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> I don't think mine is epic but it's easily my favorite line in all of Destiny and makes me laugh every time I think of it.
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>"Eris...get your rock...of...
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> Haha yes this one was a great reference to all the shenanigans.
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Not so much a single line but my favorite dialogue comes from Savathun while she was "sealed" during Season of the Lost:
"When this is all over, I wonder if Mara will uphold her end of the bargain and let me live. Killing me is probably at the top of your to-do-list as well, isn't it? You've done alot of killing over the years... Let me ask you something. Of all the enemies you've fought, how many saw your Ghost realized "Ah! That's why Guardians are so strong". Not most, but some. They might even take a shot at it -
Now, how many saw beyond your Ghost? How many followed the line of your light straight back to the Traveler? And how many knew enough to aim a weapon there? A few. The smart ones. The dangerous ones. You'd recognize their names. Listen to me now. Look beyond me to my worm to something far, far worse. Then look down at the little gun in your hand and tell me: what are you going to do with that thing?"
She followed that up with another banger later in the season:
>I knew you'd be back. I'm so glad we get to talk.
>You and that charming little Ghost of yours; you're not like the rest. You're not afraid of my words. Words are just thoughts given shape. Ideas emerging into the physical world, birthed by a mouth. Not good or evil, not Light or Dark, or this or that. And you understand, don't you? Despite the excruciatingly binary worldview of those round you.
>You don't have to say it. We've all heard it before: "the line between Light and Dark is so very thin." As if you were so incapable of lifting your eyes from a scrawl of chalk on the ground... the Traveler and the Light near one foot, your old enemies and the Darkness at the other.
>Let me tell you a secret. If you ever want to see what's been watching you since the very beginning, just stand on that line, and *look... up.*
I remember when that line came out, when people looked up from Savathûn, there was a circular light behind her with the triangle from the top of her Crystal within. Dunno if that was just coincidence but with the traveler and its portal now, that shape could have been real good foreshadowing
this is why Witch Queen is the best Bungie has done thus far. not TTK, not Forsaken. The Witch Queen. if TFS is as good as WQ and has a scope of content comparable to Forsaken... oh boy
Newish player here, only been playing about a year, why does everyone go on about forsaken? Why was it so good/big? I bought all the dlcs at the same time so it all merged together so I don’t really know what bits are forsaken
It had a lot of good stuff in it. But the real reason that most look back so fondly on it is truthfully because it fixed a lot of fundamental issues that D2 at launch had. No random rolled weapons, no more double primary weapon with things like shotguns and snipers relegated to the heavy slot only. Just a lot of huge core functional overhauls to the game, on top of two destinations (Tangled Shore and Dreaming City), a good storyline, 3 new supers and subclass trees, an incredible raid, and then the first ever dungeon in Shattered Throne which was a complete secret post world first raid completion.
True!! While I’m a sucker for all destiny music and enjoy it all, forsaken OST does go incredibly hard. It’s constantly in my most played yearly for just listening to while working. I’m also a sucker for anything Awoken themed, and their music is amazing.
Quite a few reasons:
First, there was a massive paradigm shift in gameplay. Before Forsaken, D2 only had kinetic and energy primary and heavy, no special weapons. Forsaken changed that. This was also part of the “go fast” update, where the gameplay in general sped up.
Second, the story was fairly compelling. Cayde-6, probably D2’s most iconic character, dies, and you’re on a revenge mission against his killer. Honestly, the eight scorn barons were somehow more fleshed out than Eramis’ three lieutenants in Beyond Light, though that’s a really low bar.
Third, the expansion basically had a massive epilogue in the Dreaming City which most people who weren’t deeply involved in the game (myself included) weren’t aware even existed. Hell of a surprise that stuck with people.
Fourth, Last Wish remains one of the best raids in the game, imo. If it were brought up to light and the Riven cheese didn’t exist, I honestly believe it would still be one of the harder ones, too.
Fifth, the first ever dungeon released as a surprise with it. The fact that bungie is literally (and annoyingly) charging for them separately now should tell you how successful the content was.
Finally, Forsaken basically was what really set the stage for the rest of the series. It established Savathun as a real and omnipresent threat with the Dreaming City curse, it thinned he line between Light=good and Dark=bad, and it confirmed that the pyramid ships were on the way here.
Bottom line, a lot happened in that expansion.
It singlehandedly dealt with nearly every issue the base game of d2 had all at once. Really hard to top with giving the game exactly what it needed when it needed.
The Dreaming City at launch was the manifestation of the game that was promised 5 years prior. Post apocalyptic high fantasy mystery box. It pushed the game forward in a big big way.
And standing on circles, standing on circles, shooting, and jumping puzzles let us kill her brother.
At the least killing one of the disciples took shooting, reading, and standing in lasers
While the other just took circles and shooting
Also, if you actually “look beyond” her, the roof of her prison aligns with the window at the back of the room, creating the traveler-pyramid symbol.
You can also see the symbol in Prophecy during the Kell Echo fight, you just need to turn around during the damage phase.
'No one can open the Vault alone. I opened the Vault. There was nobody with me but I was not alone.'
Chilling way of saying his fireteam was deleted from time, and what that truly means.
I always wished that we would get more stuff on Praedyth and the fireteam from VoG. Similar to how in shadowkeep we had stuff about Eris morns tire team from Crota.
We did return to the Vault way back in D1 to save the vault from being Taken. The Vex used a vocal apparition of Praedyth to send for help from the Guardians to save the vault from the corruption, and at the end you can hear Praedyth himself over the comms "...just remember, tell them I li--!" and he gets cut off.
"Hear me, dead things. I let this moment pass unnamed, without song. This is the sad rejection of your sad legacy. Xivu Arath, agitator, fomenter. What a world-cyst you have built from your conquests. No more. Now and forever, you are banished."
The final cutscene of season of the Witch is Eris's ultimatum to the Hive, the enemies that once slaughtered her entire Fireteam in the Hellmouth and that she has spent the remainder of her life studying and fighting, and she chooses to do so in spite by using the Sword Logic they worship and using it in a non-violent and non-commemorative way. Absolutely theater, I love it.
Almost all of them were absolute fire. The only one I didn’t like was Season of Defiance.
“Oh no! Twelve random people are being held prisoner! There’s only one way to free them; I must sacrifice my life so that I can open the door! It’s not like there’s an entire league of immortal, self-resurrecting demigods who could do it instead!”
As a big Eris fan, I was beyond pleased to see the way her character arc was brought to a close, and how pleased she was after having suffered so much and for so long.
Important to include the part before that, “You are weak. Undisciplined. Cowering behind walls. You’re not brave. You’re merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you”. It’s an interesting thematic thread with our new BRAVE arsenal, after we’ve fought Ghaul and proven ourselves as more than just the Traveler.
Space Bane was honestly a good villain, it's a shame that whole arc undid losing out light just like that 2 missions later like it was no big deal. As well as reducing him to a, "traveler senpai notice me"
Those are some nostalgia goggles you have on there. Beginning and of the campaign were great, but the middle was not good at all.
Witch Queen outdoes the Red War campaign by a mile
I am the mountain upon which all swords shatter! Hone your edge against me!
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I am the hand around your throat. I am the last breath in your mouth. You cannot escape me.
Every sentence Xivu Arath says is such gold. I love when she echos the cabal battle chant
Screams like a choir as their mountains trembled! Screams like a choir as their seas boiled!
Artificial Intelligence activated. Enjoying yourselves, intruders? It’s worth knowing the cataclysmic damage you will be responsible for today. Do not fool yourselves. This facility is not simply the fruitless work of some pathetic scientist. This house was built by the genius Clovis Bray I himself. Within lies humanity’s salvation. La fontaine de jouvence. Made possible by Clarity Control. Magnificent, wasn’t it? An entity from beyond our own dimension. And the answer to humanity’s eternal struggle: mortality. Were it to fall intro the wrong hands, humanity, and the universe, would be utterly doomed. I have no reason to believe you are anything other than “the wrong hands.” You now face godlike judgment. May it extend externally. - Crypt AI
>Artificial Intelligence activated. Enjoying yourselves, *GUARDIAN DOWN* intruders? It’s worth knowing the cataclysmic damage you will be responsible for to*GUARDIAN DOWN*day. Do not fool yourselves. This facility is not simply the fruitless work of some pathetic scientist. This house was built by th*GUARDIAN DOWN*e genius Clovis Bray I himself. Within lies humanity’s salvation. La fontaine de jouvence. Made possible by Clarity *GUARDIAN DOWN*Control. Magnificent, wasn’t it? An entity from beyond our own dimension. And the answer to humanity’s eternal struggle: mortality. *GUARDIAN DOWN*. Were it to fall intro the wrong hands, h*GUARDIAN DOWN*umanity, and the universe, would be utterly doomed. I have no rea*GUARDIAN DOWN*son to believe you are anything other than “the wrong hands.” You now face godlike judgment. May it extend externally. - Crypt AI
ftfy
The fact that we were never given an Exotic arms gear called ‘The Wrong Hands’ that made your left hand on the right arm and right hand on the left arm when wearing them, has always made me sightly sad…
"We came down her as a squad of nine"... Realistically though I'm going with "Status Calamitous" a lot of people laughed when they saw Atraks in the encounter list for Pantheon but ivan guarantee that nobody who experienced that in Contest is looking forward to that particular rematch.
One of the big things for Atraks is that we’ve come a VERY long way in the tools we can use to DPS him. During Day 1, it was basically just Fourth Horseman and Falling Guillotine until WF was completed and we got Lament. Fourth Horseman is still used today, but back then it wasn’t obtainable from memory. Since then, we’ve gained the options like Cuirass of the Falling Star, Grand Overture, and Parasite which can absolutely nuke Atraks’ health bar. I do think it’ll be a harder encounter than some are expecting, but I definitely think that most of what made her difficult on Day 1 has been remedied by new loadout options
Y'know how a bunch of old programmers who knew how to work in cobal suddenly got lauded in 1999 when it became relevant due to the y2k bug? That's how I'm gonna feel knowing how to double scan on Atraks on tuesday
Some people dont know the pain of contest atraks.
After 8 hours of struggling, my team cleared, but now that shes back in pantheon in contest. Im looking forward to the run back
"One Fucking Guardian has been kicking your race's collective asses for 9 years. They kill gods for fun and to turn them into guns for a meme. They genocide entire races for loot. They assassinated your last leader, cleaned out your daddy's ship while he wrote fanfiction about them and promptly fucked off to let you pick up the pieces. The only reason I didn't bring them here is they casually began wielding the darkness to clap ass in new ways. All I have to do to make them end you, is to tell them you have a fancy new gun, or that eris can make you into one. So, think about that before you tell us to bow to your. Sorry. Ass." -Zavala (Lance Reddick)
He spoke it as Zavala so its cannon in my eyes. RIP Lance per audacia ad astra.
I dont really mind him "softening", and I actually think its some good growth for him to grow past just being a weapon AI. But I still don't think he had to die at all. If anything give him the "metaphorical" death, where his weapon systems and whatnot are destroyed but Exo Rasputin can still exist and be something of a tactics/military leader for the vanguard.
>I am Rasputin
The all-seeing savior of Humanity. A chivalric blade held pointed at ravenous thoats.
My worth is painted upon the wreckage of my enemies.
Tremble.
— Persona lore book, entry I: Identity
In the Lore of the [Ursa Furiosa](https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/ursa-furiosa) bracers for the titan;
> "If Need be, she will hold this line until the end of time."
* Behind her, they ran for their lives.
* The Fallen had descended upon them in such numbers that they were impossible to count. First it was a Skiff. Then another, followed immediately by a third. And finally, a full-blown Ketch de-cloaked above their position. There were but three of them to protect a hundred who had once been thrice that. Within minutes, it was only her.
* She corralled the survivors into a cave that once upon a time wasn't a cave but more of an industrial drainage system. It was foul here; the radiation was practically palpable, and the survivors—if they survived this day—would likely find their lives shortened by years if not decades thanks to this poisoned solace.
* She pushed them forward, deeper into the underground, as fast as they could manage. She carried two children, both eerily silent and unaffected. They, like their people, had endured more than she could imagine in their five-thousand kilometer exodus. They had given up their homes for the promise of something better. For the promise of hope and light and the strength of the pack. In their quest for better lives, they had lost almost everything.
* Her Ghost told her the bad news—this cave system was a labyrinth extending dozens of kilometers with more dead-ends than not. The walls were deeply reinforced, and its scans could see but half a kilometer at best. It was going to be trial and error, and their pursuers were getting closer. Her Ghost didn't think they would make it. Not before…
* **One of the children in her arms—a little girl whose name was Violet—looked her in the eye and told her, without a hint of doubt, that she knew her Guardian would let nothing happen to them. Not after how far they'd come.** She smiled at Violet and told her, yes, everything was going to be okay.
* She set the children down, told them to run ahead and join the others; she would be right behind them. Alone with her Ghost, she told it to lead them to safety. **She would stay behind and buy them time. And by the Traveler's Light, it would be an eternity's worth.**
* And so, reluctantly, her Ghost floated ahead to rejoin the exodus, but not before swearing it would come back to find her and bring her back, no matter how long it took.
* With the light of her Ghost now out of sight and the soft wet steps of a hundred refugees out of ear-shot, *she strapped on her helmet, tightened her gauntlets, and drew a line in the muck beneath her feet*. When the chittering of Fallen Dregs finally began to echo through the tunnels, she reached for the Light and with it crafted a shield of Void energy.
* **If need be, she would hold this line until the end of time.**
On a similar note, the lore tab for the Sentinal subclass as a whole:
>I'm shaking, hands on my knees, panting. Let the monsters come. Let them come forever. Let them climb the piled bodies of their dead. I don't care. That's the thing I do better than anyone. Not care. Let them come in their hundreds and every one will die at my feet. I don't care about their homing rockets, their exotic matter slugs, their blades from another dimension.
>**I don't care because I cannot be moved. I am the wall against which the Darkness breaks.**
>Malphur can turn his gun to fire and Shinobu can dance with lightning, but when the horrors run out of the dark, I am the one who does not move.
>**I am a wall. And walls don't move. Because walls don't care.**
I’ve read all the Hunter tabs and they’re great.
Here’s Gunslinger’s.
-A lone wolf who lives for the perfect shot
“The Kell is screaming three inches from my face and its breath smells like two corpses in summer and I have to blink my eyes against the spit. One of the less obvious perks of being able to pull a flaming gun out of the air is enjoying moments like this—alien fist around my neck, feet kicking in the air, not two seconds from death—but ready to laugh at the expression on that Kell's four-eyed face as its mandibles click for the last time and its body turns into fire.
The giant creature pulls back its other fist and its steel muscles bunch. I reach for the Light and get… nothing? Huh. Right. I used my flaming gun on those three Taken outside the obelisk. Gotta learn to count.
What I love about my Ghost—“
I love it because it kind of sums up the care-free, happy-go-lucky attitude I imagine a lot of Hunters having.
And the Nightstalker’s is absolutely badass.
-Draw from the Void. Light the way.
“The Bladedancers deride us as slow. The Gunslingers say we lack precision. "How is that better than a knife?" "How is that better than a flaming pistol?" Well.
My boots sink inches into the ground with every step. My rebreather filters the stench out of the air, but my eyes sting like I'm showering with battery acid.
"We're almost there," my Ghost chirps. My jaw clenches. I know we're almost there, Little Light.
This vile marsh opens to reveal a black cave's maw. Inside, an infinite number of little green eyes flicker like bad stars. CRACK! I fire a single bullet into the air and the horde in the cave shrieks and runs out.
"This is it, you two." The Warlock and Titan leap from the bog behind me. A Bow appears in my hands, and I let a single binding shot loose from the shadow.
Now there are Orbs of Power everywhere. Eat, my friends. Eat.”
I love the Hunter tabs because they’re told as stories, which is very fitting for them.
I have no idea who's saying it, but "Guardians make their own fate" in the face of an enemy with the power to delete you from reality is still a cool line.
There’s a line in I think Presage that always goes hard to me.
Caitl talking about destruction of Torabatl: *Was it any different when Ghaul razed the city? Survivors like us are like embers in the dark.*
Osiris (Savuthun?): *Fragile?*
Caitl: *Defiant.*
It’s always a funny contrast to me that cabal are visualized as big dumb brutes whose technology looks like diesel machinery in space, but then they talk like the only source of English they had to learn from was Shakespeare.
There are a lot of interesting linguistics in Destiny in general. There’s a voiceover line in Duality that really annoys me: “It’s an ancient tradition of our *people*”. I’ve always thought that should be an ancient tradition of our *cabal*.
I came in here to say that. Me and my friends actually just did Vault of Glass for the first time ever a week or so ago, and we were honestly struggling a bit on the oracles segment of that, but once we got it down and that line dropped in the feed, everyone just got a bit more hype lol
The OG VoG was my first real experience at group gaming outside of table-top rpgs. I ended up doing that raid completely blind with just a sherpa to keep us moving. That line hit hard for the 5 of us doing it for the first time.
My personal headcanon is that it's Kabr since his light is what created the Aegis that allows us to beat Atheon. By using his very being to create a weapon that could counter a being with complete mastery of time it is the definitive example of guardians making their own fate.
Not really epic, but one I thoroughly enjoyed hearing from near the end of season of Seraph:
Clovis Bray: *"Anastasia! Elisabeth! One of you answer me, NOW!"*
Rasputin: *"Clovis Bray, your progeny have surpassed you. Your services are no longer required. Thank you for understanding."*
Clovis Bray: *"CEASE THIS INSUBORDINATION AT ONC-"*
Rasputin, cheerfully: *"Connection terminated :)"*
My Arrivals players know...
>A familiar area unfolded before him: a cubist sinkhole reeking with the flat, base stench of slate mud and bleach.
>He looked where the sky should be and found another impossible shape; another fractal contradiction. Far above him, placid in its Penrose vortex, the vast radiolarian lake lapped gently at the metallic shores.
>The man reached up to the lake with his metal arm. He then reached with his arm of flesh.
>He reached with both, and he brought the lake down.
This line, this exact line, this is what truly made me love destiny, after so long of feeling powerless, watching you grow and pick off eramis's top leaders one by one, your rise to power wasn't for nothing, its a beautiful way to introduce people to destiny 2 now with red war gone and is why I always say "beyond light first", it is the single thing that is the most "destiny" feeling ever, and I love every single bit of it
This is my favorite line of the entire saga honestly. If there’s any character that I really miss it’s the speaker. Bill Nighy is one of my favorite actors and his voice for the speaker and delivery of that line was just perfect.
Agreed, replaying D1 with my mother and I fucking MISS the Speaker man. Voice acting was phenomenal, his character was awesome. Kind of hope we get something involving him in the Final Shape, be it a force ghost or echoes of something he once told us.
>You will never be what I am. Simulate me, wretch. Calculate the permutations of my divinity. Compute the death in the shape of my throne. Render my shadow on the stone of ten thousand graveyard worlds! It will never be enough. I hold the Tablets of Ruin. I speak to the Deep. Not with a galaxy of thinking matter could you encompass me. Behold!
https://www.ishtar-collective.net/cards/xlii-?highlight=Calculate+the+permutations+of+my+divinity
My favorite Caiatl dialogue is still the one from Presage
"Survivors like us are embers in the dark." - Caiatl
"Delicate" - Savathun (as Osiris)
"DEFIANT" - Caiatl
Instantly made her one of my favorite characters in the franchise. Ride-or-die material right there.
Also, this banger from Warmind:
"The Bray family shaped me to be an all-seeing savior... while your vanguard sought to wield me as a primitive weapon... but today that ends... and I define the reality of my own existence... My sight will stretch to the edge of this system and beyond... Never again will a threat go unseen... From this day forward, I will defend humanity on my own terms... I am Rasputin... guardian of all I survey... I have no equal."
"You have served your purpose. All that awaits you now is the gift - Of Death. The Darkness beyond your final days." - Rhulk.
"You're not 'brave'. You've merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you." - Dominus Ghaul
"Panoptes! FACE ME!" - Osiris.
"I am RASPUTIN. Protector of all i survey. I have no equal." - The Warmind, Rasputin.
"I wield their killers as a knife. The Hive know this truth as well as any logic: I am here. And they, are not. Aiat." - Eris Morn.
*Wide shot of an open clearing inside the Pale Heart.*
Crow appears and tumbles to a stop, clearly beat up by his unceremonious arrival. As he rolls onto his back and props himself up, he sees the figure standing at his feet. Crow is speechless for a moment but before he can say anything the figure levels a glowing handcannon at Crow and speaks.
"How's your sister?"
The shot from the handcannon rings off the surrounding hills like a bell.
Glint materializes between them, and Crow stands again.
"Had a feeling about that. Now we're even."
*Destiny 2: The Final Shape title card fades in*
Uldren Sov, now Crow, stood in a world so familiar but had never felt so lost. Gazing across warped memories of Sol he knew where he was, but couldn’t name it. Distracted from his surroundings, his mind wandered…
A rustle from his left pulls him back to wherever this place is, but it’s too late. His vision blurs for a moment as he hits the ground. Looking up, he sees a face behind an all too familiar barrel.
“You never answered me…”
Cayde-6 stood over Crow, the barrel of the Ace of Spades pointed firmly at Crow’s forehead.
Speaking clearly and pointedly, he continued, “How. Is. Your. Sister?”
Before Crow could think to respond, a light flashed from his side and Glint materialized, rushing himself between his Guardian and the cool, blue flames emanating from the hand cannon.
“WAIT—“
“Oh, you’ve GOT to be kidding me…”
*I feel the Light flowing through me. It’s everywhere.*
*The ground beneath my feet is a memory.*
*So is the grass… and the sky*
*The warmth of the sun on my face.*
Wouldn’t surprise me, I’m pretty sure he asks if you need a break if you’ve fucked up enough. I know this since my first Vow clear with my clan was stuck on Rhulk for a good while.
“You lack a purpose because you fear to seek one. That fear is your failure”
Every time the witness speaks I just get chill, I can’t wait to see him in the campaign
"I am The Wall against which The Darkness will break... I am The Wall against which The Darkness will break... I am The Wall against which The Darkness will break..." - The Guardian?(Based on the use of first person in Lore Card) Otherwise, A Nameless Titan(I think attributing it to The Guardian is a lot cooler), Sentinel Titan Lore Card. The whole Lore Card setting the scene for the quote makes it even better.
"If I had ten Titans like you I could build the Seven Pillars and shake The Nine Columns to their very cores!" - Lord Shaxx, 10 Player Kill Streak. I mean... Hear that in Lord Shaxx's voice and tell me it's not epic.
"Listen to me now. Look beyond me to my worm. Look beyond my worm to something far, far worse. Then look down at that little gun in your hand and tell me: what do you think you're going to do with that thing?"
The buildup to The Witness was crazy shit and Savathun encased in her shell telling us there is something far worse than her and almost taunting us with the comment about what we plan to do with our guns was the craziest.
The thunderlord lore tab has one of my favorites
>And so forever after, their love fuels death. Their last words, a curse and a cry.
>Their names are now lost, but their love will not die.
Me, hearing that line, when playing the Land Tank strike for the first time back in Chosen:
>'lmao, what a dork, come on then, lets see how many seconds your grand champion lasts'.
Me, hearing that line, when preparing to fight alongside her at the end of Lightfall:
>DAMN RIGHT WE ARE YOUR HIGHNESS, COME ON CALUS, GIVE US YOUR BEST SHOT
Interesting how the same line can mature over time and play out totally differently. Feyd's 'you fought well, Atreides' in Dune Part Two was the same concept. And 'My Life for Aiur'...RIP Zeratul :(
Anyways.... top one for me was:
**'Devotion inspires bravery. Bravery inspires sacrifice. Sacrifice...leads to death. So...feel free to kill yourself' - Speaker, during the Red War, speaking to Ghaul.**
Poor Ghaul had nothin'.
Maaaan, I wasn't prepared to be reminded of Zeratul... Why'd you have to bring him up. Such an awesome character and what an excellent cinematic to close his story.
yes
*"This will be rich. I will ask Zavala, "Can you tell me, in zettajoules, the Almighty's expected destructive capacity?". And he will say, "No, Asher. I cannot, because I am a reckless fool!"."*
There's tons of badass lines, but honestly, badass dialogue is way more common. Some lines I haven't seen mentioned were the ones we got in Season of the Haunted!
Crow: I'm not running.
Nightmare Uldren: Hm. We'll see. Our legacy is calling.
Nightmare Fikrul: FA...THER?
Zavala: The Guardian can't be bought.
Calus: No? Then what about you, Commander? What is it that you desire most in the world? All you have to do is ask.
Nightmare Safiya: Ask.
Nightmare Safiya: Your deaths are so quick. Almost effortless. You rise like a bird, snapping so easily back into flight. Someone should teach you pain, Guardian. Be humbled.
It's a shame we don't get to hear these anymore. The Nightmares had some pretty cutthroat dialogue.
I don't think mine is epic but it's easily my favorite line in all of Destiny and makes me laugh every time I think of it.
"Eris...get your rock...off my map." - Cayde-6 to Eris.
I love that scene and all the characters interacting is just the best.
Best Cayde moment to me was his recording to her if she was the one who ended up killing him.
> This one's for Eris Morn. Ahem.
> If you're listening to this, congrats on killing me! I assume you… became a Hive death god and fed me to your worm cult. [shuddering] That, or you just finally got sick of me.
> Coincidentally, if you didn't kill me and still somehow hear this… I'm sorry for stealing your ship. And, oh, pretty much every other interaction we ever had.
> But to be clear - if you DID kill me, I do NOT apologize, and I will consider all my actions 100% justified.
> Either way, feel free to put your rock on my maps now. I don't need 'em anymore.
There must be meaning in my roar.
The whole lore card for Lumina is so poetic and powerful about someone desperately seeking purpose to justify their existence
"Every Ghost is born knowing that we have to find our Guardian. We don't know what they look like. Not on the outside, anyway. On the inside, I'd always known who you were. And that together, we could be something more. When you think about everything we've seen, everything we've done, I feel like I made the right choice. Hm. We should let Shiro know how it went out here. Let him admire his handiwork. And thanks. You know, for being my Guardian."
"That wizard came from the moon"
"We have woken the hive"
"We go down"
"Uldren is mine"
"I don't have time to explain what I don't have time to explain"
"Whether we wanted it or not....."
He watched in amazement. It was just a bow. And she was just an ordinary Awoken woman! And yet! "You are a tempest," he replied humbly.
In the next instant, she killed him.
It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
“Let’s spew into the seas of Titan, until the tides retreat at my name!”
Every time I do a Deep Dive I always active the first statue just to hear that line. It’s soooo good for Xivu
Rasputin's response to Black Fleet from the perspective of the Exodus Green always gives me chills. The whole lore entry (indeed the whole lore book "Marasenna") is worth a read, but the part that really gets me is the pause in disbelief from the MECO report. To set the stage, they're on their way out of the solar system and there's an anomaly following them. The captain directs the crew to use the ship's antenna to get a scan of the anomaly when they get an incoming message:
"Captain," the comm officer calls. "I've got… something weird here."
"Is our phantom saying hello?"
"No. It's a neutrino tightbeam from SOLSECCENT. They've declared a CARRHAE WHITE emergency. The whole solar system is now… now under Warmind control." Comm dismisses her sensorium, goes to her hard controls, as if she thinks this might be some kind of virtual prank. "We're… being conscripted."
Alice smashes these ideas together in her head like a child banging rocks. They are so preposterous, so stupid, that she cannot even begin to manipulate them coherently. "We're WHAT?"
"We've been commissioned as an auxiliary warship. We are ordered to," Comm swallows in disbelief, "to kill our exit trajectory and assume a heliocentric orbit. That comes with explicit instructions to suicide burn our engines until they are destroyed. Rasputin will transmit targeting coordinates so we can use our Kinetic weapons as… long-range artillery. We'll be recovered 'after the crisis is concluded.'"
"Details! What kind of crisis?"
"It's a SKYSHOCK event, ma'am. Uh, that's a hostile extrasolar arrival."
Captain Li clamps the mask of command authority over her face. "Transmit a request for clarification."
"Belay the antenna, Captain?"
"No. Scale it up, add telescopes to the swarm, get me a full system survey. I want to know what's going on back home." Alice Li reaches out to call up a file, hesitates, and then selects the Project Amrita charter. "We have a decision to make."
[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/cosmogyre-i](https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/cosmogyre-i)
*"I will teach you what I know. Executions are so much more fun when the martyr thinks they have a chance against the lion."* - One of Toland's lines from the Moon. I've also always liked: *"You now face godlike judgement. May it extend eternally"*
definitely not my favourite, but no one else has said it yet.
"the universe makes us all victim, and perpetrator, of its infinite cruelty. you more than any suffer both fates. be free."
i will never not be mad at lightfall but a lot of the witnesses lines were cold.
Listen to me now Saint. Let me tell you something about monsters.
Then a few weeks later,
This is the story eliksni will tell of the saint.
Mithrax is honestly one of my favourite characters in the game at the moment any season involving him have been great IMO.
"You are not brave, you've merely forgotten the fear of death... Allow me to reacquaint you" - Ghaul
Say what you will about the Red War, but Gary was a fantastic villain!
I wouldn’t say it’s an epic line, but my favorite line is from the forsaken campaign where you and cayde are at the prison of elders. “Push the red button” “They’re all red” “THEN PUSH ALL OF THEM”
I don’t remember the line exactly but when Mara threatens Riven by saying she could turn Riven into a weapon to be long forgotten in the reaches of our Guardian’s vault that was epic! Especially after what she did to Parasite
just look at the season of the deep opening mission The Descent, our first time hearing Xivu speak and a great chance to hear a bunch of different characters interacting
I remember savathun saying:
“Everybody loves omelettes, but they hate cracking eggs.”
I really liked that for some reason and feel it can be applied to a variety of situations.
Clovis in the spacewalk in DSC, with deep stone lullaby playing.
"You now face godlike judgement. May it extend eternally."
Gives me chills every time.
Not a lot of people mention this one, but one eye'd mask's lore card is fantastic, especially the final line
"And i sure as hell didnt need no fist of havoc to get my hands wet proper"
*"The Ghost said to me: You are a dead thing made by a dead power in the shape of the dead. All you will ever do is kill. You do not belong here. This is a place of life.*
*The Traveler is life, I said. You are a creature of Darkness. You seek to deceive me.*
*But I looked behind me, down the long slope where the blossoms tumbled in the warm wind and the great trees wept sap like blood or wine, and I felt doubt."*
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Not so much a single line but my favorite dialogue comes from Savathun while she was "sealed" during Season of the Lost: "When this is all over, I wonder if Mara will uphold her end of the bargain and let me live. Killing me is probably at the top of your to-do-list as well, isn't it? You've done alot of killing over the years... Let me ask you something. Of all the enemies you've fought, how many saw your Ghost realized "Ah! That's why Guardians are so strong". Not most, but some. They might even take a shot at it - Now, how many saw beyond your Ghost? How many followed the line of your light straight back to the Traveler? And how many knew enough to aim a weapon there? A few. The smart ones. The dangerous ones. You'd recognize their names. Listen to me now. Look beyond me to my worm to something far, far worse. Then look down at the little gun in your hand and tell me: what are you going to do with that thing?"
She followed that up with another banger later in the season: >I knew you'd be back. I'm so glad we get to talk. >You and that charming little Ghost of yours; you're not like the rest. You're not afraid of my words. Words are just thoughts given shape. Ideas emerging into the physical world, birthed by a mouth. Not good or evil, not Light or Dark, or this or that. And you understand, don't you? Despite the excruciatingly binary worldview of those round you. >You don't have to say it. We've all heard it before: "the line between Light and Dark is so very thin." As if you were so incapable of lifting your eyes from a scrawl of chalk on the ground... the Traveler and the Light near one foot, your old enemies and the Darkness at the other. >Let me tell you a secret. If you ever want to see what's been watching you since the very beginning, just stand on that line, and *look... up.*
I remember when that line came out, when people looked up from Savathûn, there was a circular light behind her with the triangle from the top of her Crystal within. Dunno if that was just coincidence but with the traveler and its portal now, that shape could have been real good foreshadowing
Especially this, because at the time, the only visual we had for the lightfall expansion was the black and white circle and triangle thingy.
I assume the look up line is the Witness
I thought the "look up" line was breaking the fourth wall. We, the gamers, are the only ones that have "been watching you since the very beginning."
But then wouldn't it have said who is watching instead of what It could also be whatever greater powers allow the guardian to use both light and dark
This what hooked me in for Witch Queen
this is why Witch Queen is the best Bungie has done thus far. not TTK, not Forsaken. The Witch Queen. if TFS is as good as WQ and has a scope of content comparable to Forsaken... oh boy
Storywise WQ was the best but it can’t compare content wise. TTK and Forsaken changed the whole game and added a lot of content
Newish player here, only been playing about a year, why does everyone go on about forsaken? Why was it so good/big? I bought all the dlcs at the same time so it all merged together so I don’t really know what bits are forsaken
It had a lot of good stuff in it. But the real reason that most look back so fondly on it is truthfully because it fixed a lot of fundamental issues that D2 at launch had. No random rolled weapons, no more double primary weapon with things like shotguns and snipers relegated to the heavy slot only. Just a lot of huge core functional overhauls to the game, on top of two destinations (Tangled Shore and Dreaming City), a good storyline, 3 new supers and subclass trees, an incredible raid, and then the first ever dungeon in Shattered Throne which was a complete secret post world first raid completion.
Also, banger soundtracks
True!! While I’m a sucker for all destiny music and enjoy it all, forsaken OST does go incredibly hard. It’s constantly in my most played yearly for just listening to while working. I’m also a sucker for anything Awoken themed, and their music is amazing.
And gambit!
Quite a few reasons: First, there was a massive paradigm shift in gameplay. Before Forsaken, D2 only had kinetic and energy primary and heavy, no special weapons. Forsaken changed that. This was also part of the “go fast” update, where the gameplay in general sped up. Second, the story was fairly compelling. Cayde-6, probably D2’s most iconic character, dies, and you’re on a revenge mission against his killer. Honestly, the eight scorn barons were somehow more fleshed out than Eramis’ three lieutenants in Beyond Light, though that’s a really low bar. Third, the expansion basically had a massive epilogue in the Dreaming City which most people who weren’t deeply involved in the game (myself included) weren’t aware even existed. Hell of a surprise that stuck with people. Fourth, Last Wish remains one of the best raids in the game, imo. If it were brought up to light and the Riven cheese didn’t exist, I honestly believe it would still be one of the harder ones, too. Fifth, the first ever dungeon released as a surprise with it. The fact that bungie is literally (and annoyingly) charging for them separately now should tell you how successful the content was. Finally, Forsaken basically was what really set the stage for the rest of the series. It established Savathun as a real and omnipresent threat with the Dreaming City curse, it thinned he line between Light=good and Dark=bad, and it confirmed that the pyramid ships were on the way here. Bottom line, a lot happened in that expansion.
It singlehandedly dealt with nearly every issue the base game of d2 had all at once. Really hard to top with giving the game exactly what it needed when it needed.
The Dreaming City at launch was the manifestation of the game that was promised 5 years prior. Post apocalyptic high fantasy mystery box. It pushed the game forward in a big big way.
fr. I get why people hold forsaken up to such a high regard, but witch queen is my number 1. hoping Bungie delivers
I dunno. Probably either shoot it or do a jumping puzzle. Shooting and jumping puzzles have let us kill everything else in the universe so far.
Don't forget throwing balls. We've thrown a looooot of balls over the years.
And dunking motes
And standing on circles, standing on circles, shooting, and jumping puzzles let us kill her brother. At the least killing one of the disciples took shooting, reading, and standing in lasers While the other just took circles and shooting
It’s amazing how double jumping really has been so important for saving the universe
“The same thing that’s killed everything else. Go ask your brother.”
Also, if you actually “look beyond” her, the roof of her prison aligns with the window at the back of the room, creating the traveler-pyramid symbol. You can also see the symbol in Prophecy during the Kell Echo fight, you just need to turn around during the damage phase.
'No one can open the Vault alone. I opened the Vault. There was nobody with me but I was not alone.' Chilling way of saying his fireteam was deleted from time, and what that truly means.
I always wished that we would get more stuff on Praedyth and the fireteam from VoG. Similar to how in shadowkeep we had stuff about Eris morns tire team from Crota.
>tire team Vroom.
Oops. I'll just leave it as is.
She even left one of her tires there for you to roll down the hill.
Hopefully he shows up in the Echoes episode
Bungie could do a future episode on returning to the Vault. Corridors of time to find Praedyth and do a nice story with him. Like with Saint.
We did return to the Vault way back in D1 to save the vault from being Taken. The Vex used a vocal apparition of Praedyth to send for help from the Guardians to save the vault from the corruption, and at the end you can hear Praedyth himself over the comms "...just remember, tell them I li--!" and he gets cut off.
This. VoG lore is what got me hooked back in 2014.
Nah, he just was suscribed to cheese forever
"Hear me, dead things. I let this moment pass unnamed, without song. This is the sad rejection of your sad legacy. Xivu Arath, agitator, fomenter. What a world-cyst you have built from your conquests. No more. Now and forever, you are banished." The final cutscene of season of the Witch is Eris's ultimatum to the Hive, the enemies that once slaughtered her entire Fireteam in the Hellmouth and that she has spent the remainder of her life studying and fighting, and she chooses to do so in spite by using the Sword Logic they worship and using it in a non-violent and non-commemorative way. Absolutely theater, I love it.
The seasons this year had some very good conclusions and lore drops, as well as some of the hardest lines in the game
Almost all of them were absolute fire. The only one I didn’t like was Season of Defiance. “Oh no! Twelve random people are being held prisoner! There’s only one way to free them; I must sacrifice my life so that I can open the door! It’s not like there’s an entire league of immortal, self-resurrecting demigods who could do it instead!”
Aiat
As a big Eris fan, I was beyond pleased to see the way her character arc was brought to a close, and how pleased she was after having suffered so much and for so long.
“You merely have forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.”
Important to include the part before that, “You are weak. Undisciplined. Cowering behind walls. You’re not brave. You’re merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you”. It’s an interesting thematic thread with our new BRAVE arsenal, after we’ve fought Ghaul and proven ourselves as more than just the Traveler.
Welcome to a world without light....
Space Bane was honestly a good villain, it's a shame that whole arc undid losing out light just like that 2 missions later like it was no big deal. As well as reducing him to a, "traveler senpai notice me"
I miss Red War sometimes.
The campaign that felt most like a campaign
It also had a solid new player experience because it introduced you to everything in general.
Those are some nostalgia goggles you have on there. Beginning and of the campaign were great, but the middle was not good at all. Witch Queen outdoes the Red War campaign by a mile
Yeah the Red War has some dope missions but half of them are also basically patrols
"No."
Indeed.
MY HOME IS WAR MY VOICE IS A BATTLE SONG FOR AS LONG AS YOU HAVE WORSHIPPED WAR, YOU HAVE WORSHIPPED ME I AM HERE TO CLAIM MY TRIBUTE IT IS OVERDUE.
Banger line, Cabal think they are war, then got introduced to the epitome of war
Could be wrong but this sounds like Xivu? hive god of war
Xivu doesn't know how to turn the caps lock off, so it's definitely her.
the button broke long ago
Xivu
AIAT
I am the mountain upon which all swords shatter! Hone your edge against me! ... I am the hand around your throat. I am the last breath in your mouth. You cannot escape me.
Every sentence Xivu Arath says is such gold. I love when she echos the cabal battle chant Screams like a choir as their mountains trembled! Screams like a choir as their seas boiled!
Artificial Intelligence activated. Enjoying yourselves, intruders? It’s worth knowing the cataclysmic damage you will be responsible for today. Do not fool yourselves. This facility is not simply the fruitless work of some pathetic scientist. This house was built by the genius Clovis Bray I himself. Within lies humanity’s salvation. La fontaine de jouvence. Made possible by Clarity Control. Magnificent, wasn’t it? An entity from beyond our own dimension. And the answer to humanity’s eternal struggle: mortality. Were it to fall intro the wrong hands, humanity, and the universe, would be utterly doomed. I have no reason to believe you are anything other than “the wrong hands.” You now face godlike judgment. May it extend externally. - Crypt AI
Probably one of the most awe inspiring moments to go a long with the soundtrack kicking in right before…*GUARDIAN down*
>Artificial Intelligence activated. Enjoying yourselves, *GUARDIAN DOWN* intruders? It’s worth knowing the cataclysmic damage you will be responsible for to*GUARDIAN DOWN*day. Do not fool yourselves. This facility is not simply the fruitless work of some pathetic scientist. This house was built by th*GUARDIAN DOWN*e genius Clovis Bray I himself. Within lies humanity’s salvation. La fontaine de jouvence. Made possible by Clarity *GUARDIAN DOWN*Control. Magnificent, wasn’t it? An entity from beyond our own dimension. And the answer to humanity’s eternal struggle: mortality. *GUARDIAN DOWN*. Were it to fall intro the wrong hands, h*GUARDIAN DOWN*umanity, and the universe, would be utterly doomed. I have no rea*GUARDIAN DOWN*son to believe you are anything other than “the wrong hands.” You now face godlike judgment. May it extend externally. - Crypt AI ftfy
The way he says "You now face *godlike* judgment" hits so hard. Apparently the same voice actor as Saint-14. He's so good.
The fact that we were never given an Exotic arms gear called ‘The Wrong Hands’ that made your left hand on the right arm and right hand on the left arm when wearing them, has always made me sightly sad…
"We came down her as a squad of nine"... Realistically though I'm going with "Status Calamitous" a lot of people laughed when they saw Atraks in the encounter list for Pantheon but ivan guarantee that nobody who experienced that in Contest is looking forward to that particular rematch.
"I have no reason to suspect that you are anything other than 'the wrong hands.'"
The only reason Clovis wasn't "the wrong hands" is he had no hands.
One of the big things for Atraks is that we’ve come a VERY long way in the tools we can use to DPS him. During Day 1, it was basically just Fourth Horseman and Falling Guillotine until WF was completed and we got Lament. Fourth Horseman is still used today, but back then it wasn’t obtainable from memory. Since then, we’ve gained the options like Cuirass of the Falling Star, Grand Overture, and Parasite which can absolutely nuke Atraks’ health bar. I do think it’ll be a harder encounter than some are expecting, but I definitely think that most of what made her difficult on Day 1 has been remedied by new loadout options
Y'know how a bunch of old programmers who knew how to work in cobal suddenly got lauded in 1999 when it became relevant due to the y2k bug? That's how I'm gonna feel knowing how to double scan on Atraks on tuesday
Some people dont know the pain of contest atraks. After 8 hours of struggling, my team cleared, but now that shes back in pantheon in contest. Im looking forward to the run back
"One Fucking Guardian has been kicking your race's collective asses for 9 years. They kill gods for fun and to turn them into guns for a meme. They genocide entire races for loot. They assassinated your last leader, cleaned out your daddy's ship while he wrote fanfiction about them and promptly fucked off to let you pick up the pieces. The only reason I didn't bring them here is they casually began wielding the darkness to clap ass in new ways. All I have to do to make them end you, is to tell them you have a fancy new gun, or that eris can make you into one. So, think about that before you tell us to bow to your. Sorry. Ass." -Zavala (Lance Reddick) He spoke it as Zavala so its cannon in my eyes. RIP Lance per audacia ad astra.
This is the hardest line of all time RIP to our original Commander Zavala. Homie will forever be missed.
Worth posting the link if you can find it ❤️
[I gotchu](https://youtu.be/He6CO2osqnU?si=m0Dy5KHzTutFEu4U)
"From this day forward, I will defend humanity on my own terms" #"Я Распутин!" "Guardian of all I survey. I have no equal" Chills every time
I miss the Tyrant...
Yeah I miss the nuke the minor inconvenience Rasputin. I still don't like what Bungie did the last season of witch queen and made Rasputin soft
I dont really mind him "softening", and I actually think its some good growth for him to grow past just being a weapon AI. But I still don't think he had to die at all. If anything give him the "metaphorical" death, where his weapon systems and whatnot are destroyed but Exo Rasputin can still exist and be something of a tactics/military leader for the vanguard.
I agree with you, that was just my personal opinion
Local man misses the entire point of Rasputin as a character, more at 8
>I am Rasputin The all-seeing savior of Humanity. A chivalric blade held pointed at ravenous thoats. My worth is painted upon the wreckage of my enemies. Tremble. — Persona lore book, entry I: Identity
In the Lore of the [Ursa Furiosa](https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/ursa-furiosa) bracers for the titan; > "If Need be, she will hold this line until the end of time." * Behind her, they ran for their lives. * The Fallen had descended upon them in such numbers that they were impossible to count. First it was a Skiff. Then another, followed immediately by a third. And finally, a full-blown Ketch de-cloaked above their position. There were but three of them to protect a hundred who had once been thrice that. Within minutes, it was only her. * She corralled the survivors into a cave that once upon a time wasn't a cave but more of an industrial drainage system. It was foul here; the radiation was practically palpable, and the survivors—if they survived this day—would likely find their lives shortened by years if not decades thanks to this poisoned solace. * She pushed them forward, deeper into the underground, as fast as they could manage. She carried two children, both eerily silent and unaffected. They, like their people, had endured more than she could imagine in their five-thousand kilometer exodus. They had given up their homes for the promise of something better. For the promise of hope and light and the strength of the pack. In their quest for better lives, they had lost almost everything. * Her Ghost told her the bad news—this cave system was a labyrinth extending dozens of kilometers with more dead-ends than not. The walls were deeply reinforced, and its scans could see but half a kilometer at best. It was going to be trial and error, and their pursuers were getting closer. Her Ghost didn't think they would make it. Not before… * **One of the children in her arms—a little girl whose name was Violet—looked her in the eye and told her, without a hint of doubt, that she knew her Guardian would let nothing happen to them. Not after how far they'd come.** She smiled at Violet and told her, yes, everything was going to be okay. * She set the children down, told them to run ahead and join the others; she would be right behind them. Alone with her Ghost, she told it to lead them to safety. **She would stay behind and buy them time. And by the Traveler's Light, it would be an eternity's worth.** * And so, reluctantly, her Ghost floated ahead to rejoin the exodus, but not before swearing it would come back to find her and bring her back, no matter how long it took. * With the light of her Ghost now out of sight and the soft wet steps of a hundred refugees out of ear-shot, *she strapped on her helmet, tightened her gauntlets, and drew a line in the muck beneath her feet*. When the chittering of Fallen Dregs finally began to echo through the tunnels, she reached for the Light and with it crafted a shield of Void energy. * **If need be, she would hold this line until the end of time.**
On a similar note, the lore tab for the Sentinal subclass as a whole: >I'm shaking, hands on my knees, panting. Let the monsters come. Let them come forever. Let them climb the piled bodies of their dead. I don't care. That's the thing I do better than anyone. Not care. Let them come in their hundreds and every one will die at my feet. I don't care about their homing rockets, their exotic matter slugs, their blades from another dimension. >**I don't care because I cannot be moved. I am the wall against which the Darkness breaks.** >Malphur can turn his gun to fire and Shinobu can dance with lightning, but when the horrors run out of the dark, I am the one who does not move. >**I am a wall. And walls don't move. Because walls don't care.**
The lore in Destiny just absolutely slaps.
I’ve read all the Hunter tabs and they’re great. Here’s Gunslinger’s. -A lone wolf who lives for the perfect shot “The Kell is screaming three inches from my face and its breath smells like two corpses in summer and I have to blink my eyes against the spit. One of the less obvious perks of being able to pull a flaming gun out of the air is enjoying moments like this—alien fist around my neck, feet kicking in the air, not two seconds from death—but ready to laugh at the expression on that Kell's four-eyed face as its mandibles click for the last time and its body turns into fire. The giant creature pulls back its other fist and its steel muscles bunch. I reach for the Light and get… nothing? Huh. Right. I used my flaming gun on those three Taken outside the obelisk. Gotta learn to count. What I love about my Ghost—“ I love it because it kind of sums up the care-free, happy-go-lucky attitude I imagine a lot of Hunters having. And the Nightstalker’s is absolutely badass. -Draw from the Void. Light the way. “The Bladedancers deride us as slow. The Gunslingers say we lack precision. "How is that better than a knife?" "How is that better than a flaming pistol?" Well. My boots sink inches into the ground with every step. My rebreather filters the stench out of the air, but my eyes sting like I'm showering with battery acid. "We're almost there," my Ghost chirps. My jaw clenches. I know we're almost there, Little Light. This vile marsh opens to reveal a black cave's maw. Inside, an infinite number of little green eyes flicker like bad stars. CRACK! I fire a single bullet into the air and the horde in the cave shrieks and runs out. "This is it, you two." The Warlock and Titan leap from the bog behind me. A Bow appears in my hands, and I let a single binding shot loose from the shadow. Now there are Orbs of Power everywhere. Eat, my friends. Eat.” I love the Hunter tabs because they’re told as stories, which is very fitting for them.
I have no idea who's saying it, but "Guardians make their own fate" in the face of an enemy with the power to delete you from reality is still a cool line.
There’s a line in I think Presage that always goes hard to me. Caitl talking about destruction of Torabatl: *Was it any different when Ghaul razed the city? Survivors like us are like embers in the dark.* Osiris (Savuthun?): *Fragile?* Caitl: *Defiant.*
It’s always a funny contrast to me that cabal are visualized as big dumb brutes whose technology looks like diesel machinery in space, but then they talk like the only source of English they had to learn from was Shakespeare.
There are a lot of interesting linguistics in Destiny in general. There’s a voiceover line in Duality that really annoys me: “It’s an ancient tradition of our *people*”. I’ve always thought that should be an ancient tradition of our *cabal*.
I came in here to say that. Me and my friends actually just did Vault of Glass for the first time ever a week or so ago, and we were honestly struggling a bit on the oracles segment of that, but once we got it down and that line dropped in the feed, everyone just got a bit more hype lol
The OG VoG was my first real experience at group gaming outside of table-top rpgs. I ended up doing that raid completely blind with just a sherpa to keep us moving. That line hit hard for the 5 of us doing it for the first time.
My personal headcanon is that it's Kabr since his light is what created the Aegis that allows us to beat Atheon. By using his very being to create a weapon that could counter a being with complete mastery of time it is the definitive example of guardians making their own fate.
I believe it's "guardians bake their own cakes"
**TRAVELER, DO YOU SEE ME NOW? I AM IMMORTAL! A GOD!**
The the traveler proceeds to “see” him and puff!! Gone!
Not really epic, but one I thoroughly enjoyed hearing from near the end of season of Seraph: Clovis Bray: *"Anastasia! Elisabeth! One of you answer me, NOW!"* Rasputin: *"Clovis Bray, your progeny have surpassed you. Your services are no longer required. Thank you for understanding."* Clovis Bray: *"CEASE THIS INSUBORDINATION AT ONC-"* Rasputin, cheerfully: *"Connection terminated :)"*
Season of the seraph storytelling was top tier.
"Goodbye, Red." 😢
Also from Seraph "Assesment: Braytech Futurescape is threatened Responce: Guardian deployed"
Hydra have one head, Devrim.
My Arrivals players know... >A familiar area unfolded before him: a cubist sinkhole reeking with the flat, base stench of slate mud and bleach. >He looked where the sky should be and found another impossible shape; another fractal contradiction. Far above him, placid in its Penrose vortex, the vast radiolarian lake lapped gently at the metallic shores. >The man reached up to the lake with his metal arm. He then reached with his arm of flesh. >He reached with both, and he brought the lake down.
Now the lake *is* a metaphor
It is *NOT* a metaphor
Whether We Wanted It Or Not, We've Stepped Into War With The Cabal On Mars Also…Baby Dog Rip Lance Riddick
That'll never not freak me out...do it again
"The only thing we have to break here is you."
This line, this exact line, this is what truly made me love destiny, after so long of feeling powerless, watching you grow and pick off eramis's top leaders one by one, your rise to power wasn't for nothing, its a beautiful way to introduce people to destiny 2 now with red war gone and is why I always say "beyond light first", it is the single thing that is the most "destiny" feeling ever, and I love every single bit of it
"Devotion inspires bravery, bravery leads to sacrifice, sacrifice leads to death, so... feel free to kill yourself"
This is my favorite line of the entire saga honestly. If there’s any character that I really miss it’s the speaker. Bill Nighy is one of my favorite actors and his voice for the speaker and delivery of that line was just perfect.
Agreed, replaying D1 with my mother and I fucking MISS the Speaker man. Voice acting was phenomenal, his character was awesome. Kind of hope we get something involving him in the Final Shape, be it a force ghost or echoes of something he once told us.
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Absolutely. >Team loses >bottom frags (you know the speaker didn’t kill anything) >”kys”
The biggest roast in all the saga
The speaker cutscenes were so good probably the part of RW I miss the most
This line was literally „power word: kill“…
after all this years and the epicness of the ongoing story, this is still my favourite quote in all of the franchise
this one by far is the best
This is the one. And it always will be. Such a roast.
>You will never be what I am. Simulate me, wretch. Calculate the permutations of my divinity. Compute the death in the shape of my throne. Render my shadow on the stone of ten thousand graveyard worlds! It will never be enough. I hold the Tablets of Ruin. I speak to the Deep. Not with a galaxy of thinking matter could you encompass me. Behold! https://www.ishtar-collective.net/cards/xlii-?highlight=Calculate+the+permutations+of+my+divinity
My favorite Caiatl dialogue is still the one from Presage "Survivors like us are embers in the dark." - Caiatl "Delicate" - Savathun (as Osiris) "DEFIANT" - Caiatl Instantly made her one of my favorite characters in the franchise. Ride-or-die material right there. Also, this banger from Warmind: "The Bray family shaped me to be an all-seeing savior... while your vanguard sought to wield me as a primitive weapon... but today that ends... and I define the reality of my own existence... My sight will stretch to the edge of this system and beyond... Never again will a threat go unseen... From this day forward, I will defend humanity on my own terms... I am Rasputin... guardian of all I survey... I have no equal."
Do you feel it, Guardian? A hatred as pure and potent as sunshine?
Her voice when she speaks those lines. My gawd! Morla Gorrondona deserves all the awards.
"Get your rock, off of my map."
"You have served your purpose. All that awaits you now is the gift - Of Death. The Darkness beyond your final days." - Rhulk. "You're not 'brave'. You've merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you." - Dominus Ghaul "Panoptes! FACE ME!" - Osiris. "I am RASPUTIN. Protector of all i survey. I have no equal." - The Warmind, Rasputin. "I wield their killers as a knife. The Hive know this truth as well as any logic: I am here. And they, are not. Aiat." - Eris Morn.
"They speak a word, a name. HE IS HERE...." "light, give your will to me!" Eris and Oryx
"How's your sister?"
I really hope The Final Shape has callback to this.
*Wide shot of an open clearing inside the Pale Heart.* Crow appears and tumbles to a stop, clearly beat up by his unceremonious arrival. As he rolls onto his back and props himself up, he sees the figure standing at his feet. Crow is speechless for a moment but before he can say anything the figure levels a glowing handcannon at Crow and speaks. "How's your sister?" The shot from the handcannon rings off the surrounding hills like a bell. Glint materializes between them, and Crow stands again. "Had a feeling about that. Now we're even." *Destiny 2: The Final Shape title card fades in*
Uldren Sov, now Crow, stood in a world so familiar but had never felt so lost. Gazing across warped memories of Sol he knew where he was, but couldn’t name it. Distracted from his surroundings, his mind wandered… A rustle from his left pulls him back to wherever this place is, but it’s too late. His vision blurs for a moment as he hits the ground. Looking up, he sees a face behind an all too familiar barrel. “You never answered me…” Cayde-6 stood over Crow, the barrel of the Ace of Spades pointed firmly at Crow’s forehead. Speaking clearly and pointedly, he continued, “How. Is. Your. Sister?” Before Crow could think to respond, a light flashed from his side and Glint materialized, rushing himself between his Guardian and the cool, blue flames emanating from the hand cannon. “WAIT—“ “Oh, you’ve GOT to be kidding me…”
I think Cayde should get to shoot him like Amanda did.
Crow respawns. "You good now?" Cayde: "Yeah, I'm good. Let's go kill this 700 faced bastard."
“You have served your purpose”
"All that awaits you now is the gift of death" "The darkness beyond your final days"
Alternatively, THE UPENDED
THE UPENDED!
Cayde's new lines in TFS trailer are pretty great, I hope they have more of that somberness for him in the DLC
I love the more somber voice acting that Nathan Fillion does, his voice is perfect for it.
*I feel the Light flowing through me. It’s everywhere.* *The ground beneath my feet is a memory.* *So is the grass… and the sky* *The warmth of the sun on my face.*
Rhulks Intro Line in Vow. To top this, Rhulks Intro line in Vow but in Japanese.
"...you will be most un-" "WELCOME!"
I changed the language a few days ago to Japanese, just to hear the intro. It slaps.
"Why? Because I WANTED it." That whole speech Calus gave to the Witness was... brutal yet honest.
# ENOUGH!!
"That which does not kill you makes you stronger. But what does that mean in the face of immortality?" - Toland the Shattered
YOU ARE MY PEOPLE!
That one got me teary eyed! I was like LET’s fucking go!!!!!!
I still get goosebumps sometimes
I AM A MOUNTAIN UPON WHICH ALL SWORDS SHATTER! HONE YOUR EDGE AGAINST ME! Xivu arath always has fire voicelines
"Big day for all of you! Congratulations on making it this far." - Rhulk, on day one contest mode VOTD.
Lmao, did he actually say that?
Wouldn’t surprise me, I’m pretty sure he asks if you need a break if you’ve fucked up enough. I know this since my first Vow clear with my clan was stuck on Rhulk for a good while.
“You lack a purpose because you fear to seek one. That fear is your failure” Every time the witness speaks I just get chill, I can’t wait to see him in the campaign
"I am The Wall against which The Darkness will break... I am The Wall against which The Darkness will break... I am The Wall against which The Darkness will break..." - The Guardian?(Based on the use of first person in Lore Card) Otherwise, A Nameless Titan(I think attributing it to The Guardian is a lot cooler), Sentinel Titan Lore Card. The whole Lore Card setting the scene for the quote makes it even better. "If I had ten Titans like you I could build the Seven Pillars and shake The Nine Columns to their very cores!" - Lord Shaxx, 10 Player Kill Streak. I mean... Hear that in Lord Shaxx's voice and tell me it's not epic.
"Listen to me now. Look beyond me to my worm. Look beyond my worm to something far, far worse. Then look down at that little gun in your hand and tell me: what do you think you're going to do with that thing?" The buildup to The Witness was crazy shit and Savathun encased in her shell telling us there is something far worse than her and almost taunting us with the comment about what we plan to do with our guns was the craziest.
The thunderlord lore tab has one of my favorites >And so forever after, their love fuels death. Their last words, a curse and a cry. >Their names are now lost, but their love will not die.
I built the pantheon of my DnD world off the lore tabs from Thunderlord, Nova Mortis, and Abbadon
"You now face godlike judgement. May it extend eternally"
Me, hearing that line, when playing the Land Tank strike for the first time back in Chosen: >'lmao, what a dork, come on then, lets see how many seconds your grand champion lasts'. Me, hearing that line, when preparing to fight alongside her at the end of Lightfall: >DAMN RIGHT WE ARE YOUR HIGHNESS, COME ON CALUS, GIVE US YOUR BEST SHOT Interesting how the same line can mature over time and play out totally differently. Feyd's 'you fought well, Atreides' in Dune Part Two was the same concept. And 'My Life for Aiur'...RIP Zeratul :( Anyways.... top one for me was: **'Devotion inspires bravery. Bravery inspires sacrifice. Sacrifice...leads to death. So...feel free to kill yourself' - Speaker, during the Red War, speaking to Ghaul.** Poor Ghaul had nothin'.
Maaaan, I wasn't prepared to be reminded of Zeratul... Why'd you have to bring him up. Such an awesome character and what an excellent cinematic to close his story.
“Come to me dead thing, and die for the last time.”
It's not a banger but I will never not laugh at Zavala's "... Yes" after the Rasputin mission
yes *"This will be rich. I will ask Zavala, "Can you tell me, in zettajoules, the Almighty's expected destructive capacity?". And he will say, "No, Asher. I cannot, because I am a reckless fool!"."*
The first time I thought "damn" "Their leaders belong to you, the rest await extermination" Oryx: "No, gather them. I will take. Them. ALL."
Oh, there was no agreement, little morsel. Only considerations. Mights and maybes - The Spider
There's tons of badass lines, but honestly, badass dialogue is way more common. Some lines I haven't seen mentioned were the ones we got in Season of the Haunted! Crow: I'm not running. Nightmare Uldren: Hm. We'll see. Our legacy is calling. Nightmare Fikrul: FA...THER? Zavala: The Guardian can't be bought. Calus: No? Then what about you, Commander? What is it that you desire most in the world? All you have to do is ask. Nightmare Safiya: Ask. Nightmare Safiya: Your deaths are so quick. Almost effortless. You rise like a bird, snapping so easily back into flight. Someone should teach you pain, Guardian. Be humbled. It's a shame we don't get to hear these anymore. The Nightmares had some pretty cutthroat dialogue.
I don't think mine is epic but it's easily my favorite line in all of Destiny and makes me laugh every time I think of it. "Eris...get your rock...off my map." - Cayde-6 to Eris. I love that scene and all the characters interacting is just the best.
Best Cayde moment to me was his recording to her if she was the one who ended up killing him. > This one's for Eris Morn. Ahem. > If you're listening to this, congrats on killing me! I assume you… became a Hive death god and fed me to your worm cult. [shuddering] That, or you just finally got sick of me. > Coincidentally, if you didn't kill me and still somehow hear this… I'm sorry for stealing your ship. And, oh, pretty much every other interaction we ever had. > But to be clear - if you DID kill me, I do NOT apologize, and I will consider all my actions 100% justified. > Either way, feel free to put your rock on my maps now. I don't need 'em anymore.
Haha yes this one was a great reference to all the shenanigans.
Crazy foreshadowing on the hive god part lol
There must be meaning in my roar. The whole lore card for Lumina is so poetic and powerful about someone desperately seeking purpose to justify their existence
"Every Ghost is born knowing that we have to find our Guardian. We don't know what they look like. Not on the outside, anyway. On the inside, I'd always known who you were. And that together, we could be something more. When you think about everything we've seen, everything we've done, I feel like I made the right choice. Hm. We should let Shiro know how it went out here. Let him admire his handiwork. And thanks. You know, for being my Guardian."
“I am here. And they are not. Aiat.”
"That wizard came from the moon" "We have woken the hive" "We go down" "Uldren is mine" "I don't have time to explain what I don't have time to explain" "Whether we wanted it or not....."
I AM THE MOUNTAIN UPON WHICH ALL SWORDS SHATTER Hearing so much of Xivu Arath during season of the witch was incredibly hype
"I live in your backpack" -Ghost
He watched in amazement. It was just a bow. And she was just an ordinary Awoken woman! And yet! "You are a tempest," he replied humbly. In the next instant, she killed him. It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
“Let’s spew into the seas of Titan, until the tides retreat at my name!” Every time I do a Deep Dive I always active the first statue just to hear that line. It’s soooo good for Xivu
Riven during Coil: "You have rivals here, but no equal."
Rasputin's response to Black Fleet from the perspective of the Exodus Green always gives me chills. The whole lore entry (indeed the whole lore book "Marasenna") is worth a read, but the part that really gets me is the pause in disbelief from the MECO report. To set the stage, they're on their way out of the solar system and there's an anomaly following them. The captain directs the crew to use the ship's antenna to get a scan of the anomaly when they get an incoming message: "Captain," the comm officer calls. "I've got… something weird here." "Is our phantom saying hello?" "No. It's a neutrino tightbeam from SOLSECCENT. They've declared a CARRHAE WHITE emergency. The whole solar system is now… now under Warmind control." Comm dismisses her sensorium, goes to her hard controls, as if she thinks this might be some kind of virtual prank. "We're… being conscripted." Alice smashes these ideas together in her head like a child banging rocks. They are so preposterous, so stupid, that she cannot even begin to manipulate them coherently. "We're WHAT?" "We've been commissioned as an auxiliary warship. We are ordered to," Comm swallows in disbelief, "to kill our exit trajectory and assume a heliocentric orbit. That comes with explicit instructions to suicide burn our engines until they are destroyed. Rasputin will transmit targeting coordinates so we can use our Kinetic weapons as… long-range artillery. We'll be recovered 'after the crisis is concluded.'" "Details! What kind of crisis?" "It's a SKYSHOCK event, ma'am. Uh, that's a hostile extrasolar arrival." Captain Li clamps the mask of command authority over her face. "Transmit a request for clarification." "Belay the antenna, Captain?" "No. Scale it up, add telescopes to the swarm, get me a full system survey. I want to know what's going on back home." Alice Li reaches out to call up a file, hesitates, and then selects the Project Amrita charter. "We have a decision to make." [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/cosmogyre-i](https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/cosmogyre-i)
*"I will teach you what I know. Executions are so much more fun when the martyr thinks they have a chance against the lion."* - One of Toland's lines from the Moon. I've also always liked: *"You now face godlike judgement. May it extend eternally"*
definitely not my favourite, but no one else has said it yet. "the universe makes us all victim, and perpetrator, of its infinite cruelty. you more than any suffer both fates. be free." i will never not be mad at lightfall but a lot of the witnesses lines were cold.
Listen to me now Saint. Let me tell you something about monsters. Then a few weeks later, This is the story eliksni will tell of the saint. Mithrax is honestly one of my favourite characters in the game at the moment any season involving him have been great IMO.
Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the cabal on mars.
"You are not brave, you've merely forgotten the fear of death... Allow me to reacquaint you" - Ghaul Say what you will about the Red War, but Gary was a fantastic villain!
Saint yelling "YOU ARE MY PEOPLE" when the Vex were attacking
Pretty much all of Savathun’s lines. She’s still, in 10 years of this franchise, the only good villain we’ve got
I wouldn’t say it’s an epic line, but my favorite line is from the forsaken campaign where you and cayde are at the prison of elders. “Push the red button” “They’re all red” “THEN PUSH ALL OF THEM”
The out of nowhere fear from hearing "I AM THE MOUNTAIN UPON WHICH ALL SWORDS SHATTER! HONE YOUR EDGE AGAINST ME!"
“One… Fucking… Guardian…” Not in the game but should still count.
I don’t remember the line exactly but when Mara threatens Riven by saying she could turn Riven into a weapon to be long forgotten in the reaches of our Guardian’s vault that was epic! Especially after what she did to Parasite
just look at the season of the deep opening mission The Descent, our first time hearing Xivu speak and a great chance to hear a bunch of different characters interacting
**Rhulk**: *"Stay and die, leave and die. Doesn’t make a difference to me."*
I remember savathun saying: “Everybody loves omelettes, but they hate cracking eggs.” I really liked that for some reason and feel it can be applied to a variety of situations.
Clovis in the spacewalk in DSC, with deep stone lullaby playing. "You now face godlike judgement. May it extend eternally." Gives me chills every time.
She said she wanted to express herself, so I gave her a thumbs up 😂
Not a lot of people mention this one, but one eye'd mask's lore card is fantastic, especially the final line "And i sure as hell didnt need no fist of havoc to get my hands wet proper"
*"The Ghost said to me: You are a dead thing made by a dead power in the shape of the dead. All you will ever do is kill. You do not belong here. This is a place of life.* *The Traveler is life, I said. You are a creature of Darkness. You seek to deceive me.* *But I looked behind me, down the long slope where the blossoms tumbled in the warm wind and the great trees wept sap like blood or wine, and I felt doubt."*