The cold does not agree with me. From my rebirth in the Earth's whirlwind storms to this bitter husk of ice, I have always favored warmth.
"We're not far." Dawn assures me, just as the ruins of Eventide crest around the corner. "Just a minute or two until we reach the outskirts."
"I question the logic of transmatting outside of the colony's limits."
"Well, technically, we didn't." She can sense my frown. "But I get the point. House Salvation's still active around the ruins, even without Eramis. So I'd rather you didn't get a face full of Brig fire right after touching down, makes my job easier."
"How generous of you." I reply dryly, though her laugh is evidence enough that she sees through my coy attempt at performing irritation. I smile too. "Let's hope that what we find is worth the trouble."
[Europa, Asterion Abyss] [Mad Son of Seychelles] [Chiron's Cure w/ Golden Trace] [Lightkin Robes w/ Vex Precursor Chrome]
So with VoG coming to Destiny 2, there's one thing I'm wondering...will Praedyth be coming back?
Spoilers for the Destiny 1 mission, Paradox, and the Destiny 2 lore book, Aspect, below!
Back in Destiny 1 we had the mission Paradox. We're it had us go back into the Vault Of Glass because of a transmission we received. Ikora works with us as assistance to discover where the transmission is coming from and who is speaking.
Eventually, we find out it is Praedyth who is broadcasting the transmission.
Now, there are actually two endings to this mission. A version for normal mode and a version for hard mode.
In the normal mode version, at the end of the mission we find a skeleton. Ghost then scans them, stating that the bones have traces of Light and are centuries old. However, it is never specifically stated that these are Praedyth's bones, only assumed they are. Though, they probably are for the sake of this version of the mission ending.
In the hard mode version, the Paradox mission will have you go to a different location instead of where the normal version takes you, where the mission's quest step will be labeled as Praedyth's Gift. Upon opening the chest, that you find at the location, you will find Praedyth's Ghost, to which you will have to bring it to Lakshmi-2, The Future War Cult leader. By this point we learn that Praedyth still is alive, or at least existing, somewhere across different time streams.
Now, over in Destiny 2, we have the Aspect lore book, which we earn during Shadowkeep. The Aspect lore is actually about Praedyth and the Ishtar Collective and their attempt to escape the Garden. During this time in the Garden, which has been years by this point after the initial incident in the Vault, Praedyth has been completely alone. His Ghost, being the one we found, long dead. He stripped his armor and two of his guns for materials.
He eventually gets into contact with one group of the many copies of the Ishtar Collective scientists, Shim, Sundaresh, Esi, and Duance-McNiadh. They begin working on a plan to escape, asking Praedyth what materials he has, so they can begin building a strong enough transistor to push a message out past the Vex systems and hopefully finding an exit at the same time.
During this conversation, one of the scientists make a comment about Praedyth, stating that Praedyth exists physically but the location he is in doesn't and that may work to their advantage.
The last entry of the lore book they are successful in building the transistor and waiting for the Garden door to open. They have a very slim chance but a chance at freedom never the less. From there, the book ends. So from there, we can assume Praedyth is alive and possibly even see Praedyth and the Ishtar Collective free from the Vault.
Another thing, I want to point out is what Praedyth sees during his time in the Garden. While he's there, he sees various imagines from outside the Vault from various locations.
He's seen the Traveler and The Last City. He's seen "a small figure, that changes everytime, standing in front of a shard of the Traveler that is laying bell-up"....now, doesn't that sound familiar? He's seen himself on Mars, where he's bathed in sunlight, but feels no warmth. He's seen Mercury and the closeness of the Sun. He's "seen" Mercury, what's last of it. Turning around and seeing no other planets. Just debris, crumbs, and darkness of what remains. The description similar to how Mars, or what remains of Mars, looks like around the Glykon.
Praedyth has acknowledge these images but doesn't know which are real and not, and if they are real, he doesn't know if they are from our timeline. Which leads me to believe that he has seen images from our timeline, that he may have seen us, seen what The Last City looks like, seen the Darkness take several planets.
I guess this all comes down to me wanting Praedyth and the Collective to come back. With everything that has happened recently with the Clovis AI, Bray family, Banshee, DSC, Europa, Vex, Clovis' resentment of the Ishtar Collective, the Vex using the image of Sundaresh to cause the death of Clovis by eviscerating him and now the return of VoG, it just makes sense to me for them to tie up or tie in this part of the story, ya'know?
Lodi: Wait, ikora is human, this Zavala is an Awoken, an alien species, and this Cayde-14 was a robot?
Guardian: Yes and no. Yes, he was fully robotic in form but he had a soul and brain like a human. The correct term is Exo. It's the brain child of a Madman known as Clovis Bray. He went on to fuck up his entire family.
Lodi: So, How did he make these things?
Guardian: Oh, he saw the Vex and thought if he could mimic that. The Travele-
Lodi: Who?
Guardian: The Traveler, kinda like a giant Orb that sat in the sky and it gave a bunch of things like powers and intelligence. It also sometimes appears as people to others. Clovis apparently had it appeared three whole times and kept doing it, because he was working with the Vex and Darkness.
Lodi: Okay, what's the Darkness.
Guardian: If the Traveler, also known as Light, acts upon the physical properties of the universe, the Darkness is more mental and soul like. Darkness acts more like, uh.... strings and crystals, and Light works like Fire and energies. Theres also Void, but its more like absence.
Lodi: So this Clovis Guy, is he...
Guardian: Oh, technically dead. He has two copies around. One was slightly given memory wipe, the other is on Europa. His Granddaughters hate him, and I'm waiting for his Technical murderer to come back.
Lodi: This... is messy.
Guardian: We haven't even touched on the craziness that is the Cabal or the Hive.
Guardian: So, have they fixed the coms problem yet?
Ghost: No, they said they would, but also gave some people Bluetooth headphones, like that would work.
Guardian: ugh, I don't like having to go back and read the closed captions of stuff I was supposed to hear.
Ghost: I know, I know. Failsafe doesn't know who messed up the network, but she is trying to fix it along with Eido.
Guardian: You know who we could call if we get to the end and want to be berated.
Ghost: No, we aren't calling him.
Guardian: Just saying, he is an option.
Ghost: Last time he had any pull in our network, he tried to kill us multiple times, shouted nothing but slurs at several people of power, and tried to become a Machine god.
