This is a spontaneous deep dive and got very long, so I’m putting a cut not to give you all a headache. If you want to generate some imbaru by connecting Crown of Sorrow, Savathun’s song and the Taking powers, read along.
Uh, so. @thefirstknife sent this of Crown of Sorrow runes and said the symbol in the center was Savathun’s sigil. And I was struck by how similar to Oryx’s symbol it looked, so I wasted 5 minutes of my time aligning the two together.
But then I thought, hey. Since Season of Arrivals, we know the actual symbol of Savathun! So wasted another 10 minutes trying to find out whether Oryx’s symbol would fit in there too.
The result is crude at best, but ??? there may be something here???
And THEN I saw the Witch Queen reveal pic, and noticed there is this tiny white sigil, not just the big green one Eris had shown us.
It looks weird, but aligns. The holes, notably. Merged together, this could have been one sign.
These are the merged sigils aligned with the symbol of the Crown, image flipped upside-down.
I also stretched the little symbol from TWQ promo to align it with the Crown one, but only the top part seems to match whatsoever, and it seems a stretch overall:
So what have we learned from all this?
First, what’s inside the Crown is definitely not Savathun’s symbol. It looks like Oryx’s sigil merged with Sav’s sigil and flipped upside-down, plus some extra lines. Second, Oryx and Sav’s sigils look very similar; we have yet to see Xivu’s sign, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it bore similarity to these two as well.
Curiously, Crota’s sigil is starkly different... But you know what it bears resemblance to?
I don’t really know what connection to make here, but we know Crota’s daughters have been researching the Darkness on the Moon.
I read the lore to the Shadow of War Suit, the set from the CoS raid. In it, Calus sheds some light on how the Crown ended up on the Leviathan - it was found on a Hive war moon, and the Psions believed it had been crafted to imitate Oryx’s power to Take. And, in a way, it Took Gahlran’s will. They figured out it was a seeing device, too, sending data to the Ascendant Plane. And since Gahlran’s corruption, the Witch “has been plaguing all my Loyalists since then, as a sort of viral language. Perhaps even you.” Calus also goes on to say the “viral laguage” had been “etched into the Crown's interior” and took over the wearer.
This might be the possible explanation of what Savathun’s song is. This will be a bold assumption, but I believe the sigil on the inside of the Crown is the Song, but in writing, as a rune. If in the Ascendant spaces there is no difference between a word and its meaning, and the runes are what they represent, the Song can as well be the power it invokes.
A reddit thread pointed me in Oryx’s direction here, and his symbol inverted could represent just the inversion of Oryx’s power to Take - whoever is influenced by the inverted symbol, is Took. Now Ghalran is certainly not a Taken, but Savathun is nothing if not subtle, so she could have Took his will without having it manifest in his appearance. We know she’s in control of Oryx’s taken, at least to some extent, and the Song could be connected to this in a way.
Tonight, the night of nights, @djemsostylist and I dove into the bowels of the Leviathan to purge an infestation of Hive.
This was my second ever Destiny 2 raid (though I am an old vet of the D1 raids, having suffered through enjoyed an eight hour saga of Heroic King’s Fall) and @djemsostylist‘s first ever raid in a video game.
Four hours and thirty six minutes later, and while Ghalran is still alive, it was fucking dope. Djem was sitting next to me listening in because her laptop is a bitch and wouldn’t recognize my headphone’s microphone, but still able to keep up on the Discord. We made it to Ghalran and nearly got him several times, but ultimately - it wasn’t enough.
But here’s the thing. I said it above - Djem has never raided in a video game before. Never. Not once. See, I’ve FC’d across Delve in EVE Online, toppled Draigoch too many times to count, but she was brand new to this.
She fucking killed it. Which mildly pisses me off, because it proves what I’ve been saying all along, which is that she’s taking the piss whenever she’s like ‘where are you’ and I’m like ‘I’M RIGHT FUCKING BEHIND YOU LOOK AT THE MINIMAP FUCK’. I’m onto you Djem. I’m fucking onto you.
Because at Gahlran, Djem and I were paired up, and we were flawless. Seriously. We were a goddamn machine, chewing through the encounter. I don’t think we messed up our Deception more than maybe four or five times out of innumerable attempts.
And y’know, it’s not like either of us thought she was ever rubbish at games. I call her shit because she’s a stupid nerd but it’s all in fun. It’s more that raids in a videogame are fucking daunting. A bunch of randoms, who you have no idea what to expect from, an activity that requires not just some teamwork but serious, dedicated, active focus and participation, where any failure lets down five other people - it’s a lot.
But it was great. And shoutout to the clan that guided us in there - Wolves of the Realm <HOWL>. You were great dudes and made the run really casual and enjoyable. Ravenous, BoldLaughter, ArcaneShadow, rubyskull - cheers.
Djem, welcome to raiding. You goddamn nerd.
If you keep getting better drops from me I will kick you from the clan, though. Just FYI.
