Des2ny is Canon (Story Spoilers) (Destiny)

by squidnh3, Monday, September 11, 2017, 09:55 (2654 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Second: Can the light be taken or not? The speaker tells Gaul that the light can’t be taken; it can only be given. Then, in a mission on Io we check out an experiment which was trying to extract light and give it to other lifeforms. At the end of the mission we are told the experiment failed and that won’t work. Okay, so the game is telling us Gaul can’t take the light. But does this not completely nullify Gaul’s storyline? The traveler sure as shit isn’t going to give Gaul its light… so he’s failed before he’s even begun. But oops, I guess he can take it after all, as that’s what he does for the finale. So why on Earth would Bungie be setting up the rules of light such that they completely remove any drama or worry with regards to Gaul, and then go and just break that rule? Worse, it just makes all the scenes with the speaker pure wheel spinning where no plot propulsion is happening. We learn about him and his past, which is good, but no actions actually materialize from this that matter within the overall narrative.

All the talk of taking and giving light does seem like a lot of mumbo-jumbo, but are we sure what happens with Ghaul at the end of the game? He "takes" Light in that he is able to wield supers (which was spectacularly terrifying, btw), but he has definitely not become a Guardian, as his resurrection is not Ghost-driven and uh, short lived. Some Grimoire cards would be nice.