Destiny 2: The Witch Queen Is Making Us The Bad Guys

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Note: This article goes deep into spoilers for the story campaign of Destiny 2's The Witch Queen expansion, as well as the Season of the Risen's story. If you haven't finished the campaign, you might want to wrap that up before reading further. Check out our Witch Queen campaign story explainer if you have lingering questions.

Things are getting complicated out there in the throne world. The story of Destiny 2's latest expansion, The Witch Queen, sent players into the realm of the Hive god Savathun to find out how one of the game's greatest villains managed to gain a power previously reserved only for players. What we learned there shook up a lot of the established rules of the Destiny world--and it's shifting the paradigm of the game's story in some profound ways, raising serious questions about the nature of good and evil and where we, the players, fall on that spectrum.

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There are two big twists in The Witch Queen that really cast doubt on things we thought we knew about how the Destiny universe works. First, the campaign starts with Savathun, a god-like alien who's been around for eons and has participated in murdering and conquering whole civilizations throughout that time, gaining the Light. That power was previously reserved for humanity; it's what gives players their superpowers within the game, and many characters treat it with a religious reverence, as they do the Traveler, the giant floating robot from which the Light is derived.