Destiny 2 Lore - Who is Empress Caiatl in Destiny 2's Season of the Chosen? (Part 1)
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Destiny 2's Season of the Chosen features Caiatl, the Empress of the Cabal Empire. The Princess Imperial has a lot of lore and story this expansion and we're going to dive into it in this series.
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Lance's reading of Zavala's response was the best thing to ever happen to the Destiny universe
All I need to do is tell them that you have a shiny new gun or Eris can turn you into one
It’s really cute how he loves this franchise and doesn’t see his role as just another gig. Or at least, he seems that way, maybe he’s pretending.
Nah. He enjoys acting. I watched a show years ago called Fringe that he played a large part in and different personalities in the show for the handful of years it aired.
You can tell he loves acting. He loves the roles he takes on and loves to commit for the sake of a great experience for his career and for viewer's entertainment and enjoyment.
Reddick is a great guy
The madlad
@@TheLegoJungle lance reddick was on eric andre and i knew from that interview he was chill. If you haven't seen his toys are me skit its great
Calus : “Boy, I sure do hope I have a happy child who loves peace and good things in the universe!”
Caiatl: “KILL”
“rIp aNd TeAr!”
Calus: ‘Caiatl what do you have?’
Caiatl: ‘A KNIFE’
Calus: ‘NO’
Calus always seemed like a nice cabal hope he returns some day
@@adamboy0559 I mean he's "nicer" and enjoys opulence but also killed entire species off sans their greatest warriors to serve him. He's definitely chiller than the rest though
@@maamiimii yeah I know but I’d much rather ally with Calus
Caiatl, "I have a peace offer, your complete and unconditional surrender"
Zavala, *thinks about the oceans of cabal blood spilled by guardians* "that's going to be a no from us."
To be fair,most other Guardians aside from the legendary ones like Zavala,Osiris,us etc are very regularly killed by the Cabal and the other races.
Our guardian is essentially in the upper 1% of guardians. The others on our level lore wise would probably be the vanguard, drifter, saint, Osiris, shaxx. And a few others
@@Aztesticals essentially we are like the sigismund of Destiny 2. If you know that reference from 40K
"The more I tried to show you what I loved, the more you turned away"
-Me, trying to get my 7-year old brother to watch The Clone Wars
If he never watches it, than you will fail as a brother.
I have failed as a cousin already. He likes Star Wars Rebels, but hates Clone Wars.......
@@elitegamer9310 "I have failed you, brother, I have failed you."
"I should have known you were only hiding the sequels!"
"No, the sequels are evil!"
"From my point of view, Clone Wars are pointless!"
"Then you are lost!"
Their mom: *confused coffee drinking from the kitchen*
@@averagemumeienjoyer5498 How does that even makes sense?
"I could have stop you from watching Rebel you alone knew my special arrangements but when I raced to my couch to open Clone War, you were there you sat on my couch with the signal in your fist. And when I reached out to beg. You crushed the clone model in your hand... "Brother" you said "seqeul is the future..."
That... is why my dear beloved brother must die.
She challenged us but still seems to really respect us as warriors. I like this villain, i really want to see her gain even more respect and tell she will come when its time to face the darkness.
her cabal are the best example in destiny of Khorne incarnate
@@D.A.R.C.I. no no no. I’d say that’s Xivu arath. Khornite bezerkers don’t have honor beyond the Horus heresy. And even then they were monsters. At least some of them.
@@Boat_guy28 truth be told, my only exposure to 40k is through the tts show. which is why khorne to me is murder war bloodshed but only in your face, never in the back, which is why i equate that to caiatls 'blue legion'. i dont know if its any worse than that
@@D.A.R.C.I. fair. TTS is popular but don’t take everything at face value. Like how the ultramarines are treated as jokes and Roubute Guilliman is a Cheese lord, while in reality Roubute is actually a depressed father to his sons trying to fix the broken imperium of his father since his death 10,000 years ago.
@@Boat_guy28 oh believe me i dont, mostly. I know everything in that show is an exaggeration of reality but there are times when the show actually taught me some things in 40k lore, albeit some may be outdated, and sometimes its those times i feel when the show doesnt exaggerate enough or exaggerates in the other direction
"now that mars is gone, how do i step into a war with the cabal?" - Zavala
empress caitl appears
"i have new meaning in life" - also Zavala
Why must I always be drinking when I read the funny stuff? Anyway, have your upvote.
Ngl..
I am actually relieved that we have this priviledge again.
Praise be to Caitl, for more cabal blood and body to burn upon the Traveler's altar.
Lmfao
Plus.. zavalas been doing pretty rough since rasputin got short circuited.. he needed the pick-me-up 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not to mention we have a new land Tank! maybe we can even fight a rehashed version of Valus ta aurc
Caiatl, if done right, could be one of the best written characters we have so far. Cannot wait to see how the season plays out
Id like to see where this will go. If caiatl does concede, our arsenal could be expanded (cabal armor?)
or at least War Beast pet, pwease?
The game lore was one of the reasons I started playing the game a month after launch. Even when they slip up with character development(prince uldren) they have a way of bringing it around( the crow).
@@gamingwithmaya502 if only eramis was better developed lore wise.....oh well
Too bad she will literally disappear after the season like previous season
“TuskMama” sounds like some random’s username. Just needs a couple numbers and X’s.
TuskMama23 X NoobMaster69
Tuskmama sounds more like some kinky nickname
xXxTuskMama69xXx
@@SALEENS7GTR5 classic xbox name
It's missing the underscores on either side of the username
I like her a lot so far, for a cabal she is rather reasonable and seems like a good ruler for her people.
She takes it off her father a lot more than her old leader ghoul who she betrayed her father too she doesn’t just force war upon you she tries to make an agreement with us but even after not agreeing she still lets Zavala leave for a fair fight unlike ghoul who stole the light forced it upon himself and forced a war
Destiny fans: argue whether Mara or Ana is the THICCest girl in the franchise.
Caiatl: "Hold my Heir Apparent!"
*CHOKES BOB* YOU WILL NOT GET AWAY!
Can't wait to turn her into a gun
You forgot to add Elsie in there cause she got dummy thicc thighs
@@heroicxidiot but Ana THICCer. Ever peeped....I mean....shit
@@bobisconsumed520 😳
"TUSKMAMA"
R34 artists will have a field day with Caiatl because of you Byf. Love you all the same.
they already are search up the furry artist ROLY
Honestly, Caiatl is currently one of the VERY few enemies that I hold respect for. She sees us as worthy allies, and recognizes that we will prove our worth as warriors who are her equals. The only other enemies that I have come to respect are Ghaul and Oryx, for obvious reasons. I'm very interested and excited to see how this season plays out.
I don’t think Ghoul respected us in the slightest he threw us off a building after pretty much making you powerless and even after you killed him he still seen himself as a stonger opponent than you just to be killed by the traveler oryx he again seen himself more powerful which is correct but we pretty much fight him as he’s crippled and he’s still a hard opponent showing how strong he actually was caiatl on the other hand respects us probably due to the amount of shit we killed and knows not to be overconfident like her old leader was (ghoul)
I was reading “Tuskmama” and was like “Wow, thats a cool name, native cabal language is interesting” but I reworded that😂😂
April Fool's is on a Thursday this year which means Byf should voice a TWAB video on Aztecross' channel in his style and Cross should voice a lore video on your channel
I forward this
YES! YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES
Dear god yes
let this happen
That would be amazing!
I want Caiatl to become a real presence in the coming seasons. Xivu Arath openly made her first move against us, and it was such an irrelevant thing. Background noise to what was happening with Europa, us gaining Stasis, and the Crypt.
From all the leaked voice lines I listened to, she probably will.
I wouldn't say it's irrlevant. She put one of the few Guardians that could rival us out of commission. And it wasn't even her directly. It's just a taste of what's to come. We've stepped into another war with the Cabal and all we are doing is fueling her. S15 is the momen't she's gonna come knocking, just in time for Witch Queen, where, I'm assuming, she'll be the raid boss, and Savathun will "join" us.
Not to mention, Caiatl's history is tied directly to Xivu and Savathun too.
If bungie decides to introduce a new speaker, i sure hope byf’s the voice
It's been hinted for a while it's not happening. Something during the hawkmoon quest basically confirmed it. But that would be amazing!
Gonna be honest. When I thought of what the Cabal emperor would be like in the Taken King, Caiatl is pretty much what I imagined, not Calus.
@xX_Hello_ There_Xx well he was leading the charge in the field. Caiatl was the ruler.
@@JM1992 Not true. Caiatl merely took over the Empire years after Ghaul had died as there was no other opposition hence "Heir Apparent".
Yeah ghoul was leader of the red legion up till his death by us at the end of the red war campaign and caiatl being the second highest ranked in the red legion took over it
@@adamboy0559 The second highest ranked in the Red Legion was the Consul, but of course we see Ghaul kill him. The remaining high ranking officers within the Legion (those in the Solar system at least) eventually died and it was Val Ca'our that took over the Red Legion after Ghaul died. Of course, he too died in Spire of Stars and the Legion was leaderless until the Flayers...and then they died so Caiatl had literally no opposition to assume leadership.
@@HarbingersTable kinda forgot about those 2 but yeah consol dident even get a chance since as you said ghoul killed him and val was just such a annoying boss I forgot of his existence
Anyone else think child Caiatl from that lore card is freakin adorable the most Spartan way.
Every Guardian had an obsession, that was the lesson that Savos Uthrien learned in the bowels of the Leviathan. When the Darkness arrived and he sought greater power, he did not gain power but instead understanding. And that alone changed him. Every Guardian's obsession defined them. Eris had the Darkness, Asher had the Vex, Osiris had his visions and the corridors of time, Saint had his faith, and Cayde had his past.
"With nothing but our Light when we are reborn, we cling to anything to give us purpose. Identity." Savos had discovered this and understood it better than ever now that the Cabal came to Sol. What did Savos obsess over? He had once thought it was the Light, but that was instead a support not an obsession, then he thought it was Oryx but he was dealt with soon enough. It was only when his Light was stripped from him did he learn what his true obsession was.
Cabal. And what they were and could have been. He saw in the Cabal a future humanity narrowly escaped. He saw what mankind could have become in a world without the Traveler at their side. Had the roles been reverse, would he have gone to Torobatl with the intent of caging the Traveler, as Ghaul did? He saw this in the Eliksni as well, but to a lesser extent. In The Red War he gained strength, in the Leviathan he gained understanding, in the Sundial he gained new allies and a new future, and in the Almighty he gained patience.
What would Caiatl bring? Would this be his final confrontation with the Cabal? If so, what was their final lesson to him, and could he save them? Was it possible to save the Cabal? He never respected any Cabal leader before Caiatl, he feared Ghaul, he was suspicious of Calus, but he never respected them. And yet here she was, a Cabal he could imagine fighting beside in another life.
It was for that same reason, that same respect, that he would put every last ounce of his Light in bringing the Cabal to their knees one last time. And then, he would face the future.
And what did Elizabeth say about the Darkness? It’s cause if corruption is obsession. The Darkness preys on obsession until it can possess someone, or if they’ve served their use as it’s pawn, is disposed of. Many characters in the dark future died due to their own obsessions that the Darkness preyed on.
Eris became corrupted by the darkness searching for understanding of it. Ana, when she sought the power of stasis for a new sense of identity after losing her light. Mara died due to her arrogance, even with overwhelming odds, she didn’t know how to lose, only outlast until the inevitable finally happened. The Drifter died due to his obsession of surviving the second collapse, which he didn’t, even going so far as to sacrifice his humanity to become an Exo. Many other Guardians were corrupted by the darkness due to their obsession, and the cause of that? They’re will may have been too weak.
It makes since that Elsie, Eris and Drifter were the few first to wield stasis, as they’re will has been hardened that is to Elsie and due to the three of them experiencing centuries of grief and hardship. The three of them, in this timeline, have a strong enough will to resist obsession and temptation, to wield stasis without being corrupted.
Hopefully, the Vanguard will learn to accept wielding the balance of light and dark, it may be the only way to survive Lightfall, and the Final Shape.
I fully expect the emperors return. He wouldn’t leave his daughters fate to his greatest shadow, would he?
Well he better be hurry before Eris finds out a way to turn her into a gun
I doubt he’d care about her she was the one who betrayed calus to ghoul maybe he’d actually want us to kill her
Apparently Lance Reddick read out a meme for a fan. It's the funniest thing you've seen yet, and @My Name is Byf will appreciate the humor in it. "Lance Reddick (Zavala voice actor) reads out meme"
I’ve been busy all week so glad I can watch lore videos again byf your an amazing lore teller
I hope this season ends with an alliance with Caiatl but both sides being equal rather than one, us, being lower than the other. Even Calus showed us respect....... and had more than just a little creepy obsession with us too but still.
Caiatl won’t make an alliance now I don’t think she is more like ghoul than her father Calus be funny to see Calus return and see how he reacts to his daughter who betrayed him return
I like that there are so many psions. I wonder if that means we’ll have a big dump of cabal lore. I’d love to hear more about psions and their role in a bigger swath of cabal culture. Sorry if this seems kinda weirdly written I am very, very high
Psions are probably one if the most advanced races in the galaxy. They made the OXA, and they made the new bow, which canonically never missed becuase it literally bends time and space to summon arrows from an alternate time line whether they have already hit their target. Like wtf.
Dident the cabal take over the psions planet and end up becoming part of the cabal as a result ?
@@adamboy0559 yes, they basically absorbed the psions into the cabal hierarchy but as sort of slaves or a dedicated underclass. I hope that there’s a lore tidbit acknowledging that there’s more of them for deeper lore implications
@@thefatherinthecave943 yeah I just remember hearing about it years ago considering there is some high ranking psions now gues they must have become more privileged and more than the underclass of the cabal
Calus: Gee, I hope my daughter doesn't grow up to be a violent warmonger like how our race use to be
Caiatl: Father, I crave violence
I really really like Caiatl, and with the way the lore is going this season, it’s looking like she may become another mainstay character who is neutral toward us rather that directly against us, like Calus or Mara. Caiatl only proposed a half alliance because her councillors would judge her as weak if she went for a full alliance, and I think by the end of this season once we’ve killed enough of their warriors, the rest of Caiatl’s consort will come to also realise that a mutual alliance is much more beneficial to them than a war.
byf bro, after that drop today you got some work to do. i cant wait
_I want to 1v1 the universe itself_
-Caiatl, probably
Someone on reddit made a long post on how ummun was tricked by savathun to bring in xivu arath to torabltl
I keep wondering what “special weapons” are in Zavala’s vault. He probably has the touch of malice or maybe even a copy of the gjalahorn (I think that’s how u spell it)
Gjallarhorn
There u go bud :]
He may even have weapons from before the City became what it is today.
Prolly that M16 he was using in that Destiny trailer
@@averagemumeienjoyer5498 I wish we got that as a weapon thatd be dope
@@sabre6464 i think that’s the origin story
NGL the kiddie Caiatl story is adorable.
Amazing as always
Byf you did it again you made another amazing video keep up the good work
I still wish that Ghaul would've been a raid boss.
4th horseman: designed as a cabal slayer
Also 4th horseman: fires ARC slugs
Byf should be a lore himself in d2 that would be cool
Hearing the Leviathan Raid music makes me cry, I miss the raid
Caiatl literally makes me laugh out loud every time I see her and hear the comical voice effect lol.
I really want an alliance after this system and fight 'dark cabal' lead by Calus
If I could I’d make an alliance with Calus since he seems like more of a type of guy to do so without seeing himself as superior but caiatl sees herself and the red legion superior over us
Greetings from the future. I uh...sorry, I'm coughing, I don't know why-
I don't really know anything about editing /cutting things out of videos and putting them into others but that part where tuskmama is cut into this video looks flawless
oh, so this is where you got to meet caiatl. Always wondered how she ended up cooperating with the guardians. I returned to D2 in July/August, so I missed out on alot of lore :D
Thank you for executing the story line of Destiny better than Bungie for years :)
I hope we get to see more guardian-cabal interactions as it gives us some of the most interesting lore and insight into cabal society
One lore entry later Caiatl is already more fleshed out than the High Celebrant.
All I knew about high celebrant was they were a big ass stupid looking knight that served xixu arath and he killed segera and we must kill it
I absolutely loved the caital bedtime story. Maybe its my love of psions but I like the idea of psions as story-keepers and non-combatants
Calus had no idea how seriously Caiatl would take those take your daughter to work days.
7:25 I got this:
"The lore tab reads as follows... download a free audio book with our 30 day trial"
Interesting lore
Considering bungie’s track record, she’ll probably be a one off villain we eventually kill before witch queen.
I hope she isn't just the new strike boss
I can see your a castle crashers of culture .
Leaks and datamines show that we ally in the end
@@mortimerbalbriggan9766 God damn datamine leaker
Tusk Mommy, yes Byf, embrace the memes and the thirst.
caiatl really said "I'm going to fight god"
This season is absolutely amazing.
Loving all the lore coming out lately. I do wonder if we'll find out how Torobatl fell, as Caiatl mentions it in her meeting with Zavala...
One of her generals was tricked by Savathun and Xivu into unleashing the hive on Torobatl
Spoilers for the Empress lore book
In the Empress lore book, Umun'Arath was corrupted by Savathûn. She used her to start a ritual on Torobatl that summoned Xivu Arath, starting the Hive invasion of Torobatl.
@@elitegamer9310 You do realize that regardless of the spacing to make a spoiler tag, notifications remove the spacing, right? Maybe just don't post unsolicited spoilers.
Just listened to some leaked dialog and THIS SEASON IS GONNA BE LIT
You are going to love where caiatl’s backstory leads right before the destruction of her home world
The lore pages are on Little Light (but doing it week by week makes sense also)
Love the "Tusk Mama"
dang that childhood entry is deep
Hey @Byf I dunno if you've read the lore entries of Royal Chase and Extraordinary Rendition but they're both . . . interesting. They hint at something. Different things though. One may be the beginning of Spider's revenge for our action.
nice to see you using the heir apparent.
@byf I really wanna ask something and hope u can adres in a future lore video.. the toxic spore vines in the dead man’s tale mission and the vines in the drifters derelict are they related??
Video on Valentine's day!?!... I love you too byf 🥰😚
Waiting for that new video on the drifter since the new exotic mission
Spoilers
Caiatl invaded Sol to become Zavala's Tuskmama.
The lore tab reads as follows: WANNA KNOW HOW TO MAKE THE BEST BURGER??!!
Already know this one is great 👍🏼🔥🔥
What ever happened to the Cabal needing pressured suits full of oil to survive in other atmospheres?
that was never a thing
Oooh I wonder if we are gonna talk about that retcon of her death
Man, Byf really like Track 26 - The Hunted, huh? (Not that I'm complaining)
THANKS BYF
I want byf and morgan freeman to narrate my life
Oh right the heir apparent looks really fun in battlegrounds, since there is such high enemy density. Also caiatl sounds like a ... real pleasant child huh
Where my books of sorrow at BYF
I think this is the earliest I've been to a video lol
I can't wait to get my hands on Heir Apparent
Tuskmama has no idea how hard shes about to get slapped!
Caiatl: I have a peace offer, You species unconditional surrender
Zavala: Guardian, She drops gjallarhorn
Caiatl: no, NO, OH GOD PLEASE NO! I TAKE IT BACK! PLEASE MAKE IT STOP! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
Do a video on the glygon when the lore comes out
anyone else pull out your collectors edition to read the invitation after seeing the trailer for this season? obviously byf and i arent the only one
Will Caital become an ally? By showing our strength as equals, will she renegotiate? Also, slightly different topic, but do we think the H.E.L.M. is a ship? All the cargo is strapped down like it would be for flight so I kind of think so, but we also haven't heard much about new Vanguard navy projects so I'm not sure
It appears to be at the base of a Tower considering you can see an area just outside of the windows that looks like the landing pads you cut through during the Zero Hour mission.
Has anyone else been in the nessus battlefield and been jumping and ins the chaos end up inside one of the "environment stationary old drop pods", I was like what the heck were did I go haha wasn't until I looked up I realized I had spent the last 2mins of the fight inside a set piece. Hahahaha
Lore reading: "who is Caiatl".
Zavala: *dead*
Thank you Mr Buford
Caiatl: Bow!
The guardians, who slayed gods for fun and single-handedly destroyed entire Cabal legions just for some better gear to continue some casual god hunting, sipping tea: No~!
anyone else picture a small cabal kid playing with her toy space ship for story time?
So the darkness or the hive destroyed the cabal homeworld. That is horrifying considering they have a interstellar empire meaning their world would have be a fortress for it to fall so quickly speaks fulum of how strong the enemy we face is.
Am so excited 😁
Hi byf!
Could u make a video on the warlocks of destiny the good the bad and the ugly kinda of thing
PAPA BYF CAN YOU DO ANOTHER RECAP OF THE CURRENT STORY
6:32 Byf...please.
Heir Apparent, while inside a Well of Radiance. What's next, becoming a Barrier Champion?
Do you not have enough shields?!
Would the Icefall Mantle stack on all that? :P
That would be me who did the game play
Also the TuskMama
Can you do a vid on the Your Friend Micah Abrams lore tabs I just finished the triumph about ten minutes after writing this and I read the tabs I would appreciate if you made a vid on this thank you for the AMAZING content :)
Her Royal Tuskiness.
“Tusk Mama” lmao
From the leaks of that weird ship quest, it sounds like she is desperate not actually wanting to fight. To be honest i think she is gonna ally with us. Apprently the hive have beaten the cabal, they are now like the fallen.
I like how she seems respects us or at least respect the guardians. I also like how she didn’t have Osiris and the titan vanguard (omg I forgot his name what the heck) when they didn’t agree to join her. Instead she let us fight her.
His name is Zavala, mate
Yea yea, I somehow forgot
Caiatl -I’ll see you on the battlefield!
Me- the last time someone challenged me I used there own power against them and turned them into a lifeless ice sculpture. Do you really want to see what I have in store for you?
Caiatl- 😐 uhhhhhhhhhhhhh....
Me aiming gun- wrong answer! Boom!
Still don't understand how byf isn't employed as a voice actor or something for bungo yet
wonder if they will put heir apparent back in the game soon. I didnt get a chance to get it :((
Okay so when is Bungie gonna make Byf a character in game? Like seriously, make Byf a guardian on the tower in like a library type room and call him "The Historian" or "Lore Keeper" and have us run bounties for him to collect odd and random pieces of lore that he then tells us about in game. Obviously he wouldn't be a major character but at the very least should exist. My friends and I gave up on trying to follow Destiny lore until Byf came around and in our head cannon he is our lore keeper for our guardians.
What gun was he using in the background gameplay? While playing battlegrounds in nessus
I'm still curious if Caialti's voice actress is the same one as the MK11's Shieva VA?