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9/18/2020 7:08:58 AM
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What are Ascendant Shards in-universe?
This is something which has been bugging me for some time now, but does anyone have any idea what Enhancement Cores, Enhancement Prisms, and Ascendant Shards actually are in-universe? Particularly Ascendant Shards -- the name seems to suggest a connection to the Ascendant Plane, but I'm not positive. The former two do not appear to be any clear material, so I'm thinking they are paracausal somehow.
The best I can find is the description given for Ascendant Shards in D1, which states they are "self-stabilizing knots of spacetime geometry". Is this still the case in D2? It would be nice to get more lore tags for things like this, as it currently is with (most) destination materials in-game.
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Bungie can’t seem to decide on space magic or super advanced tech. BoS has revealing dialogue from the death singer sisters, being very scientific about how they are making Oversouls. Fast forward to Warmind and Ana Bray calls Hive magic nothing more then advanced technology. I would think of most materials being either super advanced tech or something natural that’s been modified by either high tech or space magic.
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2 RepliesI think banshee really just calls them these names because he doesn't know what there called
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1 ReplyAscendant shards are golf balls that belong to Luke Smith from playing every single day. Those golf balls have fallen through between the cracks of the Destiny universe and our universe when Luke kept getting a hole in one. Of course Luke always gets holes in 1, he’s so up to his neck with Eververse cash money that if he’s not playing Golf, that meant something was terribly wrong. Legend says that if you shake an ascendant shard and hold it up to your ear, you can faintly hear Luke Smith whisper seductive words by saying “throw money at the screen”
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I think Drifter mentions cores in one of his Contact lines, so I presume that weapon masterworking isn't exclusively for Guardians or they have other uses.
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Travelers golf balls
