Just need to point out.... (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Friday, July 10, 2015, 21:16 (3661 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY
edited by Ragashingo, Friday, July 10, 2015, 21:26

Your disregard for the story bit that have happened is just getting plain silly now.

- The Traveler had not been healing and might have even been dying thank to the Hive. We stopped their attacks.
- Eris and the five that went with her killed Crota (in our plane of existance) and put a decades long stop to his war against us.
- The Queen of the Awoken is in some sort of tense standoff with The Nine who actively worked to push Skolas to attack The Reef. We helped her with the House of Wolves because we owed her for helping us kill The Darkness in the Black Garden which had somehow prevented The Traveler for healing in the centuries since the end of the collapse.

a) This isn't "plot" or "narrative". It is "backstory" and "lore" (with the exception of the Hive draining the traveler's light). This is an important distinction. Lore is great for world building, but it has very little to do with the direct story.

But when it's very recent history, like the Awoken stopping the million strong House of Wolves from reenforcing the other houses at Twilight Gap, it become more relevant and not as easily dismissed. Especially since those facts are directly spoken of in game. Ultimately though, I am taking more of a "Destiny is not a game but a universe" approach...

b) None of this takes place in the game, or is communicated through the game. If all you do is play through Destiny, you won't know any of it. (again, excluding the bit about the hive draining the traveler).

Not true. Some of is spoken of directly. Some of it is gleaned through in game speech not directly related. And a tiny bit does have to be speculated, but speculated based directly on in game observations and knowledge:

- The Exo Stranger says in voiced dialogue in a cutscene that The Traveler will not begin to heal until we deal with the heart of the Black Garden. The time it hasn't been healing (decades from The Hive centuries from The Black Garden) I get from two sources: For decades, Eris isn't centuries old and there is some Tower chatter about the war on the moon. For centuries, when you first arrive at the Tower your Ghost tells you that The City took centuries to build an we know The Traveler would have been overhead all that time.
- In the opening The Dark Below cutscene Eris talks of six going down to face Crota and only herself surviving. That they killed Crota is the only good explanation for why he is being summoned back. I think there's other in game content (perhaps even voiced) to support them killing Crota but I'd have to listen to the mission dialogue (or Eris' ramblings!) again to get you an exact quote. But I do think I could. 99% sure. (I think Eris mentions that they killed Crota but the Hive caught his soul or something to that effect)
- Petra says Skolas was given to The Nine and expresses shock that he escaped them. I'd have to really look for in game support for her gifting Skolas to them in reparation for some offense, though. Perhaps in Reef chatter but I don't have a direct quote off in mind and am not sure I could find one. Maybe, but not at all sure.