Destiny 2 Lore - What happened aboard the Glykon? The story of Katabasis, Calus, Presage & Darkness!
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- Destiny 2's Lore in the Season of the Chosen features the Presage mission, which sees us boarding a lost Cabal ship known as the Glykon. Onboard we discovered proof of Calus' experiments, the remains of a guardian called Katabasis and the remnants of an attempt to communicate with the Darkness!
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It just hit me that Ghaul's fascination with the Traveler and wanting to be "elevated and chosen" is mirrored in Calus's attempts to do the same with the Darkness.
They both are saving the wrong master, as orxy said to akka the worm god of secrets, (paraphrased) you gave us your spawn, our worms, but it is not the nature of the deep to give, the deep demands things must be taken. This is why our worms hunger grows eternally.
Ghaul tried to take the light, Calus is tryijg to be chosen by darkness
Calus wanted his cheeks clapped. Gary wanted to clap cheeks. Big difference.
Its a natural thing with the Cabal. They have an unquenchable thirst for power.
@@lkotro21 Fucking- Caught me off guard with the trailer reference there.
Remember at the end of the red war when Ghaul yelled "WITNESS me!"
Seriously, anytime in any lore tab that someone mentions salvation it immediately triggers my fight or flight at this point.
"Oh fuck they said the word!!!!" Was my reaction when Gilly said it lol
Okay I gotta ask- why salvation? Yes, it’s used exactly and precisely to describe the darkness (garden of salvation, house salvation « calus has heard the voice of salvation » the drifter calling gambit ‘a chance at salvation’ etc.) but is there any other specific meaning that salvation has?
@@bobbersoniiv5694 At the end of the shadowkeep campaign, the Darkness tells us they are our salvation as well.
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The darkness has been trying to herald itself as some kind of savior, setting us free from a Traveler that's holding us back and killing us all. It sees itself as an inevitable, ultimate truth of the universe (from the Gardener and Winnower story, told from the perspective of the Darkness/Winnower, it claims it is the embody of "Survival of the Fittest" and hence the logical endpoint of all life) that enlightens people who give in to its temptation. "Salvation" is such a common motif with anything related to the darkness, because it preaches about itself that it is the ultimate reality. People who embrace this "truth" about the Darkness are being set "free."
@@augustcross2305 magnificent interpretation. Salvation is like freedom from suffering, just everything disappearing would be better than keep the endless wars to achieve fake peace. We live in destiny without rest, we never cease to exist, we are fight for almost 9 years in the same war to protect our "lives" and the life of people from the city. Look at the eliksni, their entire culture and home disappeared, a once cultured and glorious society now thrive to survive by scavenging systems like garbage collectors. Destiny is like living after the biblic apocalypse and like Jesus already took his people, the rest is only struggling to survive without rest. The human race in destiny is so crazy that they created an IA that shot the fucking traveler, the light entity, the life representant, he will not visit other planets till we somehow defend him from the inevitable pyramids and darkness.
Salvation is resting from this nightmare
"An observer"
in other words, a witness.
Such good forshadowing
Yes
I really thought at 1:30 he was gonna say, “...and Titans are led astray by delicious crayons”
LLLOOOOLLLL
They do taste delicious
Me toooo😂
My daughter n I play destiny
Shes a warloc so I'll message her on weekends saying "ive got a box of crayons for your warlocc to draw in a book with, if you want to play some trials" she thinks that shit is the funniest thing in the world😅
**Continues to eat Crayons**
Titan me: Hmm? You said something?
@@Become-Eggplant thats the only way to yeet
There's nothing creepier than a Ghost that embraces Darkness. I don't know why, but it always unsettles me. I got the same reaction from Toland's Ghost.
The scary thing is that this was foretold. In D1 it was said that a gaurdian who communed with the darkness saw his ghost growing as a rose in an infinite garden within the darkness. This suggests, to some incredibly perturbing degree, that the ghosts may not be as much of the light as we might have thought. If a ghost can be corrupted, is there anything that can't be?
Creepier is how you just disregard it like that. You say embrace the darkness when really it just was selfish for the first time in its existence. It spent endless time and suffering to keep its guardian alive without a thought because self sacrifice was programmed into them by the traveler. Now the darkness does what it does and granted it salvation. It opened its eyes to what it gains from the arrangement and fell to hopelessness. It felt the chains binding its fate and fell to one of the 3 fates of those who embrace the darkness. Either they fall from weakness being consumed or they are corrupted from falling too deep forgetting who they are or they are like us who slowly reach for power while retaining who we are and strive for perfection.
@@RubysWrath it seems that gilly was already turning far earlier though, even before the disappearance of calus and the following nightmare
That's not salvation. Just another lie
@@tsunertoo9149 and now we wait… for the traveler to be corrupted…
I used to hate Katabasis, he seemed like a traitor, but after seeing the full story he was better than that. His ghost was the real traitor.
All alone on that ship, to be revived in front of those scorn and your Ghost staring at you, I seriously would have wanted to see exactly what was going on in Katabasis head at that moment.
I don't think Gilly was a traitor. I just think the mental toll was too much for either of them. Katabasis seemed to experience a ton of trauma from the Red War and felt let down by the traveler and Vanguard. Meanwhile Gilly was torn between his purpose to serve the light and traveler and his duty to serve Katabasis. In the end the emotional toll was too much for him and he wanted to be free.
Imagine if they held on longer though. We probably would've arrived by then
Katabasis was a traitor nevertheless. He ditched us during the Red War. He abandoned humanity when they needed him the most!
@@umbra030 He seemed to have sent out this message after this situation happened.
I just feel bad for Katabasis, everyone he knew either left him or died
Katabasis's last real friend on the Glykon was Bahto. Shame he died, seemed like a really cool character.
I can't imagine the crown doing anything good for us. If Eris was concerned about the skull above Shaxx, I wonder what people think about the Vanguard bringing a horrific Hive artifact in.
It can. From it we can at least learn how it can control the will of the Hive, and if possible we can break it free from the grasp of Savathûn, the Darkness, or whatever else it's linked to. If Calus learned how to repurpose the Crown, so can we. Plus we have Ikora, Eris, Osiris, and maybe even Toland to help study it.
New exotic helmets for all kekw
@@elitegamer9310 I wonder if the FWC will try to use it this season. Theres signs of a coup coming soon and with everything leading to witch queen I feel something big is coming.
Is Eris just chilling on the moon ignoring everything going on back on earth or...?
Welllll, about Osiris..
Welp boys. Make sure you say goodbye to the sun. Who knows when we'll see it again
I fell bad for all the religions in destiny that worships the sun
@@pandaell1029 .........theres religions in destiny?
@@DragonKnight90001 Not really. I mean, most people probably worship the Traveler, but there doesn't seem to be any real religion in the Last City. At least any that predates the collapse.
@@DragonKnight90001 yeah! people legitimately worship the traveler, and there's other things mentioned here and there
christianity seems like a big challenger to traveler-ism(??) cuz like- ig the traveller could just be seen as God
Just as Warlocks can be led astray by knowledge and Titans can be led astray by crayons.
There is a certain allure to those sparkly glitter Crayolas. Like some type of entrancing blend of Light and Darkness.
Dont sleep on that 64 variety pack
Us Hunters are led astray by bullshit. Gotta find out everything about the "Fallen Baby Soccer"
Somebody get the red card!
And Hunters if you say the R word....(R*sponsibilities)
Bungie were being overzealous when they sunset sunsetting and they accidentally sunset the sunrise too.
RIP sun got sunset ???`-2021
:0 The last thing that was sunsetted... the sun
@@3eyedmotherfucker953 nah the last thing to.be sunset will probably be the traveler come Lightfall
@@Arachnid-scribe nah.
Why’d they sunset the pinnacle weapons like mountaintop and recluse? Weapons that needed massive time and work to get? Kinda just slapped us in the face when they did that
That last lore card was nuts...when I read it myself I just sat in shock for like ten minutes. This has been by far one of my favorite missions and bits of lore
Brutal too right? Youre defeated and surrounded by Scorn ready to rip you to shreds. You plead with your ghost, your supposed closest ally and closest thing you have to the light and traveler, but that plea falls on deaf ears. Your ghost has been corrupted by Darkness and will not help you and is offering you 1 more death or a thousand more...just awful stuff
@@bruiseleeroy7010 awful....but god damn if that wasnt some tasty lore 😫 I just cant wait to see more of the crown....im anticipating its continued corruption of guardians and ghosts
@@dregdendawn2021 Whoever was taken lead on the story directing this season did an outstanding job! If Splicer is anything like it then I am excited for tomorrow! :D
@@bruiseleeroy7010 I have to work and I wont be able to even touch the season till Friday 😭 and this is the first season I'm like SUPER excited about.
Glykon = Bungie's take on space horror murder mystery. Bloody brilliant!
So the the first mission of the flood?
no no no no GET OUT OF MY HEAD
I’d pay double a normal game release price of bungie did a dead space style survival horror
Loved it.
Reminded me of Event Horizon.
You've obviously never played Halo
A giant rhino gets mad at his dark waifu
Bruh, I guess that’s one way of putting it
Dead cabal with sexy voice puts some vines on guardian with sexy name on a ship with sexy name 😂😂😂
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Ahh the TL;DR I was looking for
The moments where the Cabal and Katabasis fought hordes of Scorns made me pretty sad and scared. Them teaming up for one last stand against enemies they fear and facing their final demise. These cabal and Katabasis needs to be recognized by either Zavala or Caiatl.
That entire scene brought goosebumps. The mental image of a handful of worn out, beat down cabal back to back around the crown of sorrows mentally preparing while shrieks grow louder from dimly lit hallways is terrifying. The black flames, reanimation and the realization of the inevitability of death... Screw destiny 2, just make a friggin movie Bungie.
@@joeatkinson6237 I think it's time they forge this game into a new era. Live service no more.
D2 just keeps getting darker and I LOVE IT.
One question still remains: Where is Emperor Calus?
Perhaps he did get his audience with the darkness after all. He may be in their realm getting his answers, and perhaps we may go that realm and reunite with him in Lightfall. We may never know.
Taken calus.
(Variks voice) “Calus, The Follower!”
I think they "Took" Calus because he kepted trying to call it, essentially pestering it.
We'll see him again, of that I'm sure. And when we do, I'll have a blazing Golden Gun ready to finish what I started in 2017.
He is with the darkness for sure or the entity. His followers may presume him dead but I think we will see him when we finally see the voice behind the darkness
I think one possibility is he's in the Ascendant Realm, he did have the Crown of Sorrows after all, and he very well could have pulled Toland or something similar.
I wish this mission had low gravity outside the ship, and the jumping puzzle in DSC
I quit destiny today
@@__The_Real_V__ Right. I do hope they add more missions that are out in space though
@@aabahdjfisosososos Why?
@@elitegamer9310 it’s boring and recycled every time. I’ve been playing since 2014, and now it’s literal garbage
@@aabahdjfisosososos why say it under this comment tho? Nobody cares you quit.
We just not going to talk about how Drifty has the same 'plants' (the ones leeching off of Katabasis) on his ship...?
Osiris mentioned it, but that was also my first impression
I’m sure he just thinks they’re neat. Seems like a drifter thing to collect.
Drifter collects things but not these kind of things
Never noticed that
I need more guns like dead man's tale having these types of guns feel so good.
Yeah, we definitely need more broken stuff in PvP
All Tex mechanica guns are great tbh but yes i’d love more of them too
Just here to see more bitching from people who play 25% of the game.
Really great stuff💪
@@aterriblesliceoftoast4096 Well, that's all some of us can play, because we have no fireteam nor belong to any clan
Byf this is late and I hope you read this but I had a difficult year last year. Nothing made sense and I considered ending myself at times. However you made my darkest moments feel less dire because your entertainment was the only thing I could get my hands on at times. Thank you for being here.
stay strong brother ❤️
We’re here for you brother. Find the good things in life and fill your life with them. You deserve it❤️
Damn hell of a story
Actually reminds me a lot of Aliens, just finding the aftermath of something foreboding and otherworldly
I'd love to actually find ourselves in a similar situation, using our knowledge of our experience aboard the Glykon to escape sharing the same fate of its crew, all the while still dealing with a similar vibe
Constant battling against legions of scorn, constantly scrounging for things with which we can burn the scorn into oblivion. Or shattering them into pieces with the power of stasis. That would be am appropriate use of the survive objective. Or maybe even using SIVA to suspend the bodies of the scorn into a even more corrupted army, so that eventually we may control the glykon in it's entirety. That could lead to a lot of very cool mechanics.
@@Santisima_Trinidad Scorn and SIVA combined?
That's a chilling thought ngl I man we've seen how the Scorn and SIVA operate do we really wanna combine those two?
One revives the Fallen into undead abominations and the other converts matter into whatever the user wants?
@@-Gilver if we're the user, then definitely yes.
9:29 sounds like something straight out of bloodborne which is also 1 of my favorite games
GRANT US EYES MOTHER KOS GRANT US EYES
@@shido6806 mmm Kos... Or some say Kosm....
We are born of the Light, made men by the Light...undone by the Light.
A full "what the f*ck happened here" video good job byf
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The sun is going out. Ikora and osiris are on the case
Only we've seen this before. Osiris showed us the future, and it looks like that future is still fighting to be made real.
Which bothers me. Didn't we kill the Vex Mind behind creating that future in The Curse of Osiris campaign? What has Osiris been up to in the forest?
@@Cayde-6sHorn When we killed Panoptes back in CoO we didn't prevent that future, we simply altered the path the Vex would have to take to reach it. It is by no means a future that is guaranteed in any case.
I've been waiting, uh, *counts on fingers* at least two weeks for this!
Since the Glykon has arrived, I've search the internet for SOO many minutes on the expanded lore to no avail. Thank you for providing this lore to us
Real talk, when destiny is eventually over if you don't find another franchise to cover, you should really look into being a voice actor for audio books or something similar.
You have an amazing knack for storytelling and making even fairly dry or boring text readings become rich and interesting. Its one hell of a talent and I genuinely am happy that you found Destiny and decided to make this channel. There are a good handful of lore channels and I have nothing against them, but they lack your ability to tell a story.
Anyway, I hope you are well, and hope you aren't working yourself too hard!
Am I the only one that just listens to this while I’m sleeping
Petition for byf to make an asmr channel
Yes
how do you listen while sleeping
I listen to this while trying to sleep. His voice is so calm and relaxing.
I fall to sleep to stuff like this to don't worry
The Opening never gets old. Another video, another Mission and Bounty Spree!!!
So, I wonder if Calus finally got what he wanted...did the Darkness take him?
To all of you and your team Byf. thank you for all that you do. The content really helps us who don’t have a chance to complete all the content.
you’re on fire with the videos right now byf🔥🔥
Thank yo so much. I've fallen away from actually playing this game, but I am still very much invested in the story. Thank you for unraveling and delivering the story content in such a nuanced and entertaining way.
I have been sat on the toilet for 30 minutes just watching this
1:17 why is this jump always so hard? 😂
Now just imagine this as a random episode in a destiny tv show best video in a long time byf.
I can’t get enough for lore and your help to uncover and understand all the D2 storyline. Keep ‘em coming!
Been waiting for this vid! Such a great mission with a sick vibe. Love your vids Byf!
Really enjoyed this story of the Glykon. Thanks for the recap Byf. It was very fun to listen to.
Great break down of an amazing mission, I really hope the quality of the storytelling in Destiny maintains this high bar. Thanks Byf!
One for the algorithm!
Thanks for breaking these down, Byf. I play this game and I own the anthologies, I read the lore and I'm certain I've left no stone untouched.
Yet, every time I'm starting to give up and lose interest in the game, I end up on one of your videos and your enthusiasm and delivery of this magnificent game world pull me back in.
Happy season start and I look forward to seeing what lies in wait for us within the Vex networks.. what Mithrax is up to and how our relationship with the Eliksni wipp develop this season.
I'll see you starside.
What if the Enity behind the Darkness is actually the Winnower, meaning the two are not the same?
Whenever the Darkness possesses our Ghost, it refers to itself as "we", which makes sense because it's a Fleet. But in the Unveiling lore book, the Darkness, or the Winnower here refers to itself as "I", singular. And now in Season of the Chosen, we learn that there is an Entity behind the Darkness. Isn't it far-fetched to say that this Entity is the Winnower that controls the Darkness? Let's use the Traveler for example, it's the source of the Light, but we don't think it IS the Light. We consider the Two separate. So why not the same with the Darkness?
Didn’t know we had AN ACUTAL GENIUS IN THE COMMENTS.
@@antonnilsson5123 Yeah, look at this comment now, I was right, wasn't I?
Underrated content. Thanks for all the work you do. Eyes up
I never really got around to play this mission, thank you lore daddy
Been waiting for this one ever since I did Presage, keep up the great work man
unfortunately it took 13 weeks to get all the lore
Yay, new vid, good start to my morning, thanks.
Actually playing through this story in the boots of that shadow of earth would be such an amazing way to experience the story
It's so interesting to look back at this mission and its lore given the new context we have with Calus and the Witness. I imagine it will be even more interesting to actually play this mission back when we get the exotic mission rotator in S22.
What I love about this mission looking back is what we now know about Osiris! Or rather savathun!
First one on the rotator
my brother and I just got this exotic quest - and while we ran through it quickly to get the gun...I looked online and found that there were so many things to nab - I went back through solo. It's insane to imagine there's this much lore packed away on the ship!
Now as someone who didn't touch season of the chosen...as of season of the lost...can I still fully enjoy this ship? From all the collectables and such to the crown room?
Thank you again lore master Byf for this :3
Earliest I've been for one of these and I'm bout to run glykon to help some friends through it
Another Glorious lore vid. keep up the good work Guardian.
0:24 At this point, I've probably added hundreds of hours to Byf because I'm curious if I can watch all of these videos(yes, the entire destiny playlist) before final shape.
Nice touch with the knocking
upload streak is 🔥🔥🔥
so now that its coming back
rewatch time
Moral of this story-never use Spectral Blades for PvE
Lmfao!! Yeah reading that part, I actually visualized a Guardian going Spectral Blade with a handful of Cabal allies against a hoard of frightening, stinking Scorn.
I started to think about Nightstalker and how much more useful that would have been.
Then, I got carried away with this mini movie I just made up in my mind that would look super cool if I could draw amd animate it.
We need an Anthology like the Animatrix and Halo Legends, different artist for each Destiny lore story.
5:10 Me, having seen Ghost in the Shell: This has sparked a memory.
Fighting next to Cabal actually sounds really metal. I'd be so down for that in the future.
Excellent work!
Coming back after a year of not playing Destiny I wondered where tf Calus went.
I still have no idea but the Glykon is still cool.
Hes missing no one knows where he is he is either dead or in hiding
@@hafezhakmi383 hiding how could you miss a giant worm ship
I am pumped for this one!
This is amazing! Saint get the popcorn.
hearing Giglamesh give in to hopeless nihilism and defeat was the creepiest part of all
Maaaan. I know that the community keeps making the joke that "haha titans dumb eat crayons haha" but titans so oftenly get the short end of the stick in the lore.
I wouldn’t exactly agree with that. I’m somewhat neutral in terms of class bias, obviously I like hunter ideals a lot but I’m also a slytherin according to Harry Potter ( also can we talk about that? The classes share the same symbols as their Harry Potter counterparts. Humans are the hufflrpuff, the “everyone else”)
Anyway. Titans are cool in lore, 3 of my 5 favorite characters are titans being Saint, Shaxx, and Saladin
@@DoClain true, the big titan figures get their chances to shine but look at Saladin for example. A psion made a mockery of him. And made him feel (and I quote) "an ape"
I haven't read too much lore but from what i've seen warlocks are kind of the favorites.
you arent wrong but on the brightside the most infamous guardian in history was a titan so at least you got that going for you!
yo what about rezyl?
.... wait nvm
Another excellent lore video
watching this after doing a recent run of presage the amount of foreshadowing for not only the witness but also haunted, nightfall and Vox obscurea so much seeds planted for future events and all but 2 have bloomed
Bravo on this one bud
Bungie:were removing sunseting
Community: great.
Bungie: but... there is a catch, because sunseting was sunset. There will also be no sunrise too
I want to thank you very much for a video on this. Thank you very much. :D!!!!!
Thank you for the lore
I’m only on scan three
29:40 sounds a lot like Dredgen Yor's "Nothing ends" ...
Can’t wait to see what we get next season for lore and what the vex will doing as probably pay back for the black garden. I’m glad I’ve been along the journey since we slew crota.
Ayy, I'm early for once! Nice!
I know right?
As am i
Samesies dude!
This story is sad.
I'm glad I got to hear it before new season though.
Its still amazing this is lore for a game and not a movie
i enjoy this end of the universe plot line from marathon returning in destiny
Watching this while waiting for season 14 to drop!
Thanks for covering this, Byf! The space horror of the Glykon is probably my favorite Destiny story.
Good stuff, thank you.
I think ive listened to this video about 30 times
Surprised the significance of his name was not stated here. Katabasis is the beginning of the arc in classical Greek story where the hero descends into the underworld to achieve his goal; it's normally supposed to be followed by a turn in fortunes, and then the Anabasis, the return from the underworld, now changed, now grown.
It was a journey it was ultimately not his to take.
I love me a good ghost ship story too, and this quest has it in spades.
I am so mad that I missed this story first hand.
Never again.
Effing love this mission and it's lore. 😍
Some crazy Cloverfield Paradox/Aliens(1986)/Event Horizon vibes from the Glykon. Such an incredible mission and CRAZY lore.
I wonder where Calus vanished to...
Good read, interesting
Id just like to say I want that worlock to teach me how to worlock. He just made those jumping puzzles look easy.
Like the feel of DMT, but not some of the other TexMech guns. But this ship is interesting, as well as the tie in
Ayyyyyyyy another glykon video
I miss this mission
Right off the bat, Parkor outside the Glykon.
*Me* "God, Presage looks like a really intimidating mission. I don't think I'll be able to complete this one on my own."
*Completes Presage on a random try a few weeks later*
*Me* "Wat?"
This sounds like some Event Horizon craziness!! What was Calus thinking?!
“Where we’re going, we don’t need eyes to see.”
I totally thought he was going to say "and Titans are lead a stray by crayons"...
Cool vid 👍🏽
Totally unrelated to the video, but can you freeze vex milk and make radiolarian ice cream?
Then blend it for Vex Milkshakes?
Yo. I thought this was gonna be tomorrow damn.
wait wait wait, so Calus thought the Darkness lied. And then attempted to use the Skorn to try and speak to the Darkness's manager?