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Second Witness War
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Fronts:

The Pale Heart, The Traveler

Outcome:

  • Operation Ahamkara is initiated as Zavala, Ikora, and the Guardian venture towards the Pale Heart
    • The Guardian is separated from Zavala and Ikora
      • At the Lost City, the Guardian reunites with Cayde and later finds Crow before finding Zavala and Ikora
  • Zavala is tempted by the Darkness and leaves alone to commune with the Witness
    • The Veiled Statues reveal how to "unmake" the Witness
    • Targe sacrifices himself to save Zavala's life
  • The Guardian wounds the Witness by destroying dissenting statues with a sword granted to them by the Traveler before retreating after being wounded by the Witness
    • Retreating to the monolith, the Witness roots itself into the Traveler and begins preparations to enact the Final Shape
  • The rest of the Coalition arrive within the Pale Heart
  • The Witness is uprooted from the Traveler and driven back from its monolith by a Guardian fireteam
    • The united forces of the Coalition alongside the Lucent Brood launch one final attack against the Witness and its forces
    • A fireteam of 12 Guardians confront the wounded Witness, unmaking it with the Traveler's Light
  • The Ghost briefly dies due to channeling the Traveler's Light into its body to destroy the Witness, however he is brought back by Cayde-6 who uses his Light to resurrect him
    • Cayde dies his final death, returning to the Light of the Traveler
  • An Aurora of Light and Darkness seeps out of the Traveler after the Witness's defeat
    • Multiple Echoes depart out of the Traveler as a result of the memories from the Witness

Parallel Operations:

Belligerents

Forces of the Coalition:







Forces of the Witness:






Parallel Forces:




Commanders

Vanguard:


Imperial Cabal:


House of Light:


House of Spider


Reef:


Lucent Brood:

Forces of the Witness






Lucent Brood:


Shadow Legion and Red Legion Deserters:


House of Dusk:


Xivu Arath's Horde:

Strength
  • Thousands of Guardians


  • Hundreds House of Light soldiers
    • Eliksni Ketches

Dozens of Spider's Crew and Associates



  • Countless Lucent Brood Hive (briefly)
    • Hundreds of Hive Lightbearers (briefly)
  • Countless Dread units
  • Countless Taken

  • Thousands of Scorn

  • Thousands of Hive

  • Thousands of House of Salvation Fallen
  • Eliksni Ketches

  • Thousands of Shadow Legion Cabal

  • Thousands of Vex frames
  • Countless Lucent Brood Hive
  • Hundreds of Hive Lightbearers

  • Hundreds of Shadow Legion and Red Legion Deserters Cabal

  • Hundreds of House of Dusk Fallen

  • Hundreds of Xivu Arath's Horde Hive
Casualties
  • Dozens of Guardians

  • Hundreds of Imperial Cabal troops

  • Several House of Light soldiers

  • Several Corsairs
  • The Witness
  • Thousands of Dread units
  • Thousands of Taken

  • Hundreds of Scorn

  • Thousands of Shadow Legion Cabal

  • Hundreds of Hive

  • Hundreds of House of Salvation Fallen

  • Hundreds of Vex platforms
  • Thousands of Lucent Brood Hive
  • Dozens of Hive Lightbearers

  • Hundreds of Shadow Legion and Red Legion Deserter Cabal

  • Hundreds of House of Dusk Fallen

  • Hundreds of Xivu Arath's Horde Hive
 
Strike Location Description Recurring Objectives Enemies Bosses
The Liminal Cage Pale Heart

Crow has found a sector of the Pale Heart where paracusal energies are altered by what appears to be the signature of an Ahamkara.
Forces of the Lucent Hive are pouring en masse to the location under Dread control.
Stop the Tormentor from using this anomaly and break the Witness' hold on the mysterious site.

The Dread has managed to regain possession of the Ahamkara anomaly, and the Shining Hive has launched a new assault to gain its powers. Stop both forces and cleanse the site of the Dread corruption. *Drain the corruption
*Break Lucent Hive seals
Defeat the Tormentor (skulls)
*Survive the Dark City
*Defeat Kataxiia
Hive
Dread
Kerr-Ath, Seeker of Wishes (Miniboss)
Kataxiia, Tormentor of the Ahamkara
The Burrowing Roots Pale Heart

Ikora's Hidden network has raised the alarm: the Vex have found a way to access the Pale Heart on their own and have begun to build inside it.
The Sol Divisive is fascinated by the rich paracausal forces that flow in every branch of this world and their plans are unknown.
Stop the Vex Mind that has infiltrated the Traveler's cortex and eradicate the product of its machinations.

The Sol Divisive rebuilt its Mind and grafted itself back into the Traveler. Stop the Vex from transcending and break their hold on the Silver Tree that regulates the flow of paracausal energies. *Clear the Vex structures
Destabilize the Vex
*Eradicate the Seeds
*Clear the Tree's roots
*Defeat Raxydil
Vex Malignant Seeds (Miniboss)
Raxydil, Blossoming Mind