Following Destiny 2: Season of the Seraph’s finale, The Traveler is poised to protect Earth, not flee it
The finale of Destiny 2 Season of the Seraph was a mind-blowing, pulse-pounding experience for any Destiny 2 player invested in the game’s story. Eramis put her plan into action: she armed Rasputin’s Warsats, set their sights toward The Traveler, and fired. Thankfully, the work players put in over the season to give Rasputin a way to disable the Warsats paid off, but not before The Traveler left The Tower, its throne since the Destiny 1 Alpha days, and soared into Earth’s orbit. While at first glance it may look like the big ball tried to abandon the Guardians — as it’s abandoned countless other civilizations — we believe it’s protecting us instead.
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There’s a lot to unpack in the finale video for Destiny 2 Season of the Seraph. For example, it was confirmed that Eramis has been working with The Witness, the big bad of the upcoming expansion, Lightfall. On the face of things, Bungie also really wants to hammer home the idea that everyone in the Tower believes The Traveler wanted to flee and escape its imminent death. This is reiterated in the conversations you could have with various NPCs after the cutscene ended. Finally, The Witness itself seems to think it knows The Traveler’s intentions. When Eramis asks, “why does it not flee?” The Witness replies, “because it has nowhere left to run.”
The scene is framed to make you feel betrayed, abandoned, and angry at The Traveler for wanting to go on the run again and find a new world to skulk off to where its enemies can’t locate it. However, there’s more evidence that The Traveler was doing the opposite of running and hiding in this video
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