Why I hate savathun and some other lore complaints.
Note: I’m not some top tier writer and this isn’t some dissection of the series but just a loose gathering of complaints from a long time player.
A:
savathun is by far the least interesting antagonist in destiny as a whole. Almost everything we actually know about her is from the books of sorrow which is about oryx and the hives origins.
Almost everything involving the hive and taken is attributed to her with no probable cause and fails miserably even if it is her. Her only real success was the time loop in dreaming city but even that’s debatable since nothings stopping us from either learning the location of what their searching for or just capturing and taking her daughter from the city to break the loop.
B:
uniform factions, so every member of species A works for bad guy #847 unless part of an unnamed group with no unique attire, motive, or leadership that we can identify except the occasional name when most named enemies have like one page of lore that means next to nothing....Seems legit.
C:
So we’re teaming up with cabal probably? Assuming that’s what’s gonna happen since it seems likely I really hope there’s no convenient cabal faction large enough to serve as random grunts for patrol and events.
D:
Everything about the moon. Specifically the potential it had for some interesting stories but it gets killed as soon as savathun is brought up. We had a unique conflict in the hive between tradition and progress in the twisted hive way only for Savathun to swoop in and kill all potential for a narrative we could have experienced. Wanna see where that heretic wizard went? Just wait for witch queen I’m sure she’ll either be a random enemy in a mission or a raid boss.
<I'm at the point where only Savathun's major steps are even interesting. Dreaming City? Hell yeah. Interference? Interesting. All of her BIG steps are kinda cool IMO, but holy shit the little things tick me off to no end to varying degrees. Let's take that Hidden Swarm bit. Honestly, I'm OK with it, except for the fact that necromancy's the god damned reason Pit will likely never be solved until "[Kinox] will either be a random enemy in a mission or a raid boss".
Savathun's Song, the Hawkmoon stuff, just so many little things that just bore me or make me go "wtf?". It's just, she's reached a point where if Witch Queen doesn't come soon, I'm gonna lose it. Mara Sov has also reached this point, but is also kind of a -blam!- as well so it arguably stings more everytime someone in-lore says "oh she's so great" when she literally abandoned her people to fight a war she can't win.>
Savathûn is the LEAST interesting? The Hive as a whole are probably the craziest race in the D2 universe! She ingested a worm so she could gain her powers, when Oryx tricked an enemy she came back to life after being dead!
Savathûn has a lot more to her than D2's gameplay. She's crazy.