greetings guardians my name is biff here so the season's new trailer was
launched early by accident and now we know what's going to be happening
not quite what bungie intended if you were intending to remain unspoiled then i've delayed
the launch of this video to the point at which you would have normally seen the trailer according to
bungie's original plan anyway and that is partly because of the fact that launching something so
late at night really wasn't possible i wasn't going to put my editor through that and also
getting it all done this quickly didn't give me a chance for decent analysis so i went ahead and
spent the night analyzing it instead and this video is with you now as a result we're going
to be talking about everything in the video and we're going full-on spoilers you have been warned
we're going to talk about all of this in full so if you want to remain unspoiled leave now
the new season is called season of the haunted and i think one can best describe its aesthetic
as what if we smashed together shadow keep season of opulence and the pressage mission sign me up
before we break down the trailer there are definitely a few key things from the trailer's
description and other places on the internet that kind of do help us go over what was really behind
the trailer and as a result i'm gonna go ahead and cover those now and yeah let's start with
the description on youtube of the trailer which gives us a overview of the season's narrative
driven by an insatiable lust for power kallus seeks the approval of a new master
his once opulent ship now derelict and corrupted has returned to our galaxy its sights set on the
power promised by the pyramid ship lying dormant on the moon as the leviathan forms
a connection with the pyramid nightmares of humanity's past awaken and threaten to torment
any who dare to intervene stare into the abyss and find bravery within the mantle of the reaper
and the steel of the scythe the reaper and cipher thing is going to become much more literal and
you'll see why later in the video this all but confirms that kallus is back in one form or
another as a new disciple of the witness and that he's taken the leviathan and is attempting to use
it to harness the power of the nightmares on luna and to more specifically claim the lunar pyramid
we can even tell that the disciple term here is the correct terminology to use given that the new
twitter ad for the trailer features the tagline the leviathan returns with a familiar disciple
sever the nightmares in season of the haunted so it's pretty much confirmed we may have killed
rolk the first disciple of the witness but other disciples are definitely still out there
seeking revenge on behalf of their dark master even as we speak and it seems kallus
has joined their ranks but that's not all we learned check this out season of the haunted
bungee.net page was also revealed as well as the press pack for the entire thing
images for which you've been seeing on screen as this video has been going on from the bungie.net
page we learned that the launch capabilities of the helm are being brought into effect which means
that finally it has happened ladies and gentlemen welcome aboard the battlestar galactica of destiny
from here we'll be able to start calling zavala helm actual because our new base of operations
literally flies between the stars fantastic and i think something we all anticipated given the way
the helm is structured it looks like the bridge of a ship it looks like a command deck it was always
gonna fly it was just a question of when we also see from these images that the crown of sorrow has
been recovered from aboard the gleichen and is in our possession and that with the assistance
of kaitl's cabal we're guarding it for a dark dark purpose the activities we're getting this season
were also shown off by the looks of it we're going to be getting to experience nightmare containment
which is a larger group activity and sever which is a series of weekly narrative missions
the interesting thing is really what else we learn about these activities from the press pack the
press pack implies that the nightmare containment activity is a public event and that the
nightmarish return of the leviathan is presenting itself as a free roam activity destination hybrid
something where you may be able to jump in and do something more specific or something where you can
free roam the size of it is bound to be smaller and more compact than other destinations
and some of it will be ground that we're kind of retreading given that it is the leviathan
but if it's a whole other destination that's pretty awesome for a season all things considered
the nightmare containment public event is also meant to be scalable according to certain parts
of the press pack and bungie.net which tells me that it can be bumped up in difficulty and level
as we take on stronger nightmares speaking of which whilst narratively nightmare containment
seems like it's more about dealing with the general fears of the guardian populace
sever the weekly missions have a much more personal set of ghosts to confront according
to the law callus is essentially weaponizing the nightmares of the lunar pyramid and everyone
that we face within the leviathan is one that he's less likely to be able to turn against us
one that he will no longer be able to control if we're able to confront it this brings us to
our first major thing that i wanted to break down which is the key art for the expansion
and it shows some of our major characters for the season all together we have eris mawn up top above
the crown of sorrow there but more importantly in the very center we have our three main characters
empress keitel commander zavala and the crow now notice this each of them has a shadow
that they seem to be interacting with or at very least facing i want you all to know now that these
have relevance and that they are shadows that specifically bind to the story of each character
because of their past regrets and hauntings that they represent crows might be obvious crow sees
a ghost that looks all too familiar a nightmare of his former self aldrin sov aldrin is the one thing
he fears and the greatest burden he carries his nightmare is the things he's done in his past that
he feels he needs to atone for and account himself for kaisel sees the ghost of a familiar friend the
voice of her closest military advisor and former mentor that she heard aboard the glicken is back
umuna wrath primus of all legions and kaitl's tutor in war is here to haunt the empress and
her ghost represents not just a lost friend but also failure for the cabal generally and every
failure that kaitel will have to face as she fights to reclaim her home omunarath represents
the burden of kaitl's leadership and the price of her failures but most shockingly of all i think
is the ghost on the right with long waving hair that's facing commander zavala this is nobody
that we've met this is however someone in the law and it's someone incredibly dear and important to
the commander we've not seen them in game but we have read about them in a lore tab or two
we know enough about commander zavala to know that he has lost only one person he cares for in
his entire life his wife zavala married a mortal woman and saw her fall to the advances of time as
best we can tell this is the pain and struggle that every guardian must face immortality is
not kind on the front of love to him this shadow represents the one thing that zavala can never
truly do which is to put down his mantle of battle and live a normal life with the people he loves
and from here there are other bits and pieces from the press back that i wanted to highlight
before we get into that trailer first off from the characters section we can see the presence of
the crown of sorrow in the helm itself this again is something we could see before from the key art
but what we can see is that it's laid out in a screen that implies that it's kind of our vendor
for the season or at very least some kind of thing that we will use to obtain upgrades and focused
gear it also seems to imply that we'll be using its power in a series of seances led by eris this
is liable to be one of our main activities in seva every week as we connect with the nightmares and
then forcibly silence them there's some assets in the press pack that martin's gonna be showing off
as i talk about all of this then we have to take a look at some of the gear that we get namely this
awesome looking armor some of the coolest looking armor that i think bungie's released in a while
which puts us all quite literally in the garb of the reaper and has us wielding a massive
scythe this looks like it's going to be a seasonal relic and it looks absolutely spectacular i don't
think this is going to be a glaive or something that sticks around it seems to share the animation
set for the big hammer of middle tree titans the burning mall and assuming that that is the case
we're probably looking at something that isn't going to stick around past this seasonal activity
in which we get to wield it but either way it's a pretty awesome add-on to the season
and if we do get something even vaguely close to it man that's gonna be fantastic to keep
around as was leaked a while back trespasser has been returned to destiny and it appears that the
exotic sidearm from rise of iron that previously belonged to shiro4 is narratively acknowledging
that it is indeed still tied to shiro4 perhaps we can see him returning soon as well although that's
purely speculative for those of you who don't know shiro 4 by the way shiro 4 was a friend to cade 6
one of the original members of his party of close hunters including andal braskin himself
and also our main point of contact for the siva crisis in rise of iron alongside lord saladin
and tyra khan we also got a look at returning season of opulence weapons including beloved al
stringer the baroque drang the baroque miter mini tool and a few new seasonal weapons that don't
bear any resemblance to anything else exciting to see all of these because well there's a great
deal of variation with them there are a bunch of images of the leviathan in the first story mission
and the frame roaming counter of the leviathan is also pictured but i'm gonna go ahead and
leave those untouched as there's nothing that immediately stands out with particular
narrative reference and relevance but it is something i'd want to leave for you all to see
in the missions when you play them so yeah we're not going to touch on those just yet
now though at long last we're going to pick up on the trailer and i'm going to pick out a few
key moments here and we'll pause at each one here we get another look at eris conducting a
seance with us commander zavala and the crow in tow it goes full on possession mode with aerys
literally being lifted up into the air and we also see a dark artifact here glowing red
i wonder whether this is eris's clutch aka the ahamkara bone that has always been referred to
by the rest of us as her pet rock something that allows her to harness the powers of darkness
including the powers of stasis now something that is infused with an ahamkara's wish magic
and something that kept her alive in her tangle with crota and the brood on the moon furthermore
it seems to be tangled up and glowing red now and i wonder if this is a specific artifact that is of
aerys's invention or at least in eris's perception but it seems like it taps into the nightmare
energies from the pyramid on luna quick additional note on this little eldritch artifact thing that's
used in all of the terrifying rituals that eris is undertaking yeah uh someone sent me something
early in the morning just before i was about to go to bed after having recorded all of this yeah
that's not actually eris's rock at all that is the heart of the touch of malice
that's the ravenous heart that is all that remains of oryx if that image is correct
so yeah this just got a whole lot more complicated i have so many questions and that is fascinating
here we see zavala crowe and keitel all facing their respective nightmares and again there's
that red artifact amongst each of them i think it's clear that banishing these nightmares will be
the focus of each week's sever missions and every week we are either going to be preparing for or
conducting the exorcism of one of these nightmares we see throughout the whole trailer as well that
the leviathan is also overrun by scorn who i think are probably the main foe of this expansion
they are clearly possessed by darkness and are clearly under kallus's command now we also see
that there are similar growths on the leviathan to the ones that we saw on the glycon these kind of
strange tentacle-like plants this is actually something potentially of relevance because it
tells us where the leviathan might will have been which is well in the company of the witness
and down into what was described as the anomaly with regards to the glycon it's been to the
darkness dimension that the witness maintains these plants also tend to grow out of death
which means that more often than not not only have they been brought there because of the presence of
the witness but they'll also feed on anything there that has died and it makes me wonder was
there anyone aboard to the leviathan when it was used if so that has terrifying potential
we still don't fully understand those growths and perhaps more importantly we still don't understand
everything to do with them but it's well they're never a good sign it's a little bit like seeing
a corpse that's been chewed on by a zombie you know it's telling finally i want to draw your
attention to this moment in the trailer as we can see here on the right aerys is standing there but
there is glowing green energy that seems to be flying up to the red more of the leviathan here
it's a smaller detail but i wonder if it holds any significance of any kind the green pulsating
energy is something that generally seems to come from the cracks on luna which were
formed as a result of crota sort of smashing it and leaving those scars permanently on the moon
those scars seep upwards from the hive below and contain some of their energy but it's questionable
whether that is the same interaction or whether it's just some kind of ominous nonsense that's
going on on the moon i don't know if there is more to it but it's worth remembering that in these
last few moments aerys also does say that this is the beginning of the end i don't know what's
going on with that but that's a pretty ominous and final sentence and i do wonder if this leads us
some ways towards the plot of lightfall remember everything now is beginning to build up to that
next expansion which queen is over and lightfall is about to begin and so everything we're doing
is now the prelude to lightfall and i for one am very excited to see where that takes us
so that's been the breakdown of everything to do with the season of the haunted i'll be playing
day one on stream with barbaric ham on his twitch stream that's twitch.tv barbaric ham that'll be
linked down below i'll have more content this week as time progresses too there will be a lot to talk
about inevitably and yeah i'm gonna go ahead and do probably the first impressions of the season
video tomorrow so that we can keep content rolling and from there it'll be more specific lore stuff
going forward saint jude charity stream that i'm doing is going to be live on the 6th of june
at p.m eastern standard time please go ahead and show up i'd greatly appreciate that
help us support the kids at st jude children's research hospital and help us raise money for
the gcx charity stream as per usual you guys understand that that's a really important part
of the year and we always do it very very happy to do so as well so many thanks on that front
but as per usual know that your viewership is quite enough for me i will see you all in
the new season and my name has been my name is bife perodasia ardastra i'll see you star side
you