@@imbadatgamesree I wish I could tell you but I paused it to write this comment and then skipped it lol. I think some sort of powder cream medicine scam lol
that would be cool as a first phase lol. then we fight him in a vex form. we don't kill him entirely, we just force him away to become a long term bad guy
Clovis has the Star Power that the Vex have always lacked. If Clovis could merge with the Vex in truth and become his new LUCA he’d be a top tier villain
@@lucaricci1987Asher Mir’s Blue and Bronze Vex fighting against the Red and White Vex of Clovis Bray fighting against the Black and Purple Vex still influenced by Nezerac And of course, the standard Vex mind just trying to live its life of math
Tbh he’ll always be a joke to me because i expect him to go off on a wall being so godlike meanwhile it’s just a plywood wall.. Calamitous to punch through it I bet
I'd like to point out that the vex formed gangs in the prison of elders. Like we never got to see vex activily fight vex and now I'm wondering what their shit talk sounds like. I can't help but laugh because we know what all the other species sound like speaking English but the vex are pure logic so imagine them having such a break in belief of what would bring about their perfect end that they started beefing with eachother enough to shit talk and have faction wars. We've heard humans that got turned to vex speak broken English but from memory we have not heard pure vex do so
Its the only that was intended. And as soon as bungie leave the Bray's for a season or dlc, story is shit. BeyondLight while having huge issues had an insane collector lore book, the dream of alpha Lupi, K1, Volantis, the birth of exos, birth of vex.... Season of the seraph ending cutscene with Ana hugging Elsie was the last time i felt something in Destiny. Theres so much to do from Clovis egotistical moves and godly ambitions, Elsie not being from our universe, like wtf? Why tf Bungie didnt elaborate on this instead of a random NightCity knockoff?
On the topic of Rasputin becoming a Guardian, those who played the season of the seraph, after he sacrifices himself, you can hear a faint noise that sounds like the noise a Ghost makes followed by a blue light that they shine when scanning for a Guardian, so him returning as one isn't entirely impossible
@@aviatorengineer3491I’m not sure if Rasputin, reborn as a Guardian, even with his memories back, would allow himself to be kidnapped by Xivu or Savvy. But, it would be incredible if he joined us and Caital to take back Torobaital. Maybe a year after he’s been risen, becomes a Gurdian, and gets his memories back, we use Deepsight, or other means, to rebuild the Warsats, the Warsat Network, and other Warmind assets.
One of the little things I've always been curious about is if the quantum snapshot of Clovis's mind happened to include the Vex memetic infection he had. That *might* be the thing that's essentially protected him from the billboarding other AI copies developed before Clovis's discovery of Clarity and the development of Alkahest. As far as we can tell, the Clovis AI isn't in a true exo body and isn't running on modified Vex brain fluid, but Clovis himself was definitely infected and as it's been noted, Vex infection is a tricky thing to cure without a total reset. If he is infected, we could have an interesting problem on our hands with Clovis Bray, the Insufferable Mind. Finally get a Vex antagonist with a personality, maybe involve Asher and the Ishtar team for some more Vex Network shenanigans. That'd be fun.
I'm waiting for Clovis Ai to either corrupt the exo and make his own Hivemind army OR I can't wait for Clovis Ai to fuse or control the Vex and have his own vex/vexo army
I have a feeling, Clovis will escape his prison on Europa. He’ll end up on Neomuna, see the potential in the city, and may try to use the Veil to usurp the Vex. In order to conquer the CloudArk, and the Vex Network. The Vex AI copy of Maya may try to kill Clovis for getting in her way. While the copies of the Ishtar Collective, may ask for our help, and aid us in ending this war they’ve been caught in. Not to mention, the Neomuni may be in danger as well.
K but what about Guardian Exos It literally ends there Not happening But him fusing with the Vex would be crazy Maybe we see some Fighter Vex If i remember correctly we seen only construction Vex till now
I've been saying it for years since the moment Rasputin had the cutscene saying he rewrote Clovis out of his protocols at the season of the seraph, I knew Clovis would be the main villain after the witness is destroyed and they bring back Siva. It makes perfect sense and the lore is their to confirm it. Can't wait!
@@Fenyxclipsoh my god, that gives me a great idea: SIVA construct enemies. Like, SIVA infested Exo Bodies and SIVA infested security frames as the foot soldiers, while the heavy hitters are almost always entirely made of SIVA.
When episodes come out, it would be cool to see the Vex/Clovis episode that enhances Vex lore while adding Clovis as a villain. It was once stated (by Calus I think) that Vex that are in Sol System right now are mere "gardeners" compared to other Vex, so it would be cool to see a Vex like Asher Mir who has their consciousness, but he's malevolent
@@Justin_Leahythe Vex don’t have the worst lore imo. It’s actually my favorite. It’s just very hard to make them work because they’ve never had a real “character” in their faction. Unfortunately, the reason for that is due to the Vex’s inherent nature. Since they’re robots running off of pure logic, and cannot grasp the illogicality of paracausality, they don’t really have anyone in their ranks, EVER, who we could basically form some kind of a relationship with. There has never been a Vex that’s basically spoken with us or with other Vex on a regular basis, and the Vex language that we HAVE seen is just gibberish at first sight since they’re so different from us. We know the true goals of the Vex, but since they are by far the most alien out of all the different aliens, it’s the most difficult to make work and not compromise their “alieness” in a sense.
I will say that the odds of Clovis alligning himself with the darkness (intentionally) or forces like the Cabal is incredibly unlikely. For as much of a psychopath egoist he is his whole thing is about being the savior of humanity, he hates the traveler, the witness, cabal, or anything that might pose a threat to him being seen as humanities god/savior/overlord. I think the real concern needs to be if he aligns himself with factions like the concordant, or other anti city human factions.
The universe of Destiny is so massive. I think we take for granted how much effort it involves to develop this beautiful universe. I hope this franchise grows even bigger and better over time and I hope it never dies. I hope this game will forever be the GOAT
I still think they should do a golden age show with all his dark dealings and shady secrets sort of in a you format where it makes you appreciate the bad guy
I would love it they did a sorta live event style thing where players who chose Exos as their race would have dialogue and make remarks during gameplay, as if Clovis was attempting to take them over.
I think he knew what he was doing with trying to replace the traveler as he was once had a conntection to the witness to create that vex portal on europa and i wouldnt be suprised if the witness had plans in mind to make clovis be part of the vex of the sol divisive if they somehow failed to access the veil
I think if we see a Clovis storyline it might be reusing some of the material from pre rewrite d1, I really like the idea of Rasputin(as it was at that time) being the motivation and stumbling block to the story
This would actually be a very smart move. Going from an extremely existential threat to a literally human one would be a nice change of pace. We’ve never really participated in any “civil wars” they all happened in the past. Warlords vs iron lords, concordat vs consensus etc. Stories of internal conflict are often the most interesting, it would be even cooler if we saw some guardians side with Clovis.
I would love to see Clovis become an “ultron” of destiny 2 and maybe even somehow have some control over the vex. There for we could have exo/vex hybrids or maybe a faction of the vex switched to tuned up exo body’s. Just spitting out ideas 😀
The Concordat are the ones who sent the skimmers as a gift for the guardians games, which could be just some sort of easter egg, or the next big hint as to what's happening next.
It’s cool to think that the Scorn and now Clovis are making new life with Darkness, something that kills, reduces, and stops in place. This might be our introduction to a new form of Darkness.
I think Clovis Bray will merge with the Vex hive mind and become our next antagonist and the face of the Vex going forward. I think the Vex want to assimilate all robot life including Exo's, and their end game is to simulate and create paracasality.
There’s also the Vex AI copy of Maya, the one that went insane with obsession. She may give Clovis trouble, while the Vex copies of the Ishtar Collective, may be the ones to aid us in ending the war between Clovis and Maya. They could be a faction of the Vex, that has learned what it means to feel, and have empathy. They aren’t as closely connected to the Vex hive mind. I imagine Nimbus and Quinn will call for our, and Osiris’ aid in defending the Neomuni. Since they are still living in the CloudArk. Mithraks, Ana, and Elizabeth could also get involved. Considering it’s the Vex and Clovis we’re talking about.
Also remember asher is in the network so there's a opportunity of a split between asher and clovis with the vex and the sol divisive as the 3rd fringe group
Clovis' story in Beyond Light and Season of the Seraph is so freaking dope. Rasputin, Clovis, and Elsie and my favorite characters. Plus, anything related to the Golden Age is immensely interesting. I love the wonder around these characters and stories. I can't wait to see more of them!
Although it would still be a terrible idea, if clovis were to become powerful through overtaking the power of light/the traveler i feel his extreme stubbornness would stop the witness from being able to control him
Bungo REALLY wasted an opportunity to make Exo enemies back in Beyond Light, like imagine fighting a Exos, Constructs(those big robots) and Clovis as the final Boss(something similar to the Human Reaper from ME2) in Deep Stone Crypt!
The house of salvation could align with Clovis with Taniks walking into the leadership vacuum, and some more possible eliksni exo hybrids. In the same way you mentioned the eliksni possibly worshipping Clovis as an ascended being, I could see Taniks taking up part of that mantle as well.
clovis is just like palaptine, bro is prepping his plan and once the Darkness stuff are put on hold- eliminated. clovis gonna be the villain and say "everything is proceeding as i have foreseen..."
Id like the next few years of destiny to be a bit smaller in scale compared to the all-encompassing conflict between Traveller and Witness. Like, great, weve uncovered the mysteries of the universe. What does that actually do for us and whose gonna take advantage? I'd like to think that after the current loose threads in the Episodes get wrapped up, we start getting some Human antagonists. Concordant, Warlords, all that juicy stuff
Would it be possible that the Vex would try to come in and take CB’s stuff? Of all that factions that would benefit the most from gaining as deep an understanding of the Darkness/Stasis as Clovis did, it’d probably be them right? Dude was able to more or less measure paracausality, the one thing stopping the Vex from beating us
Byf I've always been a long standing viewer, but I think it's awesome to put the content into the shorts format Also the I got my brother to watch some of your lore videos and he's been asking a lot of questions 😂
Has Byf done a video covering the possibility of Rasputin coming back as an Exo? A Guardian reborn in the Light, and the complications of that in the future? At this point, him coming back, feels like it’d be after the war with the Witness. It feels like he’d be a Warlock honestly. There’s also a number of ways he could get his memories back. If we can rebuild the Warsats, the Warsat Network, and recover other Warmind assets, Rasputin could be a powerful ally in reclaiming Torrobaital from Xivu. We’d need his orbital weaponry to take out her fleet, and War Moons. His Warsats would also be the perfect weapon to disable the Dreadnuaght if Xivu were to salvage its weapon and use it against us and Caital’s fleet.
When I first saw Rasputin die, that was my hope that he would return as a guardian. I think that would be a great move. He was one of my favorite characters.
I think the best way to describe Clovis now is how Zavala described Rasputin back during warmind. Too dangerous to be left alone and too unpredictable to wield or in this case reason with.
Clovis and the Concordat teaming up would be interesting because it would be primarily human enemies, or at least human-designed machines. Maybe even hostile Guardians. I'd be super into that.
This has always bugged me. If the Witness needed the Traveller to connect The Veil to enter the Pale Heart. Why would he have so many followers try to destroy it?🤔
I think it was more so the witness didn't know where the veil was until later on, so maybe destroying was plan b until he found where the veil was so they swapped back to plan A, that's the only way I can really rationalize it but yet definitely an odd plot hole
Shit, this made clovis really scary, especially because I always just kinda overlooked him. Never stopped to ask myself what he wants or what he's plotting.
The idea of a resurrected Rasputin seeking out Clovis is a fascinating one, and could be used to introduce something that's probably been in the minds of people ever since Destiny's early days: Evil/Dark Guardians, led by a man seeking to overthrow the Traveler and become a godlike figure in the eyes of Humanity.
I could even imagine bringin back asher mir! He is one of the only individuals that I would trust to handle Clovis, especially through his connection to the Vex now.
thankfully Elsie (the stranger) is keeping an eye on him, as per her parting words at the end of the season of the seraph. Keep an eye on her everyone, and on Ana. Those two are both blessed and burdened by their mixed heritage, and they will be the ones who will the one's most wary around Clovis.
I think that we could see Clovis having a way to control the House of Salvation on Europa. With access to the DSC data logs he has the blueprints to not just remake Atraks-2 but Give Taniks a steel chair to bring terror to the universe once again. Atraks-2 could spread the word of clovis and have the powers of Stasis given the darkness statue in the DSC.
Oh shit! I just thought of Clovis helping the Concordat. Making frames and weapons for them, promising to help even the odds and institute a “regime change”.
You forgot one… Taniks, since he was in the DSC maybe Clovis can get access to a brain scan of taniks or something and convince the eliksni to follow.. he may be known as Taniks the repurposed.
I’m kinda Clovis ends up being like Harbinger from mass effect when we fight him… him with an army of exos being all “ I am assuming direct control of this form”.
I think it would be really fucking fun if there were a dungeon or raid in which we fight a fully built giant exo of Clovis Bray. Similar to the Oryx fight where he is leaning over the edge of the battlefield. And maybe we have 3 phases where we have to destroy each of his arms and then his head. someone in the comments also said something about his merging with the vex and making his own version of them, and I think that would make a very cool enemy to also fight in this raid. Perhaps we discover what he's doing, and break into his factory and try to stop him.
Quick question: season of the witch, Eris kills sacar Huns and takes her powers to become a hive god. Ok, now let’s go back to ghost of the deep. They were trying to bring back oryx. What if that was their plan as well? Bring back oryx, kill him, and xivu takes that power. Maybe that wasn’t as much of a possibility before in gotd, but what about now with civus current position? Not only because she might want to try and get the dreadnaught and take oryx’s throne-world as her own but also take the power to control it. She could also possibly find her hammer again and even use savathuns scalpel as well(I think that’s what it’s called)
Something to keep in mind is that there are rogue guardians. And we've already seen that some exos have sympathetic ideals to clovis. I'm also not fully convinced that we've seen the last of Lakshmi 2 either.
Something overlooked about Clovis is he wanted to save humanity & his actions although egotistical were for what he thought would benefit humanity, his family and himself. He wanted rid of the Traveller before the Darkness could arrive and therefore they'd leave Earth/humans alone. Maybe shortsighted but not totally evil. Similar to our Guardians position when using paracausal Light & Dark powers. There's also the fact that the Golden age, ships and tech were influenced by Clovis and still are somewhat by Banshee.
I believe that if SIVA returns it will be when Clovis reaches that main stage since he created it. I assume he can also control it the way Rasputin did against Felwinter and the Iron Lords.
Im going to assume, if the next major dlc involving vex/exos, hes going to use what remains of the facility to somehow build new exos completely Puppeted to him. Making the building process faster, and perhaps even merging them and himself with the vex, creating the first truly humanized/sentient vex mind, like a weird Ultron concept or model. He'd use his new form to not only gain control of humanity, but as petty revenge against those he now deem as enemies. In the end, if he wins, he is essentially a dictator of the last city if all the "Enemies within" are "Removed" "Cut off" If this become a major dlc, then Exos or some sort of Puppet sounding name for the Exos to accurately describe their devotion to Clovis could be a formidable technically new enemy race.
You missed a REALLY big option: Otzot and OXA. At this point Clovis is basically a giant angry head and probably wants some form of revenge on the guardians so aligning himself with Otzot and manipulating his way into OXA is the most likely scenario.
Honestly, i think the biggest question is, what happens once/if we defeat the Witness? What incentive does the Coalition have to remain allied once our mutual enemy is shattered and its forces scattered? Cabal might stay if for only to take on the Hive remnants with us, and the Eliksni will either stick with us as the Travelers chosen or follow the Traveler and the Light it moves on. Savathun is equal parts ally and hanging blade, who will most likely only stick with us so long as it's beneficial
I could swear i heard leaks like 1 year ago about the return of CB but this time not as Clovis bray but the gunsmith before the final shape or in final shape again it was 1 year ago.
The Clovis AI would have been a perfect raid boss. Battling it out against a giant Clovis Exo frame would have been great! Then have it be Anna and Elizabeth who engages the fall of the Morning Star to land the final blow. The Clovis AI frame explodes in spectacular fashion. The Deep Stone Crypt get blown wide open to reveal the Darkness statue. But if you can’t get that, store bought is fine…
Oh man, does this get my speculating gears going. Imagine the version of Clovis AI that remains contains fragments of the re-combined Rasputin AI. Imagine Taniks' consciousness remains from him becoming an Exo and somehow also merges with Clovis. Imagine this Clovis-Taniks AI then attempts to take over the Cloud Ark as a way of gaining access to the Vex network. Bada bing. Bada boom. We have a new existential "big bad", and a possible way for us to get Vex light bearers, via a fragment Felwinter's latent essence within the Clovis AI (as well as maybe any other guardians already trapped within the Vex network).
Clovis communed with the Darkness in the form of Clarity. It could be the Witness but the vision Clarity gave and overall goal of Clovis to make new life doesn’t make sense with the Final Shape turning everything to nothing. Clovis might be led to the Veil where either he might integrate himself to the mind of the universe OR he might question the nature of paracausality and his and all humanities’ place in the universe
I still never understood why Rasputin didn't upload his personality into something else. That way his main link to the Warsats is cut but he himself remains. Also, imagine the future saga of Destiny be reclaiming/defending the worlds of the City Coalition from the Hive, Clovis, and the Vex across different systems and planets of different origin. Taking back Torobotl and Riis prime from the Darkness and defending Sol from Clovis' mechanical armies and potential Vex mind takeover to give him another potential army of Clovis' mind.
On a side note, now that we know both the stories of the Witness and Clovis Bray... I kinda think that the whole thing with Darkness whispering to Clovis was actually the Witness planning to make him a disciple by providing Clovis with a personalized understanding of the Final Shape: a perfect, eternal future for immortal humans where Clovis is the LUCA. His legacy forever secured, humanity once and for all freed from all its ailments. Kinda makes sense, I think. Or it is most likely not a new idea, Im just catching up to deeper Destiny lore later then the others
Ever since seraph I’ve assumed that Clovis is going to be assimilated into the Vex Net and will be the primary antagonist in Echos. The Vex have never really had a good antagonist because they have no personality. But I hope that Echos will follow us having to face a vex force controlled by Clovis with the help of Asher we will get this antagonist in the vex that has actually personality
If there is anyone who could achieve mind-melding like how Maya and the Witness did... it would certainly be Clovis because he literally runs a factory and an entire repository of minds he could replicate and bodies to exploit.
Perfect ad placement. “His personality was one of frustration, determination, and (ad start) STINKY PITS AND FEET?”
What was that an ad for??
@@imbadatgamesree I wish I could tell you but I paused it to write this comment and then skipped it lol. I think some sort of powder cream medicine scam lol
Probably Lumē
I mean.........
I repeat. I WANT THE CLOVIS RAID WHERE HIS HEAD BECOMES A FULL EXO BODY.
That would be badass.
that would be cool as a first phase lol. then we fight him in a vex form. we don't kill him entirely, we just force him away to become a long term bad guy
Just pop his head on Oryx's body and replace the taken with vex and you have your raid. I bet Bungle considered this to save on dev time.
This guy gets it
Portal 2 adjacent raid
Clovis has the Star Power that the Vex have always lacked. If Clovis could merge with the Vex in truth and become his new LUCA he’d be a top tier villain
Vex civil war with Clovis vs the Mya witness-like being
THISSSSS
@@lucaricci1987Asher Mir’s Blue and Bronze Vex fighting against the Red and White Vex of Clovis Bray fighting against the Black and Purple Vex still influenced by Nezerac
And of course, the standard Vex mind just trying to live its life of math
Tbh he’ll always be a joke to me because i expect him to go off on a wall being so godlike meanwhile it’s just a plywood wall.. Calamitous to punch through it I bet
I'd like to point out that the vex formed gangs in the prison of elders. Like we never got to see vex activily fight vex and now I'm wondering what their shit talk sounds like. I can't help but laugh because we know what all the other species sound like speaking English but the vex are pure logic so imagine them having such a break in belief of what would bring about their perfect end that they started beefing with eachother enough to shit talk and have faction wars. We've heard humans that got turned to vex speak broken English but from memory we have not heard pure vex do so
Clovis Bray and the Warmind lore is my favourite in the entire universe, thank you for covering it!
Its the only that was intended. And as soon as bungie leave the Bray's for a season or dlc, story is shit. BeyondLight while having huge issues had an insane collector lore book, the dream of alpha Lupi, K1, Volantis, the birth of exos, birth of vex.... Season of the seraph ending cutscene with Ana hugging Elsie was the last time i felt something in Destiny. Theres so much to do from Clovis egotistical moves and godly ambitions, Elsie not being from our universe, like wtf? Why tf Bungie didnt elaborate on this instead of a random NightCity knockoff?
@@77SBCR i dunno why you felt the need to see someone praise a piece of lore and then just... rant?
@@Lynch2507 its because theyre a bit looney and should be ignored
So fans of D2 are not allowed to critique the game to other fans of D2? 😂 thanks for clarifying the made up rules 👍 @@Lynch2507
On the topic of Rasputin becoming a Guardian, those who played the season of the seraph, after he sacrifices himself, you can hear a faint noise that sounds like the noise a Ghost makes followed by a blue light that they shine when scanning for a Guardian, so him returning as one isn't entirely impossible
Would be a cool callback to the original story for Destiny that ended up getting scrapped in development.
@aviatorengineer3491 that was a cool concept
@@aviatorengineer3491I’m not sure if Rasputin, reborn as a Guardian, even with his memories back, would allow himself to be kidnapped by Xivu or Savvy. But, it would be incredible if he joined us and Caital to take back Torobaital. Maybe a year after he’s been risen, becomes a Gurdian, and gets his memories back, we use Deepsight, or other means, to rebuild the Warsats, the Warsat Network, and other Warmind assets.
Not gunna lie the trope of "everyone who matters and dies comes back to life some way" is lame af and lazy
if amanda comes back before rasputin(and in general) im rioting
One of the little things I've always been curious about is if the quantum snapshot of Clovis's mind happened to include the Vex memetic infection he had. That *might* be the thing that's essentially protected him from the billboarding other AI copies developed before Clovis's discovery of Clarity and the development of Alkahest. As far as we can tell, the Clovis AI isn't in a true exo body and isn't running on modified Vex brain fluid, but Clovis himself was definitely infected and as it's been noted, Vex infection is a tricky thing to cure without a total reset.
If he is infected, we could have an interesting problem on our hands with Clovis Bray, the Insufferable Mind. Finally get a Vex antagonist with a personality, maybe involve Asher and the Ishtar team for some more Vex Network shenanigans. That'd be fun.
really appreciating these hypothetical speculative videos, i feel like they showcase how tangible and well thought out this universe is
I'm waiting for Clovis Ai to either corrupt the exo and make his own Hivemind army OR I can't wait for Clovis Ai to fuse or control the Vex and have his own vex/vexo army
I have a feeling, Clovis will escape his prison on Europa. He’ll end up on Neomuna, see the potential in the city, and may try to use the Veil to usurp the Vex. In order to conquer the CloudArk, and the Vex Network. The Vex AI copy of Maya may try to kill Clovis for getting in her way. While the copies of the Ishtar Collective, may ask for our help, and aid us in ending this war they’ve been caught in. Not to mention, the Neomuni may be in danger as well.
Vexos, ATTACK!
I don't want the exos to be lost to clovis so this is slightly terrifying
K but what about Guardian Exos
It literally ends there
Not happening
But him fusing with the Vex would be crazy Maybe we see some Fighter Vex
If i remember correctly we seen only construction Vex till now
@SKRRTCOBAIN00 imagine if clovis could take control of Saint 14😱
I've been saying it for years since the moment Rasputin had the cutscene saying he rewrote Clovis out of his protocols at the season of the seraph, I knew Clovis would be the main villain after the witness is destroyed and they bring back Siva. It makes perfect sense and the lore is their to confirm it. Can't wait!
That would be something. Has to be Siva somewhere in Clovis' possession. And if he becomes part of the Vex, would take Siva Vex any day!
@@Fenyxclipsoh my god, that gives me a great idea: SIVA construct enemies. Like, SIVA infested Exo Bodies and SIVA infested security frames as the foot soldiers, while the heavy hitters are almost always entirely made of SIVA.
Byf's gone from covering lore, to literally just writing the story for Bungie's narrative team
Byf I respect your commitment to remembering abandoned plot threads, but Lysander is just a vehicle dispenser I think.
I did not expect the stick up his- interesting dialogue from Byf, bro got me good
When episodes come out, it would be cool to see the Vex/Clovis episode that enhances Vex lore while adding Clovis as a villain. It was once stated (by Calus I think) that Vex that are in Sol System right now are mere "gardeners" compared to other Vex, so it would be cool to see a Vex like Asher Mir who has their consciousness, but he's malevolent
@@Justin_Leahythe Vex don’t have the worst lore imo. It’s actually my favorite. It’s just very hard to make them work because they’ve never had a real “character” in their faction. Unfortunately, the reason for that is due to the Vex’s inherent nature. Since they’re robots running off of pure logic, and cannot grasp the illogicality of paracausality, they don’t really have anyone in their ranks, EVER, who we could basically form some kind of a relationship with.
There has never been a Vex that’s basically spoken with us or with other Vex on a regular basis, and the Vex language that we HAVE seen is just gibberish at first sight since they’re so different from us.
We know the true goals of the Vex, but since they are by far the most alien out of all the different aliens, it’s the most difficult to make work and not compromise their “alieness” in a sense.
Honestly I see asher as our tie to the vex as a sort of ally
Also its so nice to see those old Seraph towers again, everyone's favorite activity. Remember?
i actually liked it like all horde modes but it would have been better if it had matchmaking
Still haunted that the one triumph I needed for the title was the flawless seraph tower
Good times honestly
@@Blazuchan I won't say it's the worst but by the Traveler was it tedious.
@@talion4033 That brings back memories. The pain with the teleporting ads/Champions to keep off of the towers.
Bungie Storyboard Writers watching Byf to see waht they should do next
The bray lore is the best story in destiny to me it could be a tv show they should hard focus it again.
Probably because it's part of the original lore.
@@gargathulothhastur4981 ....that's definitely not the reason why it's good.
I will say that the odds of Clovis alligning himself with the darkness (intentionally) or forces like the Cabal is incredibly unlikely. For as much of a psychopath egoist he is his whole thing is about being the savior of humanity, he hates the traveler, the witness, cabal, or anything that might pose a threat to him being seen as humanities god/savior/overlord. I think the real concern needs to be if he aligns himself with factions like the concordant, or other anti city human factions.
Would be really cool if he joined darkness only to gain power,then betray them seconds after, because he's too much of an egomaniac to serve anything
The universe of Destiny is so massive. I think we take for granted how much effort it involves to develop this beautiful universe. I hope this franchise grows even bigger and better over time and I hope it never dies. I hope this game will forever be the GOAT
I still think they should do a golden age show with all his dark dealings and shady secrets sort of in a you format where it makes you appreciate the bad guy
I would love it they did a sorta live event style thing where players who chose Exos as their race would have dialogue and make remarks during gameplay, as if Clovis was attempting to take them over.
Yeah I actually see that happening
I think he knew what he was doing with trying to replace the traveler as he was once had a conntection to the witness to create that vex portal on europa and i wouldnt be suprised if the witness had plans in mind to make clovis be part of the vex of the sol divisive if they somehow failed to access the veil
I feel like if we were to have an expansion dedicated to the Vex, Clovis would have to be the main antagonist.
I think if we see a Clovis storyline it might be reusing some of the material from pre rewrite d1, I really like the idea of Rasputin(as it was at that time) being the motivation and stumbling block to the story
This lore gives me Lyf, thank you Lore King Byf
Byf must be geeking about the skimmer lore tab
I'm so happy this wasn't forgotten. It's been clawing at the back of my mind!
This would actually be a very smart move. Going from an extremely existential threat to a literally human one would be a nice change of pace. We’ve never really participated in any “civil wars” they all happened in the past. Warlords vs iron lords, concordat vs consensus etc. Stories of internal conflict are often the most interesting, it would be even cooler if we saw some guardians side with Clovis.
I would love to see Clovis become an “ultron” of destiny 2 and maybe even somehow have some control over the vex. There for we could have exo/vex hybrids or maybe a faction of the vex switched to tuned up exo body’s. Just spitting out ideas 😀
The Concordat are the ones who sent the skimmers as a gift for the guardians games, which could be just some sort of easter egg, or the next big hint as to what's happening next.
It’s cool to think that the Scorn and now Clovis are making new life with Darkness, something that kills, reduces, and stops in place. This might be our introduction to a new form of Darkness.
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@@nankaq9909 Clovis and Fikrul inkblot kissing cutscene when?
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I think Clovis Bray will merge with the Vex hive mind and become our next antagonist and the face of the Vex going forward. I think the Vex want to assimilate all robot life including Exo's, and their end game is to simulate and create paracasality.
Plus he has the narrative connection with Elsie and Ana who’ve always had beef with Vex
There’s also the Vex AI copy of Maya, the one that went insane with obsession. She may give Clovis trouble, while the Vex copies of the Ishtar Collective, may be the ones to aid us in ending the war between Clovis and Maya. They could be a faction of the Vex, that has learned what it means to feel, and have empathy. They aren’t as closely connected to the Vex hive mind. I imagine Nimbus and Quinn will call for our, and Osiris’ aid in defending the Neomuni. Since they are still living in the CloudArk. Mithraks, Ana, and Elizabeth could also get involved. Considering it’s the Vex and Clovis we’re talking about.
Also remember asher is in the network so there's a opportunity of a split between asher and clovis with the vex and the sol divisive as the 3rd fringe group
Clovis' story in Beyond Light and Season of the Seraph is so freaking dope. Rasputin, Clovis, and Elsie and my favorite characters. Plus, anything related to the Golden Age is immensely interesting. I love the wonder around these characters and stories. I can't wait to see more of them!
Although it would still be a terrible idea, if clovis were to become powerful through overtaking the power of light/the traveler i feel his extreme stubbornness would stop the witness from being able to control him
New Byf vid, lets go!
Bungo REALLY wasted an opportunity to make Exo enemies back in Beyond Light, like imagine fighting a Exos, Constructs(those big robots) and Clovis as the final Boss(something similar to the Human Reaper from ME2) in Deep Stone Crypt!
The memory affecting properties of the Darkness could make Banshee-44 a powerful benevolent genius figure at the end.
The house of salvation could align with Clovis with Taniks walking into the leadership vacuum, and some more possible eliksni exo hybrids. In the same way you mentioned the eliksni possibly worshipping Clovis as an ascended being, I could see Taniks taking up part of that mantle as well.
clovis is just like palaptine, bro is prepping his plan and once the Darkness stuff are put on hold- eliminated. clovis gonna be the villain and say "everything is proceeding as i have foreseen..."
Id like the next few years of destiny to be a bit smaller in scale compared to the all-encompassing conflict between Traveller and Witness. Like, great, weve uncovered the mysteries of the universe. What does that actually do for us and whose gonna take advantage? I'd like to think that after the current loose threads in the Episodes get wrapped up, we start getting some Human antagonists. Concordant, Warlords, all that juicy stuff
Would it be possible that the Vex would try to come in and take CB’s stuff? Of all that factions that would benefit the most from gaining as deep an understanding of the Darkness/Stasis as Clovis did, it’d probably be them right? Dude was able to more or less measure paracausality, the one thing stopping the Vex from beating us
really hope one day you get a chance to finish the Clovis Journals they were cool
Man, i would love to see rasputin arisen and a storyline about helping ana search for him and bring him to the tower
Best parts of destiny's story's and lore happen offscreen...
I think we'll get an episode of Clovis somehow getting his hands on the cloud arc. I feel like that's a story line just waiting to happen
Byf I've always been a long standing viewer, but I think it's awesome to put the content into the shorts format
Also the I got my brother to watch some of your lore videos and he's been asking a lot of questions 😂
Has Byf done a video covering the possibility of Rasputin coming back as an Exo? A Guardian reborn in the Light, and the complications of that in the future? At this point, him coming back, feels like it’d be after the war with the Witness. It feels like he’d be a Warlock honestly. There’s also a number of ways he could get his memories back. If we can rebuild the Warsats, the Warsat Network, and recover other Warmind assets, Rasputin could be a powerful ally in reclaiming Torrobaital from Xivu. We’d need his orbital weaponry to take out her fleet, and War Moons. His Warsats would also be the perfect weapon to disable the Dreadnuaght if Xivu were to salvage its weapon and use it against us and Caital’s fleet.
When I first saw Rasputin die, that was my hope that he would return as a guardian. I think that would be a great move. He was one of my favorite characters.
I think the best way to describe Clovis now is how Zavala described Rasputin back during warmind. Too dangerous to be left alone and too unpredictable to wield or in this case reason with.
Variks did say about Kell leadership when going the through the story of europa.
Clovis and the Concordat teaming up would be interesting because it would be primarily human enemies, or at least human-designed machines. Maybe even hostile Guardians. I'd be super into that.
This has always bugged me. If the Witness needed the Traveller to connect The Veil to enter the Pale Heart. Why would he have so many followers try to destroy it?🤔
I think it was more so the witness didn't know where the veil was until later on, so maybe destroying was plan b until he found where the veil was so they swapped back to plan A, that's the only way I can really rationalize it but yet definitely an odd plot hole
Shit, this made clovis really scary, especially because I always just kinda overlooked him. Never stopped to ask myself what he wants or what he's plotting.
The idea of a resurrected Rasputin seeking out Clovis is a fascinating one, and could be used to introduce something that's probably been in the minds of people ever since Destiny's early days: Evil/Dark Guardians, led by a man seeking to overthrow the Traveler and become a godlike figure in the eyes of Humanity.
If they bring him back it will just highlight that creativity and innovation has parted ways with bungie
Not if they bring him back in a creative way.
IDK who does your subtitles, but recently theyve been aligned to look like its in-game subtitles for the gameplay footage. Nice touch
I could even imagine bringin back asher mir! He is one of the only individuals that I would trust to handle Clovis, especially through his connection to the Vex now.
thankfully Elsie (the stranger) is keeping an eye on him, as per her parting words at the end of the season of the seraph. Keep an eye on her everyone, and on Ana. Those two are both blessed and burdened by their mixed heritage, and they will be the ones who will the one's most wary around Clovis.
I think that we could see Clovis having a way to control the House of Salvation on Europa. With access to the DSC data logs he has the blueprints to not just remake Atraks-2 but Give Taniks a steel chair to bring terror to the universe once again. Atraks-2 could spread the word of clovis and have the powers of Stasis given the darkness statue in the DSC.
Oh shit! I just thought of Clovis helping the Concordat. Making frames and weapons for them, promising to help even the odds and institute a “regime change”.
You forgot one… Taniks, since he was in the DSC maybe Clovis can get access to a brain scan of taniks or something and convince the eliksni to follow.. he may be known as Taniks the repurposed.
Can’t lie the whole DSC and Europa stuff always interested me I wish they made a dungeon of it where we go deeper
I’m kinda Clovis ends up being like Harbinger from mass effect when we fight him… him with an army of exos being all “ I am assuming direct control of this form”.
As far as house salvation leadership goes, I can think of one fallen that always finds a way of coming back from the dead. Taniks
I have always watched your videos for the information but have only recently subscribed. Probably because of the Shorts.
Byfhere's videos are always the best
That clovis shot reminds me of the father bastard from Full metal Alchemist
I think it would be really fucking fun if there were a dungeon or raid in which we fight a fully built giant exo of Clovis Bray. Similar to the Oryx fight where he is leaning over the edge of the battlefield. And maybe we have 3 phases where we have to destroy each of his arms and then his head.
someone in the comments also said something about his merging with the vex and making his own version of them, and I think that would make a very cool enemy to also fight in this raid. Perhaps we discover what he's doing, and break into his factory and try to stop him.
Quick question: season of the witch, Eris kills sacar Huns and takes her powers to become a hive god. Ok, now let’s go back to ghost of the deep. They were trying to bring back oryx. What if that was their plan as well? Bring back oryx, kill him, and xivu takes that power. Maybe that wasn’t as much of a possibility before in gotd, but what about now with civus current position? Not only because she might want to try and get the dreadnaught and take oryx’s throne-world as her own but also take the power to control it. She could also possibly find her hammer again and even use savathuns scalpel as well(I think that’s what it’s called)
the lucent brood has been in firm opposition to xivu’s brood since even before witch queen, xivu would probably just kill them all
The shorts have been fantastic!
With the ahamkara assumed to be coming into play, we might still have to worry about them striking a wish deal with Clovis Bray
Something to keep in mind is that there are rogue guardians. And we've already seen that some exos have sympathetic ideals to clovis. I'm also not fully convinced that we've seen the last of Lakshmi 2 either.
That perfectly cut joke though
Something overlooked about Clovis is he wanted to save humanity & his actions although egotistical were for what he thought would benefit humanity, his family and himself. He wanted rid of the Traveller before the Darkness could arrive and therefore they'd leave Earth/humans alone. Maybe shortsighted but not totally evil. Similar to our Guardians position when using paracausal Light & Dark powers. There's also the fact that the Golden age, ships and tech were influenced by Clovis and still are somewhat by Banshee.
So we have these future threats and potential threats:
Clovis
Xivu
The Vex
Fikrul
And the Witness(for reasons)
Nezarec too.
@@Banana-Boi oh yeah him too
Rasputin as Guardian will be interesting vs Lord Felwinter :D
Anna and Elsie watching as the witness dies just so Clovis can pop up on a holoprojector like “oh fuck off grandpa, Jesus christ”
I believe that if SIVA returns it will be when Clovis reaches that main stage since he created it. I assume he can also control it the way Rasputin did against Felwinter and the Iron Lords.
Im going to assume, if the next major dlc involving vex/exos, hes going to use what remains of the facility to somehow build new exos completely Puppeted to him. Making the building process faster, and perhaps even merging them and himself with the vex, creating the first truly humanized/sentient vex mind, like a weird Ultron concept or model. He'd use his new form to not only gain control of humanity, but as petty revenge against those he now deem as enemies. In the end, if he wins, he is essentially a dictator of the last city if all the "Enemies within" are "Removed" "Cut off"
If this become a major dlc, then Exos or some sort of Puppet sounding name for the Exos to accurately describe their devotion to Clovis could be a formidable technically new enemy race.
You missed a REALLY big option: Otzot and OXA. At this point Clovis is basically a giant angry head and probably wants some form of revenge on the guardians so aligning himself with Otzot and manipulating his way into OXA is the most likely scenario.
Honestly, i think the biggest question is, what happens once/if we defeat the Witness? What incentive does the Coalition have to remain allied once our mutual enemy is shattered and its forces scattered? Cabal might stay if for only to take on the Hive remnants with us, and the Eliksni will either stick with us as the Travelers chosen or follow the Traveler and the Light it moves on. Savathun is equal parts ally and hanging blade, who will most likely only stick with us so long as it's beneficial
A Clovis/Vex DLC would slap so hard.
I could swear i heard leaks like 1 year ago about the return of CB but this time not as Clovis bray but the gunsmith before the final shape or in final shape again it was 1 year ago.
I see Alexander Anderson, Shinji’s dad, and Shou Tucker in this thumbnail
Something that could get nutty is thru some railroaded miracle, Clovis gets uploaded to the CloudArk of Neomuna
The Clovis AI would have been a perfect raid boss. Battling it out against a giant Clovis Exo frame would have been great! Then have it be Anna and Elizabeth who engages the fall of the Morning Star to land the final blow. The Clovis AI frame explodes in spectacular fashion. The Deep Stone Crypt get blown wide open to reveal the Darkness statue. But if you can’t get that, store bought is fine…
Oh man, does this get my speculating gears going. Imagine the version of Clovis AI that remains contains fragments of the re-combined Rasputin AI. Imagine Taniks' consciousness remains from him becoming an Exo and somehow also merges with Clovis. Imagine this Clovis-Taniks AI then attempts to take over the Cloud Ark as a way of gaining access to the Vex network. Bada bing. Bada boom. We have a new existential "big bad", and a possible way for us to get Vex light bearers, via a fragment Felwinter's latent essence within the Clovis AI (as well as maybe any other guardians already trapped within the Vex network).
Clovis communed with the Darkness in the form of Clarity. It could be the Witness but the vision Clarity gave and overall goal of Clovis to make new life doesn’t make sense with the Final Shape turning everything to nothing.
Clovis might be led to the Veil where either he might integrate himself to the mind of the universe OR he might question the nature of paracausality and his and all humanities’ place in the universe
I get Triburos vibes when I witnessed 2:42
Context: He does these cuts a lot in his videos
I still never understood why Rasputin didn't upload his personality into something else. That way his main link to the Warsats is cut but he himself remains. Also, imagine the future saga of Destiny be reclaiming/defending the worlds of the City Coalition from the Hive, Clovis, and the Vex across different systems and planets of different origin. Taking back Torobotl and Riis prime from the Darkness and defending Sol from Clovis' mechanical armies and potential Vex mind takeover to give him another potential army of Clovis' mind.
On a side note, now that we know both the stories of the Witness and Clovis Bray... I kinda think that the whole thing with Darkness whispering to Clovis was actually the Witness planning to make him a disciple by providing Clovis with a personalized understanding of the Final Shape: a perfect, eternal future for immortal humans where Clovis is the LUCA. His legacy forever secured, humanity once and for all freed from all its ailments. Kinda makes sense, I think. Or it is most likely not a new idea, Im just catching up to deeper Destiny lore later then the others
He said the thing!
Could've sworn the thumbnail was of Shou Tucker
Ever since seraph I’ve assumed that Clovis is going to be assimilated into the Vex Net and will be the primary antagonist in Echos. The Vex have never really had a good antagonist because they have no personality. But I hope that Echos will follow us having to face a vex force controlled by Clovis with the help of Asher we will get this antagonist in the vex that has actually personality
OUTSTANDING Bro!!!!!
He is gonna enlist the services of the Skrank Gang.
"Not this mf again"
-Zavala, probably
That thumbnail is DIABOLICAL 💀💀💀💀💀
If there is anyone who could achieve mind-melding like how Maya and the Witness did... it would certainly be Clovis because he literally runs a factory and an entire repository of minds he could replicate and bodies to exploit.
I could see clovis using the remnants of taniks since he's still alive and spewing radiation.