Hashes? (Destiny)

by Pyromancy , discovering fire every week, Thursday, August 28, 2014, 22:40 (3747 days ago) @ roland
edited by Pyromancy, Thursday, August 28, 2014, 22:49

As pointless and inconsequential as it my be, this one has been racking my brain.

Maybe its just a reoccurring art style that they choose to utilize, much like how long ago they chose the color scheme for the games and the palette of colors that they wanted to work around.

I'm going to refer to those diagonal lines as 'hashes'. The Bungie/Destiny website style pages have featured similar diagonal lines (in varying directions) for almost as long as the marketing campaign. They are referred to as 'hashes' in the image source.

I feel like the Grimoire had the answer, but since access has ceased I can't look into it. I think each class was further delineated by its own card and image cover, and there may have been one for the City or Tower with these hashes involved? Maybe it is just power of suggestion from the rest of the posts in this thread. It is foggy.

Maybe the hashes could just mean Guardian in general? The three separated classes make up the larger Order of The Guardians?

Or possibly the hashes could in some way represent 'Legend'? Or Legendary status? Pick your Guardian class -> Become Legend

Here are hashes accompanying the Alpha Lupi ARG desktop of The_City. (I still liked Beorn's dark version the best and it is locally hosted)

Hashes were also used in the art for the ARG as a style overlay.

There was also the shield with hashes featured in the art for the difficulty selector on individual missions on the map (Alpha and Beta). This bit might support the idea of it representing "Legend" since you pick a higher difficulty to "Build Your Legend"

They can be seen on this Crucible banner: