Back in the good ol' D1 days, I remember creating my own personal questline with objectives centered around gathering Vex fragments and infusing it with both light and darkness in order to create a paracausal Radiolaria core to stuff into that "Overmind Minotaur" boss, which I would then solo the first round of a higher-level PoE in order to face. However, the time in which I went about doing that was when we only had early D1 lore, while I was 13, and knew absolutely nothing about said lore to begin with. Really, the way Destiny's story is now, there's not much room for roleplay if you're lookin' to stay true to canon.