Festival of the Lost

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"The Festival of the Lost has arrived! Wear masks, collect candy, and laugh in the face of death. Visit Eva Levante and Tess Everis in the Tower to join the celebration."
— Event description
The Festival of the Lost, as celebrated in the Tower

The Festival of the Lost was a limited time event held in the Tower each year in Destiny 1, coinciding with Halloween.

The event returns in Destiny 2 with Amanda Holliday hosting the celebration due to Eva Levante's absence following the events of the Red War.[1]

Overview

"Have some candy, Guardian. Death has passed us by this night."
Eva Levante

The Festival of the Lost honors and celebrates the spirits of the dead, Guardian and citizen alike. The event involves the consumption of candy.[2]

Destiny

Year Two

Story

Eva Levante brought this tradition to the Tower so Guardians could have a better understanding of the people they are protecting. It is a tradition that recognizes friends and loved ones who have died, and so the festival is marked with joy and sorrow. It is celebrated with brightly colored decorations, dressing up in costume (especially the wearing of masks), and the exchange of candy. [3]

Gameplay

The first event began on October 26, 2015, and ended on November 9, 2015.[4]

Speaking with Eva Levante will present players with quest Sweet Memories, in which they must collect candy from vendors around the Tower. Completing this will open three additional quests: The Masks We Wear, Playing Pretend, and Face Off!, each of which require collecting masks and using them in specific situations.

The primary reward of the festival is a collection of new cosmetic items called Masks, which are worn like helmets but offer no additional stats or perks. Rare Masks will expire at the end of the festival and be removed from the player's inventory, but Legendary Masks are permanent; Rare Masks can be upgraded into Legendary Masks using an event-exclusive material called Paper Glue.

Rewards
  • Mask crafting materials
    • Paper Glue - Used to upgrade a Rare mask into a Legendary Mask (Year One only)
    • Paper Scraps - Traded to Eva Levante for new Rare Masks (Year One only)
  • Mystery Bags
    • Gifts of the Lost
    • Legacy of the Lost
    • Treasures of the Lost
  • Consumables
    • Tiny Box of Raisins
    • Fruit Motes
    • Chocolate Strange Coins
    • Void Fizz
    • Festival of the Lost Candy
    • Glimmer Chew
    • Salty Engram
    • Sour Engram
    • Sugary Engram
    • Flight of Shadows
    • Jackolyte
Eververse Items

In addition to the above rewards, the Eververse Trading Company is offering a series of premium Festival of the Lost-themed items, including Treasures of the Lost mystery bags, and the Emotes "Boo", "Monster Dance", and "Zombie Dance".

Year Three

Gameplay

The second event began on October 25, 2016, and ended on November 8, 2016.

Speaking with Eva Levante will again unlock the Sweet Memories quest, but completing it will reward a new questline. In addition, Tyra Karn at the Iron Temple will have a second questline.

In a change from the previous year's event, all Masks acquired are now Legendary and permanent, without the need for upgrading. However, the majority of Masks are rewarded only from purchasing Treasures of the Lost bags from Eververse. Eva Levante sells only the Speaker Mask, Cryptarch Mask, Crota Mask, and Gifts of the Lost bags with static rewards for candy.

In addition, Trials of Osiris had some changes during Festival of the Lost. Fireteam members were not able to revive each other, radar was disabled, and anyone who aimed down sights for too long would see a spider crawl down their screen. Anyone who won five games during the Halloween-themed Trials of Osiris received the Midnight Hunt emblem.

Rewards
  • Mystery Bags
    • Gifts of the Lost (contains Flight of Shadows, Jackolyte, and the Sea of Tears shader)
    • Treasures of the Lost
  • Consumables
    • Tiny Box of Raisins (convert to Ascendant Raisins at the Speaker for 25 Motes of Light)
    • Ascendant Raisins (trade to Commander Zavala for the Salted Sweet)
    • Salted Sweet (trade to Master Rahool for the Winged Chew)
    • Winged Chew (trade to Amanda Holliday for the Splice Drops)
    • Splice Drops (trade to Cayde-6 for the Unchocolate)
    • Unchocolate (trade to Eris Morn for the Bag of Treats, containing the Piece of Celery and the Superblack shader)
    • Piece of Celery
    • Flight of Shadows
    • Jackolyte
  • Shaders
    • Superblack
    • Sea of Tears
    • Unquiet Spirit
    • Candlelight
  • Emblems
    • Frame's Honor
    • Midnight Hunt (win five matches in Trials of Osiris during Festival of the Lost 2016)
  • Sparrows
    • Lost Broom (found on a shelf in the jukebox room in the Tower Hangar; expires at the end of the event)
    • S-35 Jealousy (found in Treasure of the Lost packages, purchased at the Eververse Trading Company for 200 silver each)
  • Ghost Shells
Eververse Items

The Eververse Stock from the previous year returns with some additions.

Destiny 2

Year Two

"I’ll be damned if we’re gonna sit around and mope all day—Cayde woulda hated that. So let’s have some fun, huh? Put on this mask, and go show the bad guys they can’t keep us down."
Amanda Holliday
Story

Despite the absence of Eva Levante, shipwright Amanda Holliday resumes the Festival of the Lost for the first time since the SIVA Crisis in Destiny. During the Festival of the Lost, the Guardian pursues the killers of Master Ives who was murdered sometime around the events of Forsaken.[5]

Gameplay

The event will begin on October 16, 2018, and will conclude three weeks later on on November 6, 2018.

Guardians will be tasked with clearing out the "ghouls and demons" of the Haunted Forest. Players will have 15 minutes to clear the Nightmares of the Haunted Forest. This activity will act similarly to a Strike where players can enter it solo and find two other players to play with or may enter as a Fireteam of two or three.

Rewards
  • Masks
    • Xol Mask
    • Scorn Mask
    • Uldren Sov Mask
    • Chicken Mask
    • Traveler Mask
    • Lord Shaxx Mask
  • Emblems
Eververse Items

Players will receive an Ephemeral Engram, which will contain Festival of the Lost themed Eververse items alongside Bright Engrams each time their XP bar fills up for the duration of the event. Players may also purchase Ephemeral Engrams.

  • Guardian Ships
  • Sparrows
  • Ghost Shells
  • Emotes
  • Shaders

Trivia

The Tower Plaza and Tower North are decorated for the duration of the event with candles, banners, paper lanterns shaped like Engrams, a sparkling air effect, and audible screams and foreboding music. Cayde-6 wears an Eris Morn Mask, the Speaker wears a Traveler Mask, Banshee-44 wears a Master Rahool Mask, Eva Levante wears a Crota Mask, and Master Rahool wears an Exotic Engram Mask. In addition, the Tower's day/night cycle has been locked at nighttime, and spotlights in the Last City project a massive Festival of the Lost sigil onto the exterior of the Traveler.

Gallery

Destiny

Destiny 2

List of appearances

References