Explaining the Ending to Destiny's Light and Darkness Saga. Destiny 2 Final Shape's Excision Lore!

[Music] greetings Guardians my name is bere salvation  Edge has been completed and it unlocked the   finale for the entirety of Destiny's first 10-year  Saga of light and dark in the process of making   this video I will inevitably talk about spoilers  so this is your final warning to turn off now if   you haven't played the final mission and seen  the cutscenes at the end of it if you do intend   to play it a word to the wise for the moment if  you're doing this in the opening moments of the   video here and if things are still looking a bit  unstable with servers please do it solo there is   a chance you'll miss a crucial cut scene if you  don't Bungie is still trying to fix things and   error codes are slowing down but to guarantee your  experience hit this one alone you'll be matchmade   into a group of 12 you will not be facing the  horde alone so with those warnings out of the   way let's talk about the ending of Destiny's light  and dark Saga the finale to that light and dark   Saga takes place after salvation's Edge has been  completed and when the witness has been severed   from the Traveler's light the witness still needs  to be defeated in a final battle and alongside our   allies we assembled with the Vanguard to make  the final assault against the witness's forces   together in this Titanic battle we're joined by so  many friendly and well unfriendly faces familiar   voices from the past kaisel mithrax marov the  Guardians the elix the cabal even savathun and   some of her loosened Hive like laku a massive  United Force has assembled alongside us to fight   through the horde of the witness's army as this  massive Force we pushed back those loyal to the   witness including enemies of every single stripe  house salvation the loyal Hive of zvo Wrath the   dread the taken the Vex of the Soul divisive  the scorn every single enemy we've ever faced   was there to fight against us but all our allies  stood at our side and eventually we pushed through   to the witness in its Titanic form with Saint 14  providing us an area of safety at all times at our   back the damage that had been done to the witness  in the raid on its monolith its separation from   the Traveler's light had bought us a crucial  opening now the Traveler's light was flowing   freely once again and we could exploit the same  strategy that we' used in our first battle against   the witness to soundly defeat it for good we would  gather the light of the traveler carve a path into   the darkness and use the light of the traveler as  a weapon just as we had in our first confrontation   with the witness we shattered the assembled minds  of the witness's chorus carving it away until at   last there would be next to nothing left with each  moment carving away the witness's inner Minds we   were given a chance to strike back at the Titanic  monster before us until eventually a final moment   was reached a cataclysm in a moment of heroic  sacrifice our own ghost asked us to channel   the light of the traveler through it so that it  might become the weapon of our deliverance and   with that purest of light we unmade the witness  at last in its final moments we saw that the last   of its Minds had been split apart as its Unity  shattered instead of referring to itself as we   in the last moments it stated I don't understand  our ghost thanks to this sacrifice had brought us   was Victory but it gave its life in the process  and as we cradled its shell we found ourselves   transported to a place of luminance a bright  light without explanation perhaps this was the   true Nexus of the Traveler's pale heart perhaps  it was a moment within our own minds perhaps it   was a vision regardless we begged The Traveler  to bring back our ghost and as we have come to   know the traveler was silent but in this moment of  silence someone near and dear was still watching   and made the choice to intervene Cade he returned  and told us that the light is connected in all   things ghosts Guardians the traveler in death our  ghost had returned to the light of the traveler   just like Kate had and so Cade made a choice  he used his own light to return light to our   ghost and bring it back so that he might take its  place instead returning to the traveler to be at   peace once again and so the light of the traveler  flowed through him and into our ghost and as he   faded away our ghost was returned there were many  things that occurred in the time that followed   a lot of them are demonstrated in the cut scenes  that followed but for just a moment we got to see   what we had finally worked for for so long peace  a city filled with people laughing celebrating   children playing a place for all the people  that we had come to call friends and family for   Humanity the awoken the elix the Kabul together we  had overcome together we had triumphed and at last   there was a modum of Peace but for us personally  the reflection on the end of our first long Saga   came to a close in this moment where we were sat  at to the exterior of what I presume is the helm   with our ghost looking over the pale heart of  the traveler we heard a few words from Crow   words indicative of what the future held for us  according to Crow there was a shock wave sent   through the universe by the witness's death with  many of its troops being scattered unless they   were particularly zealous some would still hold on  but most of them would be divided from here on out   threats still exist out there in the universe  though a mortal zeu wrath a disunited house of   Salvation they would struggle on the scorn  and taken would still be wild and dangerous   but were momentarily left leaderless in the wake  of this moment a power vacuum has been created   who Rises to fill it is still not clear but in  time there may be a new Menace on the horizon we   to deal with but there were other troubling  things that occurred savathun and her Lucent   brood had taken root within the pale heart of the  traveler itself and were contesting the Guardians   for control of it even with individuals such as  laku showing us that her brood could be somewhat   disunited there is still the possibility that  we will need to fight savathun for this ground   especially considering the power contained within  the traveler as if this wasn't bad enough the   traveler has been fundamentally Changed by the  darkness introduced into it it has begun to bleed   energy from the portal a combination of light and  dark spilling forth in a beautiful Aurora it's   spilling over Earth and venting into space the  Coalition which now appears to be an alliance has   placed cruisers at its Border in order to contain  the area with a no-fly zone thus far it has not   been tested but the effects of this aluvial field  of Light anded Dark that are spilling forth from   the TR Traver are yet to be seen stranger still  a chunk of anomalous matter has been ejected from   the traveler and was seen moving at relativistic  speeds until it stopped in the orbital path of   nessus an echo of sorts that Crow had tasked  some of his Hunters with investigating an echo   that we might soon come to see for ourselves  there is still a ton for me to break down   but for now I just wanted to give a few little  observations on the broad brush scheme of things   and to talk at the very end a little bit less  about what I think on things and a little more   about how I feel first of all though the IM  momentary observation I want to make about   the very last cut scene is this before we hear  Crow's dialogue we see three stars of A Sort   leaving the traveler it almost looks like they  are wisps that you can see from the moment where   we finally destroy the witness in exision whether  that's the case or not isn't clear but if these   rep represent stray Minds that were once part of  the witnesses chorus it could mean that there is   at least a part of it that remains maybe saying  a part of the witness that remains isn't accurate   because after all the witness is a compound being  it does not truly exist anymore now that its   chorus has been scattered but if this is something  that was previously a part of the witness that's   worth tracking down at best it's a confused Mind  of a denter in need of Rehabilitation and a moment   where it can be finally laid to rest as would be  its desires but at worse this is a mind that has   been cast out of the corus that truly supported  the creation of the witness a vengeful Spirit   dangerous and somewhat damaged in this moment  liable to lash out that's all highly speculative   but it's worth remembering just in case we don't  know what those are but they are worth chasing and   figuring out more about it is also worth pointing  out again that this is specul purely based on the   fact that well the raw power of the traveler  was used to destroy the witness furthermore I   think I have an answer at last as to the reason  why the traveler is so constantly silent even in   this moment where we achieved our final Victory  it's something that I think is made all the more   clear by Cade's choice and our final monologue in  the pale heart from our ghost at the conclusion   of the final shape quest in short The Traveler is  trying to in the most clear possible way give us a   choice back in the precursor civilization it was  doing this as well it gave them gifts and plenty   but not guidance in this moment where Cade chooses  to reunite with Sundance and sacrifice himself for   us he States nobody gets to make my fate but me  before choosing to transfer his light to our ghost   when we reunite with our ghost after the finale  our Ghost says the witness wanted to provide a   purpose to the universe but our purpose is ours to  choose our Fates are ours to make he also says now   we get to ask the question the witness wouldn't  allow anyone to what do you want our future to   be the aspect of choice and freedom is the key  here the witness reaches out to us and offers   to make us a part of its final shape many a Time  time it actively tries to shape the destiny of   others towards its own means and the traveler  is in its own way the total opposite of this it   wants us to choose our own fate and it gives us  our powers the light and its blessings in order   to enable those choices but it won't ever speak  not completely and truly because then it does as   the witness does this isn't to say the traveler  doesn't reach out from time to time we've seen   it over and over over again in this Saga back  in forsaken back in Destiny 2 vanilla back in   the times of Destiny 1 even with the release of  the ghosts themselves in the moment of the final   battle in the collapse it occasionally offers us  guidance and gives us Visions but they were always   vague and subject to our own interpretations even  when the speakers heard the voice of the traveler   it overtook them with rapturous visions and didn't  give them clear definitive answers wasn't even   clear that they were being spoken to directly it  deliberately gives us the chance to make our own   interpretations because a direct voice is too  direct to speak would be to make a commandment   to demand that others heed your own Divine words  would be to Rob them of a choice to make their own   interpretation would be to Rob them of a choice  to choose their own destiny the most intervention   that we've ever seen from The Traveler is when we  reach out to use its light directly and when it   manifests things from our past for us to achieve  the purpose that we have chosen for ourselves   occasionally it has lavished us with gifts most  notably in the moment where it gives us its own   blade as a source of Power and Light but it is  worth remembering it only does this because we   made the choice to fight for it we are its chosen  not because we carry out its will but because it   wishes to see our will carried out I am convinced  through the words of Kaden our ghost that that is   fundamentally and thoroughly the point of the  Traveler's light and the Traveler's gifts the   point of the light is freedom to make our own  choices for the longest time I think we've all   been seeking to know what the will of the traveler  really is but in a certain sense that idea is a   bit foolish we've been seeking purpose from  it when all along we should have been seeking   purpose for ourselves it has provided us with  all the Bounty of the universe and all the tools   to do that it has provided us with the power of a  God but it has chosen to allow us to make what we   will of that power it is chosen to let us be free  I know that interpretation isn't going to satisfy   some of you but after seeing everything that  I have over the last 10 years after personally   hoping for a moment where we would stand before  the gardener self and stare upon her face to know   her truth after personally believing that we were  meant to hear its explicit instructions to be the   blade of its will I think now this is the only  way things could have made sense The Silence from   the traveler in this last moment if you understand  and believe that interpretation is perfect because   it deliberately chooses never to act according  to its own will it allows Cate to make a choice   in instead and this isn't something where it's  the only option that's left to Cade Cade chooses   this he makes his own fate and if we really did  want to get a more direct manifestation of the   traveler well in the cut scene it was there in  the cut scene you see Cade and you see Sundance   brimming with light patiently awaiting Cade's  return and in the One Vision shown to Cade in   the campaign when laku helps us to raid the one  lost ctor where there is a bloom of light what   exactly is it that Sundance says again well what  if what I want is to stay here with you if that's   the Fate you make what if I want to stay here  with you if that's the Fate you make the Fate   you make this is the only way the traveler can  reach out to us and guide us and even in this   moment where it's trying to give Cade some very  important information his perception affects how   it appears if it wasn't Kate it wouldn't have  been Sundance speaking and it still says that   he is able to make his own fate if that's the Fate  you make the words that it chooses to speak if you   want to hear anything close to the voice of the  traveler we need to experience its dreams and   Visions just like the old speakers or dreamers  did but if we want to know the Traveler's will   our Quest is over its will is for us to do as  we will and it makes that choice giving us this   power accepting all the pain all the suffering all  the joy and all the happiness that those choices   might bring because the traveler wants us to make  our own path even if we fall and stumble even if   we make terrible mistakes and if it is still  playing some Cosmic flower game with the win   to this day then we are still its most convincing  argument we are still its final shape because we   Define our own final shape for ourselves lastly I  want to couch the examination and Analysis for a   moment and just say I really didn't think things  were going to end like this near universally with   some legitimate law tidbits here and there being  discussed back and forth I think the final shape   has been received remarkably well it has  universally been shot to the top of every   one's list of favorite expansions and I personally  did not believe the final shape could deliver   anything close to that I'm so glad I was wrong I  was very much lost after lightfall with regards to   my beliefs of whether Destiny as a franchise was  going to be able to recover and survive it was one   of those moments where I think I was left a little  bit listless and hopeless for 18 months and whilst   things did recover and into the light I was still  unsure I won't lie I was more nervous on day one   of the final shape than than I have been in a  long long time but here we are it turns out it   was a pretty good ending to this story there are  still huge law Mysteries that need to be unraveled   with the raid and law that hasn't been uncovered  yet there there are still mysteries about the   traveler that will be revealed in the kosov quest  when I cover that there are still things we need   to talk about and explore with regards to the  upcoming episodes of echo's revenant and heretic   and I'm happy to get to all of those in time and  to help show all of you the Mysteries held within   but for just a moment I want to stop and say this  the final shape as a whole is a meditation on the   idea of purpose the entire philosophy of the  witness is all about making purpose for others   and the entire philosophy of the traveler is about  allowing others to choose purpose for themselves   to speak without analysis for just a second I  think this reaffirms what my purpose here is with   all of you it's to tell stor stories it might  not always be a story you're interested in it   might not even be Destiny every time I don't know  what the future holds but I think if this last 10   years has given me something it is a purpose some  time ago back in witch Queen I wrote a note on my   office whiteboard and it's still there to this  day through a couple of moves and through a lot   of tumultuous time it was something I wrote when I  was asking myself what I wanted out of my YouTube   channel and my career going forward generally and  it was a weird moment of soul searching that led   me to a single inescapable practice it reads to  pass on the brighter torch of knowledge to teach   and Inspire I think that if I'm learning anything  out of the last 10 years it is simply that this   is what I am meant to be doing so for as long as  you'll entertain my esoteric campfire stories and   my mad wittering about Whimsical tales of far off  gods and heroes for as long as you're still here   to listen I'll keep telling stories you've all  done me the honor almost universally of calling   me a lawm I aim to try and live up to that title  with all the responsibility that comes with it I   will most certainly make mistakes and I will miss  things that's the nature of Being Human and after   all knowledge isn't a binary thing of having  it or not having it knowledge is a journey and   you're going to be ignorant of something along  the way to understanding it properly but where   I can I'll correct the record where I need  to I'll reach out and ask for clarification   and where I can I'll lift up the voices that are  more important than mine where certain topics are   concerned but I think my purpose is right here  sitting by a fire telling all of you about a   story that I love I wouldn't be here in this place  without Destiny I wouldn't be here without those   narrative designers at Bungie who brought us all  to this point and I wouldn't be here without you   listening to the stories I tell thank you I am  eternally glad to have a purpose even more glad   that it's this one so with that said more content  will be on the way we'll be talking about my first   impressions of salvation's edge when I've gotten  my full clearing we'll be talking more about Echo   when it releases and about the massive reveal  stream that goes live on the 10th for whatever   happens in the future of Destiny I can't wait to  discuss it all with you but in the meantime as per   usual know that just by being here just by being  around this campfire with me that has been quite   enough for me for rasia arastra wherever it takes  us wherever we go I'll see you starside [Music] [Music]

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Length: 22min 18sec (1338 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 09 2024