Secant Filaments

Secant Filaments
Specifications
Name:	Secant Filaments
Type:	Greaves
Rarity:	Exotic
Class:	Warlock
Availability
Sources:	Legend or Master Lost Sectors

"The nature of the secant is to intercept a curve, a role all human relationships likewise fill."

— Armor description

Secant Filaments is a set of Exotic Warlock greaves.

Perk

• Devouring Rift: Casting an empowering rift will grant you Devour. Damage dealt by you and your allies from within your empowering rift will disrupt combatants.

Lore

The following is a verbatim transcription of an official document for archival reasons. As the original content is transcribed word-for-word, any possible discrepancies and/or errors are included.

"THE NATURE OF THE SECANT IS TO INTERCEPT A CURVE, A ROLE ALL HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS LIKEWISE FILL."

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In this treatise, I plan to revisit earlier mathematical theorems and revise them considering our new observations on the Light, the Darkness, and lifeforms imbued with those respective powers. But before I do so, I must preface it with a personal note.

Despite high-minded assumptions, mathematics is not an intrinsic language of the universe. It is how we describe the portions of the universe that we can observe. While numbers can track the abstract and find pattern in chaos, they cannot account for fundamental aspects of reality such as compassion or justice. The existence of the Lucent Hive, and Hive Ghosts in particular, may expand our understanding of causality, but they themselves are not "new"—the only thing that is new is our awareness and observation of them. These Ghosts have already been living alongside us. They've traveled with us. Endured with us.

What we see is the mushroom, the fruit of the fungus. The fungus itself is a vast mycorrhizal network of filaments growing and working unseen below the soil, often barely connected to the fruiting bodies we observe. Similarly, we have observed Ghosts—Hive Ghosts included—without understanding the nature of the unseen filaments that may guide us.

In our eagerness to understand the universe, we must not assume our observations are complete, or objective. Otherwise, we blind ourselves to possibilities… like the possibility that an unnoticed faction among us may be one temptation away from betrayal. Or that what drives our creator is no more than the same base desire for survival that drives all living things.

—On Secants, Introduction, Ophiuchus

List of appearances

• Destiny 2: The Witch Queen (First appearance)