Destiny 2 Season Of The Wish Story Catch-Up: What's Up With Riven, The Ahamkara, And The Dreaming City?

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It's been a long time since the Forsaken expansion came out and Guardians killed Riven--but now the raid boss is back and working with us. Here's everything you need to know.

By Phil Hornshaw on

The Season of the Wish has dredged up some old Destiny 2 storylines--elements of the game that have been left hanging for nearly five years. Central to those stories is Riven, the last Ahamkara, a creature that we, uh… killed. Back in the Last Wish raid. In the Forsaken campaign. In 2018.

So what's the deal with Riven, and the wishing wall, and the Dreaming City, and the Ahamkara in general? There's a lot going on here, that's for sure, and even if you've been through Forsaken's story, you might be a little lost in all this intermingling lore. We're here to catch you up on everything you don't remember from Forsaken and Last Wish, all the relevant lore, and what you need to know about the Ahamkara, some of the weirdest and most interesting things hidden in the world of Destiny 2.

If you want an even bigger rundown on everything that's happened in Destiny, check out our full Destiny 2 story recap.

First, a quick catch-up on what happened in the Forsaken campaign, which is not only relevant to what's going on with Riven, but is also relevant to character development we're seeing with Awoken Queen Mara Sov, her lieutenant Petra Venj, and Crow, the resurrected Guardian who was formerly Mara's brother, Uldren Sov.

In the aftermath of the original Destiny's The Taken King expansion, everyone thought Mara Sov had been killed in a huge space battle with the Hive god Oryx. Mara «survived» the battle with the same immortality trick the Hive use: She'd created a throne world in the Ascendant Plane, and when her physical body was destroyed, she