No Bonus (minor CoO spoilers) (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Monday, December 11, 2017, 18:18 (2617 days ago) @ Cody Miller

...especially given they are throwing out a lot of the lore from Destiny to simplify things.

That we haven’t looked in on certain corners of the Destiny universe in the first three months of Destiny 2 doesn’t mean things have been thrown out. Or forgotten. Or abandoned. Or whatever.

The only part of Destiny’s extended lore that has not carried forward is that surrounding the Ishtar Collective and the Exo Stranger. If she were going to reappear anywhere it probably would have been in CoO as we face down a new Vex threat. But even then, the Exo Stranger and the other Ishtar scientists have not been completely forgotten as Destiny 2 has multiple hints ranging from obscure references (like the Ghost scan on Titan that mentions Hyperion) to short stores in the Lore tab (Maya Sunderash and Chioma), to a direct, voiced reference to the Stranger by our Ghost. Heck, the story of Maya and Chioma even got a new piece added to it in CoO!

The stories of each of Destiny’s major players has already advanced a little in Destiny 2. The Fallen have merged into one house with evidence that it is controlled by Prince Uldren and the House of Kings. The Hive seem to be regrouping under control of one of Oryx’s sisters probably Savathun. The Cabal, obviously, just lost their primary leader and their solar system destroying super weapon, and we just now stopped a major Vex threat. We even have quite a bit of evidence that Calus and his Leviathan is something of a herald for the Darkness.

Maybe you can name a character or group that hasn’t received a mention since Destiny 1, but off the top of my head I cannot think of any. So, to claim that Bungie is throwing out lore, much less a lot of lore? I do not believe you are correct.