House of Wolves Grimoire Legends & Mysteries *Spoilers* (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Monday, June 01, 2015, 22:39 (3704 days ago) @ HavokBlue

The Queen possesses a gravity weapon called Carybdis that was used to smash asteroids into the Fallen during the Reef Wars.

Yep, I forgot about that one. I think it's in the long grouping of cards that detail different battles and such and it slipped my mind to track it down.

Skolas, the Queen, Osiris, and presumably the Nine all know something is coming from the dark beyond the system. I'm guessing Oryx, considering Eris is freaked out about him, and Rahool talks about a transmission presumably from Osiris that repeats "Oryx Dead King" over and over. I think that's why Osiris set up shop on Mercury. The vibe I'm getting is that the Speaker was Osiris' mentor but Osiris was banished because of his heretical beliefs. What heretical beliefs? The Disciples seem to have an intense fascination with light as a purifying energy, but not the light of the traveler. So mercury is the closest they can get. Brother Vance is out in the Reef under the guise of the Trials to investigate the rumors of Oryx.

The City knows too. "The Darkness is coming back..." says the Speaker in his cutscene, right? As for the light of a star being important, I'm always drawn back to The Hope:

The blaze sits inside a nest of little
worlds, still to distant to share its heat
but plainly staring out of you. A face
emerges, drawn from plasmas and
radiation...

There must be meanings in its roar.

You listen hard and carefully, and
sometimes a lucid melody seems to
rise out of random noise, pulling your
mind into moments where it seems
possible that answers are about to be
revealed. Joy builds, and the first hope
in ages transforms you.

It seems important, even critical, to tell
every star from here to the black
between the galaxies that you are
strong again.

Starts were important in the beginning, at least. Oh... hehe, track #7 on Music of the Spheres is: "The Prison." Not sure why I didn't realize that before! :p

The Nine (or just Xur) may have intentionally let Skolas escape to incite his new rebellion against the Queen.

I think the card about the Crows going into the Nine's territory and the Queen sending them Skolas is the key there. It's like they have some sort of uneasy truce. Which is, of course, very interesting in itself!