Was It Savathun ALL ALONG?! | Season of the Splicer Reaction (Part 2) 

Fun fact about the Expunge missions: If you look at the radar, it would say messages below it. In the video you only see "I see you". But the whole message is "I see you. Crawling around my domain like insects. This realm answers to only one master. You are nothing. You know nothing of power. Thrashing around like a wounded animal. Unaware that you are already dead. Your failure is written in time. Your victories are hollow things. I have seen your grave. I see you. Rent asunder... Broken... Taken." Also, Quria, Blade Transform is a character in the lore all the way back in Taken King. Crota opened a portal to the Vex Domain to Oryx's Throne World after his sisters tricked him into doing it. Quria was the Vex Mind that attacked. It learned about Oryx and thus how about the Taken and how to. Oryx made her a Taken Mind but with a small amount of free will and gifted it to Savathûn to study. That's why she could command Taken and Vex at the same time. Also, there was a mission during Taken King where we get the No Time To Explain exotic and it shows the Vex being extremely fearful of the Taken saying that they are the end of all things and can't overcome them like us.

Oh heck yeah, this is where the meat and potatoes truly begins. So excited to see you continuing to enjoy this story!

I know it’s not official content, but I highly recommend the fan made version of season of the chosen intro. Lance Reddick (Zavala’s VA) found it so funny he read it in character as Zavala for a fan edit

The amount of setup they do for Savathun over the seasons is so nice too see. Especially with Savathun's song, and a lot of tiny ltitle hints of things that are going to happen that, now that I'm rewatching these things, foreshadowed SO MUCH.

I am so glad you immediately recognized Savathune's Hymn. Your reaction was a exact mirror image to my own. Terra if you are still reading comments, I highly recommend you read the lore tab attached to the exotic warlock footwear: Boots of the Assembler. It has 3 short paragraph stories that add additional character and insight you might enjoy. Story II in particular.

One thing that the video did not show was that as the story progressed and Quria was being revealed, Taken Blights were forming inside the Tower social space. A cool set piece to go along with the story. An easter egg: If you were quick/lucky in the opening mission, Quria actually spawns in with all the other Vex to try to eradicate you. But she is only there for about a second before you are teleported out. 2nd Easter Egg: In the final battle, there is a blue friendly Harpy beeping out Morse Code: "Assistant."

So there are a few points that you've managed to deduce that aren't really told well during Season of the Splicer: 1.) Lakshmi-2 had a grudge against the Fallen that comes from her history as a survivor of Old London. After the Collapse there were several major cities on Earth that actually survived, only to be destroyed in their entirety by Fallen raiding parties that believed they could win back the Traveler's favor if they destroyed humanity. This leads us to point 2: 2.) One of the members of House Light is a former Eliksni warlord and has a major history involving attacking human settlements and raising them to the ground. His story is detailed in the lorebook "Achilles Weaves a Cocoon" where he goes by the name Namrask hoping to create a new life for himself after seeing New Riis and House Salvation begin to collapse on Europa. 3.) Lakshmi-2 actually recognizes Namrask as one of the leaders of the Fallen raiding parties responsible for destroying her old home. She chooses to overlook the truth about his origins keeping it a secret from the Vanguard/Consensus/Misraaks on the belief that individuals can change if they truly want to. This leads us to the last point: 4.) You are correct in that Savathun orchestrated the events behind the Vex creating their eternal night simulation over the Last City, and Lakshmi-2's increasing paranoia was not natural either. Season of the Splicer was very dramatic and all but failed to remind everyone how the history of the Eliksni arriving in Sol has been nothing but humanity on the receiving end of their violence. The fall of New Riis on Europa and the new start for House Light is a monumental turning point in Destiny history, but Bungie really failed to make it clear that the civilian population in the Last City should be horrified at the idea of one Vanguard leader being allowed to dictate policy for the entire city and allow an Eliksni House to live with them. I can say with certainty that the next season (Season of the Lost) is an incredible one. A lot of plot elements will be coming together to kick of the start of Witch Queen, which is still arguably the best expansion D2 has gotten to date content and story wise.

I kinda wish Saint used a bubble here would have made it more believable or a banner shield in that last cutscene. Would have changed the meaning of the bubble for them too, cause Saint can blind any enemies within the bubble but if it didn’t blind the elisknsi in it it would be kinda like the light in him (or however it works with the bubble determining friend from foe) sees the eliksni as friends.

The emergence of Osusris at last! Oh man that tension was such a fun part of the season. EVERYONE was so sus of Osiris and we were all watching him like a hawk. And then of course, we all know how that went… As for Quria, a little background. Quria was originally created by the Vex to understand the Sword Logic when they first broke into Oryx’s Throne World. Of course they were no match for Oryx and he half-Took the Vex Hydra, but left some free will of its own because it was able o simulate Oryx before he made a pact with the worm gods. He then gave the Vex Mind to Savathûn as a gift. Somehow, it eventually managed to learn how to simulate the ability to Take, which is why we see the Taken under Savathûn’s control starting with the Red War. Quria was ALSO the Vex Mind that designed the curse of the Dreaming City, which Savathûn used Riven’s magic to put into place. And the fact that Quria has looked into the Corridors of Time and has seen our grave is certainly interesting… And the season finale was such a strong moment for the Destiny narrative. Mithrax and Saint becoming absolute bros was a delight.👌 One of my highlights for sure and the whole finale leads perfectly into the next season.

I remember the entire community analyzing every action of Osusris

small little thing i think you missed because you paused at unfortunate timing: saint called mithrax "kell of kells", the title skolas was fighting for back in house of wolfs also a few "fun" lore notes: eido is mithrax' adopted daughter and is named after mara sovs former lover Sjur eido an eliksni got hounded by an angry mob but a guardian saved him using stasis which reinforced what lakshmi said about guardians being corrupted by darkness and Amanda got an eliksni killed because she curses

I am SOOOOO happy you are actually paying close attention. It sucks you cant just play this stuff, but you having basically the same reactions we all had when this was first happen is great. The pieces starting to align, Osiris being mad sus, Savathun creeping in its all great and really cleverly written, but so many small details can be missed if you were more casually listening. I can not wait till the next few videos, all the build up they have done for the last few seasons comes to a head in the next season and obviously the next expansion, which if you know the name you can probably guess why lol. But even then they begin setting up some really big shit that has direct ties to final shape. Im assuming you havn't seen any of the final shape trailers bungie has been putting out, but with how into the story you're getting right now, I cant wait to see when you see the end of this arc, I mean I'm also super hype the new stuff looks amazing, but no spoilers

Interesting note about Quria the dreaming mind (formerly blade transform), it was arguably the most famous vex mind in all of destiny before we ended it in this season. Millions of years ago, crota accidentally opened a rift in Oryx's throneworld and started a vex invasion that lasted centuries, and because the sword logic is what governs power in his throneworld the vex devised Quria, Blade Transform, which essentially adapted and starting using sword logic to grow in power. Oryx eventually took quria, and gifted it to savathun, but left a little of the vex's atonomy to effectivly troll savathun, didnt work obviously. Thats the abbreviated backround story of Quria, the dreaming mind. People were hyping up this vex mind so much that most people expected it to be a raid boss at some point, to set the infamy of it in perspective.

I started seeing people calling out osiris sometime towards the end of season of the chosen and beginning of this season. At that point amogus memes were still going almost full blast so you can probably imagine the state of the destiny community for the next few months

New Terra video? Time to make lunch and kick back. Aw yis.

Terra in a few seasons your mind will be blown and I can’t wait

It's important to note that Misraaks does not hide behind House Light being a new house when acknowledging that Eliksni have committed crimes like the eating people thing. He knows that particular instance was most likely House of Devils, but he's being completely serious when he says that they can "only promise to be better". Promising to be better is what he wants from the Eliksni who have fought with Humanity. He will allow even someone from House of Devils, even someone who committed what would easily be classified as war crimes, to enter House Light but only if they swear not to take up arms against the Last City and to devote themselves to a new life under the light. He wants to give everybody a chance, as he was once given by the Awoken. You gotta check out the lore books Achilles Weaves a Cocoon. About Akileuks, now Namrask, who has renounced his former life and tries to find a new one but House Salvation was anything but salvation and he somehow manages to make it to House Light but finds the Last City hostile and frightening... especially when he meets Lakshmi-2, and she recognizes him, from the burning of old London. But even then Misraaks will allow him the chance to be better. "You do not want to be who you were before, would you learn a new trade?"

I just adore the ceremonial tribute to both us (vanguard/ etc) and the House of Light. And Miisraks talking about the House of Silence will always make me emotional. There was also some currencies/ materials on their way out the game and the tribute also served as a way to discard them, as they would be used into building up the Eliksni quarter of the last city. So it was a way for players to contribute charity to the House of Light. I enjoy how they implemented it.

Me and my friends jokingly calling this season of the racism because it just felt appropriate lmao

Cery thankful for the lack of any major spoilers here, Grewt video as always, man!

These reactions are actually amazing! It feels so good to relive these moments, I forgot how good we had it

awesome episode. and for completely unrelated reasons to your osiris theories, I thought I'd get you to remember when you reacted to Eris talking with the Darkness through seeds in the season of the arrivals. also here's an absolutely tangentially unrelated time stamp ( 30:31 ) from definitely not that video.... humu yep

This is where it really begins. The whole year of Beyond Light will be called in question, there is alot happening and even more that will shock you, as it still impacts us today. Stay tuned ;P Also I like your critical thinking skills on osiris and trust me, it is much worse Also something that wasn't being shown: Lakshmi saying "It has been getting worse" means that not only is there endless darkness, after some time taken blights appeared all over the city, even in the Tower. And that is just what we saw And again, the messages underneath the radar was Quria ALSO WE WANT SAINT IN A SUIT!!! The worst thing is, there are some Eliksni who were genuinly bad before. The were some of house of Devils, House of Dusk and Salvation and so many more. They all wanted to change their way and live in harmony again, yet their past still haunts them. There was one high ranked Devils Eliksni who came into the city to become a weaver. He got recognized some times and you could tell he just wanted to let that past behind it and not be brandished as a Guardian killer. I wish he finally found peace

Haven’t watched it yet but with the Witch Queen coming up after the next season in the series, I beg of you to do the raid this time in addition to the campaign. The raid not only is great but offers some incredible story beats. I’m sure you could definitely find a team to do it hell people in the comments would definitely be down to help.

I love seeing new lights catch up on the story so far. BL seasons marked the beginning of fantastic seasonal stories, and I hope you get to experience the LF seasons firsthand before TFS arrives.

I don’t really have anything to say this time, but I’m really looking forward to what you think of the next season. Your reactions are a delight.

The best line from the Sant 14 52:20

And now at last you can easily see why this season is so highly praised! Your next season will have no shortage of important narrative moments either, so make sure to go in with much reflection on these previous seasons in mind! Keep on theorizing… O guardian mine ;)

Babe, wake up! Terrabellum uploaded a new Destiny reaction!

There he/she is, OsiriSavathun

Man I’m so exited for when you get to witch queen

I clicked off the video j was watching so i could watch this instead. 😂❤

I'm glad these story recap videos exist and all but I hate when they turn off subtitles and crank the music to max. Like I'm here to know what they're saying!

There was a friendly vex harpy in the last city defence mission that beeped 'Assistant' in morse code. Also, there are many voicelines in the vex override missions that make the story even more spicy. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i2SAOo2Kybs.html There was one line I couldn't find that was Osiris and Mithrax talking about alliances, and Mithrax said that he would even be willing to ally with Savathun for the right cause. (Paraphrasing) And Osiris said something like. Hmmm. Would you really? 😏

I love the video. I would recommend watching some videos about the lore of these seasons before you get into the witch queen dlc but regardless keep the good content up😊😊

I'm gonna be late to work watching this but I gotta!

soo in the beginning of the missions inside the network...didnt you notice some words pop up near the radar....?

"Oh no, I'm (o)sus(ris)"

Lakshmi is the most literal form of a racist

There enough weeks left to have one video a week?

Playlist says 27. Is there another video coming out today?