#vex network

[romeosdisaster]

Enter Trial Six; The Wyrmmind

"There is nothing to prepare you for her."

My entry piece for the Vex Zine (Assimilated Zine) run by @assimilatedzine! I had so much fun making this artwork, and was met with so many new challenges!

This is Ciadras, The Wyrmmind, a form of Vex Lord/God originating from The Black Garden. Unlike most other vex, she was crafted by human hands, becoming the final bastion for The Black Heart.

I'd even roughly designed her own raid! She's a large lass and I think we need more horrifyingly massive bosses in Destiny.

[tarakanpaintedpurple]

Had the pleasure of drawing this lad of @scribbleboxfox ’s, please get this guy every pickle slice that you can, thank yoy!!!!

[staceyblep]

A stranger in the network [x]

[laurarolla]

NODE.OVRD.AVALON

So, Destiny 2 dropped a mission that actually opens like one of the old-school secret missions.  No hints, no warning, just find something strange and investigate.  Awesome stuff.  But it does raise a few questions about some of the events and the nature of the Vex network.

We enter the network as Misraaks’s request, and travel through, doing some platforming and fighting some really rough battles with vex swarming while inputting access codes (easier to enter than the ones in the campaign, thankfully).  As we go along, we see effectively data ghosts of Asher Mir, and they disappear when you approach them.  He’s not entirely part of the network, it seems, but living in it, sneaking through and manipulating security for us.  As the final encounter, we are treated to the return of none other than Brakion, the boss of the Pyramidion strike from Io before the planet vanished at the end of Season of Arrivals, with Asher having gone down into the Pyramidion to collapse it, preventing the witness from having direct access and seemingly sacrificing himself in the process (second best self sacrifice of the season, because Brother Vance’s lightless blind trek to seal the infinite forest damn near makes me tear up everytime I think about it). So... if we finally kill Brakion this time, does it stick?  Is the vex network similar to the ascendant plane regarding the nature of Vex consciousness?  If not, is it ever actually possible to truly destroy a Vex if they are connected to the network?  The Undying Mind, Panoptes, and Quria are generally considered dead for good, and while Quria was killed in the network, she was a special case due to being part Taken.  Undying Mind was killed in the Black Garden, and Panoptes was killed inside the Infinite Forest.  Do the vex just... not ever actually die? Also, did Asher bring us into the network for one last moment of vengeance against Brakion, or was that just a nice bonus in addition to what he really wanted us to find?  Regardless, I’m glad to see the seasonal stories getting follow-up, and this seems to support the return of Titan and Sloane for Season of the Deep even more now.

[hustlemeanokay]

Corrupted Labyrinth pt 1 . Tangled Shore . Destiny 2

[dynamesvirtue]

I thought the Vex Network was oddly familiar 😂

[swtorfounder]

Vex Network