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Edited by ReekyLeaf132:
9/21/2014 6:19:58 AM
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Destiny Story is Awesome... Look Deeper
EDIT: PLEASE SELECT OLDEST FIRST IN DISPLAY OPTION TO VIEW LORE IN ORDER. MAKES MORE SENSE.
Ok, first off let me just say that I completely understand people's issue with the Destiny Story or perceived lack thereof. Taken at face value it lacks depth, is confusing and doesn't really engage the player during the missions and gameplay. The design choice of placing all the truly cool stuff in a web/app based format is a poor one, imo. I think if they did an audio recording style, ala Bioshock, with the exact same information contained on the grimoire cards but in game and with voice acting people would be absolutely floored with how cool this stuff Bungie is coming up with is.
It is not a surprising design choice though, if we step back and try to understand WHY they have done it. Bungie takes there story and lore seriously... VERY seriously. Look at their other IP's and you will see I am correct, Halo, Marathon, Myth all have crazy deep esoteric story and lore that are not fully explained in game but with deeper research blow your mind. Bungie is secretive, and RELISH the opportunity to make their fan base search, scour and think deeply about what is going on in the game world. They have a history of creating VERY hard Alternate Reality Games that tease their IP's that require efforts from thousands of people working in unison to reveal the smallest bit of additional lore regarding their universe... anyone remember "I Love Bees"? For Destiny it was Alpha Lupis Dream ARG (google it). My point is there is a story here, but you will have to find it.
What follows is my research into some of the coolest stuff that I have found... it's long and will be rambling at times because I have not found the answers to the questions. The biggest complaint I have read on the Story is WTF is going on? It doesn't make sense? Who am I? What is the Darkness? How did the collapse happen? What is the Traveler? My point is YOU the player are not suppose to know yet. Maybe there are forces at work within the game world that don't want you to know these answers, the Darkness seeks to keep you in the dark and perhaps those you work for seek to do the same. The only way to hope to understand the full story and your Destiny within it is to take what you have learned during your time, the fragments and rumors you have dutifully noted in your Grimoire, and search for understanding on your own.
I will continue to post my findings in this forum for those who want to LOOK DEEPER...
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5 RepliesOk let's start looking into some crazy parallels now, let's see how far down the rabbit hole we can go... First, lets remember that all technology and advancement of the Golden Age was set into motion by our contact with the Traveler on Mars. We sent a manned expedition to Mars to view it and saw first hand the terraforming practices it was entailing. The Traveler had done likewise to other planets in our Solar System. It was a life creator, and force of change and evolution throughout our galaxy and we tapped into it or had it thrust upon us in some way and we evolved. Therefore, it is not hard to believe that the names of things are important in this universe. Our Technology was gained and influenced by an outside force, and therefore would influence the naming of these things as well through our subconcious. ISIS is one of these Technologies. We designed it as a protection and defense measure for our worlds utilizing and connecting the AI Warminds into a defensive web. ISIS could also be seen as protecting the Traveler itself, my assumptions are based on my belief that the Traveler is sentient and changing us for a reason... the best guess being changing us to be able to help it fight the Darkness. So who is ISIS in a mythology? She was the sister-wife to OSIRIS, mother of Horus and protector of Osiris during Osiris's imprisonment... The story goes like this: Osiris is the all god, the creator and life giver... he creates worlds. Set is the evil god, his brother, the destroyer. Set sets a trap for Osiris in which his soul is trapped in a box and sent floating down the Nile. Set also takes Osiris's body and cuts it up into many pieces and scatters them across Egypt. Osiris's box ends up floating to a bank near a city and a Tree grows up around it, some call this the Tree of Life. ISIS goes on a quest to find the pieces of Osiris to reincarnate him. So is OSIRIS the Traveler? Is there a god in the sphere? With Time travel and extradimensions, could our history be retelling the story of the Traveler? Was the "Nile" in the story the universe that Set sent Osiris drifting through and he ended up at our banks? I searched ISIS and this is what I came up with.. what can you find? The Tree of Life is important... there is much symbology of tree's on destiny Gear right now... but I will delve into that next... It will touch on The Tree of Life, Gjallarhorn, Wolves of Appocolypse, Dragon's feeding off the Roots of the universe, Strange Coins, Ragnarok, and the Well of Urd which sits at the base of the Tree of Life... perhaps even one or two of you already know that Urd is Norse for DESTINY.
