Here's mine (I have two, crucify me):
[b]Deep Stone Crypt [/b]
[quote]This is the tower where we were born. Not the Tower. Just a tower in a dream.
The tower stands on a black plain. Behind the tower is a notch in the mountains where the sun sets. The teeth of the mountain cut the sun into fractal shapes and the light that comes down at evening paints synapse shapes on the ground. Usually it's evening when we come.
The ground is fertile. This is good land. We go to the tower in dreams but that doesn't mean it's not real.
Some of us go to the tower in peace. They walk through a field of golden millet and a low warm wind blows in from their back. I don't know why this is, because:
The rest of us meet an army.
You can ask others about Deep Stone and they'll tell you about the army. They might confess one truth, which is this: we have to kill the army to get to the tower. Usually this starts bare-handed, and somewhere along the way you take a weapon.
Ask again and if they're buzzed they might also admit that most of us don't make it to the Tower, except once or twice.
None of them will tell you that the army is made of everyone we meet. The people we work with and the people we see in the street and the people we tell about our dreams. We kill them all. I think because we were made to kill and this is the part of us that thinks about nothing else.
Often I kill people I don't know, but like most of us I think I knew them once, in the time before one reset or another, when my mind was younger and less terribly scarred.
So that is how we go back to the Deep Stone Crypt, where we were born.[/quote]
[b]Ghost Fragment: Clovis Bray[/b]
[quote]Excerpt from an unpublished memoir of Clovis Bray II
My father hated maps.
“And do you know why I hate maps?” he asked me.
I didn’t answer. Not immediately. With Father, every question was vast, particularly those that looked simple. And simple questions deserved as much insight and wisdom as could be brought to bear.
With that in mind, I said nothing.
Why would my father hate maps?
One of his collaborators came into the office. Father didn’t have employees. Or assistants. And for that matter, he didn’t have heroes either. Every person, living or lost, was a collaborator, and that included his children.
“Clovis,” said the visitor.
Father heard the woman, but he was watching me.
The woman was pretty, and I was sixteen. So I looked at her, smiling enough for both of us. And she threw an appreciative wink my way as she described test results from the last five billion runs of our AI Initiative.
Out on the Martian desert, my father and picked collaborators were building housing too cold for this universe and too swift to be real.
And I was a sixteen year-old boy smiling at a pretty woman.
My father thanked her for the update, and she left.
Just as I feared, he never looked away from me.
“I don’t know why you hate maps,” I admitted.
With Father, ignorance was never the worst crime. What was awful was pretending to have insight and wisdom where neither existed.
“Maps end,” he said.
I nodded, just a little.
“Maps insist on having borders and edges or the table falls away. Which isn’t the way the universe works.”
“It doesn’t, no,” I agreed.
Then he asked me, “So how does the universe work?”
I pretended to take my time, considering various smart answers. But I ended up using my first impulse.
“Effortlessly,” I said.
He laughed. Which wasn’t uncommon for my father, but it was heartening to hear just then.
“What else can you tell me?” he asked.
“The universe is infinite and probably in multiple ways,” I said. Then I listed a few examples: The census of stars, the Many-Worlds principle in quantum mechanics, and the endless measure of tiny realms hiding inside every grain of Martian sand.
Father nodded.
The smile died.
Then he said something ominous. Although I didn’t appreciate it at the time.
“The universe is someone’s map,” he said.
“Is it?” I muttered.
“Yes, oh yes. And what we’re doing here... we’re reaching beyond the boundaries, out into the unknown. And we pull back new colors to put on this map that can never, ever let itself be finished.”
I nodded, smiling like the good son.
But I was sixteen, and my thoughts were mostly about the pretty woman who had winked at me.[/quote]
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BANNERFALL ARENA DESIGNATION: Bannerfall LOCATION: The Last City, Earth Lysander and the Concordat mark the most recent example of a City political factions rising in opposition to the Consensus. This site marks a legendary battle where New Monarchy's Guardians rose to deliver the final blow to the Concordat, unraveling the war effort Lysander sought to bring against the Vanguard. Lord Shaxx has commandeered the area not only to commemorate this last stand, but as a reminder of the City's solidarity against those who seek to undermine the extreme efforts and sacrifice we make together to keep our peace. GHOST FRAGMENT: NEW MONARCHY The Seven Tenets of the New Monarchy 1. To secure our walls against the enemy without. 2. To secure the rights and liberties of every upstanding citizen. 3. To sponsor the sciences of the City, and to salvage the ruins beyond, so that our Golden Age might be reborn. 4. To support the Guardian Orders by leading the City in technological innovation. 5. To support the natural harmony of the City, and to actively dissuade any group or individual that might disrupt that harmony. 6. To hold all individuals, compacts, and alliances to the highest standards of productivity and right behavior. 7. To, by vote of the Consensus, abolish the Consensus, and transfer ultimate power, in order that the rights and liberties of all citizens be secured, to a single sovereign of unimpeachable character. (Both are my Favorite)
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Fallen 4
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Should be obvious. [spoiler]Thorn 2[/spoiler]
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1 ReplyAlways: “Heeeeeeey there, Banshee!” “Whaddya want, Cayde?” “Just checking in on that thing I asked you to do.” “I told you, my smuggling days are over—” “No no shhh no not that! The other thing—” “What other thing?” “The custom piece! For—” “Oh right. Right. Course I’m doing that.” “Yeah? How's it looking?” “Did all the design myself. So it's looking good.” “Is that... an ace of spades?” “Yep.”
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2 RepliesMy favorite is the one with the letter "a". That one is the best
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Thorn (The one with the gang) Or Saladin's.
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11 RepliesWhat is a "grimoire card" i am pretty sure they don't exist in game?
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Darkness 3 by far
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2 RepliesCabal 4. It's informative and gives a nice chuckle. I'd love to see Cabal using anti-Ghost tactics.
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ik its not one grimoire card, vut i love the books of sorrow
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1 ReplyI like the one where skolas talks to xur
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The Jade rabbit one or whatever the PS exclusive one is
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1 Replyall of the books of sorrow
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1 ReplyI love the first calcified fragment card. It's beautifully written and is great at conveying the cruel nature of existence of the hive. The entire book of sorrow in general is incredible.
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Edited by Terrell: 9/8/2016 6:15:20 AMMovement modes. Blink.
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2 Replies[quote]Here's mine (I have two, crucify me): [b]Deep Stone Crypt [/b] [quote]This is the tower where we were born. Not the Tower. Just a tower in a dream. The tower stands on a black plain. Behind the tower is a notch in the mountains where the sun sets. The teeth of the mountain cut the sun into fractal shapes and the light that comes down at evening paints synapse shapes on the ground. Usually it's evening when we come. The ground is fertile. This is good land. We go to the tower in dreams but that doesn't mean it's not real. Some of us go to the tower in peace. They walk through a field of golden millet and a low warm wind blows in from their back. I don't know why this is, because: The rest of us meet an army. You can ask others about Deep Stone and they'll tell you about the army. They might confess one truth, which is this: we have to kill the army to get to the tower. Usually this starts bare-handed, and somewhere along the way you take a weapon. Ask again and if they're buzzed they might also admit that most of us don't make it to the Tower, except once or twice. None of them will tell you that the army is made of everyone we meet. The people we work with and the people we see in the street and the people we tell about our dreams. We kill them all. I think because we were made to kill and this is the part of us that thinks about nothing else. Often I kill people I don't know, but like most of us I think I knew them once, in the time before one reset or another, when my mind was younger and less terribly scarred. So that is how we go back to the Deep Stone Crypt, where we were born.[/quote] [b]Ghost Fragment: Clovis Bray[/b] [quote]Excerpt from an unpublished memoir of Clovis Bray II My father hated maps. “And do you know why I hate maps?” he asked me. I didn’t answer. Not immediately. With Father, every question was vast, particularly those that looked simple. And simple questions deserved as much insight and wisdom as could be brought to bear. With that in mind, I said nothing. Why would my father hate maps? One of his collaborators came into the office. Father didn’t have employees. Or assistants. And for that matter, he didn’t have heroes either. Every person, living or lost, was a collaborator, and that included his children. “Clovis,” said the visitor. Father heard the woman, but he was watching me. The woman was pretty, and I was sixteen. So I looked at her, smiling enough for both of us. And she threw an appreciative wink my way as she described test results from the last five billion runs of our AI Initiative. Out on the Martian desert, my father and picked collaborators were building housing too cold for this universe and too swift to be real. And I was a sixteen year-old boy smiling at a pretty woman. My father thanked her for the update, and she left. Just as I feared, he never looked away from me. “I don’t know why you hate maps,” I admitted. With Father, ignorance was never the worst crime. What was awful was pretending to have insight and wisdom where neither existed. “Maps end,” he said. I nodded, just a little. “Maps insist on having borders and edges or the table falls away. Which isn’t the way the universe works.” “It doesn’t, no,” I agreed. Then he asked me, “So how does the universe work?” I pretended to take my time, considering various smart answers. But I ended up using my first impulse. “Effortlessly,” I said. He laughed. Which wasn’t uncommon for my father, but it was heartening to hear just then. “What else can you tell me?” he asked. “The universe is infinite and probably in multiple ways,” I said. Then I listed a few examples: The census of stars, the Many-Worlds principle in quantum mechanics, and the endless measure of tiny realms hiding inside every grain of Martian sand. Father nodded. The smile died. Then he said something ominous. Although I didn’t appreciate it at the time. “The universe is someone’s map,” he said. “Is it?” I muttered. “Yes, oh yes. And what we’re doing here... we’re reaching beyond the boundaries, out into the unknown. And we pull back new colors to put on this map that can never, ever let itself be finished.” I nodded, smiling like the good son. But I was sixteen, and my thoughts were mostly about the pretty woman who had winked at me.[/quote][/quote] This game is boring as shit
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Ok others have named [url=http://www.ishtar-collective.net/cards/ghost-fragment-rasputin-4#rasputin]Rasputin 4[/url] and [url=http://www.ishtar-collective.net/cards/ghost-fragment-vex-5?highlight=vex+5]Vex 5[/url] already, both of which would probably be contenders and the OP has touched on the origins of the Exo with Deep Stone Crypt, so I will go in a different direction, not saying it's better than the ones I just mentioned but definitely intriguing. [quote]Inside me was an essence woven from beyond. Was I Awoken before this? She was still in my head. I could hear her song growing fainter. Gone? Not yet. A new crippling terror was taking over. I was focused entirely on my fear. But I had to make an effort. And it occurred to me then that nothing in the universe was more dangerous than human hubris. I still had this Other within? But the human side was what mattered: Weak and foolhardy, sure to fail in the next moment. That’s why I was afraid. Then someone spoke. Maybe it was me. I don’t remember. I was trying to focus, and a new thought took me: My soul lay between those two entities. And that’s how I am still: The boundary, the seam. The friction. - [url=http://www.ishtar-collective.net/cards/ghost-fragment-awoken-3#ghost-fragments]Awoken 3[/url][/quote] The reason I like this card is it alludes to the Awoken, possibly more specifically the Awoken Queen being two entities, human and something else. Something the manifests as a voice speaking to her. When you couple this with what we learn in the [url=http://db.destinytracker.com/grimoire/enemies/books-of-sorrow]Book of Sorrows[/url] about Oryx and Taox, then couple that with what the Queen says in [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf-Vv2mXnJA]this cutscene[/url] (starts at 0:50 seconds in), both how she describes herself and her comments to Oryx near the end and you can piece together a rather interesting theory. I believe, and I don't claim to be the first to come up with this theory, that this card is speaking about the Queen specifically and that the other voice, the non-human part of her is Taox.
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Ghost fragment: Future war cult And Mystery: The Vault of Glass 3
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2 RepliesRasputin 4
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Heart of Crota
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Thorn :)
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I like books of sorrow 1
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My current favorite is Vex 5. No single card seems to carry so many potential theories. Origin of FWC, purpose of the device, warmind military intel, possible identity of the exo stranger.
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Edited by Wolf_Odinson: 9/8/2016 12:19:56 AMGhost Fragment: Darkness 2 Dreams of Alpha Lupi "The universe is a beast. The body is made from tiny stuff, from near-nothings. From atoms swimming through a blood of crackling sparks. Simple, eternal Laws shape the beast. The largest galaxy is ruled by principles of mass and motion. Electrons are slaves to charge and to chance. And this is why the universe feels inexhaustible, eternal. No sun complains about its death. Life is the problem. Life can be woven from flesh or circuit or thoughtful light. Origins don't matter. But small, half-smart creatures have a fierce talent for denying the inevitable, for balking and complaining about injustices that don't exist and consequences that should be borne in silence."
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Relic: The Aegis The Dark Age 2 Calcified Fragments: Insight My favorites as of now