I always liked the way the Traveler woke up here and how that fleet woke up. It gave me the sense that the Traveler had been keeping watch and it wasn't "dead" like everyone said. It only woke up here because Ghaul was no longer at a level where the Guardian could take care of him. So it had to wake up as a last resort and when that fleet started moving it gave the reason why the Traveler didn't do anything until this moment. It was because it knew that the enemy would home in on it the moment it woke up.
I believe that it "died" on purpose by itself during the collapse, causing the darkness to leave and therefore let humanity recover, but since it re awoke the darkness needs to return to finish the job.
Kinda crazy to think that while we may have been cheering and feeling victorious, the Traveler was probably feeling defeated and sorrowful. Humanity had failed to survive without the Travelers direct intervention, and now they would soon suffer the arrival of the Darkness.
i remember the first time i saw this cutscene, i laid back satisfied to beat the campaign until i noticed some odd shadows, then freaked out a bit when it was ghe pyramids
@@afonsoalmada6945 MASSIVE BUT BRIEF SPOILERS . . . So the Traveller both knew what Ghual wanted but couldn't respond for various reasons. think kind of like worthiness or free will. if you want more context I would just say spend a lot of time reading the lore. anyway, the Traveler had been deliberately staying in a dormant healing state to gather her/it's power for when the darkness (pyramid ships) inevitably returned. when Ghaul cut the light from the Traveler, it knew it could break out. it knew that doing so however, would bring the Darkness back to the Sol system. ----------- In season of arrivals there was a live event. The Traveler puts 80-90% of its body back together, all guardians return to the city, and the dark encroaches on the planet. Basically a second collapse. The Traveler stops this however, and with all the energy it had been gathering the past few years or so since we destroyed the black heart and freed itself of Ghaul's contraption and stops the Darkness advance on the system. there is a link in the description to my version of watching that event, but I don't think it's the best representation. look up "destiny 2 season of arrivals live event" and you'll find other, better versions.
@@amygirl9500 The dreadnaught was Oryx's ship tho, and last I checked he isn't Savathun's mother. also like, "Crota, SON of Oryx". Think you're getting confused between the hive and the krill/proto-hive
@@amygirl9500 that's not entirely true. all hive are born female, but they can morph and become male. that's why Crota is Oryx's son. Knights typically* are male but not always. Wizards almost always female. Oryx was male at the time we fought him and the time that he became "Oryx" instead of Auryx. It was Aurash (fem) -> Auryx (fem) -> Oryx (male)
I have to wonder if/when the other inhabitants of the galaxy will finally take notice of that and go "oh shit, more allies against the red legion, better go see if they want to ally!" Or something. The fact that we still haven't had any other species other than invaders does infuriate me a bit, but I guess it just means that when/if we get out there we'll be "the great diplomats" or something
The scary thing is, if you look closely, the wave stops after it passes the pyramids, it’s like they stop it, because they own the outer extragalactic space. Sol was the last place they visited before the traveler struck back.
originally, the scene with the darkness was imposing but underwhelming to me. it wasn't until we got more context later in the years that I would come back to this and think wow that's incredible. the ghaul scene made it for me not because it was his death, but because it was one of the few times the Traveler seemed to actively do something. and that wasn't something we had seen before. I'm glad she's starting to feel the need to be active again
@@ajcso7844 The Traveler and the "being" that represents the Light, the Gardener (per unveiling lore book) indicate metaphorically that both the Gardener and the Winnower are both women/female. Now obviously, conceptual entities that present different philosophical ideas of life don't have actually genders, but the lore literally calls that out too showing it is a metaphor, otherwise such concepts don't apply to them because they existed prior to these concepts.
as a side note as well, it's weird that people refer to darkness as a "he" or in the masculine when there is quite literally black statues of a female figure almost everywhere the darkness turns up.... in the pyramid ships? big female statue. in deep stone? big female statue. in garden? big female statue. I'm sure there are other places I'm missing, but still. both the Winnower and the Gardener are women as far as the story is concerned.
The Black Fleet waking up is so badass yet slightly spine chilling. They felt the light and immediately were like "yep, smells like weak" and put the pedal to the metal towards sol
Remenber being on the tower on D1 and look at the traveller and think "What are you, so quiet and might over our sky and doing nothing because of your eternal sleep after the great collapse" and then in D2 Traveller awakening never was a option in my head i was soo speechless when that happen.
Well, now you have 3... So like Ghaul... Erramis... Probably like Oryx or Crota, or one of the daughters.... Cause Oryx's family tree just keeps growing it seems lol..
@@AtenSol12 It definitely had the vibe that suddenly a WoW boss had found its way in. While we've fought crazy stuff before, nothing like a legit energy immortal like that. Goes to show how absolutely out of our league it was for once that the Traveler woke up. Gaul might have legit won if not.
There's a quote from "Transformers: The Movie" which seems like it would go well at 1:10 for multiple reasons: "Destiny... you... cannot... destroy... my... DESTINY!!!"
It was once said that those were the locations of the dlcs. Mercury, mars, the reef (tangled shore), dreaming city... and the dreadnought?? Ngl i really wish it comes back someday
Next season will be Dreadnought, mark my words. It will be about freeing Savathun from her worm, we will go to the dreadnought to learn how Oryx defeated a fully powered Worm God.
@@yosefpoysun3534 I'm calling you out, if I remember and next season doesn't bring back big daddy Oryx's ship. but I do think it'll come back some time next expansion
I would like to draw attention to the cutscene where the Traveler's Light spreads all across the solar system. You may notice the first three places it cuts to are Mercury, Mars, and the Reef. The first three expansions took place, in order, on Mercury, on Mars, and in the Reef. If this isn't a big coincidence, then cutting to the Dreadnaught from Destiny: The Taken King after highlighting the Reef could mean that Bungie plans to use it in a later expansion.
I am not being rude, however, your assessment is public knowledge. the game director of D2, Luke Smith (I believe), had originally stated that the cutscene aligns with content for the future.
@@mrsucc2138 Well that was 2 years ago, and the reveal of the other expansions names doesnt have to mean that. As evident by one of them referencing savathun, that could be the expansion wherein, the dreadnought might make a return. and with the DCV, in theory, it could make a return at any time without necessarily being a big part of the story. It would seemingly be more accurate to say, "if any content is planned for a dreadnought return, it is potentially further in the future than originally thought."
I have a theory. The light that Ghaul took became tainted by his evil nature, this meant that the Traveller was not able to reabsorb it for some reason, perhaps the reason our guardian is so powerful and able to use the dark within themselves is a result of us using the last bit of light left in a corrupted shard of the Traveller, and taking the light that Ghaul took. This could also explain why we are so powerful compared to all other Guardians, including the legendary ones like Shaxx, Shin Malphur, Zavala, Ikora, Saladin etc, not only did we then gain the power of The shard and the power that Ghaul took but we got our natural light back as well, which could also be why the darkness struggles to corrupt us and take control of us like it did to Uldren and the various Dark Guardians like Dredgen Yor. Presumably this is all part of the Travellers grand plan. And presumably Calus and Mara both know about this plan somehow.
I LOVE THIS THEORY!!! And it makes sense too!!! I hope you don't mind, but I want to add on to this theory. Judging how close our Guardian or Young Wolf was from our final battle with Ghaul and the Traveler when it first awakened. We were (probably) the first guardian that was touched by pure Light from the Traveler when it woke up. It would be no surprise that we would be extremely powerful than the rest. And seeing how Ghaul just got utterly evaporated by the Traveler, with his being getting scattered and carried with it's light. We must have absorbed it when we got hit with its shock wave. I like to think of it as being a gift from the Traveler for making it this far, even though we gained our light back. We were the ones who brought the Vanguard back together during this crisis. We never really lost faith or determination for the Traveler, like the others had. I believe that the Traveler understood this and granted us power stolen from Ghaul. Imagine this, our lightless guardian having to face an powerful being to the death. No light, no resurrection, its just us and our weapons. With Ghaul ascending even further with the Light than we had ever seen before, the Traveler witnessing this knew that we stood no chance against this. So it woke up and gifted us his stolen power, as a thank you for your unwavering loyalty. I love this scene and it would have been more impactful if this happened instead. Of course we are a playable character and were destined to be overpowered as heck. It's still a pleasant thought to think about from time to time. Lol, sorry for rambling so much. I love this game to bits!!! ❤❤❤❤
I only joined D2 at around S12-S13, but damn watching old cutscenes from the Red War, Forsaken and Shadowkeep (which I've played and are incredible), it makes me more excited for Witch Queen and Lightfall, and I wish I could replay the BL campaign without having to delete my character.
Altho my hunter is my main and has been so since The taken King, I'm gonna delete her end of solstice if there's no more events and grind up a new one and BL is NOT something I wanna do tbh
0:34 That moment when you've spent your entire life to be worthy of the Traveller's light and when it finally confronts you, you get a voice crack... 😔
Not necessarily. Light and Dark still would be the ultimate forces and Light is produced by the Traveler, as evident by even tho we were cut off from it, it could still react on its own and that shard if the Traveler still has its own residual Light. The addition of another paracausal entity is only the addition of more Hive/Guardian/Worm God/Ahamkara like beings and considering how many other rumored things also use the Dark and by consequence what we assume are other creatures that exist that can use Light probably wouldn't really break the game. in fact, I'm sure if the Traveler wasn't made to act, she would have no problem with the cabal using the Light. it was the act of being restrained and confined that forced her hand because it meant the "wager" had been interrupted. also it's implied that she didn't just kill him, she only meant to free herself, but knew that acting to free herself would, by consequence, kill him as well as make the darkness act again. also for all intents and purposes, there is no skipping rules. the rules of the game are already open to change/ influence/ or they can straight up make new ones at will. "I am growth and preservation of complexity. I will make myself a rule in the game." and "thus rule of the game became nomic. open to change by our influence." Ghaul, more accurately would be playing into the complexity part and that's why she had no animosity towards him. Ghaul died because he trapped the Traveler and stole what Light he could. however if he just got his hands on Light without the cage she would've been less likely to act.
@@AtenSol12 Reading about gnosticism religion (where destiny is deeply based on) looks like the traveler is the demiurge. If true, then basically the traveler is an entity that stole the Light to her mother Sophia (who commands the pyramid ships). In short words, Sophia is an aeon that tried to create life without her male counterpart. As a consequence, one of her sons separated from herself instead of just being born as usual. That son got the Light from her and ranaway with it to become a god of all material world. He became a beast with the body of a lion, the tail of a snake and bright eyes like phoenix's eyes. Horrified by what the other aeons could think of her if they saw that beast, Sophia covered it with a cage of "wisdom" (the white shell of the traveller). In order to the traveler to be a god of the material world, he started creating different life forms without sharing any of the light with them because the traveler wanted at the light for himself. Or maybe sharing as minimum as possible. Thus he created the 7 seraphs (warminds) for protecting to himself and then he also created the 5 worms. Traveler negated any form of Light to those worms and thus they were born with an endless hunger. There is also a lot of more stuff going on but im not an expert in gnosticism. If all this is true in the game, then that stolen Light should return to its original place in order to stop the chaos that the traveler is causing. Sophia is trying to fix her mistake. She isnt darkness but another form of light. But her light looks darker compared with the power that the traveler stole from her. She reminds the humanity that her light is there by showing us the aurora borealis because that light can be seen during the night only
As the camera pans to the Darkness Ghaul says "dread it, run from it," *light washing over the pyramids bringing them to life* "Destiny always arrives"
@@Matt_10203 that would be nice, it just seems they prefer to add/rmv play spaces during bigger updates like expansions. that being said, here's hoping !!
@@cavedskull Yea yea! ik! the tower looks so cool rn. I'm not opposed to getting a new destination next season! just looking at what they do historically, I don't wanna get my hopes up.
You wanna know something even more crazy ? At the end if you hear well you can count the "tic tac" when the darkness them starts, it does tic tac 8 times and there's 8 extension if this was planned that's just too good
After coming back to watch this cutscene I just noticed the almighty right next to Mercury. It’s crazy how much they actually planned from the beginning.
I love how well this game utilizes leitmotifs like, they’re everywhere! And with this trailer they already start selling the melody that is associated with the darkness/pyramids
Wait, when the light wave hits the pyramids.. that thump before the sound.. isn't it only exclusive to the Beyond Light login theme? Talk about foreshadowing lol
I think it is the leit motif of the pyramid ships themselves, and I make the distinction because the "darkness" and the "winnower" seem to have a different sound ascribed to them that is more higher pitched eery and mysterious as opposed to the the pyramid ships. the sounds ascribed to them seem to convey power
it's a leitmotif that appears in a lot of places. in Arrivals, the planets that had the pyramids arrive had it mixed in with their usual destination theme, and Gambit also has the darkness leitmotif at one point during its main OST, and now of course in the Beyond Light main menu
Bro I know full well you know what happened when Caiatl asked the same thing like 4 months ago. You orchestrated it. at least use a different phrase or be coy about it 😒
destiny has some truly beautiful moments other games simply cannot create, but my god it pisses me off that bungie truly never reached the potential they could have with destiny, and sadly never will.
They are doing pretty good these days. This might be a standout moment but so was the the season of arrivals live event, it could've been slightly better if it weren't as rushed in the video portion, but still it was quite the sight.
@@sicklymoonlight Idk about that. I’ve heard they aren’t making a Destiny 3, and they will have one more expansion after Lightfall, which comes out in late 2022 or 2023.
@@ElementalMatrix they confirmed that they aren't making D3, they're committing to D2 and making new stuff. and also to quote, "the first saga of light and dark" ends after the 2023 expansion.
Imagine if we got to fight the big light ghaul. As an actual difficult boss and we fail so the traveler is forced to wake up and deal with it. Which would actually have given our character some inner strife to deal with after feeling at fault for not doing well enough after years of never failing.
I think people forget these days how powerful the traveler actually is. With Darkness under our belts now its easy to forget that the Traveler gave us the power to become paracausial and literally kill gods. Not only that but its fought off the black fleet 3 times now and won.
i love the point you are making in this comment. Though im not sure if "win" is the correct term. I would argue for stalemate or "survived" a fight with the black fleet. cause, depending how one counts a "win", yhe fleet has won more than 3 times
Yo I just realized within this cutscene you see the other DLC's as the light spreads up untill the pyramids. That just shows how much Bungie planned for this game
I want to point out, every where the traveler touched we have gone or eventually went. We went to mercury. We then got a mars expansion with the warmind. Then we got to go back to the reef with forsaken, and you can see saturn and the deadnaught which likely will return with the Witch Queen DLC, and then the Pyramids which basically was the predacessor for the next 4 DLCs starting with Shadowkeep.
As someone who followed closely to all things Destiny, I took one look at the silhouettes of those pyramids and knew right then what they were. I screamed aloud before the Light even washed over then.
Personally, I loved the red war.. I would reset one of my characters just to live through it again because it was such a thrilling experience when destiny 2 came out.
Gaul must have been an insane level threat for the Traveler to just delete him like that. Oryx? Nah. Savathun? Nah. But big glow Gaul boy... ohhhhh yeah let me take care of that real quick.
Traveler woke up and went “Heard you were talking shit” then banned Ghaul from reality
LMAO!
More like sunsetted him
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YOU WANNA KNOW WHATS INSIDE THIS BALL? Its a nerf. Thats right. A NERF!!!
Ghaul: "Witness the dawning of a new age!"
Traveler: "Witness? WHERE!?!?"
Pure memes right there)
Lol
now you've made my headcannon that the Traveler only woke up because Ghaul triggered a PTSD episode from it fought the Whiteness 😭😭😭
@@jewchini6261he fought the witheness
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I always liked the way the Traveler woke up here and how that fleet woke up. It gave me the sense that the Traveler had been keeping watch and it wasn't "dead" like everyone said. It only woke up here because Ghaul was no longer at a level where the Guardian could take care of him. So it had to wake up as a last resort and when that fleet started moving it gave the reason why the Traveler didn't do anything until this moment. It was because it knew that the enemy would home in on it the moment it woke up.
Yes! exactly this! we didn't have the context at the time, but now we do and it's great!
Give me infinite super and id be ablt to handle it
The light’s return from an awakened Traveler signaled to its enemy that the age old battle would be resuming
@@duck_entertainment promise us shiny new guns and stuff and that age old battle would be over quick
I believe that it "died" on purpose by itself during the collapse, causing the darkness to leave and therefore let humanity recover, but since it re awoke the darkness needs to return to finish the job.
That shot of the Traveler's Light spreading throughout the Milky Way is insanely beautiful.
always one of my favorite things.
How far do you think it'll go
I can imagine the drifter sat lightless on the derelict and feeling it wash over him lmao
Kinda crazy to think that while we may have been cheering and feeling victorious, the Traveler was probably feeling defeated and sorrowful. Humanity had failed to survive without the Travelers direct intervention, and now they would soon suffer the arrival of the Darkness.
Crazy to think its been 4 years...and now it's just starting to happen
Especially with what happened in the dark future where the witness won.
Ya but we honestly babysit the traveler quite a bit lol
Just like every civilisation under the travelers watch in the past. I wonder how it feels, or if it even feels at all
was supposed to happen 2 decades from now until we killed the undying mind. so damn that woulda been a slow burn
The Traveller just woke up and went, "Bro shut tf up I'm trying to sleep."
i remember the first time i saw this cutscene, i laid back satisfied to beat the campaign until i noticed some odd shadows, then freaked out a bit when it was ghe pyramids
Yeah and the background music is probably the best thing about it too
The lightbearer fears the 📐
@@bingo6073 fricking Geometry. My weakness
The darkness is already here
alright kids time to murder all our math teachers, they are the darkness confirmed
Three years later, and with all the new context, the scene gives me even more chills
every time I rewatch it... I still get chills. other than the live event before BL, this was my fave scene
@@AtenSol12 Man I wished I had not skipped season of Arrivals just for that event.
I haven't played for years. Can anyone explain what's the new context?
@@afonsoalmada6945 MASSIVE BUT BRIEF SPOILERS
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So the Traveller both knew what Ghual wanted but couldn't respond for various reasons. think kind of like worthiness or free will. if you want more context I would just say spend a lot of time reading the lore.
anyway, the Traveler had been deliberately staying in a dormant healing state to gather her/it's power for when the darkness (pyramid ships) inevitably returned.
when Ghaul cut the light from the Traveler, it knew it could break out. it knew that doing so however, would bring the Darkness back to the Sol system.
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In season of arrivals there was a live event.
The Traveler puts 80-90% of its body back together, all guardians return to the city, and the dark encroaches on the planet. Basically a second collapse. The Traveler stops this however, and with all the energy it had been gathering the past few years or so since we destroyed the black heart and freed itself of Ghaul's contraption and stops the Darkness advance on the system.
there is a link in the description to my version of watching that event, but I don't think it's the best representation. look up "destiny 2 season of arrivals live event" and you'll find other, better versions.
@@AtenSol12 thanks!
1:51 I love the fact that the hole in Saturn's rings and the Dreadnought are still there.
one of my favorite things!
@@amygirl9500 The dreadnaught was Oryx's ship tho, and last I checked he isn't Savathun's mother. also like, "Crota, SON of Oryx". Think you're getting confused between the hive and the krill/proto-hive
@@amygirl9500 that's not entirely true.
all hive are born female, but they can morph and become male. that's why Crota is Oryx's son. Knights typically* are male but not always. Wizards almost always female. Oryx was male at the time we fought him and the time that he became "Oryx" instead of Auryx.
It was Aurash (fem) -> Auryx (fem) -> Oryx (male)
@@amygirl9500 and the dreadnought was a piece of Akka, the worm god. I wouldn't say it was someone else ship prior to when Oryx made it his own
@@AtenSol12 it's akkas body not just a piece sorry lol. Had to correct
That Shockwave of Traveler goes around the Universe.
The Traveler’s Awakening also Awaken it’s Ancient Enemy...
The Winnower.
I have to wonder if/when the other inhabitants of the galaxy will finally take notice of that and go "oh shit, more allies against the red legion, better go see if they want to ally!"
Or something.
The fact that we still haven't had any other species other than invaders does infuriate me a bit, but I guess it just means that when/if we get out there we'll be "the great diplomats" or something
(I was mostly just rambling and had a thought that I wanted to share, Idk)
The scary thing is, if you look closely, the wave stops after it passes the pyramids, it’s like they stop it, because they own the outer extragalactic space. Sol was the last place they visited before the traveler struck back.
Ah yes. Back when I didn’t ask Uldren how his sister was
Good times
Cayde why did you sleep with mara sov
@@jakman8515 ooooh I didn’t do that. That’s Shaxx’s thing. And I’m not feeling lucky enough to win another crucible match
Cayde 6 over here pulling a “my death was greatly exaggerated”
@Noah Dedaj Space Magic
ghauls death was underwhelming but the darkness scene easily made up for it. My adrenaline when I first saw this was off the charts
originally, the scene with the darkness was imposing but underwhelming to me. it wasn't until we got more context later in the years that I would come back to this and think wow that's incredible.
the ghaul scene made it for me not because it was his death, but because it was one of the few times the Traveler seemed to actively do something. and that wasn't something we had seen before. I'm glad she's starting to feel the need to be active again
A she?
@@ajcso7844 The Traveler and the "being" that represents the Light, the Gardener (per unveiling lore book) indicate metaphorically that both the Gardener and the Winnower are both women/female.
Now obviously, conceptual entities that present different philosophical ideas of life don't have actually genders, but the lore literally calls that out too showing it is a metaphor, otherwise such concepts don't apply to them because they existed prior to these concepts.
as a side note as well, it's weird that people refer to darkness as a "he" or in the masculine when there is quite literally black statues of a female figure almost everywhere the darkness turns up....
in the pyramid ships? big female statue. in deep stone? big female statue. in garden? big female statue. I'm sure there are other places I'm missing, but still. both the Winnower and the Gardener are women as far as the story is concerned.
@@AtenSol12 I see
Imagine if this ghaul was the first raid boss and not calus
Yes
I dont see how that would be possible if ghaul is light and bullets cant effect him
@@valzicplayz3845 use darkness
Duh
@@jcp1966 But they destoryed the Touch of Malic
@@gary1471the mechanic would be easy, just a push ghaul into a conversation with someone like u and its 100% vulnerable to rat kids ^^ç
Sure hope those triangles aren't anything serious :/
over baked Doritos is all, nbd
YO LOLOLOL
Frozen doritos stasis flavour
They just traffic wardens, traveler is parked on all the double yellow lines
Beyond light
We didnt truly appreciate how much of a game changer this moment was
Well now we do.
Although we’re facing darkness already, it still frightens me when hearing the tone of the Pyramid ships and seeing them move.
Sound design in this game especially is simply amazing
It’s a shame this story is apparently unplayable now. I always loved going back to fight Gaul
i guess the nightmare of ghaul is close enough.
Even worse, they killed Cayde. Those Bastards!
@@Pedro_del_Rod they basically asked for your 40 dollars so that they could kill cayde
@@Owdriger2017 No, its like $20 now (give or take)
@@Pedro_del_Rod I'm talking about 2018?
The traveler really just went: *GHAUL HAS BEEN BANNED FROM THE SERVER. Reason: HACKING*
God mode
traveler better anti-cheat than bungo
WingsOfRedemption: Fuck you, get banned.
The Black Fleet waking up is so badass yet slightly spine chilling. They felt the light and immediately were like "yep, smells like weak" and put the pedal to the metal towards sol
smells like weak 😂😂😂
God I love the OST playing just as the Traveler awakens, really sells the gravity of the situation
what is the name of the OST ?
@@Driven_and_Determined It's "Battle Stations"
Thank you @Aymen!
@@AymenDZA Thanks
Remenber being on the tower on D1 and look at the traveller and think "What are you, so quiet and might over our sky and doing nothing because of your eternal sleep after the great collapse" and then in D2 Traveller awakening never was a option in my head i was soo speechless when that happen.
3 years and still 1 dislike
It is Ghaul confirmed!
Well, now you have 3... So like Ghaul... Erramis... Probably like Oryx or Crota, or one of the daughters.... Cause Oryx's family tree just keeps growing it seems lol..
@@Liquidouz nah savuthun, xivu Arath, and yes Erasmis disliked
dang you jinxed it
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Garry*
When this cutscene started playing I was like oh please don't make me fight him.
I wanted to fight him but was relieved when the Traveler vaporized him. it was oddly more satisfy to me.
@@AtenSol12
It definitely had the vibe that suddenly a WoW boss had found its way in. While we've fought crazy stuff before, nothing like a legit energy immortal like that. Goes to show how absolutely out of our league it was for once that the Traveler woke up. Gaul might have legit won if not.
Ghaul: "I am immortal. A god!"
Travler: "Uh the fuck you say?"
There's a quote from "Transformers: The Movie" which seems like it would go well at 1:10 for multiple reasons:
"Destiny... you... cannot... destroy... my... DESTINY!!!"
The traveler just yawned and it did smite Ghaul. He is OP, bungie needs to nerf him
Bungie then proceeds to disable telesto
@@lean444 - …..for the 16th time…
'Due to the traveler being over powered we have decided to nerf shotguns and hand cannons'
@@solarwolf1336 guess what happened
@@clad3133 - Yes… I saw, my baby keeps getting disabled
"Traveler! Do you see me now?!"- Ghaul. The red war
"Father! Do you see me?! Show yourself!"- Caiatl. Lightfall
ghaul i think it's bad luck to monologue before you die
classic supervillain mistakes *face palm*
It was once said that those were the locations of the dlcs. Mercury, mars, the reef (tangled shore), dreaming city... and the dreadnought?? Ngl i really wish it comes back someday
Europa. Not the dreadnaught sadly. That little moon.
Next season will be Dreadnought, mark my words. It will be about freeing Savathun from her worm, we will go to the dreadnought to learn how Oryx defeated a fully powered Worm God.
@@zerotodona1495 Europa is a moon of Jupiter, not Saturn.
@@yosefpoysun3534 I'm calling you out, if I remember and next season doesn't bring back big daddy Oryx's ship. but I do think it'll come back some time next expansion
Bro facts, dreadnought was my favorite location
0:49 Traveler seemed to wake up once it recognized THAT word.
haha cool dtail
Ghaul: i am immortal! A god!
Traveler: lol no.
I would like to draw attention to the cutscene where the Traveler's Light spreads all across the solar system. You may notice the first three places it cuts to are Mercury, Mars, and the Reef. The first three expansions took place, in order, on Mercury, on Mars, and in the Reef. If this isn't a big coincidence, then cutting to the Dreadnaught from Destiny: The Taken King after highlighting the Reef could mean that Bungie plans to use it in a later expansion.
I am not being rude, however, your assessment is public knowledge. the game director of D2, Luke Smith (I believe), had originally stated that the cutscene aligns with content for the future.
@@AtenSol12 I did not know that. I only started playing the game about a month ago.
@@onedaxster welcome to the light, guardian!
and yea it was like some interview or some shit when the game released
@@AtenSol12 It doesn't seem like content is for the Dreadnaught is planned now.
@@mrsucc2138 Well that was 2 years ago, and the reveal of the other expansions names doesnt have to mean that. As evident by one of them referencing savathun, that could be the expansion wherein, the dreadnought might make a return.
and with the DCV, in theory, it could make a return at any time without necessarily being a big part of the story.
It would seemingly be more accurate to say, "if any content is planned for a dreadnought return, it is potentially further in the future than originally thought."
The absolute BEAUTY of those chords right as it glowed. Chills every time
Rightttt I can’t stop replaying it. It’s so awesome
I have a theory.
The light that Ghaul took became tainted by his evil nature, this meant that the Traveller was not able to reabsorb it for some reason, perhaps the reason our guardian is so powerful and able to use the dark within themselves is a result of us using the last bit of light left in a corrupted shard of the Traveller, and taking the light that Ghaul took.
This could also explain why we are so powerful compared to all other Guardians, including the legendary ones like Shaxx, Shin Malphur, Zavala, Ikora, Saladin etc, not only did we then gain the power of The shard and the power that Ghaul took but we got our natural light back as well, which could also be why the darkness struggles to corrupt us and take control of us like it did to Uldren and the various Dark Guardians like Dredgen Yor.
Presumably this is all part of the Travellers grand plan. And presumably Calus and Mara both know about this plan somehow.
I LOVE THIS THEORY!!! And it makes sense too!!! I hope you don't mind, but I want to add on to this theory.
Judging how close our Guardian or Young Wolf was from our final battle with Ghaul and the Traveler when it first awakened. We were (probably) the first guardian that was touched by pure Light from the Traveler when it woke up.
It would be no surprise that we would be extremely powerful than the rest. And seeing how Ghaul just got utterly evaporated by the Traveler, with his being getting scattered and carried with it's light. We must have absorbed it when we got hit with its shock wave.
I like to think of it as being a gift from the Traveler for making it this far, even though we gained our light back. We were the ones who brought the Vanguard back together during this crisis. We never really lost faith or determination for the Traveler, like the others had. I believe that the Traveler understood this and granted us power stolen from Ghaul.
Imagine this, our lightless guardian having to face an powerful being to the death. No light, no resurrection, its just us and our weapons. With Ghaul ascending even further with the Light than we had ever seen before, the Traveler witnessing this knew that we stood no chance against this. So it woke up and gifted us his stolen power, as a thank you for your unwavering loyalty. I love this scene and it would have been more impactful if this happened instead.
Of course we are a playable character and were destined to be overpowered as heck. It's still a pleasant thought to think about from time to time.
Lol, sorry for rambling so much. I love this game to bits!!!
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bad theory
I only joined D2 at around S12-S13, but damn watching old cutscenes from the Red War, Forsaken and Shadowkeep (which I've played and are incredible), it makes me more excited for Witch Queen and Lightfall, and I wish I could replay the BL campaign without having to delete my character.
Altho my hunter is my main and has been so since The taken King, I'm gonna delete her end of solstice if there's no more events and grind up a new one and BL is NOT something I wanna do tbh
@@AtenSol12 Yeah it's a grind for other characters, but Stasis is worth it. Or, at least for PvE.
0:34
That moment when you've spent your entire life to be worthy of the Traveller's light and when it finally confronts you, you get a voice crack... 😔
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Entirety of Ghauls Character: "Notice me Senpai!"
Traveler this arc: "You all hear something?"
Ghaul becoming a new paracausal entity would crash the flowers game simulation. Thats why the Traveler "skipped" the rules and finished him.
Not necessarily. Light and Dark still would be the ultimate forces and Light is produced by the Traveler, as evident by even tho we were cut off from it, it could still react on its own and that shard if the Traveler still has its own residual Light.
The addition of another paracausal entity is only the addition of more Hive/Guardian/Worm God/Ahamkara like beings and considering how many other rumored things also use the Dark and by consequence what we assume are other creatures that exist that can use Light probably wouldn't really break the game. in fact, I'm sure if the Traveler wasn't made to act, she would have no problem with the cabal using the Light. it was the act of being restrained and confined that forced her hand because it meant the "wager" had been interrupted. also it's implied that she didn't just kill him, she only meant to free herself, but knew that acting to free herself would, by consequence, kill him as well as make the darkness act again.
also for all intents and purposes, there is no skipping rules. the rules of the game are already open to change/ influence/ or they can straight up make new ones at will. "I am growth and preservation of complexity. I will make myself a rule in the game." and "thus rule of the game became nomic. open to change by our influence." Ghaul, more accurately would be playing into the complexity part and that's why she had no animosity towards him. Ghaul died because he trapped the Traveler and stole what Light he could. however if he just got his hands on Light without the cage she would've been less likely to act.
@@AtenSol12 Reading about gnosticism religion (where destiny is deeply based on) looks like the traveler is the demiurge. If true, then basically the traveler is an entity that stole the Light to her mother Sophia (who commands the pyramid ships).
In short words, Sophia is an aeon that tried to create life without her male counterpart. As a consequence, one of her sons separated from herself instead of just being born as usual. That son got the Light from her and ranaway with it to become a god of all material world.
He became a beast with the body of a lion, the tail of a snake and bright eyes like phoenix's eyes. Horrified by what the other aeons could think of her if they saw that beast, Sophia covered it with a cage of "wisdom" (the white shell of the traveller).
In order to the traveler to be a god of the material world, he started creating different life forms without sharing any of the light with them because the traveler wanted at the light for himself. Or maybe sharing as minimum as possible.
Thus he created the 7 seraphs (warminds) for protecting to himself and then he also created the 5 worms. Traveler negated any form of Light to those worms and thus they were born with an endless hunger. There is also a lot of more stuff going on but im not an expert in gnosticism.
If all this is true in the game, then that stolen Light should return to its original place in order to stop the chaos that the traveler is causing.
Sophia is trying to fix her mistake. She isnt darkness but another form of light. But her light looks darker compared with the power that the traveler stole from her. She reminds the humanity that her light is there by showing us the aurora borealis because that light can be seen during the night only
Traveler be like: “bro cabal wielding light it’s not even light fall yet time to sun set you too”
traveler was really like, "bruh yall take WAY too long to kill an egotistical space turtle..."
Ghaul forgot that he needed a ghost, Savathun will not
As the camera pans to the Darkness Ghaul says "dread it, run from it," *light washing over the pyramids bringing them to life* "Destiny always arrives"
Season of arrivals:
Pyramids, "I am here."
Winnower, "I am inevitable."
@@AtenSol12 bro I pulled up both videos, timed it perfectly and that just hits different man
@@AtenSol12 *Snaps*
Forsaken is dusted(Foreshadowing Forsakens Vaulting soon)
'Ight, so when are we actually going to the dreadnaught/Saturn
hopefully next expansion = (
@@AtenSol12 looking like maybe old Chicago next season.
@@Matt_10203 that would be nice, it just seems they prefer to add/rmv play spaces during bigger updates like expansions. that being said, here's hoping !!
@@AtenSol12 I think it might happen because there are nights and taken trails in the city rn lol
@@cavedskull Yea yea! ik! the tower looks so cool rn. I'm not opposed to getting a new destination next season! just looking at what they do historically, I don't wanna get my hopes up.
The effects on light ghaul is still amazing
„Witness the dawning of a New Dark Age“ Ghaul knew way ahead of our time…. That’s some huge foreshadowing. Well written Bungie.
You wanna know something even more crazy ? At the end if you hear well you can count the "tic tac" when the darkness them starts, it does tic tac 8 times and there's 8 extension if this was planned that's just too good
After coming back to watch this cutscene I just noticed the almighty right next to Mercury. It’s crazy how much they actually planned from the beginning.
The black fleet when they see anything traveler related: 👁️👄👁️
I love how well this game utilizes leitmotifs like, they’re everywhere! And with this trailer they already start selling the melody that is associated with the darkness/pyramids
Everyones talking about the pyramid reveal but the traveler exploding gives me chills
Wait, when the light wave hits the pyramids.. that thump before the sound.. isn't it only exclusive to the Beyond Light login theme? Talk about foreshadowing lol
I think it is the leit motif of the pyramid ships themselves, and I make the distinction because the "darkness" and the "winnower" seem to have a different sound ascribed to them that is more higher pitched eery and mysterious as opposed to the the pyramid ships. the sounds ascribed to them seem to convey power
it's a leitmotif that appears in a lot of places. in Arrivals, the planets that had the pyramids arrive had it mixed in with their usual destination theme, and Gambit also has the darkness leitmotif at one point during its main OST, and now of course in the Beyond Light main menu
That is the principal Darkness theme. Appears altered in Gambit, Arrivals, Shadowkeep’s _Admittance,_ and Salvation.
Time flies. I remember starting during shadow keep and starting day one. Almost 2 years later and so much more to the game.
You need me guardians to fight the Darkness so bow for your Queen.
Eh, that sounds lik a lot of work.
Bro I know full well you know what happened when Caiatl asked the same thing like 4 months ago. You orchestrated it. at least use a different phrase or be coy about it 😒
@@AtenSol12 The difference between me and her is that I won't betray you
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@@savathunthewitchqueen4763 I... but you... wait 🤔😭
@@savathunthewitchqueen4763 well you’ve infected the tower so why on earth would I trust you?!
This scene will be 5 years old in 5 months, almost 5 years of the pyramids
1:15 Everything from this bit on is so beautiful.
Ghaul: I AM A GOD!!!
Traveler: You’re smoking crack bub.
Traveler giving off strong Logan vibes
destiny has some truly beautiful moments other games simply cannot create, but my god it pisses me off that bungie truly never reached the potential they could have with destiny, and sadly never will.
They are doing pretty good these days. This might be a standout moment but so was the the season of arrivals live event, it could've been slightly better if it weren't as rushed in the video portion, but still it was quite the sight.
don't forget they're NEVER ending the destiny franchise.
season of the chosen and splicer (so far) have been excellent seasons too.
I have high hopes for witch queen, the symbol for it is literally the top of the taken king symbol
@@sicklymoonlight Idk about that. I’ve heard they aren’t making a Destiny 3, and they will have one more expansion after Lightfall, which comes out in late 2022 or 2023.
@@ElementalMatrix they confirmed that they aren't making D3, they're committing to D2 and making new stuff.
and also to quote, "the first saga of light and dark" ends after the 2023 expansion.
I wish they add something that u can play old story lines on
That space and music and everything scene is so beautiful omg
Even after all these years this cutscene is still my one of my favorites in destiny universe
indeed
Imagine if we got to fight the big light ghaul. As an actual difficult boss and we fail so the traveler is forced to wake up and deal with it. Which would actually have given our character some inner strife to deal with after feeling at fault for not doing well enough after years of never failing.
I always loved how this scene shows old locations from destiny 1 as the Traveler awakens
I HONESTLY wish they did more with Ghaul
“Violence, Beauty, truth, these things await inside….. there’s no turning back now”
I speculate that on light fall we’ll become what ghaul did at the end so we sorta have some epic attack on Titans fight
Why do you expect this?
Every time I watch this it gives me chills
I think people forget these days how powerful the traveler actually is. With Darkness under our belts now its easy to forget that the Traveler gave us the power to become paracausial and literally kill gods. Not only that but its fought off the black fleet 3 times now and won.
i love the point you are making in this comment. Though im not sure if "win" is the correct term. I would argue for stalemate or "survived" a fight with the black fleet. cause, depending how one counts a "win", yhe fleet has won more than 3 times
Yo I just realized within this cutscene you see the other DLC's as the light spreads up untill the pyramids. That just shows how much Bungie planned for this game
Holy cow, I just realized that this scene shows the Drifter’s ship, the Vestian Outpost, and the Dreadnaught. How have I not realized this yet?
The Traveller awakening is still my favourite cutscene from Destiny
same!
Check out lightfall intro and ending cutscene
It’s crazy how they kinda teased each dlc with each planet getting touched with the light
As it all know.. "Light CANNOT BE STOLEN"
0:22 when we beat this for the first time my friends and I gasped out at this moment thinking this was Oryx.
And so that children is why circles are afraid of triangles😊😏
Cheers to this uploader for coming and giving hearts to comments this many years later still. Legend.
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This always gives me chills
I want to point out, every where the traveler touched we have gone or eventually went. We went to mercury. We then got a mars expansion with the warmind. Then we got to go back to the reef with forsaken, and you can see saturn and the deadnaught which likely will return with the Witch Queen DLC, and then the Pyramids which basically was the predacessor for the next 4 DLCs starting with Shadowkeep.
Back in 2017 when I first saw those pyramids…they sent chills down my spine
Are you still alive ?
Probably
still giving me chills down my spine
Here I am, my brothers of the algorithm
Thank you brother! Enjoy the Light show and creepy burnt Doritos
As someone who followed closely to all things Destiny, I took one look at the silhouettes of those pyramids and knew right then what they were. I screamed aloud before the Light even washed over then.
When I played and heard what sounded like angels singing that sent shivers down my spine. It was so cool
Coming up on 4 years later and the reveal of the Pyramids is still as badass as ever
Yes! will forever be one of the best scenes in destiny franchise history
Traveler gives such a fleeting vibe, its like an old friend also I think its gonna go away soon leaving perhaps...
shhh, dont say such things
“…Witness…”:
Damn… 🚬🗿
That ending gives me so many chills.
If some space turtles can steal the light a god that's been alive for thousands of years definitely can.
Rah… I was in my 2nd yr in college.
Praise the Lord, time truly is flying so quickly 😢
Our journey in this saga nears its initial completion my friend. Hopefully time will be nice with the next saga so you dont feel it was too quick!
The Traveler will sacrifice itself to defeat the pyramid ships
Personally, I loved the red war.. I would reset one of my characters just to live through it again because it was such a thrilling experience when destiny 2 came out.
Imagine, He comes back like Uldren. Without memories
if cabal could come back to life because the traveler chose it, the story would change pretty massively.
Would be quite interesting
I love how the dreaghtnaugth is still floating there
One of my favorite scenes, especially how the Black Fleet was like "oh snap there he go right there, roll out fools, lessss go!!"
What if what ghaul said was a hint to what is gonna happen in final shape “Witness, the dawning of a new age”
Thanks UA-cam algorithm for reminding me of the game I can't even play anymore
Mate can’t lie even our universe felt it.
Man I forgot how all our problems was caused by a space rhino who wanted space magic
a stubborn one thaat didnt want to die. because if he had died, he likely wouldve gotten. ghost and wouldve been a lightbearer... funny tho 😂
coming back to this after we know the Witness is insane. The Witness was waiting... and waiting... and waiting...
Ghaul: You do see me!
Traveler: I see an SOB who can't keep his damn mouth shut. Nom.
Traveler pulling out the uno card
Gaul must have been an insane level threat for the Traveler to just delete him like that. Oryx? Nah. Savathun? Nah. But big glow Gaul boy... ohhhhh yeah let me take care of that real quick.