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'''Saint-14''' is an [[Exo]] and one of the most famous [[Titan (class)|Titan]]s in the history of [[The Last City]]. Partnered with the [[Ghost]] [[Geppetto]], he served as the first Titan [[Vanguard]] and was the right hand of the [[Speaker]]. After the exile of [[Osiris]] and Saint-14's crusades against the [[Fallen]], Saint-14 disappeared on a mission to [[Mercury]] to prevent Osiris from disturbing the [[Vex]]. He was later stripped of his [[Light]] by the Vex and perished in the [[Infinite Forest]] shortly after documenting his final notes to [[Osiris]], the [[Speaker]], and to [[The Guardian]]. However, he was spared of that fate with the time-traveling intervention of the [[The Guardian|Guardian]] that served as his inspiration, and has since returned to the City to oversee the [[Trials of Osiris]] at his old friend's request to prepare the City for the coming [[Darkness]].

Saint was revived by the [[Ghost]] [[Geppetto]] in the [[Cosmodrome]] of [[Old Russia]]. Geppetto was accompanied in this task by the [[Speaker]], who told Saint that he would become an example for others to follow. The three then travelled to [[The Last City]], which Saint became a [[Guardian]] under the guidance of the Speaker.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/12/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Dawn]] - [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The_Pigeon_and_the_Phoenix#15:_Shepherd|15: Shepherd]]</ref> Saint befriended a [[Ghost (Little Light)|Ghost]] who was searching for a partner still, and the Ghost hoped that his [[The Guardian|Guardian]] would be like the Titan.<ref name="NEtD">'''Bungie (2017/12/5)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Curse of Osiris]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Legends Lost]]: [[Not Even the Darkness]]</ref>

During the [[Battle of Six Fronts]], Saint-14 was assigned to the western front of the battlefield. When a detachment of nine Guardians from the [[Firebreak Order]] overstretched their lines and became trapped by the Fallen, Saint was sent to rescue them. He found eight of them downed, but spotted their Ghosts hiding on a nearby ridge out of sight of the Fallen. He joined [[Elriq]], the one Titan who remained standing, in a crater for cover, and informed her that they needed to clear a path for Ghosts. Above them he saw one of Osiris' reflections cut through the air and burn down several Fallen in Solar energy, scattering their ranks. Saint asked Elriq if she was ready, but the Titan was scared as the Fallen reorganized and reformed their lines. He told her that they needed her but she was scared to die. Reassuring her that they would not perish, the eight Ghosts then joined them, and Saint convinced Elriq that this would be a new chance at the battle and they charged their foes to provide cover to resurrect their fallen comrades.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/12/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Dawn]] - [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The_Pigeon_and_the_Phoenix#8:_Observer_Effect|8: Observer Effect]]</ref>

After the destruction of the [[Iron Lords]], Saint-14 was one of several [[Guardian]]s who attempted to keep order in the [[Last City]] as chaos threatened to reign. Under the guidance of the [[Speaker]], he helped to established the [[Consensus]] and [[Vanguard]], serving as the first Titan Vanguard. Alongside him was [[Tallulah Fairwind]] as the first [[Hunter]] Vanguard, while he recommended that his friend [[Osiris]] serve as the first [[Warlock]] Vanguard and Vanguard Commander based on his leadership and actions during the Battle of Six Fronts.<ref>'''Bungie (2017/12/5)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Curse of Osiris]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Garden Progeny 1]]''</ref> Saint-14's suggestion was met with resistance from several factions in the City, including the [[Concordat]], which claimed Osiris was a [[Golden Age]] experiment that had been mistakenly brought back by his [[Ghost]], [[Sagira]]. The Titan defended his friend from these accusations and reassured the Speaker that Osiris was simply a man who had little time for games of obfuscation.<ref name="GO">'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[House of Wolves (expansion)|House of Wolves]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Osiris#Osiris|Osiris]]''</ref>

Saint-14 entered the Infinite Forest but never found Osiris, instead encountering the Vex and fighting them for several centuries due to the time manipulation of the Forest, destroying thousands of them while chasing after Reflections of Osiris. Eventually, the Vex created a [[Axis Mind|Mind]] specifically designed to drain his Light. Faced against Agioktis and his armies of [[Descendants]], Saint attempted to send Geppetto away only for the Vex to later trace and kill the Ghost. Though Saint-14 felled the Mind, it succeeded in its mission; mortally wounding the legendary Titan and drained of his Light. As he was left helpless and surrounded by his enemies, Saint-14 encoded one last message into the Perfect Paradox explaining what had transpired and his regrets over not being able to make the Last City into the thriving city he knew it would become.<ref name="PP"/> In his last act of defiance, he yelled at Vex to finish the job, to which they end the life of the legendary Titan.

Days later, Osiris discovered a distress signal from Saint's Ghost in the Vex network, and dispatched the Guardian to [[Nessus]] to open a gateway into the network and find it. The Guardian located the dead Ghost held by a broken Goblin atop a pile of dead Vex, and heard Saint's last moments before he is killed. With the Ghost as a guide, the Guardian again used the Sundial, this time managing to arrive at the proper moment in time. They come across Saint amidst the wreckage of several Vex, his Light already drained by the Mind created to stop him: [[Agioktis, Martyr Mind]]. Before the Guardian arrived, he had been about to send his Ghost away, but with the Guardian there, he believed, the Vex were doomed. Agioktis trapped Saint as it battled the Guardian, backed up by [[Descendants|Descendant]] Vex and shielded by several [[Minotaur]]s. After a pitched battle, the Martyr Mind trapped the Guardian, and thus released Saint from his own trap; with his Light restored, Saint used his [[Sentinel Shield]] to smash Agioktis with the very Light it had been intended to drain. Saint then told the Guardian to return to their own time and open a gate from the Infinite Forest for him; even though that means he would remain in the Forest for years until that happened, the Vex had expended all of their effort in creating the Martyr Mind, and now had nothing to stop him. Returning to their present, the Guardian opened the pathway to the Forest. A moment later, Saint emerged, smashing through Descendant Vex, ending with a Minotaur that he headbutted to death in the same fashion as he had killed Solkis at Twilight Gap.

Further on, Lord Shaxx enters the comms, demanding an explanation on why the Guardian are traversing the Twilight Gap, as no [[Crucible]] matches were scheduled for the area. Saint-14 regains contact with another of his old friends. Lord Shaxx is surprised to hear that Saint is alive and the two quickly enter a friendly banter. As the Guardians collect the last of the components, Saint-14 asks Shaxx on the whereabouts of mutual friends and of weapons that Shaxx had developed, apparently weapons that Saint can't earn. Though Shaxx is confused by these questions, Saint doesn't reveal why. Though Saint express his amazement at what Shaxx has done for the City, Shaxx retorts that what he has done pales in comparison to what the Guardian has accomplished. Saint recounts how he foretold the Guardian's arrival to which the Crucible Handler scoffs that the Guardian is not a divine savior. At this, Saint asks Shaxx is he wants to bet, to the old [[Warlord]]'s amusement but is recalled that he owes him a good deal of [[Glimmer]]. Though Shaxx admits that he doesn't make as much being Crucible Handler, Saint-14 thinks of a way to pay him back: carrying children and singing to them. At first, Shaxx quickly refuses but being unable to pay him the Glimmer, he makes a lackluster attempt at singing a song made by [[Eris Morn|Eris]], to which Saint finds awful.

Following the disappearance of [[Mercury]], [[Mars]], [[Io]], and [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], Saint-14 stood with a child riding upon his shoulders alongside Osiris in a crowd in the Last City as they listened to Zavala's speech about the planetary disappearances and presumed deaths of Deputy-Commander [[Sloane]] and [[Asher Mir]]. The Vanguard Commander encouraged the citizens of the Last City to maintain faith in the recently reformed [[Traveler]] and the Guardians.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]] - [[Mission]]: [[Darkness's Doorstep]]''</ref> Not long after this speech Saint meet with the Young Wolf and sat with him in the Tower's hanger amongst the pigeons, watching the City below them as people lived their lives. Saint encouraged his friend to take moments like this often and clear their mind. He related that Osiris believed the mind was a muscle that must be worked, but Saint had taught him that carrying too heavy a burden tired it if bared for too long. Expressing his belief in the Traveler and that it had saved them from the advancing Darkness, Saint worried that Ikora did not see it that way, lost in mourning those who had disappeared along with the planets. Saint mourned too, but declared that this was a time of change and choice, and that they must take care to set a strong example through patience and justice, not vengeance.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]] - [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/interactions/saint-14-change-and-choices Change and Choices]''</ref>

After Ikora issued an arrest warrant for Osiris to answer for his role in Lakshmi's plot, Saint volunteered to apprehend Osiris after had been spotted in the [[Dreaming City]]. Requesting the Young Wolf's help, he vowed that no one else would touch his partner until Saint had learned the truth for himself, reasoning that while Osiris had acted rashly in the past he would never endanger the Last City and that he sensed something was wrong. The two Guardians landed on opposite sides of the coordinates where Osiris had been seen in order to cut off potential avenues for escape. They discovered that the [[Hive]] were highly active and were forced to break through their lines to reach the Warlock. As they fought, Geppetto sensed another Ghost nearby and Saint ordered its owner to reveal themselves. Crow and Glint came onto the comms and stated that Osiris had called him for help against the Hive. Saint was stunned and hurt that Osiris had called Crow and ordered him to leave as this was his fight, not Crow's. The Hunter refused and declared that he was not the only one who cared about Osiris, but this only further angered Saint, although he was forced to accept Crow's help as the chase continued into the [[Ascendant Realm]] through [[Awoken Beacon|beacons]] used by the Awoken. [[Taken]] attempted to halt them, and Crow cautioned that they no longer answered to [[Savathûn, the Witch Queen]] for some reason, but Saint noted his bullets did not care who they served. The Titan and Crow then warned the Young Wolf that he was detecting numerous Taken signatures along with a powerful [[Wrathborn]] [[Knight]] [[Kelgorath, Risen from Bones]] closing in on them. After the Knight was defeated, the three Guardians converged on Osiris' signal, and Saint told the Young Wolf that he could not lose Osiris and had to believe that his actions had purpose.<ref name="Cocoon">'''Bungie (2021/8/25)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Lost]] - [[Mission]]: [[Cocoon]]''</ref>

Upon reemerging, Saint-14's personality remains largely the same before his fate was changed and is happy to return home, reunite with old friends and see how much has changed. Though overwhelmed at first, he quickly adapted to the situation and wished to be of use to the City. He was saddened upon learning of the Red War, those who were lost in the war and the death of his father figure, The Speaker, Saint-14 remained steadfast in protecting the innocent.