Destiny 2 Season of the Wish answers a long-running Destiny mystery

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Though Destiny 2 is no stranger to mysteries both big and small, none of them have ever been quite as popular as the infamous 15th wish from the Forsaken-era Last Wish raid. While some might’ve expected this particular narrative thread to never be fully untangled, Bungie’s just upended that theory.

It should go without saying that this piece of news is loaded with spoilers for the Season of the Witch and its final, most important cutscene. Those who haven’t yet gotten to that point and wish to do so ought to stop reading, with that in mind. Players have been neither here nor there about the storytelling of Season 22, but the final mission of the Imbaru Engine has ended up revealing that Savathun has, in fact, been waving the 15th wish of the Wishing Wall in front of the Guardians all along.

If you haven’t yet gotten around to completing the whole roster of Imbaru Engine puzzles yourself, you can check out the short but sweet reveal cutscene using the link featured below, as uploaded by Destiny 2 player Kliuqard:

As anyone who’s spent any amount of time farming loot in Destiny 2‘s The Last Wish will know, this particular raid features something no other raid has got: the Wishing Wall. On it, Guardians can input codes that do all manner of things, from spawning in loot chests all the way to embedding metaphysical hyper-predators into their psyche (e.g. a literal ahamkara).

The final, 15th code, however, has remained hidden and only hinted at in lore ever since the Forsaken DLC’s come out, and players have been eagerly anticipating its eventual reveal, only for it to drop out of nowhere as the final reveal of the Season of the Witch.

Now, as it turns out, it was the player Guardian themselves who figured out that the 15th