greetings guardians my name is by fear so the last expansion in destiny's light and dark
saga was revealed way back at the reveal for witch queen this expansion is of course called the final
shape needless to say speculation abounds as to what's going to happen generally in this expansion
and the lightfall expansion which will come after witch queen today i wanted to very briefly offer
my take on what the future might hold for us for a little context you need to understand why the name
the final shape is important because the final shape in destiny's law is actually a very loaded
term in the law of the sword logic and the darkness there is a simple rule kill others and
you shall prove your might is greater than theirs by doing so you directly become more powerful and
move the universe towards its ultimate destiny the perfect final shape the ultimate expression
of simple power in the universe at nothing else that may challenge you may exist the final shape
is proof of the darkness's victory it is the proof of the winner's correctness and the gardener's
delicate fallacies when all life in the universe has been extinguished but for the final shape
the darkness will have won and the darkness will have proven its point to see where this expansion
story might be going i think we need to examine a few indicators from the story and the most obvious
one i want to start with is the story direction which bungie has been building the darkness in
the darkness as we now know is of course two different things in destiny's context really
for starters the darkness is actually the powers of the darkness linked to entropy and tied up in
the principles of sword logic it's things like stasis the new element that we've been wielding
for almost a year now but it's also something more behind the power of the darkness there is a voice
an entity of sorts that bungie has been hinting to very much since the beginning of shadow keep
it reached out and spoke to us at the end of the campaign it possessed our ghosts inside the
pyramid it reached out to us in the unveiling law book and its signal from the artifact led us deep
into the black garden it began to communicate with us in the season of arrivals it spoke to us in the
campaign of beyond light as we began to wield the power of stasis it was hinted to on the glycon
and was beheld by mara when she saw what had sent oryx the taken king it is what leads shivuarath
and what wishes vengeance upon savathoon there is a figure behind the darkness whether this is
the winowa or some other creature that lies at the apex of the darkness's unknown power
is currently not known but whatever the case is we now see our true foe this is very much
shaping up to be the ultimate actor as the enemy in the universe this is the thanos to our avengers
if you will the voice behind the darkness is coming and is beginning to show its true face
inevitably this also leads us to the next big hint the name of the expansion preceding
the final shape lightfall if the darkness and the light are headed towards a great conflict
as the indication seems to be i fear that the darkness as is indicated here may actually succeed
there are many instances in which it's been indicated that the city may be destroyed
osiris before he was abducted by savathun beheld that the city would fall in the infinite forest
just as the undying mind was destroyed upon its destruction the traveler suddenly was gone
and above the ruins of the last city stood a massive monolithic pyramid beyond this the
vault of glass has also revealed a vision of the future in which the tower was relocated as part of
an incredible exodus parts and pieces of it were attached to ships and were ferried out deep into
space in a massive convoy it appears that this future isn't necessarily going to pass though
given that the various flags on the structures of the tower and on the ships traveling with it
belonged in some instances to the old factions that have now been disbanded
now unless the factions are returning to the city at some point soon i think this future is unlikely
to pan out but the thing is that there are often similarities between destiny's various timelines
and so it's likely to be the case that a similar version of this timeline
may actually pan out all the same if we learned anything from the season of the splicer it's
that the future can be both predictable in fact as you predicted and yet surprising at the same time
regardless i think the biggest point to gather from all of this is the name lightfall which
is likely to be an event in which the darkness and light come to battle each other once again
and this time i think through some machination one way or another the traveler is going to lose
all of this is going to represent our infinity war thanos snap moment in my mind and i think
it's going to also generate imbalance in the universe this is a moment at which ulantan's
principle of symmetry between light and dark will once again be challenged for those of you
who don't know i refer back to ulaan tan when i talk about the general fate of destiny's universe
a lot it may be my own personal shtick and my own personal bias but i always bring it up because i
think that the comparison is important and is relatively well proven in destiny's universe
for those of you who don't know ulantan was a rather famous or
infamous warlock who proposed that there had to be balance in the universe between the light and
the dark he was effectively made a pariah for this belief but it's better explained by a very
old lortab from the first season of destiny 2. it comes from the symmetry flight ship a ship
that bears the simple philosophy that he stated in its law tab and it reads as follows
i propose a simple experiment look around you see light you see darkness there could not be
one without the other they are two sides of the same coin if it is true for these newtonian echoes
why would it not be true of their purest paracordal forms
therefore i conclude the reason you persecute me is not because of the symmetry
it's because of the truth beyond this truth the truth which you most dread if we could destroy
the darkness but we had to give up our light to do so how many of us would make that trade
this statement this moment in which ulantan challenged the very notion of guardian's existence
is based on a time when we didn't know that the darkness could be wielded by guardians as well
and therefore for the darkness to be defeated we would also need to cease to exist for without
darkness to exist in the universe light should also no longer exist but i think now ulantan's
theory whilst the core principle may still hold correct is now somewhat flawed based on the
account of the fact that we are able to wield the darkness i think that we in this sense may be the
traveller's secret weapon we are its strict proof adapted a strict proof born of our raw of the
potential in our voices we are the stray variable that could change everything and i think this is
going to lead us to the final shape just not in the way that we might initially have expected
my hypothesis is this we as guardians are going to be the final shape and the imbalance that the
darkness will create by destroying or defeating the traveler is going to be returned to order by
us defeating it ulantan's hypothesis of the balance required between light and dark is
what's going to predict this outcome but for the longest time he worked on an incorrect assumption
which was that guardians could only be found on one side of the line between light and dark
we now know this is most certainly not true and the guardians can walk on one side or the other or
walk the line between wielding both darkness and light i predict that guardians now are going
to defy the definition of the final shape as the sword logic and the darkness would dictate it and
we are instead going to create a new final shape i believe that in conquering the darkness we are
going to subjugate it and command both the powers of light and dark as well as the winner and the
gardener by doing this i predict that we are the final shape and we will attain not only balance
in the universe but a position as its ultimate arbiters in a strange way the complexity and
the ability to embrace the light of the traveler and the darkness has proved the traveller's point
that complexity can also lead to strength but in a way we also supersede both the traveler and the
darkness because we have proven that we as the ones who are able to walk between are truly more
than either of them greater than one half of the whole greater even than the sum of both halves
and this i think is our destiny our ability to change the universe is going to be bound up in the
fact that we unlike so many other beings are true paracorsal forces in the universe that are unable
to be influenced by anything other than ourselves if we should attain this final shape in my mind
the actual expansion the final shape will open a door to a time when guardians are able to save the
last city but we will also see a new age dawn where our fate as guardians will be boundless
we'll be astride the universe the arbiters that act to answer a question that has existed since
before time began which is stronger complexity or simplicity in which way can life evolve only by
the pattern of darkness's sword logic or perhaps by the complexity born out of light's bomb logic
we are the answer to this i believe that we in our most empowered state when we fully wield the
power of both light and darkness will be the final answer that's my central prediction to all of this
at least there are a few other things that i would predict will happen in the next few years and in
this expansion it will probably be the point at which lots of these little story ends are going
to be wrapped up as a series of big plot threads come to an end or very least come to a new chapter
i predict that we will indeed build alliances with our strongest allies and work towards assisting
them over the next few years this includes the awoken the elixir of the house of light and the
cabal of caitl's ascendancy we will work towards uniting the elixir houses and we'll see mythrax
become the kell of kells rising again in the light to lead his house as the first elixir guardian i
predict that crow will at some point become worthy of the title of hunter vanguard and will ascend to
a position of power and leadership for the awoken people i believe that we would rejoin the cabal
and face shivoha wrath returning to torah battle forging an alliance between humanity and the cabal
and ultimately leading to a place where we liberate this once war-like people and
enforce upon them a realization of a new truth the cooperation can indeed work as opposed to
endless war and conquest above all i predict that we'll be seeing destiny transition to a game
that reaches beyond our familiar solar system and reaches out into the stars
here i think we may see other worlds that we've heard of before but may never truly have seen
we could visit worlds such as total battle reece fundament the distributory or even the dark planet
where the drifter found creatures of darkness that devoured the light and left ghosts dead as well as
their guardians the final shape is going to be a chapter that opens up the greater universe of
destiny for adventure and i think that there are so many different places we could truly explore
when we are victorious the sky or the deep will be the limit and we will be the new authority in the
universe the adventures are only just beginning but that's all from me for now i hope you enjoyed
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