The Season Of The Risen Is Destiny 2's Next Content Season Alongside Witch Queen
With its new Witch Queen vidoc, Bungie has revealed some new details about the Destiny 2 live content season releasing alongside its next expansion. It's called the Season of the Risen, and it's going to continue the story begun in 2021's Season of the Chosen, deepening players' interactions with the Cabal empire.
Along with details gleaned from the vidoc, we learned a little more about the Season of the Risen from a hands-off preview Bungie provided GameSpot of The Witch Queen. The season is a direct response to the rise of Savathun and her new Light-infused Lucent Brood of Hive enemies. While The Witch Queen is about exploring Savathun's throne world to figure out how she's taken control of the Light, a power previously reserved to just Destiny 2 players, the Season of the Risen is about that threat spreading out to the rest of the solar system.
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In last year's Season of the Chosen, Bungie introduced Caiatl, the Cabal empress and daughter of exiled Emperor Calus, a character we've been interacting with for some time. The season's story was all about diplomatic tensions between the Cabal and the Guardian-governing Vanguard, but eventually, an uneasy truce was reached between both sides. In the Season of the Risen, the diplomacy that kicked off last year is taking on a new dimension, because the threat Savathun and her immortal Hive Guardians pose is a threat to everyone, human and Cabal alike.
The Season of the Chosen hinged on Cabal agents, working
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