Destiny 2: Lost Sector - Shaft 13

Another installment of my Destiny 2 fan-lore for the Lost Sector bosses.

Lost Sector: Shaft 13

Once-- Banners meant something. Gold for glory of Kings. Sky for honor of Winter. Green for justice and Judgment. Red for Devils and their wars. Night for savagery of Wolves. Gray for wisdom of Rain. Earth for strength of Stone. Every House a color. Every House a legacy. Every House, renowned.

Once-- Our House was feared. On worlds lost to the Whirlwind. We were mighty. We were warriors. We bore the marks of combat with pride, as befitted our name. We were difficult to kill, that was the essence of our name. We were House Scars.

Once-- We bowed to no Kell. But Eliksni warriors clamored to join our House, to wear our banner. Toughest earned right to banner, bore their marks, their scars. Fought for Houses with glimmer. Fought for Kells and Barons with treasure. We fought and we were feared. We were victorious and we were rewarded for it.

Once.

Now we are Fallen. The best of us are gone, stomped under by imperial soldiers, marched over by machines, flayed and tortured by rotten worm-things. What treasures we had left are stolen from us, either betrayed by others of our kind, or our bones picked by ghouls shining with Light.

Now we fight for a purpose, rather than a reward, and that purpose is survival. No other Houses to hire Scars, only one House now. What choice did we have? So our blades and our guns serve this House, so that we may live, fight, earn our marks and our ration, and see another day.

Now we bow to a Kell. The strength wanes as ether dwindles. There is no honor in this world anymore, and time has taught us there is no justice in it, else the Great Machine would not have abandoned us. That is the harsh wisdom in this time without Rain. There is no glory to be found, and what glory there is, belongs to the Kell. Where a spectrum of banners once flew, now there is only ash and twilight, the purple of desperation and Dusk.

We all bear marks now. We fight and we will survive. Whatever legions come, whatever monsters stalk, we will fight on.

For we are difficult to kill. That is the essence of our name.
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Author's Notes: The viewpoint character here is the boss of the Shaft 13 Lost Sector in The Sludge in the E.D.Z., Calzar, Scarred Captain. My head-canon states that Calzar was formerly of House Scars, the same house that Taniks, the Scarred, boss of the "Shadow Thief" strike from Destiny 1, once swore allegiance to.