In the ancient past, on an unknown world, weary travelers arrived in the desert to discover a great machine. They called it The Gardener. In unearthing the strange entity, they were blessed with a golden civilization for thousands of years. But in time, they craved meaning from their machine god, and discovered another entity among the stars, The Veil. Through the Veil, they found the means to become the winnowers they longed for. By joining the Traveler and Veil, a portal could be created to a realm where they could re-shape reality. But the Traveler fled from this. To chase after their machine god, they used the power of Darkness they'd learned from the Veil to join their minds together. To become the Salvation they craved. To become the Witness.
Once, there was a world called Lubrae. It existed beneath two suns, one Umbral, and the other Sapphire. It's people were once blessed by the Traveler, and fell to division. In the strife, Rhulk was born to those who lived outside the City. He would be feared by many for his skill at violence and bloodshed. In his life, he would slaughter and maim for both the Regime of the City and the Wanderers of the wild. After being betrayed by his family. He would be raised up by the Witness, who showed Rhulk the power to shatter his entire world.
An early time in Rhulk's discipleship. He came upon a people known as the Ahslid, and attempted to mantle his Witness, to guide them on the path of Sword Logic. But his actions would ultimately see the extinction of this people. Only one of his potentiates, Uun, would ever meet him, and died never knowing his name.
The World of the Krill is drawn into the gravity of Fundament, where it is shattered and the Krill are divided across floating continents across the world. Upon these disparate shores arose factions like the Helium Drinkers and the Osmium Dynasty.
Rhulk; Disciple of the Witness, descended the oceans of Fundament in search of his prize. The Great Leviathan attempted to resist him, but was laid low by a blow of its own rib in the disciple's hand. Rhulk soon found his objective, the great worms. Xita, mother of these newborn gods, was taken by Rhulk to be made into an engine of salvation. She would serve as would all her children current and yet to be born.
Once, there was a king, who had three children. In time the king grew mad and so his children's teacher plotted his and their deaths. But the children escaped deep into their world's ocean. Within, a terrible bargain was made, and they rose again as Gods of a great and terrible Hive. Within these fetid tomes lay treachery, lies, calamity, and salvation.
Following the arrival of Rhulk and the abduction of Xita, there was a massive conflict with those worms who yet remained within the depths of Fundament's oceans. Ahsa would attack her own kin to escape. The seas churned with blood as they turned on one another. Failing to prevent the Hive from finding the other worms, Ahsa was branded a traitor by the Hive, and she fled Fundament to seek the Traveler across the stars.
Rhulk; Disciple of the Witness, was installed within the Throne World of the Hive Witch Queen Savathun. His task was to be as a guide in her discipleship. They warred and slighted eachother for many eons.
Within the accretion of the Sol system came a mass of dark matter that in time would develop awareness, and as life grew upon our worlds, their awareness expanded.
It is unclear when they arrived on the moon, but the Hive have been part of Earth's moon since before the first humans looked up and dreamed to explore it. Watching and waiting for their day to rise.
The time before the Cabal could expand their empire beyond Torobatl's star was known as the Era of Lead.
The Cabal begin their interstellar empire.
"The Age of Sails, when we conquered the stars."
Calus leads a revolution against the ruling Cabal government, known as the Praetorate. In the end, he claims their authority for the Emperor, and their wealth is redistributed across the Empire, brining about an age of art and philosophy for a time.
At Calus's coronation, he has the Consul of the Praetorate castrated, and exiled out into the wilderness of Torobatl. Calus intends for the Consul to die alone and with no heirs to continue his will. They will meet again at the midnight hour.
In this brief glimpse of Calus's rule over the Cabal, he sees to the end of the Cabal Rite of Proving by introducing more and more onerous bylaws.
Calus becomes impressed by one gladiator in his fighting pits, a small albino Cabal soldier named Ghaul. He is so enthralled that he continues to patron them, and one day appoints the young warrior as a Primus of what will be the finest fighting force in the Cabal Empire, the Red Legion.
Calus is overthrown under the cover of night. Ghaul, Evocate General Umun'Arath, and his daughter Caiatl capture Calus. With the aid of officials such as Lictor Shayotet, Freeborn Otzot, Aedile Moli Imoli, and Iska'al of Fantor, control of the Empire is wrested from Calus. At the behest of his daughter, Calus is not killed but instead imprisoned aboard a prison barge to be sent adrift in space for all time.
Following the Midnight Coup and the exile of Calus, it was believed that Calus would simply waste away to nothing, in the empty void of space. In his journey, he would arrive at a gap in the Universe, where he would be Witnessed, and return to Herald the end of all things to come.
A glimpse of a golden age "These little gardeners are such careful stewards of fragility. They sing songs of disasters averted and loved ones lost. They fashion heavy elements combed from the bones of old stars into objects of peace and beauty."
Houses Kings and Judgement join together to end an age of piracy and isolationism, uniting all the Houses together in the Eliksni Golden Age.
The Black fleet of the Witness descends upon the Eliksni homeworld of Riis just as the Traveler flees their star system. The Eliksni remember well the valor of the Kell of Stone, Chelchis, as he fought against the forces of Oryx in this time. But nothing would prevent the destruction of the Eliksni civilization. They would flee their home to begin a long drift across the stars, in search of the Traveler.
To enable deep space voyages to chase the Traveler. New machines are created in its image to produce ether beyond Riis.
Following the Whirlwind was a period of Eliksni history known as The Long Drift. For centuries, all that remained of the people of Riis was confined within the Ketch ships that carried them across the stars to the Earth, to one day reclaim their place beneath the Traveler.
Seemingly from out of the empty void of space appeared this strange white orb into our solar system. Many could not begin to guess what would be the result of this sudden emergence, but all knew that what was to come must be watched carefully.
The role of the Traveler is made known to humanity as soon they watch on as the Traveler's Light forever changes the worlds around her. Impossible new terrains are opened up to humanity, beyond anything ever imagined.
Shortly after the terraforming of the planet Mercury into a garden world, the Vex descend upon the planet to sew the seeds of a forest of infinite paths to tomorrow.
Humanity bands together to meet the Traveler on Mars. A crew consisting of Jacob Hardy, Evie Calumet, Ulysses Qiao, and M. Mihaylova began working towards finally meeting the Traveler, and are successful. Not all would make that final journey, but on the Martion surface humanity's future was gilded.
Following her escape from Fundament's Oceans, Ahsa dives into the Ascendant Plane to glide across vast distances between worlds, across galaxies, and would arrive in Sol as humanity's golden age was beginning. She descended into Titan's methane oceans where humanity would one day arive.
The name of Nezarec; The Final God of Pain, begins to spread within humanity. One family would take up the duty of chronicling all the knowledge of Nezarec within a tome they would pass down for centuries to come.
The period of time that would follow the arrival of the Traveler would be marked by the wonderous advancements of human civilization in the Sol system. New cities were built on worlds untouched by human hands. Technology bordering on mystical wonders was common place. Even what it means to be human would soon be changed forever.
"Human lifespan tripled. It was a time of miracles."
– The Speaker
Almost as soon as humanity arrived in the planet Venus, the Vex were discovered as well. It is unclear as to when they had taken root on this world. Had they always been here? Were they brought here through cosmic coincidence?
In the Golden Age, one man's name shown brightest across the stars. The Clovis Bray Corporation would be heralded for pioneering many of the advancements of this time in human history. But the brightest light obscures the deepest darkness, for these great advancements would be made from the pain and suffering of untold scores of lives, to be cast in the shadow of this great man...
There came people for whom the Traveler could share knowledge. These people would experience vivid dreams filled with intent and understanding. They would speak to the people of the Traveler's message. This order of people would be known throughout the centuries to come as the Speakers of the Traveler.
The Clovis Bray Organization purchased the rights to an emergency response system from pre-Golden Age space stations. The company would use this AI as the basis for the construction of an interplanetary communications and defense network. With the development of engramic computation, the neural network of the AI could be rapidly expanded without the need for larger infrastructure. Dr. Anastasia Bray would be responsible for the development of Rasputin's cognition until eventually the Rasputin AI would be brought online to connect all of humanity across the solar system. Unbeknownst to Dr. Bray, her grandfather Clovis, had ulterior motives for the Warmind. To one day strike down the Traveler, and replace it as humanity's supreme machine god.
A team of researchers at the Ishtar collective capture a Vex unit for study. In time they discover that for as much as they were studying the unit, it was studying them in several hundred perfect simulations of the team. With such perfection, the chances of you yourself being real dwindled to nil. To attempt escape, they reached out to Rasputin for if their message went through, they were real. In the end, Rasputin rescued them from the Vex, along with several hundred of the simulated copies, who would volunteer to be returned to the Vex network, to study it for centuries to come.
Humanity wouldn't always wait around for the Traveler to give them new homes to live in. On Saturn's moon of Titan, brave explorers joined together to establish a place for people to live on the oceanic moon, without waiting for the Traveler's hand to alter the moon.
A seed is planted for a monster to grow new life. In less than 20 years, Clovis Bray the first would discover this seed. The fruit of the Traveler's enemy would grow in the garden of Sol.
On the moon, a team of researchers under the K1 designation would discover a strange black orb, of unknown age, that produced a signal. They would go on to study the effects of this strange signal. While it plagued their minds, denying them sleep, it granted them improved cognitive effects. Eventually the Clovis Bray Organization would step in to develop a containment device for this artifact, where it would be bound for years to come.
The Whispers of the Witness draw Clovis Bray to Europa. Here is where he studies "Clarity" and creates the Exo after discovering that when Vex Mind Fluid is exposed to the aura of the Clarity Control statue, it would be purged of all Vex influences, and become the perfect substrate to transfer human consciousness onto.
Through knowledge found in communion with the K1 article, humanity can fly further than ever.
The Echo Project was an initiative planned by the Clovis Bray corporation. Ships would be fitted with human embryos for long distance travel, with the crew of the ship entirely consisting of an all Exo Crew, to pilot the ship for however long the travel would take. Dr. Anastasia Bray was responsible for the recruitment and training of these officers.
In order to prepare for humanity to begin moving out beyond the Sol system, we would need to increase our capacity to plan those flights. The Clovis Bray Corporation and the Ishtar collective worked together to create an AI-COM with Vex technology, which would perfectly predict the ideal courses for these ships to fly.
Cayde-6 is sent to guard researchers on Venus after the arrival of strange new creatures, which would be known as the Ahamkara. The project would be lead by Dr. Maya Sundaresh.
See: Cayde's Treasure Island Book
In order to better accommodate potential colonists aboard the Exodus Program, the Clovis Bray corporation begins a new project under the leadership of Dr. Willa Bray. Initially the project was around human augmentations, to increase the resiliency of the crews. When this approach failed to yield success after numerous parallel human trials, they moved onto what the colonies would be built from. The result is a self-assembling nanite swarm that could perform any task they were programmed for.
The Exodus Black, helmed by Captain Masoud Jacobson, crashes down on 7066 Nessus before it could establish the first extrasolar colony of humanity. Lost Colonies
Before it was officially be brought online, Dr. Maya Sundaresh asks the AUGERMIND to perform a final test simulation of potential homes for humanity in the andromeda galaxy. As it plotted those new courses, they began to vanish one by one until none were left. Soteria sends this data to Rasputin as a warning.
Fearing for human survival, Soteria launches the ECHO Program under the guise of a test flight for the ships. When it becomes clear to Clovis Bray that Soteria will not return the ECHO-1 fleet to its launch bay, he engages the pillory protocol, capturing the mind, and shattering it. Before this can be completed, the AUGURMIND creates a submind of itself, housed on a single ship bound for Neptune.
See also Long Arm See also Into the Sunset
Seeking Clarity control, the Vex invade Europa to convert it. They're repelled by Elsie Bray and the Exo of her Grandfather Clovis. The Clovis Bray AI is shut down and Eventide abandoned.
To better understand the conditions of the people Rasputin was charged to protect, Rasputin created a new Exo unit. Unlike all other Exo in existence, this one was not human, they were a submind of Rasputin, modified to be completely indistinguishable from humans. The unit has autonomy and lived among the people. Every so often, they conferred with their father over what they had learned.
A woman named Henriette Meyrin worries for her daughter's future, as she feels humanity is growing complacent beneath the Traveler. Following the detection of an anomaly out in space, she works alongside Helga Rasmussen and Yuki Satou, to found the organization known as the Black Armory, a weapons manufacturer group dedicated to the protection of humanity through arms.
The Black Fleet arrives in Sol, with the Witness and Savathun at its head, to begin the Collapse of the Sol system.
The Collapse of Titan begins with an evacuation order for the entire moon as Rasputin dispatches a SOLSECCENT team to secure the research of Dr. Shanice Pell. Mia van der Venne, the New Pacific Systems and Facilities Administrator, is able to warn the doctor of their arrival, so that she may have the chance to flee the moon. But Dr. Pell would never leave Titan's surface as Rasputin obliterates a passenger ship carrying her to safety. Soon, intense gravitational forces begin to act on the moon, creating a massive tidal wave that sinks several of the moon's arcologies.
A world unfinished as the Traveler departs from Jupiter's moon in the collapse, moving to rest over the surface of the Earth.
The Hive of Luna rise to meet their Witness, overwhelming all the remaining crew of the First Light lunar base.
"Consider IT the power Titanomach world-ender and consider what IT means. I met IT at the gate of the garden and I recall IT smiled at me before before IT devoured the blossoms with black flame and pinned their names across the sky. IT was stronger than everything. I fought IT with aurora knives and with the stolen un-fire of singularities made sharp and my sweat was earthquake and my breath was static but IT was stronger so how did I survive?"~Rasputin
The Yang Liwei, mother ship of the Exodus Green, attempts to try and flee Sol as the Black Fleet begins to engulf the system. Rasputin calls for them to return, for use in his war strategies, but after a vote of the crew, they attempt to convince the Witness not to destroy them as they leave. The Witness does not care for their pleas. But before their final moments, the Traveler's Light reaches out to clash the coming Darkness, and in the conflict was created a singularity that swallowed the ship and crew. First to be consumed and awaken would be Mara Sov.
The Will of Thousands and the Foundling of Oryx arrive on Mars. Rasputin freezes them under the SIBERIAN ENTROPY protocol.
Savathun secretly betrays the Witness and murders Nezarec while cursing his corpse. After the Final God of Pain is dispatched, Savathun hides away the Veil beneath the storm of Neptune.
One of the Pyramids of the Black Fleet is brought down to crash into the surface of the Earth's moon, where it is entombed for many centuries to come. Aboard this Pyramid was the cursed corpse of Nezarec; The Final God of Pain. Slain by Savathun, and later harvested by the Fallen.
The Exodus Indigo is attacked by a strange figure on route to exiting the solar system. Through a clever trick, they're able to disguise the ship as a Vex by attaching their ship to a mysterious Vex signal, allowing them to escape. But in order to maintain the ruse, they had to follow it all the way back to Neptune.
To survive the collapse, Rasputin made a terrible calculation. Rasputin could not endure the collapse, and protect humanity at the same time. To ensure its continued survival, and potential later victory, Rasputin adjusted his morality to MIDNIGHT EXIGENT, thereby allowing him to disable all personal protection protocols. Humanity would burn in the collapse, but the Tyrant would live on.
"In its dying breath the Traveler created the Ghosts, to seek out those who can wield its Light as a weapon - Guardians, to protect us, and do what the Traveler itself no longer can." ~ The Speaker
See also The We Before Us
The destruction of the collapse was total and complete. The golden heights of the age before them have collapsed into rusted ruins and desolation. What remains of humanity is scattered across the Earth, to try and rebuild. This age is remembered for the dark times to come.
Upon arriving on Neptune, Chioma Esi discovered the Veil. When Maya Sundaresh arrived, she was drawn to study this strange alien artifact, establishing the colony which would become Neomuna around the Veil so that she may continue her research. In time, she would be drawn to dark places. Obsessed with the need to utilize the Veil.
The Ghosts of the Traveler begin their search for those whose Spark can be ignited. These chosen would be found from the dead, scattered throughout the solar system. It is unknown exactly how many Ghosts came into existence following the death of the Traveler in the Collapse. Many among these newly risen demigods do not know what their powers mean, some choose to be of service to humanity around them, some would try and hide from their gifts, and some would claim power as Warlords over humanity.
The Sol system becomes the destination of new forms of alien life in the scouting legions of the Cabal Empire, come to conquer and exploit the existing resources of the Sol system, and establish their first operations on Mars.
The Houses of the Fallen arrive as well, following their own Collapse, to attempt to reclaim their place beneath the Traveler. These would be the most prolific of all Sol's inhabitants.
The Veil has proven to be a dangerous and caustic presence within the fledgling Neomuna colony. It renders all those who come into contact with it braindead. Maya Sundaresh later hauls the Exo corpses out of storage and hooks them up to a priorly attempted, and similarly fatal interface for the Veil. Dozens were destroyed as she used the Veil to project her own mental imprint down into one Exo. This is the creation of Lakshmi-2.
Using the paracausal dimensional fold created by the Veil around Neomuna, the Neomuni create a digital network version of their city, where people can live and work inside. Overtime the CloudArk is expanded from a simple simulated storage space into an entire world, by Conrad Jain who would one day become the Cloudstrider Bluejay.
An accident in nanite experiments turns Mikaela Julaha into the very first Cloudstrider, known as The Strider. The Sidereal is created, so as to transform many more individuals in just the same way as she was.
On Neomuna, a group of people known as the Uplift Coven attempt to impose their rule over the Neomuni civilians by converting their entire membership into Cloudstriders. Cloudstrider Maelstrom puts a stop to their rebellion before they can become Cloudstriders.
Following the final battle of the Collapse, Rasputin was left in stasis for a time, sealed off on the Earth fragment of the Warmind Network. He would not remain offline for long however, and would return to functionality within the Cosmodrome Warmind Bunker.
Following the reawakening of the Warmind Rasputin, Chioma Esi sends the Cloudstrider Stargazer to the Earth in order to prevent him from interfacing with their systems, and learn more about the Veil. The Stargazer also had a secondary mission, which was to abandon the young Lakshmi-2 on Earth as Chioma could no longer tolerate her presence. Stargazer would use the Malahayati submind in order to purge the Warmind's database of any and all knowledge revolving around Neptune, and to disconnect Rasputin from his network- leaving him stranded on Earth.
A group of survivors of the collapse had gathered together within the City of London and erected a wall around themselves for protection. But this would not persist as the House of Devils, lead by an Eliksni named Akileuks would destroy that wall and sack the entire city in a single night. There is only the one confirmed survivor of that terrible event, an exo named Lakshmi-2.
"Are you with me? Will you stand with me— as Iron Lords?"
The order of Risen Lightbearers who swear by the ideals of protecting humanity from all threats, the Iron Lords, rises up to end the tyranny of Warlords throughout the planet.
A system wherein disputes are settled between Risen through combat. This would be one of the first systems to tie together all Lightbearers across the globe, and would continue for many centuries to come.
The Infamous Iron Lord Felwinter is raised from the remains of Rasputin's SIDDHARTHA GOLEM protocol. His life is plagued by Rasputin's attempts to slay him. He later goes on to join the Iron Lords and give them his citadel as their base of operations in Old Russia.
The man who would be known as the Drifter is revived and tries to live his life as far from the Light as he can. When his hometown of Eaton is obliterated in the conflict between and Iron Lord and a War Lord, he moves to the Iron Temple in order to ingratiate himself with Lord Felwinter, to avenge his home.
After the Collapse, the Traveler's voice had grown so weakened that no Speaker could dream her messages anymore. One Speaker of the Dark Age created a device which could pick up on the weakened signals of the Traveler, and while the messages would become muffled and confusing, they would be heard once again.
The Iron Lords secure a place for humanity in South America and begin to guide the disparate human populations to all gather together under their protection. Many before now have tried and failed to claim the name "Last Safe City", but it shall be here where humanity will grow again.
Before the Hunters, there were the Rangers. A group of brave humans who would guide people from across the world towards the Last City. In time, this duty would be taken up by those Lightbearers called Hunters.
A fledgling Lightbearer of no renown comes to the Iron Temple to begin training his fire under the tutelage of the great warlocks of his time.
Through research, guile and atrocities, Mara Sov is able to scrape together several million Awoken citizens to join her as she leaves the Distributary and return to the Sol System. They are attacked as they attempt to leave the pocket space, but will not be stopped from returning home.
Shortly after their return from the Distributary, Mara's expedition discovers the Earth, and confirms the continued existence of humanity. Mara Sov is wary of the situation as she observes the Traveler over the Earth, and does not yet wish her people to move out at this time. But many among the crew are eager to commit to the aid they journeyed through spacetime to give, and a mutiny occurs among the fleet. In the end, a third of the expedition is permitted to leave for Earth after the struggle.
Though her desire for the expedition was it to be governed through direct democracy, all looked towards the woman who inspired and guided them from the Distributary. All listened to her words, and all would make of her their Queen in the end. A formal coronation follows the creation of her kingdom, but all knew to whom they had pledged their lives to.
Through the Wish Magic of the Ahamkara and careful scavenging of the destroyed ships of humanity, Mara Sov founds the Kingdom of The Reef within the Asteroid Belt between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. Following their exodus from the Reef, Mara Sov proclaims that all Awoken may return home to the Reef, warning them they will be exiled if they deny her call.
See also The Reef
A diplomat of the old Distributary, Nasan, entreats with Mara for the opportunity to journey with the Earthbound Awoken, in order to make them understand it was not out of malice that Mara kept them from Earth. She is granted this request, but will not fulfill it as she is murdered in her first night on the Earth. A Ghost finds her body, and she is reborn a Lightbearer. They name eachother Orin and Gol.
Orin traveled the world for some time before being captured, and later recruited by an order of Lightbearers called The Pilgrim Guard. They were a group dedicated to the safe relocation of mortal civilians to their new homes. In time, they would make their way to the Last Safe City, where the Pilgrim Guard would be based from then on.
One morning, within the Dreaming City, Mara Sov is stirred from her slumber to find her friend and mentor Kelda Wadj suspended in the air alongside her techeuns. While the Techeuns would be released from the trance, the life of the allteacher would be taken, and in her place came a singularity that burned without destroying, asking what would be asked of it. The singularity would be used as the seed-heart of what would be known as the Oracle Engine.
Mara Sov dreams of the a sword and a bomb one night, prophesizing a conflict between herself and Oryx.
Orin meets a man named Namqi in the last city and convinces him to take her to the Reef so that she may learn of where it is she comes from. They're captured, judged, and released with Orin owing Mara a debt.
The Iron Lords Saladin, Felwinter, and Efrideet come to convince a Warlord to give up his territory and guide his people to live within the Last City. Over several days, Felwinter and Shaxx would duel many times as both factions massed their forces for a conflict. In the end, Shaxx would cede his land in peace, and come to live in the Last City. He would become Saladin's protoge after this.
A man who would be known as the Greatest Guardian to ever live enters the Last City as its first walls are being built. His life would be forever changed in a chance encounter with another man, and a conversation over severely burnt food.
After failing a mission to escort colonists to reclaim Mercury after being overrun by the Fallen House of Rain, Saint-14 is rescued by a mysterious Guardian whose Ghost shows him a vision of the future of the Last City.
Following the exodus of the Awoken from the Reef, one of the first ships to escape comes to crash down on the Earth, killing the crew. The man who would be Zavala is raised from this crew and would begin his journey across the world to come to rest in the Last City.
During his training by Lord Saladin, Zavala would meet Safiyah, a human woman who had come to offer medical aid to the mortals under the protection of the Iron Lords. The two quickly fell in love and when it came time for her to move on from the Temple, Zavala would follow by her side. After a raid from the Fallen house of Devils, the two would discover an orphaned infant whom they would raise as their son, Hakim. They were happy, but it was not to last, as one day there came raiders seeking revenge for their captain, slain by Zavala. When the dust settled, Hakim lay dying in his mother's arms after trying to fight by their side. Zavala would return to the Iron Temple, alone. He never forgot the family he lost...
As the City swells in size, conflicts arise as both mortal and Lightbearing citizens of the Last City are divided along factional lines. There is terrible conflict within the streets of the Last City. A new government is formed to solve issues in committee rather than violence. The Risen are known as Guardians from here onward.
Vanguard members: Osiris, Saint-14, Tallulah Fairwind
Consensus members: New Monarchy, Dead Orbit, Concordat
See also Factions
As the City begins to take prominence on the global stage, a new age of humanity begins. No longer do we live in Darkness and turmoil, an age of peace and growth is upon us.
The Sunbreaker order of Titans leave the city for the wilds, recognizing that their form of Solar Light may be too dangerous to the City if they remained. So they shall be apart from the City they protect.
There were six fronts by which one could enter the territory of the Last City, and a day came when the Fallen house of Devils gathered to siege the Last City. But they were repelled by an impenetrable defense of the City's Guardians and Iron Lords. Here is the day the legends of Osiris and Saint-14 would be immortalized throughout the ages. The Greatest of Guardians fought together on this day.
Following the battle of Six Fronts, it is decided to name Saint-14 as the Vanguard Commander. But he would only hold that title for a brief while, as within his first day of command, he would resign from the position. He names Osiris as his replacement for the position.
One of Osiris's first acts as the newly appointed Vanguard Commander is to establish a working relationship with the Sunbreaker order of Titans for the aid of the Last City.
At the Speaker's bequest, Saint-14 begins hunting down any and all Eliksni encampments throughout the Sol system. All houses would know to fear The Saint...
Not much is known about the woman who turned up in the Last City one day. She would go on to establish the Future War Cult within the Last City. An organization centered around use of a device that permitted one to glimpse through time itself. She can see nothing but war in humanity's future, and works to prepare it for those times.
The Ahamkara are wiped out under orders from the City, with the aid of the Awoken, the Guardians of the Last City are armed with weapons crafted to slay the Ahamkara until all but those few hidden away in the Dreaming City.
The First Hunter Vanguard, Tallulah Fairwind, is slain in an Ahamkara hunt. She is succeeded by the Hunter Caliban-8.
Following the Great Hunt, a mysterious person appears in the tower. It is unclear what their intentions may be, but they come to market the most prominent items that the Guardians of the Last City have ever known.
Efrideet grows tired of the violence and seeks a new life. She ventures out into the edge of the Solar system and becomes part of a community of other Lightbearers who preach nonviolent use of their Light. It is unknown where exactly they survive.
For the many centuries of his life, Lord Felwinter sought to protect and uplift the people around him, and in time discovered the magical technology of SIVA, a swarm of nanites which would create great marvels for the people of the Last City. He should have questioned the ease by which he would discover this wonderous power...
Rasputin claims the lives of nearly all the Iron Lords following their expedition to the coastal territory of the Russian Cosmodrome. Felwinter's discovery of the site was a trap lain by his once father. Only Lord Saladin would survive this slaughter by the sacrifice of Lady Jolder, who gave her life to seal away the swarm before more harm could come.
See also King of the mountain
The centaur 7066 Nessus returns to the Solar system after an unexpected delay in its orbit.
Osiris values his own pursuits above the politics of the City. He is seldom seen at Consensus meetings, he attempts to install his own protege, Ikora Rey, onto the Vanguard without Consensus approval, and his proclamations chafe against the guidance of the Speaker as many Guardians choose instead to pursue Osiris's goals rather than their duties to the Last City.
A team of Guardians venture to Venus, down into the Vault of Glass.
One would consume of and be consumed by the Vault.
One would be imprisoned throughout time and space.
One would escape the vault to die on the Martian sands.
Seeking to impress his sister, Uldren Sov journeys to where she has forbidden. Within the Garden, the prince would discover the Black Heart, and forever be changed by the experience.
There once lived a legendary titan by the name of Rezyl Azzir, he was a noble man whose Light burned bright. A champion of humanity, who would one day venture to Luna in search of rumors he'd hope were but myth. He had found the Hive within the Hellmouth and descended upon them with fire. After slaying the partner of the Wizard Xyor, he claims a bone from the ashes. In binding it to his weapon, he had sealed his fate in Darkness.
An early conflict with the Hive on Earth. Victory was claimed by the Guardians, which would fuel the fire that draws them to the surface of the moon.
The calamitous expedition to retake the moon from alien hands would see the annihilation of thousands of Guardians on the surface in their hubris for Crota: Son of Oryx had come to claim their Light. The Hive God was invincible against the Guardians, cutting them down by the hundreds, and forcing the forces of the Last City to retreat from the site. This battle would be the final resting place for many legendary Guardians, such as the Titan Wei Ning.
The failure to retake the moon cost us dearly. To prevent further Guardian losses against the Hive on the moon, the Vanguard invokes an interdiction order between the Earth and its moon. Any Guardian acting in defiance of this order would see no assistance or guidance from the Last City.
Following the countless lives lost to the Hive on the moon, a Praxic warlock named Eriana-3 would assemble one team for a mission of justice against the Hive. Joining her would be Eris Morn, Sai Mota, Omar Agah, Vell Tarlowe, and the infamous Warlock Toland. The journey would be just as calamitous as the disaster itself. Vell is the first to fall before breaching the Lunar surface. Shortly after were the lives of Sai and Omar, by the Hive onslaughts. Eriana-3 would be the one to get closest to Crota's ascendant Throne. All their lives traded away for Toland's plot to breach the Throne World, and learn the song of death. Only Eris Morn would survive this journey as she becomes trapped beneath the surface of luna following the death of her Ghost Brya.
In the town of Palamon lived a young boy by the name of Shin Malphur, whose life would be forever changed by the arrival of two Lightbearers into his life, Jaren Ward, and Dredgen Yor. One to guide and mentor the young boy, the other to burn away all he held dear. Jaren would take Shin Malphur under his wing as they hunted down Dredgen Yor, following the devastation of Palamon. This journey would see Jaren Ward killed by Dredgen Yor, never to return. With vengeance in his heart, Shin Malphur would hunt down Dredgen Yor, and kill him at Dwindler's Ridge, becoming known then on as the man who forged the Golden Gun. But before he passed, the monster would leave the Hunter with one final message.
"Nothing ends"
The fourth Hunter Vanguard vanishes under mysterious circumstances a few years prior.
The Hunter, Andal Brask, is appointed to the position of the Hunter Vanguard following the failed challenge against Cayde-6. As he failed to slay the mercenary Taniks before Cayde, he would join the Tower as the fifth Hunter to hold the position.
The combined forces of the Houses of Devils, Winter, and Kings unite together to encircle the Last City for a grand push against the Guardians. Only the House of Wolves fails to arrive for this endeavor.
Queen Mara Sov ambushes the Fallen House of Wolves on their way to the Battle of Twilight Gap by obliterating the moon of Ceres, killing the Wolf Kell; Virixas, and leading to the start of the Reef Wars.
The conflicts of the Reef and the House of Wolves are numerous following the Scatter. For several years, the House of Wolves and the Reef would clash in brutal battles across the Asteroid Belt.
A chance encounter changes one man's life as Sjur Eido rescues an Eliksni Vandal named Misraaks from the House of Devils, and brings him to the Dreaming City. The Light provides.
Mithrax find a lost child among the ruins of a battlefield. He takes her as his own child. She grows up among the Reef with her father, and is named Eido, after the friend who had changed his life. She would study the Light and Eliksni history as well as the ways of the Techeuns of the Reef.
Osiris's tenure as the Vanguard Commander comes to an end following the distribution of several prophecies uncovered by his research into the Vex. His title and ranks are stripped as he is exiled by the City Consensus. Replacing his position as Warlock Vanguard is his protégé Ikora Rey. Titan Vanguard Zavala is named as the new Vanguard Commander.
Osiris's first steps in exile take him to Mercury, where he is followed by his cult. As to ensure they not disturb his research, he bequeaths to them the task of understanding one of the many spires of Mercury, while he descends further into the Infinite Forest.
The Fallen houses of Kings, Devils and Winter unite, leading to the second great battle in the history of the City. Following the reduced Guardian effectiveness from the losses sustained on the moon, and the restructuring of Vanguard Leadership, the Fallen seem to have the upper hand against the Guardians. Until Lord Shaxx, recognizing an opening in the Fallen forces, defies an order for retreat, and with the aid of Guardians like Nkechi-32, Idil Abdi, Truce, Liu Feng, and Ana Bray, they push through and begin to route the Fallen. The Houses are pushed back from the Last City.
Ana Bray is believed dead after the battle at twilight gap, and uses this fact to search for Rasputin without oversight.
The death of the first Queen's Wrath occurs during the time of the Reef Wars just before the Wolves attack the libraries of Hygiea. All that is found is her body, and a strange coin in place of her bow.
Mara calls in her debt from Orin after many centuries. She wishes to confirm the identity of the Sjur's killers, and whether or not this was murder.
The death of the Devil Kell Solkis would mark the end of the Fallen's united attack on the Last City. With one mighty blow of Saint-14's skull, he caved in his foe's.
When Skolas would not listen to reason as Variks begged him to not attack Cybelle, he left him no choice. Working with an priest named Fikrul, Variks had the Prime Servitor of the Kaliks line hidden away. It's location to be lost to time, only Fikrul may know where it lay.
Following the battle at Twilight Gap, and the near defeat of the Last City, Lord Shaxx is given command over the old institution of the Crucible. He decides to reform the system into a regimented training program for Guardians to hone their skills in live combat against one another. These matches would be held in secured territories throughout the system, to ensure constant Guardian presences in these arenas if and when additional forces are called. These matches become a form of City entertainment as the people of the Last City watch on as their Guardians practice the skills they will use to protect them all.
The Concordat is removed from the Consensus following a battle in one of the Towers of the Last City. Following their defeat and exile, the Future War Cult is given their rights within the consensus, to ease the transition of Guardian forces.
See also Ghost fragment: the city age.
With the capture of Skolas and the remaining Prime Servitors of the House of Wolves. Variks the Loyal declares Queen Mara Sov to be the new Kell of Wolves.
Following the capture of Skolas and the end of the Reef Wars, Veliniks, the Ravenous attempted to assault the Reef. But before he would do any damage, Petra Venj; Corsair of the Reef, hunted him down with the aid of several Guardians. In an act of miscommunication, she gives the order that leads to the deaths of nine Guardians and their Ghosts. She is named Queen's Emissary, and sent to live among humanity in the Last City.
Saint-14 attempts to find Osiris on Mercury, in those infinite corridors Saint-14... [:error: timeline splice in progress ]
Shin Malphur, under the name of Zyre Orsa, meets and begins working with a Guardian named Teben Grey, to research and understand the terrible powers of Dredgen Yor, so that they might be used in the service of humanity someday.
Following the murder of Andal Brask by Taniks the Scarred, Cayde-6 takes his position as the Hunter Vanguard, but not before getting his payback against the mercenary.
See also: mementos-from-the-wild-561670121
Following the end of another failed timeline, the hourglass is flipped once more. Nobody knows how or why the grand daughter of Clovis Bray is unstuck from time or why she is always returned to this point. She has live this life many times over, but perhaps this will be where she succeeds.
After several years, Zyre Orsa comes to Teben Grey with research conducted by the City's cryptarchy, leading the duo to follow in Yor's footsteps to the moon.
Teben Grey, Zana Maas, Jonah Pavic, Callum Sol, and Braga Yasuul join with Shin Malphur to found a group of Guardians devoted to understanding the power of Darkness which corrupted Dredgen Yor, and how it may be wielded for the good of humanity.
For a while, the Drifter has been wandering the system wary of those who would only follow the Light of the Traveler. He finds comradery with the Shadows of Yor for a time, even taking the name Dredgen Hope.
Sightings of the Hive on Earth appear, following the Great Disaster.
Through the power of the Sundial, the Guardian walks through time, and saves the Greatest Titan to ever live
Quest: Corridors of Time Part 2, Completing An Impossible Task
A Guardian is resurrected in the Light within the Cosmodrome of Old Russia. After fighting through scavengers from the Fallen house of Devils, the Guardian is able to secure a crashed jumpship that will take them to the last city.
The Guardian goes to investigate the Skywatch, following the orders of the Speaker. Within they discover the Hive on Earth.
After fighting through dozens of Eliksni and Hive combatants, the Guardian is able to successfully reactivate the communications array in the cosmodrome, but not before the Warmind, Rasputin, is able to take control over the systems and reconnect to his network of warsats and bunkers throughout the solar system
Restored to his full capabilities, the Warmind goes about testing his weapons systems on the backs of Cabal and Vex as they battle on Mars, obliterating all sides.
The Guardian leads a strike team into the heart of the house of Devils in the cosmodrome, where they find and obliterate the Prime Servitor of the Sepiks line.
With the continued appearances of the Hive on Earth, it becomes clear that this fight will return to the surface of the moon, and so the Speaker lifts the Lunar Interdiction, in place since the Great Disaster. Guardians may once again patrol the lunar suface, with the support of the City.
The Guardian prevents the Hive from completing a ritual to drain the Traveler of its Light, and communicates with Elsie Bray, known then as the Exo Stranger, who invites the Guardian to visit Venus.
Following the invitation given, the Guardian arrives on Venus. After fighting their way into the old Ishtar collective center on Venus, they finally meets Elsie Bray in person who asks the Guardian to destroy the Heart at the center of the Black Garden.
At the behest of Master Rahool of the Cryptarchy, the Guardian infiltrates and reactivates the archives of the Ishtar academy.
While on Venus, the Guardian kills the Kell of the House of Winter to put a stop to their raids on the Ishtar Archive.
As part of a bounty given by Queen Mara Sov, the Guardian leads a strike team to eliminate the Archon Priest, Aksor. Who had been freed from the Prison of Elders by Taniks the Scarred and would have rallied the house of Winter after the death of their Kell Draksis.
The Queen's Crows enter the Cauldron of Rhea, upsetting the Nine. The Queen gives them Skolas as a gift.
Queen Mara Sov of the Reef gifts the Guardian not only the means to make a key but the location of the gate to the Black Garden following the destruction of the Vex Gatelord Zydron.
"Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars."
With knowledge gained from the Awoken of the Reef, the Guardian now knows of a Vex gateway that can take them to the Black Garden. The problem is now that the Gateway resides in a territory of Sol patrolled by the Empire of the Cabal.
Early in his time as a Cloudstrider, Rohan sought to understand the Veil and discovered the Vex had created a half-working copy of it in the form of the Black Heart.
Using the eye of the Gatelord Zyrdon, the Guardian invades the Black Garden for the first time, and obliterates the malformed Black Heart at the center of the Garden. With its destruction, reality fractures as the Black Garden now paradoxically exists beneath the surface of Mars, and the Traveler can heal.
Following the destruction of the Black Heart, a fireteam known as the Kentarch-3, consisting of Lisbon-13, Rekkana, and Yardarm-4 ventured into the Black Garden at the behest of the Oneiromantic circle of the Cryptochrons. Deep within the Garden, they discover a strange Divinity, a weapon of Vex worship. Shortly after, all three Guardians are offered the powers of Darkness and accept. Eventually a brawl breaks out between the three of them, with only Lisbon-13 walking away. The Witness approaches Lisbon and offers to remove his memories, which he accepts. The bodies of Rekkana and Yardarm are never found.
At the request of the Speaker, the Guardian ventures deep within the Vault of Glass on Venus, to end the powers it was theorized that the Black Heart might have allowed to manifest in reality. Within the Vault of Glass, the Vex control the flow and existence of all time. Guardians make their own fate, as it was proven with the destruction of the Templar, the Gorgons, and Atheon; Time's Conflux.
After many cycles spent hiding in the Hellmouth, Eris Morn returns with warnings of the return of Crota, and a plan that would allow others to succeed where her fireteam failed.
Eris asks Guardians to defeat the 'Fist of Crota', fearing that the Fist will summon Crota from his netherworld to Earth.
Working with Eris Morn, the Guardian stops the Hive Wizard Omnigul from breaching the Warmind through the cosmodrome bunker.
The Guardian ventures into the Hellmouth of Luna to stop the return of Crota to the material plane. They are successful, but Eris Morn warns that this will not end until Crota himself is dead.
The Guardian ventures down into the Hellmouth to see to the destruction of the son of Oryx, and avenge Eris Morn's lost friends.
Following the death of Crota, Eris morn works with the Guardian to enact a hive ritual of sacrifice that will echo across the stars.
Following the death of Crota, the Nine claim the gateway that tormented the Sophia.
On his voyage through the stars, Skolas is released from his cryo prison to find Xur; Agent of the Nine has come with his freedom. The would-be Kell of Wolves then moves to rally the disparate fallen houses and proclaim himself Kell of Kells.
With the return of their former Kell, House Wolves is honor bound to follow him once more.
As Skolas is once more released into the solar system by the Nine, Mara Sov must now move to end this Kell of Kells before he can cause more damage. For her continued loyalty despite the years, Mara Sov anoints Petra Venj as the second Queen's Wrath, and tasks her with uniting the Guardians for the task of the defeat of Skolas, and the breaking of this resurgent House of Wolves.
To facilitate the Hunt of House Wolves, Mara opens access to the Vestian Outpost of the Reef. Here is where Petra Venj will coordinate with Variks the Loyal in hunting down the House of Wolves, throughout the solar system. Within, Guardians are also introduced to Brother Vance, a disciple of Osiris, and Reef Cryptarch Ives.
He calls himself "Kell of Kells". Working with Petra Venj, the Guardian is dispatched to Venus to attempt to intercept Skolas as he attempts to recruit the House of Winter under his banner. The mission ends in failure as Skolas is able to secure the loyalty of the House before escaping justice.
Skolas attempts to win over the House of Kings to his cause, however they reject his proposal for unity. In the end, the Guardian is able to eliminate the emissaries of both Houses.
In a desperate attempt to utilize Vex technology, the Wolves break into the Vault of Glass. While the Guardian is able to repel the invaders, the House of Wolves is successful in obtaining some technological advantages from the Vault.
The uprising of the House of Wolves is ended atop the Citadel of Venus. After fighting through waves of Wolves forces, drawn throughout time and space, the would-be Kell of Kells is captured by the Reef. Before he could be sentenced by Mara Sov once again Skolas foretells of coming Darkness.
With nothing more to be gained from the continued life of Skolas the Rabid, he is dispatched to the arena of the Prison of Elders, where he is slain by the Guardians.
The Spires of Mercury appear to resonate with Guardians. The Disciples of Osiris start the Trials of Osiris to observe this effect.
Vance touches upon a truth the system is not ready for and is rebuked. But walks away with a request from Mara Sov.
Eris Morn ventures to the Reef to warn Queen Mara Sov of Oryx's impending arrival. As part of a plan Mara had been preparing, she constructs a Throne World of her own within the Ascendant Plane. Tying it to the Blind Well of the Dreaming City.
Before Oryx can arrive in the system, these three meet in secret to hatch a plot that will see the Taken King dead for all time.
Reef scouts are the first to become aware of the Dreadnaught's presence orbiting Saturn.
Queen Mara Sov unleashes the Harbingers, devastating the Hive fleet, but Oryx's Dreadnaught retaliates, wiping out the Awoken fleet and killing Queen Mara Sov. the coming war
In her attempt to save the life of her Queen, Techeun Shuro Chi holds open the gateway that would have brought them both to the Dreaming City for too long. Through his throne world blast, reaching the gateway, Oryx is able to learn of the location of the Dreaming City, and discovers the Last Ahamkara within its halls.
Following the apparent demise of Mara Sov, Uldren Sov, and many high-ranking officials, Petra Venj is named as the Regent-Commander of the Reef. Her rule is filled with infighting and political division.
Following the Taking of Riven of a Thousand Voices, Oryx invades the throne world of Mara Sov, laying waste to those ascendant halls.
The Guardian arrives on the moon of Phobos, following a distress signal broadcasted by the Cabal stationed there. It is then discovered that strange new creatures known as the Taken have arrived in the Sol system, whom can abduct our foes and return them as new Taken enemies.
Dominus Ghaul orders the Skyburner Primus to take his legion and board the Dreadnaught no matter the cost.
Using a recovered cloaking shield, and Eris's hive infused ship, the Guardian is able to board the Dreadnaught and disable the Dreadnaught's weapon. After fighting through the crashed Skyburner legion of Cabal, the Guardian is able to create a Transmat zone aboard the Hive warship so that further operations can continue.
The Guardian navigates through the labyrinthian halls of the Dreadnaught to face down Oryx, The Taken King. The battle is intense, but in the end, the father of Crota dies, and is banished further within the Dreadnaught for now. Eris later comes to retrieve a shard from Oryx's legendary cleaver, Willbreaker.
While aboard the Dreadnaught, it is discovered that the Skyburner legion have been archiving and broadcasting any and all data they've been able to gather from the Dreadnaught, all the way back to the Cabal home system.
Following the defeat of Oryx, the Guardian works with the Vanguard to route the Taken advances on the Earth, Venus, and Mars.
The Guardian leads a raid to challenge the Taken King and see him brought down. Six Guardians blaze through the terrible War ship. Not the Warpriest, not Gologoroth, nor even Oryx's own daughters, are a match for this fireteam as Oryx; The Taken King, dies by burning Light.
The Vex leak a message from Praedyth, drawing Guardians to the Vault to eliminate the Taken infection, in search of their lost ally. While the Taken Minds responsible for the assault on the Vault are destroyed, Praedyth remains imprisoned.
Mara Sov's gambit pays off and so she begins her journey back to life through the Ascendant Plane. Along the way, she has a brief encounter with the Shattered One, Toland.
The remaining Techeuns begin experimenting with Taken Power by infusing it into armor and weapons.
In an attempt to confirm the deaths of her fellow Witches, Coven Mother Illyn attemps to reach out by using Taken Power to contact her lost witches. She wants this more than anything, but does not know that a predator of want is listening in on this connection.
After the Taken War, the Scorned Barons banded together in a time of weakness to become strong, to prey on anyone and anything that practiced the old Eliksni ways. They began with the one thing their people needed to survive: Ether. In a way, the Barons had become heads of a new House, priests in their own rites, and arbiters of their own trials.
Following the death of her brother Oryx, Savathun comes to survey what remains of his works. Arriving in the Dreaming City, she discovers the Taken Ahamkara still within her enclosure. She would make a bargain of her own, to obtain the command over this perfect monster, for a boon yet to come.
Orin the Lost makes preparations for an expedition to find the Nine.
One year before the events of the Red War, the Drifter, along with several others, venture out into space for parts unknown. Their goal being to find something which would help to balance out what they saw as an overbalance of Light in the Sol System. They would find it on a frozen world out in the middle of nowhere.
A mysterious affliction takes root within the Guardian ranks as strange glowing nanites begin appearing following several excursions to the city of Freehold on Mars. While the Guardians themselves are unaffected, a quarantine is called to keep all Guardians away from civilians due to the damage they could feel. With the diligent efforts of the group known as Owl Sector, we are able to discover the origins of this plague in Clovis Bray's records as a means to prepare humanity for life on new worlds, as well as how they may be cured before any lasting damage can be done. But the question remains, who was it who unleashed these nanites, and what may they have walked away with?
After all their digging in the Cosmodrome, the House of Devils make a terrible discovery.
The Guardian aids Lord Saladin in repelling the Devil Splicers from the Iron Temple.
Working with Shiro-4, the Guardian ventures into the now SIVA plagued lands of the Cosmodrome, to try and track down the rebuilt Sepiks Prime. Saladin aborts the mission as it becomes clear that there are greater problems than the reborn servitor.
The Guardian begins working with Lord Saladin, Shiro-4, and Tyra Karn to end the growing threat of the House of Devil Splicers.
The Guardian pushes back against the Devil Splicers from building forward cannons along the coast of the Cosmodrome.
The Guardian travels to Mars to learn about SIVA and its development as a building program for potential human resettlement on other worlds.
The Guardian learns of Devil Splicer leadership after seeing how they are pushing back against local Hive nests.
The Guardian avenges the Iron Lords and lays their legacy to rest as they rise as the first new iron lord.
Lady Efrideet, long thought dead, returns to Earth from a pacifist colony out in Sol to aid Lord Saladin in helming the Iron Banner tournament.
The Guardian destroys Devil Splicer leaders after infiltrating their lair through the Cosmodrome wall, and destroying their siege engine.
Eris makes one last visit to an old friend before she leaves the Last City to find where the next threat will come from.
See also Silicon Neuroma
Following the sustained attacks on vital house individuals by Guardians, House Kings uses Uldren Sov to call all remaining Eliksni to band together under 1 banner of Dusk, bearing the colors of the old House of Rain.
The Shadows of Calus make a desperate attempt to kill the Dominus of the Cabal Empire. All who ventured aboard this terrible expedition would be slain by the Ghost Primus and his Red Legion.
They imprison the Traveler in a cage, cutting off all Guardians from the Light, and they kidnap the Speaker. Many of the Citizens of the Last City flee with Commander Zavala, but not all are able to escape.
After Osiris left the Spire in the care of his cult, they came to discover the spires resonated with a two-toned noise whenever a Guardian died. When the Red War began and Guardians were sundered of their Light, their deaths now only produced a singular tone.
Eva Levante was among those in the Last City unable to flee the Red Legion. Over the months long war, Eva worked with other survivors to get people out of the Last City to safety.
Following the fall of the Last City, Commander Zavala takes the evacuees of the Last City to the moon of Titan, where the Cabal do not follow. He soon learns why the Red Legion avoid the shadow of the Dreadnaught
Following the loss of the City, Cayde-6 journeys to find a way to assassinate Ghaul. Gets trapped by Vex tech on Nessus.
Ikora Rey journeys to the shard of the Traveler to regain her light without success. Travels to Io in a crisis of faith.
The Guardian visits the shard of the Traveler in the European Dead Zone, restoring their Light.
Following Zavala's distress broadcast, the Guardian reunites with the Commander, and secures a foothold on Saturn's moon of Titan.
Working with the AI-COM/XBLK, aka Failsafe, the Guardian is able to free Cayde from a Vex trap.
Reunited with Ikora, the Guardian works with her and Asher Mir to uncover Ghaul's plan.
See Also fury
While the Guardian is disabling the Almighty from firing, Zavala prepares a push to retake the Last City. The Consul murders the Speaker in his anger.
The Guardian defeats Ghaul in combat, but Ghaul grows into an enormous Light-filled creature. The Traveler awakens, destroying Ghaul and sending a pulse of Light across the galaxy. At the edge of the galaxy, a fleet of Pyramids awaken.
See also Radiant Accipiter
The Guardian meets Mithrax, a captain of the House of Dusk, on Titan as they race to obtain a methane reactor. In the end, the two part in peace after fighting the Hive together. May the Light provide.
Mithrax leads two Guardians to the tomb of Sjur Eido, where he vows to create a home for all open minded Eliksni. This is the beginning of the House of Light.
Emperor Calus' ship, the Leviathan, appears over Nessus, beckoning the Guardians to come aboard for an audience with the former Emperor of the Cabal.
Following the Red War, a woman known as the Emissary of the Nine holds combat matches for the Guardians.
Panoptes, Infinite Mind, finds Osiris. Upon deducing that the Mind is able to perceive his Ghost's light, Osiris tries to save his Ghost, Sagira, but she is damaged in the process. Ikora enlists the Guardian's help to find out what happened.
The Guardian works with Brother Vance to awaken Sagira's shell using technology from a previously hidden bunker of the Disciples of Osiris, hidden in the EDZ.
The Guardian learns of the perfect Vex future after traveling back to Mercury with Sagira, to attempt to find Osiris.
The Guardian and Sagira go to the Io Pyramidion to find a map of the forest
Using the infinite forest, the Guardian attempts to track down Panoptes.
In search of a better processor to read the Infinite Forest map, the Guardian travels to Nessus.
Using the map of the infinite forest, the Guardian is brought to the birth of Panoptes to find them through time. They succeed, but Sagira is captured by the Vex.
Panoptes almost manages to delete the Guardian from the Infinite Forest, but Osiris and his reflections prevent it, allowing the Guardian to defeat Panoptes.
After uncovering a signal in the infinite forest, the Guardian works with Sagira to track down Saint-14. Tragedy strikes upon the discovery of his long dead body, entombed forev- [:error: timeline splice in progress ]
Osiris and Sagira are able to use more of the infinite forest's power, following the death of Panoptes, and Osiris glimpses what is to come.
[See Prophecy of Osiris comic]
In the wake of the Speaker's passing, Zavala is given access to secret knowledge before only held by the Speaker. He decides to venture to Mars, to Rasputin.
Ana Bray and the Guardian work together to fight through the Hive and reach the futurescape on Mars.
Ana and the Guardian fight there way to Rasputin's Mindlab where Zavala awaits them
The Guardian travels to the EDZ to find something to draw Xol into the open.
After defeating Nokris, the son of Oryx, Xol imposes its will upon the Guardian, nearly killing them.
Xol attacks the mindlab and is killed by the Guardian. Rasputin declares his purpose in the system.
With Drifter's return from the frozen world, the Nine take interest
Osiris will not stand to see his love lost, and so creates a machine to travel through time to save the life of Saint-14. Ultimately, he is unsuccessful, and hides the project away.
Shin Malphur meets with the Drifter before he arrives at the tower. The two scheme together for their mutual benefits. Gambit is brought to the Guardians.
The Spider hires Cayde-6 and a crew to capture a group of fallen criminals known as the Scorned Barons. Cayde's Six are successful in capturing all but Fikrul, the Fanatic, whom is gunned down in solar flame by Cayde-6. [See Cayde's Six comic]
Uldren Sov discovers the dying body of Fikrul, and makes a wish for him to live. This wish is granted by Riven.
Uldren Sov grows tired of the Craask's influence and together with Fikrul, they slay the Kell of Kings. Uldren Sov is now the Kell of Dusk.
Uldren meets with the Techeuns to demand they help Mara, whom is believed by all to be gone. He is rebuked, and ends his journey surrendering to the Reef.
Following Uldren Sov and Fikrul's imprisonment in the Reef, Variks attempts to cure them both of their afflictions. He is unsuccessful and inadvertently creates the Scorn, undead Eliksni, risen through Dark Ether. With the knowledge that Variks is the last free Eliksni to come from Riis, Variks causes a prison break to cover his escape from the Reef in order to attempt to unite his people.
Responding to a request from Petra Venj, Cayde-6 and the Guardian go to the Reef to help contain a prison break in the Prison of Elders. Cayde-6 tries to stop Prince Uldren's escape, but is killed by Uldren and his Barons.
In the mayhem of the prison break, a House of Devils Baroness named Eramis is able to flee the prison of Elders.
Following the death of Cayde-6, the Guardian leaves to hunt down the man responsible across the Tangled Shore. They meet with Petra Venj, who has also come to seek the death of Uldren Sov, for his crimes. But to get their vengeance, the two will have to work with The Spider, the only law in these lashed lands.
The Guardian fails to get all the barons in one go, but working with the Spider; Baron of the Tangled Shore, the Guardian is able to hunt down almost every last one of the Scorned Barons.
All but the Fanatic and Uldren Sov remain alive after the death of Elykris; The Machinist. But not before she is able to dispatch multiple ships full of Fikrul's Dark Ether, to ensure the Scorn will have a permanent place in the Sol system.
Believing he is helping Queen Mara Sov, Uldren uses a shard of the Traveler to unlock a portal, releasing the Voice of Riven, which consumes him. After the Guardian is successful in repelling the Taken Chimera, Uldren Sov is left to face the final justice of the Guardian and Petra Venj.
Petra is going to hunt for answers about why Uldren Sov did everything. She invites the Guardian to come with her through the watchtower.
It is revealed that Riven, the Last Ahamkara, has been Taken, and was manipulating Uldren into arranging her escape.
Six Guardians travel deep into the Dreaming City to kill Riven, the last known Ahamkara.
In the death throws of the last known Ahamkara, she casts a grand curse over the Dreaming City as the Hive and Taken invade, under the leadership of Dul Incaru; Daughter of Savathun.
Following the cursing of the Dreaming City, the Reef calls upon the Last city to help defend their most sacred space.
Believing that with the death of Dul Incaru, the curse of the Dreaming City should be lifted, and its domain restored. But Queen Mara Sov knows better. What has happened before will happen again and again, as the Dreaming City has now been caught in a time loop.
Mara Sov sets up a future development with the Nine through their Emissary. It shall be moved beyond the Grave of the first fleet.
The Queen of the Awoken uncovers an uncomfortable discovery and leaves it in the hands of the Guardian to one day make sense of.
Following a meeting with the Spider, the Guardian works alongside Ada-1 to stop Siviks, the brother of the Spider, from using the Black Armory forges to bring chaos to the solar system.
Six Guardians track down Fallen at the outskirts of the city to secure a lost Black Armory vault. While Siviks is able to escape with his life and several documents from the vault, the Guardians are able to destroy his war machine, Insurrection Prime.
Deep within the EDZ laid a prototype black armory forge, rediscovered by the Guardian after cracking its protection protocols
Sightings of strange blights are found in Io, the Drifter asks you to investigate. The essence of Xol, Will of the Thousands has burrowed into Io's soul. The Guardian ventures through Taken, to obtain a rifle of power.
The lost pages of the Black Armory Papers are returned. They reveal that Ada-1 was the daughter of the Black Armory's founder, Henriette. Her name was Adelaide.
Following a discovery made by Drifter, the Guardian stops a Hive consort from crafting more weapons of Sorrow. In doing so, the Last Word is now wielded by the Guardian.
See also Book: Letters from a renegade
In order to confront the dangers coming to reach Sol, Queen Mara Sov must once again venture out beyond the Throne of the Reef.
After wondering through the Hellmouth, Eris morn is tormented by Savathun, and later meets up with Mara Sov. The two begin to travel together in order to uncover the next threat. On these journey's Eris witnesses Mara attack the Black Fleet, before returning to Sol.
A variation of Drifter's original gambit missions sees the Guardians in a much more intense duel
The Warlock Aunor Mahal reaches out to the Guardian with an offer of cooperation if they choose to be the Hidden Agent's spy against the Drifter.
The Guardian is granted visions from the Nine, showing them many events throughout the system. Among them is a warning about the approaching Black Fleet of Pyramids.
Shin Malphur, Zyre Orsa, Dredgen Vale. A man with many names tells the truth of himself to the Guardian.
The Guardian works with Mithrax to stop Eramis from raiding the tower and obtaining a relic of SIVA from within its vaults.
See also IV. The Visionary
Following her failure to reclaim SIVA, Eramis is unsure of her path. But one is whispered to her through dreams.
A hunter retrieves the Crown of Sorrows from one of Calus's Athenaeum worlds.
Calus seeks to have the means to bring the Hive into his empire, and uses the Crown of Sorrows to turn Gahlran, a specially cloned gladiator, into a Hive Commander. But secretly, Savathun has inscribed spells into the crown which bend Gahlran in her thrall, and through him unleashes a Hive infestation aboard the Leviathan.
At Ikora's request, the Guardian investigates the strange frame in the tower, leading them to Nessus, where Calus has dispatched a barge for them. Once aboard, a new frame bequeaths to them a golden chalice of opulence. Calus's voice inviting the Guardian to return to the Leviathan once more.
The Guardian boards the Leviathan to slay Gahlran and stem the flow of Hive into the Leviathan
Shin Malphur has entrusted the Guardian with Dredgen Yor's original Thorn. After dedicated hard work, the Weapon of Sorrow is reborn in the Light, as the Lumina. A weapon of hope
As a reward for their repeated service, Calus has opened up a hall within the Leviathan for the Guardians own self aggrandizement.
A tear in the planes is left over from when Gahlran lived. The Guardian investigates and retrieves the weapon Bad Juju from the realm.
After the deaths of both Crota and Oryx, the Hidden Swarm attempt to make a new ruler. Beneath them a forsaken ritual is enacted to bring ruin to the swarm. And between them both is a Witch Queen, seeking to bring about the total destruction of all. In this time is the Scarlet keep raised up on the Lunar surface.
Following her journey with Mara Sov, Eris Morn returns to the Last City with a dire warning before departing for Luna.
A Pyramid, buried on the Moon, begins creating unending nightmares after its discovery by Eris Morn.
As the Pyramid of Luna awakens from Eris Morn's touch, strange phantasms begin to roam the Lunar surface. Terrible shadows from our past walk among us again. Nightmares and Phantasms are born from the collected trauma of those Lightbearing minds. A defense mechanism of the Pyramid, exploited by the daughter's of Crota in their quest for power over the Hive.
Following the signal emitted from the relic found aboard the Lunar Pyramid, the Guardian follows it to the Black Garden where they find a shrouded statue, and the weapon Divinity.
Drawn to the Lunar Pyramid, the Sol Divisive begin to infest Earth's moon at the behest of the Undying Mind, now returned.
Ikora Rey devises a plan to slay the Undying Mind, which has hidden copies of itself throughout time. Over several weeks, the Guardians construct a portal which can draw those copies back, and have them exterminated by the Guardians. Quest: The First of Many, Vex Invasion To Destroy a Mind
Over many weeks, the Guardians systematically obliterate every last iteration of the Undying Mind that it has hidden throughout time.
Ana Bray works with Rasputin to uncover the secrets behind the Pillory Program, and pays for the terrible consequences of her first life's work. {Record: Legacy Pt 2)
Psion sisters search throughout Mercury and have discovered an old time machine, and hatch a plan to use it in order to rewrite the events of our history.
Following the destruction of the Undying Mind, Osiris ventures into the Infinite Forest one day to find that the dark simulant future he saw to prevent had been eradicated. Almost the whole solar system had been obliterated unto the subatomic level.
The Guardian uses the Sundial of Osiris to navigate the corridors of time, preventing any changes that the Psion Flayers may attempt. The Sundial
Three of the Psion flayer sisters merge themselves together in a final attempt to repel the Guardians from the Sundial, and secure their future. Their fourth sister does not join them, instead vowing to avenge their deaths should they fail.
Following the Guardian's journey throughout time, Saint-14 has been brought home from another timeline to the Last City again. [:Error resolved: Timeline splice complete]
After so many years away from his home, the Greatest Titan to ever live, has come to rest within the City he was shown many centuries before.
Saint-14 shows the Guardian around the battlefield of Twilight Gap where history was made. Lord Shaxx sings a song from Eris...
Osiris visits Rasputin on Mars, and confronts him about which side of the war he is on.
Elsie Bray discovers a Pouka creature of Neomuna out by pluto, alongside a Ghost named Tokki. These two would be her companions for a time, as Elsie attempted to study the strange nanotech material also found at the sight. In time, it would become known that the Pouka possesses psychic abilities, which let Elsie Bray recall events in her prior timelines with greater clarity.
Osiris, now free to roam the system, demands aid from the Warmind. He is lead to the edge of the Kuiper Belt where he finds a great yawning maw, there is no Light here, within he finds a small metal seed to be planted.
Osiris plants the seed found out in space on the moon of Io, at the behest of Queen Mara Sov. A tree with Silver Wings will grow there.
Eramis has gathered many Eliksni on the moon of Europa, following the Whispers from her dreams, and begins to build for them a new home here on this frozen world.
Following the death of her sisters, Amtec boards the Almighty and sends it on an unstoppable collision course with the Earth.
Rasputin is called upon to obliterate the Almighty before it can hit the Earth. To do so, the Guardian works with Ana to uncover hidden bunkers across the Sol system where next generation war sats can be developed and launched to destroy the Almighty. In time, the sun destroyer is reduced to no more than ash and debris over the sky of the last city. Quest: Speak with Ana, Raising Our Defenses Quest: Into the Mindlab, Raising Our Defenses Quest: Boot Sector, Raising Our Defenses Quest: Lunar Connection, Raising Our Defenses Quest: Expand and Collapse, Raising Our Defenses
Before the final assault on the Almighty. Rasputin takes the Guardian on a journey of trust, showing him how he slaughtered the Iron Lords in malice, not indifference. How he abused his son's kindness to see him slaughtered and all who were with him on that day. A story about a father's regret for their tyranny's ruin. Quest: A Warmind’s Secrets, The Lie
Through the combined efforts of the Guardians and Rasputin, the Almighty is turned to scrap and ash over the Last City.
The Black Fleet of the Witness has returned to the Sol system, to bring about Salvation.
The Black Fleet begins to touch down on several worlds around the Sol system. Rasputin attempts to fire his new and improved war sats at the fleet, to know avail, and for his impudence he is commanded to die. Nothing will stand before salvation...
With the return of the Black Fleet, the people of Neomuna elect to go into cryogenic stasis until the threat passes. They will live within the CloudArk of Neomuna for the forseeable future.
Eramis boards the Pyramid as it lands on Europa, and finds within the power to control and dominate the world.
After training with the Pouka, Elsie is able to better envision the history of her prior timelines, and through them learns about Stasis. She journeys to the Pyramid on Europa, but is too late to secure the crux, but not too late to reconnect to the Darkness, and reclaim her power over Stasis. She seeks out allies for what is to come.
The Guardian attempts to meet with Eris Morn on Io. The Pyramid attempts to abduct the Guardian, who is seemingly rescued by an Ascendant gateway. The Guardian then meets Eris beneath the Io Pyramid and finds a tree of silver wings in blossom. They take from it a seed, which Eris believes can be used to commune with the Pyramid. Later, Zavala, Eris, and the Guardian meet to discuss future plans for the fleet.
The Drifter has devised a way they can use the tree of Silver Wings to break through Savathun's interference and commune with the Pyramid on Io. Contact - Io Contact - Titan
The Drifter and Eris Morn seek out knowledge of the Darkness from the Nine within the impossible world of the Haul. prophecy
While the Guardian and Eris work to uncover these mysteries, Commander Zavala is calling for all Guardians to return to the Last City.
Over three months, the Guardian and Eris have painstakingly uncovered whispers from the Pyramid over Io while the Witch Queen worked to slow down their efforts. Nokris, lost Son of Oryx, is slain in the Ascendant Plane, and the message of the Black Fleet is heard. Ancient Power awaits you on Europa... Book: The Singular Exegete
Guardians will continue to fight the coming storm no matter the dangers. Be Brave lost Lights... Book: Duress and Egress
The Traveler begins to shift and glow over the last city as the Guardians feel the power of Light swell around them. The Traveler emerges, healed of the damage suffered in the Red War, and protects the inner system from the Darkness of the Black Fleet. Io, Mercury, Titan, and Mars are swallowed up in the shadow
Following the vanishing of Titan from the Sol System, Deputy Commander Sloane, and her Ghost, Síocháin, were left to fend for themselves on the oceanic moon. They would spend the coming years fighting against pockets of Taken and Hive. But in their hour of need, a new force appeared before them. Ahsa, proto-worm of Fundament, would forge a pact between herself and Sloane. Bind and live. Aiat.
Following the death of Ghaul, Princess-Imperial Caiatl attempts to hold her empire together. Through a clever deception of Savathun, Caiatl opens a gateway over Torobatl, allowing Xivu'Arath to descend upon the heart of the Empire and destroy it. In the aftermath, Caiatl takes her place as Empress of the Cabal. Though her rule has begun in ashes, the Cabal shall ascend under her watch.
Osiris sets out across the solar system, searching for answers as to the disappearance of the worlds. Along the way he uncovers signs of new Cabal leadership under Empress Caiatl, and learns of Savathun's punishment by the forces of the Black Fleet. Venturing down into Luna, Osiris is drawn into Xivu'Arath's blood craze. He nearly succumbs to Xivu'Arath's celebrant, if not for the sacrifice of his first friend, Sagira. In the aftermath, Osiris is possessed by Savathun. Immolant Pt. 2
Calus has felt slighted by the voice in the Darkness for not speaking with him upon its arrival, and so he enacts a plan to force a communion with his Witness. Gathering up the Scorn, he binds them to the Crown of Sorrows, and the Leviathan slips from the Universe.
Following Eramis's rise as the Kell of Darkness, Variks has sent out a distress beacon for anyone to come and bring aid.
Following the words left to them by the Pyramid on Io, the Guardian ventures to Europa and discovers Variks in distress. They investigate to find the former Warden of the Reef under assault by the newly formed House of Salvation.
Working alongside Elsie Bray, The Drifter, Eris Morn, and Variks, the Guardian claims the power of Darkness for the protection of the Last City. Within us all is the will to controll Darkness, and with it Eramis's House of Salvation is shattered as the Kell of Darkness herself loses control over her power, and is encased in a Stasis crystal.
The Guardian works with Elsie to further fine tune their control over Stasis. Along the way, Elsie Bray reveals truths about the life she has lived. She reunites with her sister, Ana Bray, who is uncertain about her sister's dark power.
The Guardian repels the House of Salvation from the Deep Stone Crypt, though the crypt is stripped of its security measures. The Clovis Bray AI is reawakened.
To attempt to address the risk of Guardians falling to corruption by the Darkness, the Vanguard makes the official policy of the City that no Guardian is permitted to use the power of Darkness. Though enforcement of this policy is less than iron tight.
While the House of Salvation remains on Europa, Variks is given a temporary stay of judgement by the Reef until such time as House Salvation is no longer a threat on Europa.
Zavala warns the Guardian that Osiris is attempting to storm the Hellmouth, in spite of Sagira's death. They venture down into the Hellmouth to protect the now Lightless Guardian, and down in the pit the Guardian is met with The Crow, a Guardian indentured to servitude to the Spider.
The Crow tells the Guardian about dreams he's been having. Together they work to make sense of the message left by the Traveler and stop Savathun's taken from obtaining Light from a shard of the Traveler. "It's a warning. It's everything. It's us, it's Crow, it's the Taken, it's our path. Guardian, the Traveler is talking about the future. About how the choices we make will impact Crow and whatever his role to come will be." —Ghost
The Guardian has worked with the Crow and "Osiris" over many weeks to hunt down Xivu'Arath's High Celebrant. They corner them in the Dreaming City and slay the beast responsible for Sagira's death. As their reward from the Spider, the Guardian demands the release of the Crow from his servitude.
Free from the Spider, the Crow makes his way to the last city, where "Osiris" welcomes him with new gear for his fresh start.
Following the destruction of the Cabal home system, Empress Caiatl has come to rally forces in Sol.
The first meeting between the Empress of the Cabal and the Commander of the Vanguard is tense. She demands he bend the knee and join her empire. Commander Zavala refuses.
Remnants of the Cabal legions encountered before the Red War begin warring to obtain seats on Caiatl's war council. The Guardians take place in these Provings in order to disrupt any and all War Council hopefuls. Commander Zavala is nearly assassinated by Psions seeking vengeance on behalf of Amtec, but is secretly rescued by the Crow.
A ship known as the Glykon returns from beyond the universe emitting a distress beacon. The Guardian is sent to attempt to rescue a Guardian aboard. Sadly, the Guardian Katabasis is already passed, and so the Guardian takes his rifle as tribute.
To end this war with the Cabal before it begins, "Osiris" suggests one final match between the Cabal and the City. Both sides send forth their champion. The Guardian emerges triumphant, and Caiatl prepares to honor the agreement of Zavala's terms for Armistice.
Empress Caiatl and Commander Zavala meet on Nessus to take oaths for peace between their people. Suddenly two Psions attempt an ambush to kill Commander Zavala one last time. He is saved thanks to the swift actions of Empress Caiatl and the Crow, whose face is finally unmasked before Zavala.
After several weeks of exploration, the Crown of Sorrows is finally recovered from the Glykon, and brought to the last city for study.
A Vex simulation is somehow manifesting in the real world over the Last City.
The Guardian meets with the Kell of House Light, Mithrax, to bargain for his aid as a Sacred Splicer, to lift the endless night over the Last City.
Exercising their authority over refugee admission, the Vanguard welcomes the Eliksni House of Light refugees into the Last City. This causes contention with Lakshmi of the future War cult.
Over many weeks, Mithrax works with the Guardian to uncover the source of the Endless Night. Quria: The Dreaming Mind is revealed as the source, and destroyed. Over this season, strife and unrest bubbles to the surface as Lakshmi becomes a beacon for anti-Eliksni resettlement within the Last City. Many tragedies strike as people of the Last City terrorize the Eliksni of House Light. But the conflict will pass in time as we all learn to live alongside our monsters, and in time discard those pains as well. Book: Beneath the Endless Night
Lakshmi-2, alongside Executor Hideo lead the major city factions in an attempted coup of the Last City, to remove Zavala and Ikora from power. As part of this operation, Lakshmi-2 has learned from "Osiris" how to open a Vex gate, and attempts to slaughter the entire House of Light by sending them into the vacuum of space. But instead, the Vex emerge from the gateway and kill her on the spot. Now as Vex invade the Last City, humanity and Eliksni unite together to defend their home from this threat. They succeed in closing the gateway together as one. In the wake of their failed power grab, New Monarchy, Future War Cult, and Dead Orbit flee the City to avoid justice. "Osiris" leaves the Last City as well, under mysterious circumstances.
Petra has a new coven of Techeuns trained to retrieve Mara Sov. The first since Mara decreed no new Techeuns to be trained. They succeed in ferrying Mara Sov across the Ley Lines, back to the Dreaming City, but several of the techeuns are lost among the Ascendant Plane.
The Guardian, following Saint-14 and the Crow, track down "Osiris" to the Dreaming City. After dispatching newly empowered Taken and Scorn soldiers, they find "Osiris" and Mara Sov having just finished a conversation. They ask him to return to the city, and Savathun: the Witch Queen reveals her true form to them all, before Mara encases her in a crystal prison. She will return Osiris to them, in exchange for the exorcism of her worm parasite.
The Guardian begins to navigate the Ley Lines to find lost Techeuns to aid Mara Sov in her exorcism of Savathun's worm. Nobody believes a word out of Savathun's mouth, but this is the first chance they've had to end her for good. She will be mortal once her worm is removed, and the safety of her throne world will be gone. Overtime, it is revealed that Xivu'Arath is hunting down Savathun at the behest of the voice in the Darkness, the original maker of the Taken. Savathun is interrogated during her duration as a prisoner, though the Crow is kept away as Mara Sov fears for the man who was once her brother. Saint-14 searches across the system to try and find Osiris, should Savathun's word turn to ash in his hands. Book: Ripples
The Crow used to not worry himself much about the man who wore his face before him. But in recent weeks, he has been made to suffer the consequences of that man. He sneaks into Savathun's prison within the Dreaming City to confront her over her actions while masquerading as Osiris. She in turn offers him clarity as to who people see in his eyes. Savathun somehow restores the memories of Uldren Sov to Crow, leaving him in existential turmoil for the future.
It's time. Enough of Mara's techeuns have been returned and the Ley Lines are aligned. The Exorcism of Savathun's worm is carried out as Xivu'Arath's forces barrel down on the Dreaming City. The Exorcism is successful Savathun's Worm is separated from her, but Savathun had prepared an escape spell to be triggered precisely as it occured. She did however hold her end of the bargain and the real Osiris is returned, only in a coma from which it is unclear if he will wake.
Savathun, the Witch Queen of the Hive, arrives at the edge of the Last city, clinging on to life. Her final gamble is now. After what may be her final words, her eons long life ends on an abandoned mountainside...
Savathun is reborn in the Light by her Ghost Immaru. Her faith in the Light paid off. Soon she is attended to by an arriving Witch who was her right hand in life, to guide the now amnesiac Hive to the Lure, where the plan set in motion in her first life can be enacted.
Feeling the pull of the Light, the Ghosts are drawn to find Savathun's throne world in a state of transformation as the Light sunders and remakes the entire plane around them. It is here where the Lucent Brood are born of the dead Hive amassed within Savathun's throne world. Book: Lucent Tales
In her first days of being a Lightbearer, Savathun seeks to better understand the powers of Light which now surged through herself and her brood. She observes how different classes of Hive soldier have differing affinities for the Light's attendant elements.
Savathun imprisons Rhulk; Disciple of the Witness, within the Pyramid sunken within her throne world.
Without warning, the planet Mars returns to the Sol system, with many scars and changes upon it. Nearby the unearthed Cradle of Mars, a Relic of Darkness is discovered. But before further investigation can occur, Empress Caiatl has ordered the construction of a gargantuan war cannon nearby the dig site. Not to destroy it, but aimed for, Savathun's flagship, the Lure.
The Guardian is called in to try and find their way aboard Savathun's ship. They come into conflict as Caiatl's Cabal soldiers begin firing on them for an unknown reason. The Guardian reaches Savathun aboard her flagship as she escapes. In her place is a Knight, bearing the Light of the Traveler. For the first time in their life, the Guardian slays a Ghost. There is no time to dwell on that fact, as they chase Savathun back into her throne world. Here they meet another Hive Ghost by the name of Fynch, who wishes to understand how the Hive have the Light as well.
Following the assault of her forces on Mars, Caiatl is enraged at the Last City, but puts her feelings aside for the sake of the alliance. While the Guardian is working with Ikora to uncover where the Lucent Brood come from, Empress Caiatl, Crow, Saladin, and Zavala will be working to stop their efforts beyond the Throne World. To do this, they will be abducting Lucent Hive soldiers, rending their Light, and engaging in Psionic interrogations to find Savathun's plot. Crow is uneasy about this path they're on, but resolves to see it through.
Working alongside Ikora Rey, Eris Morn, and Fynch, The Guardian uncovers the truth about Savathun, the Witness, and her plans by using the newly obtained power of Deepsight to look into the memories of objects of importance throughout the throne world. This was Savathun's plan all along, for as the Guardian uncovered her past, Savathun's own memories were restored to her as she had done with the Crow.
"Thanks for the memories, Guardian."
Savathun attempts to summon the Traveler to her Throne world. The Guardian fights their way all throughout her Throne until they reach Savathun. Using memories hidden away in her father's worm familiar, they're able to barely succeed in killing Savathun. Before she dies, Savathun offers us one final warning, the Witness is coming. Before the Guardian can kill Immaru, and forever ensure Savathun's demise, he escapes as the Traveler returns back over the Last City.
Though Savathun may be dead, there is yet more to uncover. Mara Sov works with the Guardian to save the life of the parasite once housed within Savathun's form. For it has been with her for eons, with many secrets to tell. However Savathun has cursed it to die without a host. The Guardian and Mara Sov end up hosting the parasite within a weapon. Though offended by its new host, the Parasite follows its end of the Bargain, and reveals that Savathun betrayed the Witness in the collapse.
With the death of Savathun, and her wellspring disrupted, her binding spell over Rhulk weakens within the Pyramid. Mara Sov sends forth the Guardians to slay the Disciple before he may cause greater harm. Within the Pyramid, the Guardian find Rhulk preparing to use THE UPENDED to sunder the Throne World. Throughout the Pyramid lay Rhulk's experimentations with the Scorn. With great effort, the Disciple is slain, and the Pyramid broken. Now we must preserve it from being used by the forces of the Witness once more.
The final plan of the Lucent Brood is revealed. They had been amassing a massive amount of Light to summon Savathun's throne world to the Earth's moon. The Guardian is dispatched to end the Hive Wizard enacting the final ritual. Victory is soon soured as upon returning home, the Guardian and Saladin find that Crow accidentally killed Caiatl's psion operative in his haste to end the interrogation operation. Caiatl is displeased and demands Crow's death in exchange. Lord Saladin volunteers his own instead. Caiatl agrees to spare the life of Crow, but Saladin will forever be a Cabal soldier as part of her war council. Before leaving, Saladin gives crow some parting advice, his Iron medallion, and an Iron War axe.
Eris Morn is given Savathun's corpse to study and dissect. Within the skull of the Witch Queen lay the binding sigil for the Crown of Sorrows. Eris later works with the Drifter to uncover that between all the Pyramids of the Black Fleet, there is a binding, which links to a source far away from Sol, for now...
The Leviathan has appeared over the Lunar surface, forever changed as the Emperor has been. The Guardian returns to see pleasure barge of Calus infested with the Egregore fungus that they had first encountered aboard the Glykon ship. Calus has communed with his Witness and prepares to elevate himself by connecting with the Pyramid embedded into the Lunar surface. Before the Guardian can continue exploring the Leviathan further, they must flee as the Nightmare phantasms, formerly a common sight on the moon, now roam the halls of the Leviathan.
Eris morn has come up with a plan to deal with the Nightmares plaguing the Leviathan. She binds the Nightmares of Crow and Commander Zavala to herself and the Guardian. This will allow the Guardian protection as they are put to the task of hunting down any and all phantasms aboard the Leviathan, and imprisoning their energy within the Crown of Sorrows.
In order to better understand what has happened to the once Emperor of the Cabal, Eris Morn sends the Guardians into the depths of his mindscape, to uncover this truth. The Guardian learns of Calus's rise as Emperor, the truth of his exile, and his ascension before the Witness.
Before we can move on Calus, the Nightmares which once repelled us must be dealt with. Nightmares are born of the internal trauma of their hosts, in recovery, they are overcome. The Crow reconciles with Uldren Sov's history, and comes to recognize that he was never only a monster. The pain of losing his son as weighed on Commander Zavala for centuries, in forgiveness he finds peace for the first time. Empress Caiatl resolves to move beyond the legacy of her hero, Ghaul, and make a new Cabal beyond anything he or Calus could have dreamed.
The connection between Calus and the Black Fleet is forged. The Guardian, Eris, Crow, Zavala, and Caiatl make a last desperate attempt to halt Calus's integration with the Lunar Pyramid, but the best they can do is delay the inevitable as Calus slowly is joined with the forces of the Witness. The Herald of the second collapse is soon upon us.
Eramis's slumber within the crystal of Stasis is shattered. She has been tasked by the Witness to see the return of great power lost since the collapse. Eramis cannot refuse this will and begins calling up the old pirate crews of the Dark Age. This return is discovered when the Drifter has the Guardian arrive on Europa, to smuggle the Spider into the Last City.
The Guardian works together with Mithrax, Drifter, and House of Light Scribe Eido, to chart a course across the stars to recover the relics of Nezarec before Eramis is able to do so. Excitement and Adventures are had as the four of them storm the old hideouts of Eliksni pirate lords, harsh truths are revealed about the sordid history of the Kell of Light, while the Kell of Darkness begins to feel the weight of her service to the Witness. Book: Between Stolen Stars
Mithrax begins to ponder what can be done with these relics of Nezarec, now that they have been secured from the Witness's grasp. While he devotes himself fully to the discovery of what is possible, he asks the Guardian and Spider to oversee some of his duties as the Kell of House Light. Using the funds and resources obtained from pirate crews and around the solar system, the Spider coordinates the refurbishment of the Eliksni District within the last City.
Mithrax successfully uncovers a means to siphon off the primordial power of Darkness within the Relics of Nezarec, and distills a cup of tea with it. After Saint-14 administers the terrible brew to his slumbering love, Osiris is awakened from his coma since his possession by Savathun. His mind filled with secret knowledge stolen from Savathun, but there would be time for that later. For now, there is only celebration.
Acting on Osiris's vision of a city on Neptune, multiple scouting parties are dispatched, and nothing is found. Osiris's condition is interrogated by Ikora to try and determine his physical and mental soundness. Osiris feels dejected as this vision is all he has to show from his capture by Savathun, and nobody believes in him anymore.
Osiris seeks out Ana Bray to confide in her how he languishes in people's distrust in him and has come to her with a request and a plan. If there is anyone in the entire solar system who could legitimize his visions of Neptune, it was Rasputin, whom was nearly lost in the return of the Black Fleet. To see him restored to life, Osiris suggests that they beseech the Clovis Bray AI for assistance. Whom better to rebuild the Warmind, than his original creator?
Following the rescue of Clovis Bray AI from the combined forces of Xivu'Arath and Eramis, the Guardian, Ana Bray, and Osiris have a plan. Rasputin cannot be rebuilt with only the code Ana Bray recovered from his mindlab, he will need supplemental data from his remaining subminds around the Sol system. The Guardian leads these heists into the mindlabs of Malahayati and Charlemange, as well as retrieving an AI Kernel from beneath Europa's surface, but it's still not enough to return the Warmind.
While efforts continue to be made for the restoration of the Warmind, in order for him to reconnect with his Warsat network and safeguard it from Xivu'Arath's forces, the Guardian ventures out into space. In Geosynchronous orbit over the earth lay the Seraph Station, a nerve center for the entire Warmind Network. The Guardian faces down the forces of the Witness lead by Eramis to install a virus aboard the satellite. Now, nobody but Rasputin may access the Warsat network.
An old outpost on Mars is reactivated by the temporal disturbances across the surface. The Sol Divisive invade the spire under the guidance of Eramis. Osiris wishes to investigate. Ikora sends the Guardian to go in and uncover what can be discovered. It is revealed that this base was a joint operation by the Clovis Bray Corporation and Ishtar collective. The Guardian succeeds in stopping the Vex from using the spire to imprison Rasputin's subminds. Osiris is pleased to discover that this facility contains knowledge that can shine new lights on his vision of Neptune. Shortly thereafter, Ana Bray leads an expedition into the Spire to learn about the AUGURMIND Soteria's past. TM-Earp Custom Suit
Rasputin's code has yet to re-build itself, and we've run out of AI-COM locations to provide new data for the engram. Ana Bray comes to the Guardian with a plan. She has learned that Lord Felwinter was created from the body of Rasputin's lost son. With access to his Ghost, Felspring, Rasputin awakens. He reveals the truth of Clovis Bray's designs for the Warmind, that Rasputin was built to obliterate the Traveler so that he may replace her as a machine god of Clovis Bray's design. His deceit revealed, the Clovis AI is once more confined to the surface of Europa.
It is revealed what plans Xivu'Arath holds for the Warsat network. In order to summon forth herself and her armies to the Sol system, she requires an act of devastation so terrible. Mara Sov posits that no matter who uses the Warsat network, Rasputin or Xivu'Arath, the destruction caused will open the gateway for Xivu'Arath to invade the system. Rasputin must now only hold the Warsat network, without using it to destroy the forces of the Witness amassing over the Earth. For however long until something else can be done.
Rasputin has begun to formulate a plan for how to safeguard humanity, without firing the Warsat network. A plan which will see the people of earth forever safe from obliteration on high. But before this can happen, Rasputin sends the Guardian to retrieve hidden files within the cosmodrome, air-gapped from his network to ensure their security.
The worst has come to pass. Eramis has managed to bypass the virus preventing her from controlling the Warsat network, and has enacted the ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE under the Witness's watchful eyes. The Warsat network begins moving into a firing position over the Traveler, who for the first time in centuries, moves out of the sky of the Last City to protect humanity. Rasputin's plan is revealed, Aurora Sacrifice. Once Rasputin is reconnected to the Warsat Network, Ana Bray must fully and permanently delete his AI. As Eramis fires the Warsats, Ana Bray ends the life of Rasputin. The Traveler is saved from the Warsat network.
The information Rasputin wanted retrieved from the Cosmodrome contained within it the proof Osiris sought. The existence of Nefele Stronghold, and the secret it hides. The Veil, an object of immense paracausal power, tied to the Traveler.
The Black Fleet surrounds the Traveler over the Earth, nothing, not even the Terraforming power of the Light, can be done to stop the Witness as it approaches. Touching the mind of the Traveler, the Witness learns the location of the Veil on Neptune, and dispatches his newly empowered Disiple, Calus. The Guardian and Osiris give chase as the Typhon Imperator moves to descend upon Neptune.
After crash landing from one of the fleet ships of the Shadow Legion, the Guardian and Osiris discover a previously unknown city of humanity, Neomuna. As well, they meet the protectors of Neomuna, the Cloudstriders Rohan and Nimbus. On Neomuna, the Guardian and Osiris begin to observe strange Strands in the air around them. This power will prove necessary to stop Calus and secure the Veil.
While Calus himself may be on Neptune, unearthing the Veil from its resting place. Queen Mara Sov of the Awoken has come to the aid of the City, to rescue prisoners captured by the Shadow Legion within the Pyramids of the Black Fleet. She knights Devrim Kay, Mithrax, and the Guardians as her Queensguard. With her power, the Guardians may breach the Black Fleet through the Ascendant plane.
On Neomuna, the Guardian works to uncover the power of Strand and stop Calus from reaching the Veil. An artifact known as the Radial Mast is destroyed at the cost of the life of Cloudstrider Rohan. The Witness is displeased with his disciple's sloth and demands the Veil secured immediately...
Calus makes a final push against the forces of Empress Caiatl and the Guardian. He descends from his flagship to personally secure the Veil after dispatching his daughter Caiatl. Deep beneath the city of Neomuna, the Guardian faces down Calus. With the newly mastered power of Strand, Calus; Disciple of the Witness, is slain. Victory is short-lived as it is revealed the Witness has once more possessed the Guardian's Ghost, and uses them to connect with the Veil. Above the Earth's surface, the Witness carves a gateway before the Traveler, entering its Pale Heart. All across the system, it is felt, the being known as the Traveler is now gone. Where once her heart was felt, now only the gateway remains.
Within the CloudArk of Neomuna, nightmares began to terrorize the Neomuni from the returned disciple of the Witness, Nezarec; The Final God of Pain. The Guardian follows these whispers aboard the terraformed pyramid over earth, where the Witness once stood. The Guardians discover that Nezarec had been inadvertently revived by the Traveler's terraforming Light. To end Nezarec's hold over the Neomuni, the Guardians face down this terrible threat for what may hopefully be the final death of the final god of pain.
Following a distress signal detected from a Shadow Legion prison in the EDZ, The Guardian, Mithrax, and Amanda Holliday ventured into the Tunnels off the Sunken Isles. After fighting through the considerable defenses of the legion, including one of the Witness's own tormentors, the base went into lockdown and began the self-destruct process. Amanda Holliday was able to undo the holdings for the prisoners, but not with enough time to escape the blast herself. Her body was later recovered, to be interred within the Last City...
The Guardian uses Mara Sov's power to carry themself, Crow, Mithrax, and Devrim to the Shadow Legion Flagship flying over the Earth. Together, they fight through the ship, and destroy its engines completely. With the prison ship no longer fully operational, the Shadow Legion know that humanity will not stand idly by, and allow their brutality.
Following the failure of the Guardian to stop the Witness from making a connection to the Veil, and linking to the Traveler, all seemed lost. Recently, the saturnian moon of Titan has returned to the Sol system by some unknown means.
Upon Titan's return to the solar system, a distress call was immediately received from Deputy Commander Sloane. Immediately, the Guardian, Zavala, Saint-14, and Lord Saladin dispatched to Titan to bring home Sloane. Along the way, it was discovered that Drifter had come for much the same task. To the horror of all, the voice of Xivu'Arath was heard throughout the Arcology. The Hive god of war has arrived. After repelling her forces, the Guardian ventured a kilometer beneath the waves to find Sloane, partially Taken. She did not send the distress call for herself, but for Ahsa, Proto-worm of Fundament. She has secret knowledge of the Witness that must be heard.
The Drifter has come up with a means by which Ahsa and Sloane's bond may be strengthened, allowing for more communication to be shared between the two. To accomplish this task, we must dive down beneath the waves of Titan to dig up Egregore Coral for its ability to create psychic links.
Deep within the Arcology, the corpse of Oryx; the Taken King, is discovered. While exploring the area, the Guardian uncovers a plot by the Lucent Brood to forcibly resurrect Oryx through a combination of both Hive necromantic skills, and the Light of a Ghost. It is discovered that Xivu'Arath has been visiting this psuedo-grave for some time, as the corpse of Oryx keeps a memory of those visitations.
Following the failure of the Lucent Brood to forcibly resurrect Oryx; the Taken King, Ikora dispatched a Hidden fireteam to examine the site and remove Oryx's corpse to a more secure location. Bizarrely, the corpse itself still displays a form of life, and is suffused with Darkness.
After several weeks of gathering egragore coral from the depths of Titan, the connection between Ahsa and Sloane was stronger than ever. This day, Ahsa reveals to all the true history of the one known as the Witness, warning of what may yet come.
Xivu'Arath attempts to take the Traitor Worm Ahsa. Sloane is briefly overcome by the Hive god of war. Ahsa shares her final message to the Guardians:
"The true path lies obscured. But she knows the way. She who hides the truth... in deception. The Witch Queen... must rise."
In order to travel through the gateway on the Traveler, the Guardians will require Savathun's knowledge. Her price is the death of her sister, Xivu Arath. To that end, Eris Morn has conferred with Immaru on a plan. She will join the Hive's pantheon as their fourth great god, and slay Xivu Arath.
So she rises. Eris Morn, Hivebane, the many mouthed hunger, the knife-edged truth, and God of Vengeance. Aiat.
The Guardians begin empowering their newly born Hive God of Vengeance with bloodshed and death. So that one day soon, Eris Morn will command a power great enough to challenge the Hive God of War, Xivu Arath.