Destiny 2 - Riis-Lost: Lost to Whirlwind

The worlds were burning.

He growled as he saw the nodes on the comm panel winking out as world after world fell. He listened to the last, despairing transmissions, hearing the screams, and forced himself to harden his heart to them. He could take his fleet to these worlds, to try in vain to save them, or he could hurry back to see their homeworld, the creche of their people, protected and safe. These were not easy decisions to make, but desperate times like these necessitated them.

Let them hate him. He would accept being seen as heartless, of being unfeeling, if it meant his people would live. He would accept being viewed as a cold, emotionless automaton. Even now, he heard the whispers among his oathborn crew. That he had a heart of stone. If his people were safe due to his actions, then he would be a Kell of Stone.

Destiny 2 - Transcript of a Splintered Conversation

TYPE: Transcription

 

DESCRIPTION: Conversation between a person of interest and a high-value target

 

PARTIES: Three [3]: One [1] Guardian-type, Class Warlock, designate Wahei Ohr [WO] (POI #0247); One [1] Fallen-type, designate Loveks [LOV] (VIP #5353); One [1] Ghost-type, designate Vizier [VIZ]

 

ASSOCIATIONS: Black Fleet; Darkness; Eramis; Europa; Fallen; Light; Loveks; Ohr, Wahei; Salvation, House of [aka Darkness, House of; aka Dark Empire]; Splinter; Traitor's Die; Translation Needed; Traveler; Umbranomicon

// [Millie: Is there a reason we don't have a translation on the Fallen-speak? -FER-026]

 

[I tried my best, sir. It's not always easy to parse Riisan. Between the guttural way they speak it and the way their language compounds words, I've done the best I can. But as it is, I believe most of the untranslated stuff here is either shibboleth, jargon, or esoteric vocabulary that isn't in our regular dictionary. -MIL-921]

 

[I'll see about contacting Misraaks' fireteam to see if they can help. -FER-026]

 

[However you choose to get it done, update this transcript as soon as convenient. -AUN-326]

 

[If inconvenient, update all the same. -AUN-326] //

Destiny 2 - Fallen, Not Forgotten

The mood was grim in the ruined ketch. Koroa could smell it.

Destiny 2 - The Huntmaster, Forsworn

Phobos still bore the scars of ages past. Golden Age explorers had come here, mapped it, studied it for any resources to feed the hungry infrastructure for the cities that were built on the red planet below. Then, in the Dark Age, when the Cabal came, they'd drilled into it to build their base, where they'd sat, watching everything. And then, an Age later, the hand of the Taken King had descended and dragged much of it out of phase with the material plane as he'd greedily snatched up everyone he could, to grow his army. Since then, it sat silent, forgotten.

On a rocky rise, not far from the remnants of Fleetbase Korus, a pale figure stood, cradling his Longbore as he cast his gaze out.

Destiny 2 - Account of an Umbral Message

The lot of a Ghost was a dangerous one, Vizier reflected. He had searched the system for an age and a half before coming across his Guardian in the Reef. It had been a long, lonely, treacherous search, avoiding the notice of Fallen and Hive and Vex alike, cunning and keen and relentless as they had all been. (The Cabal, by comparison, were easy to avoid.) The Reef had not been welcoming, had really never been welcoming, even after all that his Guardian had done for them. After finding his Guardian, Vizier had been drawn into forbidding places and thrust into deadly situations, but he would never abandon his Guardian.

But Vizier was now having doubts about whether his Guardian would abandon him.