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| | |location = [[Dreaming City]] | ||
| | |hostile races = [[Scorn]] <br> [[Hive]] <br> [[Taken]] | ||
|factions= [[Savathûn's Brood]]<br>[[Wrathborn]] | |||
|connecting areas = [[Divalian Mists]] <br> [[Queen's Court]] <br> [[Shattered Ruins]] <br> [[The Confluence]] | |connecting areas = [[Divalian Mists]] <br> [[Queen's Court]] <br> [[Shattered Ruins]] <br> [[The Confluence]] | ||
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The '''Spine of Keres''' is a location in the [[Dreaming City]] that features the tower that houses the [[Oracle Engine]], as well as an entrance to the Confluence. It used to serve as a place for [[Techeun]]s to meditate and train,<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] | The '''Spine of Keres''' is a location in the [[Dreaming City]] that features the tower that houses the [[Oracle Engine]], as well as an entrance to the Confluence. It used to serve as a place for [[Techeun]]s to meditate and train,<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Shuro Chi]]: [[Patrol/Dialogue#Meditation Circle|"This was once a training ground for Techeuns…"]]''</ref> and the coven mother [[Illyn]] often took her trainees here to remember the old epics.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Shuro Chi]]: [[Patrol/Dialogue#Illyn's Crystal|"Illyn, the mother of our coven, used to bring us here to remember the old epics."]]''</ref> The area houses various relics, like an ansible lens used to communicate between [[Awoken]] cities<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Shuro Chi]]: [[Patrol/Dialogue#Ansible Lens|"This is an ansible lens. It is capable of relaying and transmitting messages between Awoken cities and ships at faster-than-light speed."]]''</ref> and even broadcast messages into the past,<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Shuro Chi]]: [[Patrol/Dialogue#Ansible Lens|"Ansibles like this one are capable of transmitting information into the past. As such, only a queen is permitted to make such broadcasts— and even then, only under grave circumstances."]]''</ref> model of a dual-ringed planet,<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Shuro Chi]]: [[Patrol/Dialogue#Dual-Ring Globe|"Dual-ringed planets should be impossible. Two rings, distinct and equal, each in its own self-supported orbit. They are a good metaphor for the Awoken, if you ask me."]]''</ref> and a mysterious map conjured by [[Mara Sov]].<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Shuro Chi]]: [[Patrol/Dialogue#Star Map|"Before the Queen left, she conjured the map you see there. I do not know what it represents or where it is— but I trust it is important to our future as a people."]]''</ref> It is also the location of a summoning spire where the Techeuns would call the [[Harbinger (Reef superweapon)|Harbingers]].<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Shuro Chi]]: [[Patrol/Dialogue#Sumoning Pillar|"We used to use that spire to summon the Harbingers."]]''</ref> | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*Bushes of pink [[asphodelia]] cultivated from the [[Black Garden]] flowers grow in the Spine of Keres. [[Shuro Chi]] remarks she could still smell them at the time of being [[Taken]].<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] | *The Spine of Keres is likely a reference to [[Wikipedia:Keres|Keres]], female death spirits in Greek mythology. They were the goddesses who personified violent death and who were drawn to bloody deaths on battlefields. Although they were present during death and dying, they did not have the power to kill. All they could do was wait and then feast on the dead. Some later authorities called them by a Latin name, Tenebrae ("the Darknesses"). | ||
*There is a mysterious statue that appeared overnight in the cave under the Spine of Keres. Shuro Chi theorises it could have been manifested by the [[Dreaming]], as they have been known to appear as "strange faces, peering from rocks".<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] | *Bushes of pink [[asphodelia]] cultivated from the [[Black Garden]] flowers grow in the Spine of Keres. [[Shuro Chi]] remarks she could still smell them at the time of being [[Taken]].<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Shuro Chi]]: [[Patrol/Dialogue#Asphodelia|"When I was Taken, my thoughts were not my own. It was as though I had been exiled from my own body. But there were moments of clarity when I could see something, or smell it… like these flowers."]]''</ref> | ||
*There is a mysterious statue that appeared overnight in the cave under the Spine of Keres. Shuro Chi theorises it could have been manifested by the [[Dreaming]], as they have been known to appear as "strange faces, peering from rocks".<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Shuro Chi]]: [[Patrol/Dialogue#Cave|"The Dreaming City is so-called because the Awoken drive the fate of the Dreaming, and the Dreaming drive the will of the Awoken. The Dreaming have been known to manifest on occasion— strange faces, peering from rocks…"]]''</ref> | |||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
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==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||
*''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]]'' {{1st}} | *''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]]'' {{1st}} | ||
**''[[Season of the Hunt]]'' | |||
**''[[Season of the Lost]]'' | |||
**''[[Season of the Wish]]'' | **''[[Season of the Wish]]'' | ||
**''[[Episode: Heresy]]'' | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Awoken]] | [[Category:Awoken]] | ||
[[Category:Ahamkara]] | |||
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The Spine of Keres is a location in the Dreaming City that features the tower that houses the Oracle Engine, as well as an entrance to the Confluence. It used to serve as a place for Techeuns to meditate and train,[1] and the coven mother Illyn often took her trainees here to remember the old epics.[2] The area houses various relics, like an ansible lens used to communicate between Awoken cities[3] and even broadcast messages into the past,[4] model of a dual-ringed planet,[5] and a mysterious map conjured by Mara Sov.[6] It is also the location of a summoning spire where the Techeuns would call the Harbingers.[7]
Trivia[edit]
- The Spine of Keres is likely a reference to Keres, female death spirits in Greek mythology. They were the goddesses who personified violent death and who were drawn to bloody deaths on battlefields. Although they were present during death and dying, they did not have the power to kill. All they could do was wait and then feast on the dead. Some later authorities called them by a Latin name, Tenebrae ("the Darknesses").
- Bushes of pink asphodelia cultivated from the Black Garden flowers grow in the Spine of Keres. Shuro Chi remarks she could still smell them at the time of being Taken.[8]
- There is a mysterious statue that appeared overnight in the cave under the Spine of Keres. Shuro Chi theorises it could have been manifested by the Dreaming, as they have been known to appear as "strange faces, peering from rocks".[9]
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List of appearances[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Bungie (2018/9/4), Destiny 2: Forsaken - Shuro Chi: "This was once a training ground for Techeuns…"
- ^ Bungie (2018/9/4), Destiny 2: Forsaken - Shuro Chi: "Illyn, the mother of our coven, used to bring us here to remember the old epics."
- ^ Bungie (2018/9/4), Destiny 2: Forsaken - Shuro Chi: "This is an ansible lens. It is capable of relaying and transmitting messages between Awoken cities and ships at faster-than-light speed."
- ^ Bungie (2018/9/4), Destiny 2: Forsaken - Shuro Chi: "Ansibles like this one are capable of transmitting information into the past. As such, only a queen is permitted to make such broadcasts— and even then, only under grave circumstances."
- ^ Bungie (2018/9/4), Destiny 2: Forsaken - Shuro Chi: "Dual-ringed planets should be impossible. Two rings, distinct and equal, each in its own self-supported orbit. They are a good metaphor for the Awoken, if you ask me."
- ^ Bungie (2018/9/4), Destiny 2: Forsaken - Shuro Chi: "Before the Queen left, she conjured the map you see there. I do not know what it represents or where it is— but I trust it is important to our future as a people."
- ^ Bungie (2018/9/4), Destiny 2: Forsaken - Shuro Chi: "We used to use that spire to summon the Harbingers."
- ^ Bungie (2018/9/4), Destiny 2: Forsaken - Shuro Chi: "When I was Taken, my thoughts were not my own. It was as though I had been exiled from my own body. But there were moments of clarity when I could see something, or smell it… like these flowers."
- ^ Bungie (2018/9/4), Destiny 2: Forsaken - Shuro Chi: "The Dreaming City is so-called because the Awoken drive the fate of the Dreaming, and the Dreaming drive the will of the Awoken. The Dreaming have been known to manifest on occasion— strange faces, peering from rocks…"
