Destiny 2: Shadowkeep - Ending Cutscene (Talking with The Witness) 

I’ll say this I think the exo male says “we are your... salvation” the best

The way he talks to us, the way he moves, the way he rests his hands, I am positive that was The Witness talking to us

I love the Male Exo's voice. It sounds so both amazing, menacing and badass

“Don’t you recognize us” is so chilling the darkness knows we need it.

After beating beyond light, it made me think, what if the doppelganger in this cutscene wasn't *THE* darkness, but rather the darkness inside of your guardian

Plot twist: that guardian is us from the Exo Stranger's timeline where darkness took over

“We are your salvation.” “I am the vanguard of your destruction.”

Not gonna lie. The darkness making a whole lotta sense

Guardian: Your weak Guardian: I am you

i think the male Exo voice and female Awoken voices are the best for this cutscene. the Exo one is really deep and almost distorted and honestly plain terrifying, but the Awoken female voice is so light and sweet, it makes it that much creepier.

It’s so fun to see this and read these comments from back then theorizing who or what was talking to us here. Even though we know now it’s just the Witness it’s still fun reading what everyone comes up with.

In the background behind the dark version of ourselves there are pyramid ships everywhere.

The witness spoke to us, the same way the worm spoke to sathona/savathun

We are in the endgame now..

these are the worse villains you should be afraid of; the “charismatic” ones they speak as if they are the “answer” you have been seeking and despite your better judgement, deep down you think that they are “right.”

Can we all take a moment and acknowledge the fact that the guardian and ghost got their light back from a corrupted shard of the traveler? A shard that was intentionally cut off to stop the corruption. This kind of sets the stage for a possible transition for the guardian to go down a darker path; from using weapons of sorrow, actively participating in gambit, (possibly) choosing to side with drifter, to straight up murdering for the sake of chasing revenge...the guardian is making all the wrong choices. And yes ik that the barons needed to die but the guardian didn't kill them for the "right" reasons. I wish that we could get a choice to align with the light or darkness. It's most likely not going to happen but it's such a cool concept. Especially if you've read "The Wager" lore entry.

Two things I noticed as I just rewatched this cutscene within 20 minutes of watching it: 1) that's at the black garden 2) the title "we are you salvation" is a reference to the "garden of salvation" name. A lot of people probably figured this out right away, I'm just a bit slow. Edit, a year later because it needs to be said: if you see a comment like this, don't comment "well obviously" because it's really unnecessary and can be quite damaging if you don't know what the person's brain acts like. I'm autistic, which is why it took me a while to figure it out. I didn't take it personally when people were saying that but other people could have, so just please be careful with what you comment. By saying that, you could just be cementing in "stop being so slow, it's obvious. Why weren't you getting it?" And, again, that can be very damaging. And if you say "it's just a comment, don't take it personally" like I said, you don't understand how our brains work. So thank you. And goodbye.

Finally 2 years later we know who's talking *Witch queen spoiler* It's the freaking witness! He even puts his hands together like that in the cutscene at the end of the witch queen campaign just like he did in ur gaurdians form. He says the children of sol call out for salvation. And here he says We are your..... salvation Lightfall is gonna be a year in destiny 2 no one will forget

Dude either came back and updated his title showing how dedicated he is or he’s just a fortune teller

Im now very convinced that this was actually the witness. The body language and use of salvation is exactly the same

There's always something intimidating about an enemy that doesn't think its destroying or hurting you, but rather it thinks its giving you salvation. Or rather forcing salvation on you.

watching this cutscene again, you can tell for certain that we are in fact talking to the witness. The way they move their hands, the way they talk; it's uncanny.

you can tell its the witness because our dopplegangers hands come together the same way the witness does in the WQ cutscenes when the witness reveals itself

After reading the dark future lore book I'm convinced that the other you in the black garden is actually your character from the stranger's future. The stranger was sent back through time by the traveler, so it would make sense that the darkness would do the same with its chosen champion.

Its honestly crazy that it took us 3 years to finally reach the beginning of the climax of the story that this cutscene started

Calling it, during this scene what we don't see is that our doppleganger swaps with us (not physically but via energy) and whenever we do see a story involving the darkness the darkness that was injected within us will show. This will be the Segway into introducing darkness subclasses/abilities, and it is also the darkness' way of trying to convince us to join their side in this ancient conflict. Hence why at the end of this cutscene our doppleganger tells us they're our *salvation.*

I get why other people prefer human or awaken version due the evil expression but I think it kind of ruins it if something is a big looming threat and the darkness takes the from of a Exo something about the Exo makes it more chilling the tone is cold but loud the face expressionless. It really builds up the looming threat of the upcoming invasion of the darkness not in the from of the hive who are their servants but the darkness itself in a physical form

What is going on here? Is it confirmed that's 'the darkness'? What are those ships?! Are we in the black garden?!

after playing beyond light and learning that the exo were made from darkness, it’s a little creepy seeing how perfect this fits.

I like how u went back n changed the title with the witness's reveal

It keeps making more and more sense as the campaigns continue, but to have a solid understanding of who this was now is really cool!

There needs to be a cutscene gallery so I can watch my male exo character go through all these awesome cutscenes again.

Who watchin this after Witch Queen?

Reminds me of ultron A reason why exos are the best

How to beat the Darkness in this scene Darkness: "Don't you recognize us?" Guardian: "...Dad?" Darkness: "We are not- wait, what? No, I'm not your father." Guardian: "Oh my god, Dad, you won't believe what kind of shit I've been involved in. Let me tell you..." Darkness: "Didn't you hear me?! I am not your father!" Guardian: "So it started out when my Ghost revived me for the first time. His name is Flashlight, by the way. Say hi, Flashlight!" Ghost: "Uh, hi?" Darkness: "..." Guardian: "Anyway, so it started when Flashlight brought me back from the dead with no memory of who I was..." Darkness: Turns to Ghost. "Is... is he always like this?" Ghost: "Well he was okay when I first revived him, but after he killed the Black Heart, he became... like this." Guardian: "... and that bitch of an Awoken Queen kept calling me "It" the whole damn time. I mean, who does that?" Darkness: Still looking at Ghost. "Is this going to go anywhere anytime soon?" Ghost: "Well considering he started from the beginning, like 6 years ago, no. This is going to take awhile." Darkness: "I know I sent some crazy shit for you to face, but it can't be that bad, right?" Four hours later... Guardian: "... So then like a few months later, Saladin- you know that one guy who organizes the Iron Banner Crucible event, asked me for help to clear the Iron Temple!" Darkness: "He won't stop... why won't he stop?!" Ghost: "To be fair this is all your fault. It's like you said, you sent some crazy things to kill us. Atheon, Crota, Oryx, SIVA, Riven, Sanctified Mind. And that's without the stuff the Fallen have been up to that's tried to ruin our day. But all that is nothing compared to your Black Garden! I mean, he stopped talking for four whole years after that!" Looks over at his Guardian who is still talking. "Hmm, y'know, given that he's only on our third year, I'd grab a seat if I were you. He hasn't even reached the part where the Red Legion took the City or where Cayde died. And that one is a can of worms that'll take awhile to get through." Darkness: "... that's it! I'm out, taking over the solar system isn't worth this headache!"

They really nailed the mannerisms of the witness with his body language

My guardian: Turns... "no we...we are your řůîń Doom ost starts to play

I guess it’s safe to say that the it’s us in the alternate timeline Elsie was talking about.

Welp, now people will come back to this due to season 11 and all the coming dlcs.

- We are your salvation Savathün: will see about that...!

can 100% confirm now that was the Witness speaking to you solely based on his cartoony evil hand gesture of holding his hands together

I think the Darkness is just mocking us, by appearing as our doppelgänger.

0:55 is what we all want here.

Never seen this with an Exo, but a robot saying "We are not your friend/enemy, we are your salvation." is terrifying as fuck.

Just noticed they even do the pose the witness does too

Ying-Yang, the saga of Light and Dark has always been a journey about achieving balance. Light - forgets your past to forge a new future, Darkness - remembers your past to forge a new future. Light and Dark are mirror images of each other which is exactly what plays out in this cutscene. The Traveller and the Witness are slaves to one side of the mirror - our Guardian must find the path to bridge the two side's of the mirror or this timeline will go down the same path that Elsie and Mara have seen over and over.

so that’s the witness speaking to us

Yooo he uses the same hand gestures as the witness that's such cool continuity

Exo male and Awoken Female have the best voice for this cutscene. Gives me chills every time

I just noticed something, the doppleganger moves the same way as the witness does at the End of the witch queen expansion which is pretty interesting

When I first watched the cutscene which shows Sathona and her sisters in Fundament, I recognized that the voice says almost the exact same words that it said to us when exploring the pyramid on Luna, which confirmed that it was indeed the same entity: the Witness.

In the lore, the exo stranger talks about how we lose to the darkness and how, and in the end she wakes up and sees cayde in the tower again basically to say that the timeline started over. I personally believe that that doppelgänger is shown to us so that we remember what ourselves kook like consumed with darkness. Kinda like how before we were going to be frozen by eramis, the voice said “focus within”. I think we will have another moment like that but almost to be consumed with full darkness

Stasis slithers through your pores and burrows into your teeth. The frost gouges the breath from your lungs as your tears shatter and blind you. The Darkness is devouring you... but you've never felt more alive.

Man, the way they move is creepy.

I have an exo with red eyes and when I heard the darkness say, “we are your... salvation” it looked so badass because my character looked like a whole supervillain.

I just realized that the copy of us is the person the stranger saw in the dark future, it’s us but given in to the darkness

Something I keep thinking about since Witch Queen is that the Witness doesn't look like the statue that's everywhere in the pyramids. The VoD raid shows us images of potentially a person inside the traveler, could the statue be of the one who is called the "adversary" by Rhulk?

At 0:37, you can hear the darkness theme🎶

We are your salvation Me “This isn’t mass effect is it “

Notice how the witness uses "we" and "us" instead of "I" just like in the cutscene after witch queen

I didn't know Ultron was in Destiny 2

Nobody: Me at 3 am:

The fact that the darkness talked in my voice more than I’ve talked in my voice is funny to me 😭😭

After playing beyond light, imma be totally honest the expectations were way higher than they should’ve been. Still loved it just wasn’t as cool as I hoped it would be

The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be.....unnatural

I knew it. Paladin Danse was the darkness all along.

The witness: “We are your salvation” Our guardian: “Oh that’s nice, I am your demise, the person who will end you in 2 try’s doing the same thing, ending you like a raid boss just like rhulk!”

Mine was an Exo with black metal and red eyes and mouth so it looked like a demonic Ultron doing that to me

The male exo voice is just too good

Don't know if people have noticed this, but the spot in the cutscene is actually in the raid, it's the final part of the first encounter

That explains y the darkness says we are your salvation in beyond light

It's always chilling when games show your character speaking to themselves or a Doppelgänger

This whole thing feels like when the next villain reveals themselves at the end of a season FINALE

after witch queen i can say it is the witness

"We are your salvation." me:"hold on i gotta finish this dungeon brb"

You know maybe the exo stranger wasn't the only one to cross dimensions

the witness is speaking through the ghost 😳

This shit and other teased by the devs makes me think that the darkness enemy will replicate our gaurdians...so we will literally have to fight copies of ourselves. Is it just me or does that sound dope asf😂

As crazy as this may seem, I don’t think this is “The Witness” the pyramid on Europa and on the moon share something in common. “The Winower” statue or “The Lady” statue. They also seem to try and help us hence the “We are your salvation” the pyramid on savathuuns throne world ran by rhulk has a total different atmosphere and uses total different darkness energy. This leads me to believe that there are two different dark fleets, one ran by “The Lady/Winower” and one ran by “The Witness”. In light fall, I think we go up against “xivu arath” and “the witness”, and the final shape, we face “the lady/Winower” to bring light vs dark to a close and there only be good vs evil.

It's funny looking back at this ending during season 15, season of the lost. All this time the doppelganger we were talking to WAS THE ENTITY. The same Entity that controls the darkness, that controls the pyramid ships, that controls the Viel, that controls Xivu Arath, that now controls the scorn after Calus' expirements on the Glykon ship in the Presage mission. The same Entity Calus spoke to on the Glykon. THE SAME ENTITY THAT IS NOW CHANGING THE SCORN! Sorry for all these caps I'm just both hyped and amazed on how Bungie is tying everything together with the ENTITY that is the literal embodiment of the darkness itself. I honestly cannot wait for Witch Queen!!! Even if Witch Queen doesn't turn out to be all it's hyped up for, I honestly am more hyped up for the lore implications that'll come out of it.

"Who are you?" "It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan."

The Witness speaking through the Male Exo voice gives me Ultron vibes lol

His exo sounds a lot like a final boss

For anyone who has seen S3 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, this one cutscene screams Mortis Trilogy to me when I saw this for the first time. Did anyone else have that vibe too?! Also, Exo Male would make a awesome Thanos in the future!

I got chills rn!!!!!!!

Probably the best version of the Darkness meetup cutscene.

I think it would have been scarier if they had no lights on for the eco

I believe the reason they show up as our guardian is because it is from the exo strangers dimension where the darkness won.

Is this technically The Witness talking to us?

I feel like an insane twist is coming where we are somehow affiliated with The Witness and it's origins since it says "Don't you recognize us". Why would The Witness say that for no reason? There has to be a connection between The Witness and our Guardian

After playing beyond light, what if this is actually us from the dark future?

In hindsight, I would have loved it if they would have overlayed the voice of the Witness as we come to know it here.

Your guardian is very similar to mine cool

What just happened

Anyone else notice this guy made the video in 2019 way before the witness ever got name dropped. How tf did he know lmao

I think our clone is The Witness looking lore and his hands pos

Came to this because of the season hype rn. So excited for the years to come

When I first saw this cutscene, I gave me more questions than answers.

And soon he will finally achieve the final shape.

YOO I JUST realized the darkness ships in the background yoo