Preface: I'm level 20, but I haven't been to The Rift or set foot on Venus yet. Bungie said they made Destiny for every type of player, and that's how I choose to play. I have not been avoiding spoilers but I have not been reading every post on every site. This idea is just something that occurred to me, with the little bit of what I've experienced so far. A lot of people complain that the story in Destiny is too thin, too under developed. But what if everyone is miss judging the role of the player character in this story. Or at least at this stage of the story. Most video games set the player as The Hero, capital T, capital H. It is YOU that will take down the mob boss, save humanity from alien invasions, slay the dragons, defeat Zeus, etc. To dip into The Lord of the Rings for the same of reference, everyone wants to be Gandalf, Strider, Gimli or Legolas. But what if in Destiny, you instead are Frodo or one of the other Hobbits. These hobbit characters go on to do heroic things by the end of the tale. But do they ever know what is really going on? By the end of the entire epic, they might have a thumb nail idea, but they will never truly know or understand as much as the more experienced adventurers. And that's where I see the parallel. The hobbits had never been outside of The Shire until beginning of the story. Your guardian was DEAD until two days ago. The hobbits only learn BIG things from the people they meet (elves, humans, more elves, etc) along the way. And even the information they are told is not very deep. It may be the same thing with the guardians. They are so busy bouncing around from one adventure to another, there isn't time to learn the full depth of the story. Just pit stops for guns and ammo, and a brief "We tired to go over the mountains, now we must go under!" I am not comparing Destiny to The Lord of the Rings (yet) or Bungie to Tolkien. I'm just saying reconsider your role in the game. I think we've at best made it to Rivendale. I'm HOPING it's more like we just arrived in Bree.