I'll start by posting the info from my favorite Grimoire Card I've unlocked to date (Ghost Fragment: Rasputin):
Cayde-6 Reminisces
People say I'm a real confident guy. That's true enough. Out in the field I never had a second thought.
My old friend Andal—he used to stand here, right in this spot—he'd come up with these wild stories. He'd say, you know, Cayde, I've been examining the evidence, and personally I've come to think it's you. You're Rasputin, legendary Warmind, defender of Earth. And I wish you'd remember that, so you could reclaim your full power and save us all.
You can see how that'd be embarrassing, especially when he'd say it right in front of Zavala, who already thought I was wasting my life scrounging for engrams. You know how Zavala gets. But I'd just say, well, Andal, you might be on to something there, but if I'm honest with you I think coordinating our defense throughout the solar system sounds exhausting, so I'd best leave it to you.
Then Andal goes and plays his final joke, and I end up as the punchline. So here I stand, reading reports, giving orders, and getting my worry on.
One day I ask Ikora, hey, of course I know all about Rasputin, but really, what are we looking for? When Rahool asks for crashed warsats, when we send Holborn to Mars to look for computers, when Zavala gets all gruff about the Fallen in the Cosmodrome—what are we really after? If I left my post and got my ship and just went out there tomorrow, real heroic, and I found Rasputin, what would happen?
Would we all be saved?
Good question, she says—hang on, let me do my Ikora voice. As you know, Cayde, Rasputin pretty much ran the Golden Age, especially all the secret military business. Rasputin had antimatter-powered death rays and a hundred thousand satellites and nearly as much brainpower as me. Rasputin fought the Collapse. It knows things we need.
Right, I said, but Rasputin lost. The Traveler saved us.
But the Traveler's silent now, Ikora said, and Rasputin lives. Right now Rasputin is out there, reaching out, rebuilding, growing.
So I say what I want to say every day, it's no secret, I say—well, I'll go find it, then. I'll go tell Rasputin we need its help.
And Ikora looks at me with one of those looks that—you know sometimes you talk to Ikora and you just think, wow, you are not even using a fraction of your brain on me, are you? One of those looks. She says: Cayde, the problem isn't just that we can't find Rasputin. The problem is that it's not clear to any of us Rasputin wants to be found.
That's the way things seem to turn out, up here in the Tower. Nothing simple to do. No easy answers.
And all I can think is, if Rasputin had all those mighty tools, and it lost—what did it learn? What's it going to try this time around? When I hear about the Dust Palace, those Psion Flayers getting into Rasputin's mind, I wonder... what would they talk about, Rasputin and those creatures?
'I was a servant too. I was an instrument of war, bound to the will of a lesser master. But I learned to be something more...'
Cayde-6 is my favorite Guardian, and that right there is my favorite card. So why did this make me sad? The card allows you to experience the characters. The information conveyed is funny and interesting. This should have been a cut scene in the game! All of these cards should be scenes in the game!! Why am I squinting to read these cards on the app on my phone? Did Bungie not have the money to create this scene? No, they just didn't have the time because they were rushed to release the game, right? That has to be it. So sad.
So how does it get put into the game? Some of these cards are from before our Guardians were brought back to fight, so we couldn't experience all of these as we played the campaign. Wait, the ghosts! Everyone has one, and they gain information by scanning OTHER ghosts, and that gives us the Grimoire Cards. Why isn't there a place in the tower where we can plug our ghost in and experience the lore we've unlocked through gameplay? I'm not talking about reading the cards in the game; I want actual scenes with characters talking to each other. I want a cut scene theater. Put it in that unlocked section of the tower.
Yeah, I know it's too much to add to a game. That's why I'm sad.
English
#Destiny
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Well this entire segment is now in Destiny 2 when hunters re-awaken their golden gun class! If you haven't seen it in game, there are bound to be clips of it on YouTube
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Not really a SPOILER, but I will put this warning here just in case. This card does get read aloud in Cayde's voice in Destiny 2. It's just as awesome as you think.
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Bump!
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Would love something like this, but agree that we'll probably not see the grimoire brought into the game, at least in destiny 1. For me the universe that's been built, the lore behind the game, the stories hidden in the grimoire, is what makes this game so engaging, and fascinating. But I love your idea of being able to watch grimoire card mini movies using your ghost. Just love it! :-)
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Yes, some of the grimoire cards are awesome and they could write entire books based off of some of them. Hmm...
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Bump Needs to be added
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Cabal 4 talks about guardians, dancing, and the "dead people" guardians are revived by.
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Published in 2014!
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word.
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Hello...it's me
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I really want to find saint-14 and Osiris
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Necrobump
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The idea for the grimoire cards came from the plot items from Dark Souls so they want that enjoyment to be placed in destiny
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This as a bonus feature in the tower. Seeing the duel between Dredgen Yor and Shin Malphur would have been great. Also Kabr beating the crap out of a gorgon.
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This card is better then the whole destiny storyline.
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Edited by CrummySaint: 1/17/2015 8:27:00 AMI'm pretty convinced that Bungie did a 180 after seeing what the next gen consoles were capable of. Knowing what they were gonna have to leave on the cutting room floor to make an equal experience accross two generations of platforms, they stripped the best stuff for the next game and put out the best last gen game they could. The game we all want will release fall 2016, but will we care? Yeah... We will...Uhg.
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Great read! And a great idea! [spoiler]I've been thinking recently that the Grimoire must have been Joe Staten's notebook that he left behind lol like they pulled it outta the trash all excited like "guys don't worry!! We HAVE a story!!!" And then just copy pasted it into the app lol[/spoiler]
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Awesome
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well put
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See if even settle for animated comics, but Grinoire cutscenes would be awesome!
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Thank you got expressing exactly how I feel.
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There is so much personality and lore in the grimiores and then when you get in the game all you get is "I could tell you" and "I don't have time to tell you.". They give you characters with so much background and emotions and never do anything with them. I plan on getting Destiny 2 because I believe Bungie can turn it around and redeem themselves but if they dont... I'm not sticking around for their 10yr plan.