All The Story You Need To Know To Understand Destiny 2 Season Of The Haunted

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Destiny 2's Season of the Haunted is working through a compelling, character-driven story, one that dives into the personal traumas of some of the game's major characters as they try to deal with the new threat presented by Calus and the Derelict Leviathan. Like the best of Destiny 2's recent stories, it relies heavily on player knowledge from past seasons and expansions.

Generally, this is great, because with Bungie building on events of the recent past, Destiny 2 feels like a world that is changing as a result of the things that happen within it. But if you missed certain previous parts of the story, like the Forsaken or Shadowkeep expansions, this season might have you a little lost.

There's a lot of backstory you need to know to fully appreciate Season of the Haunted, stretching all the way back to vanilla Destiny 2, the Leviathan raid, and more. Here's a quick history lesson that will get you up to speed on everything you need to know about the Leviathan, Nightmares, Caiatl, Crow, and everything else this season--regardless of whether you've been around since the Destiny alpha, or just jumped in with The Witch Queen.

Season of the Haunted continues the story of the Cabal empire, which has held permanent residence in Earth's solar system since back in the days of the original Destiny. They've changed drastically since then, however, with several different factions operating in the solar system at the same time.

The Cabal as we know them are a warlike group of conquerors, and that's rooted in their deep traditions. They value things like honor and trials by combat; they're sort of like Star Trek's Klingons, and you can see in their architecture and unit names that Bungie draws a lot from the Roman Empire to inform the