Caiatl has popped up in background lore from time to time, and even sent a message to Zavala asking if the Cabal and the Vanguard should team up to nuke the Dreaming City as a way to eliminate Savathun. Meanwhile, Empress Caiatl isn't a major part of the current season, but she's definitely still a player in the overall picture.
I'm going to use this opportunity to plug my half-defunct Destiny lore Tiktok project that I may or may not ever return to. So the question is, what does Calus communing with the Darkness mean, what happened to him, and when will he be back? Is he still something of a pal to us, given how much we helped him over on the Leviathan? The Calus situation might linger in the background for a while, but this feels like an essential piece of the puzzle as we near Lightfall in 2023. That's a lot of setup just for him to die offscreen, seems like. We know from the Presage mission that the Glykon managed to enter one of the anomalies where the planets missing from our solar system used to be, and we know he managed to use the Scorn and the Crown of Sorrows, in some way, to seemingly talk to the Darkness. We've seen for a while now that the Darkness has some connection with the dead and can use their voices, so hearing Calus in there suggests he might have bought it during the big communion experiment at the center of Presage's story.īut characters this season have acknowledged that Calus is, to some degree or another, still a variable. As always, his is a good assessment of the situation and its greater implications.īyf focuses on the question of whether Calus is dead-something suggested by the whispers you can hear within the Glykon, some of which are Calus' voice, some of which are the voices of other dead folks. This is something I've been meaning to bring up here for a bit, and just as I was preparing to do so, YouTuber lore daddy Byf dropped a video running down similar questions and thoughts. Central to that mission was a singular question: What happened to Emperor Calus, formerly of the Leviathan that sat in our solar system for years? Last season, before Osiris was revealed as Savathun and we were semi-going to war with Cabal Empress Caiatl, we spent a lot of time on the Glykon, the derelict Cabal ship that served as the setting for the Presage mission. The Missing Emperor And The Struggling Empress Calus was an ominous and constant presence in the solar system up until recently, so what happened to him? So let's talk about the threads that remain dangling. A lot of story ideas are in motion in various corners of the solar system, and it's not clear where they're headed or how they'll converge. Rather than talk about the ongoing Trials experiments once again-we'll probably do that next week-this feels like a good chance to look around the world of Destiny 2 and think on all the things that haven't been a part of the Season of the Lost. I missed last week's Iron Banter, so this is a good catch-up opportunity for me as well. But November is something of a catch-up month for Destiny 2 players. Bungie is still keeping busy with its weekly adjustments and tweaks to the Trials of Osiris, and it's been really fascinating to watch the process as the developer works to enhance that mode. As such, the use of this term to name the Aphelion may suggest that it is an entity far removed from the Light, and closely aligned (or perhaps even synonymous) with the Darkness.The Techeuns have been gathered and the Festival of the Lost is over, and so we've entered a period of Destiny 2 in which, uh. The term "aphelion" denotes the point in which an orbiting body is farthest from the star which it orbits.In the Chronicon, the Loyalist Scribe Shagac refers to the Aphelion as a predator with "the power to devastate whole worlds in the blink of an eye." Information regarding the Aphelion and its abilities is apparently kept within Athenaeum World X. The Lost Sector known as Aphelion's Rest presumably has some connection to the Aphelion, such as a burial site. They appear to be extremely radioactive, a trait which apparently led one Awoken on the Amestris to draw a connection between the Aphelion and an apocryphal story about the fissioneers of the Distributary.
Paladin Pavel Nolg reported seeing a "glowing creature" on the exterior of his ship Retribution shortly before executing an NLS jump this sighting was filed along with the Amestris incident as being related to the Aphelion. Sjur Eido is the only Awoken known to have survived an Aphelion attack. They have claimed the lives of many Awoken, including the inhabitants of the RSS Amestris and three Techeuns. Very little has been revealed about the nature of the Aphelion, but it has been stated that they are extremely dangerous, malevolent and stealthy.