Bungie is Doing This Intentionally... What I Think It Means. | Destiny 2 Theory 

Apologies if the mouth sounds are annoying. I'm going to try and learn how to edit them out better. The easy solution is to stay further away from the mic, but that increases the echo from my room. I'll try and improve for next time!

The Darkness Statue is basically a religious idol of sorts. The Witness’ plan of quite litteraly putting a veil on their depiction of the Gardener

You should do a collab with Byf on the topic of the Gardner potentially being revealed in Final Shape! Also, learning more about the Winnower in the next saga, feels like a no brainer to me. To me, the Winnower and Gardner have always felt like siblings: a brother, and a sister. But like siblings, they hadn’t been able to agree on much of anything. So it begs the question: where is the Winnower?

The collectors edition lore basically has a story of someone who is terraformer pilot from the witnesses precursor species. That person basically decided to use extra cargo space for traveler like tech to terraform to how they see fit. That person also does not agree with the great merging of their species and would rather create. Now this could be a parallel story to the Gardner/ winnower story or this solo person could have become the adversary to the witness that basically become deified by obsession. If they are merged with the witness then the witness is a species made whole. That’s just my tinfoil theory

Unrelated, but the fact that Bungie gave away something as big as the pasts of the precursors in the collector's edition makes me wonder what else they have in store *cough* the gardener *cough* the winnower *cough*

I hope the story missions are longer than usual. They have so much story to jam in here between us, the Vanguard leaders, Crow, the Witness, and the Traveler itself, the story behind these statues and any characters they are attached to. And hopefully we have freedom to explore the Witnesses monolith if that’s the raid location. I was sad they didn’t have any post raid missions in the Terraformed Pyramid.

Maybe the female voice we hear in the trailer is the Gardener's voice, and, after we defeat the Witness, the Gardener will reveal to us the existence of the Winnower. I think the Witness is some sort of avatar of the Winnower, made by influence of the Veil, since both Witness race and Maya's crew were influenced in a similar way by the Veil.

lately it's given me the vibe they might pull a Hydaelyn and make the "Gardener" someone who defected from the Witness's species and didn't merge with them, or another Witness like entity who is the merging of another species who supports the light, though there are some holes with my idea they would have to fill, like the Traveler existing and stuff before the Witness and such, so what was it before? but just a little theory that the Witness is essentially an Ascian to the Traveler.

I also like how they showed the light and dark armor set with a woman who looks VERY reminiscent to the Gardener.

The statue is a representation of the darkness and light together I believe or the darkness and light together is what gives the figure underneath its “final shape”. The two separate don’t create these, but the Witness obviously has plans to control both so I assume that’s what the final shape is. Without it, both don’t have a shape. Can’t explain it well, but the “veil” is the thing over the figure underneath but there is no figure underneath so the veil is there to give it the shape.

The first time I saw the statues and heard the female presenting voice talking about our guardian and using the light my immediate thoughts shot to the gardener. I truly thought the story will involve something to do with us being sort of grey users. And especially with the links to previous bungie games. With us sort of being the only ones who have that gift. Akin to something like us being reclaimers in Halo. And potentially us fixing everything akin to the ending of Durandal. And I’m happy to see that my own thoughts as well as yours are becoming true. Glad to see the eternal hero theory playing out and seeing some classic bungie storytelling and a return to the original ideas for the game.

You know, regardless of everything I did genuinely think that there is no way for bungo to make me emotionally invested in the story. As in, I was always invested in the universe of D2 and the powers and everything but never in the *story*. And yet, now that I know that EVERYTHING has been leading up to this, every little thing that felt like filler actually makes sense and becomes VERY important. Going around Europa unlocking stasis? Suddenly it is important! Without stasis we could not use prism. Remember Neomuna? Without going there and mastering strand, prism would be unavailable! Literally everything has been building up to this. I am not going to say that this is 10/10 story but it certainly went from 1/10 to 7/10 in my eyes

Not sure I'm ready to decide which I think the statues represent yet, but yeah I think this is the moment. The shot of the statue-shaped hole in the wall followed by the shot of it surrounded by spikes and the withered tree made me certain we're about to get an answer. It's like a direct tease to those of us looking for the signs and clues; "something is missing here, isn't it?" The absence has always been the point.

You got directly name dropped in the latest byf video that’s crazy

I have a theory on why the Traveler has been silent all this time. The Gardner is the real entity of the Light. The Traveler, is her vessel to observe and traverse the cosmos, through space and time. She was silent before the Collapse because she was hard at work, preparing us as best she could, for the Witness’ arrival. She knew it would follow her. After the Collapse, she hasn’t spoke to us at all. Why? My theory is that she’s foreseen this final battle since she’d arrived in Sol. She’s been busy this whole time, rallying an army of dead Guardian legends, to defend her Garden. To aid us when we arrived inside the Traveler. Cayde, perhaps due to wish magic, was merely the first of many dead spirits, to wake up.

Dud the statue is of a woman covered by a veil, the woman is the gardener(traveller) and the veil represents the winnower and well, the veil, so the estatues represent that original united form the traveller and veil once took, as per weekly lightfall lore

The statue might be the only time witness perfected a shape. Its elegant but eerie. I think the statues are the final shape the witness seeks symbolically. Maybe the witness achieved this shape back in their golden age

The statue is a symbol representing the finale shape. The Traveler being merged with the Veil. It’s not a person. Light and dark as one. As we see in the final shape trailer with prismatic.

Venextron! Coming to this video after Bungie dropped yet another trailer yesterday and, once again, the veiled woman statue was featured prominently. I think you're certainly onto something here. Were you ever planning to do a video covering why pyramid/darkness structures and architecture were present in the sol system before the arrival of the witness at the first collapse?

Make this go viral folks!

I really wish I could buy into the idea that they've been sewing seeds about these statues the whole time. But I think they're justifying them retroactively rather than something they planned out from the beginning.

The statues are inspired by the Veil of Isis, a statue and iconography depicting the Egyptian goddess of life, Isis, atypically garbed in an obscuring veil. Independent of Destiny, the veil represents the unknowable nature of nature itself. To part/lift/rend the veil is to know the unknowable, which slots nicely with Destiny's Hermetic inspirations. Isn't it strange, though, that the statue in the Deep Stone Crypt - the only statue confirmed to have been in Sol before the Collapse - is also the only statue that moves?

Hopefully we get most of the biggest mysteries answered in Final Shape

Byf shouted you out in his latest vid!! - yog

Hey man you got a mention in byf's video, congrats

I hope they aren't just statues, they are alive waiting to reanimated

Watched Your other Vids on the Topic & it wasn't until I watched this that it occured to Me, I to believe You & follow Your logic that the Female Idol is the Gardener, I'm wondering if the Veil over top of the Idol is ment to represent the Gardener & the Veil Merging back into a single source/power, the Deep's idea of the Final Shape They want left at the End of "The Flower Game" 💯💯✌🏽✌🏽

I don't actually think the Mysterious Voice is the Gardener, but a deceased Guardian's consciousness whom we absorb. This is what allows us to wield both Light and Dark at the same time, and serves to contrast against the Witness's own genesis. Moreover, I also think the Veil of the Veiled Statue is hiding something interesting: the figure has four arms! Two spread out in exultation, and two clutching the figure's head in sorrow (the elbows of which are coming forward, simulated breasts.)

Just stumbled upon your channel so idk if you covered it but what do you think of Galaxy Pool lore wise?

I personally think the statues are of the Winnower. Why would there by statues of the Gardener on the Pyramid ships of Darkness?

1:10 revisit the first trailers for destiny 1 venus and mars. look for my comments. i just subbed to your channel today and had no clue you had this video... 2:02 the one where we get wicked implement and i think savathun had one in the throne world maybe..?

DID SOMEONE SAY VEIL?!?!?

What if the Veiled statues are a form of Blasphemy against the gardener? Covering the bringer of light with a dark cloak.

I was a firm believer that we would not see the introduction of either of these characters really at any point. But that mysterious woman talking in the trailer. I instantly knew. Its crazy that no one else is talking about it. They revealed her.

I find it hard to believe the Witness would carve statues of its mortal enemy

Curious to find out who the voice asking us to "Take this power" belongs to. You might be on to something here.

I thought that bro just meowed at the end of the video 💀

The statues are of you

Great vid as usual!

I hope you are right about this and it pans out correct

there are 3 vailed statues in cosmodrome at the starting area high above the sky you need a sniper to see them. not sure why they are there

The mouth sounds are really not noticeable !!

Im a cat! Meow.