There's an important distinction here... (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Thursday, May 28, 2015, 15:46 (3552 days ago) @ Ragashingo

But stuff in the Grimorie directly affects events in the game. The City still exists because The Queen of the Reef choose to intervene. Skolas, who appears in game, is introduced in the Grimorie. And that's just two recent examples. Rasputin, Clovis Bray, the Ishtar Academy, the loss of the Moon to Crota, etc, etc, ETC... are all filled in through the Grimorie. Bungie did a good job of revealing the past of our various HoW allies as well.

Frankly, you're being both stubborn and pigheaded. The information in the Grimorie is backstory by any reasonable definition, and that's not subject to "opinion" unless you wish to completely redefine words. To claim it isn't backstory only puts you in the minority because in puts you in the wrong.

Yes, the stuff in the Grimoire is backstory. Nobody is debating that, exactly. But that backstory is not presented in "Destiny the game". If someone sits down to play Destiny, they can spend hundreds of hours running around in the game and only ever get a handful of lines of dialogue that communicate any form of vague backstory.

It's a bit like the Halo 4 situation (although I'd argue that Halo 4 was worse). The plot of Halo 4 made absolutely no sense if you hadn't read a bunch of the novels, and even then it still had a lot of holes. Destiny is less confusing on its own, but the fact remains that Destiny the game presents little in the way of backstory or lore.