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#Story

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Edited by DarkChildOfLight: 11/18/2014 1:03:41 PM
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Anybody want to go ghost hunting?

The Ghost Fragments are added to your Grimoire when you find a Dead Ghost. They contain the lore behind the story and its much more interesting than the story that you get while playing the game. I'm looking to go for the achievement of finding 50 dead ghosts this week. After that I'll only need to get Flawless Raider for the Platinum trophy on PS4 (like thats ever gonna happen...) I'll be using [url=http://www.gosunoob.com/destiny/dead-ghost-fragment-locations-guide/]this guide.[/url] Here are just a few interesting Ghost Fragments: [u][b]Ghost Fragment: Ghosts[/b][/u] [spoiler]Beyond. It is a place, a place casting shadows and emotion. It's a real place, I know. One hot blue sun, say. And other suns too. Five? I like seven better. What I'm recalling is a giant star with a family of six smaller suns, and you could spend days and nights counting all of the planets circling those suns...except there are no planets. Not anymore. The powers in charge have carved up all of the worlds, and maybe a brown dwarf or two for good measure. With that rubble, they fashioned a topologically creative enclosure, a twisting of space and time sealed behind doors that admit only those who know the magic words. The bones of a hundred planets have been cut smooth and laid out like a floor, a polished and lovely floor creating vast living spaces. A floor bigger than ten thousand worlds, catching the fierce glory of the seven suns. For light, for food. For beauty. And nothing escapes. Not heat, not gravity. Not even the faintest proud sound. It could be anywhere. It can live in the cold between galaxies, or folded up inside matter, near enough to touch right now... I remember it and maybe it's exactly as I describe it. Seven suns wrapped inside magic. Or it's something else entirely, perhaps. A place still fat with life. An abundance of sentient souls, some decent, maybe a few of lesser quality, and everybody stands about or floats about, or they bounce between dimensions. The point is that the residents of this hidden realm live inside a bottle so perfectly hidden that they can't see beyond their own borders. Which shapes a mind in very specific ways. But, Beyond is their name for a mysterious, doubtful realm that they can't see. Which is us, of course. [/spoiler] [u][b]Ghost Fragment: The Exo Stranger[/b][/u] [spoiler]I stand here now and now and now many times, this view, this ground... This is where I always choose to stand. I put my feet where I put my feet before and where I will again and I look at the sky. Great things moving, rendered small with distance, lesser things not moving, watching me. I always stand here, resolute. Then fall back to that point, there, where everything shatters... (The sky isn't special here, certainly no better than any other sky, but it's the view I know best.) The silent avalanche begins. Rock and dust. Falling chaos. Machines, as a rule, hate chaos. Our enemies outflank us from below, above, left, right, before, beyond. The Traveler - shattering. There are always the dead. Their names shift. Sometimes I think I see myself among the dead. But I am resolute. [/spoiler] [u][b]Ghost Fragment: Ishtar Sink[/b][/u] [spoiler]The box appears to be copper. The red lid is dented, one hinge shattered. Inside waits a small quantity of the finest, driest powder, more brown than gray, more blue than green. The greatest minds in creation make quick work of the material. The powder is weighed by the grain, and studied close, and remembered. One hundred billion bits of near-nothing reside inside the copper box, all of them tiny and nearly spherical, all etched with the outlines of continents and islands and icecaps. Each sphere represents a planet, and some of these tiny globes match known worlds. There is one Earth and one Mars and a Venus too. The box holds renderings of every habitable world in the galaxy. One of them offers a simple explanation: "The box is a message. The message is the minuscule nature of the box's cargo. It's the image of one hundred billion worlds barely filling two hands." But if so, who is delivering this message? What vastness do they wish to impress on us? Is it a warning, or an invitation, or a taunt? [/spoiler] [u][b]Ghost Fragment: The Queen[/b][/u] [spoiler]For a while the only lights were the eyes of the Witches tending to the cell. The drone of the soul machines echoed through the prison. Gas billowed and ebbed into the shadows. She entered. They scurried to their points around her, the method of their arrangement precise. "The Archon Priest has been retired, my Queen," said the Witch to her right. Far from throne and audience she moved without theater. "Any word of Kaliks Prime?" "We still sense something among the Anankes." This voice came from behind her. She did not turn to acknowledge it. For the span of a brief silence she moved between the sealed cells of the Wolf nobility with her Witches in constellation around her. "More of your brother's Crows have entered the Cauldrons of Rhea." The Witch directly before her spoke with a dry buzz. "The Nine do not approve." She stopped a moment to study the sealed face of a cell. The cloud of her breath mingled with the slow exhalation of cryonics. "Send them one of our prizes. Something to commemorate our mutual victory." "And which of your prisoners would you gift?" If she paused to think it was only for an instant. "Send them Skolas." "A lovely gesture." "Mm." She cocked her head as if listening for a frozen heartbeat. "And remind them this: the Crows are mine." [/spoiler] [u][b]Ghost Fragment: Queen's Brother[/b][/u] [spoiler]The machine had wings and feathers, sleek and black as its body. But the feathers were eyes, too, sharp and delicate, and ears that pricked at every sound. The young prince considered the machine, considered its purpose, and his own. And then he called to it. "I have a task for you." Obedience was woven into its workings, and so it stopped. "Master of Crows?" "Mind the Black Garden's gate. Follow anyone who passes through." "In the name of your sister," the machine vowed. And it went to find its warp capsule, just as another came in. But this one flew skittishly, as if to evade its master. The prince caught it from the air. "You avoid me?" "I am tasked by the Queen." "But you serve me." He let it tremble in displeasure for a moment. "Tell me your news." The machine flicked its wings. The prince stroked them flat with slow assured motions. "Tell me your news," he said again. "What's the harm?" "The Heart is growing stronger," the crow said. "The Vex transformation has begun, and the Progeny are stirring." The prince considered this in silence for a moment and then he wrapped the crow up in his fist and folded its wings around it so that it could not move or fly. He did all this swiftly, and with purpose. Carrying the machine, he went to see his sister. She was alone with her Fallen guards, sitting before a window into infinity. Her eyes did not leave the universe; but sensing her brother she said "Yes. What is it?" "There's news to share," he said, and offered the crow in his fist. "And I think I have earned the right to share it." [/spoiler] There are many other interesting ones but I can't fit them all into one post. Especially the ones about the different races of enemies that we face and the ones about the Golden Age and the Collapse.

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  • Edited by InsaneBase: 12/20/2014 6:36:50 PM
    Btw, everybody still hunting missing Ghosts, the website from today's update totally rocks. destinyghosthunter.net It tells you which ghosts you are actually missing and has guides for where to find them. NeonSamurai and me used it today complete our collection.

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