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The '''Echoes''' are paracausal artifacts of [[Light]] and [[Darkness]] which emerged from the portal leading into the [[The Pale Heart|Pale Heart]] of the [[The Traveler|Traveler]] following the [[The Witness|Witness]]' defeat by the [[The Coalition|Coalition]]. They were created from the memories of the various civilizations the Witness and its [[Black Fleet|servants]] conquered during their eons-long crusade to find and subdue the Traveler, preserved in the Darkness and made real through the Light.<ref name="TJA">[https://youtu.be/-PYzMqhu3Fs Destiny 2 {{!}} The Journey Ahead]</ref>  

Upon the Witness's [[Excision|destruction]] within the Pale Heart of the Traveler, its Darkness diffused into a mist which then coalesced with the Traveler's Light, crystallizing into several objects that emerged from the portal leading to the Pale Heart.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/live/eKgp_Ivy4ds?si=cAH_7spsM_w7ytTL&t=1090 Destiny 2 - Revenant: Act 1 | Developer Livestream], '''Senior Narrative Designer Jerome Virnich''': ''"Let's start with the death of the Witness, who we thoroughly destroyed and [its] giant smokey billowing head then dissipated into a mist of Darkness which then coalesced with the Traveler's Light, crystallizing into the Echoes which fell into the Sol System."''</ref><ref>[https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/dev_insights_episode_echoes Dev Insights - Episode: Echoes]</ref>  These "Echoes" scattered across the [[Sol System]], with [[Uldren Sov|Crow]] reporting to [[Zavala]] that one was seen heading towards the area between [[Jupiter]] and [[Neptune]] at relativistic speeds, before stopping in the orbital path of [[Nessus]] while another landed in the [[Reef]], while the third echo landed in the [[Dreadnaught]].  

The Echo that landed on Nessus came into the possession of the original version of [[Maya Sundaresh]], whose consciousness had survived within the Darkness of the [[The Veil|Veil]] and escaped into the [[Vex Network]]. This Echo contained the memories of the [[Qugu]] warden [[Te'Qal]], and granted the power to compel and control other beings. Maya, styling herself as "the Conductor," used this Echo, called the [[Echo of Command]], to evolve the [[Nessian Schism|Vex]] on Nessus under her command by introducing individuality to their collective by altering their [[Radiolaria]] structure.

The Echo that landed in the Reef fell into the hands of [[Fikrul, the Fanatic|Fikrul]], who discovered that it granted him the ability to convert living [[Fallen|Eliksni]] into a new type of [[Scorn]] called [[Revenant Scorn]] by altering their [[Ether]] polarity. This particular Echo contained the memories of an unknown Eliksni singer from [[Riis]].

The Echo that landed on the [[Dreadnaught]] contained the memories of [[Oryx, the Taken King|Oryx]] in the time between his ascent to the [[Taken]] King and the birth of his children. Unlike the previous Echoes that were encountered, it was not claimed by an individual; however, the Dread leader [[The Resonant Knife, First of the Reshaped|Keit'Ehr]] would be in pursuit of the Echo itself.

File:Episode Echoes.jpg|[[Episode: Echoes]] promotional art, showing the Conductor with the '''Echo of Command'''.

File:Episode Revenant.jpg|[[Episode: Revenant]] promotional art, showing Fikrul with the '''Echo of Riis'''.

File:Episode Heresy.png|[[Episode: Heresy]] promotional art, showing the '''Echo of Navigation''' mounted on the Dreadnaught.