Destiny 2: Lightfall is now two weeks away, Bungie just dropped a megaton of a cutscene setting up the expansion, and I am hootin' and hollerin'. If you haven't played today's Season of the Seraph mission and watched the cinematic for yourself, consider yourself warned that it's about to get spoiler-y in here.
The big finale takes us back to the satellite we've explored throughout this season's missions to give Rasputin his final sendoff in order to stop Eramis, the big bad of Beyond Light, from using the Warmind's Warsats to attack the Traveler. Before we get into the lore stuff, I want to point out that the Power-capped mission feels great to play, which bodes well for Bungie's plans to cap Power in more activities as it works towards a Power overhaul in The Final Shape.
Anyway, it's now clearer than ever that Eramis was working under orders from the Witness, the Darkness avatar who stole the show in The Witch Queen and will ultimately besiege us in Lightfall, and that's merely a drop in this bucket of lore bombs.
For starters, the Traveler has up and left Earth. It's not entirely gone, and we were able to save it from Warsat destruction, but it's out of the Tower and well into our planet's orbit. That's the good news; the bad news is that we don't know whether the Traveler actually intended to leave us and simply changed its mind after seeing the Witness roll up with a bunch of pyramid ships. Whatever the case, the Vanguard are understandably devastated by the Traveler's departure, and the presence of the Eliksni, once abandoned by the Traveler themselves and dubbed Fallen, has only heightened the tension in the air. The question seems to be: will we fall next?
The other axe falls when we hear the last words of
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