This game has an extremely rich lore. Among it is a brilliant Warlock that was so good at fighting he got BORED! He took on increasingly difficult challenges and asked harder and harder questions - questions others wanted answers to. Who was this guy, what questions did he ask, and why is he important in the future of Destiny? Allow me to badly explain. Osiris was a Warlock during the earliest parts of the City’s foundings. He was an incredibly talented warrior. So talented, in fact, that he seemed like he was everywhere during the Battle of Six Fronts. His prowess on the battlefield led to Saint-14’s recommendation of Osiris becoming Vanguard Commander, a position currently held by Zavala. Despite being in the highest position the Vanguard had to offer, Osiris became bored with the tedious world of strikes and Cryptarch sessions (Sit next to Rahool or Ives for an hour, you’ll understand). In an effort to satiate Osiris’ hunger for knowledge, the Speaker took Osiris under his wing as a protege - similar to Saint 14. Unlike Saint-14, Osiris was not satisfied with the Speaker’s answers. He wanted to know more. Osiris asked questions: everything from a Guardian’s true nature to thanonautics, ahamkara-lore, and to Xur and the Nine. Osiris found answer after answer, inspiring others to follow in questioning - becoming a Cult of Personality. Hunters pursued his visions, Titans journeyed into the Vault of Glass, and Warlocks turned from studying the Traveler to understanding the Darkness. While the Speaker would have begrudgingly let this continue, something happened: Twilight Gap. All those Guardians following Osiris in pursuing non-City issues led to, in the Speaker’s eyes, a weakened defence. The City was invaded by the Fallen Houses, the remaining dregs of a long crippled society, and would have lost if not for the Reef’s help. The same people that once defended the six fronts of the City with only four major orders were no longer invincible. The Speaker saw Osiris as what caused the dissension and sought to remove it - banning Osiris the same way Toland was. Only, this was not the same. Osiris was not a madman babbling insane rants, he was the only person trying to save humanity beyond the immediate. While he was kicked out by the Speaker, he likely would have left anyway. What was once a Cult of Personality became a literal Cult as Osiris left to Mercury. What he did on Mercury is where things get sketchy. The short version is that he entered the Vex Gate Networks. This may be a metaphor, but essentially he let his body melt in the heat of the Sun so that his Light could flow freely in the River of Time (Vex Gate Network). This plays extremely well with the Egyptian story of Osiris - in which his body was chopped up into 14 pieces and chucked into the Nile. The Network taught him of the same patterns the Vex had become obsessed with and essentially spread his Light across all versions of time - one life across infinite realities (immortality!). This comes from the idea of the Many-Worlds principle in quantum mechanics, look it up. Armed with the knowledge of time’s patterns, Osiris teamed up with the Queen and Eris to bring and defeat Oryx and to prepare for what comes next. What comes next is even more sketchy. It has to do with Skolas, the Nine, and a small window to strike. Back when I made my first thread about this right after HoW we did not know much. Now that all of the Oryx stuff is done, I can speak with a bit more definition. Here is the rundown: Osiris stood before the Nine on the Ice Fields of Europa. He realized that the Nine were weak when they touched our world. This is when he met with the Queen and Eris, Vance even urging the Guardian to follow the Queen - as it was all part of the pattern. The first reason they met was about Skolas and his relation to either the Nine or his attempt to harness the Oracles. The second reason was they wanted Oryx here and out of the Darkness. The goal of Oryx’s defeat being something related to either the Nine and their vulnerability or the Darkness as a whole. We cannot be sure yet. All we can be sure is that the Trials is still here, which means the moment it is preparing Guardians for is still out there. Anyway, that is a bad enough explanation for me. I’m sorry if it doesn’t flow or anything, I made this quickly and just wanted to simplify the thread I made right after HoW. Please feel free to ask questions, I left out some great things (Saint-14 went to Mercury, the WAY Trials is honing Guardians to look inside themselves, etcetera).