Destiny 2 Lore - The Lore of the Duality Dungeon! The Calus Mind Heist! Season of the Haunted! 

This dungeon is called Duality, yet I haven’t seen the exotic shotgun once. I think we’ve been bamboozled

I think we messed up, BIG TIME! We went into Calus's mind and killed off all of his greatest fears. He's now fearless, untethered, emboldened. Think of how meditation works, we freed his mind of fear, doubt and regret.

Just some general advice…., the need to rush is all in your mind. I get the need for efficiency in Master, but for general runs, don’t wipe your encounters because you wanna move at turbo. It’s Calus’ mind we’re pulling apart, not our own.

Don’t forget about the magical gravity field of the dungeon that instant kills you by sending you into a wall or floor at Mach 12 for looking in the general direction of an enemy

I enjoy how Calus doesn't have a nightmare of Ghaul within his own mind during the vault encounter, basically proving he thinks so little of Ghaul that he won't even include him as a major part of the coup. Also they brought back Ghaul's VA and I could not be happier to have heard Ghaul's voice for the first time in the dungeon, was so surreal remembering him kicking me off the side of a ship. Edit: the more u see Calus's story, the more similar it is to Rhulk, Eramis, and the Hive gods. All had grand ambitions for a better future, all were betrayed by those they considered closest to them, all were found by the Witness at their lowest point, and both returned to destroy their homes in revenge, and pave a new path to the future of the Darkness. (Calus did not directly destroy Torobatl, but no doubt he had a hand in it at some level, possibly coordinating with Xivu Arath or giving her some aid that led to her being able to infect the mind of Umun Arath. Now, however, he is actively destroying the remaining Cabal, turning them into pawns for the witness, even now hundreds of cabal are defecting to Calus, and Caital's weak leadership skills cannot stop the flood.)

Before this season I was always neutral towards calus. I used to be drawn to his eccentric nature, but I see he is even more insane than I thought he was.

I think my favorite part of the lore of this dungeon is that we learned more objectively about the Midnight Coup. The revelation that I commented on in a previous video, that the decision to exile Calus wasn’t made by Ghaul, but Caiatl, makes the relationship between her and Calus even more fascinating. It raises more questions about her: did she do it out of a faint sense of compassion for her father despite everything, or did she do it because she wanted him to suffer more than he would have if he’d been executed by Ghaul? I think when it’s time for Caiatl’s nightmare, we should consider the following: maybe Caiatl’s obsession with bringing down her father comes from a deep place of guilt, because if she had just let Ghaul kill him, none of this would have happened. This could be a weakness for Ghaul’s nightmare to exploit, especially if the two had the relationship recent lore suggests, Caiatl being inspired by his warrior mentality and possibility being a kind of student to him.

I have A theory sort of about the dungeon. In the Vow raid lore its shown that Rhulk was shown parts of his past by the witness as part of his conversion to a disciple. I'd like to think this dungeon is us getting a direct peek at the same

Calling it now, us killing Calus' nightmares allows him to shed his corporeal flesh and ascend into full Disciple-dom. He's gonna pull some 6 dimensional chess move on us, "I wanted you to complete the dungeon all along!" Edit 2 months later: I'm not saying I called it, but I feel like I was pretty close

I imagine that the Witness reveals the greatest desires of whom it communes with to weaken them so they can "grasp" their minds. Calus was shown a future where he is "the last". Through this, he succumbed to the Witness. Mara was also shown "an end", but instead of accepting it, she manages to wrought herself out (perhaps due to her familarity with the paracausal).

It's interesting just how much the Egregore and Siva have in common when you think about it. And when also knowing that Clovis Bray made many of his inventions after contact with various form of darkness, it's not really much of a stretch to say that Siva could be a synthetic version of the Egregore

Hi! Very small criticism, but the volume of the audio seems very very quiet even at max in my earbuds. Just wanted to bring that to your attention if you could please increase the audio volume for future videos. Thanks Byf! Love your content

Gather around Guardians! Lore master Byf brings more tales of the paraverse!

My first reaction walking through the beginning of the dungeon was like "look how they massacured my tribute hall, such a shame of materials"

I love juxtaposition of a kind of "out there" premise mixed with exactly the same kind of gameplay. Eris: We're invading calus's mind Guardian: Cool, how are we doing that Eris: You're gonna go into a place and shoot some enemies and you might need to stand near something or pick something up and move it Guardian: I have been preparing for this my entire life It's like how in the sonic universe every problem conveniently requires super speed to solve

Just a technical note: the audio for the dungeon/Calus' memories is much quieter than the VO and commentary, to the point where I almost can't hear it. The volume I have to listen in order to hear Calus makes Byf very loud.

I can’t be the only person who thinks calus’ desire to leave his failing body sounds eerily familiar. I don’t think its a stretch to say that the pyramid wasn’t the only thing his loyalists were investigating on Europa.

There is a pattern im starting to notice and maybe this is just me, but hey here are my thoughts. Every Disciple of the Witness, represents a survivor of their own species or faction or being abandoned by their own species, with Rhulk being the last of their own kind on Lubrae having destroyed it, Calus being betrayed of his consul in the Midnight Coup, and potentially Eramis due to here lost faith in the light. It would seem that the Witness values those who follow the ideals of the Darkness. But I could be totally wrong, and I thought it felt worth mentioning. And as to why the Witness would give guardians a Pyrimid Ship, I don't know. Hope my thoughts are Coherent enough!

Hey, just some feedback. The sections that have voice lines from the game only are extremely quiet. If possible I think it would be great if the in game voices could have the same volume as your voice over

I said it before on other comment sections about Duality, and I will say it again here: this is practically a Persona 5-style Palace infiltration.

Thank you Master Byf. For all your hard work and amazing work. The love is obvious and it is such a privilege to be a Guardian during the time when Byf is. You (and your crew) ROCK!!!

I’m also reminded of the old lore entry for Hive Cleavers, where the swords would remember those slain on their edge Perhaps that concept is why the Darkness/Sword Logic is tied to memory. To remember what one has survived and conquered. It makes me wonder if Psions and the Mindscape are tied to Deepsight in some way…among many other things in Destiny we’ve seen so far. We’ve seen that Nightmares are fear, trauma, and regret made real using the powers of Darkness. When we use Deepsight, we manifest platforms, sensations, or even items from memory. (Likely this works because it’s Savathûn’s Throne World, and is shaped by her mind. So perhaps it has memory.) Is it possible that Mindscapes and the dungeon are pseudo-throne worlds of sorts? Born from the thoughts, memories, and personality interacting with the Ascendant Plane for a time? We also are able access Exo Trials on Europa which seem very similar to Mindscapes, same with the Vex Domains. I wonder if they act on similar principles to Deepsight.

Poor Calis had some good intentions at heart during the start, but like all things, it all withers away.....

Despite this lore, I still find it hard to believe that Calus is a Disciple. I find it more likely that the Witness is using him to lay out breadcrumbs for us. In other words, I think the Witness is interested in making us a Disciple more so than anyone else. I think it wants us to use what we learn hear to become one, because it knows that we think we might be able to use those powers against it. But of course, it’s a trap.

Another interesting note earlier in the dungeon when we hear Ghaul and Calus talking, it appears that the truth behind the coup was not because the crowd would revolt, but because Ghaul stayed his hand by Caiatl’s request.

If you pull out your ghost during the crypt areas the little text is basically calus expressing regret for tampering with bodies and creating the bathers. Really fun details throughout the dungeon

Calus is literally my most loved character in the whole Destiny saga. His dialogue is some of the best lines this game has to offer. Being excited for this season, is an understatement

Let's go!!! It is always worth the wait, so don't worry about it if you have to take some more time on these!

Thanks for the vids byf, been going through some stuff, but your vids help me relax.

It's probably not intention but it's always funny when Byf is like "Take a look at this" and then an ad pops in lmao

I absolutely love this kind of extended video. It feels as if I were watching some super interesting lecture trying to take notes of everything. 🧐

Do not apologize for the amazing content taking a bit longer, we love you

Watching this while sick, waiting till I'm able to take another dose of medicine. Your voice and videos do wonders for the soul, like a night's gentle rain on a tin roof. Thank you for what you do

Been looking forward to this all week, Thanks Byf

This is a super cool haunted version of Inception. I love it

I have to say, I thoroughly enjoy these lore vids. I managed to catch the GCX Stream and bought a shirt as well.

Hey man, really great video. I'm not confident enough with hopping into a dungeon yet, so I'm glad to get the lore behind it. Also, thanks for supporting St. Jude's. I regret that I missed the live stream, but thank you very much for doing this on their behalf.

Great work like always my dude

Amazing content man im never disappointed when you post

*Raiding the mind of calus and finds.....his other fanfics* please help me. I SAW THE JAR!

Outstanding work as always.

Hey man love the videos! I always listen from my car on my way to and from work been listening for years now! Just so you do know the audio clips from the actual dungeon were a little quiet this time. I’m sure it wasn’t intentional just letting you know! :)

Byf one thing I didn't get about the 10th memory was when Calus said the Witness desires "freedom from the greater design". Doesn't that go against the Winnower wanting to stick to the pattern in the Unveiling lore book?

Bro your Videos are always so high quality Iike damn take as much time as u need and want

Thanks for the video glhf

Honestly I really hope bunjie put the old leviathan guns back into this dungeon. It would kinda make sense to find them here.

Didn’t Savathûn say something similar about standing between the lines of light and dark and looking up to see the being that has been watching us? I think it was when she was in her chrysalis during week 2.

Cool been waiting for this

Lore daddy never fails to deliver

I think calus is my favorite destiny villan. There's something about his boss battle when he claps that just resonates with me. All the other raid bosses are all big man grunts

Based off of the Unveiling book, it actually makes sense for the Witness to want the end of both Light and Dark. According to the book, the Darkness as a paracausal force was only created by the Winnower as a response to the Gardener creating the Light. Assuming the Winnower and the Witness are the same, or at least that their goals are aligned, it makes sense that the Witness would want to exterminate all paracausality from the universe to allow The Final Shape to take form uninterrupted

There are a lot of great Destiny youtubers but you sir are without equal. I solute you!

Excellent video

Always love the lore vids Byf, just an fyi the game audio in this one seems really quiet compared to your VO.

Great video again Byf! I think the sound is bugged for most of the gameplay because is comes in very quiet.

Fantastic video

Considering that nightmares tend to be characters who are already dead, I do also wonder if the dungeon points to Calus attempting to clone Caiatl. 'Calus' Greatest Shame' could partially refer to reaching a point of madness of trying to restart his relationship with his daughter from the beginning. Given what we know about the clones though, I think the Caiatl we've seen in game would probably still be the original. I think I recall reading that the military clones weren't particularly intelligent.

You know...I didn't think about grinding Phantasmal Fragments for Moon weapons until seeing how many Byf was collecting in the video. Should probably check up on that

I don't know if it was intentional or not, but this dungeon reminded me heavily about Silent Hill.

I hope you mention the Soul Reaver influences in the dungeon!

I’m slapping this on and relaxing 😎

He's truly one of the best villains in the series, the hive gods having enough history to match. They picked his name well.

Wasn't Rhulk the last of his kind? Maybe this is part of how The Witness makes disciples. Members of species that The Witness wiped out, that helped him do it, rather than resisting The Witness's plan. And now Calus is next in line to become a disciple, to be "The Last" of the Cabal.

26:00 and then he survived and went on to revive his teammates.

ahhh glorious glorious midnight routine

Brilliant Byf!

If you open your ghost during encounters you can find out some very interesting things. For example, in the crypt Calus says he took DNA from the dead to make his clones

interested to see where Caitl's story goes this season with Ghaul as her nightmare, its got me perplexed coz I probably don't know as much about their relationship as I initially had thought

25:59 heh… exact thing happened to me on my first run

Can you do a recap of arrivals through hunt? There a gap in your recap videos and it’s killing me!

Sorry babe,45 min Daddy Byf Lore Video!

Things are getting very interesting here

Hey so while watching this and thinking about the words used i got the sense of something that could be unique. I thought about how The Nine are described and how they are constantly said to be in the "In-between" of things plus in the pyramid ships there's all sorts of horses around where Rhalk shouldn't know of what a horse is but The Nine have the astral horse so could it be possible that The Witness has meet The Nine or is working for them in some way?

I like that destiny now does story stuff with events, people, and places weve met and know about. Not just a random bad guy. For the most part haha.

What really struck me was one of the last lines of Calus. How he talked about how the OTHERS have before him. So besides Rhulk there ARE other Disciples.

The gaps between light and dark.... reminds me of what Savathun told us. To step on a line between light and dark. And look up.

I’m gonna love redeeming callus to the light

Hey BYF, are the spores in the Pleasure Gardens raid (Back when the dogs were there) the same as Egrogore spores in the Glykon and the Haunted Leviathan, just a mutated infused new Purified Egregore?

This season and the unsactioned dive into the nightmares of calus kinda lead me to believe that like the strangers timeline, eris morn nay still become the witch queen. Us stopping erimis not being enough to fully divert from the path of her timeline

The light bearers have their saying about devotion bravery and sacrifice. But I imagine the darkness equivalent going along the lines of struggle betrayal and revenge

I don't think it'd so clear cut calus is entirely devoted to the witness. I think he still has room for even a little bit of redemption. For as much stuff about his devotion their is their is still alot about him regretting all this and his love for his daughter. I interpret his deepest shame not being how his daughter rebeled and defys him but all he did to her and how she hates him, and how he hasn't made peace with her.

39:39..... It's funny you said that with a straight face

Love the videos Byf, but is there a reason why the audio changes levels so much between in-game audio and your voice over?

Anybody else think that eris is acting more sus than usual? There really wasn't a reason to hide us going into calus mind scape from ikora and there isn't anything new that we learned from it. Unless we're there for another reason... To get rid of calus's nightmares to help him become stronger for the witness. I mean in Elsies timeline eris does betray us maybe we're just watching it unfold

26:00 is a big sad...lol. Happened to me a lot

I love that the new Darkness power is just the power of Exposition lol 😆 😆😆

Calus has quite the Mind Palace

Memories are stored in this Cabals.

Thank you

Calus describing the witness' plan for the universe as "a closing of the circle" really lends itself to the idea that the destiny universe is (according to the witness) just a big battle royale. Calus reserving the right to be the last clearly shows that he wants the victory royale

That bit about Calus 'ascending' is truly terrifying. It sounds like he now seeks to become as the Ascendant Hive are, to cull himself and become more through doing so. If this happens, he will undoubtedly spread the ability through his loyalists onboard the Leviathan, and we could have another Hive-level threat to deal with. More than that though, it shows that the Witness is willing to create new servants as they did with the Hive, and as Calus said, "the others have already changed," which implies the Hive were not the only ones given this paracausal power by the Witness.

A criticism, in game audio & voices have been incredibly quiet and muted for the last several videos. Makes it very difficult to focus on when I'm constantly having to tweak volume because of it, because you come in loud as hell after.

Hmm... That Nightmare Caital seems to be growing those Witness roots seen in the Vow

Good song too

Hey byf! You should reread the far future sniper rifle from chosen. Its kinda baffling but also bring things back into question.

A crazy dungeon with thus one! We were SO CLOSE to defeating that last nightmare! But we lost.

I think with the speculation of the witnesses goal possibly being to destroy not just light, but dark as well, that simply be referring to the possibility that without light, darkness may cease to exist. Without light there can be no shadow. At least that's my personal theory.

“Take a quick listen to this” No one: hears something akin to stomach rumbling

At 38:30 Calus says that "I the herald." To me that seems like bungie's way of emphasizing/differentiating him from Rhulk. I personally have associated the title of "disciple" to Rhulk and I'm predicting Calus will be known as Herald of the Witness (or something close) at some point. It would probably be confusing years down the line if every servant of the Witness was named a "disciple" right? And Calus doesn't really seem like he'd fight personally for the Witness like other servants. But he would spread the word, like a herald for the end would do. Which could have to do with the egregore spores and the ability to link minds with them. They have been getting a lot of attention this season after all.

Lord Cashus-11 here with a seasonal Lore Update on "Banshee vs Telesto: mind over matter" A little over a week down, and things aren't looking good out of the gate. The Telesto arrived stealthily in the tower, and would have gone unnoticed had it not been for Banshee himself. He was seen holding the Telesto for questioning at launch by his gunsmith table, and it seemed like the credits could roll immediately on this seasonal story. But Telesto rarely moves without a plan, and it instantly began to test the limits of Banshee & The Tower natives. It has been moving itself between realities when you speak with Banshee. And will proc invis on the other vendors when you interact with them. It will even remove you from the tower if it feels you are a threat. So far we have Telesto winning the hearts of millions with its usual antics and Banshee/Clovis looking quite amateurish. But a certain look on Banshee's face as we cut to black, let's us know that he's not going down without a fight 💪🏾