Destiny 2: The Witness's Origins Cinematic
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This cutscene is fascinating and should have been released earlier by Bungie. It's already one of my favorite cutscenes, and I'm eager to learn more about The Witness, hopefully in The Final Shape.
Link to original video: • Destiny 2: Season of t...
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Thanks!
@Zenavor
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, Redrix!!!!!
@Pizzazoomman
Жыл бұрын
You donated? 🤡🤡🤡🤡
@tauiin
Жыл бұрын
@@Pizzazoomman what's wrong with that lmao
So basically the traveler traveled and the witness witnessed.
@CBRN-rokkuman
Жыл бұрын
I guess
@superelite5133
Жыл бұрын
Lmao
@userfromtheinternet
Жыл бұрын
🤯🤯🤯
@joshrivet6225
Жыл бұрын
bro my favorite part in destiny 2 was when the guardians guarded and the traveler traveled
@ifirespondiamstupid7750
Жыл бұрын
@CyberPup 22 😂😂😂
Ok, so let me see if I got this correctly, 1.) The Witness isn't some elder god from the beginning of the universe, it was once an entire race of aliens and is the first race to find the traveler and be uplifted by it. 2.) This race worshipped the traveler as a god; however, despite the traveler granting this race gifts of power and knowledge, they craved to understand their purpose in the universe, so they set out in their pyramid ships to find the answer. 3.) The race found The Veil, which is the Darkness’ version of the traveler, a “dark mirror,” as Xur put it. After studying the veil, the race learned that the traveler, and by extension, the light, is a form of chaos and change, which can provide life and cause death and destruction. 4.) The race saw this power or change as a curse that only leads to suffering, so they decided to use what they had learned by studying the veil to steal the traveler’s power, or its “pale heart,” to reshape the universe so there would be no life or death, no suffering or change, just complete nothingness. 5.) Obviously, the traveler fled from them. So in order to be powerful enough to pursue the traveler and defeat it, this race sacrificed themselves on mass and combined their essence into a singular being, The Witness. 6.) So the traveler keeps hopping from planet to planet, hoping to find a race that can defeat the witness once and for all Edit: Damn! well thanks for all the likes guys, I’ll see you stateside!
@icebrg.
Жыл бұрын
You got it chief. Perfect explanation!
@Jaakuna-usagi
Жыл бұрын
@dontmasktruth-92 It didn't, cutscene showed them finding it after struggling to survive. The reflection in their eyes was them finding "The Traveler" buried while wandering, which they named "The Gardener" ; then it shows them excavating it and building around it over time. They didn't create it just named it, like humanity named it "The Traveler". Then when they went all nuts, it left them.
@Jeerin_
Жыл бұрын
@@Jaakuna-usagi so the real question is what made the traveler
@nicaxcat9273
Жыл бұрын
@TheGamingGeek Destiny 3 purpose leaked 😂😂😂😂
@CrashDAMFCourse
Жыл бұрын
Someone pin this comment!!!!!!!
Can't believe a seasonal cutscene explained The Veil and everything else more than an entire DLC.
@allthenamesiwantedweretaken
Жыл бұрын
Not even an entire DLC, an entire goddamn *Expansion* . They have zero excuse.
@savathunthejudge914
2 ай бұрын
Finally. Yall figured it out
@CW-rh4jz
2 ай бұрын
Bungie are literally making the story up as they go along.
@acrnm
Ай бұрын
Bungie shouldn’t do story anymore, just release a crucible gameplay game
@GusJenkinsElite
28 күн бұрын
@@acrnm funniest thing I've seen all year, thanks for this! Holy shit...
Normally I avoid leaked stuff like this but considering how astronomically hard Bungie dropped the ball with Lightfall’s story I was done waiting.
@Johnmaloney1962
Жыл бұрын
Same
@admirald.rifter1819
Жыл бұрын
Bro is speaking my words right here
@euphoricstamen9562
Жыл бұрын
Exact same here.
@badollies
Жыл бұрын
PREACH BROTHA I AM DUN WAITIN
@knzie.
Жыл бұрын
Agreed this helped explain so much more and what should have been in lightfall
this cutscene was way better then all of lightfall campaign story
@peter2kx
Жыл бұрын
Yes, because it deserved to be in lightfall and probably was suppose to be. Bungie gutted that expansion lol
@e1xgaming481
Жыл бұрын
@@peter2kx I don't think this would have helped the Lightfall campaign. Lightfall campaign was basically Infinity War but only Thanos involved parts. Season of Defiance was Infinity War, but only the Guardians of the Galaxy parts. This season feels very Thor's arc in the movie.
@MrTytyjohn64
Жыл бұрын
@@e1xgaming481lol light fall is not comparable to infinity war at all due to its poor narrative
@KCM25NJL
Жыл бұрын
@@MrTytyjohn64 This view that Lightfall was/is poor being down to it's narrative, is not entirely accurate. Lightfall was the only campaign that didn't end with "answers"...... which for me is fine, as long as the remainder of the expansion (remaining seasons) fleshes it out enough with detail that it leads to the next expansion smoothly. Could Lightfall have included the Final Shape and led to a suitable conclusion after 4 seasons? Sure.... but there's a good chance that it would have felt rushed and that we'd have been complaining about that instead of this. They obviously saw that fact and I guess with the financial incentive, ran it out. We get more content, we get drip fed the closing arc..... which to be quite frank.... has been an addiction personally for me that has cured my Netflix problem. I think we only get to be mad if they butcher the end of Final Shape....... their ball to drop.
@a118studios7
Жыл бұрын
-this is where I saw my father die, Nimbus -cowaboonga!
This at least explains why the Pyramids are empty, which has been my biggest complaint with the Pyramids was the lack of some other race that was not the ones we’ve known. Essentially the lost 5th race is literally the witness, except it’s just bonded into one being. 😅
@lmlagg
Жыл бұрын
@@JizzSock_ what
@cloudgummykasi7642
Жыл бұрын
Amalgamation
@Olc-ui8fk
Жыл бұрын
Also those weird crystal statues are the beings that merged.
@colvamoon6962
Жыл бұрын
@@JizzSock_ um...how?
@user-ug6sm4nj9b
Жыл бұрын
@@colvamoon6962 5th race used the power of the veil/darkness to marge their consciousness into the witness
Wow. The fact that this cutscene is able to explain in less than 4 minutes what Lightfall wasn't able to convey in its entirety, is absolutely astonishing. There is an astronomical mismanagement of writers/writing within Bungie.
@cardecito8203
Жыл бұрын
I think it more so confirms that Lightfall never really was part of the plan for the story.
@galetheimpaler7077
Жыл бұрын
It only reflects how this company is willing to chop up or come up with crazy story arcs in the name of dragging it out and just make money off of it knowing the players will pay just to know what the hell is going on. This cutscene really should open people's eyes to how greedy this company is.
@jameskarg3240
Жыл бұрын
Lightfall...reeks of shoehorning by woke developers who, thankfully, didn't irreparably damage the entire narrative. It WASENT meant to be...but perhapse the devs. Founds WITHOUT an in-between, the abrupt arrival to the last chapter would be worse. So they made a poor deal to avoid a disasterous outcome. NOW the bigger plot, at last, HAS a nutshell version we can explain: the witness is the travelers first ever blessed race, coalesced into a singular being, and it's pursuit is the cause of returning everything to perfect nothingness, an end to life and death, of fates, of chaos itself. To them: chaos is the antithesis of purpose, and they view chaos as their Harbinger of suffering, which must be stopped at ANY cost
@curtiscrosley2574
Жыл бұрын
@@galetheimpaler7077 You clearly haven't been around long enough to remember when Bungie was beholden to Activision since you want to bring up greed.
@repstylegaming9730
Жыл бұрын
The point of destiny lore is to be confused the whole fucking time for years.
This fully explains how the Witness is so powerful, too. If the Darkness is found in consciousness, then melding an ENTIRE RACE into one being would definitely do wonders for enhancing that power.
@adamboy0559
Жыл бұрын
It may enhance it greatly but this shows the witness tho extremely strong is mortal and not a god meaning it can be killed
But has the witness ever been faced with a 4th times target lock retrofit + witherhoard
@StarlyteGaming
Жыл бұрын
retrofit has been shit since the nerf
@Raidenthemandude
Жыл бұрын
that mf boutta melt steel beams
@SavvyMon4
Жыл бұрын
@@StarlyteGaming wrong
@StarlyteGaming
Жыл бұрын
@@SavvyMon4 i have it
@Logicneverworks
Жыл бұрын
Thundercrash + TTF with catalyst + Riptide
So it’s not Pyramid Ship versus Big Ball-it’s half ball versus big ball. It’s crazy that the pyramid fleet is more of a token to what the traveler was rather than an anthesis.
@Samuel_Loegan
Жыл бұрын
Half ball vs big ball XD
@e1xgaming481
Жыл бұрын
The Fleet are just the ships of this civilization. But the fact that they (The Witness) did all this warring and genocide because they want to be connected to a god because it didn't give them direction is the most narcissistic thing I have ever imagined.
@mmmmouth
Жыл бұрын
It sorta is still Pyramid vs Big Ball. The traveler is connected to the Veil, kind of like two ends of a phone call. But its the Witness wanting to conjoin the two that makes the traveler flee
@eye-chan1711
Жыл бұрын
I honestly don’t think so. It doesn’t really seem like the Traveler and Veil are at odds.
@NTVT1999
Жыл бұрын
Tbf the sharp angular nature of the ‘mids is also present in our ghost. Straight lines vs curves was never the endgame apparently!
Finally the Statues found in the Pyramid ships have been explained. They are the symbol of the Final Shape. A Veiled (Darkness) Female (Gardener/Light) - literally what the Witness wants SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMP
@schonkigplavuis8850
Жыл бұрын
bingoo
@glitchmob1497
Жыл бұрын
So the witness wants women
@definitelynotjayferno
Жыл бұрын
@@glitchmob1497 This is confirmation that The Witness gets no bi-
@hervisdaubeny2784
Жыл бұрын
@@definitelynotjayferno the witness IS bitches
@ehoffart529
Жыл бұрын
@@glitchmob1497 it's a simp and I'm gonna make fun of it as it wipes my team several times in the raid.
What an extremely good cutscene, The Traveler basically creates the evil against it and The Witness is the entire first race that the Traveler looked over, fascinating
@stelonous
Жыл бұрын
but the Queen said that there wasn't only one traveler. How does that play with this?
@thetraveler2224
Жыл бұрын
@@stelonous You're taking Savathun's words for granted. That's foolish.
@lucianpowe9659
Жыл бұрын
@@stelonous Savathun is the queen of lies so never take what she says seriously
@atomictraveller
Жыл бұрын
dude you remember too many details, switch to indica
@Lucien135
Жыл бұрын
Yea, but this still doesn't tell us what the veil is. The only detail is that the witness learned its power and that it's another entity alongside the traveller with different powers. Now im more interested in the story of the traveller and the veil. Lets hope it gets answered in lightfall
Xur has been telling us since D1 that the traveler has a dark mirror. This is the veil.
@lumberluc
Жыл бұрын
Neither Evil nor Good. Just is
@BrockPurdysBurner13
Жыл бұрын
@@lumberluc just is
@beninnes2656
Жыл бұрын
it explains The Witnesses pursuit of the Traveler and the Veil, neither is the source of the Light or the Darkness but merely conduits for these powers and why the final shape can only be attained with the powers of both.
@kronost06
Жыл бұрын
He's been telling us... And we didn't listen.
@saadqazi3833
Жыл бұрын
Xur does bear resemblance to the Witness's species...
Classic example of biting the hand that feeds you. The traveler saved that civilization from ruin only for them to start acting like they owned the traveler🙃
@Scrungge
Жыл бұрын
Idk maybe that would happen with every civilization which makes it the traveler's fault.
@barca_plays8726
Жыл бұрын
Very human like
@jibbily27
Жыл бұрын
You forget about the destruction the light was shown to cause, and from their perspective it was without meaning
@Scrungge
Жыл бұрын
@@jibbily27 Yep
@raekwonchambers2297
Жыл бұрын
The traveller showed them no guidance so they didn’t know what to do with all that power or how to use it properly so it’s the travellers fault.
I believe some of you may be confused. The civilization of The Witness did not create Darkness itself, they just embraced another form of power that The Veil had to offer, rather than The Light. So, the same could most likely be said about The Traveler, maybe it is also just a creature that embraced the powers of The Veil.
@hapythots
Жыл бұрын
nah. the traveler is the gardener. the veil is the winnower. one creates uncontrolled, the other tempers it through culling. light and dark. the first group of people that worshipped the traveler/gardener found out that uncontrolled creation can be bad/chaotic. they found the veil, and learned the darkness/power of reason/sword logic. they went back to the traveler to show it how they can now shape the life/creation it makes with reason. then it got mad and left. the society then used the sword/reason/darkness to shape themselves into the witness. and then chased the traveler down. they want to basically be like the logos/reason/god head and shape reality/creation into what they think is best.
@TheLasombra077
Жыл бұрын
@@hapythotsyeah and it’s stupid. They are destroying the cosmos over a ‘could be abused’. As if Darkness couldn’t be abused as well? Or any normal weapon or technology. Just bad writing
@hapythots
Жыл бұрын
@@TheLasombra077 not exactly. its not that it "could" be abused, its that constant creation without restraint WILL destroy things. thats why they showed volcanoes and stuff. at that point creation becomes like a cancer to the other living things. the traveler doesnt stop or think about what it does, it just keeps creating. the winnower and i guess now the witness see this, and try to temper/winnow the life that gets made. but to different degrees? the witness definitely wants to "Shape" life into what it thinks is best. which might not actually be best. it also brings up the question, who gets to decide which life is "worthy" of living, and has the right to cull the others. no one knows the potential that life could reach. but at the same time, that life may in fact destroy a lot of other things just by existing.
@dj_r97
Жыл бұрын
At the simplest sense, it just means they want to "cover the light" with the veil, or rather, contain/control it? Like, if you think about it, its pretty simple - using a veil to cover the light :S funny how it's been staring us in the face all along 😅
@NaptownClassic
Жыл бұрын
@@TheLasombra077 They wanted meaning in their lives. Structure. Not one time in this video did anyone mention the potential for abuse of the Gardener's power. They were fine with abusing that power, they built a whole civilization on abusing/exploiting that power. The video doesn't mention any moral concerns over the fact that the Gardener could end entire species on a whim. The implication is that their concern was for the fact that it could end THEM, and they wanted to make sure that didn't happen. Just bad comprehension.
THIS is what we should've had in Lightfall. We should've been shown this cutscene in Lightfall and probably the biggest complaint of the campaign would've been negated.
@curtiscrosley2574
Жыл бұрын
Why does everyone have to revert back to hating on Lightfall can't we all just watch a cutscene and say "damn that was fucking cool" instead of finding ways to shit on everything at every chance we get?
@inventedbaton958
Жыл бұрын
@@curtiscrosley2574 It's more like we think this is so good, that we got no clue why they didn't just put it at the end of the story, because it would've made this cutscene and the story an even better experience.
@shadowtear101
Жыл бұрын
@@curtiscrosley2574 because the dlc was hot ass through and through. They literally chopped up the dlc and spread across the 3 seasons.
@ZarinuLoren
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if this cutscene is going to stay after The FInal Shape drops or it will be gone with other seasonal content?
@NickTemperistic
Жыл бұрын
@@curtiscrosley2574 holding a dev accountable for withholding content from us is too important to stay quiet
So... The Witness is basically the Antispiral. Alright, I see you Bungie, I know what's up
@dawsongranger4940
Жыл бұрын
The witness wants to return to the primordial goo like NERV. They all want to be one. Everything leads back to gurren lagann and evangelion
@lmlagg
Жыл бұрын
Can't wait for the Destiny x Gurren Laggan collab
@mr.dr0bot731
Жыл бұрын
Gurren Lagan is still goated.
@VRGUILE
Жыл бұрын
Alright. That's it. When the final battle begins I'm blasting GLs theme song during damage phase
@taylorkennedy1428
Жыл бұрын
@@VRGUILE ROW ROW FIGHTTHE POWER!!!
This really makes the Witness more terrifying. This race was so down bad to, from what I understand, try to bring balance to the universe that they all gave up their lives into one being. The Witness being an amalgamation makes sense and is... creepy.
@CJWII
Жыл бұрын
We kinda already knew it was an amalgamation. It speaks saying "We."
@lumberluc
Жыл бұрын
Knew it was, but thought it was time doing its thing. Nope, it was a planet in one body. Also explains how it was able to slice my ship before I knew it
@kennya8609
Жыл бұрын
It also explains the rage it has. Chasing the traveler for years just to see it helped another race. And sending several disciples just to get beat enrage it even more so now it’s just pure hatred at this point.
@ifirespondiamstupid7750
Жыл бұрын
@@kennya8609 Time to destroy the Witness by dividing it up to individuals again and slaughter them all.
@hitogami5827
Жыл бұрын
Nah, makes it less terrifying. Previously we thought the Greater powers may be at play Primordial entities which don't even want to kill us, they just argue with each other. So was that you can't just kill them, can walk to them. Can't do anything because you are a chess piece to them - no matter the how much "strong" and "exotic" moves you get, you still a piece of wood on the board and they are humans. But now, and for a long time its know - The Witness is just another guy, that wants our stuff. Sure, their origin is "special" but it doesn't matter. It is animal. Alien just like any other. Another Oryx, another Ghaul, another Crota. A god only in name, no more than you or me while being high. All the lore, accumulated over the years from it and Darkness? Lies. Literally you can throw everything about the Darkness into a trash can because it was madness of some guy with too much ego. And they exist specifically so we can kill it in Final Shape. That's all. A body to murder. A boring "relatable villain" brought to you by Bungie because we can't have complicated story with base rooted in mythology and philosophy - no, we need and ending where we kill bad guy and everyone happy.
This is giving me Mass Effect vibes where all the civilizations in the galaxy that were harvested had their own Reaper. I wonder if Final Shape will involve something wild like our guardian becoming the complete embodiment of the light, absorbing all of the light bearers into ourselves to become an entity just like the Witness...and then the two of us start the game all over again.
@Hyperion9997
Жыл бұрын
I am all the jedi?
@trillminati4002
Жыл бұрын
@@Hyperion9997 yes!
@jas6853
Жыл бұрын
Or get a temporary power up from the traveler itself
@wallyhellblazer6905
Ай бұрын
Love destiny but this story is so generic...things get ruin if are explain too much. Is just an engry guy after a ball who make plants...a comic book regular super villan. no cosmic or elder gods, not even the darkness...i known you all like this story, but for my is just lame, is like mass effect but with only one reaper on the harvest.
honestly, if this cutscene was displayed near the start of the lightfall campaign, almost the entire DLC's story would've been saved, it provides motive to the witness, tells us the mcguffin (the veil) and explains why the hell we are on neomuna at all
This civilization..is billions of years old..
@hmx8694
Жыл бұрын
And so is this witness.
@lucaricci1987
Жыл бұрын
Wait so are the witnesses older or are the Vex older?
@michaelkowalski2109
Жыл бұрын
@@lucaricci1987 the vex aren’t old they’re just time traveling
@thechunkmaster8794
Жыл бұрын
The Vex canonically existed before time itself and are thus the oldest race we have fought in the game.
@bait644
Жыл бұрын
Probably more like quintillion years old given all that shit happened thousands or millions or billions of years before the Hive. And the Hive were millions to billions of years older than Earth even forming.
Its happened. We finally know what the traveler is. Turns out we knew for quite some time time now
@golodniyhistoryck171
Жыл бұрын
So... what is the traveler ?
@KCM25NJL
Жыл бұрын
@@golodniyhistoryck171 Well isn't it obvious?
@Ethereal_155
Жыл бұрын
@@KCM25NJL maybe? depends on what you mean
@e1xgaming481
Жыл бұрын
@@golodniyhistoryck171 Hope. They literally hoped a being into existence. Or they called it to them with their hope. Because it looks like it came out of the planet they are on.
@dankblissey6162
Жыл бұрын
we don't know tho, in fact before this cutscene we had a pretty good idea, but this now wipes the slate clean and we are back to square 1 with no clue what the traveller actually is. We do know what the witness is now tho
This in no way ruins the game for me. It actually gets me more excited to see what’s next. Whoever leaked it thank you because I was losing hope with this game lol
@allthenamesiwantedweretaken
Жыл бұрын
Agreed. This gives me a tiny glimmer (heh) of hope for 2024's "The Final Shape" if Bungie can clean up their act.
@NoraInu__
Жыл бұрын
@@allthenamesiwantedweretaken doubtful, all the good people left to work on Marathon
@steffanocornejo6129
Жыл бұрын
@@NoraInu__u do realize marathon is not a story game. It's just pvp they don't need story people for a pvp game
@NoraInu__
Жыл бұрын
@@steffanocornejo6129 i know it's a pvp game, that doesn't take away from the fact that the people who actually know how to work on a game and keep monkeys interested for a whole year on destiny left to work on Marathon. Lightfall is a terrible expansion compared what we got last year
@afarsemon9164
Жыл бұрын
@@allthenamesiwantedweretaken Bro is setting himself up for another disappointment of a sub par 4 hour long campaign and endless grind
These cutscenes art styles are so brilliantly done!!!!
This gives me a lot of Gurren Lagann Spiral vs. Anti-Spiral. Basically a race of beings on the side of good Spiral/Light was so scared how if left alone could lead to devastation that they devoted themselves to bringing order and restrictions Anti-Spiral/Darkness
@MegaPikachu5
Жыл бұрын
Even down to the whole species joining into one aspect too
@BlueBerrySherry
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if they were a bit inspired by GL 😮 still my favourite anime ❤
@Coffeecrayon76
Жыл бұрын
Theres a lot of similarities with gurren lagann in destiny 2. The moon hiding something Cayde is kamina to us Crow is like viral
@MegaPikachu5
Жыл бұрын
@@Coffeecrayon76 i didnt even realise those other connections
@Blu_Moon_Owl
Жыл бұрын
@@BlueBerrySherry it’s my all time favorite as well
One very important thing to note is that in the beginning who im assuming is Ahsa from the new seasonal stuff, tells us the story of “The witnesses first victims” and midway through the viewpoint switches from 3rd to 1st person saying that all those victims became the witness and started his pursuit. So does this mean that witness did all this to himself.
@Spider-Cop99
Жыл бұрын
I assume the Witness' first victims were the ones who had the Veil
@Oz____
Жыл бұрын
@@Spider-Cop99 the ones who had the veil turned into the witness
@fadeddragon123
Жыл бұрын
It almost sounds like savathun too tbh. But I assume this is end of season lore. Or mid season like with Rasputin and the abhorrent imperative.
God damn we needed this cutscene during Lightfall campaign so badly
So basically the witness’s civilization wants structure and meaning in a chaotic and cruel universe but could never do so because they needed to open the door inside the traveler? So I wonder if the final shape is just a reality with purpose instead of a wild DESTINY/fate that anybody can obtain. However if the witness never opened the door the first time before the traveler fled its home world , does that mean they(the witness) don’t even know wat they’re doing inside? Or even navigating wherever they are? Honestly I’m really excited on how bungie writes the final chapters of this saga.
@doglorde
Жыл бұрын
Actually the "pale heart" is the final shape. They need it to shape the reality into nothingness. And this "nothingness" is a reality that converge all the multiverses and realities in one. Remember that Traveler's prime objective are life and harmony above all things. Sorry for my bad english
@MICROKNIGHT3000
Жыл бұрын
The veil was connected to traveler, they brought it to Traveler and it worked. The witness civilization had what they wanted for a while. Then the Traveler left to stop that.
@axelkusanagi4139
Жыл бұрын
I think when the Witness says "No more Life" it mainly means "no more consciousness". Consciousness opposes it, it has its own desires and needs and wants. It ties into what it said at the end of The Witch Queen; "No more death". That's easy enough to figure out. It wants to end death with the gardener's power, thus everyone in the universe can no longer die of hunger (like the Drifter used to) but also can no longer FEEL hunger either (you have to be conscious on some level to do so). If you didn't need to sleep, eat, excrete waste, reproduce or anything else you could devote yourself to a singular purpose, and especially without consciousness to distract you. Look at the soldiers the witness uses. -the taken (whittled down to one future, where they serve the witness) -the wrathborn (consumed by singular rage) -the shadow legion (blank, utterly obedient empty soldiers)
@grayden4138
Жыл бұрын
The Witness' race wanted to solve for an equation where they were not given the solution. The Gardener's purpose wasn't to give life purpose in the Universe. I think the fault in the Witness' race was expecting to have their hands held by their "god" only to be disappointed. Similar to how Zavala despairs after Holliday's death at the silence of the Traveler. The Final Shape now appears to be the Witness' attempt to solve for that equation by merging the Veil and Traveler to enter some paracausal rip in the Universe from where they might have the ability to shape the universe into their twisted/corrupted view of what existence should be.
@Cabbage22927
Жыл бұрын
Maybe the real final shape was the friends we made along the way
The fact that The Witness is made from dead bodies says a lot about him. This explains the face-shaped smoke from his head.
@DestinedDeath703
Жыл бұрын
It’s not made of dead bodies, rather it is gestalt conciseness of entire race. All the souls put into one body. A mind hive one body, one voice, many souls.
@WILLINGLYWILD
Жыл бұрын
@@DestinedDeath703 not necessarily one voice, as Mara I believe said
@SomeGuyWithTwoCats6066
Жыл бұрын
And the many voices it has... Pretty creepy ngl
@mohdamin6641
Жыл бұрын
They are not smoke but souls who suffered for billions of years its the last 5th race that that existed 9 years ago
@Pygmyz06
Жыл бұрын
The witness is not a him lol it’s a collective being
I believe this cutscene will play when we are finally able to communicate with Ahsa and this is Ahsa narrating the cutscene
@curtiscrosley2574
Жыл бұрын
This is the best take I've heard yet! Considering their species gave rise to the worm gods means they've been around a VERY long time so she's probably seen some things.
@allthenamesiwantedweretaken
Жыл бұрын
... okay, that actually makes insane amounts of sense.
@12undeadleader
Жыл бұрын
This sounds like Sloane. I don't think Ahsa will actually speak, just use Sloane as a puppet. Although worms can speak..
@rithvikmuthyalapati9754
Жыл бұрын
@@12undeadleader Yeah after playing the missions, I realize that Ahsa is speaking through Sloane through psychic connection strengthened by Egregoric corals and golden age tech
@SebastianMartinez-qq6tu
Жыл бұрын
Well, you were correct haha
2:49 me trying to fall asleep on top of my blankets when the room is too hot:
"Thus began the Witness' pursuit. It's campaign to impose meaning on a meaningless universe." The Witness did all this for an edgey philosophy question. 😂
@takkipusa6910
Жыл бұрын
The witness attended one lecture about existentialism and they made it their whole personality.
@rithvikmuthyalapati9754
Жыл бұрын
Calus did mock the Witness about this. Let's just say it ended with Calus giving "infinite apologies"
@thisisabackupemail2264
Жыл бұрын
@@rithvikmuthyalapati9754 Funnily enough, lore context of the Nightmares raid means it's more likely that Nezarec was interrogating Calus, hazing him basically while taking the form of the Witness.
@TheOneFamine
Жыл бұрын
Don’t underestimate the relevancy of questions like this after you reach a state of having literally everything you can desire The question for meaning will literally rip you apart
@-_Oro_-
Жыл бұрын
@@thisisabackupemail2264 Why do people keep thinking that Nez was using the form of the Witness? What part of the raid lore says this?
Honestly this is kinda scary the voice talking in the cutscene and uhh is the witness made of millions of dead bodies/people and that’s why he looks the way he does and with the heads coming out of the smoke on his head
@Gabriel3Gamu
Жыл бұрын
That voice is the Leviathan
@hahaxdd313
Жыл бұрын
not to be one of those people but it’s safe to say They/Them when referring to the Witness, not because I’m some fanatic LGBTQIAFGLKOIDNDLAKSCNC+ activist, but because it gives the Witness more character, and uniqueness. It quite literally is a bunch of souls conjoined in one.
@mmmmouth
Жыл бұрын
@@hahaxdd313 your right. The Witness is just a conjoinment of their whole population.
@sirrickardjameses
Жыл бұрын
@hahaxdd313 "not to be that person" *is that person*
@NTVT1999
Жыл бұрын
@Soviet Punk lmao “I don’t wanna accidentally come across like a good person, but“ 😂
Rewatching this cutscene again kinda explains why “bravery, devotion, sacrifice” is needed for the traveler to “bless” you, because the Witness & their people were narcissistic and greedy, the traveler helped their kind only for it to turn on it at the end. I see why the Traveler picks and chooses
@wholelotta2804
Жыл бұрын
Yeah this cutscene honestly made me not really like the Witness as a villain. Idk they’re just a spoiled group of people that took they’re come up for granted. They’re not even The Darkness so it’s like.. hmm I’m more interested in stopping what they communed with dealing with the Veil.
@bearitin7563
Жыл бұрын
@@wholelotta2804dog the witness is as much the dark as the traveller is the light
@wholelotta2804
Жыл бұрын
@@bearitin7563 Nah you’re wrong. The Veil is as much as the darkness as The Traveler is the light. The Witness is just a merged group of people because of what they communed with in or near the Veil. Xur even said the Veil is like a mirror of the Traveler. The Witness is a spoiled collective who wants they’re own way. It simply was blessed by the light and now wears the Darkness as a cloak. Witness is more like the Speaker if he dabbled in Darkness. My thing is.. we probably will end up finding out that the Darkness is the grim reaper force which keeps balance. The Witness has just been using it completely wrong so we have to take him/she/they/it down lol. Part of what I’m thinking is that The Traveler & Veil are basically a type of Heaven & Hell, both hold 2 completely different things. That’s why Ghost told us not to fall in. But it’s just what I’m thinking I’m probably wrongg but we’ll see.
We are the witness. Well close to it. We developed TOO FAST and now we seek meaning. Some find meaning in wealth, some in pleasure and joy, some in vengeange. Whatever the case we are completely willing to destroy everything for that meaning.
@allthenamesiwantedweretaken
Жыл бұрын
Destroy anything and everything for that meaning, even ourselves. Thus, the creation of The Witness. Outstanding observation.
@schonkigplavuis8850
Жыл бұрын
@@allthenamesiwantedweretaken Thanks bro i don't get many compliments.
@Foxyka89
Жыл бұрын
Yes and we will be the Withness! As the traveler(gardener) will leave again, our guardian's souls are going to build the Withness! So this is just a " History repeats itself" game , our destiny! :)
@butttpooop4107
7 ай бұрын
yeah goddamn i didnt put that together but it makes me enjoy the witness a little more
It answers what the veil is! Basically the traveller is the only god in the universe. The darkness was born from the veil. The veil when connected to the traveler opens a portal to a reality full of darkness. They then took this power from that reality and brought it back which is the darkness. The traveller then fled their civilisation when it realised they were abusing its power of light. The witness is called the witness because it witnessed the reality of darkness and they want to go back there
@EpticityOG
Жыл бұрын
@@McSpicyYT Well I mean we don’t really know what the Traveler is either, how it came to be, if light and dark existed before space and time itself, does that mean the Traveler is the light and the Veil the Darkness? Or is the Traveler just still the embodiment of it and not the light itself.
@thevexoffender8197
Жыл бұрын
No darkness always existed. But the witness like you said witness darkness and light together. The witness didn’t create to worms of fundament. It didn’t create strand, it all existee
@dankblissey6162
Жыл бұрын
No it doesn't answer what the veil is at all
@sparkeykills1
Жыл бұрын
Wtf???? It doesn't answer what the veil is at all. Where do you get that? All it says is the veil, the traveler and the darkness are all connected and like yeah no shit. This story just adds a shit load of plot holes to the already existing one and I'm sorta done with destiny lore. It's nonsensical and that's coming from someone who ENJOYS Warhammer 40k lore.
@dizmu6387
Жыл бұрын
bro watched a different video
So this basically confirms the the winnower is not an entity merely an ideology
@EpticityOG
Жыл бұрын
Well basically they became the Winnower themselves, since they saw the lack of one, since they considered the Traveler as a Gardener.
@elbrachoxddd5883
Жыл бұрын
But what is the Winnower exists? That would explain the Traveler being basically digged into that planet. That also explains the flower game and how the Traveler was weak from the begining.
@jibbily27
Жыл бұрын
No it's both, at first they said they needed a winnower so they searched for one; leading them to the veil And using the darkness they discovered within the veil, they became the winnower
@falun3180
Жыл бұрын
The witness people called it “the gardener” just like how we called it “the traveler” or how the Eliksni called it “the great machine”, its not unprecedented for the witness to lie for its own gain This cutscene reframes the story of the gardener and the winnower from a “documentation from beginning of the universe” to a tool for propaganda
Damn what makes this even scarier, is it validates the Witness belief. He was born of an entire civilization killing themselves in order to make one perfect being. The Witness... Damn.
This one scene could have literally changed the way the community felt about Lightfall entirely but instead they just were like “nah, I want to be abused a little”
Extremely interesting. So the Witness took some artistic liberty when they wrote that story with the flower game. They are not a primordial force shaping reality with the Gardener , but an entity trying to achieve godhood and recreate reality in their own image. Maybe the flower game takes place inside the Traveller? Like a forge for the universe. When they first tried to create their ideal universe the Gardener/Traveller rejected them and fled. Maybe the Witness fabricated this story to seem more formidable or inevitable and maybe even noble. As they seem to have no problems lying and manipulating to achieve their goals. And now the Witness is in the process of rewriting the universe…
@WILLINGLYWILD
Жыл бұрын
This isn’t the witness speaking, this is Ahsa the leviathan on titan, who is an enemy of the witness and would more than likely have no reason to lie to us if the witness is fully evil
@elbrachoxddd5883
Жыл бұрын
I believe the Winnower isn't the Witness, Because else the Traveler wouldn't yet be so weak. The Winnower is something else, the thing that made the Traveler into this dormant state
@eduardojuliolasso9344
Жыл бұрын
@@elbrachoxddd5883 The Winnower doesnt exist. The Witness's people wanted someone to give them purpose and make sense of the senseless Universe for them, but when they were denied it by the Traveler they decided they would become it instead. The Witness is trying to BECOME the Winnower. Thats the Final Shape.
@elbrachoxddd5883
Жыл бұрын
@@eduardojuliolasso9344 But then why IS the Traveler there, and what do the flower game cards mean?
@goobloza9934
Жыл бұрын
@@elbrachoxddd5883 I think it’s there just because it is. Like I think the question itself of “what is the traveler? Why is the traveler” is the same exact question the witnesses species had. truth is there is no good answer. It’s just a god like being and another strange aspect of a strange universe it resides in. And that question with no answer drove the species to madness and left to cope and create a false narrative. Tbh I don’t know if it’s intentional or not but it’s a good reflection of the player base always asking what the traveler is. That’s atleast my interpretation
So the pyramid ship and the witness is from an extremely advanced civilization hmmm
@Zenavor
Жыл бұрын
imagine that. millions, potentially billions of people combined into one entity… not only the physical abilities of those people, but the mental capacity of those people.
@jaredf.6532
Жыл бұрын
@@Zenavor explains why my bro is over 6ft
@Zenavor
Жыл бұрын
@@jaredf.6532 ong 😭
@mistadangerzone8362
Жыл бұрын
And all of them fueled by pure hatred against the traveler
@Ahnock
Жыл бұрын
@@jaredf.6532 the witness is more like 600 ft, have you *seen* the concept art of calus next to it?
I wonder if after defeating it, the Witness will break into many many shadowy entities and this will be a new enemy race. Like you know, those things from the old concept art.
@Zenavor
Жыл бұрын
ooh that could be really interesting
@KuRoSaKiii
Жыл бұрын
I have a strong feeling we won't even win 😐😐 So far we have been struggling to stand a chance against the witness's power, one flick of his hand destroyed a fleet... Even with cayde's return and most likely every other guardian that lost their life in battle that has been living inside the traveler! Since we have been the heroes of our people all along... And we barely managed to stand against the fleet! Yes we will run through every force the witness will throw at us, question is... Will we manage to go through it?
This was awesome. Wish more cut scenes were this good
They predicted the Traveller would cause ruin. But they just became the ruin that was predicted. Self fulfilling prophecy i guess? I don't know. Just seems like a really big smooth brain moment on their end.
@ifirespondiamstupid7750
Жыл бұрын
Exactly, dumba$$ Witness
@razatiger22
24 күн бұрын
But it was their hopes and wishes that created the Traveller/Gardener. I would argue the witness believes they own the Traveller.
THIS IS FANTASTIC I LOVE THE PHILOSOPHY BEHIND THIS
So now we finally got the answers we needed from Lightfall. Cant wait for new lights who join be completely confused cause the seasons and cut scene is gone.
Honestly, this would be us too if we were ever to encounter a being that uplifted all of humanity collectively. Like people already have a penchant for trying to find meaning in the day to day, imagine you’re now able to live indefinitely to the point where you’ve probably exhausted all pleasures and venues of interest, mix that with religious zealotry, and you’ve got the recipe for some intergalactic Jonestown singularity of an organism called The Witness.
To theorise then, i would suppose the 'final shape' is in essence the witness trying to bond with, and assume control over, the travellers functions of the physical realm. If the witness desires nothingness, then it likely seeks to use the travellers power to create life to effectively undo everything, destroy the fabric of reality by erasing gracity, life, etc, the domains controlled by the gardener.
@Scrungge
Жыл бұрын
This reads like 9yo nonsense lol
@hekard7903
Жыл бұрын
@@Scrungge Well I'm not trying to convince anyone :)
The Witness is a manifest of all that a people are and the wish/mission, its salvation. It is an ascended being, a collective of conscious. None of them, yet all of them at the same time. From a civilization that's older than Earth or Sol itself to a single personification of desire and purpose. The evolution of commitment itself.
@WILLINGLYWILD
Жыл бұрын
It’s not really a personification of these things/ideas, it’s just beings that chose to express those things as a hive mind, the will didn’t come before the race of beings but the other way around
Man this really just became a huge plot twist or something like holy shit im shocked and view things differently now
The Idea that somehow the Traveler was in the Witness' planet, seemingly buried in there, somewhat explains what Nezarec said before, specifically the one about "its oldest victims". Maybe the Witness's species was the first to ever be gifted the light by the Traveler. Which then brings up the next question, does that mean the Traveler was formed in their planet or was the gardener just happened to be dormant in their planet?
So by what I saw the witness is essentially the embodiment of everyone from the first civilization that worshipped the traveler
@user-oo3oi9ki2j
Жыл бұрын
Yep. And since noone hunted the Traveller yet, their Golden Age lasted a *lot* longer than for other species
@AwashimaSeriLieutenant
Жыл бұрын
In comparison, humanities golden age only lasted for 200 years...if you think about it, since the travelers appearance extended the span of human life, there where humans who saw the three cosmonauts land on mars, lived through the golden age and probably saw the collapse happen
Awesome cutscene.... I'm guessing we get this from the end of the veil related missions they were talking about. The only way hearing this voice makes sense is having us go back to the veil to interact with it? Initially thought this would be coming from the last week or two of this season from the being on Titan, but they seem more focused on Xivu. Either way though, I think this is all we are getting until Final Shape
@WILLINGLYWILD
Жыл бұрын
The voice is the leviathan ahsa so yes it will be on titan in the seasonal story, either at the end of it or in the middle when we can hear it’s thoughts clearly
@MICROKNIGHT3000
Жыл бұрын
There is one more season before final shape
@e1xgaming481
Жыл бұрын
@@MICROKNIGHT3000 2 more.
Wow super cool story, would be cool if it was included in the DLC that was supposed to answer questions we've been asking ever since D1.
@alexschittenden
Жыл бұрын
100%. Instead we got they them cringe surfer
@captainblorgus2515
Жыл бұрын
It’s not how this story goes. Lightfall was supposed to be mysterious. Lightfall was a race, we had to get to The Veil before Calus could, we don’t know why The Witness wants it, just that it does, and that’s enough for us to try to stop it. Yet, The Witness fooled us and achieved it goal, now we lost and are in the calm before the storm. We’re now plotting out next move, so now we’re learning more about The Veil in hopes we’ll learn something that gives us an edge. The Destiny Seasonal stories always had set up for the bigger expansions. Lightfall and Final Shape are practically a two-parter, Lightfall was the opener, the Lightfall Seasons provide more info and set up more story, and Final Shape is the grande finale of all Destiny. I feel sorry that you can’t comprehend how the story is being told. I also don’t know where it was said that Lightfall would answer long awaited Destiny questions.
@r3mxd
Жыл бұрын
@@captainblorgus2515 agreed. but the campaign itself was kinda boring ngl think its what killed most of the hype.
@BaghNakh1
Жыл бұрын
@@captainblorgus2515 I think it's the expectation but people in general don't understand how storytelling works, this is why you have people that expect things as "ohh next season is going to be Siva" like they think seasons are like their own separate stories that aren't connected in any way with the main lore. I would agree that the campaign felt lacking in terms of that it felt more like Strand tutorial more than anything but it's obvious that there is a reason why they aren't delving too much into Veil stuff cuz it was probably something for a future season (this season) so talking about it would've been massive spoilers. Same thing with the Nine, there is a reason it's being kept in the shadows, they're mentioned every now and then but so far they have remained behind the curtain for years. Even on this season Zavala is like asking The Drifter "dude wtf is going on with the Nine? whats the whole point of Gambit and stuff?" and he's like "the Nine work in mysterious ways brother". Now that it's revealed most of what The Witness is, what it wants, for example now we know that what it said in the "Unveiling" lore book, it's not the story of how the Universe began objectively, it's a myth from his people, it's The Witness' race "creation myth" basically, it's a story. So I was thinking, what if the Nine are the equivalent to the Witness but in the Human race? What if after what happened during the collapse, they got trapped into a Darkness dimension and they're just trying to escape or manipulate things from their Darkness "universe" in a way? Remember that the "Prophecy" dungeon is supposed to be the "answer" of the Nine to the question: "what is the darkness" or "what is the nature of darkness?", why would the Nine know what the Darkness is? There is a reason they got teased today during the starting quest of Season of the Deep. What if the Nine are like Darkness entities similar to how the Traveler is to the Light? With this cinematic it's obvious that the Witness isn't some kind of Darkness god, it's not the equivalent of the Traveler at all, so what if the Nine are?
@NTVT1999
Жыл бұрын
@@captainblorgus2515 the issue was that other people knew what the Veil was but didn’t tell us. It would even make sense to hear it in the convos between Witness and Calus.
The parallels between Destiny lore, universal laws, the Kybalion, & Religious texts are fascinating
I had heard that Bungie is slapping community members KZread channels that have re-posts of the cut scenes...THANK YOU for posting this as I don't have time anymore to no-life the game and this is the only way I can see what's going on!!!
So the witness is basically destiny’s answer to the emperor of mankind
so you're telling me this super advanced civilization had the veil for billions of years, but then savathun yoinked it from them and dipped
@miksershow4094
Жыл бұрын
What ?
@Langrange-
Жыл бұрын
The Witness must've been PISSED that same evening.
@jibbily27
Жыл бұрын
Well she pretended to be on their side so it makes sense
@LowIntSpecimen
Жыл бұрын
@@Langrange- holy shit yeah the witness must have been fucking *SEETHING* lmao
@someperson3549
Жыл бұрын
I guess when you've had it for billions of years you get kinda complacent.
I feel like this is so different thematically than what the original lore about the darkness was...
This as a lore buff might be the most important cutscene in recent memory, the fact that the Witness is a whole race who did a fusion dance makes it more terrifying than what i originally thought, more information about the Veil is good seeming as the Lightfall campaign told us nothing, the fact that the name the gardener was used by this race and they created the pyramid ships and in turn all of the resonant energy is super interesting. I'm so ready to learn more about this supposed name of this race. Because apart from them basically becoming the witness they never state a name for it. Not to mention the fact that the Witnesses theme used here sounds more and more idk how to describe it, triumphant ig is very cool
What is interesting from this cutscene is that the Travel is portrayed as a careless builder. All the civilizations it uplifted ended in ruin. The connection they sought is quite literal given the fact that they wanted to go inside the traveler.
So we're back to where we should have been the entire time. The witness is not the Darkness, never has been, and the Gardener and Winnower are still inviolate as to the beginning of the universe.
@wholelotta2804
Жыл бұрын
Exactly which kinda makes the Witness a good filler but filler indeed.
Thumbnail needed a double take, I kept seeing Peter Griffin's death pose
So the witness is the amalgamation of it's entire origin species? That is actually pretty damn metal!
@allthenamesiwantedweretaken
Жыл бұрын
And if you think about it... the faces in the smoke coming out from The Witness's head is every soul that was merged into The Witness.
What disappoints me the most is how the darkness has been downgraded. It used to be a dark part of the objective and primal laws of reality, the truth, that existence means the fight for existence and that means survival of the fittest. In a way, it was a realization that can be applied to real life just the same, and I was intrigued what kind of philosophical answer they would give to combat this. Whatever light makes, ontologically, necessarily fights against each other. Like Toland revealed in ghost fragment darkness 3. Then the winnover seemed to be a godly personification of that fact, importantly one prior to existence and the universe itself. Now darkness is some force within the universe and the witness is just a being within the universe. The light, just like real life, isn't purely good and although they acknowledge this, they've added the darkness-force as a counterpart that really isn't different at all. They're both energies instead of the darkness being nothingness, and its whole aspect of psychology and memory opens a different philosophical problem entirely about the nature of consciousness. If the witness as what it is, is defeated after final shape, the cruel reality of life will still exist. This cutscene seems to imply the moral of the story will be to accept "meaninglessness" in life and shape your own destiny. But the cruel survival of the strongest truth isnt adressed. I loved the original destiny lore because it seemed to be a story questioning the limits of reality and existence themselves, instead of taking it for granted and just asking questions within that structure.
This is the Anti-Spiral. Literally everything about this is just the Anti-Spiral.
The voice sounds like Asha speaking through Sloane. I think this a cut scene we’re getting this season
I knew it. When Savathun said “a being with a thousand names and answers to only one” she was speaking literally. Because it speaks as if 1000 voices spoke and is filled with so much rage as if it’s 1000 beings rage and pain.
So...the Witness is the anti spirals from Gurren Lagann combined with the Reapers from Mass Effect.
@aura6920
Жыл бұрын
Yes
this explains why the witness always says "we" instead of "I"
I'm just happy to see that there were so many people that were as confused as I was. I started playing again right after Light fall was released and I was LOST. This video cleared it all up.
I love that years of lore is getting undone because Bungie's writers have no idea what to do without Seth😃
@phoenix9531
Жыл бұрын
Who's Seth?
@OhYeah_
Жыл бұрын
@@phoenix9531 He's Seth Dickinson. He wrote most of the best lore. The Books of Sorrow, Unveiling, Marasenna. And he layed the foundations for what the Darkness would be in Destiny. Even though he was such a great writer Bungie never hired him for some reason so he only worked contracts and eventually got hired by the Subnautica team. So his absence has been pretty apparent in the last few years because the writers are going in a completely different direction than what Seth had built up.
@cj55555c
Ай бұрын
@@OhYeah_No wonder I liked subnatica
This extremely ancient civilization merge into one being and became a collective consciousness of knowledge with a single purpose....😮
The witness: I am the strongest being in the universe My 50cal anti-tank sniper rifle:
In the Gardener and The Winnower story the “First knife” was created. I think this was an example of the sword logic and “becoming sharp” to gain paracausal power. The Witness and by extension Darkness were literally taking part in this sword logic as they merged their power to “become sharp” and re-enacting the first knife in the legends.
This reminds of an anime I’ve seen before where the main villain race discovers a great power then realizes said power could end all existence, then wipes off any known races that have been using said power. As well as a whole plant fusing consciousness into one being… gurren lagann is the anime I’m speaking about ^^
I thought the Pyramids were the blades created by the Winnower when he fought the Gardener during their flower game. This whole Veil/Witness thing feels like it's shoehorned in.
@CJWII
Жыл бұрын
Yup they ruined the lore. The winnower and the flower game. Gone and/or retconned.
@TheAwesomeHyperon
Жыл бұрын
@@CJWII Inspiral implied the Flower Game never actually happened, and reveals that the darkness isn’t sentient. All of that was made up by the Witness. I am disappointed too.
For me, this also finally makes the design of The Witness make SENSE. I could never put my figure out why I didn't like the look of the Witness, but I think it was due to it feeling so out of place as a character in the Destiny universe. Why we didn't get any of this in Lightfall is beyond me, but at least we have it now I guess.
Traveler Traveled. The Witness witnessed it. The Guardians now Guard it. The veil is as obsuce as ever. Truly sophisticated writing and plot
If this is the cutscene we're going to get, this makes the Witness even creepier in my opinion, and explains so many questions from the Lightfall campaign
@andrizzle5887
Жыл бұрын
It is the cutscene there is no “if” lol
They willed the Traveler into existence via "hope", it gave them the ability to live and grow, but gave them no direction. They found The Veil tried to merge it with the Traveler and the Traveler left. They then used the Knowledge from The Veil (Darkness), to sacrifice themselves to become The Witness in order to pursuit The Traveler. So, we are just the latest pawns used in a eons long war between 2 gods who are enemies because one didn't just want to live in growth and prosperity with the possibility of bad things happening.
@EpticityOG
Жыл бұрын
I don’t think they created the Traveler into existence, it’s more like there will for survival summoned the Traveler. They were perhaps most likely the first civilization to be blessed by it.
@MICROKNIGHT3000
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Traveler was already there, the cutscene may misled it. But traveler rose from the ground from being asleep.
@e1xgaming481
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@@MICROKNIGHT3000 That is my new understanding of it. That The Traveler uplifts the most desperate, and useful, civilizations hoping one will fight The Witness.
@alejandrocarralero2826
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no they definetly did not do that, they found it on their planet.
A leaked cutscene explained more about the veil than Lightfall ever did.
That final shape trailer looks a lotttttt like what this cutscene displays as the Witness’ homeworld
I think this would've hit way harder if we had sprinkles of the Traveler's power lashing out of control and not just in it's passive well natural disasters exist. Also it wouldve been cooler if they showed the Witnesses race as guardians trying to maintain their own solar system. Perfecting doing it, but then having those natural disasters undo what they achieved. Like having their main sun explode, and having to rely on the Veil's darkness to halt it.
There was more story in that cutscene than the entire Lightfall expansion.
Absolutely no reason Bungie couldn't have just put this in Lightfall. When your ghost got linked to the Witness it's memories could have leaked into our own which gave us the revelation as to why the Veil is so important, and therefore give us motivation to find as many allies as possible to confront the Witness
If you think about it the witness is just that crazy ex that never leaves you alone
This actually made me say out loud look how far we’ve come
Oooh, I just got a SPICY theory brewing about the Traveler. Seeing it come out of the planet made me think, what if it’s the a member of the same species as the Nine, but given physical form? And the real reason it terraforms planets is to create more of itself by granting that, Dark Matter entity of that planet the same energy? And one of the reasons the Witness keeps chasing it and destroying/wiping out the species of the worlds that it terraforms is to prevent more Travellers from being created?
This one cutscene further proves that the worst thing to happen to destiny is the seasonal model.
So the traveller (Gardener) popped out of the ground like a giant glowing potato and now we cant die?
still brings up more questions about the veil
Talk about the more you'd screw around the more you're gonna find out. The Witness is just a collaboration of people who wanted to find out, so they just... made a body out of bodies apparently
so there is no being of light or dark. im guessing the vail and the traveler are just physical manifestation's of light and dark.
@PrismaticGeyserr
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yep seems like this is the case. Although you could make the argument that the Traveler is the being of Light, as it exercises some form of consciousness and emotion.
@e1xgaming481
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The Traveler would be considered a being of light. But "The Dark" is just the knowledge they gained from studying The Veil. And it looks like The Veil is just another concentration of paracausel energy with ties to The Traveler.
@EpticityOG
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@@McSpicyYT We don’t even know why the traveler exists either or how it came to be, since it’s always been considered a machine too.
@Fever_Ghoul
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The lore video seems to imply that the Traveller was manifested by this races collective hope. It seems to even rise out of the ground as if being born of the planet, as opposed to coming from the stars like it would every other race who’s planet it inhabited.
@Dizastermaster.
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@Manerum "I want to be spoon fed the story so that I know everything in the universe while playing a character that could quite literally have been born yesterday"
I am in awe!!
Woah, this was epic. I got more questions than awnsers
Well this explains all those heads coming out of that white stream from the witnesses head
This turns The Witness into one of the great villains ever in sci-fi, at least in terms of pure evil is Imagine what had to be done at a societal level to convince, what would likely be BILLIONS of people to merge into a single entity The nearly infinite mountains of bodies that The Witness has piled up Every single race that was betrayed by its manipulations All for the one final end, The Final Shape. What was a search for meaning, something with wonder and good intent, turned into an endless crusade to end meaning itself... Its Disciples, War(The Hive), Pain (Nezerac), Greed (Calus) and Dominion (Rhulk) searching for their own twisted interpretation of the end of meaning "The Final Shape.... is Nothing" I feel, if the writers do well, we'll be talking about The Witness long after Destiny's days are over
@jas6853
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Final shape isn’t the end of destiny just the end of the light vs dark saga, there’s more after
@kamikazelemming1552
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Eh, I wouldn't say this makes the Witness any better. If anything, it makes him a bit worse, in my opinion, because this is just a copy-paste of the Anti-Spiral's backstory from Gurren Lagann; a race of beings uncovers a power that could be used to destroy the universe, and merges themselves into a singular, powerful, nihilistic entity with powers comparable to a god. The only really difference is that the Anti-Spiral wanted to preserve the universe while the Witness wants to destroy it.
Somewhere in the cutsene there is even said The Final Shape wich is the name for the last Destiny 2 expansion from the “Light and Darkness saga”