#felwinter peak

[felmire-echo]

Radegast x Saladin

Because my fiance is a simp and in rair pair hell and sad one of our favorite authors closed the request box. Merry Christmas, @princessehistoire 💜

The Peak was quiet, for once, though that quiet would inevitably end when patroles return, and even more likely with Radegast chewing Lord Felwinter out for breaking the decree.

Again.

But for now, there was peace.

Radegast finds Saladin sitting on one of the couches by the dying fire, a wolf in his lap. "Room for one more?" The deep rumble of his voice causes the smaller man to look up in surprise.

"Oh, 'Gast, I didn't hear you come in." Saladin shifts to the side, earning a disgruntled whuff from the wolf as he makes room for Radegast. He pets the beast comfortingly. "Hush, you're alright." It makes Radegast chuckle.

"Lord Felwinter spoils those wolves." He remarks, settling down and poking the fire back to life. "We've come a long way, together."

There's silence from Saladin for a moment, hands absent absently running through wolf fur. "We have." He says, finally, voice softer than one would expect from him. "Our work isn't done, yet, though. There's more who need our help."

"And we'll do it together." Radegast says, taking one of Saladin's hands and kissing it as he leans against him. "As we always have."

"Yes." Saladin agrees, settling against the man he trusts more than anything else in this world. "Together."

[pedanticauspice]

[brontios-helm]

Destiny 2: Stormy Horizon

[jiinmalos]

That is the power of legacy. The Iron Lords who fought beside me are with me still. I light their braziers every night. So long as I remember them, they are never truly gone. One day, I too will fall, and someone else will tend my flame.

[hellkitten813]

Felwinter Peak

[khaosduzart]

Expunged Epilogue

Chao was still frozen solid when the multitudes of ships arrived on the icy moon. Stasis. That is what Elsie said Clovis had named it, a power given by the Darkness and manifested through a subzero crystal. Drake pointed out that it was similar to if a gas skipped the liquid stage and became a solid in an instant. Elsie agreed with his thinking but said it was more than that. And Ken liked the name Stasis because it sounded like "Stay, Sis."

The group of Guardians filed into the laboratory. They all sat down in the chairs that Elsie and Ken were able to find around the lab. Chao was already hooked up to the computer, his helm was removed so they could get one last look at the Exo they once knew. His maroon stripes going down his face, his antenna on either side where his ears would be. Once everyone had sat down Ken went up to the platform in the center of the room.

"Hunters. Warlocks. Titans. Today we say goodbye to a friend. Through some...unknown and unfortunate incident, Chao-5 was stolen from us, he was reset against his will and given the powers of this...Crux behind me." He gestured to the geometric elephant in the room, he could tell Rex was nervous.

"But make no mistake." He continued. "Chao was not corrupted by the Crux. He wielded its powers yes, but that does not mean that they were the catalyst to his rage. Elsie? If you would."

Elsie opened her palm and from it the air froze solid, she made a small crystal of Darkness. The room was dead silent. Then she turned it back to nothingness.

"What you just saw was Stasis. Discovered by the one who built this place, Clovis Bray. This is his daughter Elsie, though I use that term very loosely as he was never a good dad and she's from another timeline." Sounds of utter confusion filled the room and the Guardians began trying to reason how this was possible. "Uh... can- can we have- Shit."

Drake took Ken's place and whisted before speaking. Quiet returned.

"You may ask Elsie all the questions you want about her past in time. But what I want you all to know is that she showed me this tool as well and it saved Kenneth's life." Ken did a wave with two fingers to the crowd.

"It's true. Chase would've been crushed in Chao's palm if not for Drake freezing him in time." Rex stood up.

"And didn't Chao use Stasis to almost crush them?" Ken sighed. Luna was his beet friend but her husband got on his nerves. Luckily Luna stepped in.

"Rex did you not just listen to what he said? Stasis didn't cause him to do this, something or someone reset him. He had no clue what was happening because Chao was already- oh Traveller..." Luna started to tear up and Rex sat down to console her.

"We will figure out what happened that day." Drake insisted. "But today is for celebrating his life and saying hello to his new one." Ken nodded.

"So...who would like to start?"

~

Each one of them said their piece and recounted events of Chao's life, it was a bittersweet ceremony. Eventually the process of the reset begun, Elsie took the stories that each Guardian told and put them into his memory. She hoped that with enough time that he would return to part of his former self but she had no idea. She kept that to herself.

Right as she was finishing up the facility alerted the Guardians that there was someone else at the door. Ken had never seen her before and neither had Drake. Still they told Elsie to let her in. The door turned green and slid open and a cloaked woman walked into the room.

"Hello." Ken greeted her. "I assume you're here for the procession?"

The cloaked woman took off her hood. She was an Awoken, blue hair and even bluer eyes. Her hair was swept to the side and tied up in a ponytail in the back.

"W-Where is he?" She asked trying to hold back tears.

"He's um...over there-" Ken gestured over to the frozen Exo and the woman sped past him and over to Chao, she didn't make it to him though before falling to her knees on the ground and sobbing uncontrollably into her hands. Ken walked over to her and put a hand on this mystery girl's shoulder while Drake handed her a box of tissues. Ken felt her arm now and realized that it was metal.

Once she had stopped crying enough to speak she apologized.

"I'm- I'm sorry for barging in I- I had a Vanguard mission and then I heard the news and I-" She started to cry again.

"Woah woah there, slow down. Hey it's alright, we were just wondering who you were is all." The woman nodded and wiped her eyes.

"My- My name is Allie." She answered.

"Well it's nice to meet you Allie. I'm Kenneth. This is Drake, Luna, Rex, Torra, Hailey, Aleina and...this is everyone else." He said giving up on trying to introduce that many people that fast. "So uh...how did you know Chao?" Allie looked up at Ken then fixed her gaze on the frozen Titan.

"I was his lover." Ken looked down at her shocked. Chao had never mentioned having a lover, he had always said that he had no time for one, or that no one would be able to keep up with his scattered synthetic brain or some other excuse. Yet here she was crying for him and it was probably the hardest for her to bear out of everyone there.

~

Chao passed through the tower and stepped onto the bridge. The wind howled around him, it must have been fifty degrees below. The cold didn't bother him anymore though.

The bridge creaked with every step and blew side to side with the storm. He made it over and to the other side, the fires that once lit the area up were now extinguished. They had not been lit for some time now but this weather would've kept them from burning anyways. He climbed the steps up to the doors of the Iron Temple and tried to open them but they would not budge. Stubborn as the man who once lived here. Chao took a breath in, turned his fist to one of ice and punched open the sealed doors of the temple off their hinges.

"Oops." He said surprised by his own strength and shrugged. Oh well. Not like he couldn't replace them.

He stepped over the engraved doors as the snow began to blow into the temple dusting the statues of the former Iron Lords with the white powder. Saladin may not have been here in a long while but the flame was still burning hotter than ever, even against the icy wind. Chao looked around the temple, at the legends of old, the engravings, the bells that rang Skorri's Iron Song, then stared into it's flame. The Iron Lords were gone, but that did not mean their legacy couldn't continue. Saladin was stuck in his old ways, it held that legacy back. All they needed was a new direction.

Chao extended his palm out to the flame and froze it solid. He heard light footsteps and the sound of a weapon being readied behind him. A female voice spoke.

"Just what do you think you're doing?"

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Chao-6 is gone. But so is Chao-5... This has been a long time coming, I've wanted to do more with him but his foundation has always just been "Jock Crucible Titan." As sad as it is to lose him, his character is going to be much more in depth now that he has a better structure. You'll be seeing more of him... and his girlfriend Allie. Who is not mine, credit for her goes to @sibylance. She agreed to their relationship (She's also an amazingly talented artist so definitely check her out like... everywhere) As for Rex, Luna and the female mystery voice at the end, they all belong to the magnificent @scout-fang which if you haven't seen her from looking at my stuff well...what are you waiting for??

[magnetic-terp-output]

Inktober 2019 - 11 - “Snow”, by Philip Moyer

(Lord Saladin Forge, the Iron Lords, Felwinter Peak © Bungie Studios)

[aislinavalbane]

Destiny: The Sounds of Felwinter Peak (Felwinter Peak Theme)

Finally got enough quite time at the Peak to soak in the majesty of it. Easily the most atmospheric music in Destiny to date. Follow us here, on Twitch and o...

Felwinter Peak/Vostok was definitely my favorite place to visit in all of Destiny.  The soft chanting and music was always the best.  Glad I found this and wanted to pass it along for others who might enjoy it, too.  A huge thank you to  GLHFtv for making it!