Destiny 2 Witch Queen Story Explained: The Witness, Savathun's Plans, And What It All Means
Warning: This article is all spoilers. None of it is not spoilers. Don't read this until you've finished playing through The Witch Queen's story.
The Witch Queen represents a culmination of story threads that developer Bungie has been weaving through Destiny 2 for years, especially since the launch of its last expansion, Beyond Light. A whole lot happens in the story campaign of the latest expansion, as players explore the throne world of the Hive god of cunning, Savathun, and try to uncover how she gained access to the incredible space magic powers that make Guardians nearly immortal killing machines. The story comes with a lot of twists and turns that require you to understand some deep cuts of Destiny lore, and also sets up a whole bunch more questions for the future.
If you're not immersed in Destiny 2's story, history, and background lore, though, you might have been a little lost--even though the game does a pretty good job of keeping everything fairly casual. There's a lot going on in this story with some deep implications for all the characters involved; The Witch Queen shakes up the status quo pretty significantly and sets up the game's next chapter. Below, we're breaking down everything that happened in The Witch Queen's story campaign, from the fate of Savathun to the questions surrounding the Witness.
First, there's a little background you need to understand about the Hive to see how Savathun's story has unfolded. Eons before the start of the game, the Hive were a species known colloquially as the krill, living on continents of a gas giant called Fundament with more than 500 sentient alien species. The krill were short-lived and found themselves prey for just about everything else, despite having developed a
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