Destiny 2 Lore - Tessellation tells us about The Witness's Final Shape & what it believes...
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One assumes this has little to do with Final Shape writ large - but the swords and ploughshares line is found another place in the lore.
Way back in D1 (Taken King), we got the Hereafter Exotic sniper, whose tagline was: "Huddled at the mountain's base, we had no choice but to beat our ploughshares into swords once more."
Tesselation just probably represents EVERYTHING.
The different colored panels united into one shape. The teeth used to bite, tear, and destroy look to be also leaves and organic matter that grow outwards. The angular top jutting out with the circular bottom flowing but both sides go to one direction.
I wouldn’t say it looks “wrong”. It just looks weird since it might be hard to process everything existing in tandem. We often only see parts of the universe functioning under the hood.
Dualities don’t exist, they’re just the same things at different variances.
Considering Tessellation (the word) is the act of creating or transforming something into a uniform pattern or shape, that alone can thematically link the weapon to FS, and explain it's perk.
It matches your element because it's trying to assist in creating a uniform pattern, and uses paracausal energy. The logical step is it'd match the energy of the wielder.
The shape and design of Tessalation looks like a fusion of Light and Dark, representing the war inside of the Pale Heart. The top half (representing the Darkness) is dominating or overtaking the weapon, and the bottom half (either the Guardians or the Light) is fighting back, represented by the fangs or teeth on the weapon. The weapon could represent a fusion of the turmoil within the Pale Heart to change elements, and it being a *Fusion* Rifle may be more than a gameplay decision. Just my hypothesis!
I get more of the witness race vibe from the bottom, so more of just a darkness artifact for me
The underside of Tesselation reminds me a lot of the "flora" found in Root of Nightmares.
I noticed that too
The first thing I thought of when I saw the Tessselation was Nezarec’s hammer/scythe: Night Terror, and the RoN weapons
Thank you byf for all the destiny content you have made for 10 years, you're the best
Bump.
You mean the besto, just like Telesto.
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Actually I don't think Byf has actually been making content about destiny for 10 years yet; destiny 1 came out in 2014 lol
@@kaelanirevyruun1676 so 9 years then. Should be coming up on 10 tho.
Tesellation can do all the elements because that's The Witness' final goal, to bring Light and Darkness together. In this weapon, it has done just that. Therefore, this weapon is a tool to enact The Final Shape
Or it's the new enemy that has no alignment... The APHELION! we finally encounter them
@@natcoo8153 Best I can do is two new enemy units
Honestly, the Witness and Nezarecs goals have never been contradictory. I never buyed the Nezarec Betrayal hype train for one main reason: *The Witness is a Liar.* You really think the being that caused the Collapse, which caused unimaginable suffering and death, wants to end pain? It created the Hive PURELY through a Lie. The Witness revealing the creation myth of the Hive was basically the "Great Journey" moment of Destiny, the moment the alien religious fanatics learn that everything theyve been killing for is false. Calus wanted to build a new glorious Cabal Empire, while the Witness wants to destroy everything. And the Witness might have actually valued Nezarec the most out of all DIsciples, it exiled Rhulk, it yelled and terrified Calus, Nezrec got statues built on the Witness's Pyramid Ship and had his remains collected, likely with an attempt to eventually resurrect him.
So yeah, Nezarec and Witness's goals have never really been contradictory, the lies and words change, the actions were indistinguishable from each other.
Also, video starts at 2:58
So what I got from that is: The Witness is Loki, and is trying to make himself the supreme being across all of existence.
I think Tessellation's exotic perk is another statement of The Witness' mission; creation and destruction leading to creation and on and on. We create a grenade from our light or dark powers; the weapon destroys that grenade to make something better suited (shaped?) to its use which it then uses to destroy our enemies creating our way forward (or orbs or elemental pickups) which are then made into grenade power...and on and on.
I wish I could try the gun out; my code sits with my collector's edition (the first one I've ever ordered) somewhere in Bungie's vaults. :)
You should have a digital code in your email no? I got mine and pre-ordered just the collectors edition, no game
I also believe the final paragraph and final line is the witnesses way of saying that the traveler is incapable of choosing what should and should not be allowed to exist, and as such allows chaos and suffering to exist, which seems to be another motivation of the witness, to cease all that is uncontrollable as what is uncontrollable inevitably breeds suffering
I love the different styles on the weapon that personify the traveller and the witness.
Straight, sharp and aggressive shape of the parts you'd see on the pyramid ships on top of the weapon, and then you have all the curves and more free flowing shape signifying the flowing and unhindered power of the traveler.
Saw the tesselation design, thought the underside was similar to the darkness symbol in vow
A ploughshare and a sword never truly differed. The duality of everything, is the irony of the endless false dichotomy.
Immediately Tessellation made me think of Nezarec and the Root of Nightmares armor. Organic elements from the pyramid. I think Tessellation is a piece of what The Witness is trying to do. A union of fundamental light and darkness. That's why it doesn't have its own element, it resonates from you. power
Just as the Traveler shapes the Pale Heart around the journey of the Guardians in there, I hope we also see at least little snippets of the Witness' story as we journey through the destination. After all, the Traveler was there before their convergence, and (if I remember correctly) it was also there during the fall of Lubrae, or at the very least it was there to know about what Lubrae was. Of course, it was also there for Nezarec's stay in the Lunar Pyramid that crashed on the Moon.
Hope we get more visual insights on these stories in The Final Shape.
We probably will as it's stated the Witness has time to shape & corrupt things as its been there, plus the architecture/area changes the closer we get to the Monolith & there's alot of Witness aesthetics we see
Certainly, the Witness's Twisted Funhouse will be the setting for the raid.
(That'll be its real name, too).
About the gun switching elements, It's probably something to do with the crystal/coloured pyramids on the gun because the colours on them are the same to the element and I think they react when you use your grenade for the mini rocket like shot.
In terms of design I think the weapon just delves more into the Witness's aesthetics & culture, reminds me of the weird outlines of materials or weapons we see at the Enclave/glass Pyramid material. Also in WQ a Bungie artist stated they added more depth/evolved the Pyramid architecture more which is why it looks different compared to what we see in SK & BL. Well probably see the Witness architecture fully realized in TFS
I find it interesting that the top part, while pyramid-looking, feels like it uses the light's colors, while the bottom half looks organic and light-based, yet is dark
inversion of the philosophies or somethin
It really fits the idea that Light and Dark are the same force. You can’t grow without taking nutrients from somewhere. You can’t be destroyed because the matter you’re made of just takes different forms and goes somewhere else to be taken and formed again.
It’s really just about the flow of matter and energy with the difference being the means and scale of it.
"Before creation comes destruction."
-God of Destruction, Beerus.
the last line reminds me of the traveler (plowshare = gardener) vs. Witness (sword = sword logic or more likely war, destruction, etc).Like the lore tab is trying to tell us that they're not so different after all.
Not quite.
Dark and Light are aspects of cosmic law and functions.
The Witness is a perverted expression of Darkness, based that species own arrogance and nihilism.
In truth. It’s Light= unchecked growth and Darkness=culling excess to maintain healthy growth
You have to have Darkness to balance Light.
The good and evil idealogical thinking is what mere mortal do trying to understand cosmic concepts.
They are symbiotic, they work together.
Good and evil, birth and death. Natural aspects of the cosmos.
Too much birth without deaths and you get overpopulation. Not enough births and too many deaths, you die out.
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I think it's also worth noting that the Witness has a palingenetic view of the universe. According to them, there is a prelapsarian state to existence that must be returned to in order to bring about a lasting order free of chaos. But in order to bring it about, the right person--them--must be in control. That's a nearly identical philosophy to fascism, only expanded to a cosmic scale rather than a national one.
Rolling my eyes at the “look guys we’re fighting space fash” like it’s Star Wars. No shade to your take for this, just overused. The witness shows a utopian ideal, where there is a perfect goal at the end of the ideology, and since it’s perfection it justifies literally anything including genocide and complete universal destruction. This does make it comparable to fascism but that’s just because authoritarian ideologies take this utopian view as an excuse for their insanity just as the witness does.
The witness may be the most comparable to an Athenian style direct democracy because it’s mind is literally an entire civilization of minds, with every “citizen” “voting” for the next course of action the whole entity takes. Or one consciousness consumed all the others in the mind and it’s just one crazy dude
@@submachinegun5737 There's room for a lot of interpretation, but there are a lot of writers drawing from a lot of sources of inspiration. I think multiple readings can be valid. Just sharing mine.
It's not a reserved to the ideology of fascism but any extreme authoritarian or totalitarian being/state.
This because The Witness is a gestalt being, a collective mind. Thus it arguably encompasses communism as well as fascism (though in truth said ideologies are closely related, with the latter being an offshoot of the former. They work on a similar modus operandi as well).
The Witness believes it can bring about an eternal utopia and "end of history". That any means to do so justify the means, including mass deception, torture, and murder.
@@DeusExAngelo It's the Witness's idea of order over chaos that excludes communism as a possible reading. Communists do not believe that a communist system will rid the world of chaos, but that it will provide a way to exist despite the unavoidable chaos of life. Fascism does specifically believe in an enteral order in which chaos is eradicated and all deviations from the norms of the homogeneous group are cleansed from the population.
I don't have time to get into how different the two ideologies are, but they're definitely not interchangeable or ideologically related.
@@MaxMiller94I think your interpretation and view has been made in good faith.
Rather, it's the fact that the term fascism itself in so many recent years has been mass misapplied in bad faith by people who are more conservative, moderate/centrist, libertarian, or even traditional liberal.
Thus cheapening and turning the term into a hollowed out buzzword. This is sadly not the only one of these terms this happened to.
I wanted to give my thoughts on the plow and the sword metaphor as a Theology Master (literally a Master of Theology) -
The idea of farming = war is common in the Bible and used more so with several ideas. The most prominent is comparison for those who do not understand or are ignorant. One metaphor which is very common discusses culling the chaff, which is referenced constantly in the Bible.
Matthew 3:12 NLT
He is ready to separate the chaff from the wheat with his winnowing fork. Then he will clean up the threshing area, gathering the wheat into his barn but burning the chaff with never-ending fire.”
Judges 7:5 ISV
So he brought his soldiers down to the water, and the LORD told Gideon, "You are to cull out everyone who laps up water with his tongue like a dog from everyone who kneels to drink."
The idea is that we as a people would never kill because that would be evil, it's a sin, "Thou shalt not kill". But there are times where we must separate the chaff from the good, the idea that we may have to kill the evil in order for the good to live. This also references and alludes to sin -
Matthew 5:29 in Other Translations
29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away.
In an extreme form, it explains that by cutting out the bad we can then flourish through the destruction of what must die.
More practical forms of this would be cutting out cancer to live, burning fields to restore nutrients for growth, etc.
Byf my man, you did a great job on that metaphor though, top notch!
So, there's a very, very important thing to point out both in real life and in Destiny; life as a concept is a process that runs on an existing gradient. The first life that existed in the Garden, the Ahamkara, the Worms, even the Pattern, existed because there was the gradient between Light and Darkness.
I say all this to point out a common misconception that people in real life and Destiny's universe make (except Savathun and Ulan-Tan possibly). The Darkness only cares about what exists as a single simplified, eternal, and perfected state once all that can be removed or destroyed, is. It's not an eternal self-sustaining process, it's a crystallized end point. This is fundamentally incompatible with life in general- full stop.
In this case, if you're truly convinced of achieving the Final Shape, calcifying the universe into what is effectively an eternal unchanging statue makes perfect sense. But it's got nothing to do with life in any truly meaningful way. Existence isn't synonymous with life, and for the Darkness existence infinitely supercedes life. Besides, what does life mean in a universe that's gone and frozen in a single moment?
Edit: as for Tesselation, it's a piece of Pyramid tech, possibly even a weapon system developed by the Witness' species. In one of the Europa missions, there's commentary on how there's no distinction between artwork and technology, how it's a perfect blend of aesthetics and functionality (sounds a lot like the Final Shape to me). Take a species that had millions/ billions of years to develop to a technological singularity and exclusive access to the Traveler and its blessings, followed by discovering the Veil and studying that for who knows how long, and technology that's compatible with any flavor of paracausality as well as being some sort of avant garde art piece sorta makes perfect sense.
Been looking at the tessellation lore tab since it dropped and been wondering when you were gonna do a video on it. Glad to see this one finally drop!
literally love ur vids
That last line in the lore entry is very similar to a very popular Magic the Gathering card, "Swords to Plowshares." Considering that Hawthorne's character is based on another MTG card it seems like it's more than just a coincidence, could be nothing but if it's intentional it's a neat reference.
Could also just be a Bible reference, but either way it's really cool.
The magic card is also base of that Bible verse.
The plowshare and the sword have never truly differed is a great line.
The witness reminds me of a certain character from warhammer, i dont remember his name but hes a nekron whos life goal is to get his hands on anything to display in his planet sized museum. He would take battlefields and suspend everyone on them in animation and alter them so that it looked perfect for display. Reminds me alot of the witness
Trazyn the Infinite.
Trashy The Incontinent
The Witness: *monologues about the Final Shape and ending pain and creating a perfect new reality
Us: Yeah, well, that's, like, your opinion, man.
also Us: *long sequence of locking n' loading, suiting up, and medidating on our Light/Dark powers
I've been waiting for a Tesselation video, it's lore entry is really cool. It feels like an extension of the Unveiling Lorebook. It also properly explains what the true point of the Witness is.
I think Tesselation can be any element based on what you're using is because it's like a paracausal prism. The entire top is a patchwork of crystal looking things of different colours, and given that one of the two paracausal forces we use is broadly referred to as "The Light", it reminds me of how you can shine white light through a clear prism to split it into it's many colours. To an extent that's what our guardians are doing when they utilise elemental subclass abilities, and Tesselation gives me the impression of being an extension of the same premise; That it's type changes because we're projecting whatever paracausal force we're already attuned to through it, which I feel is reinforced by how the crystals change colour slightly to closer match it's current element (which is your current element). It reminds me of MTG's prophetic prism, a card that can produce 1 mana of any colour, but you need to pay 1 mana to use it, so it's mainly for converting colourless mana into coloured mana or one colour of mana into another (there's 5 funnily enough).
Just so everyone knows: When you special load a grenade into Tesellation, it pops up a popup called Property: Irreducible. Irreducible means that something cannot be reduced or simplified further.
The first thing I thought of when I saw the weapon was Nezarec’s hammer/scythe: Night Terror, Tesselation has the darkness tile/gem clean cut pattern on top while having the organic/round tendrils of Night Terror or the weapons from Root of nightmares
awesome Video Byf
Great video man like always
Remember what the devs said about the witness “the closer you get to the witness the more things look more wrong” so maybe this weapon reflects the witness’s vision of the final shape or it can mean something else.
The swords and ploughshares line made me remember the flavor text for the Hereafter in D1 not related but cool to see that metaphor return
I actually really like the look of this weapon. It has a pyramid shape but the glass is put together with different pieces that have the colors of all our subclasses. The white and black pieces feel like what makes up the tormentors.
The first thing I thought of when I saw the weapon was Nezarec’s hammer/scythe: Night Terror, Tesselation has the darkness tile/gem clean cut pattern on top while having the organic/round tendrils of Night Terror or the weapons from Root of nightmares
Great video! Keep up the good work!
To your question at the end of the video:
To me it seems like the reason it can use whatever paracausal element it wants ties directly with your interpretation. It can use any of it because it's all just creation and destruction. It's actually speaking to a cycle really. As you are killing things, you are generating more power which gives you the grenades (Creation), which you feed into the gun and use to kill more things (Destruction) which causes you to generate more power... and so on. One could even view it as an imperfect destructive force (the grenade) is taken by the gun (The Witness) and re-shaped into a more perfect form. Any way you look at it, to me, it seems it's pretty clear that the transformative part of this whole thing is what's on display and is the point behind it. To my knowledge, it's the only gun that's taken something from one of your abilities as ammo (did no research, not sure this is true), and if so I think it's extremely significant that we are taking part in the creation of something that the gun (potentially the stand in for the Witness) then takes and reforms into something else. It is our light that we are feeding it (or the manifestations of at least).
So yes, I think the gun's ability to absorb any of our grenades fits inline with your analysis of the gun itself. It is a small scale version of what The Witness has planned. Take the light, reform it with dark, create something better... whatever "better" is at least to The Witness.
My crackpot final shape theory is the ultimately the final shape will be unavoidable in the end, and the only way to move past it is to find a way to destroy that final shape, and the universe along with it (something will become nothing) then afterwards using the veil along with dark energy to use the memory of the universe to rebuild it, and then use the pale heart or the light to breathe life back into it, thus recreating the universe after its destruction. (Nothing becoming something). The only solution is to destroy everything and rebuild it without the witness essentially.
Honestly, to me, Tesselation looks like a weapon straight out of the Root of Nightmares raid. A blend of Light and Dark, with the smooth and geometric top contrasting the chaotic and organic bottom, yet the two somehow blend in a semi-cohesive form. It's a plowshare and a sword.
I dont know why its able to consume all elemental grenades but in the end it does make sense IF its a weapon of the Witness, taking something, consuming it (destruction), and making it something else, something better... it totally fits the lore.
If you read the perks, it calls tesselation many things as well as weapon, such as a language. I got the impression that it was the remains of one of the primordial patterns from the garden
@mynameisbyf I am hoping you do another video with this now that the final shape dev preview is out and we see prismatic
maybe the reason tesselation looks wrong is becaue that is how the witness views the universe and the design reflects that
Imo Tesselation can change elements because of the materials it’s made from, specifically the Pyramid looking material. The material resonates with whatever energy we’re currently aligned with take on its properties
The weapon's make up seems like something we'd find in Root of Nightmares, which takes place in the Witness's ship. The armors especially have that mismashed with loud coloration look. It could be an experiment by the Witness. Something that has the shape of whatever purpose one wills it to have. Note that the exotic perk description isn't fully sure of what it is. Maybe it's only a weapon because we see it as one. Much like real world weapons such as axes, glaives, hammers, or machetes originated as farm tools. If it's defined by it's user, it makes sense that it would take the element we channel while holding it.
From a visual design standpoint, notice that when we give it a grenade to charge up, that energy is always spherical, and the weapon drinks it. So for our light based abilities, it just drinks the light. As for the darkness ones, that probably comes natively to the weapon.
I'll grant you that the teeth on it seem hive-ish, but look at the bright white and the flowing curves. The lore may be a mission statement, but the visual design of the weapon is the recipe the witness is following, and that's reinforced by the prophecy wall in the sunken pyramid in the throne world. A being of darkness drinking and subjugating the light in order to reshape everything. But here's the rub, and where I think bungie could take things moving forward: what happens if the opposite occurs? A being of light harnessing the darkness in order to protect existence itself? I'd absolutely argue that the witness and us are merely two sides of the same coin, and the edge is so very thin....
I choose to believe the last line in the Tesselation lore is a reference to MtG Swords to Plowshares and that is now my truth
In some Lightfall previews a Tree of Silver Wings with the branches in the shape of arms can be seen. It presumably has been fed richly with both Light and Dark. Perhaps Tesselation is the fruit of this tree?
(Sorry for length. Just thorough with my thoughts is all.)
My random current theory: the Traveler encompasses The Beginning, the energy and potential of our universe. The Veil encompasses The End, with all the memories and history of what's existed like data. They're both parallel, Beginning and End are simultaneous. When they were connected, the Beginning and End could be calculated like a computer doing a mutation/evolution program to end a creation. The split between them happened when one of the creations calculations evolved and spread in a way that upset that balance and introduced paracausal attributes. That balance being split, breaking away was a failsafe. Afterwards, the Traveler as the Gardener continued it's duty to create while the Veil kept to its own work of recording. Like the timelines in Loki, they branch, free will, minute changes and choices, life, etc non longer being culled. The Witness's people being the first to properly flourish with the Traveler gave it enough life energy and time to leave and seek more opportunities to create and raise up life without hindrance of the Veil's calculations.
But along with the split, those creations that evolved and became paracausal still exist. The Deep is their prison. The powerful beings that once lived in the ascendant plane are waiting there. They whisper to the Witness about the Final Shape, tricking him into believing their actions will give them control over everything, but the truth is the Final Shape is the key that they need to open up The Deep to allow them through into our universe/dimension.
The Nine know this is going to happen. The Vex encountered the Veil long before the Witness did and left an impression of "The End" on their species, creating their cause to be at the end of the Universe.
Later on, the Veil passed the Psion's homeworld and influenced their evolution to be more sensitive to psychic abilities. OXA was inspired out of connections driven by the Veil's influence.
Okay. Shutting up now. Hope you enjoy my brain leaking. Much love.
Keep in mind the very definition of Tessellation itself. It means when shapes fit uniformly together with no gaps. A honeycomb can be considered a tessellation of hexagons. The differing promises of the final shape to all the disciples does not matter because each of their individual shapes tessellated in some way to fit the grander design the witness knows, by either goal, or actions propagated.
Which is why it does not matter whether you are sword or ploughshare, you both have a more base defining property.
An assortment of different colored blocks, cut and fitted to make a perfect shape. With dark and light fused together below it.
Imagery.
Using both fundamental powers, he will make a collage of his ideal universe.
We got a lot of references to possibility magic this season. Time to look closer at ahamkara and the nine.
My Bro, Tessellation is exactly that, Broken, Twisted, like the mind of the Witness
"complete destruction without any exception"
At least you can't say they are biased
What I feel like the Witness is thinking of is that a plowshare undoes the soil by remaking it. But what the Witness actually going for is undoing the entire field and getting new soil because the old one wasn't to it's licking or was infested. They are not using a plowshare, they are using entire cranes
The sharp parts on the bottom just remind me a jagged spine.
gun is made of primordial stuff. The stuff that came before the witness and the were split.
IRL though, it is also the first exotic that will be capable of wielding the new super secret darkness power.
0:52
I remember that video
I have only a limited understanding of this, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. But the weapon's Exotic Perk refers to it as a weapon/instrument/topology.
To my understanding, a topology is a shape of sorts that is open to being changed. I think that Tessellation is a 'shape' in the same way that the Witness' final shape is, with the difference being that Tessellation is a flexible shape, a topology,
Let’s go was waiting for this video didn’t know what the lore means
It could be that the final line is about the light and the dark and that they are basically the same thing, it would explain why the weapon can change to any element dark or light. it also makes sense with what was said in the veil containment this season that the traveller and the veil may have been the same thing originally that the darkness and the light were the same once.
Tessalation is a fluctuating statement about both the Guardians and the Witness/Traveler dynamic. It's ability to use all the elements is a reflection of the Guardians' ability to do so, but it's appearance is reflective of the Witness encroaching on the very source of our powers in the first place.
While I agree that Unveiling and Tessellation are definitely told from the perspective of the Witness (and thus biased towards it and its goals), I don't necessarily think their accounts are *completely* untrustworthy. I personally like to view the Flower Game as a handy metaphor for the Universe itself (just as its real-world analogue in the Game of Life is a metaphor of our Universe). In both of these examples, paracausality is represented as the ability to manipulate the state of the game after the game has begun. Quite literally flipping a bit, changing a single square in the Game of Life, opening a single flower in the Flower Game, it's the most simple paracausal action to take.
I believe that the overall message of Tessellation, when viewed through the lens of the Flower Game, is that all the squares of existence (or all the flowers) are transitory. They all are in a constant state of change. A square being alive or dead at any one time does determine its state in the future, but both states are equally possible in the scale of the full Game. The difference between these two states of being is utterly insignificant. In this analogue, the Witness seeks to utilize the fullest extent of paracausality to create a state in the Game of Life in which no further change is enacted. The quite-literal tessellation of the Game board is where this will occur. Thus, I think the Tessellation reading is a balance of prophecy, manifesto, and instruction to the Witness's true endgame.
Interesting; most Destiny lore avoids actual religions like the plague. But unless I'm wrong (and that is possible), forging one's sword into a ploughshare is a Biblical line.
Edit: damn, that's what I get for commenting early....
Saying this right now, the Final Shape raid will be called Monolith of Finality which will have a Subjegator boss as well as the Witness
Just how the ancient civilisation wanted to use both Light and Dark to shape the universe, could explain why Tessellation can use both elements. Perhaps it's a representation of what they desire. Control over everything, shaped to their image.
The fact that the Tesselation's lore references the garden before time (without alluding to the the speaker/author) to me tells me that said garden was not simply metaphor or mythology.
Rather what we read in in Unveiling has been doctored by The Witness from it's original source to fit it's narrative.
I say this because we've been given hints The Traveler and The Veil were a singular entity, along with the Light and Darkness. While they are connected, they are nonetheless split.
A schism caused by something. Something from before The Witness and it's precursors.
The crystal top has shards that mimic the color of every subclass element in the game, except for one. There are a couple pink pieces, think maybe that could be the color of the next darkness subclass?
“A ploughshare and a sword have never truly differed.”
That explains it right there, why the Tessellation uses both light and dark powers.
The ploughshare (farmer/gardener/light) and the sword (warrior/winnower/darkness) are the same. Same goes for the name, a tessellation is a contiguous pattern of interlocking shapes with no gaps. They fit together, light and dark, to form the whole.
I feel like the way the exotic trait is using synonyms for other words is a hint to us on how to interpret the lore tab.
Also, “Tesselation” is spelled wrong in the title of the lore tab, but spelled right in the weapons actual name. Just something that bugs me.
The element changing could be showing how the witness now has control over all forces in the universe. Hence why it can use any element we can.
All five element colours are "fused" together into a final shape. The whole gun look like a Nautilus with a pyramid ship for a shell.
I think it's worth noting that the connection The Witness makes (assuming this is the opinion of The Witness) between creation and destruction is kind of undeniable. All things are made from other things and typically the process that makes the new thing removes the uniqueness of the past things. In order to paint a masterpiece you must first destroy a blank canvas. The opposite is true as well. When you destroy a building you create rubble in its place. The sword kills to make food for the earth and the ploughshare uproots the earth for food to foster new life.
This isn't a moral justification of anything the Witness has done, but this concept is logically sound.
It looks like the fins and stuff on the armor set from root of nightmares
I would think that the gun can use all the elements as the glass seems to act like a conduit hull or something, the amalgamation of the different pieces of glass reflect the different elements, this that reflection of power reflects the users current ability to then adapt and use the users element
Bro I saw that weapon yesterday with your newest vid and I searched for an hour on dim and in game to find what exotic that was and if I missed it tnxx
I think tessalation is a reflection of the user, it's a statement that the elements wielded are neither good nor bad. It's design is both order and chaos and you can't have one without the other.
I believe in the end tesselation being able to take on any element we have access to both light and dark is a representation of both how the witness gained access to the travelers pale heart through the linking of light and dark as well as the possibility that if we win during The Final Shape the witness in a way will have been correct. I believe after defeating him we will embody the final shape and bring about a more perfect universe but in our image not his.
I've been out of Destiny for many years but am interested in coming back, I can't even remember the last piece of lore. Do you have a video that covers EVERYTHING up until now? Thanks!
Another interesting comment about tessalation design is when u aim down sight there are 3 symbols idk what they mean tho one is a hour glass cup looking thing, the other is like a pillar of some kind and the last one is a dog or some beast I wonder if that has to do with the upcoming raid who knows. 🤷🏻♂️
You know I’m honestly glad the species that makes up the witness didn’t end up like the eldar. Let’s assume there species life span was also boosted to a point where technology and the traveler energy keeps you alive
My guess? Because to bring about this full reset of everything would require control or the ability to pull from all elements of creation/destruction. Tessellation I feel is that idea just on a much smaller scale
I'm hoping it's sort of pointing towards the dark and the light basically being the same in a sense, they both need to exist and co-exist. I have always sort of hoped that the final shape for us would be uniting the dark and light back into what seems like it possibly might have been before, using both to uplift species and the like. Sort of grey jedi idea, you need dark and light to balance everything. They need to work in unison etc. But without the whole reality being unmade and re-made.
The Witness wants to shape the universe so that it’d be completely under ITs control. But that control demands removing all chaotic elements.
But if there are one too many chaotic elements that demand so much micromanaging, and the Witness goes full “Adrien Monk” on the universe.
One of those moments we should hate where Immaru is actually right. The Witness’ plan is “winning the game by turning it off forever.”
if Light and Dark merge, I wonder how this will be reflected in gameplay. Maybe we'll get something like the mix-and-match damage types we saw in pre-alpha
The bottom of tesselation kinda looks like the weird spine hand thing from the final shape trailer
I think the weapon changing elements has to do with something changing according to the one who wields it. To becoming something shaped by its user.
if this is indeed the thesis of the witness then it is without a doubt antithetical to what we do, and by extension, the hope for the future the game purports itself to be about. as well said as it is, I hope more people than not say more than "that's just your opinion" and are not entranced by the statement
as to why it can use every element, it does so with an input. perhaps it mirrors what the witness means to use the final shape for: by inputting it's design, it can get what it wants as a result.
The bottom reminds me of tree of silver wings but corrupted
I'm not sure how much can even be unpicked from the name alone.
The biggest take away, being that a tessellation is an arrangement of shapes. Broad vague strokes of definition from me, as I don't really wish to look too much into what it is for my own sanity.
An arrangement of shapes, fitting considering the multitude of interpretations of that one Final Shape, which may go some distance to explain its "strange" look.
Maybe it’s simply just a conduit of paracausal energy and since we channel both sides it is simply conducting whatever type of energy it senses from its wielded. If that is the case which I’m not saying it is for certain I would be curious to see what kind of energy would be conducted if similar technology was connected to the traveler or the witness or both at the same time.
Hear me out: Asher Mir is the key that Savathun "already gave us."
Savathun was there with Lakshmi when the portal let Vex into the city, but Asher was among those Vex. I propose that Savathun may have done this intentionally. If Asher is about to be dropping mass info about the darkness as a result of the info given to us in the Vexcalibur quest and lore tab, then I would be willing to bet that the season following Season of the Witch will be devoted to working with Asher and Mithrax.
But didn't Asher end up getting deleted in order to give us Vexcalibur?! I swear I remember something about the vexnet finally pinning him down after he shared his discovery about the Veil.
@@SnyperMK2000JclL No, you're completely correct. I had forgotten about that. Damn. Back to the drawing board.
Very colorful
next thing you know the witness is like thanos trying to make a new perfect universe or trying to become a creator and a destroyer
Does anyone know what guardians were doing before they received the light??? How did the ghosts know who to select??? Love all of your stuff, keep up the great work!!!
The grip on Tessellation looks like Cthulu curled, eating the gun from the original grip on up. Just my brain being weird
Yin and Yang I believe everything has a unsteady balance of light and dark, the ones who meditate bring balance to the struggle creating yin and yang the perfect balance
I didn't know we still can use the altar of summoning
I didn't think about why or how the weapon came into existence or how it can change elements until now, but what if it was picked up by a fireteam after the defeat of nezerac. Or it is a bi product of what the witness is doing in the pale heart. It most definitely has something to do with the combination or intertwining of light and dark so it could have be that it's creation and ability come from a place where the two were close together. That or the weapon uses the power the guardian possess and because we have command over both light and dark the weapon is able to turn them into projectiles.