greetings guardians my name is biff here thus far we've had no time to really discuss the season
of the risen which of course is the season that comes along with the witch queen and is
very much tied together with it which is a good thing today i wanted to jump in and talk about one
of the bigger overarching themes within it i don't want to use today to talk about what's being torn
from the minds of the lucent hive i don't want to talk about the dead messenger mission and i don't
want to talk about the evolving alliance between the tower and the cabal ascendancy these are
all topics i want to cover for sure but not today today to start i wanted to begin by talking about
an evolving relationship that is going to be important to the dynamic of this season and
its overall moral storytelling that of course is the evolving relationship between saladin and crow
they are forming up to be an unlikely geo a mentor and a mentee is the kind of
relationship that they are beginning to form and it's very clear that this has been signposted in
the law for a while now if you look back at the latest sets of iron panorama that were released
last season it becomes very clear all of a sudden that crow and saladin are going to get paired up
and of course now here in the season of the risen we see it for the first time properly this week
that relationship as mentor and mentee was really getting fleshed out a whole lot more and it starts
with crowe really having to be taught a few vital lessons by saladin on the complicated nature of
mercy i want to start today with a simple preface of one of the bigger themes of this season
and that quite generally is finding a moral code within the shades of grey that now permeate the
universe of destiny in this instance both crow and saladin believe in an absolute good of some
kind or very least have a moral code that's very clearly defined in each case both crow and saladin
believe that the other's perspective is lacking for something saladin has lived for a long time
as a guardian and an iron lord and a light bearer and has endured the hardship of the dark ages seen
the collapse of the iron lords seen us arrive at the last city seen the red war and the taken war
he's seen so much conflict and over all of this long time he has found time to decide what he
thinks morality looks like and what the right choices should be it's a very clearly defined
moral narrative for him crow however is different even with his memories of aldrin being somewhat
restored by savathune he sees himself in a place where he can only call his experiences
limited and has formed a view that some would call naive and others would call compassionate
his memories of the sins of the past life he led weigh heavily upon him and i think they
now inform many of the actions that he takes for crow the work he does now in many ways
are a rejection of those past sins and essentially are his commitment to walking a better path
all of this comes to a head within the scissorium a new asset that we have for the season of the
risen within this place the efforts that we have put forward in the psyops battlegrounds come to
a culmination during those psyops battlegrounds what we do is we enter the mindscape when we have
weakened a hive light bearer enough both they and us are teleported in there by the imperial optus
scions which kaitel deploys alongside us when we are within the mindscape we face against
them and their light and when defeating them and crushing them they are left without a worm or a
ghost but the thing is they're not allowed to simply die the scions then take them and
keep them in a sort of vegetative state a limbo between and from here their minds can be scanned
sifted through for information and evidence and in time more details can be discovered this is
a holy gray area for the vanguard and for morality generally even if zavala has been assured that the
hive in this state don't feel pain it's wrong some could debate quite easily holding your enemies in
a state of not death and not life some might call that torturous i'm not quite sure if that
is the case or not i really don't know how i feel about it and honestly i don't think anyone in the
tower is quite clear on it either crow raises this point with saladin in the scissorium and the two
moral perspectives of these two guardians begin to clash in the exchange we also get a fantastic
cutscene where salandin demonstrates his view of mercy and what it really means take a listen
do you think it hurts hurts i could feel savathum behind my eyes and she reached into my mind
what do you think these high feel when we reach into theirs
i also find the scions met it's unsettling but they can uncover savathun's plans more efficiently
than i ever could better to just put them out of their misery title believes these hive might
hold deeper secrets do not make the mistake of thinking these things deserve your sympathy
even though they have the light maybe you were the wrong person to put on this assignment they
may be our enemies but this feels like a new low for the vanguard for zavala watch your mouth you
knew i'd see zavala as some toothless diplomat but you wouldn't believe what he sacrificed to become
the man he is someone who will make the hard choice and make sure his people understand why
and i can't wait to hear the speech about all this
you want a speech today the vanguard did what had to be done mercy prevailed
speech over say it a little louder i don't think this guy could hear you
this doesn't look like mercy to me then you're not looking hard enough
long ago even before there was a last city i was deep on patrol in the old forest
when a local villager sought me out they asked me to catch a thief i told them the iron lords were
no mercenaries but i saw their pride as well as their poverty when they offered me a loaf of black
bread instead of coin i agreed just before sunrise i caught my thief a young girl stealing what she
could carry food when she could find it coin when she couldn't weapons to protect what she had taken
there was no fear in her eyes she said the bandits in the forest
ordered her to steal in exchange for protection the penalty for theft in those times was death
instead i pulled the crest from around my neck and pressed it into her hands
i told her the wolves would protect her
in a settlement rich with stolen supplies i found the bandits and cut them down
38 lives to spare one and for a time i believed that was mercy
many winters passed before i found myself back in that part of the old forest
this time no one sought me out i sought them instead
wind blew through rotted wood and rusted metal where the village once stood and behind it
graves then piled stones then bare mounds of earth and then
a pit my blood was high i tore through the forest hunting for those responsible
finally in a settlement rich with stolen supplies
i found her a lightless woman with my crest around her neck there was no fear in her eyes
she spoke plainly when the villagers could no longer tithe her wolves no longer protected them
she bled them dry and when they had no more to give she sent in her men unleashed her wolves
mercy to an enemy cannot come at the cost of mercy for their victims the right path isn't always easy
to find but once you do the only question is whether you're strong enough to walk it
consider that the next time you feel pity for our enemies
after the group breaks saladin and zavalam have more commentary on crow and his disposition
thanks to the helm's communications did you assure him that they aren't suffering
it was a stupid question cylidon there's no answer i could have given that would satisfy him
it doesn't matter whether or not they suffer if they're alive or dead or something in between
he sees himself in them like he sees himself in aldrin how do you know this i asked kyle
scion grow radiates pain he said he's the one suffering and in a way his ghost can't heal
i know what self-loathing feels like this isn't anything like
you're stronger than he is and who helped me find that strength when i was at my lowest
crow is grieving for himself for the innocence is lost for the price of the truth he's going
to hurt himself or worse hurt someone else you've always been more than a soldier seldon
you're a protector so protect small side note i do wonder if when zavala talks about the lowest
time in his life there if he's talking about kade but i honestly think it might have been
to do with something else namely the death of his mortal wife someone who he had to let go of
someone whose death might still potentially haunt him by the way let me know if you knew
that zavala had a wife it's a detail that was only briefly discussed within the season of the splicer
anyway crow and saladin are both going through what i think is a degree of learning this season
zavala is helping saladin to learn that he is indeed capable of teaching crow
and also that crow is not necessarily in the wrong but also saladin is helping crow to understand
where mercy truly lies and also is maybe teaching him to understand who deserves mercy
it's a strange balance that both sides are going to have to perform and ultimately i
wonder if there is a middle ground the nuance and complication of this entire storyline
is something that inevitably will be straightened out but it's honestly something where the answer
might not be as simple and maybe that's the conclusion that our characters will come to
maybe when they've been pulled in so many different directions by duty or what they
believe is right maybe they'll come to a point at which they're able to sort those
strands out and figure where their morality should truly be maybe it's simply the case that
no answers arise from this but the mutual respect that crow and saladin might build over the season
will eventually bring them to disagree with each other but respect each other for that disagreement
it's something that i genuinely don't know as far as what i think the story direction is going to be
with the season of the chosen it seemed pretty clear that everything was going to come to a
head and that crow was eventually going to have his identity revealed whether he wanted it to
happen or not with the season of the splicer it seemed fairly clear that we were moving towards
a big altercation with quaria at least correa when corey was revealed before it seemed very
likely that we were going to be able to unmask a whole bunch of stuff to do with the vex domain and
with the entity that was behind all of this which of course turned out to be salvathoon
these were in their own ways fairly simple stories and overall they did have big nuanced moments to
them which you can see easily with things such as the achilles weaves a cocoon law book in season of
the splicer or perhaps the stories of the empress keital and her rise to power and how desperate the
situation for the cabal really is all of these stories had their degrees of nuance and they all
had their different delicate story moments which ultimately could be unpacked into something more
complex but it was also easy to see where they would ultimately arrive as far as a big conclusion
is concerned but with this for the first time i have no idea where everyone's going to go
it could honestly be the case and it might be something like this that it would end up
with us seeing a story where crow and saladin completely reject each other's notions of morality
in the long run and choose to begrudgingly work together in no cooperative sense in a sense of
simply they have been ordered to do so and they will maybe they genuinely can't see eye to eye
it's going to be a really fascinating storyline to see and honestly i don't know how this works out
but it only makes me more fascinated to wait and see especially given that saladin's look
into the past has given us a very clear idea of where he stands having said all of that
that's going to be all for our video today if you have enjoyed though i have one request
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