Biggup for the devs recognizing and acknowledging your hard work

Honestly, Hive Witch Eris terrifies me. She is almost exactly the person she became in The Dark Timeline but, instead of allying with Xivu Arath, she's fighting against her.

Another interesting point to go with your note on the word choice of Cayde as our “Virgil”, and your question of whether we’d be seeing Heaven or Hell. If I’m not mistaken, they actually compared the starting point of the Tower as Heaven-like, and the ending point of the Monolith as a sort of Hell. So it does seem the Dante references are quite intentional.

I feel the campaign is gonna be a storm the tower where every little area reveals details about the destination we are in. Like the 14th wish in the dreaming city for example

I'm guessing that the Witness is going to work similarly to how Oryx worked in the Taken King expansion. The end of the campaign will feature a boss fight against the Witness where we defeat him temporarily and stop him from enacting the Final Shape, but the Raid is where we fight him at full power to kill him for good.

now i can kinda see how Eris managed to become the big bad boss even above Savathun in one of Elsie's timeline loop jumps. i would love to see her appearance grow more and more with time in future seasons to show how much she has been being fed with fury by guardians.

I think my absolute favorite part of this reveal is how brilliant the premise of S22's story is. We've been tithing to xivu for years now, simply by fighting her hive. How do you fight a god who becomes stronger every time you clash with her? I thought it would be by wholeheartedly embracing the gentle city ringed in spears ideology, staying ever on thr defense and never directly fighting her to starve her of tribute. But no. No no no. We're making our

My guess about the "Virgil" thing, is that because The Pale Heart is "Linear", like a typical story, such as the Divine Comedy. I think it'll be the reverse order of the Divine Comedy, where in it it goes Inferno-Purgatorio-Paradiso, rather it'll go Paradiso-Purgatorio-Inferno since the destination becomes more dangerous (hellish) as we progress. Which reminds me of the Heaven/Hell location in Prophecy, which the order of the words being Heaven then Hell feels deliberate, as well as the boss room resembling the Traveler with the Triangle Portal on it.

I feel like at the end of the campaign we might destroy the Witness's physical form and then in the raid they will have become a being of pure darkness. Sort of what Ghaul became at the end of the red war.

I really hope the Io section in the inside of the Traveler is a desert environment. It would be such a cool easter egg. For those who don’t know, the Pyramidion on Io was originally planned to be a location on Mars for a cut Destiny 1 expansion. You can see it in the background of the crucible map Crossroads.

At first I was a bit underwhelmed, but the more I watched and reflected on it, the more hype I got! Can't wait for Final Shape!

If we beat the witness they better be ridiculously creative because I don’t see us beating the witness without breaking all logic.

"... not literally... no one claimed the taken king"

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I think the most interesting part about Eris is her apparent title. She has taken the mantle of being the Hive God of Revenge. This would put Xivu into a situation similar to the one we are currently in given her whole conquest is motivated by a very strong lust for revenge for both Oryx, and Savathun.

I really loved how well recognized you are within this community

The whole time I was watching the live stream I thought “I can’t wait to have byf explain all this to me”

Honestly, the relationship I wanna hear most about is us and our ghost. I love hearing him talk about his experiences and why he rezzed us.

So im gonna throw a theory down here about Cayde. What if he’s a light version of Cayde but not the real one? Everytime out Guardian loses or gains the light there’s a light after image that literally mimics our movement. And that one lore entry about the Ghost whose Guardian got stuck in a trap and can’t be revived. What if the inside of the traveler generates new guardians? Like we are destroyed and rebuilt. Alot like how titans are created in aot, starting out in out universe, and being transferred over to another.

The most encouraging thing I heard from the showcase was "Linier Campaign". That means they can focus the narrative experience down to the simplest, and hopefully strongest, form. We'll have to see about what they do with the story within that narrative structure, but I feel like if you're telling an important story you need that kind of structure.