much strife... and yet we prostrate ourselves to placate her once again. And too many Corsairs will die on this quest to give the Ahamkara a second chance. As I said, we once utilized the Ley Lines to find lost Techeuns. We can use them again. Fight your way into the Blind Well and reroute the Lines through Riven's Lair. We'll prepare landings for the clutch as best we can.

Petra briefs you on the Techeuns' findings: the eggs have been cast adrift on the Ley Lines of the Ascendant Plane, and now orbit your reality like comets around a sun.

The Techeuns don't know how the eggs were cast into the Ley Lines, but the Techeuns' knowledge allows them to predict each egg's trajectory.

Just as Guardians once aligned the Ley Lines to find Mara's lost Teacheuns, you must use the Blind Well and reroute the Ley Lines through Riven's Lair to "catch" the eggs as they get close to your reality.

Notes

The Guardian receives a Charge of Light—Tier II, Charge of Light—Tier III, and an Unstable Charge of Light.

Step 4

Move the Ley Lines into position by completing the Blind Well activity in the Dreaming City.

• Complete Blind Well runs in the Dreaming City. Higher-tier completions reward additional progress.
  • Progress: X%

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The Guardian begins to calibrate the Blind Well.

• Petra Venj: Charge the wells, and we can adjust the Ley Lines. With any luck, that'll put Riven's egg within reach.

The Guardian completes Blind Well calibrations.

• Petra Venj: Nicely done. I'll handle the final calibrations from here. Come on back. We’ve got an egg to chase down.

Step 5

With the Ley Lines in position, enter Riven's Lair to recover an egg.

• Complete the mission "Polysemy" and retrieve Riven's egg.
  • "Polysemy" completed: 0/1

Notes

See Polysemy mission for transcript.

Step 6

Mara, still reluctant to trust Riven, seeks alternate solutions from Osiris.

• Listen to Mara and Osiris in the H.E.L.M.
  • Mara and Osiris's conversation observed: 0/1

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In the sublevel of the Wing of the Wish, Mara Sov ponders the hologram of the Veil on the table.

• Queen Mara Sov: Tell me, Guardian, does helping Riven sit with you as it does me? She's a blade held in our hand. Held too tightly — or trusted not to slip — and it will draw blood.

Osiris transmats in.

• Osiris: Airing your concerns to the Guardian as well? Doubt is a useful tool, Queen Mara, but double-edged, is it not?
• Queen Mara Sov: This wish was crafted by Savathûn. Riven cannot be trusted with it. Has the Veil offered any answers?
• Osiris: My study has yielded many interesting curiosities. I understand how the Witness opened the Traveler, but not yet how to replicate it. I need more time.
• Queen Mara Sov: I wish we had more, if you'll pardon the phrase. Time would allow me to insulate us from Riven's ulterior motives. But we've left the Witness undisturbed for too long. We must act.
• Osiris: Risk is a thing I've learned should be managed, not provoked.
• Queen Mara Sov: Riven is risk incarnate.
• Osiris: To follow the Witness, I must reconstruct the bridge it forged through the Guardian's Ghost. But the Veil is not a docile subject. Abuse it, and a similar fate suffered by the Dreaming City could repeat on Neomuna.
• Queen Mara Sov: So we bide our time, while you seek an answer. Until then... We have a dragon to charm.

Step 7

You have acquired the first Ahamkara egg, but there is still more to accomplish.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: Back from scheming with Mara, are you? Fear not, O Guardian mine. I hold no contempt for those who prepare... contingencies. In fact, that is what I respect most about Mara. She is wise not to trust me, as I have never trusted her. For ages, Awoken and Ahamkara were both allies and adversaries, each seeking to extract a victory from the other. That is the nature of all bargains: to relinquish as little as possible while securing all you desire. Our bargain is no different. It is not built on trust, but on the knowledge that upholding it will benefit us both... And that breaking it will result in more suffering than you can imagine. We must wait for another egg to drift across the Ley Lines and re-enter our reality. Continue securing my lair until then. Those who trespass within it have nothing to bargain with, and are thus of no use to me. You would do well to keep that in mind.

For ages, the Reef and the Ahamkara were both allies and adversaries, keeping a watchful eye on each other.

Riven is aware that Mara does not trust her, and maintains that it's wise not to do so. SHe doesn't trust Mara either. YOu have struck a bargain, and nothing more.

Riven encourages you to clear out the combatants from within her lair while waiting for the next egg's orbit.

Notes

The Guardian receives Supercluster.

Step 8

Mara's Techeuns continue to calculate the trajectory of Riven's clutch as they move between realities.
Buy them time by continuing to defend Riven's Lair against incursions.

• Mara Sov will call upon you once the Techeuns have calculated the location of another Ahamkara egg. Until then, continue to defend Riven's Lair against trespassers.

Step 9

Riven eagerly awaits your arrival, so that she can deliver good news.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: A timely arrival, Guardian. Another egg from my clutch will soon pass by our reality. You should prepare to claim it. It is a strange turn of events that they were cast into the Ascendant Plane. Strange... but not unintentional, I suspect. Ask yourself: who would benefit from such a situation? Who wields the requisite mastery over the Ley Lines? Who has a history of sequestering the Ahamkara to keep them hidden? I said before that I do not trust Mara Sov. Tell me... do you? She offers you praise and gifts. Bequeaths to you a share of her power. Is she so different from an Ahamkara? From me? Do you truly believe she wishes for nothing in return? Know this, Guardian: I have been forthright about what I stand to gain from our arrangement... a future for my otherwise extinct kind. Mara, on the other hand... what does SHE stand to gain?

Riven welcomes you back to the Dreaming City and bids you to delve into her lair once more, as another egg will soon pass within the reach of your reality.

She insists that it was not by her doing that the eggs have been scattered across the Ascendant Plane. Riven asks you to consider who might stand to gain from such a development—and insinuates that Queen Mara would be motivated to keep the eggs hidden.

Step 10

Delve back into Riven's Lair and retrieve a second egg.

• Complete the mission "Tautology" in Riven's Lair.
  • "Tautology" completed: 0/1

Notes

See Tautology mission for transcript.

Step 11

Before any more eggs can be retrieved, Petra has a task for you.

• Speak with Petra at the holoprojector.
  • Holoprojector visited: 0/1

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Petra Venj appears on the Wing of the Wish’s holoprojector.

• Petra Venj: You've made excellent progress, but the remainder of the clutch will never reach us if they remain on their current trajectories. Queen Mara and her Techeuns once communed with the Harbingers, entities that can traverse the weft and weave of the Ley Lines. Mara's personal Harbinger can bring the clutch home. But she'll need to guide it with a signal. We need you to retrieve a Starlight Lodestone. It's a channeling medium the queen can use to signal the Harbinger. All this to help Riven while the dreaming halls remain locked in her curse... The temporal loop that bonds the Dreaming City could continue to plague the Reef indefinitely. I wish my people could rest. I wish I could aid the trapped Corsairs across our shores. But Riven's curse is just a preamble compared to the final shape. The Witness seeks to finish what it started with the Collapse. And so we remain occupied... and Rheasilvia burns. I regret we can do no more to advance your position in the field. But I'll be in touch as soon as the queen finishes her communion.

Petra reports that the plan is working, but the remaining eggs won't pass as close to your reality for quite some time. Mara has a plan to address that, but the Techeuns need to prepare a special reagent for her first: a Starlight Lodestone, located within the Chamber of Starlight in the Dreaming City.

Petra goes on to lament the state of the Dreaming City, likening it to the final shape.

With the Witness so close to achieving its goals, your priority must remain to secure the eggs as soon as they enter your reality.

Step 12

The Techeuns require a Starlight Lodestone, acquired from within the Chamber of Starlight.

• Complete the Chamber of Starlight Lost Sector in the Dreaming City.
  • Chamber of Starlight Lost Sector completed: 0/1

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The Guardian enters the Chamber of Starlight.

• Petra Venj: How many ceremonies did I attend here? They weren't all lofty, serious affairs. The lights, the singing... It was beautiful, once.

The Guardian completes the Lost Sector, and acquires a Starlight Lodestone.

• Petra Venj: Inkasi is slain... until she rises again. She'll go on haunting the Chamber of Starlight forever. Shuro Chi says, "If beautiful places cannot survive, why fight at all?" I'll have to come up with an answer for her. Bring back the Lodestone, Guardian. Let's move on.

Step 13

Crow and Petra are grappling with the current situation.

• Meet with Crow and Petra.
  • Crow and Petra's discussion observed: 0/1

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• The Crow: So this is what, the third bargain we've struck with a compulsive liar?
• Petra Venj: Having your back to the wall is never a good feeling.
• The Crow: It's so much worse, being back in the Dreaming City.
• Petra Venj: Now that you remember?
• The Crow: I know every inch of it. The gardens, the palace... How it used to be — before Riven's curse.
• Petra Venj: Uld—

Petra stops herself.

• Petra Venj: Crow.
• The Crow: If it wasn't for me, the curse would never have happened.
• Petra Venj: Riven used you. Used us. Our grief, our desperation. I wanted vengeance more than anything. [sighs] The truth is, if I thought hiding from my guilt would help anyone, I'd be on the far side of the system.
• The Crow: Hmph... You don't think we're just making the same mistake?
• Petra Venj: Uldren used to say, “If you don't like the odds, don't sit at the table.” Trusting Riven is a risk. But without her, we have no way of pursuing the Witness. I'd rather risk failing than wait here for the final shape.
• The Crow: Right there with you.

Step 14

Osiris has an update on his investigations of the Veil.

• Speak with Osiris at the holoprojector.
  • Holoprojector visited: 0/1

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Osiris appears on the Wing of the Wish’s holoprojector.

• Osiris: Guardian, we are coming to the final moments. These choices, these risks... They mean everything. Mara requests I provide some small... measure of insurance should Riven prove too perilous a gamble. I've learned the Veil is linked to the Traveler. That this link was not created. It is a primal truth of their existence, er... a pairing. The Witness accessed this link through your Ghost. The motions of what it did are written in the Veil's own memory. But like an incantation, without the ritual, the understanding — the words, so to speak — the motions are useless. My attempts to recreate what the Witness did, to follow it, have been... inadequate. And dangerous. I — I must temper my ambitions. The Veil is the power of consciousness, made manifest in our physical world. It whispers an electromagnetic language that resonates with our minds... One that can be deciphered, but not by the laws we wield in this universe. Ah, it's no easy task. If there is another way to follow the Witness, I'll find it here, on Neptune. It will take time, as all things do. Continue to aid Mara, and I will uncover what knowledge I can.

Osiris provides you with an update on his investigations of the Veil.

His attempts to find a way through the portal continue to be unsuccessful, though he's gained more insight into its connection to the Traveler, and thus the connection between Light and Darkness.

He's been able to determine how the Veil opened the way to the Pale Heart within the Traveler, but has yet to determine a way to replicate that effect.

Step 15

Riven wishes to discuss your progress.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: Another egg safely retrieved. I may have to make good on my word. Though from what Techeuns whisper, the rest will prove... more elusive. Mara may have to take drastic measures to catch them. All reward requires risk. Mara knows this truth better than most. That is what first enticed me to stay with the Sov siblings. Their penchant for adventure... their unquenchable ambition... Each of them deliciously reckless in their own way. Your Crow hides it well, but I can still smell Uldren’s daring nature on him. Imagine what he could accomplish if only he'd embrace it. Ah, but you... you charge headlong into danger without a second thought. All for the promise of power. I knew from the first moment I set eyes on a Lightbearer that your kind would change everything for the Ahamkara. And oh... how right I was.

"Another egg safely retrieved. I may have to make good on my word."

Riven commends you on securing another egg. She reflects on her early days with Mara and Uldren, and admits she admired thier daring natures.

She sees Guardians as similarly driven to enormous risks by the allure of power.

"I know from the first momemnt I set eyes on a Lightbearer that your kind would change everything for the Ahamkara."

For now, change must wait—until the Techeuns have located the remaining eggs.

Notes

The Guardian receives Lethophobia.

Step 16

Mara's Techeuns continue to calculate the trajectory of Riven's clutch as they move between realities.
Buy them time by continuing to defend Riven's Lair against incursions.

• Mara Sov will call upon you once the Techeuns have calculated the location of another Ahamkara egg. Until then, continue to defend Riven's Lair against trespassers.

Step 17

Riven has another lead for you.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: You've returned. Would that the queen's witches had your punctuality, O warden mine. The Techeuns have started work on the Lodestone. But they can't finish it without help. I would love to find amusement in their inadequacy — make a meal of it. However... The task of helping those who can't help themselves has fallen on your shoulders again. Something of the Ahamkara in you, perhaps? The lodestone must be attuned to the Confluence. Like teaching a compass where north lies. I've simplified, of course. For your sake. The calibration will take some time. Should I pray for you to make it out alive?

Riven welcomes you back.

"The Techeuns have started work on the Lodestone. But they can't finish it without help."

"The task of helping those who can't help themselves has fallen on your shoulders again. Something of the Ahamkara in you, perhaps?"

Riven suggests that you delve into The Coil so that the Techeuns can finalize thier preparations for the Startlight Lodestone.

Step 18

Delve into The Coil to finish preparing the Starlight Lodestone.

• Calibrate the Starlight Lodestone by completing pathways and collecting Wishing Glass Shards as a fireteam in The Coil.

Find Wishing Glass Shards by defeating combatants, destroying pots, and opening hidden chests.

• • Starlight Lodestone calibration: X%

Notes

See The Coil activity for transcript.

Step 19

With the Lodestone attuned, Petra has an additional task for you.

• Speak with Petra at the holoprojector.
  • Holoprojector visited: 0/1

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Petra Venj appears on the Wing of the Wish’s holoprojector.

• Petra Venj: The Techeuns are in final preparations for the Lodestone. Your work in its calibration was invaluable. It will serve as a beacon for the queen to make contact with her personal Harbinger. She'll commune with it — ask it to guide the remainder of the clutch back to us. It's the last of its kind... and it's good to see a Harbinger, normally a weapon of war, used for diplomacy. Even with Riven. In the past, the pinnacle of the Spine of Keres provided the open sky the queen needed for this communion. It will suffice again. But the Taken contest that region, as they have since Riven’s curse rang out. They will hinder your every step. So cut through them. Secure the spine, and the queen will do the rest.

Petra gives you a grateful nod.

"The Techeuns are in final preparations for the Lodestone. Your work in its calibration was invaluable."

"It will serve as a beacon for the queen to make contact with her personal Harbinger. She'll commune with it—ask it to guide the remainder of the clutch back to us."

Petra grows reflective. "It's the last of its kind... and it's good to see a Harbinger, normally a weapon of war, used for diplomacy. Even with Riven."

"In the past, the pinnacle of the Spire of Keres provided the open sky the queen needed for this communion. It will suffice again."

Petra warns you that the Taken will hinder your every step.

"So cut through them, secure the Spine, and the queen will do the rest."

Step 20

Petra has sent you to the Spine of Keres, where the Oracle Engine awaits.

• Complete "The Oracle Engine" mission in the Spire of Keres to facilitate communion with the Harbinger.
  • "The Oracle Engine" mission completed: 0/1

Notes

See Oracle Engine (Wishing All the Best) mission for transcript.

Step 21

Mara's Harbinger is guiding the clutch within reach. Now is your opportunity to save another of Riven's eggs.

• Complete the mission "Enthymeme."
  • "Enthymeme" completed: 0/1

Notes

See Enthymeme mission for transcript.

Step 22

Riven's appearance must be challenging for Crow. He and Mara need a chance to talk things out.

• Observe the exchange in the H.E.L.M.
  • Mara and Crow observed: 0/1

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• Queen Mara Sov: I heard you over the comm channels. I... am sorry that we are forced to entreat with Riven. She and I have our own histories to navigate, but what she did to you... how she wormed her way into your mind... That was inexcusable. It pains me to put you through this.
• The Crow: Even after all that's happened, you still think I need to be protected.
• Queen Mara Sov: No, that is not —
• The Crow: It's all right, Mara. I understand. We've always shared a connection. Even when you were lost in the Ascendant Plane, I could still feel your presence. Your heartbeat. I knew you weren't truly gone... Riven was only able to manipulate me because of how strong our connection was... Is. I've made choices I'm not proud of. But I'll never apologize for the reason I made them. It's the same reason you reach out even now, when — when you see me struggling. You're my sister. Nothing can break that bond. Not death. Not Riven... Not even the Light.
• Queen Mara Sov: Like Ager and Rega, finding each other in the storm.
• The Crow: Heh. Yeah, well... All that we've been through... that's no fable. We stood together as the world collapsed around us.
• Queen Mara Sov: And we'll stand together again.

Step 23

Osiris has an update to give on his investigations into the Veil.

• Speak with Osiris at the holoprojector.
  • Holoprojector visited: 0/1

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Osiris appears on the Wing of the Wish’s holoprojector.

• Osiris: Guardian, I'm afraid progress is slow. The Veil is a clever tangle in and of itself. It reforms as the consciousnesses connected to it ebb and flow. They rush in, awash with dreams and wonder, and then drain away. I believed that once I understood the Veil—mechanically—once I understood Strand, that I would see its patterns with new clarity. That has not happened. This is not like charting a course through the currents of a sea or the depths of space. It is an architecture defined by how we intend to imagine it. Not dissimilar to the Ascendant Plane... but if more like its opposite. The Ascendant Plane mirrors aspects of our world, aspects of will and import to those who traverse it. Those aspects are decided upon through our actions. The Veil, conversely, weaves not with our will, not our decisions, but with intent, unfiltered by logic. What we feel, not what we decide. Mapping such a thing would be like... rebuilding a creature from the calcified remains we’ve found aboard the Pyramid ships. They are an image of a dissection. A deadened echo of existence. But to look at them as they are, to see their disparate parts... even understanding their anatomy does not give us the knowledge to make them as they were. I will continue to seek the path the Witness forged into the Traveler, but I am... no longer confident that it could ever be walked again. Riven may be our only option.

Osiris admits some frustration.

"Guardian, I'm afriad progress is slow..."

"I believed that once I understood the Veil—mechanically—once I understood Strand, that I would see its patterns with new clarity."

"That has not happened. This is not like charting a course through the currents of a sea or the depths of space."

Osiris explains that the Veil's effects exhibit some similarity to the Ascendant Plane. "The Ascendant Plane mirrors aspects of our world, aspects of will and import to those who traverse it..."

"The Veil, conversely, weaves not with our will, not our decisions, but with intent, unfiltered by logic. What we feel, not what we decide."

The complex nature of charting such an abstract and mutable space has shaken Osiris's confidence. "I will continue to seek the path the Witness forged into the Traveler, but I am... no longer confident that it could ever be walked again."

"Riven may be our only option."

Step 24

Riven has her own perspective on the Sov siblings.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: So many wish to be closer with their family. The absent and the estranged cause rifts in a person's psyche. I hear them even now: “Let me speak to my father again, one last time.” “Let my daughter see me for who I am.” One of the stranger human impulses, don't you find? Above all, Ahamkara want to feed. To drink deep of the gulf between desire and reality. Other Ahamkara are competitors for limited resources, not allies. The only exception... is a mate. Sometimes, we reach beyond ourselves. Perhaps if we stood by one another more, we'd have survived the Great Hunt. If we were a little more... Human. But that bargain is not within our natures to make.

"So many wish to be closer with their family," Riven observes. "The absent and the estranged cause rifts in a person's psyche. I hear them even now: 'Let me speak to my father again, one last time.' 'Let my daughter see me for who I am.' One of the stranger human impulses, don't you find?"

She explains that things are different among the Ahamkara.

"Above all, Ahamkara want to feed. To drink deep of the gulf between desire and reality. Other Ahamkara are competitors for limited resources, not allies."

But there are exceptions, even among her kind. "A mate. Sometimes, we reach beyond ourselves."

"Perhaps if we stood by one another more, we'd have survived the Great Hunt. If we were a little more... Human. But that bargain is not within our natures to make."

Notes

The Guardian receives Scatter Signal.

Step 25

Mara's Techeuns continue to calculate the trajectory of Riven's clutch as they move between realities.
Buy them time by continuing to defend Riven's Lair against incursions.

• Mara Sov will call upon you once the Techeuns have calculated the location of another Ahamkara egg. Until then, continue to defend Riven's Lair against trespassers.

Step 26

Riven has another lead for you.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: You return again, Guardian. And so does another egg from my clutch. It seems Mara’s Harbinger has succeeded in pulling it close enough for you to catch... How convenient. Though it would have been far more convenient for them not to have been scattered at all. I have never taken Mara at her word. But she is not a fool. Had she been the one to set my eggs adrift, then she would have devised an easier way to retrieve them. One that requires less... risk. But if Mara was not the one responsible, then who was? And what did they stand to gain from it? Manipulating the Ley Lines like this reeks of paracausal magic — an Ahamkara’s doing. Someone wished for this. And when I find out who it was... ...Then I will feast.

Another one of Riven's eggs is making an approach. Riven now believes the culprit was someone other than Mara.

"Had she been the one to set my eggs adrift, then she would have devised an easier way to retrieve them. One that requires less... risk," Riven says.

"But if Mara was not the one responsible, then who was? And what did they stand to gain from it?"

Riven is furious at the thought that this might be another Ahamkara's doing.

Someone wished for this. And when I find out who it was," Riven promises, "then I will feast."

Step 27

Another egg is making an approach. It's time to enter Riven's Lair and bring it home.

• Complete the mission "Apophasis."
  • "Apophasis" completed: 0/1

Notes

See Apophasis mission for transcript.

Step 28

The Vex stole away the egg before it could be secured, but Crow thinks he's got a lead on where they've brought it.

• Speak with Crow in the H.E.L.M.
  • Crow visited: 0/1

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• The Crow: Hey, Guardian. The Vex may have snuck in ahead of us, but we're not out of the race yet. Osiris thinks that a Vex mind must have figured out how to simulate the Techeuns. So long as they have access to those algorithms, the Vex can track the eggs, same as we can. So... we'll just have to steal them back. I managed to pick up the trail. Looks like the Sol Divisive tucked the egg away in the Black Garden. Lucky for us, that's familiar territory. I remember how to get in. All we need is the head of a Vex Gate Lord... Kidding. [chuckles] Turns out Riven had her own path into the Garden. You'll have to get in there and put that Vex mind out of commission. I'll be on comms, keeping an eye on the tracking signal. And watching your back, of course.

"Hey, Guardian," says Crow. "The Vex may have snuck in ahead of us, but we're not out of the race yet."

Osiris has hypothesized that the Vex have simulated the Techeuns to build an algorithm that can trace the eggs just as well as the real Techeuns.

Crow's picked up the trail to the lost egg, and it's leading right to the Black Garden.

"Lucky for us, that's familiar territory. I remember how to get in."

Crow will guide you over comms as you enter the Black Garden and rescur Riven's egg.

Step 29

Crow's tracked the egg to the Black Garden. Crow's been there before, and he'll serve as guide for the journey.

• Complete the Exotic mission "Starcrossed."
  • "Starcrossed" completed: 0/1

Notes

See Starcrossed mission for transcript.

Step 30

Riven has been reminded of Taranis, and of the risks of an Ahamkara granting their own wish.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: Taranis was always a sentimental fool. His last wish has caused us no small amount of trouble. All wishes come at a cost. Even those we Ahamkara grant ourselves. Especially those we grant ourselves. My kind feeds on the difference between “what is desired” and “what comes to pass”. That is why we grant wishes the way we do. In granting our own wish, we eliminate that difference. We smother the flame and our voices fall silent. Our existence ends. Ahamkara are selfish creatures, not prone to such acts of sacrifice. But Taranis... He was different. His sacrifice might save us all. You destroyed the Vex mind simulating the Techeuns’ work. The Vex will not reach the eggs first again. But they still hold my lair. Put Taranis’ gift to good use, O Guardian mine. It is your turn to grant a last wish.

Riven thinks back to Taranis, her lost mate. It was his wish that scattered their clutch to safety, beyond even Riven's reach.

But, Riven adds, Taranis paid for that wish. "My kind feeds on the difference between 'what is desired' and 'what comes to pass.' That is why we grant wishes the way we do. In granting our own wish, we eliminate that difference."

An Ahamkara who grants their own wish dies. Taranis sacrificed himself for his children: an unusual move for an Ahamkara.

Riven suggests you go return to the Vex-infested Garden. "Put Taranis's gift to good use..." she says, "It is your turn to grant a last wish."

Notes

The Guardian receives a Wish Engram.

Step 31

Mara's Techeuns continue to calculate the trajectory of Riven's clutch as they move between realities.
Buy them time by continuing to defend Riven's Lair against incursions.

• Mara Sov will call upon you once the Techeuns have calculated the location of another Ahamkara egg. Until then, continue to defend Riven's Lair against trespassers.

Step 32

Riven summons you back to her side on an urgent matter.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: Something is wrong. Its stench lingers in the air, wafting up from the shadows of the Confluence. I remember this sensation. The creeping whispers, putrid oil on water. Taken corruption seeps into my lair, as it once did into me. Mara’s Techeuns expect another egg will enter our reality soon. Cut the strings of those Taken puppets as you traverse the Confluence. As I said before, Oryx’s bargain with me has expired. I owe him nothing. The same holds true for the Witness. If it seeks to take something from me without reaching an accord... ...Then I will reclaim what is mine with vengeance in my heart. Make haste. Reach my offspring before the Taken. Taranis’s sacrifice must not have been made in vain.

"Something is wrong," says Riven.

Taken corruption has seeped into the Confluence. It's a sensation she knows well, thanks to the deal she once made with Oryx, the Taken King.

Another egg is about to appear. "Make haste. Reach my offspring before the Taken," Riven says. And more softly: "Taranis's sacrifice must not have been made in vain."

Step 33

Taken corruption is seeping into the Confluence from a breach in Eleusinia.

• Complete the mission "Synchysis."
  • "Synchysis" completed: 0/1

Notes

See Synchysis mission for transcript.

Step 34

The egg has been corrupted, but Mara has an idea for how it might be cleansed.

• Speak with Mara Sov in the H.E.L.M.
  • Mara Sov visited: 0/1

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• Queen Mara Sov: I have no love for Riven, and no complete trust of an Ahamkara's predatory nature. But we need that final wish fulfilled. A bargain with Riven cannot be altered, perhaps not even by her, and we owe her all of the clutch. Guardians have freed Techeuns from Taken influence before. The effort and circumstances were extraordinary, but perhaps it can be done again. In our war with the Taken in the dreaming halls, we found that Taken ontology, when faced with itself, feeds on itself. Following that principle, you should be able to find a coalescence of Taken essentia in the Ascendant realm. Theoretically, we could use it to cleanse the egg. That's all the strategy I can offer you, I'm afraid. Your tenacity in this is appreciated, and appropriate. If we fail here, Riven loses an egg; but we lose our path to the Witness, and all roads thereafter.

Mara cautions that the corrupted egg is in great danger, but there is a chance it can be saved. Three of her own Techeuns previously were cleansed of corruption.

"The effort and circumstances were extraordinary, but perhaps it can be done again."

Taken corruption feeds on itself. With luck, you may be able to find an object in the Ascendant Plane that can eat the egg's corruption and leave the egg whole.

Mara ends with a grim reminder: "If we fail here, Riven loses an egg; but we lose our path to the Witness, and all roads thereafter."

Notes

The Guardian receives a Tincture of Queensfoil.

Step 35

Mara directs you to the Ascendant Plane to find a coalescence of Taken essentia, which could be used to cleanse the egg.

• Complete an Ascendant Challenge.

You must be Ascendant to see and enter the Ascendant Challenge portal. Consume a Tincture of Queensfoil to become Ascendant for 30 minutes.

Petra Venj keeps a stock of Tinctures on hand for situations like these.

• Ascendant Challenge completed: 0/1

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The Guardian completes an Ascendant Challenge, and acquires a Coalescence of Taken Essentia.

• Queen Mara Sov: You have it? Yes, I can sense the recurrent hunger collapsing in on itself. If left alone, do you think a corrupted egg would produce a whim like Riven? Would it retain control of itself... or would it be a beast whose hunger could never be satiated? And is there any difference between the two? Petra is waiting. Meet her, and let us placate the dragon in our midst.

Step 36

With the Taken essentia in hand, it's time to return to Petra.

• Speak with Petra at the holoprojector.
  • Holoprojector visited: 0/1

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Petra Venj appears on the Wing of the Wish’s holoprojector.

• Petra Venj: Shuro Chi and the others have made good use of the Taken essentia you obtained. The spell to cleanse the egg has been prepared, but it requires paracausal fuel to ignite. Riven could provide us with the spark herself, but we can't trust her not to take advantage. In her current state, she might be unable to, even if she won't admit it. I’d take it myself, but I've hurled expletives at its mother and made too many wishes out loud during this operation. For all we know, that's how the Great Hunt was begun. Instead, you could allow the egg to feed on your desire, as a catalyst to jump-start the spell. It should be perfectly safe — this Ahamkara is not yet born. You're not making a true bargain. And we have no other choices. Head to Riven's Lair and focus on what you crave of the outcome. Let's hope we don't end up with another curse.

Petra has an update on the Taken essentia you've collected. The Techeuns have made good use of it, but they need one last thing to ignite their spell: a spark of wish magic.

"Riven could provide us with a spark herself," Petra says. "But we can't trust her not to take advantage."

Petra suggests that the safest way to get that spark would be for you to allow the egg to feed on your desire.

"Head to Riven's Lair and focus on what you crave of the outcome," Petra says. "Let's hope we don't end up with another curse."

Step 37

Enter Riven's Lair to gather paracausal energy to cleanse the egg.

• Complete pathways in Riven's Lair or The Coil to cleanse the egg.
  • Pathways complete: X%

Notes

See Riven's Lair (Cleansing the Egg) activity for transcript.

Step 38

Riven, Mara, and Osiris are discussing the path to the Witness. It would be good to listen in.

• When theories change, plans must change with them. Riven is about to discuss one such change with Mara and Osiris.
  • Conversation with Riven observed: 0/1

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Mara and Osiris stand in front of the Spirit of Riven.

• Osiris: I've ascertained the path the Witness took, but the Veil alone cannot safely reconstruct it.
• Queen Mara Sov: What stops you?
• Osiris: Instability. The Veil traces the shape of our consciousness, but that shifts as fluidly as our thoughts do. It is as though we alter the path by observing it. None would survive the crossing.
• Riven: I can grant passage. Savathûn’s wish can weave the Ley Lines into the Veil — entangle them, for a moment. But you will not send an army on the wings of a wish. Only one.

Angered, Mara steps towards Riven.

• Queen Mara Sov: One? Explain. This. Deception.
• Riven: You've done me a great many services, O wardens mine. I'll grant you the ultimate Ahamkara courtesy: the complete truth. Savathûn’s wish grants one singular passage. No more.
• Queen Mara Sov: You knew from the beginning. You sought to twist our aspirations, as your kind always does!
• Riven: How many of my clutch would you have saved, had you been privy to the limitations of our arrangement?
• Queen Mara Sov: Play your part, lest I shape you into a trinket of caged hunger to be forgotten in the Guardian's vault!
• Riven: I am your helpless prisoner. What other part would you wish I play? I cannot change Savathûn’s intent.
• Queen Mara Sov: Then what use are you to me?

Mara draws on her power, threatening Riven.
Osiris intercepts Mara grasp her arms with Strand.

• Osiris: [strains] Mara? One... may be all we need.
• Riven: I am being transparent. Kind, even. It could always be worse... as you know.
• Osiris: This is our only way to pursue the Witness.

Mara breaks free of Osiris’s Strands with her power.

• Queen Mara Sov: One to send...

Mara transmats out.

• Osiris: [sighs in relief] Curious. This... simplifies things. What if... yes! Guardian, excuse me, I believe I'm... I’m onto something.

Osiris transmat out.

Step 39

Osiris has an update on his research into the Witness that he is eager to share.

• Speak with Osiris at the holoprojector.
  • Holoprojector visited: 0/1

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Osiris appears on the Wing of the Wish’s holoprojector.

• Osiris: One to send, she said. I believe the Witness had found a point of weakness, and exploited that point to pierce the Traveler's defenses. But the Witness did not gain entrance through an attack. It parried. There was no need to breach a door, because through the Traveler's resistance, the way was left open. Its blast was meant to expel, but the Witness redirected the flow of that intent with its own, using the Veil. If Riven can imprint the Ley Lines into the Veil, send one of our own to the other side without invitation... We can open the door. Once open, Guardian, the path to it matters not... only that we're now able to cross the threshold. The Veil will flow to that point around any obstacle. I told you I was on to something. It sounds simple in retrospect, to use the Ley Lines as means of travel, as we have before. But they do not touch the Traveler, nor the Veil, and not even Mara can command them to do so. It may seem as though Riven promises more than is possible... but that is the foundation of a wish. We must yield to our disbelief and give ourselves over to chance. In that unknown venture — in discovery — the path forward is revealed. One egg remains. Then all our integument risks, our layered debts to this cause... finally, their worth will be realized.

Osiris has come upon a revelation.

When the Witness entered the Traveler, it did so by redirecting the Traveler's own power against itself while using the Veil. He believes he can put the Veil to a similar, if less destructive, use.

"If Riven can imprint the Ley Lines into the Veil, and send one of our own to the other side... we can open the door."

Many long weeks of constant research have paid off. Osiris believes there is a way to follow Crow through the portal—and urges us to keep going.

"We must yield in our disbelief, and give ourselves over to chance. In that unknown venture, in discovery, the path forward is revealed."

For now, one egg remains.

Step 40

Riven is ready to admit some reluctant gratitude.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: Thanks to Mara’s efforts, the egg was cleansed of its corruption and saved. The irony is not lost on me. I suppose I should thank her, though she may not be... receptive to my gratitude at the moment. Mara will soon recognize that it was a gift for me to divulge what I did now, rather than when the wish is made. Perhaps she already has. Even an Ahamkara’s power has its limits. It is beyond my ability to alter the path that the Witness opened. Savathûn knew this, which is why she crafted her wish to make use of the Ley Lines instead. Always so clever, that one. And the Witness... it's ambition knows no equal. This “final shape” that it seeks is not unlike a wish itself... One that would forever erase the difference between desire and reality. Anathema to my kind. I will not have my progeny suffer such an existence. Continue securing my lair and gathering my clutch. Mara was right about one thing. Like with the portal, I cannot alter the terms of our bargain. Collect ALL of the eggs, or the wish cannot be granted. Even if I desire it.

Riven begrudgingly admits she's grateful to Mara for finding a way to save her egg.

Perhaps Mara will learn to be grateful that Riven didn't wait till the last moment to reveal only one person may enter the portal to the Witness.

"Even an Ahamkara's power has its limits. It is beyond my ability to alter the path that the Witness openeed," she admits.

The final shape that the Witness seeks would eliminate the difference between reality and desire: death to any Ahamkara. "I will not have my progeny suffer such an existence," Riven says.

Collect ALL of the eggs, or the wish cannot be granted. Even if I desire it."

Notes

The Guardian receives Doomed Petitioner.

Step 41

Mara's Techeuns continue to calculate the trajectory of Riven's clutch as they move between realities.
Buy them time by continuing to defend Riven's Lair against incursions.

• Mara Sov will call upon you once the Techeuns have calculated the location of another Ahamkara egg. Until then, continue to defend Riven's Lair against trespassers.

Step 42

The final egg has been located, but it can't be reached without preparation.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: The Techeuns have determined the trajectory of my final egg. It won't be within our reach for some time. A fortunate delay, according to Petra. She and the Techeuns have... a plan. Guardians complain of the nature of Ahamkara, that we hoard secrets like you hoard weapons. Then you understand us. Why demand a river flow uphill? We all have our settled natures. This is an Ahamkara’s. Once, it was Queen Mara’s. She's been working to change herself. Altering the river's course. I'm forced to trust this new Mara, despite what I am. As are you, despite what you are. You and I will see where the river flows.

The Techeuns have determined where the final egg is going to arrive, but it won't get there for some time.

Riven is frustrated by the delay, and by general misunderstandings of Ahamkara.

"Guardians complain of the nature of Ahamkara, that we hoard secrets like you hoard weapons. Then you understand us. Why demand a river flow uphill?"

Mara once shared that nature, but she has been working to change herself. You and Riven both have no choice but to trust her, just as you and Mara have no choice but to trust Riven.

And, Riven says, "You and I will see where the river flows."

Step 43

Only one person can go through the portal to the Witness. But Crow's got an idea on how to handle that, if you're willing to listen.

• Speak with Crow in the H.E.L.M.
  • Crow visited: 0/1

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• The Crow: Guardian I'm glad you're here. I've been thinking about what Riven said. If we have to pin all our hopes on a single person, there's one obvious choice. But... I think I have a better idea. Now, hear me out. If you go through the portal, there's no way we can send anyone in after you. You'd be out there on your own. But Mara and I share a bond. Even across the Ascendant Plane, I can always sense where she is. And the same goes for her. So... let me do it. If I go through the portal, Mara can use our connection to guide everyone through to... well... wherever I end up. I plant the beacon, and you come and kick the door down. Please, Guardian... I have to believe I was reforged in the Light for a purpose. I can do this. WE can do this. I... just have to tell Mara.

Crow's been thinking about Riven's revelation that only one person can enter the portal. And he's got a new idea to throw into the ring.

"No hear me out," he says. "If you go through the portal, there's no way we can send anyone is after you. You'd be out there on your own."

But Crow and Mara share a bond. They can find each other, even across the Ascendant Plane.

"If I go through the portal, Mara can use our connection to guide everyone through to... well... wherever I end up. I plant the beacon, and you come and kick the door down."

Firmly, Crow adds, "I can do this."

"WE can do this."

Step 44

The final egg lies in a part of the Confluence that can be reached only through the Oracle Engine, which is currently blockaded by the Vex. You'll need to take them down and restart the Engine.

• Speak with Petra at the holoprojector.
  • Holoprojector visited: 0/1

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Petra Venj appears on the Wing of the Wish’s holoprojector.

• Petra Venj: The final egg lies in the heart of the Confluence, where the queen's throne sits in the Dreaming City. It's hidden in a far corner, inaccessible except through the dormant Oracle Engine. Reactivating the engine would be trivial, if not for the Vex. We've been spending our focus on claiming eggs, while the Sol Divisive encircles our walls. Another threat to this system, and it's the Reef and its people that pay for it once again. War always comes with a cost... but every day seems to bring a new one. There's never time to rebuild. When this is done, if we're still standing, the Reef and its people come first for me. I hope I'll have your support in that. Locate the Vex Oracles preventing us from accessing the Oracle Engine. Destroy them. Then we can get on with this bargain. The Witness lies just beyond our reach.

Petra has the coordinates of the final egg. It's in the heart of the Confluence, accessible only through the Oracle Engine.

"Reactivating the Engine would be trivial, if not for the Vex."

Petra is furious at the time spent on egg hunting when her Corsairs are dying to the Vex.

"War always comes with a cost... but every day seems to bring a new one. There's never time to rebuild. When this is done, if we're still standing, the Reef and its people come first for me."

She hopes she'll have your support when that time finally comes. But for now, there are Vex Oracles that need to be taken down, so that the Oracle Enginecan start up again.

"Then," she says, "we can get on with this bargain."

Step 45

Before you can make an offering to the Oracle Engine and access the final egg, you'll have to bring it back into operational condition.
Destroy the Vex Oracles blocking access to the Oracle Engine.

• Defeat combatants and destroy Vex Oracles in the Spine of Keres, Harbinger's Seclude, and Gardens of Esila.
  • Spine of Keres restored: X%
  • Harbinger's Seclude restored: X%
  • Gardens of Esila restored: X%

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The Dreaming City

The Guardian defeats Sol Divisive Vex and their Oracles, restoring control of the Spine of Keres, Harbinger’s Seclude, and the Gardens of Esila.
The Guardian gathers Prismatic Telemetry from the fallen Vex.

Step 46

Receive an offering to the Oracle from the Blind Well to gain access to Mara's throne room and the final egg.

• Complete Blind Well runs in the Dreaming City. Higher-tier completions reward additional progress.
• Blind Well progress: X%

Step 47

The Spine of Keres holds a portal to the Queen's throne room. Meet with Mara there to discuss the final egg.

• Visit Mara's throne.
  • Mara's throne visited: 0/1

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Queen’s Court, Unknown Space

• Queen Mara Sov: How long has it been since I last set foot within these halls? An isolated throne, overlooking an endless cosmic expanse. A symbol of who I once was. Distant. Detached. Inscrutable. But as my brother has changed, so too, have I. No longer do I sow solitude and reap remorse. I choose, instead, to trust.
• Queen Mara Sov: I have no further need for this chamber. But with the Oracle Engine restored, we can reach the heart of the Confluence, and the final egg. Return for now. When the time comes, we will complete our bargain, and trust Riven to keep her word.

Step 48

Crow's ready to share his plan, but Mara and Osiris have something to say about it.

• Crow has a plan. Visit the H.E.L.M. to hear what Mara and Osiris have to say about that.
  • Conversation in H.E.L.M. observed: 0/1

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• Queen Mara Sov: Why is your first inclination ever to charge headlong into danger?
• The Crow: Because you're always keeping an eye on me.
• Queen Mara Sov: You have fallen from my sight before. I may lose you.
• Osiris: It is impossible to know the probability of success. But, er...
• The Crow: Don't give me that. This is exactly like something you’d do.
• Osiris: Yes. Queen Mara—
• Queen Mara Sov: You are not sending him, Osiris.
• Osiris: Of course! But... if he were to reach the other side... Your connection, like the Traveler and the Veil, was forged in a collision of Light and Dark. It is a — it is a tangible thing.
• Queen Mara Sov: We do not know that it would remain so! Whoever goes more than likely goes alone.
• Osiris: Our problem has always been focus. By aligning your and Crow's connection with the Veil—entangled on either side of the Traveler—I believe I can forge a bridge between you. One we could all traverse safely.
• The Crow: I'd be a flare in the Darkness for Osiris. Then we’d call in the cavalry. You could find me in the storm, sister. Tell them where to go.
• Queen Mara Sov: Do you know what you are asking?
• Osiris: The Guardian would be but a step behind him.
• Queen Mara Sov: I cannot keep you from your purpose. I cannot control this. And so... I put my trust in you. All of you. You will return to me.
• The Crow: Let's get to work.
• Osiris: How do you propose we compensate for the quantum—

Osiris and Crow transmat out.
Mara turns to the Guardian.

• Queen Mara Sov: You won't be but a step behind him... will you? Take care of him.

Step 49

Riven has her own thoughts on Crow and Mara to share.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: The queen and her brother... they impressed me. I appreciated their natures. Mara's skill in crafting wishes, her self-controlled cleverness... Uldren’s ambition—his endless struggle for a greater prize to lay at his sister's feet. Now they have reached beyond their original natures. All for “the greater good.” Altruism... it's too rich for my blood. Too risky. Such vulnerability, and for what payoff? Still, the altruists can be even more dangerous to their enemies than the ambitious. If self-preservation isn’t a concern, what can stop you? If you can't be predicted, how can you be countered? Dangerous. But that danger can be... compelling. Don't you find?

Riven admits that Queen Mara and her brother impressed her with their original natures. Mara's will and Uldren's ambition.

Now they're reaching beyond those natures for the greater good.

"Altruism... it's too rich for my blood. Too risky. Such vulnerability, and for what paypoff?" Riven asks.

Even so, altriusts can be dangerous to their enemies. "If self-preservation isn't a concern, what can stop you? If you can't be predicted, how can you be countered?"

Riven has one last question for you. "That danger can be... compelling. Don't you find?"

Notes

The Guardian receives Appetence.

Step 50

Mara's Techeuns continue to calculate the trajectory of Riven's clutch as they move between realities.
Buy them time by continuing to defend Riven's Lair against incursions.

• Mara Sov will call upon you once the Techeuns have calculated the location of another Ahamkara egg. Until then, continue to defend Riven's Lair against trespassers.

Step 51

It is time to recover the final egg. Speak to Riven via the portal in the H.E.L.M.

• Speak to Riven
  • Riven visited: 0/1

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• Riven: The time has come. Mara’s Techeuns say that the last remaining egg will soon enter the heart of the Confluence. Once it is secured, then by the terms of our bargain, I will grant Savathûn’s wish. Doing so will require a great expenditure of my power. The Techeuns will not be able to maintain my conjuring afterward. Which is to say... that the wish will be our farewell, O Guardian mine. What a strange life this has been. By Ahamkara standards, it was comfortable and luxurious. I spent my days with royalty, and my nights with my beloved. I never wanted for sustenance, for I was presented with wishes to spare. And though it was all taken from me, in the end, my murderer set me free and ensured the future of the progeny my mate and I created. Now I will sacrifice my own lingering existence to ensure your future in return. Perhaps... I am more like Taranis than I would like to admit. He always claimed I was.

Riven confirms that the time has come for you to retrieve the last remaining egg from the heart of the Confluence—and for Riven to fulfill her promise.

"Doing so will require a great expenditure of my power. The Techeuns will not be able to maintain my conjuring afterward."

"Which is to say... that the wish will be our farewell, O Guardian mine."

Riven looks about the chamber, musing about the journey that brought her here.

"What a strange life this has been."

"And though it was all Taken from me, in the end, my murderer set me free and ensured the future of the progeny my mate and I created."

"Now I will sacrifice my own lingering existence to ensure your future in return."

Riven laughs.

"Perhaps... I am more like Taranis than I would like to admit. He always claimed I was."

Step 52

The bargain you have struck with the Spirit of Riven nears completion. Venture into the heart of the Confluence and retrieve the last of the Ahamkara eggs.

• Complete the mission "Chiasmus" and retrieve the final egg.
  • "Chiasmus" completed: 0/1

Notes

See Chiasmus mission for transcript.

Step 53

With the entire clutch now safely secured, the plan can proceed. Crow has parting words for you.

• Speak with Crow in the H.E.L.M.
  • Crow visited: 0/1

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• The Crow: Riven's last clutch, plucked from the void and saved from extinction. Maybe that bodes well for the rest of us. Either way, we held up our end of the bargain. Now it's Riven's turn. Hey... [clears throat] I need to tell you something, while I have the chance. That first moment when I woke up in the Dreaming City... I was so lost. Confused. I didn't know where to go, who to trust. Everyone hated me for something I couldn't even remember. But you... you helped me find my footing. And when my memories came back, and everything made less sense than ever... you were there to see me through. You gave me the chance to walk through the Dreaming City with my head held high... ...And the courage to follow a new path. Thank you, Guardian. For everything. See you starside.

Riven's last clutch, plucked from the void and saved from extinction. Maybe that bodes well for the rest of us.

Crow remains uncertain about what the future holds—but not about his decision. He regards you seriously.

"Hey... I need to tell you something, while I have the chance.

"That first moment when I woke up in the Dreaming City... I was so lost. Confused. I didn't know where to go, who to trust. Everyone hated me for something I couldn't even remember.

"But you... you helped me find my footing. And when my memories came back, and everything made less sense than ever... you were there to see me through.

"You gave me the chance to walk through the Dreaming City with my head held high. And the courage to follow a new path.

"Thank you, Guardian. For everything. See you starside."

Step 54

All your efforts have led you here. Use the Wall of Wishes to set the wish into motion.

• Go to the Wall of Wishes to make the Fifteenth Wish.
  • Wall of Wishes visited: 0/1

Notes

See Final Words mission for transcript.

Step 55

The wish is made, Riven is no more, and Crow has begun his journey into the unknown. Mara Sov wants to speak with you about all that has transpired.

• Speak with Mara Sov in the H.E.L.M.
  • Mara Sov visited: 0/1

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• Queen Mara Sov: It's no small feat the things you've helped accomplish today. Thanks to you, and Guardians like you, Crow has grown, walked his own path. In aiding Riven's clutch, you've averted the annihilation of an entire species; provided a chance for her children to choose their own paths. We'll be there to guide them, should they... require it. Riven was never truly an ally, but common cause aligned us in a way I had not anticipated... Relying on her was a risk, true. But there was a time when the Vanguard was averse to trusting me, as well. Trust is dangerous, risky, vulnerable. But to trust is to hope, and what is life without it? It separates us from the Witness, a creature that is the death of those things — of all things. I've peered into its eclectic souls and found only nihilism. Even now, the Sol Divisive burns through the Dreaming City and the Confluence. You've granted the wish, carved a path, but battles remain before you. Expunge the Vex from the dreaming halls while Osiris prepares the Veil to forge a bridge to my brother. This will allow you to lead a strike force into the Traveler's Pale Heart and rendezvous with Crow. From there, it will be the fight of your lives. Steel yourself... You fight for all of us.

"It's no small feat, the things you've helped accomplish today."

In securing Riven's clutch, you have averted the annihilation of a species.

"Riven was never truly an ally, but common cause aligned us in a way I had not anticipated. Relying on her was a risk, true."

"But there was a time when the Vanguard was averse to trusting me as well."

"Trust is dangerous, risky, vulnerable. But to trust is to hope, and what is life without it?"

Hope, she says, is what separates us from the Witness.

"Expunge the Vex from the dreaming halls while Osiris prepares the Veil to forge a bridge to my brother. This will allow you to lead a strike force into the Traveler's Pale Heart and rendezvous with Crow."

"From there, it will be the fight of your lives. Steel yourself… You fight for all of us."

Notes

The Guardian receives a Wish Engram.

Appearance

• Destiny 2: Season of the Wish (First appearance)