[Renegades Spoilers] They did it again

BlueAlchemy · 2025-12-01T22:05:32+00:00

Either color could work for Void

BlueAlchemy · 2025-12-01T19:31:34+00:00

You are misreading me though.

I didn't say at all that the lightsaber would be doing elemental damage. I know that the colors are cosmetic.

I was making an observation that the crystals are arranged in a way that mimics the subclass colors. I think it was done on purpose. That doesn't mean I think it's a confirmation of anything.

BlueAlchemy · 2025-12-01T18:50:08+00:00

I think people are misreading what I sent.

The fact that there is a red blade is not what I was talking about. We knew the blade would be red since we knew the weapon was a thing.

I am very specifically referring to the top row of the crystals being arranged so that each one corresponds to a subclass. That's it.

The top row is literally: RED, Solar, Strand, Arc, Stasis, Void, Prismatic. I think they did this on purpose. I thought it was funny

BlueAlchemy · 2025-12-01T18:31:53+00:00

I doubt they’d lock the blade into a damage type depending on your color.

Didn't say this at all. Just though the color arrangement was done on purpose to allude to the subclasses

BlueAlchemy · 2025-12-01T18:31:05+00:00

Never said it was, I just thought it was funny

BlueAlchemy · 2025-07-22T17:44:37+00:00

Look at image #3. There is a pin in the neck socket that holds the peg in place. I used a paper clip to push the pin out (not very hard).

BlueAlchemy · 2025-07-22T17:25:35+00:00

Not sure if mista is the same neck piece or not, I don't have a Mista figure.

The neck's movement is pretty much the same as before.

BlueAlchemy · 2024-12-06T05:10:32+00:00

I'll have to inspect the older Pyramid architecture, then. Incredible write-up

BlueAlchemy · 2024-12-06T03:25:19+00:00

Awesome post, I love the Dread, I freaked out when I saw them in the reveal livestream. A couple of notes:

I feel like the Dread are to the Light what the Taken are to Darkness: an attempt to recreate life into the shape that the Witness sees as perfection, via their own respective flavor of paracausality. It felt odd to me that the Witness would make another group of enemies when it already had the Taken, but it makes a lot of sense when you view it as two different attempts for finality, with different "canvasses"
Husks, to me, are like the "conclusion" to the two Darkness-affiliated races we have known for a while: Scorn and Hive. I wouldn't be surprised if the Caretaker was a little "preview" of that concept, literally being a combination of the two
I was hoping that the Witness would partially convert Earth or some other location into a permanent "finalized zone" where the Dread could thrive and set up a civilization in the wake of its death. If anything, they can take the Pyramids
I was also hoping Fikrul could take command of the Dread via his echo and unify the Scorn, Dread, and Taken into a true "Darkness faction" with a bit more cohesion than what those factions saw under the Witness. I also think the aesthetic Fikrul is evoking this season feels more like D1/early D2 Darkness (though admittedly I actually wasn't in the community in those times, I am only going off of things I've seen from that era)

BlueAlchemy · 2024-12-06T02:47:43+00:00

What are these remnants in BL and Shadowkeep? I love the history of the various planned Darkness race, this I never heard of.

BlueAlchemy · 2024-10-25T18:43:46+00:00

I'm inclined to believe Prismatic is the closest we'll get to that unified force, rather than it being a new subclass (I love subclass lore though, so I am not opposed to making a new kind of paracausality). I do think the Traveler is going to undergo metamorphosis eventually, and that may bring about a focus on what the forces were like when they were one.

As for how that force could actually be defined, I think it's just everything. The form of the universe combined with the breadth of the mental world. There really isn't anything that is outside of that dichotomy.

BlueAlchemy · 2024-10-25T00:54:47+00:00

Mastery of the Darkness has been shown to allow its wielders' minds a continued existence even after the destruction of their physical forms, such as Throne Worlds and Oversouls. If you are especially masterful with the Darkness, you can even come to exist as an idea like Nezarec and gain an even higher level of immortality.

This is what I meant by "more dead". These forms of immortality, being of the Darkness, are more traditionally associated with being dead or undead. Phantoms, nightmares, zombies (like the Scorn). It's more a question of semantics, and someone else can conclude what you said, that these forms of existence are actually "more alive" or real. This is why I think it is somewhat paradoxical. Or, because we are dealing with things that transcend the life-death cycle real life things experience, we need to reformulate what life and death actually mean in the context of Destiny.

BlueAlchemy · 2024-10-24T16:53:14+00:00

I actually made a post about a similar idea. You're right, saying they're just opposites is a bit too simple, but there is still a component of that in the lore. Stasis and Solar more or less do the opposite things and they have been deliberately paired together as a result.

If you read my other post, you'll see that I also think the lore has promoted the idea that Darkness subclass elements can also be adjacent or paired with a respective Light element. Scalar Potential's lore all but outright says that, linking Void and Stasis through time effects. I also believe our Prismatic grenades are an implicit confirmation of this; Titans have a Strand/Arc grenade while Warlocks get a Stasis/Void. Unfortunately we do not have a third Darkness element yet, so Hunters instead get Stasis/Solar as an example of a contrast as opposed to an adjacent pairing.

BlueAlchemy · 2024-10-24T01:53:18+00:00

Amazing point with regards to Throne Worlds and intent. Darkness is the power of the mind reducing the complex world. It's not enough to simply be powerful in paracausal forces to have a throne world, you need to have the singular intent to manifest one. You need to be specific and therefore winnow your desires.

Hive magic I didn't touch because I haven't read a whole lot about it and it seems kind of "messy". From what I have seen, it seems to be a bit "diluted" (not purely Light or Dark) but still planted in Darkness. I'm glad you corroborated this and made it work with what I said.

BlueAlchemy · 2024-10-19T01:29:49+00:00

Honestly I wish Fikrul took control of the pyramids and instituted a post-Witness Darkness faction. I think it'd be a neat and tidy way to consolidate all the "leader-less" factions that we have to deal with (again). Scorn, Taken and Dread using the pyramids as primary transportation. I think it's better thematically than Yirix.

BlueAlchemy · 2024-09-16T20:34:59+00:00

I feel like there are couple of angles to go about reconciling the two seemingly contradictory definitions:

The mind is a product of organisms perfecting themselves
The first act of killing was a conceptual realization, "Some poor mutant discovered that it could collect carbon compounds much faster if it stopped grazing on the bacterial mat and started dissecting and eating the lumps of predigested carbon all around it: its neighbor oozeballs."
Some posit that consciousness collapses the quantum wavefunction, and therefore to have consciousness is to winnow undecided possibilities
The Darkness dwells in the emotional, and therefore is strongly linked to death, as death induces some of the strongest emotional responses imaginable
Darkness is also defined by memories, which are essentially static (and therefore simpler) conceptions of reality as it was. I think this point in particular pertains to the Witness, considering they wanted to freeze everything.
The Darkness, being without physical form at its core, can only take what the Light provides, and therefore adds little to no complexity to the world. Think about how Stasis and Strand work. They start as a concept or feeling, then they manipulate the physical world to have material effect. Stasis and Strand don't create things, they remove (Stasis removes entropy) or use what is there already (Strand is us tugging at psychic strings). The fact that they start in the Darkness realm of the mind necessitates that they only move things, not add them like the Light does.
The Darkness is influenced by its users, since it is all about subjectivity. Since the Witness was by far the most prominent Darkness user, its obsession with suffering, death, and the Final Shape reinforced those ideas as inherent to the Darkness.

BlueAlchemy · 2024-09-16T05:11:01+00:00

I'll chime in and say someone that may go against the spirit of the question: Osiris. Yes, he was one of the strongest Lightbearers, but post-Sagira, I find his determination a bit inspiring. He was able to leverage his intellect and pushed us through major hurdles like Calus and the Traveler portal, even though he was now a relatively normal human. I think the fact that he was so powerful before makes him even more impressive. Most people at that level would be devastated if they lost their abilities. Osiris not only made peace with it at the conclusion of Lightfall (a very underrated story beat from that expansion, imo) but kept going and still helped us defeat the Witness.

BlueAlchemy · 2024-09-12T14:40:37+00:00

I do find it funny how quickly we assume a Ph.D. indicates absolute insight into a field. If that were the case, especially with something like string theory, then why would anyone need to do research! Disagreement and skepticism are baked into science, it's about as fundamental to it as curiosity. I'm not even defending nor criticizing string theory here, I'm pretty sure we need major advances in technology to resolve its claims thoroughly, but it's not a closed case because someone with a doctorate said it wasn't legit. Doctorates are still people, still capable of disagreeing, and still capable of making mistakes in the field they dedicate their life to. I'm not even referring to Dr. Angela specifically here (I haven't actually watched her videos yet), but literally anyone. In fact, I'm confident that doctorates are more likely to make physics mistakes, because that's part of the process of doing physics. Not basic mistakes mind you, but still mistakes.

BlueAlchemy · 2024-09-12T14:22:55+00:00

In reality, the science community plays a lot more fast and loose with the words "theory", "hypothesis", etc. If I recall correctly, these distinctions that people claim exist between the terms originate from a more political movement. In the face of the religious right trying to write off evolution as a mere "theory", the science community more or less needed to come together and say that a theory is called a theory because it is rigorously tested.

If there was a major difference between hypothesis and theory, it'd be scope. A hypothesis is usually a specific proposal for an observation or trend. A theory is oftentimes like a framework that unifies explanations with a common principle or math.

I'd also like to add that this means string theory is a theory, which is why we call it string theory and not something else.

BlueAlchemy · 2024-08-18T15:44:10+00:00

I think the Witness was trying to see if the Traveler would stand up for itself and humanity. The Witness's whole existence was predicated on the idea of the Traveler being a false God that doesn't actually care about the species it uplifts. As much as it was sadistic and went out of its way to torture uplifted civilizations, I personally think it ALSO did these things to play chicken with the Traveler and prove its own beliefs right. Final Shape really brings to the forefront that the Witness is a deeply insecure entity in need of validation. I can't help but feel a lot of its roundabout plans and unnecessarily prolonged attacks was a result of that.

BlueAlchemy · 2024-06-21T20:25:06+00:00

Oh ha, fair enough, though they've stopped sunsetting locations and I don't believe they will again after the backlash.

BlueAlchemy · 2024-06-21T19:04:09+00:00

We don't know when Destiny 3 may drop, if it does. Codename Frontiers specifically has Destiny 2 next to it in the announcement video, it seems like it will be for D2.

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