greetings guardians my name is biff here so there's a weapon out there that my warlock
friends in particular have gotten a lot of use out of i'd say the osteo striga this weapon is
forged from the resonant engine that you can find in the enclave on mars and of course it's
the same resonant engine that we used to craft the enigma and to say that this thing is powerful is a
dramatic understatement this thing is devastating with the catalyst it can chew through big targets
and small targets alike in a matter of seconds but you see there's a way that you can make this thing
even more devastating because it synergizes directly with the warlock exotic known as
necrotic grips to make those explosive poison bursts even more deadly as they spread like a
plague through the entire crowd this is all well known to destiny veterans i don't need to explain
the gameplay mechanics of that to you there's other great channels out there who do exactly
that but what you might not know is that there's lore that connects these two exotics as well
and it's from some of destiny's most terrifying elements and that is what we're going to dive into
today so what is the connective law tissue that thread that ties both this exotic necrotic grips
and the osteostriga together well if you've got an understanding of destiny's law then you might
be able to see the way that osteostriga connects to the law of a certain infamous hand cannon yes
this is related in a sense to thorn and how can we tell well for starters i mean look at it
if weapons of sorrow have an aesthetic that we see on thorne then you can bet your bottom dollar that
this is a weapon of sorrow too thorne's baby brother perhaps but there's more to a weapon
of sorrow than merely a gruesome aesthetic so let's go over what they are super quickly
the weapons of sorrow are best described by a really simple idea they are human implements of
war that have been corrupted and twisted by hive magics this is best explained in the old grimoire
card for necrochasm one of the two best confirmed weapons of sorrow and i say best confirmed for
good reason whilst there are some question marks over certain other weapons necrochasm and thorne
are the two weapons of sorrow that are absolutely confirmed the crota's end and king's fall weapons
sometimes fall into that category of maybe weapons of sorrow although i don't think they are
the crown of sorrow weapons and the weapons from the season of the hunt kind of do but i
feel like that's just confusing because they're all covered in hive runes bad juju touch of
malice whisper of the worm and malefescence are sometimes counted as weapons of sorrow
and i imagine there are going to be people out there who are saying that parasite counts too
and for the record all of those weapons that i've just mentioned with the exception of thorn and
necrochasm i'm going to draw a line in the sand no matter what i've previously said on the topic
i think if we're going by the strictest and purest definition they are not weapons of sorrow aside
from the fact that some of these weapons do not qualify as human implements of war and aside from
the fact that there seems to commonly with weapons of sorrow be a greater emphasis on things that
really pull together the weapon's entire aesthetic i feel as though there is a bigger thing that also
outwardly defines a weapon of sorrow and it's that every weapon of sorrow seems to have an
unnatural hunger maybe the only close exception to this is bad juju but even then i struggle
to say if that's hive magic or just a keen understanding of the sword logic that's twisted it
thorne is the first and clearest example of a weapon of sorrow the original weapon was known
as the rose and it was wielded by a titan known as razilazia razil took up the name dredging your
a name that would live in infamy and would leave a trail of destruction through the wilds of earth
gunning down innocent civilians everywhere from small bars and outlets here and there
to fully established towns like the famous town of palamon this of course would all come to a close
when eventually he was gunned down by the fabled shin malfur the wielder of the last word or second
wielder but when shin gunned down dredge and at dwindlers ridge there was something that
was passed on to shin a legacy of thorns and a terrible truth than the last few moments
was recognized by shin darkness approached and shin realized perhaps what raisel underneath
all of the terror and all of the hunger had been trying to teach him all along the darkness would
not be stopped by light alone and so shin acted on this dark intent he created an organization
known as the shadows of yore and was hell-bent on teaching open-minded guardians to control
and use the power of darkness for good he did this under another name zaya orsa who would come to be
known by the moniker of dredge and vale while this happened he would keep tabs on those that strayed
within his organization the shadows of yore and if they went too far he would reappear as shin malfur
and would silence them the shadows of yore under shin malfur and his counterpart tebin grey would
create new thorns each with power that was similar to that of the old hated guardian killer although
nothing close to the original's power whilst the original thorn was hidden away by shin alpha
and was left behind for us to find and eventually turn into the lumina these new thorns can still be
found out in the wild it's not impossible that you might have found one yourself in fact i imagine
that a few of you are quite well practiced with it one such weapon clearly fell into the hands of
the vanguard and they wished to conduct testing on these new thorns to ascertain its potency
and power the thorn design generally is one that is often only whispered of and not well studied
and so this thorn that was recovered was codenamed artifact h349 and the vanguard tasked an exo
researcher known as jana 14 along with a team of other researchers to investigate the object
this is a log from their research showing some key moments where the project began to fell apart this
is displayed in the law tab for the necrotic grips and i promise you this does lead us on a necessary
path to osteostriga project day two i just got my first look at artifact h349 it's heavier than
expected more than a few people questioned if we should even study something with such a dire
legacy but if we can't understand our enemies tools then we leave ourselves vulnerable to them
project day five ran our first test on the artifacts let's call them necrotic properties we
used cattle they were large enough to survive the initial discharge the results have been upsetting
no more animal testing project day 30 spectral analysis is back and it's got nothing
the artifact doesn't operate like traditional hive tech which is our closest analog a cult
of deranged fanatics can mass produce knockoffs but we can't even tell you what it's made from
project day 31 we had an accidental discharge caro a lab tech over in 4b
human so this is going to be it for him we've got someone staying with him as the corruption spreads
at the very least there's so much more to study now as we watch his
unfortunate deterioration he's been babbling since it hit his central nervous system saying
i'm reborn or variations thereof i think he almost sounds happy
day 39 the vanguard forbade post-mortem but a few of us couldn't stomach the idea of carrot's
sacrifice being in vain the results have been insightful off the record i'm keeping a few
tissue samples it almost feels like having him around again project day 41 we began the
day with another moment of silence for our lost colleague too bad he's not around to appreciate it
project day 45 we kept thinking about h349 as a destroyer but it's more sophisticated than that
i mean with a normal gun it's just boom done h349 on the other hand is deadly not destructive
much like a viper its bike does not bring about instant death instead its venom cajols it co-opts
your beating heart into a death clock ticking down your last moments your own pulse kills you death
may be slow and agonizing for its victim but for the viper time is an amenable trade for efficiency
project day 51 yanev has been crying a lot lately we must accept that tragedies happen
it's a hard lesson to learn project day 65 another accidental discharge today we
realized that your's little creation is hungry so we fed it more it certainly performs in exchange
the activity is intriguing after it feasts i've been able to follow yaniv's degradation
with a more analytical mind than when we lost cairo i have to say the process is so elegant
the science involved almost seems poetic it may be reproducible
just imagine how much i could have learned if the scanners were all active at the time
project day 77 another accidental discharge this time i ensured the scanners were running
beforehand audio logs of warlock and researcher jana 14 salvaged after evacuation so if you've
been using necrotic grips and noticed that at the very center of them is some decayed and clearly
necrotic skin you can understand now that you've probably been carrying around cairo's remains
the whole time and those remains hold the same necrotic power as thorne does but you see since
then things have clearly escalated we see janna14 reappear in the lore tab for the osteostriga
and it's frankly pretty alarming i'll read it to you now but i want you to all understand something
first when dredgeon your was at his most unhinged and when he performed some of the most thoughtless
acts of violence against innocents he told his victims that his weapon the thorn was
hungry and that even though they as humans had barely a spark of light they could at least be
something something perhaps that could satiate his weapon's hunger keep that hunger in mind
ah pardon us it just seems like he's always hungry when i first became a mother i didn't
realize how much time would just be spent feeding him do you mind thank you
no he doesn't look much like me i know there are a lot of orphans these days i heard him crying from
oh my it seems like half a world away it was chance honestly i never thought of myself as
a parent but caring for another little life it's taught me so much may i sorry i don't know why i'm
sharing so much with you like this you just seem easy to talk to and becoming a mom has
really given me a lot more insight into the little connections between people i used to focus so much
on my work i actually lost a few friends over it oh shh there we go that's right
growing babies need their calcium now i can see what matters the beauty in small things and quiet
moments in watching others light up when they see him in the way meeting new people broadens him
i had another child you know that was before i didn't keep him safe
it's for the best he's safe now besides it means i can appreciate this little one so much more
just the two of us i love my little streega and he's always so hungry
case 620102
identity jana 14 status at large evidence identifier number 303 audio device recovered
adjacent to dismembered body ribs excised janna14 is now raising the osteo striga as a child yeah
not exactly the best motherly figure but i don't know that's uh it's quite the kid you've got there
keep in mind for just a moment as well that the osteostriga is clearly a new weapon of sorrow
and that leaves us with a lot of questions but there is an assumption that we can make from all
this which is that someone has discovered the hive magics and rituals necessary to create a
weapon of sorrow or the shadows of yore are active again and are making new weapons this is something
that we can see thanks to the flavor text that you see on osteostriga and that flavor text shows us
this victory is not in the unmaking of an enemy but in the remaking of an enemy into your blade
the ninth understanding seventh revision of sorrow for context this is different from the original
ninth understanding in the seventh book of sorrow which reads do not linger on the coming embrace
your unmaking is yours alone a solitary journey devoid of peace this is what's listed
on the thorn in destiny 2 if i'm not mistaken and more so than that it's not the same as what's
listed on the thorn in destiny 1 that's the better known line of to rend one's enemies is to see
them as objects hollow of thought and meaning i think that's at least if we're to understand this
then the seventh book of sorrow is being actively revised by someone
and more so than that it's being used to open the door to new degrees of corruption and to create
new weapons of sorrow and so this opens up a whole ream of questions who's doing this how did the
striga manage to call out to janna in particular was it thanks to her encounters with the necrotic
grips more so than this i think there's an even bigger question are we only just seeing the
beginning of all of this are there more weapons out there like osteo striga or are there perhaps
dozens or hundreds or thousands of them out there that we just don't know about
and so this is where the flood of questions really comes in does janna find this person eventually is
there a creator of such terrible things is there a mother or father of sorrow out there creating
these children are they a tool of shiva or wrath have they been enlightened by our interactions
with the darkness through stasis is there more to dark power here than we simply understand can it
be broadened and better understood as something new with all of this one key question sits with
me above all others if all of this is clearly developing i wonder what shin is doing right now
shin has kind of acknowledged at the end of the questline surrounding lumina thorne and
the last word that his time is sort of passing and that guardians like us now need to take
the next steps but with janna on the loose and someone experimenting with the books of sorrow
and in particular the tomes required to create new weapons of sorrow guardian killers and terrible
weapons of awful darkness i can't imagine that the old gunslinger would just so easily sit back and
do nothing if he knew of all this the question of course is does he know and if he does what's his
next move going to be a trail of hunger left from a weapon of sorrow is very easy to trace
who knows if shin is on that trail or not thank you so much for watching and if you enjoyed go
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know what you think is going to happen with the osteo striga is this more of a passive one-off
story that bungie is going to be telling through some law or is there a possibility that this
rises up into a different place keep in mind that there were mainline exotic quests that occurred
when all sorts of things like the last word and thorn and lumina came about
and the weapons of sorrow and shadow of your featured prominently in them would you like to
see this storyline revisited and expand it do you reckon it's been enough time i personally would
love to see more on it but then again maybe that's just me let me know what you think down below in
the comments section but as per usual know that your viewership as always is quite enough for me
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