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The Nether
Game:	Destiny 2
Campaign:	Episode: Heresy
Player(s):	1-3
Recommended Power Level:	Activity Power Disabled
Location:	The Dreadnaught, Saturn
Enemy faction(s):	The Dread Dire Taken
Hostile race(s):	Hive Taken
Objective(s):	Journey aboard the Dreadnaught to discover secrets in the gloam.

The Nether is an episodic activity introduced in Episode: Heresy. It follows a Fireteam of Guardians as they scour through the halls of the Dreadnaught all while defeating The Dread and Dire Taken that have infiltrated it. Much like the Deep Dive and The Coil activities, The Nether follows a rogue-like formula, with each instance of the activity being different than the last, with players being able to discover and acquire boons that offer an array of effects, along with acquiring Sigil Stones and other currencies to upgrade their runes at the Shaping Slab. However, unlike most rogue-likes, The Nether is not infinite, and ends after the third round.

Overview

This activity uses revive tokens, so your revives are limited. In addition, health regeneration is disabled by default. When the activity starts, players will see a Hive console in front of them that will allow them to spend Sigil Shards to unlock runes that can be slotted in up to maximum amount of rune slots, depending on the rank of the Shaping Slab in Eris's apartment whilst walking the Path of Resolve and the Path of Ambition. Throughout the activity, you can find destructible pots, chests, and a material called Fleeting Metastasized Essentia, which will be lost if players leave the activity, but can be converted into Metastasized Essentia after defeating a final boss in the area. Some chests will require players to spend 2 Essences of Desire. Sometimes, interacting with chests, breaking pots, uncovering a secret, or defeating a high-value target will allow players to acquire a Minor Boon, a type of boon that can stack up to 10 at a time and eventually give them a scroll from the Mysterium that can permanently increase the number of stacks they can carry once they have collected enough duplicates of that Minor Boon. Players can also find secrets throughout the activity and running through the floating sigils of the Hive pantheon will play dialogue reciting a passage from the Books of Sorrow as well as the Sororicide lore book. After completing an objective within the area, players can acquire Major Boons, a type of boon that can change how players play through the activity, as well as Corrupted Boons, a type of boon that gives a penalty and a boost simultaneously. Players are only allowed to carry up to a total of 6 non-Minor Boons. After completing 3 objectives within the area, a boss fight begins and the boss is dependent on the specific area where the objectives were completed. The rewards that are earned in the activity are influenced by the active ritual within the Tome of Want. After an Act of the Episode: Heresy is completed, players can also interact with a Hive bio-computer to uncover a portal where a Scroll of Strength upgrade and entries of the Songs of Descent lore book can be unlocked while playing the Exploration mode.

The Trenchway

In this area, players are tasked with disrupting an Eversion Ritual culminating in the fight against Lezrel, Eversion Channeler. Some objectives in this area include carrying a Solar crystal to a specific location, defeating Shieldbearer Sentries, defeating Taken, and capturing a ritual circle.

The Mausoleum

In this area, players are tasked with destroying Taken clusters, culminating in the fight against Kelrosh, Spawn Keeper. Some objectives in this area include carrying a Solar crystal to a specific location, capturing Hive plates, destroying Hive eggs, and capturing a ritual circle.

The Founts

In this area, players are tasked with releasing Taken energy, culminating in the fight against Hashon of Endless Horrors. Some objectives in this area include taking the Hive relics to the statues, destroying Pyramid spikes, destroying Hive eggs, and capturing a zone.

The Hall of Souls

In this area, players are tasked with destroying the Dreadnaught's weapons, culminating in the fight against the Herald of the Weapon. Some objectives in this area include defeating Taken Wizards, interacting with Pyramid locks, collecting Pyramid shards, and capturing Hive plates.

Objectives

• Nether Depth

Embark on an exploration of the Nether.

Traverse the Dreadnaught for its secrets.

One of the following:

• Disrupt Eversion Ritual
  • Eversion ritual disrupted
    • X of 3

Defeat combatants to weaken the Eversion Ritual.

• Destroy Weapon Systems
  • Weapon disabled
    • X of 3

Defeat combatants and destroy the core bioenergetics to disable the Dreadnaught's weapon.

• Destroy Taken Clusters
  • Clusters destroyed
    • X of 3

Defeat combatants and destroy Taken clusters to clear this region.

• Release Taken Energy
  • Energy released
    • X of 3

Release the Taken energy.

On occasion:

• Destroy Pylons or WIPE
  • Pylons destroyed
    • X of 3
  • WIPE: 1:58

One of the following:

• Defeat the Tormentor
• Defeat the Subjugator

You've located the Subjugator that oversees the Dreadnaught's impossible weapon. Defeat the Subjugator.

• Defeat the Taken Cluster Keeper

Defeat the Keeper of the Taken clusters.

• Banish the Taken Entity

Banish the Taken entity.

Then

• Acquire Boons
• Collect Rewards

Transcript

"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.

Introduction

• First Mission
• Act 1
• Post-Act 1
• Week 5

First Mission

• Sloane: Guardian. The Dreadnaught's being overrun by Taken. Their influence is regenerating the ship's systems. They think they can stop you. Break through, find out what you can about the anchors, and bring Oryx's flagship to heel. Once we know more, we can formulate a plan to dismantle them. No more lost ground, no more lost friends.

The fireteam lands on the Dreadnaught.

Act 1

The fireteam lands on the Dreadnaught.

• Sloane: The Taken and Dread think this ship belongs to them. They want a new base of operations in Sol. Rip them out of the hull, every inch of it.

Or alternatively

• Drifter: Hit back, killer. Run 'em down.

Post-Act 1

The fireteam lands on the Dreadnaught.

• Echo of Navigation: My Dreadnaught tests you, heir-presumptive. Show me your sharpness.

Or alternatively

• Echo of Navigation: Heir presumptive. You have returned to my throne.

Week 5

Eris Morn: Long ago, Oryx sought the worm Akka in the Ascendant Plane, but was denied the secrets of the Deep. And so, Oryx slew the worm and communed with the Deep himself. In this communion, he learned the power to Take. And from Akka's body, he carved this foul Dreadnaught. But even a dead worm dreams, Guardian.

The fireteam lands on the Dreadnaught.

Defeat Combatants

The fireteam engages with enemy forces.

The Dreadnaught's forces resist you

The Dire Taken and Dread engage with the Hive infesting the Dreadnaught

The enemy is moving against each other…

A high-value target arrives.

A high-value target is nearby

If the high-value target is defeated in time:

A high-value target has dropped its plunder

If the high-value target is not defeated in time:

A high value target is departing!

If the fireteam completes a secret encounter:

A secret of the Dreadnaught has been found!

Boss Encounters

• The Trenchway
• The Mausoleum
• The Founts
• Hall of Souls

The Trenchway

Lezrel, Eversion Channeler is found stationed in the middle immune to any damage and preparing a ritual to expel Eversion Anchors across the system. The fireteam disrupts one Eversion ritual.

The Eversion Channeler weakens

The fireteam disrupts two Eversion rituals

The Eversion Channeler weakens further

The fireteam disrupts three Eversion rituals.

The Eversion Channeler is silenced

Lezrel's immunity is dispelled and the Tormentor becomes surrounded by a circular Taken energy shield.

A powerful foe is summoned

• Drifter: That Eversion Anchor is readying up! It's goons spit out Taken all across the system!

The fireteam enters a portal into the Taken energy shield and defeats Lezrel, Eversion Channeler.

A powerful foe has been banished

The Mausoleum

The fireteam destroys three sets of two Taken Clusters.

• Sloane: You riled up the nest's caretaker. Put it to the ground.

The fireteam travels deeper into the Mausoleum. Kelrosh, Spawn Keeper appears.

A powerful foe is summoned

The fireteam engages with Kelrosh, Spawn Keeper until it manifests an Immunity Shield, dispelling the protection around the Taken Clusters in the process.

The Ogre protects itself, exposing the Taken clusters

The fireteam destroys the clusters to dispel Kelrosh's shield.

The Ogre is enraged at the destruction of its Taken clusters and is exposed!

The fireteam defeats Kelrosh, Spawn Keeper.

A powerful foe has been banished

The Founts

The fireteam releases one source of Taken energy.

Taken power begins to coalesce…

The fireteam releases a total of three Taken energy sources.

• Sloane: Taken converging on your position, Guardian. Be ready.

The fireteam travels to the center of the Founts.

A powerful foe is summoned

Hashon of Endless Horrors appears. The fireteam engages with Hashon of Endless Horrors until they shield themselves. The fireteam destroys small Taken Blights to dispel Hashon's shield The fireteam defeats Hashon of Endless Horrors.

A powerful foe has been banished

Hall of Souls

The fireteam disables three weapon systems empowering the Dreadnaught's weapon. The fireteam travels to the portal frame.

A powerful foe is summoned

The Herald of the Weapon appears. The fireteam engages with the Herald until it raises its Immunity Shield and retreats to the top steps. Husks materialize and attempt to sacrifice themselves to provide sustenance to the Herald. If a Husk sacrifices itself to provide sustenance:

A Husk has sacrificed itself to provide sustenance!

If the Husks provide the Herald with enough sustenance:

The Subjugator is nourished by the ritual!

The Herald's shield disperses. The fireteam defeats the Herald of the Weapon

A powerful foe has been banished

First Delve

• Act 1
• Post-Act 1

Act 1

• Sloane: Eris's killer in somewhere on the Dreadnaught. A Taken subjugator… I don't know who's doing the Taking now, but that's a problem for another mission. Let's hit this first. We left this place to rot, like a bad memory tarnishing Saturn's rings. Not a smart call, and it cost us too much.

Or alternatively

• Sloane: When Ikora heard what happened… Rage. It was rage. But she couldn't just abandon the Tower. So Ikora sent us as her rage, Guardian. Let's do her justice.

Or alternatively

• Drifter: Whenever you dust a Taken, they get sent back to the Ascendant Plane; then they come right back to fight again. Only good thing is, they couldn't Take anymore. Now they can, and no one here knows why.

Or alternatively

• Sloane: Drifter. You and Eris were close.
• Drifter: Not anymore. She's dead.
• Sloane:That's all you have to say?
• Drifter: That's all.
• Sloane: This was hard on all of us. You know you aren't alone, right?
• Drifter: See, that's the thing, Thunderguns. We try to distract ourselves from it, but… we're all alone.

Post-Act 1

Echo of Navigation: Heir-presumptive, I make you sharp so that you may continue my logic and uphold my law. You will take up my mantle and become me. You will remove everything that can be removed. And you will bring extinction to your enemies, as I brought extinction to mine.

Or alternatively

• Echo of Navigation: Knife of My Slaying, you walk these halls as heir-presumptive. Answer.
• Sloane: The Guardian doesn’t want it. Doesn't NEED it.
• Echo of Navigation: This is what they are. There is nothing else they can become. The ruthless will drag them down to die, unless they become so. Unless they become free.

Or alternatively

• Xivu Arath: WHY DOES OUR BROTHER REFUSE TO PICK UP HIS SWORD ONCE MORE, IN FLESH AND BONE?
• Echo of Navigation: I spoke to the Deep. If I truly died, then I am dead. Aiat. You followed a charlatan into heresy and lost your edge. What truth can you offer?
• Xivu Arath: AN UNWORTHY SPEAKER, PUNISHED. A FALSE IDOL, UNSEATED. AND I WAS DETHRONED. AND YOU WERE DEAD. WHAT IS BEHIND IS TAINTED. WHAT IS FORWARD IS TRUTH. TITHES, AND SWORDS, AND ORYX, OUR KING.

Second Delve

• Act 1
• Post-Act 1

Act 1

• Sloane: The Dreadnaught's always been dangerous. Any fireteam we send in takes on tremendous risk. The Vanguard kept it monitored, but bringing Oryx's flagship under our control? We'd never hold it for long enough to matter. Well… sometimes, you do the impossible. You just have to cinch up your armor straps and get to work.

Or alternatively

• Sloane: Taken power is pulsing through this place. It's… alive. Breathing.

Or alternatively

• Drifter: Here's something big about the Taken: they need someone to tell them what to do. Oryx, the Witness… bet Mara could grab 'em, too, if she wanted. Hell, even I can get ahold of 'em for Gambit. So, I got a question for you, killer: Who told them to murder Eris?

Or alternatively

• Sloane: I don't believe we're all alone, and neither do you. We've built a community in the City.
• Drifter: Not my community. There's no use putting my life on the line for it.
• Sloane: Stop throwing chaff. You choose that community, every day. It's why the loss hurts. Why it demands justice. So we take it and put that justice between us and our enemies.
• Drifter: I'd envy you… if you weren’t so damn gullible. Justice! Does justice keep your heart from collapsing? No! Never does.
• Sloane: You finish, and she's still just gone.

Post-Act 1

Echo of Navigation: I am told that in my last life, I had a son. Crota, my sister tells me, came to your only moon and hollowed it with his throne. When you destroyed him, I brought my Dreadnaught to bear my High War upon this system. Is that what drove me here? Sentimental revenge? A waste of my logic. The dead deserve extinction.

Or alternatively

• Echo of Navigation: Taken, yet you retain your will. Sword-bearer, Knight of the Deep. You defy your king.
• Sloane: I'm no Taken, and you're no king. The universe is more complicated than you think. That's why you failed, and your legacy died with you. I barely remember your name.
• Echo of Navigation: Hm. So you say. Yet here you are, vying for the remnants of my kingdom.

Or alternatively

• Xivu Arath: YOU ARE HERE, WITH ME. WE MAY RETURN TO OUR PATH. WE MAY REJOIN OUR CONQUEST.
• Echo of Navigation: Then test me, sister. Destroy me. Are you afraid that you will fail? Or are you afraid you will succeed?

Completion

• Act 1
• Post-Act 1

Act 1

• Sloane: Eris always did whatever she set her mind to, regardless of the risk. And regardless of who told her no. I can respect that, but that risk gets an edge when you encounter something you're not ready for. We can't let ourselves be caught off guard again. We're going to peel this place apart until there's nowhere to hide another ambush.

Or alternatively

• Sloane: Transmatting you out, Guardian. You fought hard, but the Dreadnaught fought back. If we're going to do this, then we need to change our tactics. We need to adapt.

Or alternatively

• Drifter: Eris wouldn't have wanted you to quit. And she didn't want me to quit, either. Probably why she said what she said. Keep us strong. I dunno if I… coulda been stronger. I died too. I… Only difference is that… I could wake up. To this. You know… you're the closest thing I got to a friend. Ain't that the saddest thing you ever heard?

Or alternatively

• Sloane: This isn't what she would have wanted. You know that.
• Drifter: What do you want? Some kinda sappy confession? I don't do those! I'm not gonna say she made me a better person! That wasn't on her. I am who I am! And I sure as hell ain't gonna say, “She's in a better place.” She fought to live! I saw it, in her eyes! She trusted me, and I failed her. That's it! She's dead! And I’m done talkin'.

Post-Act 1

Echo of Navigation: What other heresies did I entertain as the years unfolded? What else, besides my death? Xivu Arath fails to test her strength out of fear of her own mortality. She wants me to turn away from our logic out of liar's love. In my resurrection, I only see her failure. Hers, and mine. In you, I see the strength I had that can endure forever.

Or alternatively

• Echo of Navigation: The halls of my Dreadnaught are filled with the gleeful exploration of knives. They descend as I descended, carving their names into the Deep, where dead worms speak sharp truths.
• Sloane: Is that some sort of challenge? The Guardians killed you once, Oryx. They'll kill you again.
• Echo of Navigation: Let us discover that end together, then. Aiat.

Or alternatively

• Xivu Arath: BROTHER! YOU WOULD LAY DOWN YOUR EXISTENCE FOR AN UNWORTHY SUCCESSOR! YOU WOULD MANTLE A LIAR. WHY? I WILL NOT LET YOU!
• Echo of Navigation: We agreed: if something greater comes to destroy us, then we do not deserve existence. I must be what I am, and I am defeated. My logic is true. This is proof eternal. And yet you deny it. That, sister, is heresy.

Secret Chest

First Chest

• Sloane: Guardian. I mentioned that there's a new influence on the Taken. Like feedback over a comms channel. It's been getting stronger, and gaining clarity. Like a radio signal gradually tuning in. I didn't want to mention this until I was sure but… it has a familiar rhythm to it. A cadence. I'm not sure how, but I'm afraid a Dread commander gained access to the Taken. Keep this between us for now. I don't want to raise alarm unnecessarily. Just… keep

Second Chest

• Eris Morn: Oryx's return instigated a grand schism in the Hive. They are shaken. They entertain the first doubt, the oldest doubt. They call it the "Entaoxuanna."The doubt that will destroy them. The doubt that will undermine their core philosophy. Whatever happens must be so, but what must be so, is poison. Their king was slain, but his mantle went unassumed. Now he returns as a sword: wormless, resurrected, and without the strength of his brood. There is no greater heresy than this. His sisters know it. He knows it. And so, in this, Oryx wishes to begin again.

Hive Gods Memories

• III: The Oath
• VI: Sisters
• VIII: Leviathan
• VIII: Leviathan
• VIII: Leviathan
• XXI: an incision
• XXII: The High War
• XXIII: fire without fuel
• XXIV: THE SCREAM
• XXVI: star by star by star
• XXXIV: More beautiful to know
• XXXV: This Love Is War
• XXXV: This Love Is War
• XLIV: strict proof eternal
• XLVII: Apocalypse Refrains
• XLIX: Forever And A Blade
• VII—Xivu Arath—Deathless

III: The Oath

• Memory of Xivu Arath: I am Xi Ro, youngest daughter of the dead king. I will take back my Osmium Court and kill the traitor Taox. On my left eye I swear vengeance.
• Memory of Savathûn: I am Sathona, middle daughter of the dead king. I will take back my home and eat the mother jelly. I will raise my spawn on the corpse of the Helium King. On my right eye I promise this.
• Memory of Oryx: I am Aurash, first daughter of the dead king. I will chase my father's last screamed warning. I will know what changed the motion of our moons. If the end of the world is coming, I will understand why. On my center eye, I swear it. I will understand.

VI: Sisters

Memory of Savathûn: Oath-bearing siblings, we are five years old. For two years we've worked to repair this ancient ship and understand its systems. I am almost too old for the mother jelly, and the knights who killed our father are surely dying of age. We three will die here, in exile. Taox will outlive us. And Aurash, brilliant-eyed Aurash, you will die of old age long before you have proof of your God-Wave, or any way to stop it.

VIII: Leviathan

Memory of Xivu Arath: Our lives are short and desperate. If that's the way the world's supposed to be, I won't have it! If people like Taox are supposed to win, I won't let them! I'll beat the world until it changes! I'll kill anything in the way!

VIII: Leviathan

Memory of Oryx: We live short, hard lives. We die in the dark. The storm above us will never end. And soon the God-Wave will take us all. Above us there are only stormjoys, monsters, and moons of apocalypse. Let us go down, down, where we may discover truth, some power to avenge ourselves upon our betrayers, some hope of survival.

VIII: Leviathan

Memory of Savathûn: Who will you trust? The voice that wants us to live and suffer, as we have lived and suffered? The Leviathan that offers no hope against Taox or the world-wave? Or the plain, honest worm? Let us see where its whisper leads us, Aurash. Let us go deeper, Xi Ro! Let us dive, O sisters mine.

XXI: an incision

Memory of Savathûn: Auryx my brother and king, I have studied the wounds cut by the Worm our God. Also I have studied the manner of your death and return. These two things are the same, for they are predicated on death and the passage through cut spaces. Let us practice the sword logic until we are sharp. We may then cut our own wounds and step through.

Memory of Xivu Arath: Sister, I am already sharp, look, my sword cuts into another space.

XXII: The High War

Memory of Oryx: I shall establish a court, and whoever comes into this court may challenge me. My court will be the High War. It will be a killing ground and a school of the sword logic we have learned from our gods.

XXIII: fire without fuel

Memory of Oryx:: My worm grows fat and hungry. I feed it with whole worlds. My astronomers tell me they can sense the Deep Itself, and that we are conquering our way towards it. I think joy and sorrow will be the same thing soon. Like love and death.

XXIV: THE SCREAM

Memory of Oryx: Our might shatters entire species. We inhale the smoke of their burning. This is our compact with the Worm our God — the worm makes us mighty. But as we wield this might, our worm's hunger expands. If we fail to feed it, it will devour us from within.

XXVI: star by star by star

Memory of Savathûn:I am at my end. I plot and plan. But I cannot gather enough bloodshed to feed my worm. And the harder I try, the hungrier it becomes.

Memory of Xivu Arath: I slaughter and kill, but the harder I fight, the more my worm demands. I too am at my end.

Memory of Oryx: The Ecumene war angels have killed me so many times that I dare not go out into the universe, lest I need my might to protect myself. My worm chews at my soul in hunger.

XXXIV: More beautiful to know

Memory of Oryx: Once, long ago, I killed Xivu Arath on her war moon, and she blew up the whole moon to kill with me her. She was laughing in joy. I laughed too. A whole moon! A whole moon. It was a waste of a moon, but it taught me how to save myself from exploding worlds, which was necessary to fight the Ecumene. I love mighty Xivu more than a moon loves the tide. I'll kill her for this. Over and over, forever and ever.

XXXV: This Love Is War

Memory of Xivu Arath: When Oryx looks upon you, you feel that you may vanish if he looks away. The crest of Oryx's skull is as long as an arm. In the course of its life, a thought moves from one end to the other. Upon his crest I have painted a line in my blood, so that he will remember me.

XXXV: This Love Is War

Memory of Xivu Arath: Oryx, my brother, is the bravest thing I know. Upon Fundament he learned that we were the natural prey of the universe, the most frail and desperate of things. He thought about this carefully and he found a way to fix it. He made us strong. He will lead us into eternity.

XLIV: strict proof eternal

Memory of Savathûn: I don't have a strict proof yet, you know. This thing we believe…that we're liberating the universe by devouring it, that we're cutting out the rot, that we're on course to join the final shape… I haven't found a strict, eternal proof. We might yet be wrong.

Memory of Oryx: Sister, it's us. We're the proof. We are the Hive. If we last forever, we prove it. And if something more ruthless conquers us, then the proof is sealed.

XLVII: Apocalypse Refrains

Memory of Oryx: This is our message to the things that we will kill. A species which believes that a good existence can be invented through games of civilization and through laws of conduct is doomed by that belief. They will die in terror. The lawless and the ruthless will drag them down to die. The universe will erase their monuments.

XLIX: Forever And A Blade

Memory of Oryx: I considered returning to Fundament. Learning what became of the God-Wave, and the Tungsten Monoliths, and the continents which were all that remained of my people's primal home. But I know what became of all that. It became me. I am the heir of Fundament, the immortal descendant of those ten-year krill. I asked a question: how can we live in the universe long enough to understand it? And I learned the answer, which is written here in this book. I learned that I had to become most ruthless of all.

VII—Xivu Arath—Deathless

Memory of Xivu Arath: I am war, and my throne is deathless. Come. Cut the outer curtain of my fortress, and it will open its new eye in a bloodless laceration. Cut further to see inside its walls: the yellow fat, the purple viscera, the teeming rust-cut capillaries. These are the colors of war. THESE ARE THE COLORS OF MY COURT.

Unique Enemies

• Eversion Regenerant
• Gloam Wanderer
• Shade of Keit'Ehr
• Shieldbearer Sentry
• The Ravenous
• Tormentor Equerry
• Tormentor Precept
• Essentia Coalescent
• Locus of Madness

Bosses

Mini Bosses

• Truum, the Waking
• Vorok, Excise Eternal

Final Bosses

• Hashon of Endless Horrors
• Herald of the Weapon
• Kelrosh, Spawn Keeper
• Lezrel, Eversion Channeler

List of appearances

• Destiny 2
  • Episode: Heresy (First appearance)