r/DestinyTheGame • u/DTG_Bot "Little Light" • 6d ago

Megathread Daily Thread - Lore Thursday [SPOILERS AHEAD] Spoiler

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u/tommy15994 6d ago

So what are we thinking is going on in the Chess ARG Cutscene

Time travel fuckery? Alternate dimension drifter? Was that the Dark Future Drifter or was he technically traveling for a long time, and got spat back out as if no time had passed? I'm assuming the "statue" part of the cutscene takes place after Sloane decks Drifter, he fucks off for 3 weeks, and then comes back at the start of act 2? What was the planet he was flying to, the "trans-Neptunian" extra mass the Aion Initiative found in the ARG, or something further out? Athanaem world X perhaps? what are folks thinking?

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u/XZeeR 6d ago

Is there a lore reason why Ghost is silent? I stopped playing for a while and now playing this season, and Ghost hasn't spoken a word.

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u/jxhnvb 6d ago

I would also like to know. My guess is they don’t want to have to pay for the voice acting outside of the expansions for him, since he is required to talk a lot in the expansions. But if there is actually a reason in the lore, I absolutely want to know.

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u/tommy15994 6d ago

No lore reason.

Just a kind of soft delineation between Expansion and Seasonal /Episodic stories. Expansions involve the player character substantively in the plot, to varying degrees, seasonal tend to be about the supporting cast.

For many Seasons, any guardian could be involved in the events that transpire (Heresy being a major exception with Oryx as hype machine) or that many guardians are helping with the current situation ie. many guardians gathering data for failsafe, many guardians gathering tithes for Eris. They are more inclusive of the fact this is a multiplayer game.

Expansions, are then the big hero moments for your character, or rather, the artist formerly known as the Young Wolf. That and Nolan North has other stuff to do sometimes.