greetings guardians my name is biff here so for the last five years or so destiny 2 has
been bugged by persistent mystery who is nazarec the name has only appeared a handful of times in
the law but because it appears on one of the most popular warlock exotics in the game it's
really stood out nesrick's sin is the helmet in question and it's a helmet that specifically
attunes one to void energies giving you faster ability regeneration when void kills are obtained
it also describes someone or something called nazarek this helmet was the beginning of our
mystery five years ago but where it leads us more recently maybe something that helps us
to properly crack open the mystery of who nezurek is so let's start at the beginning
what do we know about nazarek from nezurek's sin well the lord tab tells us the following
he is that which is an end and he shall rise again passage from of hated nazarek
a pre-golden age text he is that which is end that which covets sin the final god of pain the purest
light the darkest hour and he shall rise again when the guiding shine fades and all seems lost he
will call to you fear not all he offers is not as dark as it may seem vanessa wreck is no demon
but a fiend arch and vial in ways unknown he is a path and a way one of many and his sin so wicked
so divine is that he will never cower when dusk does fall but stand vigilant as old stars die
and new light blinks its first upon this fated eternity passage from of hated nezurek this is the
first time we saw any mention of nazarek ever and the nature of this being has troubled and evaded
us ever since nobody is easily able to decipher what nezurek is but it seems clear that there is
a touch of evil or malice to them maybe not the same kind of evil or malice or even darkness that
we know given the way that he is described as the final god of pain which is the purest light and
the darkest hour the passage almost seems to double down on this twisted divine imagery
by telling us that nezurek will stand as old stars die and new lights blink their first i was never
really sure what nezurek was for a long time but long ago when i first read this i assumed
there had to be some kind of malicious presence within the void that feeds off pain and suffering
the second mention of nezurek was in passing when forsaken and the drifter arrived on the scene we
saw the introduction of new law that investigated the drifter in his nature these investigative
notes were made by none other than the wielder of the last word the gunslinger himself
shin malfur he mentions the drifter and talks about how he consistently spouted strange rumors
about where he'd been some of it must be true and some of it must be lies but none of it is clear
it's from here that we get our second tantalizing note of nezurek with the following passage
by chance he and i crossed paths in a neutral setting didn't give me his name
just called himself a drifter told him if that's how it was he could call me
pal he laughed at that got comfortable got all kinds of open about where he'd been
what he was hauling even dropped a tip on where an old friend of mine was hiding i still wonder if
he knows who i really am he told me he left the system as soon as he was risen not immediately
sure had to get his bearings find a ship get it fit get it flying but soon as he was good as gone
drawn to the outer he says i can appreciate he says he's seen the deep side of jupiter
being to the core minds of saturn name drops old myths no one's heard the louvial crux the shift
chasms below elios the fourth tomb of nezurek goes on about the idols of lower cell the treasure of
exodus prime the solar engine of dead star six i think he's making most of it up but he's got
relics and etchings he's got materials not of this system odd metals obsidian flames thought engines
edible null cakes and a stuffed something that looks like a rabbit biofused with a cephalopod
he keeps all of his stuff to himself his gets he calls them if they're for show
they put on a great one but to what end a renegade's observations of a drifter
we know for a fact that the drifter has visited various locales that aren't necessarily within
our system or within the star charts of places we know and has found a number of mysterious entities
places and strange beings far out in the darkness tainted with dark energy
whether the drifter is telling the truth or not is unknown but the mention of the fourth tomb of
nezurek is bound to have caught the eyes of many this truly didn't add much to anything
with our investigation but the drifter talks as though it's an established set of locations
though we know nothing of any such tombs in any other records it may simply be that the tombs of
nezurek don't exist or they could be an integral part of the story going forward for years it
seemed the trail had gone cold but then something happened in this season that changed all of that
nazarek was name-dropped on a weapon not just any weapon though a glaive that might seem like
nothing at first and i'd understand that being everyone's first instinct but glaives have a
chronology in destiny and a history to them that really helps us to place them within the narrative
guardians have only been wielding glaives for about three months as of this point in time
and it's all thanks to the actions of the witch queen savathun that we even have one
their design is specifically based upon rulk's own weapon lubrey's ruin a glaive of distinctly
lubriant design and something that has been stolen from his mind by savathune and given to us
something that could only be shaped by the relic on mars any glaive that existed before our first
glaive the enigma is likely to have been tied in some respect to the influence of the first
disciple of the witness rulk and so this is where our clues really start to come together take a
listen to the lore tab from the new glaive which tells us all sorts of hints to start working from
rise disciple and bear this gift with pride rulk disciple of the witness
wisps of soul fire swirl amid the geometric growths of stasis that jut from the dusty cavern
floor the sundered remains of hive nights and thrall frozen within the crystals detritus of the
recent battle crunches under aerys boots ahead the stark angles of the lunar pyramid rise before her
red phantoms hang in the air and shimmer like specks of dust against its enormity raising her
ahamkara bone to her lips eris blows across its surface as if she were extinguishing a tiny candle
the world around her blurs and bends then she is elsewhere the heart of the pyramid a veiled statue
towers over eris vaguely feminine in form though she is not convinced of its apophenian silhouette
she raises her soulfire shrouded ahamkara bone again stasis encrusts its surface much as it had
years ago when she first harnessed such power iris turns to inspect the vast interior of the pyramid
it is quiet it is dead not unlike the one in savathun's throne world
her eyes narrow she clutches the ahamkara bone in her hand again and she is elsewhere
a chamber it is cavernous it is dark strange bisected statues of stratified minerals line
the cathedral-like walls and culminate at the far end before a yawning opening that empties
into perpetual nothingness on the floor a length of unidentifiable metal caked in centuries of dust
catches her eye a glaive iris lifts it into her hand striations of red illuminate on its surface
and throb like a heartbeat the glaive's power feels faint distant and yet
an ember of something terrible still burns within where are you heiress whispers into the air
there is no reply suddenly from both the flavor text and the lore tab we can start
to see something significant this glaive which heiress found abandoned for centuries was a gift
from rook to a disciple and so i wonder is it possible that this is exactly what nezurek is
a disciple of the witness it would potentially make quite a lot of sense given the description
of nazareth as a god of pain but then there are a slew of other questions that we must ask
firstly why was the glaive left abandoned for so long secondly can we put any credit to the
idea of nezurek's tombs existing and thirdly does nazarek have an agenda that is so easily stated
as being there when pain is caused or gaining some kind of power from pain
if so we need to start asking a few more questions and to really understand what all this might mean
aerys seems content enough to seek out the power of the being that is distant and tied
to the glaive it makes me wonder something that needs to be clarified as speculation
but i will lend it to you all the same because i don't see any harm in it
this is my theory what if nazareth was indeed a disciple at some point and what if nezurek
then defected from the witness's cause a god of pain would desire the continuation of life as pain
exists across all life perhaps this would be cause enough to first take up the cause of the witness
and then when it seemed as though the witness was about to wipe all life from existence abandon it
if nezurek was gifted a glaive it would potentially have been a moment where nezurek
was trusted as a worthy disciple of the witness but if the glaive has been left abandoned for
hundreds of years something may have changed it makes me wonder if these tombs of nezurek are a
testament to the final fate of this entity whether they defied the witness in search of more life to
see pain inflicted on and ultimately were brought low no matter what the case may be heiress would
not seek them out without good reason and the presence of a glaive alone is a fascinating enigma
that in this context is bound to hold significance in some manner at very least i feel safe in
believing that there is a tangible link between nazareth and the disciples of the witness
whether this is the case or not is something to still be uncovered but it is our best lead so far
who is nezurek will we find out it's unclear but in these last few seasons a pattern has emerged
we first fought against rulk in the pyramid who was leading the assaults on savithun's throne
world and dethroned him the first disciple of the witness this season we are facing against
kallus a disciple of the witness as well one who is bringing the cabal and scorned forces
above the leviathan to bear and to fight against us there are others in the dark future law book
who allied themselves with the witnesses cause namely beings such as eremis if this is a trend
and a pattern and if we do see aramis rise as a third disciple who's to say we wouldn't be able
to interact with a fourth we have no idea who a fourth disciple might be but it's entirely
possible that the name nezurek might come up again and it might not be such a long wait this time
we'll have to see in the meantime though thank you so much for watching and i do hope you enjoyed
this video if you did go ahead and leave a like and let me know your own thoughts and speculation
on who nezurek is down below what do you reckon do you think there's any credible note about them
potentially being a disciple do you think that they did abandon the cause of the witness do
you think that they're still loyal to the witness what are your own thoughts i'm intrigued to know
this is a really open-ended piece of law and i don't think anyone truly has the answers of course
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and that in the meantime my name has been my name is bife parodasia arastra i'll see you star side
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