greetings guardians my name is by fear so which queen is around the corner and i imagine that
some of you might be looking to catch up on the important core lore and story that you
need to know before release consider this video to be just that a little primer for witch queen
and a sort of directory for where you can go for your best sources as well if you're a veteran
player there is one thing in particular that i'm gonna go ahead and recommend well two things but
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now if you're a veteran player i'm going to assume that you've already played enough to at least know
who savvathoon is and regardless of whether you've been around since destiny 1 and the taking king
expansion or whether you've only played in destiny 2 i'm going to assume that you at least have some
idea of who savathun is if you're a veteran player if you do then i'd recommend going and
watching the interactive trailer for destiny 2 witch queen which i'm linking down below
the trailer is interactive because it has notes that you can click on which will pause the video
and expand on the topics that are discussed it gives you context on sabathun oryx fundament the
worm gods savathun's throne world the deep sight ability and a neat little theory on how the hive
guardians might have been created using light that was stolen from the savathun's song strike back in
the beginning of destiny 2. all things considered if you're completely new once you've familiarized
yourself with destiny's law and story even just a little this trailer is very much worth doing so
if you're a new player still go ahead and check that out at the end of this video it's a great
primer for anyone who wants to get up to date with the core story elements as soon as possible
it's so good that i actually for once don't want to break it down or do anything from it
my chief recommendation is simply go there take a look for yourself and start to understand it's
brilliantly presented and i really applaud bungie for doing something like this it's not exactly a
perfect previously on destiny type thing but it is really close it's the next best thing and honestly
even if we did get a previously on destiny type deal as a trailer or as some kind of introduction
to the witch queen i'd still recommend making these because it's a really cool format now
there's also those of you who may have no idea who the witch queen is who savathun is what's going on
and who may be jumping into destiny for the first time and to those of you who are veterans i'm
going to apologize if the information i'm about to talk about is retreading some ground which
you might have already covered but i consider it important especially with new people coming in
to really think about the basics and to consider some of the new players that are just arriving in
the game for the first time to them i say welcome and that this section of the video is very much
for you we're going to go over some of the truly core destiny basics here and get you up to speed
if you've never played before and need a true introduction to everything i'm not gonna make this
too long because i have a wealth of other videos that go into full detail and i'll be recommending
something longer and very cinematic at the very end something that will be out in a few days so
let's talk about the core premise of destiny's story destiny's story is one about the forces of
light and darkness in a constant struggle the light is commonly represented by the traveler
whilst the darkness is commonly represented by the pyramid ships also known as the black fleet
however there are other powerful champions of darkness and light that have made an impact upon
the conflict and upon the story of destiny whilst we the guardians are champions who are generally
tied to the powers of the light there is another set of champions that fight for the darkness
a race of genocidal aliens known as the hive for generations they were led by the osmium dynasty
a trio of siblings who set their species on the dark path to become those crusaders for
darkness the dark entities they made the pact with are known as the worm gods and the three
siblings after having made this pact would ascend into godhood themselves those three were known as
oryx the taken king savathun the god of cunning and lies and shiva arath the god of war back in
destiny 1's taking king expansion the guardians one of whom you might have played canonically
killed oryx and this sent the whole of the hive into disarray you see oryx was the greatest
amongst their number he had communed directly with the entity behind the darkness itself
and had a unique power the ability to create the taken or at very least an ability linked to him
by the darkness which allowed him to create and control the taken he had led the majority of the
hive for a very long time and his death created a power vacuum within hives society and invited
the possibility for either shiva or wrath or savathun to step into the position of a sovereign
savathun was assumed to be the one making a more concerted play for the throne for a long time
and thus the title of witch queen slowly began to manifest on her shoulders
however after oryx's death she went into hiding to make an effort to strategize
you see oryx's death was a truly unprecedented event it proved that the hive and the darkness
weren't ultimately the arbiters of the universe and its fate which for the longest time they had
believed given that none before them had been able to stand against their genocidal campaigns
and also there's a lot more to do with that particular belief that's tied up in
philosophy and the nature of the darkness but ultimately let's just make the important point
that savathun understood that the light had power as well as the dark and that the dark
was not the supreme arbiter of the universe from here the strategizing really began for savifun
as she worked over the course of five years to expand her presence quietly in our solar system
she took out other rivals within the hive that might have continued oryx's line she gathered
intelligence using the taken she tried to prevent us from obtaining the powers of the darkness and
she even infiltrated the guardian's home in the last city and the core of our leadership known
as the vanguard by possessing one of our closest allies osiris in doing this salvathon was able
to weaken us from within and to pave the way for what happened in the season of the lost
during this season salvathoon struck a bargain with marisol the queen of the awoken of the reef
marasov is a key figure within destiny's politics and is an ally of sorts to the city although she
is quite deliberately very cold and very aloof the bargain that marasov struck with savifoon
was that she would free her from her worm the worm that savathun had devoured when she made
the original pact to become a god you see this was one of the conditions of that original pact
the young worm larvae children of the worm gods had to be devoured in order for the hive to obtain
immortality and escape from their otherwise short lives however these worms forever tied
the hive as a species to darkness savathun having freed herself from the worm would then promise
assistance against the darkness to all those who had helped her this was however a bargain that
mara accepted knowing full well that savaphun was going to betray them and not uphold her end of the
bargain completely this of course being exactly what you'd expect from a god of lies and cunning
one who more than once had dealt a great deal of pain to the awoken people and even to mara solve
personally not to mention that we guardians had a stake in ensuring that savathun was killed too
given that her possession of osiris had been revealed as her effectively holding him hostage
she had promised to return osiris when all of this was said and done and we were there as well
as osiris lover saint 14 in order to ensure that if savithoon didn't uphold her rent of the bargain
that she would be promptly destroyed so in order to accomplish this and to excise savathun's worm
we would need to gather a group of mara's closest and most powerful allies from amongst the awoken
forces they were known as the tequilas and a group of them which is known as a coven
was effectively held captive by the forces of the darkness and shiva wrath as they were
hiding within the ascendant plane and the forces of the darkness were hunting for them using their
combined might when they had all been rescued we were able to exercise the worm of savathune
however before mara could strike against her the witch queen fled it appears now that the witch
queen has taken the light's power turning her back on the darkness completely and on her sister shiva
wrath the greater hive swarm and the worm gods who gifted her with her power to begin with have
also been betrayed by this action perhaps one of the strangest surprises of all is that savifun
actually upheld her end of the bargain and did return osiris to us and so our mission in the
witch queen expansion begins but what are we going to be doing our mission is going to be to delve
into savathun's throne world to defeat her and to take back the light but what is a throne world
well throne worlds are pocket dimensions that powerful creatures in destiny can use
to cheat death they're also crafted in the image of their creator or according to their creator's
designs if you are killed in the physical universe you will be reborn again in your throne world and
it's only within that throne world that you can truly be killed for those of you
who understand the idea of dnd and glitches and their phylacteries it's a fairly similar concept
with the difference being that the phylactery is an entire pocket universe within it
and you would need to enter the phylactery and kill the individual who wields it within in order
to ensure their final death savathun's throne world by its very nature being the throne world
of a god of lies and deception is built on lies and deception and holds a vast number of secrets
but more so than this it represents a strange tale of a creature that for so long was one
of the greatest avatars of darkness that rejected that power and has chosen the light
there are run-down and disrepaired areas that more commonly reflect that dark past and a gleaming new
city of pearly white that now reflects savathun's present state as a creature that has learned the
power of the light even though she is one we would most certainly not call a friend
sir thune is the most powerful enemy we've ever faced not least due to her hive guardians and
the terrible power that they'll also be able to wield by the way did i mention that she's created
versions of the hive that are also able to wield the light just like her which will represent
powerful combatants with powers equal to our own some of them can even be seen as mirrors to us
but what furthermore is this something bigger is a foot and it seems somewhat subtle at first
savathun's betrayal of the darkness has pushed us to further embrace the darkness and its power
we did so previously in beyond light where we learned the power of our first darkness subclass
known as stasis and ultimately decided that we would use the power of the pyramids for good
even if they weren't planning on having us use it that way savathun's betrayal of the darkness and
us embracing the dark powers such as deep sight even further has put an interesting
dynamic of power at play now us and the darkness are on the same side to a certain extent as far
as savithoon is concerned the lines between friend and foe are starting to blur as are
the lines of morally good and evil the light given that it embraced savithoon in some respect
is not necessarily good and its power is being used for evil in her hands but the darkness is
now being embraced by us and we are using it for good there is now a greater degree of moral gray
in destiny's universe than there's ever been but there's something even more troubling than that
savafoon wouldn't have chosen to abandon the power of the darkness without good cause
she's one who plans and plans and plans for years and years and years for millennia and millennia
and millennia and in order for her to choose something so dramatic as to betray the darkness
and to earn the ire of her sister her species her former gods and even the darkness itself
tells us that there's something far bigger afoot savithoon doesn't do anything without
cause and i think that she is playing a far bigger game than anyone potentially realizes
it may even be the case that she is attempting to ascend beyond the war between light and dark
entirely whilst we are playing a game of chess maybe she has gotten up and left the room entirely
but that's all from me for now i hope you found that useful and if you did and you want to
hear more of it go ahead and stick around on the channel in particular stick around for the 21st of
february on the 21st of february i'm going to be releasing dynasty the dynasty is a cinematic movie
style telling of the entire story of savathun using 3d ant 2d animations some fantastic art
and an incredible cast of voice actors and some fantastic sound design hopefully it's something
that you'll all enjoy and it will be something that will give you all a better idea of the
story of savithoon going into witch queen this is gonna be something that i hope really excites
you all and it's something we've worked on for a year basically so if you are looking forward to
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