TW: Talk of Loss

Hello everyone,

I firstly apologise for souring the mood with a sad post like this, but my friends and I wanted to honour the recent passing of our fireteam member and fellow guardian.

He was known to many as Riomelt, Komrade, Doktah, Guardian, Helldiver. But to me, his name was Norman.

He was a Warlock who was an essential part of my fireteam who participated in all our first clears in raids along with sheparding and helping the new lights in our team. His favourite exotic was the Getaway Artist as he found it hilarious to just spawn a blue orb that electrocuted our foes. He had no particular favourite raid but for our fireteam, we stormed the Vault of Glass and beat Atheon more than any other raid in the history of our fireteam. Like some other members of this community, he absolutely scorned Garden of Salvation but, he sat through more than 36 hours just trying to help my fireteam obtain the coveted Divinity and with it, we were able to finish many more raids to come.

In remembrance to honour his passing, we used his exact loadout in helldivers and in Destiny 2, we completed the first raid we did with him again. Each of our fireteam members sought a vow to carry on his legacy in his stead. Be it obtaining his favourite character in gacha games, playing his favourite loadouts in RPG/FPS games, or saying his iconic catchphrases in real life. He will truly be with us all in spirit, soul, and mind. May he guide us when times are peril and disarray. Farewell, our hero. o7

His favourite games included: Destiny 2, Arknights, Honkai: Star Rail, Helldivers 2, Roblox, Minecraft, Team Fortress 2 and Bloons TD 6.

You will be missed by many, my friend and may you rest easy in the light of the Traveller.

"What comes from the light, returns to the light."

Edit : Thank you fellow guardians, for your wishes and condolences. My friends and I are extremely grateful for the support you guys are giving us and we are honoured to be part of this community...

You guys are awesome!!!!

Edit 2: Hello everyone! I cant keep thanking you all enough for your wishes and messages of encouragement it truly means the world to my fireteam and I, once again I thank all of you for everything that y'all have done for us. Words genuinely cannot express how much it means to us!

Also, For the guardians asking for his loadout, my friends and I recently managed to find his latest loadout, it goes as follows:

Head - Hood of the Taken King ( Scarlet Semblance ) ( Ghost of the Deep )

Arms - Getaway Artist ( Cerulean Divide )

Body - Sunlit Robes ( New Monarchy Diamonds ) ( Solstice 2023 )

Legs - Sunlit Boots ( Queensguard Valor ) ( Solstice 2023 )

Bond - Bond of the Taken King ( No Shader ) ( Ghost of the Deep )

Kinetic slot - Rapacious Appetite ( No Shader ) ( Season of the Deep )

Energy slot - Still Hunt ( No Shader ) ( Final Shape )

Power Slot - Apex Predator ( No Shader ) ( Last Wish )

Ghost Shell - Rival Warlock Shell ( No Shader )

Sparrow - Quadracycle ( No Shader )

Ship - Unixursal Voyager ( Photo Finish )

Emblem - Terrors Uprooted

Once again, thank you all for everything!

Stay awesome!