Iron Banter: This Week In Destiny 2 - Rhulking Out, Crafting Crabbiness

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Just about every week brings something new to Destiny 2, whether it's story beats, new activities, or interesting new combinations of elements that let players devastate each other in the Crucible. Iron Banter is our weekly look at what's going on in the world of Destiny and a rundown of what's drawing our attention across the solar system.

It's okay to talk about the Vow of the Disciple, now, right? We're two weeks out from The Witch Queen's raid, and it was huge in terms of recontextualizing the background story of the game. If you still haven't played through the raid and you'd like to do so unspoiled, you might want to leave now and come back when you've finished.

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As for the rest of us, let's talk about what a big deal Vow of the Disciple is for the ongoing story of Destiny 2.

For years, we've been operating on a specific understanding of Destiny 2 that has slowly been expanding outward. Where we've battled the threats of the Vex, Cabal, Fallen, Hive, Scorn, and Taken throughout the course of Destiny 2, we now have confirmation of something worse. Over the last year or so, Destiny 2 confirmed that there's an entity at least equal to the Traveler out there, and it's coming for us. But we've still been dealing with other alien species all the while, addressing them as tools of this dark entity.

All through the time that Destiny 2 was setting up the Entity--what we would come to understand as The Witness--it was also setting up Savathun, a