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Leviathan’s Breath

“Cast a Shadow over the wilds of this universe. Return with glorious trophies.” -- Emperor Calus

Type: Bow

Slot: Kinetic | Energy | Heavy

Element: Arc | Solar | Void

Perk: Big Game Hunter - Fires a massive heavy bolt that staggers unshielded enemy combatants. Strong against Unstoppable Champions.

Trait 1: Chain Bowstring - Heavy-duty bowstring. Cabal design.

Trait 2: Leviathan’s Sigh - When fully drawn, the bolt creates a large concussive blast that knocks enemies back.

Masterworked Traits: Colossal Quiver - Increases quiver size. Archer's Tempo - Draw time decreases after every precision hit.

Ornaments: Bad Dog, Grimmest Hunter

Origin & Description: You know how the Cabal are big? Like their sidearms are the size of our regular guns and their shotguns are so heavy even Guardians have trouble carrying them? Well, turns out they made a bow and hoo boy. Built of riveted metal with hydraulic pistons and a literal chain-link string, Leviathan's Breath is the monster truck of bows. Pretty much the only reason we can pick it up at all is because it wasn't designed for an actual Cabal - Leviathan's Breath was the personal weapon of the Psion Flayer Voyc, huntsmaster/assassin to Emperor Calus, the deposed former ruler of the Cabal who spends most of his time partying, plotting, or both on his converted prison ship/pleasure barge Leviathan. Psions are a separate species conquered by the Cabal early in their history and still not-exactly-enslaved by them; they're treated as second-class citizens and kept in check in some way that also prevents them from growing into their full "adult" form as Flayers without special permission. We've only met a few Flayers, all in service of the military (then again, all Cabal we've ever met are in service of their military), and they're incredibly powerful telekinetics and telepaths. A Flayer armed with this bow? Not something I'd want to run into in a patrol zone, that's for sure.

More pertinently, Psion Flayers have slim humanoid builds and stand at or slightly above human height, in contrast to the seven-foot-tall turtle-linebacker-hybrid Cabal, and hence a bow made for one is also (somewhat) useable by a human being. Even so it still takes a Guardian a staggering 1354 milliseconds to draw Leviathan's Breath to full, which in Destiny firing times is a go-get-a-sandwich-this'll-take-a-while eternity that exceeds even similar day-ruiners like One Thousand Voices or Sleeper Simulant. Its arrowheads aren't sharp because why would they need to be - when you get hit by one of its telephone-pole arrows the pointy bit on the end is the least of your problems. Take the time to draw the bow allllllll the way to full and your shot also gains the Leviathan's Sigh, a fearsome concussive blastwave that knocks back your target and alerts everything else in that zipcode to your displeasure at their continued existence. Leviathan's Breath carries an intrinsic Stagger ability that stuns Unstoppable Champions - which, yeah, no shit, anything you hit with this is gonna be pretty dang Stopped - and its arrows come with special damage tuning to put as much hurt as possible on said Champions. And that is a lot of possible hurt.

We receive Leviathan's Breath not from a Cabal source but from Banshee-44, the Tower Gunsmith, who claims to have picked it up off Voyc's corpse back during the Red War, which was...let me check my watch...oh right, three years before that. Yeah, that "44" after his name isn't just to sound cool; Banshee is an Exo who's been through more than double the number of resets an Exo is supposed to, and as a result he has a bit of trouble remembering anything that isn't guns. Apparently he locked up Leviathan's Breath to give to us later and then stone-cold forgot about it. Oops. Once he remembers he tells us to go get it, so we hop around through the Tower to his workshop and find it ready and waiting for us in a cabinet...locked with a passcode that Banshee has, by now, totally forgotten. It's even got a clear front so you can see the bow right there inside. "Why don't we just break the glass and take it?" Well, when Banshee does remember he has things in his workshop, he apparently likes to make certain they stay there, so triggering the security system on that cabinet would be less than ideal. Instead the entire quest to get this exotic is literally you and your Ghost figuring out how to reset Banshee's passcode. It's a delightful twist on how these quests usually go.

So how'd Voyc end up in our neighborhood in the first place, let alone get herself dead with bow in hand? Well, Calus has a real mad-on for Dominus Ghaul (after all the guy did depose him) and decided the Red Legion's imminent assault on our solar system was the perfect time to launch yet another assassination attempt. He apparently sent Voyc to do Ghaul in early on in the attack. We don't know how it went wrong, and neither does Banshee-44, who simply found Voyc's corpse in the Tower during the attack and picked up the intact Leviathan's Breath just before the structure was evacuated completely. Somehow later down the line he heard the story of who Voyc was and what feats she and her bow had accomplished, all the ferocious monsters she hunted as trophies across the galaxy - and all the obstacles or annoyances to the Emperor she used this bow to erase as well. It made Banshee sad to hear that such a splendid weapon had been used for such sordid ends. So he decided to give it to us to serve a higher purpose. Which, alright - please nobody spoil that noble image in his mind, okay? Don't tell him about me sprinting and cackling while I draw it, preparing to send a whole wave of Hive thralls spinning hilariously through the air. Just let Banshee believe.

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