Destiny 2 Lore - The Speakers actually could hear The Traveller. The Messages of the Light. 

Yea, I loved this lore book because it confirmed that the speaker was 100% lying to just mess with Ghaul

The Speaker was on his lowtiergod grind. Man was too much of a menace to be kept alive.

I always assumed the Speaker's admittance was just that of a religious leader. His god doesn't speak to him, but he interprets the gods actions, or inactions, and just tries to make sense of them for the people.

It’d be cool if the Speakers mask was made from the shard of the Traveler

the speaker is underated as hell

I love how byf gives off the vibes of a very old and wise warlock who has traveled far and wide throughout his life and now has many stories to tell the children and guardians.

Now that the Traveller is awake again, I wonder if we'll start seeing Speakers appear again. Specifically I'd love to see Eido become one.

"There is whispering from the deep-dark, alluring & terrifying--a reminder of things left behind, bittersweet & abhorrent". I know it left the Eliksni, but this makes me think it was talking about the Precursors, I still think its interesting that even tho the Traveler stayed with the Precursors the longest, it didn't speak to them

Constellations is one of my absolute favorite lore books. Between the writing and the content and learning what the traveler feels through the speaker alongside the collapse of humanity, the birth of the ghosts and the fall of the city, its all absolutely beautiful.

In that first lore book, it mentions "nine impulses - pulling in nine directions", I presume this has never been expended on, but surely nine is far too specific to not relate to The Nine. Cause The Nine will undoubtedly have significance in the future (beyond final shape), and i think it would be very interesting if they were tied to the traveller in some kind of way. Considering the wording, perhaps they act like a guiding council. Or perhaps as reflexes, each sharpened for a purpose, and each acting in a way that best fits the situation. It could also explain the divide in The Nine, that some want to help the guardian, the others dont - some of The Nine, some of the traveller's impulses, wanted to flee. This group used to be majority, agreeing that fleeing was best. But at some poit, the majority swapped, and The Nine decided to stay with humans, with the guardian, and its why they support the guardian as they do. Idk, could be nothing, but i feel like mentioning nine specifically, and not being ambiguous, feels far too specific

Let's not forget that Rhulk attempts to extract the light from ghosts and kills a giant pile.. Until he is LITERALLY YELLED AT by the Traveler. Closest communication seen in the lore.

I think it should be noted that, in addition to Constellations, there's one final entry to the series: Crow's ship, the Radiant Accipiter, has it's lore tab written as the "last thoughts" of the Speaker, just before he dies. And in it, he mentions specifically that there WON'T be another Speaker, not in the same fashion at least. That he was the last, and that those who wanted to listen to the Traveler directly would be able to, and those who did not, wouldn't. So yeah, unfortunately, there won't be another Speaker. However, I do think that we will communicate with the Traveler directly in the Final Shape, in some fashion.

Your point about the speaker's mask being repaired and possibly empowered as a result makes me wish that instead of the exotic class items we're getting in The Final Shape, every class got the Mask of the Speaker as an exotic helmet with the same "Possesses 2 random exotic traits copied from other exotics". Imagine if we brought the mask with us into the Traveller and it turned into our first roll of the exotic when we acquired prismatic/ finally collect all the elements/ abilities and master prismatic. Plus if any object were to have a lore justification for having random rolled double exotic traits a mask that's basically a signal booster & receiver for the Traveller's communications feels like the best bet given Light's chaotic nature.

I've been waiting for more speaker lore. You the GOAT, lore daddy

It is interesting that the Speaker's mask has been repaired through Kintsugi. In Season of the Hunt, Crow did actually mention the practice when we examine his hideout in the EDZ.

Can I just point out how hard the OG D2 theme goes. The music as the backing track. For this video "Inner Light" that Brass at 3:36 in the song will FOREVER get my hair standing and as a Trombone player myself...warms my soul like the fires if Mercury! Eyes up....Guardian!

The Song of Life/Creation that hummed throughout the universe from the Traveler. It was discovered and studied by many civilizations. The Hive had a singer that created the Deathsong from reversing, changing it, and began using it as a weapon. So powerful was the Deathsong that 20 Hive landed upon a planet and began singing it. Within an hour, the planet itself was split in half. The Witness could be planning to use the Deathsong within the Pale Heart to amplify and broadcast it throughout the universe in place of the Song of Life/Creation to wipe the slate clean.

What if Crow is a speaker? He's been gifted by the traveler before, and I believe he's gotten at least one vision from our big white ball: that hawk. It would make sense that a speaker like Crow would be chosen by the Traveler to enter and kickstart its rescue.

1:13 really sounded like a start of a sponspred segment :D

It sucks that everything got sunset. Now all this dialog and memories are only on RU-vid and lost forever

I honestly think the voice that talked to us when we were frozen in the end of beyond light, that was the traveler telling us to look within.

I hope we get a live event where some players become Speakers. Good way to introduce a "Speaker" Title too.

Wished that I got to see him more, such an interesting and misterious chracacter.

the Traveller seeing Dreamers as stars reminds me of the World of Dreams in the Wheel of Time. Many people can enter the World of Dreams in passing, but some people can master the World of Dreams and those Dreamers describe it as endless space populated by stars and each star is another person's dreams that they can view, enter or affect. Inception is real in WoT and it sounds like it's real here too

This is so good. Thanks for finally getting to this.

"The speakers can hear the music." So... they're the final five cylons?

Clicked so fast, back on my destiny grind after a few months break, it feels great!!

I’m REALLY glad you’re diving into more light lore before the Final Shape! It’s very helpful and already hyping me up! My mind is swimming with postulations

Byf my dude!! Just wanted to thank you for diving into this beautiful, epic, tale of space magic! Destiny has helped me during my hardest times in life!! listening to all the lore and all the adventures destiny has to offer has been amazing! Thank you for your years of dedication Lore Daddy! Haha

The music from beginning to end was nostalgia and legendary at best,. Thank you for creating this video, the speaker is my favorite character at side from cayde

Thank you Byf for the amazing lore videos as per usual, I’d be so lost on Destiny lore if it wasn’t for your channel

I still standby what I've been saying since this lorebook came out. The reason the player character is such a legendary & powerful guardian is because we're a speaker. We have a closer connection with the Light than most. We may not be the strongest but we are far stronger than most.

7:36 This hits deep "Home", but not the home we know usually

let's not forget that The Guardian also has received dreams and visons from the Traveler as well.

I'm a simple man. I see a new Byf video, I click.

Speaker was an absolute gangster.

Great lore breakdowns as always. One thing to add/note ik you've covered it previously during the season of the hunt. But Crow (Uldren) has had these same dreams of communing with the traveler during the hawkmoon mission and further backed up in the hawkmoon exotic ship. I think itd be really cool if u could tie these plot points together in a future video. Since it could most likely be very important when the final shape releases very soon

Don't forget the absolute GOAT Bill Nighy, voice actor of The Speaker

I’m 40 years old and I’ve been watching your destiny videos for over 25% of my life Pretty incredible they you’ve been doing it for so long Love the content as always

Traveler "Take this power Guardian...be brave in dark places" Guardian "more power...hell yeah!!" Traveler 'Heh take that Witness' - Traveler proceeds to double flip off the witness

As someone who only started playing in 2021, I hear people saying vanilla d2 wasn't that great, but man I would love to play through the red war

I didnt even open the game in month, but I keep up story wise with all your videos, keep it up, we all love it

My interpretation differs from Byf's a bit at ~11:20, I think the Traveler seeing the "bright, attentive star" is a retelling of the Dreams of Alpha Lupi. Sol itself is the star that caught the Traveler's attention, and when the Traveler speaks to it by moving, that's some kind of gravitational communication, almost like sending morse code through ocean waves but with gravity instead. I think this part refers to the sun rather than a Dreamer because the rest of the account describes the Traveler interacting with the other planets in the system, or possibly The Nine.

I think Byf just figured out our Seasonal Artifact for the launch of The Final Shape.

I haven’t played Destiny in years. I think sometime in 2019 was the last time. But I still love watching your videos to keep up with what’s going on in the game. Maybe I’ll actually hop back on sometime soon. For old times sake…..

The Speakers whole thing was words, he never lied to Ghaul, he just didn't elaborate, hence why he also has one of the best roast in history.

The speaker telling Ghaul to off himself is still one of the coldest lines in gaming

Byf, you need to talk about how Destiny essentially just got it's own Venom. Acquire the superblack shader, if that ain't a symbiote what is it.

You know, I *really* hope we get some Speaker themed armor for the Final Shape. The main expansion armor set probably should've been it, but for the love of God Bungo. You set that up so long ago, give us our role not just as the Guardian, but as the Speaker.

Something interesting about this: lucid dreaming feels more in the domain of Dark than Light, and the Traveller reaching out to minds it can talk to mirrors the Witness and the Hive chasing the Traveler and the moth-to-flame imagery that comes with them.

Kintsugi binds that which was broken, together again. There's a reason our system chose that as imagery. Then they released the Precious Scars exotic (we're a titan main) and it just... yeah. The connections we keep finding with the lore and depth of this game are vast and wild.

OMG! In all captions cause woah!!!! I’ve recently been convinced to write my fanfic (please, no hate) about A Speaker… this is gold to me. I have it hashed out, and just uploaded a chapter of the Speaker falling to Ghaul, just a week ago. I am shaking, because I haven’t uploaded more because I’m afraid I’m overstepping some key lore that I have missed because I only started the game a year after 2 came free for PS Plus. Thank you bye! Ive always been fascinated by the idea of Speakers.❤❤ [Edit: my premise for the story was born from the “Growing” chapter in the Constellations lore book]

The speaker’s death has always been something that has really bugged me about destiny 2. He was killed off way too early.

Hey Byf, could you please tell Shrike that those batteries he keeps running over in Onslaught can be thrown at the ADU? and that they shouldnt just be left on the ground to despawn? thank you! Lore portion is great though, keep up the good work!

i bet there are actually multiple speakers simultaneously alive, think of this like Borderlands having 7 sirens at all times, and at some point there will be a plot point where we need to find other speakers or notes of other speaker prophecies/dreams/visions etc so we can get a grand picture of the travellers "thoughts". Like as if the traveller could only explain like a tenth of its grand scheme to people, so it splits it between speakers, and then when the parts are all together, we get revealed who the grand ultimate villian of destiny universe is. Calus was just a greedy tyrant in a ship, the witness is jealous of our potential, savathuun wants to be blind with the power of dark and light and sword logic and cunning....and the speakers when all their knowledge is put together, write the story of the true counterpart of the traveller.

Man, i haven't thought about this lore in a while.

I don’t think there will ever be a new Speaker. He says as much before his death in a lore tab. That the time of Speakers is past. This could be emphasized if we gain the ability to communicate with the Gardner from outside the Traveler, and speak with her whenever. I could easily see Osiris be one that speaks with the Gardner to learn more of paracuasality.

How does this man give me hope video after video, when I feel there is none. Your amazing byf you should be a actual lore character in the game. A librarian of sorts.

You'll notice the nine impulses the traveler feels as it glides through space. I've had people try and say the Sun is one of the Nine instead of Pluto. Its so obviously Pluto.

given how this Speaker isn't a Prophet to the Traveler or a Mouthpiece is just more Mysterious, Make you wonder how He'll just be another new character in Final Shape. Either way I'm excited if not astonished.

I was never mad at the Speaker even before Constellations came out. The Speaker never came to us and claimed the Traveler talked to him and said this or that. He just talked in general terms about Light, Dark and how we can help each other or w/e. He never lied as far as I saw.

Constellations has to be my new favorite lore book.

Bill Nighy as the speaker was perfect.

Say what you want about D2 year 1. But the Ghaul cutscenes are potentially my favourite ones in all of Destiny; especially him saying, “You aren’t brave. You’ve merely forgotten the fear of death.” Then he pushes you off the cliff as the final middle finger

Bringing the mask as our artifact would be interesting the more we unlock stuff for it more frequent we hear the travaler while inside the pale heart

Clovis I. Bray being the new Speaker would be hilarious 😂

21:05 Precious Scars exotic trait is also called kinsugi

Love the story and the lore

imagine if the speaker's mask became an exotic to all classes

That knights dodge was insane

So wouldn't this mean that our guardian is, in fact, similar to a speaker? After we fall during the redwar, there is a cutscene that plays. That is very similar to these descriptions of these visions?

Caydes gun shows signs of kitsugi... but with pure LIGHT instead of precious metals

i want the speakers mask as an exotic for all classes, it would boost all of our ability uptimes and supers..

The speaker being a chad saying kill yourself was great 🤣

Good to see the Traveler is aware of the proper use of spoiler tags.

Itd be really cool if we the guardian get a chance to wear the mask as a helmet for certain things, similar to a festival of the lost mask.

21:50 I JUST REMEMBERED WE ARE GETTING A NEW PERSON IN THE FINAL SHAPE FOR A VOICE ACTOR SO MAYBE YOUR EXACTLY SPOT ON

I always believed crow would the next speaker after the hawkmoon quest.

The Speaker mocked Ghaul and his species and he was right, they will end small.

destiny lore as presented by byf > destiny in its entirety

i might be wrong but during the final shape gameplay trailer at 1:08 to 1:18 could possibly be the Travelers voices (female exo voice) speaking just like how the witness did in the black garden cutscene with our own voice?

Micah 10 I believe was one that dreamed, but I don't think we've heard of them since beyond light

SPEAKER GOAT

It would be so cool if Crow’s journey lead him to being a Speaker

not having watched the video beyond the speaker cutscene, I believe the wording is key, because the Traveller *hasn't* spoken *to* anyone, it'd be more accurate to say it commands or speaks *at* the recipient, speaking to implies a reply

Man, I’m glad to see all the people around here finally respecting the Speaker. Is it time to acknowledge how Vance might have been a Speaker too? 👀

Speaker: "I never said it spoke to me" *cue trololo music*

Any plans for doing a full lore video up until final shape before release? :)

Idk if you’ve covered it before, but The Speaker says “I never said it spoke to me.” But upon completion of the mask they hear?? “I have cried out unheard for so long that my voice is raw.” Could this be a metaphor? Or literal? And maybe a direct intelligent conversation could be had with The Traveler somehow?

That's pretty awesome

We know of the Speakers hearing music and Vance hearing music when a guardian dies i really want a music/sound subclass. It makes the most sense as resonance, you could argue it should be a light subclass but it seems to always be a psychic thing, and thats the realm of the darkness

Kintsugi amplifying an object's abilities, Silver plating dampening the whispers of an Ahamkara, the tree of Silver Wings, I wonder if there is some sort of correlation between precious metals, especially silver, and paracausal forces in Destiny

imagine if after the final shape, we get a new generation of speakers. thatd be cool

Speakers mask could be the Artifact for Final Shape

I hope Bungie willl reconsider the speaker role in the future, the time of a new speaker in the tower might be right behind the corner !

I forgot the tormentors had a grab attack, that’s how long I haven’t seen them do it.

It would be awesome if we can get a helmet exotic that's the speakers mask or helmet that can be equipped by all classes

Imagine how hype it would be if The Guardian puts on the Speaker's mask and the first thing they hear is, "I am the Gardener. Long I have waited for you my Champion, my Guardian."

I think the Traveler leaves species after awhile because it doesn’t want to make the same mistake it did with the precursors. Staying with them for so long caused them to become dependent on the Traveler for a purpose.

Killing off the Speaker was a terrible mistake. And it's silly that, much like the Hunter Vanguard, the position has *Still* not been replaced. And that's totally not coming from someone who love Bill's Voice...