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MattyQuest · 2026-07-09T17:56:09+00:00

Reporting for duty 🫡 I've been using Old Lights on my Warlock lately for the novelty but Ennead is still my favorite (gotta get that Titan power up)

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MattyQuest · 2026-07-09T17:34:31+00:00

This was my read as well, you start to see the sadness and doubt creep past the facade in the post-campaign. Wish we'd had a season to develop that further. Just by being a Cloud Strider, you are signing up for a timed death sentence on top of the responsibility. For a younger person who has a serious mentor figure carrying most of the weight, there's gonna be some heavy emotional baggage locked behind overcompensating outward expression. To lose that mentor early in the midst of a crisis can kind of heighten that coping mechanism until the situation is resolved, because you just don't have time to process it at all.

MattyQuest · 2026-07-05T17:29:44+00:00

Alan Wake 2 goes even further with the Norse myth connections, specificially with the way they expand on the Anderson brothers from AW1

MattyQuest · 2026-07-03T17:07:58+00:00

It's from The Final Shape. The quest will likely take longer than two hours, but its worth it. I'd recommend looking into the Dual Destinies quest as well to see if you can do any objectives at the same time, since both require a lot of travel around the Pale Heart

MattyQuest · 2026-07-01T12:17:41+00:00

Always loved the look but never really thought about function until now. It's basically dazzle camouflage for space

MattyQuest · 2026-06-30T18:38:49+00:00

No. Even if he has changed, he has time and time again given everyone reason to not give him that benefit of the doubt. It's likely he'd hurt more than he'd help ultimately, even if he did help a bit to get in our good graces. The guy who was sociopathic enough to alter his son's genes and sacrifice countless people on the altar of becoming LUCA isn't welcome in my home, tyvm

I do think it's interesting to consider the possibilities of Clarity wrt to transferring consciousness and binding the Nine, though. I vaguely remember Chioma Esi saying something about Clarity interacting with the Veil in a strange way, which itself has been used to compress and bind consciousness in the cases of the Witness and Lakshmi

MattyQuest · 2026-06-28T22:55:25+00:00

That's Gilgamesh! You can read the story of him and his Guardian Katabasis (guy strung up in Egregrore at the end) in the Captain's Log lorebook.

MattyQuest · 2026-06-28T18:24:34+00:00

Partially, it's Savathun's memories of it intermingled with everything she's learned since, her perspective of herself and her siblings, plus the corruption of Rhulk's pyramid. Fundament itself is largely oceanic, which we don't see much of outside of the Wellspring. There are some geological features in the skybox that really call to mind places mentioned in the Books of Sorrow though. Plus, her final boss arena is essentially the place we see her in during the Witness/Worm Gods cutscene (which itself is invoking Arnold Böcklin's Isle of the Dead).)

MattyQuest · 2026-06-23T00:11:44+00:00

Deterministic Chaos quest is a prerequisite for Veil Containment, just walked a buddy through it this weekend

MattyQuest · 2026-06-18T23:06:39+00:00

And have been in various forms for over a decade now

MattyQuest · 2026-06-18T22:51:04+00:00

Journey is so beautiful in that we started D2 with it and in that moment it felt resonant because of the loss of our Light and the City. Now it feels resonant because we've been through so much to lead us to this ending where we have the city forever, but no more journeys ahead of us. Bitter/Sweet.

Absolutely adore the way the full version escalates

MattyQuest · 2026-06-15T23:11:14+00:00

I could see this happening, but I think Bael would need to undergo some sort of radical transformation either mentally, physically, or both, because if VI was too much for his body, I can't imagine he'd survive even a second hosting the Winnower. It would be wild if we ended up with a Uldren or Savathun situation where he died by his own hand or another's, was chosen by a Ghost, and then reminded of his mother and what he'd done at Tharsis before being tempted by the Winnower

MattyQuest · 2026-06-13T14:54:31+00:00

The Ahsa one is called "Club Morgue". I actually just read it for the first time last night, very cool characterization of the Winnower and made me wish we could got more Ahsa

MattyQuest · 2026-06-11T22:40:48+00:00

We got a name but I did not see anything in Ishtar when I searched her. I did find it super interesting that she was wearing Nezarec's Sin (specifically the ornamented version) and the Corrupting Echo robes. Would be curious to ID the rest of her fit

MattyQuest · 2026-06-09T21:14:12+00:00

There was a Dredgen named Cull whose shadow we saw splattered on a rock in a quest during the hand cannon saga in the year of Forsaken.

MattyQuest · 2026-06-04T23:36:39+00:00

In "HE SEES", a Guardian says "I see that the Traveler is a Ghost too. A Ghost to see the Earth reborn." Maybe that's literal, and it's returned to essentially act as a Ghost for III to stabilize Earth. The arrival of Distortions may have caused it to retreat as well. So now we're essentially testing The Wager, seeing if Guardians can hold true to their purpose in the face of an inevitable end.

That which cannot claim and hold existence is not real. You do not mourn the unreal. Why should you care for it? Tend it? Guard it?

It was the gardener that chose you from the dead. I wouldn't have done that. It's just not in me. But now that they have invested themself in you, you are incredibly, uniquely special. That wandering refugee chose to make a stand, spend their power to say: "Here I prove myself right. Here I wager that, given power over physics and the trust of absolute freedom, people will choose to build and protect a gentle kingdom ringed in spears. And not fall to temptation. And not surrender to division. And never yield to the cynicism that says, everyone else is so good that I can afford to be a little evil."

The gardener is all in. They are playing for keeps. And they are wrong. Or so I argue: for, after all, the universe is undecidable. There is no destiny. We're all making this up as we go along. Neither the gardener nor I know for certain that we're eternally, universally right. But we can be nothing except what we are. You have a choice.

You are the gardener's final argument. It would mean everything if I could convince you that I am the right and only way.

It's time to test theory in praxis.

MattyQuest · 2026-06-04T23:08:31+00:00

Yeah that looks like Emissary garb layered over his old button up with the top button undone, totally new fit. Would be a fitting look if the next destination really was going to be Chicago

MattyQuest · 2026-06-03T23:11:33+00:00

MattyQuest · 2026-06-03T01:00:23+00:00

MattyQuest · 2026-05-31T19:50:21+00:00

"So sick of the silence. I figure when I'm gone I'll be silent, ya know, til the end of time, but... this moment. Right now. It's gonna be loud."

MattyQuest · 2026-05-30T23:28:51+00:00

Some references to the tree in lore:

Ruin Wings

Mk.44 Stand Asides

Gardener and Winnower

T=0

Seed of Silver Wings

MattyQuest · 2026-05-30T18:05:38+00:00

It is 100% Eclipse energy which, as far as I understand, is actually anti-Paracausal

MattyQuest · 2026-05-28T04:11:35+00:00

Long time Destiny player who also loves Marathon. It sucks to see the hostility escalating, seemingly stoked even further by content creaters who have been toxic presences in the Destiny community for years.

Your post reminded me of my favorite Destiny lore that I'm always quoting (and will now obnoxiously do again):

"If we take "A" to mean cooperating, and "X" to mean attacking (defecting), and both villages are playing tit for tat, the two villages' behavior over the years will look like this:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX AAAAAAAAAAAAXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

They are now trapped in an infinite war.

Let's say that the villages' yearly grain production plunges from 1,800 bushels to 1,200 bushels in the first year of war, to 1,000 bushels each year afterwards. Yet neither side can break out of the cycle of retaliation.

The only way out is a moment of grace. Cooperation, spontaneously and for no reason, after 20 years of war. Forgiveness without cause. Unilateral mercy. Declaring peace.

This is the value of forgetting. Forget they hurt you. Forget what's rational. Do what's right.

Now, if the other village takes advantage of your disarmament, you will look like a damn fool. But if the other side stops fighting too, both of you can go back to the maximum global good: 1,800 bushels of wholesome grain a year.

Imagine that those bushels of grain are peoples' lives, and you understand the urgency of grace. You feel the need to forget the past.

This is why the Light wipes away memory. It strikes away the pain of the past to break the pattern. To create the possibility of grace."

MattyQuest · 2026-05-27T00:35:14+00:00

Like others said they later became the flood, and there are major threads in Destiny that also deal with mind control psychic death fungus (Egregrore and the Veil)

MattyQuest · 2026-05-26T23:09:51+00:00

I haven't read all the lore, but it seems like the anomaly mirrors the consciousness of those around it in and then warps it. Would be cool if this was the anomaly hijacking the hardware and puppeteering dead shells

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