"She asked him to bow and to this, Zavala refused." I beg to differ, Sir. I seem to remember Zavala doing more than simply refusing. He talked about one Guardian kicking their collective asses, cleaning out her daddy's ship, fan-fiction, clapping ass in new ways, etc.
@PlasmaCubeX yeah like an actual war. Not picking off leaders like the red war. I want an actual battle. A whole field of fallen and an entire city full of immortal badasses (aka guardians)
Two extremely important lore bits that I'm surprised you didn't mention were how well Crow and Amanda are getting along (my guardian felt like such a proud dad when Crow asked Amanda out at the end of the Behemoth battleground post-armistice), and how the hunters are in possession of Shaxx's missing horn.
Ironic given how Amanda and Cayde had some sort of relationship with each other. Or maybe that was more with Petra. Maybe it’s the hunter charm you know 😉.
@@nairobi8056 if Titans are the jocks and Warlocks are the smart nerds, Hunters must be the cool, rebellious I-don't-care guys who ride their harleys while sun sets on the horizon...
@@aabahdjfisosososos1. imma uninstall destiny until another live event 2. Imma just watch youtubers to keep up to date Or 3. I'm going to just not play until witch queen. Bungie are very good at marketing the game but they lack to bring it forward to the audience bc of dry content and the expectation do not meet the eye so bungie needs to nail it
Season of Chosen Story: Whether we wanted it or not, we’ve stepped into a war with the Cabal throughout Sol, so let’s get to taking out their command one by one. Valus Ta’arc reskin #9173 leads a remanent Red Legion militia in Watcher’s Grave on Nessus. I need you to Thundercrash their defenses and cheese the commander out. Good luck Guardians. Oh and repeat this like 4-5 other times. I’ll take Caital to my “private chambers”.
One of the biggest points of confusion for me is how crow could be killed so many times by guardians but no one spoke up about encountering uldren sov himself
I would say some might in small talk but id goes the rest didnt tell anyone due to them not knowing he ca. be resurrected. Regardless I see what you mean.
Well, they're not killing him for fun or pleasure or bragging rights, anything like that. They were killing him as part of their grief for Cayde's death, and grief is usually a pretty personal thing. Also, Vanguard policy is "don't search for who you were before", so I imagine it could be difficult to report that a new risen/guardian has a familiar face.
I love that pretty much every move made against the last city or guardians can just be summed up as a bad move on the cabals part because we just shit on them in retaliation.
I mean, the Cabal only have their honor left after multiple setbacks and losses (losing their home world no less by the Hive) and Caiatl as Empress has to put her people first than her (She really wanted an equal alliance but the whole of Cabal don’t want equal partnership). It’s still the best outcome for her though since the majority of Cabal would honor the Guardians wining the Rite of Proving without calling themselves hypocrites and would cull those more radical Cabal and are opposed to peace.
If all Caiatl wanted was to regroup and maybe enlist some guardians to help reclaim their home from the Hive, I'd pack my vault and gladly march with my new battle brothers
Yeah i would live to fight alongside a fucking space rhino. Like imagine all of the bosses that we kill in the battlegrounds. All of them. One guardian. AND AN ENTIRE FIELD OF FALLEN
@@thompsonel-melloi9270 Deadass. My Warlock isn't one to just leave people in need, he'd help too. Just don't demand that he bend the knee in order to do so.
Depending on when you last played, shadowkeep and beyond light's stories is really all you need. Most of the seasonal stories have little connection to each other and leading up to the next expansion is easily explained in probably in 5 minutes.
I kind of feel like there'll be a Mass Effect "unite the galaxy against the enemy" ending here. Hopefully not a "pick a color to defeat the Hive with" ending though.
1:57 if you assume one guardian has killed 10,000 Cabal alone, and then look at the number of players per month in Destiny 2, on Steam, which is around 50-100K, you'll have over 500,000,000 to potentially 1 Billion Cabal killed since Destiny 2. On PC. Just for the Cabal. Then if you think about all the console players, and the players and kills in Destiny 1, then that number is probably in the hundreds of billions. Are we really going to believe between D1 and this point in D2, Guardians have not eradicated the Cabal and Fallen at least once over?
I think Caital was genuine about wanting a proper alliance, but in order to get the rest of her council on board she had to ask us to bow. If the council had fully gone along with Caital, maybe the negotiations would have gone very differently
Really appreciate this. Just started back to playing yesterday and this is definitely something I need. Also, really hoping to see some Crow and Ikora interactions next season as well. Really want to see her reaction because of how she reacted in Forsaken to Cayde's death.
@@josefzalusky7307 Oh cool, didn't know that. Then again I've been gone since late last season. Gonna have to catch up on a couple more lore videos. Thanks!
I wouldn't say that this story about the Cabal is completely divorced from setting up Witch Queen. We just spent an entire season learning that Caiatl is in Sol because Torobatl was destroyed by Savathun, and she was looking for allies. This is going to have repercussions when we face Savathun ourselves, and whether we will have an ally in the Cabal. They've beautifully set up Caiatl to display her true character because she will be given the choice to stand with us when we wouldn't stand with her, or to abandon us as retribution for denying her. I also believe that we'll transition in to Splicer by way of the Conclave's interest in Vex tech.
Wasn't it more Xivu Arath who took Torobatl, than Savathun? That certainly ties into Season of the Hunt, given it's connection to Xivu Arath, and of course she is Savathun's sister, so they are not completely separate, but I feel like the game is leading more towards a direct confrontation with Xivu Arath than it is Savathun lately. That's not to say Savathun isn't present, and Witch Queen would seem to suggest Savathun rather than Xivu Arath, but I do wonder how Bungie is going to have us deal with the pair of them.
Best tweet I’ve seen about how all these stories connect? Something along the lines of this is like in Mass Effect 3 and we’re gathering allies (Crow, Caitl, Mithrax, the “darkness vanguard” of E. Bray, Drifter and Eris) and we’re prepping to fight the Reapers lol
Honestly I was not surprised by Zavala's actions towards Crow. Not because story wise redemption sells good but because of who Zavala is. You see it everytime he shows up, the amount of care he has for the title of Guardian and what it's supposed to stand for to humanity. He genuinely believes a guardian is not their past self but a new beginning on the journey of Light.
Even if I read every single piece of lore released in this season and caught every bit of dialogue, I'd still watch Byf talk about it, just because I enjoy listening to his voice 🤷♂️
I also really enjoyed story in this season; fully agree with you, Byf. Finally Destiny's story feels really interesting and engaging enough to follow up.
Since we are friends with the cabal now what if we in future destiny content can create cabal guardians as our characters or fallen since next season Mithrax will be our buddy like just imagine how great that would be or not I don't know
Fallen I could see, but cabal guardians would have physical downsides like not being able to get through crouch spaces. Fallen though could be worked around (realistically the vanguard would just cut holes for second arms), and it'd be pretty cool
I personally think this was well linked together with SotH, maybe not cause-to-effect linked, but definitely well. Both seasons are dealing with the effect of Xivu Arath which also builds up for Witch Queen. Ever increasing focus on the Vex got us ready, in a focus sense, for Season of the Splicer, which ties back to Beyond Light's main story well. Plus an appearance of a high-ranking Psion (The one behind the shield when you need to defeat the three wyverns, not seen again) that may be Amtek (?) ties back into SotW. I think this season has really excelled in making the world breathe, allowing us to read the weft and weave of time as two desperate warrior races struggle to come to an agreement (which will most likely be arrived at in S15 lol) against an existential death.
Seeing as how the events are gonna go about in the season of the splicer, there is a very high chance that the next season would be about dreaming city again
I really enjoyed our 4 matches in trials today, even though I didn't win any of those matches. I did end up going flawless twice and got 2 decent HC's. Thanks for your kind messages. Have a good day Byf.
Man, I'd love it if Caiatl found the Leviathan. Imagine it: Even with the sat feeds streaming the sight from orbit, the Guardians still couldn't believe it. The golden, colossal hull of the Leviathan lurched forth from the ethereal depths of space, planet-devouring maw set open like some great, primordial beast. To put it lightly, there was panic in the streets. Calls and demands bombarded the Tower, pleading that the Guardians launch into action against what was undoubtedly a new threat. Just when a legion of Guardian ships was about to launch, a transmission reached the H.E.L.M. Osiris, Saladin, Zavala and the Guardians stood before the table as Caiatl's ghostly image suddenly appeared. Pointing to the Guardians, she uttered but one thing. "Get in, losers," she rumbles, unmistakable glee in her tone, "we're going god-slaying."
Let's take a moment and realize the following trend: Beyond Light is shaping up to be like what Taken King was: we got new subclasses, the story was good, the raid blew out minds. This was followed by Rise of Iron, a pretty dope expansion with an even crazier raid, an awesome story, a new(ish) destination, and pretty awesome live events (flying broom for Halloween, and expanded SRL with horns, anyone?). VoG is coming before Witch Queen, which as an expansion has some pretty big shoes to fill, and I think it's possibly gonna be crazy enough to do it.
My biggest issue with this season's story is that in game, this is the first time Saladin has had major screentime since Rise of Iron, and they do so little with him. They could have easily made him being angry and disagreeing with everything Zavala decides to do, make sense. Caital very likely reminds Saladin of the Warlords from the Dark Ages. She originally came here offering an 'alliance' against the hive at the price of servitude. This is very likely something Saladin saw a lot of in the Dark Ages...but it's never brought up, he's never set up to present his side. It just feels like Saladin had a ton of wasted potential in the in game story this season. Lore bookwise he's been pretty good. But I feel like more could have been done with him.
The seasons leading up to Witch Queen appear to be us forming new allies. First with the Crow and now with Caitl. Soon to be with Mithrax. I think all of these characters and factions will be assisting us in the battle against the Hive and Savathûn.
I feel like this season (making peace with the Caiatl and her empire) and next season (possibly making peace with Mithrax and his house) is a sort of gathering of allies to prepare for battle with the Witch Queen. I dont know if that's where this is going, but thats what it feels like to me
I really enjoyed this video I’m very new to destiny 2 so I enjoy all the lore videos of stuff I’ve been missing out on can’t wait to see how well I do for solstice of heroes
How the seasons link: Season of the Hunt, how the Hive are preparing for the witch queen's arrival. Season of the Chosen, how the Cabal are preparing for the witch queen's arrival. Season of the Splicer, how the Vex are preparing for the witch queen's arrival.
@@christophergarland7936 I feel like last season would be us starting to fight back, and we probably discover something major to fight the darkness and Savathun at the end.
Season of the Chosen in a Nutshell: Zavala roasted the Cabal and started the most one sided conflict in living memory, Caitl took to Twitter to rant about how badly she was getting her butt kicked before signing a peace treaty, Crow and Amanda drank some choccy water together while Crows mask stayed on ;) Osiris and the Guardian found a spoopy ship which in all honesty resulted in very little in the grand Scheme of things
It would not surprise me that with all of this talk of Xivu' Arath in the last two seasons that the Witch Queen expansion is a trick and that SavaThun isnt in the DLC and tricks us into killing her sister. It would be the most appropriate for the story overall.
I never even thought of that. I do feel like savathun will die in this expansion though, and they'll either do that as the end of the expansion story and keep savathun as a raid, or just keep xivu arath for a future expansion, which saves bungie having to make new characters and makes the hive gods the main villains they should be in the Destiny story. Savathun might survive and die as part of the darkness story, killed by the pyramids for her hubris after her victory over us in witch queen in a cutscene. As a trickery god it doesn't really make sense for her to ever face us head on, so it'd be an interesting raid
Thanks for this - (relatively) compact summaries of what happened in a season have been hgh on my wish list for a while. I didn't play for the last season, and trying to get a broad-strokes view of what happened is difficult.
It appeared that Caiatl would have asked for an alliance with the Guardians as equals, but her council advised against it as it would cause mass defections within her troops. That's why she asked the Guardians to bow to her and her command. It was a gamble doomed to fail. But she was between a rock and a hard place trying to maneuver to keep her forces loyal to her and reach an alliance that would give her the advantage she needed to give her people a chance to gain back their home world. Sadly and tragically whatever road she took would lead to failure at this point in the story.
I’d imagine they’ll go towards a narrative that goes through reconciling the issues of the other races, similar to what we’ve been doing with Caital and the Cabal legions, after we have taken down the overarching threat of the Darkness
The Linking is the steady conversations about seeing the humanity, in the non human races, during the battlegrounds. Specifically with Holliday and Crow as advocates. Then leading us into the season with the Light Kell who was already on that path. I think we'll be "allied" with 2 of the 6 enemy races by Witch Queen.
I didn't do this season at all I was playing other games but am coming back for vault of glass. This really helps my friend I hope to buy you a drink sometime in Valhalla 🍸🧉🥛🍶🍷🍵
I want to see more friendly aliens in Destiny. It would be easy for them to do like most games and only ever have the enemies be enemies, but it's more realistic for them to actually do whatever they need to do to survive, such as allying with us and helping us out. Most games just have their enemies be generic alien races that have some trivial objective so we have to fight them, but it's interesting and refreshing to see races that aren't just black and white.
As someone who hasn't played d2 regularly in a couple seasons this video was super helpful to me and I really liked it. But also what happened to Sagira?? I feel like that's important and I'm lost
Hi Byf. Could you do a video on how the classes and subclasses came to be? (Stumbled upon your old sunbreaker titan video, and was wondering about the lore behind the rest of the subclasses and then the thought of how did gaurdians even get defined into classes popped into mind (sorry for the paragraph))
What I would have liked to see for Crow's reveal to Zavala would be a little different. Uldren would find out about his past on his own, and he would reveal himself willingly, after a long period of deliberation. He would walk directly into the tower, come face-to-face with Zavala. There would be a beat while the vanguard comprehended, and then Zavala would break. And I mean really break, for the first time as we've really seen him. He'd activate Fists of Havoc, and he would just kill the guardian with the face of Uldren, over and over and over again as Ikora and the tower watched. And Crow would just let it happen until Zavala would eventually stop from sheer fatigue and helped him up. Very different approach to the scene, but I think it would have been entertaining.
1:54 to 2:04 Those lines are filled with such unbridled and barbaric power, it's unbelievable. Can we just take a microsecond to imagine what it would be like to view Guardians from an outside point? There are hundreds of thousands of IMMORTAL warriors, capable of returning from DEATH itself with no loss at all. Each and every one of them is a master or seeks total control over war and battle. The great majority of them display zealotry in their duties that borders or even crosses over to fanaticism. They wield PARACAUSALITY itself. And the younger cohorts of Guardians have killed thousands of Cabal, not even counting the numbers of Hive, Vex, Taken and Scorn. The older Guardians? Monumental figures of what it means to be one of the Traveler's chosen. Each and every one of them displays tenacity, patience, rage, love and strength of will that could not possibly be imagined from a mere mortal. But Savathun is going to overpower all of that? Huh...
@mynameisByf These are always great videos. Love watching them and learning. HOWEVER, might it be possible to do a lore video someday on the general lifespan of the Destiny races. So much history passes with these races & characters that it seems like every important character (villain/hero - alike) has been alive for hundreds and thousands of years. Not counting Oryx's possible million plus year life span.
Something I don’t understand: we have lore from the red war of a ghost that hid through the war in an effort to revive their guardian should the traveler be freed, and they nearly made it. So how is the new tech that the psions have any different? Sure locking a ghost up would prevent it from reviving their guardian but once they’re freed shouldn’t they be able to bring them back?
Ooh, maybe the thread through this year before Witch Queen is assembling allies. Season of the hunt gave us Crow, season of the chosen has an armistice with Caital, season of the splicer will be Mithrax
Is it just me or are they setting up these seasons as stories for getting new allies ready for witch queen? I mean season of Chosen cabal=Truce, season of the Splicers Eliksni=Allies
@@CanadianComa02 She might, i would love if we had these alliances and let them into the city tho, i honestly think it'd be amazing and very poetic, we spent so much time keeping them out and now we're letting them in
I don't think Caital will do much next season, as for her and the cabal involvement with the next expansion: we did hit them hard enough to stall their daparture to Torabatl, so they will find themselves entangled in the fight with the Witch Queen (not that they mind settling their grudge). This time though Caital has been studying guardians101: "We will fight together for the spoils...loot! For the LOOT!" [like the vanilla Cayde trailer 😢]
The question we should be asking is that if a Guardian has their light blocked, does that increase the rate of corruption from the Darkness (and Stasis)? As that could be a real issue especially as Zavala has been hit with it and whilst he doesn't have stasis he is around it constantly. And the fact that the Crown of Sorrows has been put in the tower maybe that will start corrupting the general populace or the afflicted guardians, me might see more usages of Savathun's Song amongst the Vendors??? Maybe Drifter uses it as he is the Darkness Expert in the Tower with Eris Morn on the Moon and Elsie busy on Europa it could be funny if the Drifter and the Nine get involved with the helm? It wouldn't surprise if Dominus Ghaul's Light capture machine used technology from Calus' and his experiences with the Black Edge. As the Vex (Most technologically advanced?) themselves find it hard to smother a lightbearer with pure science i.e. Kabr, Saint-14 & The Kentarch 3. the Vex themselves find it extremely difficult to mess with Paracausality, but the Cabal succeded and in a usable state? I could believe the fallen being somewhat possible to smother a lightbearer as they have a unique stance on machines due to their religious beliefs of them, with Ether and Dark Ether being a unique resource only known to them and not to mention the SIVA Splicers being a all new class of being and Scorn beings that transcended mortality in ways. I cannot believe that without help from the Darkness does this machine evenworks? We know that the Darkness can send psychic mesages via Electromagnetic exposure maybe the Psions are actually working for Savathun unknowingly as a sort of coven.
Bracus Zavala, he commands the Guardians from an Imperial Last City based outside of Twilight Gap. But with the right team, we can punch through their defences and we can take this beast out and break their grip on the Traveller. - Some Fallen, probably.
"She asked him to bow and to this, Zavala refused."
I beg to differ, Sir. I seem to remember Zavala doing more than simply refusing. He talked about one Guardian kicking their collective asses, cleaning out her daddy's ship, fan-fiction, clapping ass in new ways, etc.
indeed
Indeed
Imagine being Caiatl in that moment. Or not being unbroken.
Indeed
indeed
We can summarise it in one sentence:
Whether we wanted it or not we’ve stepped into a war with the cabal...again
Well yes and no.
@PlasmaCubeX and ourselves it would seem with some guardians being corrupted by the darkness (of which scares me quite a bit honestly)
Literally everyone: DUDE AGIAN THERE BETTER BE AN EXOTIC AT THE END OF THIS
@PlasmaCubeX yeah like an actual war. Not picking off leaders like the red war. I want an actual battle. A whole field of fallen and an entire city full of immortal badasses (aka guardians)
More like stepped out
Love how at 10:53 Byf said the phrase "lacking in wisdom" as he tried to fire his empty sleeper in the background footage
Didn't even notice that till you pointed that out
Blue man says No and starts one sided war with overly confident space hippo.
Good comment
Best comment
Space hippo 😂😂
I love that Osiris was just standing there like “Um... Zavala? I don’t have my light, or a Ghost... remember? Soooo”
@@nyxlykos3738 😂😂😂
Two extremely important lore bits that I'm surprised you didn't mention were how well Crow and Amanda are getting along (my guardian felt like such a proud dad when Crow asked Amanda out at the end of the Behemoth battleground post-armistice), and how the hunters are in possession of Shaxx's missing horn.
Ironic given how Amanda and Cayde had some sort of relationship with each other. Or maybe that was more with Petra. Maybe it’s the hunter charm you know 😉.
@@nairobi8056 if Titans are the jocks and Warlocks are the smart nerds, Hunters must be the cool, rebellious I-don't-care guys who ride their harleys while sun sets on the horizon...
I thought the horn was up his ass when ikora bested him.
@@MrDarkknight914 JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA
Hunters have his horn?
Tomorrow is gonna feel so long I just know it
I just hope on Tuesday it's not a disappointment bc I really want bungie to nail this game especially when witch queen comes out
@@cezanne7775 if it is, what will you do
@@aabahdjfisosososos probably not play it if it’s a disappointment
@@XLCook12 same
@@aabahdjfisosososos1. imma uninstall destiny until another live event
2. Imma just watch youtubers to keep up to date
Or 3. I'm going to just not play until witch queen. Bungie are very good at marketing the game but they lack to bring it forward to the audience bc of dry content and the expectation do not meet the eye so bungie needs to nail it
Season of Chosen Story: Whether we wanted it or not, we’ve stepped into a war with the Cabal throughout Sol, so let’s get to taking out their command one by one. Valus Ta’arc reskin #9173 leads a remanent Red Legion militia in Watcher’s Grave on Nessus. I need you to Thundercrash their defenses and cheese the commander out. Good luck Guardians. Oh and repeat this like 4-5 other times. I’ll take Caital to my “private chambers”.
Im betting a future cutscene where Mithrax, Caityl, Zavala, Crow, and Osiris are all at the helm doing epic shit.
I'm down with that
definitely happening
Yes! AND THEY KILL AN ENTIRE FIELD OF FALLEN
Canonicly: everyone in the crucible useing stasis is on a euthanization list for when they fall to darkness.
Id love to see Aunor try. I wouldn't mind wiping another of Ikora's little spies off the map.
@@trial_with_an_error9687 Aunor wiped out two trials sweats like it was just another day lmao
@@trial_with_an_error9687 ok loser
i aint arrogant enough to think i can take down any Hidden, if i go corrupt im keeping it low key
@@trial_with_an_error9687 go ahead try 120 felwintering aunor
One of the biggest points of confusion for me is how crow could be killed so many times by guardians but no one spoke up about encountering uldren sov himself
I would say some might in small talk but id goes the rest didnt tell anyone due to them not knowing he ca. be resurrected. Regardless I see what you mean.
Well, they're not killing him for fun or pleasure or bragging rights, anything like that. They were killing him as part of their grief for Cayde's death, and grief is usually a pretty personal thing. Also, Vanguard policy is "don't search for who you were before", so I imagine it could be difficult to report that a new risen/guardian has a familiar face.
Thank you for the vid, I haven’t been keeping up with the season and this really helps
Said literally everybody right now lol
@@mrmr4550 no lmao 90% of people where there
Yeah I was pumped but then had to work away from home for 3 months :(
@@sophie824 not true
"Except for those of you who spend 90% of their time in the Crucible"
Damn bro, you don't gotta call me out like that
I love that pretty much every move made against the last city or guardians can just be summed up as a bad move on the cabals part because we just shit on them in retaliation.
i love the fact that we are way too powerful and it's acknowledged in the lore
Caiatl's only mistake was asking Zavala to bow. If she legit didn't ask them to bow before her, she would have her alliance.
I mean, the Cabal only have their honor left after multiple setbacks and losses (losing their home world no less by the Hive) and Caiatl as Empress has to put her people first than her (She really wanted an equal alliance but the whole of Cabal don’t want equal partnership). It’s still the best outcome for her though since the majority of Cabal would honor the Guardians wining the Rite of Proving without calling themselves hypocrites and would cull those more radical Cabal and are opposed to peace.
If all Caiatl wanted was to regroup and maybe enlist some guardians to help reclaim their home from the Hive, I'd pack my vault and gladly march with my new battle brothers
@@thompsonel-melloi9270 Oh for sure 111 percent.
Yeah i would live to fight alongside a fucking space rhino. Like imagine all of the bosses that we kill in the battlegrounds. All of them. One guardian. AND AN ENTIRE FIELD OF FALLEN
@@thompsonel-melloi9270 Deadass. My Warlock isn't one to just leave people in need, he'd help too. Just don't demand that he bend the knee in order to do so.
Who else wants something like this (albeit longer) for everything since vanilla?
I want to get back in but so much has happened...
*cough* entire history of destiny video *cough*
Do it man. Just dive right in. I joined back in at the beginning of this season. I haven’t played since vanilla but Jesus Christ was it worth it
Join us! Just focus on one thing at a time, it can be a bit much all at once.
Depending on when you last played, shadowkeep and beyond light's stories is really all you need. Most of the seasonal stories have little connection to each other and leading up to the next expansion is easily explained in probably in 5 minutes.
Dude go watch Byfs "Entire history of Destiny"
I went from knowing absolutely nothing to caught up and ready for this new season! It's so worth it!
More and more I get the impression this is all leading to us, the Fallen, and the Cabal vs the Vex, the Hive and the Taken
More like the Guardians, the Fallen, the Cabal vs. the Vex vs. The Hive and Taken.
I kind of feel like there'll be a Mass Effect "unite the galaxy against the enemy" ending here.
Hopefully not a "pick a color to defeat the Hive with" ending though.
@@jkuhl2492 Only if the color represents which Burn we use to purge them, would that be acceptable.
Again, I don't think byf has ever stunned a champion.
That's because he's the stunning champion xx
A recap for every season seems like a good way to keep interest in the game for me tbh
Despite playing almost everyday of the season, these recaps still are so nice and ties any questions with the answers for me.
1:57 if you assume one guardian has killed 10,000 Cabal alone, and then look at the number of players per month in Destiny 2, on Steam, which is around 50-100K, you'll have over 500,000,000 to potentially 1 Billion Cabal killed since Destiny 2. On PC. Just for the Cabal. Then if you think about all the console players, and the players and kills in Destiny 1, then that number is probably in the hundreds of billions. Are we really going to believe between D1 and this point in D2, Guardians have not eradicated the Cabal and Fallen at least once over?
I hope we have a Cut Scene with Mithraks and Caital next Season
even if these lack in enough content to keep us busy playing you have to admit this season's story was amazing.
i wasnt able to play most of it due to the battlepass
I think Caital was genuine about wanting a proper alliance, but in order to get the rest of her council on board she had to ask us to bow. If the council had fully gone along with Caital, maybe the negotiations would have gone very differently
That’s exactly the case. I think it’s implied to the point of basically being stated in the last(?) page of the Empress book
1:58 "We have properly each slain at least 10,000 of Legionaries"
*In the mean time, the pvp player base*
"WTF IS A LEGIONARY!!"
No one gonna talk about that guardian that got absolutely destroyed at 21:10? Edit: R.I.P Yubmerga, gone but never forgotten.
F for that guy.
Yubmerga.. such a beautifull name.. just like mine. Crayola, eater of crayons
I love this channel, brings me a great deal of joy each time you upload.
Thanks.
Really appreciate this. Just started back to playing yesterday and this is definitely something I need.
Also, really hoping to see some Crow and Ikora interactions next season as well. Really want to see her reaction because of how she reacted in Forsaken to Cayde's death.
Yea that would be a clear shot for character development tbh
I mean, she already knows. Ikora's pretty big brain, she's just been avoiding Crow as far as I know.
@@josefzalusky7307 Has it been officially confirmed that she knows though?
@@Idk000000 Yeah, Zavala says so when he gets mad at us for keeping Crow's identity secret.
@@josefzalusky7307 Oh cool, didn't know that. Then again I've been gone since late last season. Gonna have to catch up on a couple more lore videos. Thanks!
Caiatl taking over twitter is definitely one of my fauvorite lore thing
1:54 You don’t have to call out my crippling Destiny addiction like that
Please do a comprehensive summary video for every season like this. These are so incredibly helpful and will be an amazing resource to come back to.
The downvote is from the Psion that Caital body slammed.
*laughs in immortality*
You are keeping Destiny alive my man 👊 I need videos like this to jump back in 🥰
shout out to that guy at 21:08 who got absolutely iced by that shield we've all been there.
I wouldn't say that this story about the Cabal is completely divorced from setting up Witch Queen. We just spent an entire season learning that Caiatl is in Sol because Torobatl was destroyed by Savathun, and she was looking for allies. This is going to have repercussions when we face Savathun ourselves, and whether we will have an ally in the Cabal. They've beautifully set up Caiatl to display her true character because she will be given the choice to stand with us when we wouldn't stand with her, or to abandon us as retribution for denying her.
I also believe that we'll transition in to Splicer by way of the Conclave's interest in Vex tech.
Xivu Arath destroyed Torobatl.
Wasn't it more Xivu Arath who took Torobatl, than Savathun? That certainly ties into Season of the Hunt, given it's connection to Xivu Arath, and of course she is Savathun's sister, so they are not completely separate, but I feel like the game is leading more towards a direct confrontation with Xivu Arath than it is Savathun lately. That's not to say Savathun isn't present, and Witch Queen would seem to suggest Savathun rather than Xivu Arath, but I do wonder how Bungie is going to have us deal with the pair of them.
@@MrJakeasaur98 Agreed
Best tweet I’ve seen about how all these stories connect? Something along the lines of this is like in Mass Effect 3 and we’re gathering allies (Crow, Caitl, Mithrax, the “darkness vanguard” of E. Bray, Drifter and Eris) and we’re prepping to fight the Reapers lol
After the proving ground strike the ending dialogue for the battlegrounds talked more about defectors of the cabal and also Crow and Holliday flirting
Honestly I was not surprised by Zavala's actions towards Crow. Not because story wise redemption sells good but because of who Zavala is. You see it everytime he shows up, the amount of care he has for the title of Guardian and what it's supposed to stand for to humanity. He genuinely believes a guardian is not their past self but a new beginning on the journey of Light.
21:09 rip that Titan who was punched into the wall like a living missile
Even if I read every single piece of lore released in this season and caught every bit of dialogue, I'd still watch Byf talk about it, just because I enjoy listening to his voice 🤷♂️
Thank you so much for this! I was taking a break from Destiny 2 during this season, and this was exactly what I was needed.
bro with the psions making the new weapon that could make for a great mission where if you get shot and die your out of the mission
I love that you make these videos where I can just listen to em and do something else always good content, keep it up
So, we have a potential Cabal Ally now? And Calus never counted, so don’t even start.
You mean the Emperor of Dummy Thickness?
@@knightartorias746 grow fat from strength 😩
@@knightartorias746 do not let his thiccness make you forget that he’s the darkness’ fleshlight, no matter how tempting
@@thesilliestgoose5990 I rather help Savathûn win anyways.
@@knightartorias746 bruh she’s the hive god of trickery, it’s healthy to assume everything we know about her is bullshit
Thanks for the recap, I missed this last season so it's good to have this. Thank you.
Huge thanks byf for all the content lately, you are awesome
Thanks for doing a summary as I didn't play last season, it really helped. Hope you can continue to do these.
I also really enjoyed story in this season; fully agree with you, Byf. Finally Destiny's story feels really interesting and engaging enough to follow up.
Since we are friends with the cabal now what if we in future destiny content can create cabal guardians as our characters or fallen since next season Mithrax will be our buddy like just imagine how great that would be or not I don't know
The traveler is racist, I don't see him blessing any other race at the moment with light. Poor fallen
Fallen I could see, but cabal guardians would have physical downsides like not being able to get through crouch spaces. Fallen though could be worked around (realistically the vanguard would just cut holes for second arms), and it'd be pretty cool
I don’t even care about cabal guardians, if I’m playing as a cabal just give me a phalanx shield and I will be unstoppable
@@Freddie-pt1xw The old one, tho, not the new one.
I don't know why, but I can't stop watching lore videos despite not playing destiny 2 for a long time.
Especially now with this great season
I personally think this was well linked together with SotH, maybe not cause-to-effect linked, but definitely well. Both seasons are dealing with the effect of Xivu Arath which also builds up for Witch Queen. Ever increasing focus on the Vex got us ready, in a focus sense, for Season of the Splicer, which ties back to Beyond Light's main story well. Plus an appearance of a high-ranking Psion (The one behind the shield when you need to defeat the three wyverns, not seen again) that may be Amtek (?) ties back into SotW. I think this season has really excelled in making the world breathe, allowing us to read the weft and weave of time as two desperate warrior races struggle to come to an agreement (which will most likely be arrived at in S15 lol) against an existential death.
Good stuff as always. Thanks for all you do for the community.
Didn’t Mara says something about returning to the dreaming city during season of the hunt, I think it was the communications in Zavala’s office
Seeing as how the events are gonna go about in the season of the splicer, there is a very high chance that the next season would be about dreaming city again
I really enjoyed our 4 matches in trials today, even though I didn't win any of those matches. I did end up going flawless twice and got 2 decent HC's. Thanks for your kind messages. Have a good day Byf.
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-gasp- the spell that allows us to see through the eyes of byf!
Man, I'd love it if Caiatl found the Leviathan. Imagine it:
Even with the sat feeds streaming the sight from orbit, the Guardians still couldn't believe it.
The golden, colossal hull of the Leviathan lurched forth from the ethereal depths of space, planet-devouring maw set open like some great, primordial beast.
To put it lightly, there was panic in the streets. Calls and demands bombarded the Tower, pleading that the Guardians launch into action against what was undoubtedly a new threat.
Just when a legion of Guardian ships was about to launch, a transmission reached the H.E.L.M.
Osiris, Saladin, Zavala and the Guardians stood before the table as Caiatl's ghostly image suddenly appeared. Pointing to the Guardians, she uttered but one thing.
"Get in, losers," she rumbles, unmistakable glee in her tone, "we're going god-slaying."
Let's take a moment and realize the following trend:
Beyond Light is shaping up to be like what Taken King was: we got new subclasses, the story was good, the raid blew out minds. This was followed by Rise of Iron, a pretty dope expansion with an even crazier raid, an awesome story, a new(ish) destination, and pretty awesome live events (flying broom for Halloween, and expanded SRL with horns, anyone?). VoG is coming before Witch Queen, which as an expansion has some pretty big shoes to fill, and I think it's possibly gonna be crazy enough to do it.
My biggest issue with this season's story is that in game, this is the first time Saladin has had major screentime since Rise of Iron, and they do so little with him. They could have easily made him being angry and disagreeing with everything Zavala decides to do, make sense. Caital very likely reminds Saladin of the Warlords from the Dark Ages. She originally came here offering an 'alliance' against the hive at the price of servitude. This is very likely something Saladin saw a lot of in the Dark Ages...but it's never brought up, he's never set up to present his side. It just feels like Saladin had a ton of wasted potential in the in game story this season. Lore bookwise he's been pretty good. But I feel like more could have been done with him.
The seasons leading up to Witch Queen appear to be us forming new allies. First with the Crow and now with Caitl. Soon to be with Mithrax. I think all of these characters and factions will be assisting us in the battle against the Hive and Savathûn.
I feel like this season (making peace with the Caiatl and her empire) and next season (possibly making peace with Mithrax and his house) is a sort of gathering of allies to prepare for battle with the Witch Queen. I dont know if that's where this is going, but thats what it feels like to me
I really enjoyed this video I’m very new to destiny 2 so I enjoy all the lore videos of stuff I’ve been missing out on can’t wait to see how well I do for solstice of heroes
How the seasons link:
Season of the Hunt, how the Hive are preparing for the witch queen's arrival.
Season of the Chosen, how the Cabal are preparing for the witch queen's arrival.
Season of the Splicer, how the Vex are preparing for the witch queen's arrival.
Season 15: How the Taken are preparing for the witch queen’s arrival. (Probably)
@@christophergarland7936 I feel like last season would be us starting to fight back, and we probably discover something major to fight the darkness and Savathun at the end.
You should do a D&Destiny 5th edition campaign
Been thinking about that for a while. Destiny would make a great D&D campaign.
Season of the Chosen was excellent. I really, REALLY hope this coming season is just as good.
Season of the Chosen in a Nutshell:
Zavala roasted the Cabal and started the most one sided conflict in living memory,
Caitl took to Twitter to rant about how badly she was getting her butt kicked before signing a peace treaty,
Crow and Amanda drank some choccy water together while Crows mask stayed on ;)
Osiris and the Guardian found a spoopy ship which in all honesty resulted in very little in the grand Scheme of things
Thank you for the well done summary. Did you do it for earlier seasons too?
21:09 ah yes, classic phalanx
It would not surprise me that with all of this talk of Xivu' Arath in the last two seasons that the Witch Queen expansion is a trick and that SavaThun isnt in the DLC and tricks us into killing her sister. It would be the most appropriate for the story overall.
I never even thought of that. I do feel like savathun will die in this expansion though, and they'll either do that as the end of the expansion story and keep savathun as a raid, or just keep xivu arath for a future expansion, which saves bungie having to make new characters and makes the hive gods the main villains they should be in the Destiny story. Savathun might survive and die as part of the darkness story, killed by the pyramids for her hubris after her victory over us in witch queen in a cutscene. As a trickery god it doesn't really make sense for her to ever face us head on, so it'd be an interesting raid
Thanks for this - (relatively) compact summaries of what happened in a season have been hgh on my wish list for a while. I didn't play for the last season, and trying to get a broad-strokes view of what happened is difficult.
Listen to this whole working out! Gonna be prepared for season fo the splicer, ty!
Hey Byf, can you do a video on Crow’s relationships in the City? Like Amanda. It’s pretty interesting.
But lets be honest here, we all wanted a Bracus Zavala, we all 2nd guessed ourselves a moment there. XD
I like long lore videos so thanks byf
They need to do a review of Destiny 2 for the new light players.
There is a 4 hour long video of the Destiny history and its DLCs
@@beverknight That’s far too long of a video for a new player.
@@devontricmoore It's honestly worth it though. I watched it when I was a new light, and this is what hooked me to this game.
I would love to see more partnerships with other "enemy" types because this season has shown that more complex storytelling makes it more engaging.
It appeared that Caiatl would have asked for an alliance with the Guardians as equals, but her council advised against it as it would cause mass defections within her troops. That's why she asked the Guardians to bow to her and her command. It was a gamble doomed to fail. But she was between a rock and a hard place trying to maneuver to keep her forces loyal to her and reach an alliance that would give her the advantage she needed to give her people a chance to gain back their home world. Sadly and tragically whatever road she took would lead to failure at this point in the story.
I’d imagine they’ll go towards a narrative that goes through reconciling the issues of the other races, similar to what we’ve been doing with Caital and the Cabal legions, after we have taken down the overarching threat of the Darkness
The Linking is the steady conversations about seeing the humanity, in the non human races, during the battlegrounds. Specifically with Holliday and Crow as advocates. Then leading us into the season with the Light Kell who was already on that path. I think we'll be "allied" with 2 of the 6 enemy races by Witch Queen.
I didn't do this season at all I was playing other games but am coming back for vault of glass. This really helps my friend I hope to buy you a drink sometime in Valhalla 🍸🧉🥛🍶🍷🍵
Lore marathon hell yeah
I want to see more friendly aliens in Destiny. It would be easy for them to do like most games and only ever have the enemies be enemies, but it's more realistic for them to actually do whatever they need to do to survive, such as allying with us and helping us out. Most games just have their enemies be generic alien races that have some trivial objective so we have to fight them, but it's interesting and refreshing to see races that aren't just black and white.
As someone who hasn't played d2 regularly in a couple seasons this video was super helpful to me and I really liked it. But also what happened to Sagira?? I feel like that's important and I'm lost
Sagira was killed during season of the hunt. Osiris tried to hunt the xivu arath's high celebrant on his own and she died.
@@bitingwinds9208 Ok thank you. That makes helps make things make more sense
It was a great season to finally get in to the game, glad I can call myself a guardian now :)
Hi Byf. Could you do a video on how the classes and subclasses came to be? (Stumbled upon your old sunbreaker titan video, and was wondering about the lore behind the rest of the subclasses and then the thought of how did gaurdians even get defined into classes popped into mind (sorry for the paragraph))
What I would have liked to see for Crow's reveal to Zavala would be a little different. Uldren would find out about his past on his own, and he would reveal himself willingly, after a long period of deliberation. He would walk directly into the tower, come face-to-face with Zavala. There would be a beat while the vanguard comprehended, and then Zavala would break. And I mean really break, for the first time as we've really seen him. He'd activate Fists of Havoc, and he would just kill the guardian with the face of Uldren, over and over and over again as Ikora and the tower watched. And Crow would just let it happen until Zavala would eventually stop from sheer fatigue and helped him up. Very different approach to the scene, but I think it would have been entertaining.
1:54 to 2:04 Those lines are filled with such unbridled and barbaric power, it's unbelievable.
Can we just take a microsecond to imagine what it would be like to view Guardians from an outside point?
There are hundreds of thousands of IMMORTAL warriors, capable of returning from DEATH itself with no loss at all.
Each and every one of them is a master or seeks total control over war and battle. The great majority of them display zealotry in their duties that borders or even crosses over to fanaticism.
They wield PARACAUSALITY itself.
And the younger cohorts of Guardians have killed thousands of Cabal, not even counting the numbers of Hive, Vex, Taken and Scorn.
The older Guardians? Monumental figures of what it means to be one of the Traveler's chosen. Each and every one of them displays tenacity, patience, rage, love and strength of will that could not possibly be imagined from a mere mortal.
But Savathun is going to overpower all of that? Huh...
@mynameisByf These are always great videos. Love watching them and learning. HOWEVER, might it be possible to do a lore video someday on the general lifespan of the Destiny races. So much history passes with these races & characters that it seems like every important character (villain/hero - alike) has been alive for hundreds and thousands of years. Not counting Oryx's possible million plus year life span.
BYF, can I get a link to the music you use in the video?
Man I’d love a mission out of sol. Surely the advanced info from all that’s been done would be a great story plot and easy in game lore.
Something I don’t understand: we have lore from the red war of a ghost that hid through the war in an effort to revive their guardian should the traveler be freed, and they nearly made it. So how is the new tech that the psions have any different? Sure locking a ghost up would prevent it from reviving their guardian but once they’re freed shouldn’t they be able to bring them back?
I'd like to see Caital become an actual ally of the city similar to Mithrax
I've just realised byf is basically destiny 2 audible for free
Ooh, maybe the thread through this year before Witch Queen is assembling allies. Season of the hunt gave us Crow, season of the chosen has an armistice with Caital, season of the splicer will be Mithrax
Is it just me or are they setting up these seasons as stories for getting new allies ready for witch queen? I mean season of Chosen cabal=Truce, season of the Splicers Eliksni=Allies
I was thinking this too, fragile alliances tho. Maybe savathun is going to try and turn our new allies against us
@@CanadianComa02 She might, i would love if we had these alliances and let them into the city tho, i honestly think it'd be amazing and very poetic, we spent so much time keeping them out and now we're letting them in
Eliksni won’t be our allies. There will be fallen who will still hate us. The house of light will be our allies.
@@celestial1690 imagine humans and eliksni alike just living in the city as background npcs. Maybe build a new part of the coty. Riis district.
@@vuvuzela4570 that'd be awesome
I don't think Caital will do much next season, as for her and the cabal involvement with the next expansion: we did hit them hard enough to stall their daparture to Torabatl, so they will find themselves entangled in the fight with the Witch Queen (not that they mind settling their grudge). This time though Caital has been studying guardians101: "We will fight together for the spoils...loot! For the LOOT!" [like the vanilla Cayde trailer 😢]
That lil recording check at the start 😂 I do the same thing
What if we help Caiatl fight Xivu Arath during the events of Witch Queen?
The question we should be asking is that if a Guardian has their light blocked, does that increase the rate of corruption from the Darkness (and Stasis)? As that could be a real issue especially as Zavala has been hit with it and whilst he doesn't have stasis he is around it constantly. And the fact that the Crown of Sorrows has been put in the tower maybe that will start corrupting the general populace or the afflicted guardians, me might see more usages of Savathun's Song amongst the Vendors???
Maybe Drifter uses it as he is the Darkness Expert in the Tower with Eris Morn on the Moon and Elsie busy on Europa it could be funny if the Drifter and the Nine get involved with the helm?
It wouldn't surprise if Dominus Ghaul's Light capture machine used technology from Calus' and his experiences with the Black Edge. As the Vex (Most technologically advanced?) themselves find it hard to smother a lightbearer with pure science i.e. Kabr, Saint-14 & The Kentarch 3. the Vex themselves find it extremely difficult to mess with Paracausality, but the Cabal succeded and in a usable state?
I could believe the fallen being somewhat possible to smother a lightbearer as they have a unique stance on machines due to their religious beliefs of them, with Ether and Dark Ether being a unique resource only known to them and not to mention the SIVA Splicers being a all new class of being and Scorn beings that transcended mortality in ways.
I cannot believe that without help from the Darkness does this machine evenworks? We know that the Darkness can send psychic mesages via Electromagnetic exposure maybe the Psions are actually working for Savathun unknowingly as a sort of coven.
Bracus Zavala, he commands the Guardians from an Imperial Last City based outside of Twilight Gap. But with the right team, we can punch through their defences and we can take this beast out and break their grip on the Traveller.
- Some Fallen, probably.
... but Byf, u didn’t talk about Amanda and Crow :(
What'd they do? I just got into Destiny 2 (even though I played Destiny 1 back in the days).
@@mikkelangelokers9965 they asked each other out! I heard that she sees him WITHOUT HIS MASK but I haven’t gotten a chance to read it yet
@@drewdavalos2746 Interesting situation it seems