Destiny 2 Lore - The ACTUAL Season of the Wish Finale's Lore, And an exotic speaker's mask? 

I feel like the Vex are going to be a lot scarier once they speak english at us.

I want a scene of Cayde teasing Crow about his hunter vanguard position.

This black garden fight was marginally better then D1s imo, really showed how much enemy density and health have changed

When the cutscene plays, showing Crow and Cayde meeting, that pulse of Light emanating from the Witness’s fortress, is that what Immaru meant when he says that he and the other Ghosts could feel the Traveler screaming? It did sound ominous when he listen closely….yikes.

Just a small correction for the Titan Exotic its text is "Every enemy of the Vanguard had a plan until..." The Hunter exotic is "Into the Traveler, the hunt continues."

I love how crow was using hawkmoon in that duel

THAT FRICKING MISSION END FIGHT AND CUTSCENE! The things went full DAMN circle! It all started with Black Heart and it ends with Black Heart!

Considering all the character development Riven’s been through this season if she DID grant Crow’s wish to bring Cayde back then that would be the most fitting end for her character. Almost as an apology to “reverse” the one thing she and Savathûn did to Uldren that scarred him into his current life. Her last ever wish was to do something good that had no benefit to herself, with no strings or tricks attached. Just like Tarannis would.

the fact that bungie gives us that ship again confirms the way cayde was risen was that wish

Byf: I'm releasing the COMPLETE Story of Destiny! ...Again! The Final Shape: I'm not even out yet...

I mentioned this on Evaze's story, but it is quite concerning that the Vex could simulate the Black Heart and its power in the first place. It screams them being able to simulate paracausality, even if they had the Witness' assistance.

That final mission had me more genuinely giddy about a mission in Destiny than I've felt in a long time. When that door opened, pure joy.

Did anyone notice during the Hydra boss fight that there where Vex Hobgoblins not of Sol Divisive. These where regular Vex encountered anywhere in the system and they where broken spinning around aimless not trying to hit you. Furthermore after you defeat the Hydra and get the objective "destroy remaining hostiles" you can spare these three hobgoblins. If it where just bungie using the wrong assets I would brush this off but because of these two factors mentioned above I think it's a intentional story beat. For some reason the other Vex where in the Black Garden, we don't know their motives but seeing how they where damaged by the Hydra Boss and spinning around this was either a) a intervention by the rest of the Vex to stop the Black Heart Or b) the Sol Divisive waging war on the other Vex

note, the flavor text that has the "into the traveler the hunt continues" came from balance of power, the hunter exotic, not wishful ignorance, the titan exotic. wishful ignorance's flavor text is "Every enemy of the Vanguard had a plan until..."

Bungie is setting up The Final Shape PERFECTLY. I will admit, the delay was a great idea.

It’s awesome how Riven manipulated a wish out of crow.. to HELP us. She couldn’t do it directly without a wish so she found a way. I really love that twist - almost thank you for saving her clutch.

I really appreciated that they changed up the fight by activating more of the minds at once. It caught me off guard when I was running from one and ran into another. D1’s fight is very much one at a time.

I like the symmetry of the exotic hand cannons all having connections to one another. Last Word and Thorn, Thorn and Lumina, and now Hawkmoon and Ace of Spaces.

THANK YOU FOR BEING THE ONE RU-vidR TO NOT PUT A SCREENSHOT OF THE CUTSCENE IN YOUR THUMBNAIL!!! I HAD THE REVEAL SPOILED FOR ME ON MY LUNCH BREAK WHEN SEVERAL OTHERS USED SCREEN GRABS AS THIER THUMBNAILS

I LOVE it when a story comes full circle. Reminds me of Halo and Red Dead Redemption in a way...

Take a shot everytime Byf says “sooo…..yeaaah”

Bro the Osiris and Saint 14 moment after the mission was adorable

I just remembered something. in the lore tab of heart of inmost light it says that while the traveler didn't speak to the man in the lore tab, it could communicate what it wanted to him. I hope that when tfs comes out, and if there are whispers like the ones in lightfall, the heart of inmost light is one of the exotics that can translate them.

The end fight and the cutscene are both just, by the Witness, i loved it, i loved it so much, and the short conversation we got between Crow and Cayde?? I loved it

Cayde: you’re vanguard hunter now due to dare.

It brings back memories my only gripe was “the union” did not play

The radio message between Osiris and Saint made me teary-eyed. ❤

Cant wait for the complete saga video! It must have been such a massive undertaking to go through it all, record and edit. I watched the other synopsis video when it came out, but now getting back into D2 for the first time since Shadowkeep, I was really looking for a synopsis of everything I've missed. So ya, excited and thank you!

I am so hyped for the complete story video. I have had such a hard time to find stuff to watch on youtube so having a multiple hour long lore video about one of my favorite games is gonna keep me happy.

I'm absolutely loving that cayde...is using a reformed ace, and that crow using hawkmoon...2 guns that fit their characters and pasts.

Is that... screaming? The Traveler really is yelling for help. Wow.

I just wish that THIS was the reveal of the old boy. It would've been a MUCH bigger reveal and the hype behind it would've been excessively greater.

Love your videos and appreciate you so much for what you’ve done for the lore community and the d2 community as a whole. Thanks Byf ❤

Love the content byf glad to see your staying strong

Looking forward to your Light & Darkness saga video. Fabulous content. Thanks for all you do!

I cannot wait. Thank you so much for all of your hard work and content.

Thank you for all you do Byf!! Keep the amazing content comin 🙏🏻😁🖤

I love that riven is being testy with mara sov while masquerading around the helm and granting wishes because she can

It’s interesting that out of all the alien races in Destiny the Precursors look the most like humans

Byf, Martin, thank you for your consideration towards us in the US for the upcoming Light and Darkness Saga video. Based on what you have said, I'll get to watch the full video before work that day. However, such grandness of lore keeping deserves full attention, good food, and alcohol. So I will be watching it on the Sunday of that weekend because I have Sundays off!

Thanks for the video Biff

Side Note : the season finale reward and it texts, make me wonder at least if the “Mara” we saw in that one season , if at times the top was an illusion.

Your channel and the cutscenes are pretty much the only things still tying me to Destiny. My interest in playing the game died long ago due to the lackluster gameplay that has hardly changed in a decade, but damn is the story finally starting to come full circle.

Your OG warlock gives me memories! This mission and cutscene were perfect!!

I just wish that they kept the excerpt from the Union in the boss fight. That is THE best piece of music in destiny and I hope that it will return someday

My favorite lore master!

Didn't know about the Nezarec whispers with the Nezarec gear, that's some next level detail they added.

I loved pretty much everything about this mission. Nostalgia and the real Cayde returns! So excited for the Shape

Byf was right about the lore of the "scattered signal" lore about mentioning the black heart

I'm a sucker for nostalgia and that garden fight took me back to the last time my friends played destiny with me 😂 I've been solo for a while. Though now I've dragged my dad along the journey as well

Helmet attuned to the Traveler, hand cannon and ship all created by the Traveler; chances are good we'll hear from it soon.

seeing the black heart, albeit a false one again after so long kinda hit me hard, destiny never makes me emotional but seeing the black garden and the black heart again really brought me back and it took me a minute before i actually started the fight

Huge fan, love your work!

The flavor text on the Titan exotic armor says "Every enemy of the Vanguard had a plan until..."

Can't wait for your upcoming videos im hyped

I feel like the exotic speaker mask feels like a slight hint to the guardian is going to be an integral part of the new higharchery in the last city/is a possible new dreamer/speaker connected character... As in, we dawn the mask, even if we take someone elses words to help them

7:20 "this one, you shall cherish, O' Gaurdian mine."

If warlocks get to hear the traveler through the speakers mask I imagine the other classes having the travelers chosen sidearm equiped will be able to as well.

I was at work when this came out. I was almost crying during my break watching the cutscene

I didnt know new exotics dropped. Dont remember seeing things about it when i ran that last mission. Great off the cuff job Byf.

I don't think I ever went through the Black Garden fight back in D1, but it was pretty neat to see it here as well.

You'd shouted out Venextron awhile back & I walked away from His EPIC Gardener & Winower Vid with My MIND BLOWN!! Excited to hear Your perspective on the Topic 💯💯🤟🏽🤟🏽

Its only going to make sense that cayde remembers EVERYTHING in his lives, from before he was a guardian to all his deaths as a exo

I love that Crow was "reborn" in the light and Mara was "reborn" in the dark.

When I fought the boss in this mission, the order was actually Past (White and Gold), Future (Black, circle head), Present. Not sure why the order was different this time around.

I actually had no idea that the finally was today until your video, thank you for having spoiler warnings, it allowed me to play the finally without it being ruined

Despite the fact that this was the lead up season to final shape I thought it was a rlly rlly gd season activities where pretty fun gear was a little disappointing but the storyline was amazing we get to see another side to riven whilst also seeing another possibility for the relationship between the last city and ahamkara

Yay the complete lore is projected for my birthday

Speaker's Sight- Exotic Perk: "YOU SHOULD KYS NOW!" Significantly improves damage output of Storm Grenades

One interesting thing I noticed during the mission was during the first darkness zone, there are non-sol divisive vex in some sort of state of malfunction (standing in one place, shooting aimlessly). I have to wonder if they were trying to disrupt the plans and got taken out by sol divisive? if they were meant as sacrifices in some way?

There’s definitely some Ahamkara doings here, but I think the mechanism of Cayde returning will be the darkness’ corruption of the Traveller; given its strong link with memory. In this case, Crow’s memories, specifically. This version having the full memories of Cayde (if he does) could be the result of a guardian’s link with the traveller, and its ‘memories’ if them in some form.

When I went through the vex portal into the black garden where the heart was in destiny 1 I was so excited to feel the rush again that my teammate I was playing with said I missed a rally flag. I was so excited and happy to be back in time :)

Scuppered. Love it, thanks for my daily dose of the King's English.

One other thing of note during the crow/cayde interaction is cayde acknowledging that he knows Uldren died. This implies that this cayde knows whats been going on in the world AFTER his death.

I look forward to the future Warframe lores sir Byf I do look very much forward to all the more lores in the future when it comes to both destiny and Warframe both have made massive lore updates and leaks and just more lore pieces in both games and I’m very excited to getting back into the channel with the lore videos I’ve missed

Every single video is this, "this new thing happened and yeah...Dragons!!! We need dragons!!!"

I really hope we get Cayde's new Ace design as an Ornament. It looks so good

The Thing I’m Most Excited About in regards to The Gardener and The Winnower was that the Soundtrack Titles for TFS got leaked, and some of the song Titles are Crazy

the black garden was far better then the OG wow it was awesome and the scene with crow/cayde that blow my mind 100%

Bro destiny is the real life version of “here be dragons”

They could've done like an oversoul thing, where as the Heart fades it starts a countdown where you have to shoot it , otherwise it'll blow up and you have to restart the fight

"Into the Traveler the hunt continues" was on the "unremarkable" Hunter legs. The Titan arms read, "Every enemy of the Vanguard had a plan until..."

I hope there's just random ahamkaras just chilling in the pale heart patrol zone lmao

Time for you to get your speaker mask now!

The reason why the Black Garden fight was a copy of the og encounter (other than just being an homage, which I appreciated as someone who got into D2 in Beyond Light and doesn't have a console) was because it was a simulation of the original that the Vex were running to try to cause interference, done so with the Witness's help. Which, on one hand, is somewhat of a good sign- it means that they can't yet simulate paracausality without extra help- but is still discomforting. Either way though, it was a tight fight for me as a solo hunter, and I enjoyed it As for Riven's meddling, I personally interpreted her granting the wish as her giving Crow the idea to go through the portal in the first place. Cayde's glowing with light, so I feel like the Traveler is responsible for him coming back, but Riven def. tweaked some strings there, potentially in our favor The cutscene and radio message were the best part of the finale tho imo- it took Cayde under a minute to make the 'Crow =/= Uldren' connection that so many others took years to get over (or never got over it at all), and I'm excited to see them interact- the mini crucible match was already a good start. And it ending with Osiris and Saint musing about being able to finally retire and relax soon and say they loved each other out loud after so many years of having to hide in the shadows touched my heart. It's a good way to end off with a little bit of hope when things are at their most dire

I am SO glad I avoided looking at videos and online until I got a chance to play. As a player since the D1 beta, coming up to that door in the Black Garden was a sureal moment and when it opened and the Black Heart was there I lost it. Such flashbacks to that fight; it was the first time I did anything in Destiny with a non-matchmade fireteam. Did anyone else catch that Cayde KNEW Uldren was dead? I am assuming since Cayde saw a ghost he put two and two together. Also there is no sign of Sundance or another ghost for Cayde. If the Pale Heart is hanging around long term as a location it wouldn't shock me if Cayde is stuck there (for now) kind of like the knight at the end of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. Those new exotics look interesting; the Warlock one really has my attention.

:) I think the Traveler wanted us to have a guide while exploring, so it was going to give us one, and the wish of Crow decided who/what our guide would be; Cayde.

You are the goat byf

I think that Cayde was always in the traveller, therefore Riven completed a double-whamy wish by sending him in there, like you said

Interesting point: I deleted the Unforeseen Consequences ship months ago. One of the rewards for this mission, right after that cutscene, when talking to Osiris, is the very same ship. I feeeeeel like that's pretty direct.

Either Caydes presence is wish magic, or the pale heart is where guardians go when they die

I'm willing to bet that like how Nezarec's sin allowed us to hear his voice in Lightfall, the speaker's mask will allow warlocks to hear the voice of the traveler in the pale heart in-game (just like you mentioned). Is it mere coincidence that this exotic is another warlock exotic?

10:53 it would make more sense if it were those few Ahamkara that escaped the Great Hunt right? Maybe The Witness captured them for experimentation.

Something I just remembered, Brother Vance mentioned something about music with the Lighthouse, so I wonder if that music and the Travalers are connected in some way

I'm still not over the heartbeat sound effects that were there this time. At least I don't remember a heartbeat sound that loud way back in D1.

Something I find weird about the whole Cayde thing is that there are no drawbacks to it, despite the ahamkara magic used to bring him back. Crow wanted to be able to talk to Cayde and apologize for what he did. It's not even like he's one of those nightmares from shadowkeep where he constantly tells Crow how bad of a person he is for killing Cayde. Instead, he's a normal guy(except for the glowing stuff) and the devs even said he's gonna serve as a guide for us.

The lore tab on the ship!!! Oh my god!!!

I really hope our warlock speaker mask will have secret dialogues with the Gardener or the Traveler, alike the Nezarec's Sin helm did in Lightfall campaign with Nezarec's voice. Also peep that the ship looks like both the machine in the Speaker's quarters from d1 as well as psionic heads and Nezarec's head and helm. Some sort of a tuning fork. I think forsaken and design choices regarding the Traveler and Nezarec/psions are somewhat influenced by Alice and the Looking Glass. At least I get those vibes when seeing the imagery and reading about Toax and the OXTA/Otzot machine. I can't wait to see and hear more on the Vex and their plans in the grand scheme of things, how the Asphodelia flowers tie in. Amazing seeing conflict and lore tying together, hopefully unsolved mysteries in lore get answers in regard to Vex, Hidden/Nine, Aphelions and Ahamkara/Wish Dragons, Neomuna and the Veil, Xivu and the hive towards the cabal on future potential battle for Torobotal and Toland's response or side to those events unfolding, and then Nezerac. There's so much unknown for potential depth and narrative to unfold. Also the ghost projection in Eververse for bright dust this week is neat and maybe foreshadowing for what may or may not happen. Edit: was typing this as I was listening to the vid, as these all were my exact immediate thoughts when I played thru Veil Threats, so I'm glad I be on the same wavelength as Byf and not the only one hopeful. In retrospect now, I think it will be good to test out wearing Heart of Inmost Light, using Traveler's Chosen, and such themed exotics as those for potential secret lore/dialogue or interactions.

Just want to point out the subtle shift in colors here--Originally, when Cayde spoke his mouth flashed orange/ yellow.... Now it's almost pure white, like the cracks running along his gun. Also, in Saint's dream... wasn't he leaking something similar? Something glowing almost like Vex milk, but not?

If I watch the video with a sufficiently low brightness and 480p resolution it looks like I'm watching a Destiny 1 vid.