UserWiki:MorningWalker

To Do

Priority

• Add HoW Grimoire card text to Grimoire pages.
• Finish updating weapon type pages (Scout rifle and etc.) with complete lists of all weapons of that type. Template:Primaries, Template:Specials, and Template:Heavies already have complete lists of all weapons in the game as of HoW for reference.
• Pages for HoW named enemies and story missions.
• Pages for enemy weapons/tech like in Template:Fallen.
• Pages for minor lore characters like Ulan-Tan.
• Maybe templates (or full lists on the pages) that include exact rewards (armor and weapon lists, random drops) for end-game activities (raids and so on) and limited events (Iron Banner).

Eventually

• Nav Templates like Template:Primaries for all armor in the game. Either organize by class (Warlock, Hunter, Titan armor templates) or by rarity depending on which is more efficient.
• Pages for the other Crucible modes.
• Fill out location pages (Gateway and etc.) with details.
• Find and purge any remaining pre-launch info that never made it into Destiny.

Musings

"The Taken King"

We might learn more about this at E3 2015 if the rumors are true that Bungie is showcasing a new expansion there (and not just letting fans play HoW at a convention because Bungie needs to have a presence there but isn't ready to show new stuff). For now, I see TTK going one of four routes: it's a decoy copyright to confuse fans and muddle potential leaks about the Comet; it's the name of an ARG related to the Comet; it's the new name of the Comet, replacing "Plague of Darkness"; it's the name of a raid that will either be included with the Comet or as a separate (hopefully free) single-feature DLC. The first is the least likely, but you never know. I favor the fourth option.

The Comet

Contrary to my previous assumptions, all signs point toward an imminent confrontation with Oryx in the Comet. I find this surprising because I expected Bungie to stretch Oryx's mystery across the entire series. Oryx is being portrayed as the Hive's main god, so it's anticlimactic to confront him so soon, especially since we have no hints of the nature of Oryx's connection to the Darkness. If the Comet is where we'll fight Oryx, then what does this mean for the Hive given that we'll inevitably defeat Oryx? Will the Hive be destroyed or weakened beyond recovery and thus absent from Destiny 2, replaced by a new enemy faction? Is Oryx not the main god of the Hive, and are the other Hive gods more powerful than him rather than subservient?

The Traveler's motives

I see no reason to not take the lore as it's presented: the Traveler is good, and the Darkness is a hostile and pursuing evil. I've seen others speculate from stuff like Pujari's vision and the new HoW Grimoire cards that the Traveler is either deceiving the Guardians or even causing the Darkness, and is itself evil. But then why do Guardians wield "Light"? Why do the enemy factions exemplify evil paradigms: the Fallen as thieves, the Hive as torturers and desecrators, the Vex as a cold mockery of life, the Cabal as militant conquerors? Maybe Destiny will have twists down the line, but I'm certain "the Traveler is evil" won't be one of them. What's more likely is the Traveler is a tragic figure, always running from star to star, uplifting civilizations in the hope they will be strong enough to defeat the Darkness and fleeing when they fail. Humanity is the first race the Traveler hasn't abandoned; why?

The Nine

I've given up trying to figure out what the Nine are. The Nine are the Nine. What's more interesting is their overall plans given that they aid the Guardians through Xur, have some sort of diplomatic relations with the Reef, and yet freed Skolas. Maybe Skolas's rebellion was necessary in order to remove the House of Wolves from the Queen's protection and allow us to kill them so wouldn't pose a threat in the future; the Nine think in the long-term. I'm not convinced the Nine are a proxy of the Darkness, unless members of the Nine are working at cross-purposes.

The Darkness

Variks mentions in the Grimoire that during the Whirlwind, the sky fell away. In another card, an Exo attempting to be a Thanatonaut experiences a vision of the sky becoming utterly black during the Collapse. This relates to the physical form of the Darkness. If in fact the Darkness is a massive, singular entity somewhat smaller than Saturn, then it would certainly be large enough to blot out not only a sun, but the stars as well.

The Jovians and beyond

It's increasingly unlikely that humanity developed FTL tech in the Golden Age and colonized beyond the Solar System. There's just no evidence for it, and the most common ships known from that time (Arcadia models and the like) only use NLS (Near-Light Speed?) Drives. This means Destiny is restricted to the Solar System despite some pre-launch hype. Destiny 2 might let us explore the Jovians, and future games will use other local planets and objects (Pluto, more of the Asteroid Belt, Mercury, maybe a few surprising places like an actual comet).

Seven Seraphs

Still need to figure out Rasputin's exact connection to Seven Seraphs, which seems to be part of the "hidden lore" that Bungie knows about or is planning but which we won't see until later content releases. Are Seven Seraphs the Warminds themselves or their creators? Could Seven Seraphs have been an old name for the Nine early in Bungie's development?

The Fallen

Keeping an eye on Variks. He gave up Skolas and sided with the Queen because he was disgusted by Skolas's violence and hatred. The Fallen were good once, like humanity, and Variks thinks they can be good again. But we know he doubts supporting the Awoken and the Guardians, and thought House of Kings might be taking the right approach to saving their race. There's also a Grimoire card where Petra jokingly says Variks might be the true Kell of Kells from the prophecy, and Variks seemingly ignores her. What if Variks is the Kell of Kells after all and the fulfillment of the prophecy is coming? He will either betray his erstwhile allies for the sake of the Fallen and become a major villain, or lead the Fallen to glory against the Darkness.