Destiny: Lore

Chapter 15: Destiny 2

The Red Legion of the Cabal Empire began a strong and mighty attack against the Tower and City. From here, we fight our way through the Tower and make it to the Cabal Command Ship. We confront the Cabal warlord, Dominus Ghaul, who is set to take the Traveler and claim it as his own. He knocks us down and our Ghost falls off the ship, presumably to never be seen again. Injured and enraged by the destruction of our home, we attempt a fight, but we are overpowered and thrown off the side of the Command Ship. We fall hundreds of feet into the City below us.

We wake up from being knocked out, and look to the sky, where we see the Traveler is begin caged by a Cabal device. We stumble our way through the City, which is being patrolled by the Cabal. Eventually, we find our Ghost, who is damaged and nearly lost of all light. At this point, we realize our Light has been stripped from us, and the only bit of light we do have is our Ghost, who is weak and distraught by the events that occurred. We make our way out of the Walls, and travel on for hours, to days, to weeks. We follow a Hawk that we believed to be a sign. We continue to follow it, until we eventually fall off a cliff. At the bottom, we meet Suraya Hawthorne, leader of the Farm, a refugee camp for Guardians who survived the Red Legion's attack on the City. Here we find Tyra Karn, who's Light has also been drained, making her lose most of her memory. We also find that Lord Shaxx had survived the attack, with some of his combat frames. With this, Hawthorne points us towards Trostland, a part of the European Dead Zone that has been overrun with Fallen. She tells us to talk to Devrim Kay, the local Marksman and friend to Guardians.

We eventually find him and talk to him of our troubles. He tells us that the Farm wont survive unless we grab some supplies, and so we begin an adventure. We scan an old House mark, from the House of Judgement, as a threat to all who opposed them. We then had to look for a loot cache, and then we raided a lost sector, a part of Trostland that we would have to take back from Fallen control. We then get a call from Hawthorne about a huge cache of supplies that is in threat of being taken by the Fallen. We venture to the Sojourner's Camp and fight off fallen that are attempting to capture whatever resources they can. After slaughtering them, we find the Shard of the Traveler from our vision and venture into the Dark Forest. Here, we restore our light and we brandish our weapons of light. For Titans, a Shield. For Hunters, an Arc staff. And Warlocks, a Sword. We take to our newly found weapons and we kill wave after wave of Fallen, and we eventually return to Suraya, who intercepted a distress call from Commander Zavala, who is stuck on Saturn's moon, Titan. Here, he urges the Guardians to come and set a counter-offensive against the Red Legion.

We go there and find that the Fallen and Hive are in a war against each other. We fight through and find Deputy Commander Sloane, who assists us in finding that the Red Legion was sent to the Solar System because of a distress call sent out during the Taken War, two years prior. The leader of the Cabal Empire, Emperor Calus, was overthrown by Dominus Ghaul and the Consul, and they possess a superweapon capable of destroying the entire Solar System. The superweapon is called the Almighty, and it has been positioned near the Sun, using Mercury as a fuel source. Zavala tasks us to find Ikora Rey and Cayde-6 to assist in the counterattack to retake the Last City.

The Guardian finds Cayde-6 on the unstable centaur planet, Nessus, which has been mostly transformed by the Vex. With the aid of Failsafe, a Golden Age AI from a crashed colony ship, the Exodus Black, the Guardian frees Cayde-6 from a Vex time loop. They take the Vex teleporter for use in reclaiming the City. Cayde-6 then tells the Guardian to find Ikora Rey on the Jovian moon of Io, where she had gone to find answers about the Traveler. Ikora has teamed up with Io researcher Asher Mir, and directs the Guardian to a local Warmind vault. He tells us to find a Warmind, an ancient Golden Age defensive AI for intelligence of the Almighty. After, the Vanguard reunite at the Farm and conclude that the only way to retake the City and save the Traveler is to shut down the Almighty first. The Guardian boards the Almighty and destroys it, signaling to Zavala to start the Counterattack. As the Vanguard begin the assault, the Consul urges Dominus Ghaul to take the Light. Ghaul is reluctant until the Consul kills the Speaker, whom Ghaul had captured and tortured to learn more about the Traveler. Dominus, in a fit of rage, strangles and kills the Consul, and then takes the Light for himself.

The Guardian returns to Earth to assist in the Counterattack, and infiltrates Ghaul's command ship. Ghaul forcibly takes the Light, corrupting it, and uses its power against the Guardian, but the Guardian is successful in defeating him. Ghaul reemerges from his crackling dead body as a corrupt Light Projection who then speaks to the Traveler. The Traveler awakes from its coma-like state and destroys its cage that was harvesting its power, and kills Ghaul. In its moment of doing so, it shattered to millions of pieces, and sent a shockwave across the Solar System, inciting the Return of the Light. But, as we see, as it moves past all in the Solar System, we find that a strange enemy lurks on the edge of the Solar System, and it approaches us.

Following Ghaul's defeat, a massive Cabal ship called the Leviathan appears in orbit of Nessus, under control of the exiled Emperor Calus. Calus invites the Guardians to complete a series of challenges before reaching his throne. A fireteam of Guardians complete his challenges before facing Calus himself; However, after overcoming his strange powers and defeating him, they discover that they were fighting a robotic doppelganger.