Destiny + text posts part 19/?

Let him ponder his time-locked orbs in peace will you

Forgive me but I’m screaming

So like. D1 adept weapons have different flavour texts than the originals, huh? And in D2 VoG we get “Timelost” versions instead of the “Adept” ones, and instead of Praedyth’s Timepiece there’s now Praedyth’s Revenge lifted up to Adept (Timelost).

Praedyth’s Revenge flavour text:

Praedyth's fall isn't over… because it hasn't happened yet… and it will happen again.

Praedyth got a raw deal, generally speaking. When the Vex captured him, they erased him from time so that all that remained were these two weapons and a vague myth, up until the Vex allowed to pick up his signal in Paradox. We found his body and Ghost, and his last words to us implored us to tell everyone he had lived. Lakshmi, Ikora, even his own fireteam members - nobody remebered him.

But linearity of time is of little concern when it comes to the Vex. In Aspect--much later, after we had destroyed the Undying Mind the first time--he is seen navigating the Ishtar teams out of the Vex Network. And most importantly, it's unclear whether he managed to get out of there himself.

Nonlinearity of time in Vex spaces is best described by a sentence in Aspect which is repeated throughout the entire book - everything that has ever happen is, somewhere, always still happening; everything that has happened is happening now. And similarly, Praedyth's fall isn't over...

But now we have another verse of this story. Praedyth's Revenge (Timelost):

Praedyth will never fall.

I think we did something incredible, either by opening the Vault yet again yesterday or in some other instance during the past five years since we've last heard of him in person. Guardians make their own fate, blah blah, it's a worn out phrase by now, but I think something more important happens when the causality-defying nature of the Light meets the time-crossing ways of the Vex.

I think we, in a way, rewrote history. I've been screaming about VoG returning being referred as "Praedyth's Revenge" in the first TWAB it was announced in since, well, that TWAB. I think we somehow managed to change Praedyth's fate; no longer is he a skeleton with faint traces of Light trapped under Venus' surface. The Vault's story has always been about defying the inevitable and making one's own fate, and I love to think either we or Praedyth himself managed to turn the tide. With the Vex, time is never a one-way street, and with the Light, history is never sealed. Yes, Praedyth's fall wasn't over, it had happened but was happening still and will have yet been happening, until the tide has been turned. I don't know if that means Praedyth had never fallen--but what's now certain is that he will never fall.

This came to me in a dream

I can’t even begin to explain how much the ending of Aspect hits me every time I read it. There is just something so powerful in it, and I can’t word it well enough

Somewhere, a veil is always lifting.

Somewhere, Kabr is always dooming himself.

Somewhere, a door is always opening.

Somewhere, they are always stepping through.

Visions of Confluence

No one can open the Vault alone. I opened the Vault. There was no one with me but I was not alone.

Written for the Project Exodus perspectives challenge. 2240 words.

Read on AO3

On the Kabr theory, doesn't the Vault of Glass link to the Black Garden? Or am I misremembering the Vanilla D1 campaign

Tbh I never played D1 properly, but the Black Garden Grimoire seems to hint towards it:

"At last, the Heart of the Garden has been destroyed, its stranglehold on the Traveler released. Our Light brightens. But the power of the Vex is not broken. Look into the Vault, Guardian, for it is said to hold powers the Progeny were meant to bring forth." - The Speaker

The Speaker sends us to the Vault to finish what we've started in the Garden, and there seems to be at least some connection between the Garden and the Vault Vex. It feels weird compared what we know from Aspect:

Occasionally, scattered among them are pockets of Vex stained with verdigris, their arms trailing shawls of moss. All the other Vex keep away from those ones. Twice, he's seen other Vex fight the mossy ones. It looks like the other Vex are frightened of them, as much as Vex can be.

I don't know what the Vault Vex think of the Sol Divisive, but I don't think there's any other proof of them being linked to each other beside that Grimoire card--and I'm not sure how much we can trust the Speaker's knowledge here.

If someone recalls something from D1 that could be a worthy addition, I encourage you to take the floor because I'm a bit lost on that part tbh! I've yet to buy D1 on PS lmao

I'm gonna yell a lot about VoG these few next days, so if you'd prefer to be spared half-comprehensible on-the-spot posts with too many exclamation marks feel free to block #vogposting

And I guess I'll start using #hiveposting for all the half-comprehensible on-the-spot Hive posts

"No one can open the Vault alone. I cheesed into the Vault. There was no one with me but I sword-swiped myself alone."

(spoiler)

So I heard the Oracles are singing savathun's song, huh