Destiny 2 Lore - The Osteo Striga, Thorn's Brother & new weapons of sorrow (Exotic Weapon Lore)
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- Опубліковано 23 бер 2022
- Destiny 2's Lore tells us of the Osteo Striga, a weapon of sorrow similar to Thorn, the infamous weapon of Dredgen Lore. Its story involves the creation of a new breed of these dark weapons and tells us of the warlock Jana-14 who treated the Osteo Striga like her own son. Do the Shadows of Yor follow?
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Hey gang. Audio's been a little out of whack for the last few videos. lemme know if there are further adjustments we need to make or not!
Just slightly echoed
For me it seems like you voice is really sunken back into the mix and really quiet. Not sure if it's something on your end or UA-cam compression tho
As someone who does not like to use the warlock, there definitely needs to be exotics for Titans and hunters so that they can also utilize it similarly with this weapon
Seems fine
This video seems better than the last few which your voice was very quiet. Before I had my phone on full volume and had to hold it close to me ear sometimes, now it's better
Forget all of the other damage types, this poison/corruption is my new favorite element
Telesto with poison???
@@shreks_bath_mud6360 oh dear God.. no
@@xvx_k1r1t0_xvxkillme7 it's literally called corruption, if you die to necrotic grip poison in the crucible it says you died to corruption. Research before you claim stuff so boldly.
Also you mis spelled crota
Read the lore u muppet
@@xvx_k1r1t0_xvxkillme7 so then you're both right and this debate is pointless
Also I learned a few interesting things about the name Osteo Striga while preparing to record the Lore for this weapon too! Osteo is a word that means "relating to the bones"... We all know that Hive bones were graphed to the original Rose handcannon by Rezel Azir so this could be a tie in to the Thorn. But a super cool fact is that...Striga, is commonly known as witchweed, a genus of parasitic plants. Witchweeds are characterized by bright-green stems and leaves and small, brightly colored and attractive flowers. They are obligate hemiparasites of roots and require a living host for germination and initial development, though they can then survive on their own.
FN cool huh?! These Striga/Witchweeds are all over Savathun's Throne World. And they survive off of a parasitic relationship just like Hive and their worms 👍🏾
Sooo 'parasitic plant relating to the bones' That does seem to fit the gun, if you look at the magazine when firing, it's 'eating' the bone there and expelling those poisonous swarm darts.
That’s sicc af dude thanks for sharing
at the very start of the EDZ psycohack on the left (where everyone usually gets on their sparrows) there is what looks like a dead guardian with a large flower growing out of it.
@@VallornDeathblade aaaand now I gotta add that to my notes 😅 did not notice that at all...damn that is a sweet detail to have all things considered.
@@ericconrad8854 👍🏾👍🏾 heck yeah there is...and I swear you can hear the plants too if you turn the music down.
In this you mention that Weapons of Sorrow generally have an unnatural hunger for combat, but that Bad Juju seemingly is without it. But according to its D1 Grimoire Card, it actually does- "There must be a structured, mechanical explanation for this weapon's hunger for combat. There must be. But none has been found."
The flavor text in d2 also mentions it iirc
Theres also the concept that Weapons of Sorrow are a specific combination of Humanity's mastery of war and Hive magic.
So far the weapons that can be confirmed as canon Weapons of Sorrow are Thorn, Necrochasm, Touch of Malice, and Striga. All of which being weapons of humanity that were transformed to a new more powerful form at the cost of their corrupting nature for more deaths. Corrupting the user to follow the Sword Logic in a sense.
Bad Juju is a bastardization of a Weapon of Sorrow. A prototype in a sense. Since Toland the Shattered attempted to make his own weapon of sorrow when he created Bad Juju. But it is not a true Weapon of Sorrow, just a failed if not powerful experiment.
Then again with the addition of breaking free of the sword logic with the lore involved with Whisper of the Worm.
Then technically Touch of Malice, Whisper, and Parasite would fall under the concept of Anthem Anatheme. Metamorphosis Weapons... even if Parasite was less willing then Oryx or Xol to become weapons. By becoming the Sword Logic itself in death compared to being slaved to it in life.
@@francisharkins aren't Crimson and Red Death also weapons of sorrow?
@@keksisthebetrayed8494Red Death was modified by a Fallen, and crimson was recreated from red death.
I'm curious if Jana-14 will continue to show up as a reoccuring character in further Lore Tabs relating to the Weapons of Sorrow/Darkness Armor lore tabs. Having connecting points like this is so cool to me.
There’s darkness armor???
“Weapons of sorrow have an insatiable hunger” Touch of Malice literally eats us to death.
Though it doesn’t seem to fit other metrics and it also feels different in a more intangible way
Hehe yeah
Doesn't ruinous effigy literally eat our light? Not just converting it but consuming it, does that count as a weapon of sorrow since it was forged with darkness as well as light?
@@eliaspanayi3465 It does eat Light, but it's such a small amount that the Guardian/user doesn't notice.
Not a Weapon of Sorrow, though.
@@RMediaObelisk It's not actually a small amount. We don't notice because we are extremely strong in the light ourselves. lesser guardians would have a lot of trouble trying to wield it.
In Lucent Tales, Immaru asks Savathun about such "Ghost-killer" weapons after seeing Guardians crush Hive Ghosts. After this video, I'm wondering if we'll get some sort of Foundary of Sorrow
I thought when Striga was introduced it was going to be a sorrow-fied version of the recluse. A weapon so good at shooting guardians the hive sought to make those it shot stay dead.
With how it uses veist reload, maybe you could be getting somewhere
With the release of the Witch Queen expansion, I was hoping that some of the weapons would be Hive themed, instead of the current Throne world designs we have, not that they're bad or anything, but just a few if not all of em should've been Hive themed. I can't help but feel this was a bit of a missed opportunity.
Honestly I'm hoping we get a season out of this story.
Season of the shadow
Shin in the helm as a vendor, room decorated with members of the shadows of yor
Crafting ledgendary and exotic weapons of sorrow
New activity is centred around "harvesting" the corruption.
Drifter, Eris, Elsie and Shin on coms.
A man can dream...
EDIT.
Thought of some fun exotics. I'm a warlock but I tried to do a little for hunter and titan too.
Warlock - Old World Mask
"these masks are rumored to have fought plagues before... And they shall again."
Appearance - Heavily resembles the mask of a plauge Doctor with a matching hood that covers the back of the head.
Perk - Containing Pestilence
This exotic allows for the wielder to see enemies hit with weapons of sorrow or corruption to be seen through walls in close range and in PvE enemies take 10% more damage by the warlock when poisoned. If the target dies the warlock receives devour, which will only reproc on poisoned enemy deaths.
Titans - Corrupted Bulwark
Description - "An old legend fell to this... But we won't."
These gauntlets have pieces of corrupting flesh strewn on the metal plating with stasis crystals growing through them
Perk - Darkest day
Titan stasis crystals that are created when this exotic is equipped will also deal a poison aoe in the crystals blast radius. The poisons power scales based on what caused it. So headstone is weakest with super being strongest. The crystals made are also glowing green.
Weapons of sorrow will create stasis crystals matching the power of headstone if these gauntlets are equipped.
Hunters - Withered roses
Description - "It was more once... But perhaps it still has a purpose. Its hunger remains..."
These hunter leg pieces have a withered hand cannon in the holster, which is a unstable Thorn. Not the original though. Though the barrel drips with poison.
Perk - Corrupted rounds.
Hunters will leave a poison trail behind them where they walk. Also the hunter will create weak poison bursts when any ability (even double jump) is used. It is weak but can stack on a enemy till 5 times.
In PvE this also will allow all weapons of sorrow to stack poison damage.
Weapons
The old ways stasis sword
Heavy
Looks like a shattered version of oryxs sword which is stuck back together with poison
Description - The husk of oathbraker empowered by our corruption HA! ... You uhh... Think this still counts? - Drifter
Perk
Corrupted Shape - The heavy attack button causes the player to slam the blade into the ground at their feet. Creating a "rift" that poisons any enemy that enters. Enemies that die here build up wrath. Which empowers basic attacks.
Corrupted breath
special kenetic trace rifle.
Description - Hey nothing in the Geneva Convention covers aliens. - Shadow of Yor
This trace rifle looks omolon made with the tanks that usually hold the liquid fuel being filled up with poison. Fumes are given off by the barrel.
Perk - Corrupting breath.
This fusion rifle shoots out a continuous jet of poison that rapidly uses ammo. (think flame thrower) short range really high damage and leaves pools of poison.
The mockery
Tex mechanica special handcannon
Description - You ever hear of the First Curse? It has a new shape now. Out of the shadow of its sister. - Dredgen Vale.
As hinted this is the First Curse though now black citin is grafted to the gun along with hive runes. The magazine also displays the mark of the devourer on the back.
Perk - The line
Headshots with this gun poison targets. Shots on poisoned targets do not use ammo in the traditional sense. Instead stacks of hunger build on the gun. These empower the last shot multiplicitively. At 7 stacks the final shot deals 5x damage. However stacks above 5 will create a moderately sized aoe that poisons all allies and enemies nearby, and also hurts the wielder. This effect also triggers on a miss above 4 stacks. Though this effect isn't massively dangerous until 6 stacks.
For reference 4 doesn't really do any damage just halts regen.
But but, Jana-14 is waifu material...
I wonder what she looks like
Seeing enemies exploding into poison that makes others poisoned and also explode is just so satisfying. The fact that the exotics are lore linked as well is kind of neat
I don’t think this is Shin’s enemy. Shin fought a “hunter”. I think this is a warlock against warlock. I think Aunor is going to be the new Shin.
Shin fought what was previously a Titan.
@@okruma625 yeah a "hunter" as in that the legend says they were a hunter
Nah anour hates the dark to much to be a shin .
People are throwing around the idea of Shayura being the one who puts down Jana-14, both warlocks, both using SMGs. Could work, we’ll just have to see where Bungie takes their storylines.
@@callmelunaVEVO Not likely going to happen, Shayura surrendered to the Vanguard after battling against the Lucent Brood, turns out that after she destroyed a Hive Ghost, her entire perception on things crumbled. Aisha wants to help Shayura get the help she needs now more than ever.
Omg I'd love a whole season revolving around this and the return of Shin. Do you think actually meeting Shin is feasible?
Either Shin or Aunor, both would be super cool
@@veralium hell why not both?
@@EdibleClown Either way I am definitely looking forward to seeing what happens with this story
Y? If they do bring shin into the game it's gonna be an npc stuck in a corner.
@@EdibleClown Hm...as cool as it would be, I doubt it.
From the initial questlined lorebooks from Shin, he's entrusted the Last Word, the reborn Thorn, and the burden of 'walking the line between' to us.
Only way he would possibly return is if we (or him) somehow 'faltered', and as far as I can see, neither would/will.
I remember reading a post on Reddit that pointed out that the way the Books of Sorrow are written are nearly identical to how Xivu Arath communicates to the Wrathborn in order to corrupt them, with some sentences being essentially word for word repeats. I think the youngest of the Osmium dynasty has been more active than we initially believed.
I know this is a mistake, but the fact that in Byf's mind the thorns wielder is DREDGEN LORE is the best thing I've ever discovered
"The weapon did not care what it ate, only that it was hungry."
-a friend of mine describing Thorn, and apparently other Weapons of Sorrow
Well said
The hive in a nutshell
Your friend is clearly Warhammer savvy
Maybe Shin will be the one who’ll give us the second darkness subclass or pointed us in the right direction the same way the stranger did
There are similar lore interactions with Lumina and Boots of the assembler: “pseudophotons and impossible math”. I wonder if those interactions will be explore more as well?
"this time I ensured the scanners were running beforehand" that's not an accident.
Yes we need more! Your content is what drives Destiny’s story for me. You alone make Destiny a better game. Keep it up!
we the guardian already have experience in crafting incredibly powerful, and sometimes evil weapons. I could totally see us tracking down the creator of these new weapons of sorrow to find a way to counter the lucent hive. Maybe we create a gun with the same capabilities as thorn using it to snuff out hive guardians light without crushing their ghost. seems plausible with the direction bungie is taking the story.
When we remade thorn in the original quest I believe it was stated that it could be made to sever the light just like the other thorns, but we didn't because obviously we wouldn't be able to take it to the crucible
@@eliaspanayi3465 we gotta think of crucible, it could act like the new staff in psiops. or have a lore tidbit that says it ONLY works on hive guardians.
I don't want to think about the crusible
@@hehitmeinthekneegur1551 god me too
@@eliaspanayi3465 when we originally got the quest, the very first piece of text was how our guardian felt sick from just holding og Thorn, pretty much why we couldn’t use it until it became rose again
i think there's a strong possibility the weapons of sorrow might play a big part in a future upcomming season and perhaps have something tied to them during the lightfall but as of right now its to early to tell
My favorite weapons in general are all exotics, and there's only 4
Thorn, Witherhoard, Le Monarque, and now Osteo Striga...
Ah yes, the quadruple DOT terrors.
Nah cerberous
I've been enjoying izinagis burden recently
Absolutely love Thorn, and the history behind it. This is absolutely phenomenal news for those of us who still follow the path of Yor
I new this weapon was super similar to Thorn, and to think it was made from remnants of Thorn makes it even better. I love the Lore around these weapons
My osteo striga was becoming unfun to use, so I got it to level 69 and vaulted it
No one asked
@@grey-1206 bruh
@@grey-1206 unnecessary
Don't worry, he has an anime pfp, all opinions automatically invalid
For me Osteo is a reliable workhorse weapon. Really good, but has some stiff competition at least in easy content. Chain reaction wave frame, volatile rounds, trinity ghoul, void detonators, swords. Osteo gets the job done for overload, killing packs of adds, and has incredible range and stickiness(duh).
The Story around the the two Exo Handcannons and the VoG Raid Lore were the first two things that fascinated me in Destiny’s Story, so yes always and forever more of it.
I‘m still hoping that one day we will meet Shin and will get a cutscene of an epic duel while we sit next to him and listen to his story.
You're the best byf, thank you for improving my day!
Maybe he should improve your grammar while he’s at it
Id love to see an exotic quest line for Necrocasm. it was one of my favorite guns in D1 and to have it come back with deep lore would be awesome. That and i love the exploding thrall perk
The Striga is notably crafted, using our deepsight ability. This weapon was *remembered* by us, from a past, future, or alternate of either one.
I have a theory that the osteo striga is actually the recluse ( yes that recluse) and that it has claimed soooo many lives and felled a ton of enemies that the gun itself has ascended to a weapon of sorrow ( similar to how the dragonslayer in berserk becomes an astral weapon because it has claimed so much astral blood) which would make sense obviously not only cuz the models are similar but its the same way thorn became a weapon of sorrow ( it would also be a really cool 4th wall break)
its not
@@headmltr6247 i said theory not canon bruv
Your inspiring with the amount of content you make, hoping to get to your level someday 💪
Glad to see weapon lore! I hope there’s more to come in the future!
I think it would be cool to get a full season where we actually finally meet shin and maybe other shadows of yor to somehow reach a deeper understanding and maybe help shin and them “hunt down” or otherwise contain guardians who have strayed too far from the light. Could be interesting as a semi lead up to light fall.
Thank you for the work! Gives us something to think about.
Osteo Striga in a nutshell:
Savathûn decided to buy VEIST
Hey Byfe just wanted say thanks for all the awesome lore videos you produce! This video is the pinnacle example of my favorite style of video you produce. 😁
Yesssssss i love all of the lore around this. Cant wait to see this content in game
Was waiting for this video!
Thank you Byf. I've been waiting for this. I'm a huge fan of all the poison elements and hope for a subclass in the future. I started a warlock this season just to get necrotic grip for these weapons.
The whole story line of Shin, weapons of sorrow, shadows of Yor, all of it... I'd love to see more of this story expanded upon.
I noticed a nice little detail while watching this gameplay; unlike when firing with the base mag, the magazine on the model doesn’t deteriorate and decay as you fire while overfilled with the catalyst’s effect, as if you’re feeding the hunger and keeping it healthy.
or this is just explained with technicalities and coding, not counting extra rounds as part of the base mag, which makes sense.
Love listening to your videos while I fill paperwork out at work
Love these videos. They make gambit bearable
This video was absolute gold, in entertainment and education. Thank you Lore Daddy
New byf vid. My day has just climaxed.
Great job yet again!
I have been waiting for this video for a minute
Thank you sir for doing this video this is my favorite new SMG
Finally...tyvm byf for the lore...love your Videos
Yes! I was waiting for this vid. Love my osteo.
Love this, very interesting and dark lore. Getting goosebumps from heraing it, would love more videos! Maybe this is the start to the "necrotic" subclass?
Bungie confirmed touch of malice as weapon of sorrow during their vidoc where they talk about osteo
If we look past all the corruption and hive-magics, the development of the weapons of sorrow seems quite natural, I think. Because when new armor is invented, people invent weapons that can pierce that armor. Like arrowheads designed to spread the rings of a chainmail. When there are those who can be revived after death, weapons capable of delivering final death will be developed.
I remember when we first saw this gun on the shaping screen during the vidoc and seeing "revisions of sorrow" hyped me and my buddy a bit too much lmao
Great video as always byf;)
the story element that controlled evil can be used to produce good is such an ancient and common story device and every time i see it i still love it.
That (close enough!) was such a mood
Great vid!
I think it's very possible the next weapon of sorrow could be an exotic glaive you would have to craft at the mars relic. I do wonder about this trek down into further depths of corruption, but it's definitely something I think players would be interested in.
thank you for the subtitles my friend
This gives me the shivers
Always love the videos
YES make more on these weapons if you can . They are some of theost intersting things in the game
Bravo, Byf! I read this lore and went 😳"Well, I can't wait to see what Byf brings to this." And, man, talk about satisfying! Hadn't put the Jana-14 thing together from the video on the grips, didn't know about the connection with Weapons of Sorrow lore, and over all that, I was blown away by your reading of the Striga lore. It's so hard to be creative in the face of adversity, and I'm inspired by your tenacity in hitting the ground running after last week. ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽See you starside, brother!
Did you notice Taeko-3 name? She died in a strike allowing herself to be turned into a crystal.
Just as I was about to take a nap too perfect timing
I love this weapon. It helped greatly solo the vox obscura mission and move further in legendary campaign.
Fun fact! Thorn and osteo both have Similar reload sound effects
I would be very interested in more information on who these other people mentioned in the video are! I was a bit lost for a while and I think a new series would really help to clear things up, especially if it could be one of the themes of a new season! Love what you do man, keep it up, you are the lore god.
With the treatment they've been giving to seasonal storytelling, especially cutscenes and dialogue, I would love to have a more intensive in-game arc surrounding weapons of sorrow/Shin. We are learning about their events after or around when they happen, and I'd love for us to be at the center of them in-game.
I think/hope there will be an entire season about the Shadows of Yor.
I hope there is so much more for this story.
Amazing vid
If there are 7 books of sorrow does that mean there will be 7 weapons of sorrow
Not necessarily, but with the revisions we could begin to see a few more...
IVE BEEN WAITING FIR THIS!!!!!
I love this everything about this weapon and it’s Ilk. The lore and aesthetic are just amazing. I’ll be maining necrotic grips with Osteo And Thorn all season, complete with corrupted echo armor.
Great video!
Literally same lol
Possibly that in the next season (which I will dub the Season of Sorrow) is going to be us the Guardian hunting down Jana-14 while tramping up with Shin Malphur, after Caital informs Zavala and us about the now rogue Exo's trail of feeding the Osteo Striga, killing both Guardian and Cabal. Finding evidence of finding patterns in her killings or even the use of Psions loyal to Caital to track possible areas until we encounter guardians corrupted by the darkness.
Would love a cinematic of guardians vs guardians, crucible, dark age, the dark guardians and Aunor, Shayura and the Trials
Came back to this video and this caught my eye. Found in the first sentence of the description: "the infamous weapon of Dredgen Lore." Cracked me up a bit.
If we ever get more Sorrow exotics in Lightfall(thats if necrotic grips count as one already). New Arms exotic idea for strand. Ritual of sorrow perk: Consume your grenade energy to call forth a pack of thrall to aid you
There's a growing theme of corruption over the guardians, the people Aunor is hunting, Jana-14... This only makes me wonder where did Savathun put the crown of sorrows and if she planned to use it and the fact that she spread her song all over the city before the vex invasion. Someone has to do something with those loose ends and I'm waiting for it
Always a twist into another possibility of a season revolving around shin and the drifter again. Something is brewing, maybe drifter still has a chance at that craziest gun fight yet…..
I see this showing up in several seasons over the next few years. With Shin and/or Eris getting corrupted by a mix of stasis (or other darkness powers) and weapons of sorrow. They create a group of dark guardians that we have to deal with over time.
Fits in with some of the Stranger’s other futures she has already experienced.
Ever since they released Necrotic Grips I've been maining all of the weapons of Sorrow with my Voidlock (Striga, Thorn, ToM) it's very niche but I enjoy rending my enemies who are hollow of spirit and meaning.
I wonder if we will get a "Lumina" version of Striga. I think it would be cool to get an entire set of weapons of sorrow, like auto rifles, pulses, fusions even, all with the corrosive effect of thorn, but then think of the idea of purifying each one into some kind of light based weapon of hope!
Was my main weapon for first Season of witch queen, and just returned to this in season 2.
Such an underated weapon, even more so for Warlocks... And that Siva Ornament for necrotic grips 👀 ohhhh how could I not buy it
Ive always loved the story of thorn and last word. I was wondering if they would ever continue telling us about the weapons of sorrow. I stopped playing destiny after the taken king and I still watch these lore videos because I find them interesting.
Love how the TWAB from yesterday confirmed what Byf was saying in this: Thorn and Osteo Striga are the only Weapons of Sorrow
I think it would be amazing to see the shadows of yor returning, especially if maybe they are using the possible poison/corruption subclass rumored for destiny.
I keep hearing about all these different groups of guardians in destiny. Ones that have taken on darker purposes. This raises a question that I've had for a long time. Now tha bungie has hive guardians as enemies; will we be getting actual guardians as enemies? The Shadows of Yor, Jana-14, Shayura; all these guardians and the only ones we fight are in the crucible. There will come a time when I think we'll be going toe-to-toe with lightbearers of earth but will we have the strength to kill their ghosts like the hive's?
Good lord that makes sense 👀👀
shay appears to have surrendered, according to the new scout lore tab
Regardless of if we do end up fighting other human guardians one day, I would just like to note that Shayura is actually currently in prison/therapy after having a mental breakdown from seeing Hive with the light.
*YOU'RE GOD DAMN RIGHT*
@@erikm8373 And we also know that Aisha is a kind soul :)
(I knew it was her, THAT Stasis wielding hunter who stood up against a crowd to save the brother of the murdered Eliksni !!)
To this day I simply cannot believe they havent managed to do anything in game with shin and the others. He is so iconic and beloved and the story of hand cannons is such an integral part of destiny. My hopes are for beyond The final shape when the new destiny saga will come.
What makes Osteos lore even more creepy is that she's likely talking to a body, that was shot with Osteo.
It would be interesting to see this storyline revisited in the current environment as it regards darkness and light.
The last major story extension was on the very front end of the blurring of lines around dark and light. But now with Guardian's using Stasis actively and the Hive having guardians, this could be very interesting.
So two things I was thinking, possibly three.
First, on Bad Juju if I remember correctly the weapon was made in an attempt to mimic the weapons of sorrow by Toland. Ironically he succeeded because that weapon feeds itself just like thorn and the striga. I strongly believe Bad Juju falls under a weapon of sorrow for that.
Second, thinking on the crimson and its ability to heal the user while being labeled "officially this weapon doesn't exist" suggest the vanguard had a stronger dislike for whatever breed of weapon crimson is vs the weapons of sorrow.
And lastly what of the Deathbringer, a rocket launcher born of hive magic that literally harnesses their death song.
If we are to get a poison based subclass in the future, i think jana and the shadows of yor will be playing a major part in the subclasses development, hell it could mean we could be getting our first destiny enemies who are dark guardian AI's
I imagine Shin would be alright with Drifter, Eris and Elizabeth teaching Guardians how to wield the Darkness (stasis) properly, while resisting corruption. Though I feel the Shadows of Yor would be unhappy that the Guardian was able to tap into the Darkness’ true power while they’d be fiddling around with Thorns for so long. A season, like “season of the shadows” would be interesting”. Delving into Aunor, Shin, Drifter, and Shayura’s lore, while being taught how to harness a new poisonous subclass, while hunting down corrupted Guardians. Idk if Bungie would/will do this though. It’d probably be difficult to program other Guardians in a way that would be unique. I do hope we meet Shin at some point.
I absolutely love the lore around Thorn.
This makes me hopefully we will get a season about rouge guardians like Jana using weapons of sorrow and killing guardians, trying to snuff out the light. And it could he called…the season of Sorrow. It could bring in Shin and the Drifter back into the limelight!
Have Shin finally come out from the shadows and be in the helm that season? Maybe have Aunor come in as she is all about the whole hunting down corrupted guardians.
Did you catch that Jana-14 stole the ribs of the person she "feed" to striga if the flesh of a person infected by a weapon of sorrow can be used like a weapon of sorrow as well then could this possibly be another piece of armor that Jana-14 is building from those ribs like the necrotic grips?
Who knows this could possibly even lead to each class having there own piece of "sorrow armor" like necrotic grips.
The Osteo Striga also makes a screeching kind of sound when you swap from the Witherhoard to the striga.
I think the naming of "Osteo Striga" is perhaps as equally disturbing as the stories in the Necrotic Grip and Osteo lore tabs. Osteo of or regarding bones and Striga, a reference to (most likely) the Witcher and the cursed murdered baby reborn to wreak havoc for all eternity (until Geralt cures her). There are other examples of Strigas and the baby factor is not inherent to Strigas but I feel like due to the lore tab and all the motherhood references, the connection seems likely. Have fun shooting Hive with your new Bone Cursed Murder Baby.
Striga is also a deadly plague among plants, a highly aggressive weed