The Guardian

“

Boons I grant you, oh bearer mine, but debts must be paid in time.

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The Guardian in default Titan armor

The Guardian is a Protector of the Last City, and participated in several legendary battles to retake humanity's past from the forces of the Darkness.

Biography

Centuries after the collapse, a stray Ghost wandering the ruins outside the Cosmodrome, searching for a Guardian before finally finding one among the ancient remains, and revives them. Ghost leads the Guardian out of the Cosmodrome and back to The Last City after finding a ship, and introduces them to the people of the Tower. The Guardian returns to the Cosmodrome to explore; after slaying an Archon of the House of Devils, the Guardian gains an audience with the Speaker, who confides in them that the Darkness is returning, and that the Guardian must help protect the City any way they can.

The Guardian makes two important discoveries while in the Cosmodrome; the first is that the Hive, who had slain countless Guardians after they were beaten back to the Moon, have returned to Earth to prepare for an invasion. The second is that Rasputin, one of the legendary warminds, has survived the collapse, and has restored contact with the rest of the Solar System. The player travels to the Moon to investigate the Hive threat; they receive an urgent message that the Hive are attempting to drain the Traveler of its light, and that they must be stopped at all costs. However, they also run into a mysterious stranger, who tells them to meet her on Venus to stop another rising threat.

After stopping the Hive ritual, the Guardian travels to Venus and discovers the Vex, a machine race bent on dominating reality itself. The Stranger tells the Guardian that the only way to stop the Vex and save the Traveler is to enter the Black Garden and destroy its heart. The Guardian seeks counsel with the Awoken of the Reef; the Queen tells them that the only way into the Garden is to retrieve the eye of a Vex Gate Lord. They assume it to be a suicide mission, but the Guardian returns with the eye. The Queen tells the Guardian that they now owe her a favor in return for her information.

The entrance to the Black Garden, located on Mars, lies behind thick Cabal defenses. After successfully restoring the Gate Lord's eye using dormant Vex technology, the Guardian enters the Black Garden, a strange Vex realm outside of normal spacetime. At its center is the Black Heart, an abomination whom the Vex worship and seek to use to bend reality to their will. The Guardian kills its protectors, the Sol Progeny, destroying the Heart and freeing the Black Garden from Vex control. Light begins returning to the Traveler.

List of appearances

• Destiny Alpha (First appearance)
• Destiny Beta
• Destiny
  • The Dark Below
  • House of Wolves
  • The Taken King
    • April Update
  • Rise of Iron
    • The Dawning
    • Age of Triumph