Destiny 2 Lore - After The Darkness Statue attacked his team, Clovis Bray was ready to Nuke it!

[@Forcer69]

Clovis going “can’t enslave them, just nuke them.”

[@FM39__]

Rip your discord btw

[@Bladings]

Wow, destiny lore is so lifelike! Clovis is clearly a big fan of the US leaders in the mid 40s!

[@relentless6837]

@@Bladings why we bringing politics into this lol

[@Bladings]

@@relentless6837 its mildly funny to think that a psychopathic crazy scientist set in a made up universe has better impulse control than actual real humans is all

[@stephenjenkins7971]

@@Bladings Hell, this logic is beyond stupid to begin with. The US nuked Japan to surrendet, not to enslave.

[@f1rdouglas]

The irony that Clovis says it would be easier to "build vast hell-simulations or to engineer a custom species capable of limitless woe", effectively foreshadowing the Vex and the Hive is hilarious. Obviously he was wrong with that one.

[@gumball5024]

🤯🤯🤯

[@ShadowChief117]

He didn't really foreshadow the vex considering he dealt directly with them and even built a portal to a vex homeworld...

[@f1rdouglas]

@@ShadowChief117 no definitely. I don't remember the timeline off my head but my point was more pointing out that he thought that the Darkness wouldn't have done those things because it wouldn't need to. When clearly it has nothing to do with need but wants. It can/could, so therefore it influenced/did.

[@awkwardllama0509]

i thunk you may have a great point for its motivations

[@chaotixthefox]

​@@f1rdouglasYou misunderstood this massively. Clovis thought that the Darkness would not have I'll designs on Earth because anything it could gain from manipulating humanity would be better obtained by doing something more direct. If it wanted raw suffering those were better ways to get it than shepherding humanity into torment.

[@zebrastripe665]

Would love to see more content on The Nine if there is anything more we have learned since the prophecy dungeon. Also anything more on the "Dark Vanguard" if there has been anything.

[@verke00]

Maybe you didnt know, but after clearing the 'cube' room, when you go back to the wasteland you can find the emissary there and talks to you.

[@jeffro719]

I'm hoping Bungie can figure out what they're doing with thr Nine in the future. Read up on Lavinia and Shur Eido's (Mara Sov by proxy) to get some juice lore on the Nine. Dust lore book and the the Dreaming City/Foresaken lore is juicy.

[@WilliamTell1313]

@@verke00 um....where in that room? Gotta video?!

[@NobodyAwsum]

@@WilliamTell1313 if youve done prophecy, you beat boss 1, on plates, then you tp to the wasteland, clear 3 sets of blights, and move to emcounter 2, which is called hexahedron. When you are finished you will leave the room and go back to the wasteland, and between encounter 2 and 3 you can go find the emissary close to spawn/ the mars area in the map. She has a short line of dialogue and then she transmats away and then you go to rainbow road before the final encounter. I dont remember what she says anymore, but there are youtube vids on it.

[@WilliamTell1313]

@@NobodyAwsum Thank you for the info!

[@aegisdragon6856]

Of note: The 'Strangelet' the Clovis refers to when saying that Clarity wasn't malevolent refers to a strange theoretical form of matter called, appropriately, 'Strange Matter'. This is matter that is so perfect, so stable, that all other matter that comes into contact with it wants to take it's form. So if you were to drop a strangelet on Earth, the entirety of Earth and everything in contact with it would, instantaneously, become Strange Matter.

[@thekhoifish0146]

For those of you who would like to know more about Strange Matter, the science KZbin channel Kurzgesagt has made a video on it

[@LeElister64]

Sounds like the Vex and the radiolaria but with less steps.

[@Starfloofle]

@@LeElister64 the two might be vaguely related

[@capricorncharger518]

@@thekhoifish0146 that channel is something i don’t want to touch due to it’s prestige for being of dubious quality

[@sirsanti8408]

@@capricorncharger518 whaaaat, the channel is too good for you?

[@syluxv2398]

Clarity: *Moves* Clovis Bray: EXTERMINATUS

[@darthball2723]

That would've been a funny reference

[@Mythhammer]

I'll bet no one was expecting that... :)

[@TenSoldierYT]

EXTERMINATE. EXTERMINATE.

[@Mythhammer]

@@TenSoldierYT Jelly Baby?..

[@TenSoldierYT]

@@Mythhammer no....... nonononono..... Fish fingers and custard.

[@DerpyDoot]

The Darkness is essentially trying to prove a point, which would explain why it's not outright nuking everything.

[@Ginnster]

Really, while the Clovis Bray lore is horrifying, what's even scarier is Byf playing hunter

[@gumball5024]

Hunters > crayon eaters > rude magicians

[@jinxed_slaps]

@@rexgreyback4778 over the course of 3 years, I've broken my legs more than I got a concussion- so my personal joke with friends is that hunters have shattered legs

[@-HezSEs-]

@@gumball5024 nono its the other way around.

[@dylonmurphy4119]

@@-HezSEs- hear hear

[@NobodyAwsum]

@@jinxed_slaps ive missed far more jumps than I've bonked my head. I missed one of my platforms in VoG recently and fell way too far, and all anyone heard was my shields and kneecaps break as i hit the floor at like mach5

[@protomahawker156]

Clovis: Almost lost my cool there

[@CoalFire]

For Byf, since this has come up in several vids now: "Pulse ox" is an abbreviation of Pulse Oximiter and indicates the percent oxygenation of the blood, typically pronounced "Ox" like the animal. Normal healthy levels are usually 95%+ so "Pulse ox 90" likely indicates some sort of health degradation in Clovis.

[@spinfoilhat3087]

I am absolutely losing it at the dreg at 1:38 balancing on the servitor's head

[@HeroAndReporter]

Knowing that the Statue is even breathing is terrifying enough, but you mean this thing can kill too?

[@yanipheonu]

"Eh it's probably fine to keep it there" - The Vanguard, probably

[@cartercravillion]

Why does it give me SCP-173 vibes

[@companymen42]

As in a final death? Probably not.

[@mortimerbalbriggan9766]

You know what who else is breathing? You are now breathing manually.

[@gabrielpineirogarcia2078]

@@companymen42 It is Darkness.... I wouldnt Scratch that

[@AncestorEmpire1]

When He went from study it, to Captain “Nuke it” Sheridan in a few seconds.

[@-nt-baguetted1298]

Lore Daddy reading an interesting tab? Meh. A dreg dancing on top of a servitor at 1:39? This is the quality content I'm looking for.

[@thekhoifish0146]

Daddy Byf shot them ;(

[@noahkline4263]

He was trying to imitate The Technocrat with his sick-ass Marty Mcfly entrance during the empire hunt. 😂🤣🤣🤣

[@PREGAMEDISCHARGEENJOYER]

BABE WAKE UP LORE DADDY DROPPED ANOTHER CERTIFIED HOOD CLASSIC!

[@LeElister64]

For those wondering, "Dark forest logic" is a way of thinking which states that every cvilization is akin to a hunter in a dark forest and must be as discrete as possible and kill every other hunter they detect. this stems from the idea that the amount of resources within the universe is finite and that every civilization must destroy the others as quickly as possible so they don't have to share. Basically today's fossil fuel crisis but every nation destroys the others as soon as they meet.

[@peteraustin9057]

Sounds like a combination of sword logic and the tragedy of the commons

[@ANTH0NY.VII.]

@@peteraustin9057 dark forest theory is interesting and kinda makes sense. But I don't think it's about resources. In the dark forest theory civilizations purposely hide, the reason is that they want to survive. Self preservation is the assumed goal of each civilization and if another intelligent civilization comes across a developing one, the only option is to destroy them before they can advance further and pose a threat to your species in the future.

[@TenSoldierYT]

@@ANTH0NY.VII. So.... Sword Logic. Basically.

[@lactobacillusprobiotic7029]

Thanos’ logic.

[@LeElister64]

@@ANTH0NY.VII. The theory lies on 2 axioms: - the main goal of a civilization is to survive - the second goal of a civilization is to expand The second goal is all about resources in the broad sense of the word as you need places to expand to and materials to enable the expansion.

[@alise1973]

Thank you for explaining why that chaotic section of the deep stone crypt was important. It's one of my biggest pet peeves about raids in Destiny 2. In other MMOs that include story exclusive to the event, it's easier to absorb the story trying to be told. there's just no way of getting all that information during the raid especially if it's your first time.

[@NobodyAwsum]

This is exactly why we have 50 lore books to read. The stories are far too dense to be told in game. They hit major key points as they can, and the background info and past stories are all in the lore.

[@ssj4broly974]

OOOOOH boy its-a lore daddy with more Clovis lore!! always happy to see what that sociopath has been up to in the past.

[@waterlight0243]

I can’t wait for him to do Your Friend, Micah Abram! 🥲

[@ssj4broly974]

@@waterlight0243 I may have forgotten that name or missed that one. I don't like the way destiny tells its story so I learn it here, but haven't watched them all.

[@waterlight0243]

@@ssj4broly974 it’s the sad one you get from the penguins

[@foundacious3193]

Byf as someone who used to play Destiny, but can't really stand to play the game that much, I really appreciate you making these videos. I adore the world of Destiny and I hope sincerely they release other media other than just the game and some small comics. Thanks bud!

[@CoyotesOwn]

Note: Dark Forrest Logic is referring to the Dark Forrest Hypothesis, one of the proposed solutions to the Fermi Paradox (the paradox of us no encountering any signs of non-terrestrial life, despite the universe's size and age). The Dark Forrest Hypothesis assumes that any kind of content is a death sentence either due to hostility being the default state being lifeform from different worlds or due a superpredator hunting any civilization that would reveal itself. The hypothesis was popularised by Liu Cixin's book by the same name.

[@joshuavidrine889]

So Clovis the first modded Clovis Jr's Mitochondrial DNA, replacing it with his own rather than leaving the natural process of that cell function coming from Clovis Jr's mother, then how did Elsie get that illness? Her mitochondrial DNA would be that of her mother's, not Clovis Jr's, so she couldn't have his same disease.

[@thegalacticempire2632]

I think it’s stated in the lore that Clovis did the same thing to her. If that isn’t true then all that happened is that it’s a hereditary disease similar to Alzheimer’s

[@ismaodst9500]

Do you really think Clovis would let anyone's else DNA being the main gene?

[@thefatherinthecave943]

Clovis fucking hated women, so it wouldn't surprise me if he just lied about it

[@DocDeeISC]

I thought Clovis I used his own mitochondrial DNA to create Clovis II instead of actually, you know, having a child with a woman who would impart her own filthy traits to him. And since Mitochondrial DNA is passed matrilineally, wouldn't this make Clovis II essentially a product of incest? Not to mention all the other meddling.

[@thefatherinthecave943]

@@DocDeeISC I think he fucked with his kids DNA AFTER he was born, not before. It’s also really funny people keep calling him some sort of genius when in reality he was mortally terrified of women, stole his work from his children and his workers. It wasn’t until the literal darkness influenced him to build the vex portal did he really become intelligent

[@drlaugen215]

Everybody gangsta until the new pandemic Clovid-44 takes the world by storm

[@louarn]

3:24 That's a reference to The Dark Forest, amazing book, I would recommend this series

[@captindo]

Somebody should've told Clovis, moons haunted.

[@cloroxusthestainlessone4324]

I see dead cheeses

[@stuartclifton4764]

*loads nuke* moons haunted

[@slicksilver2961]

The way Clovis talks about the darkness reminds me of how characters in the Lord of the Rings inthralled by the Ring talk about it.

[@QuestGiver]

When Clovis said that the Darkness could "drop a strangelet onto earth" what that essentially means is that the Darkness can at any time change the base form of matter from "atoms" to "quarks." Essentially reducing earth to nothing but subatomic noise.

[@colinwilliams3459]

But the darkness doesn’t necessarily have the power to do that, even though Clovis believes it so. I’m getting some Truth To Power vibes here. Besides e existence of the light creates a paracausal balance, where no force can overpower the other

[@commanderjason7786]

Wait, what if that's what happened to the planets that vanished? They did say the Pyramids left "anomalies" behind in place of the planets.

[@gabrielpineirogarcia2078]

@@commanderjason7786 Hmmmm interesting. Perhaps the presence of the Traveller protects us from the Darkness. Like they cannot overpower one another

[@aaronforsyth3486]

@@colinwilliams3459 the whole thing about clarity control is how it changes the matter it’s the whole reason Clovis needed it to begin with so it isn’t too far to say it could just change earth. And like the others above said the pyramids did leave only singularities in the place of the planets that are gone which could indicate that’s what remains of the planets or it did even worse and is able to apply so much pressure and force is created a black hole out of those planets which is even worse than just changing them into something different

[@QuestGiver]

@@colinwilliams3459 No no, I think it makes perfect sense considering that "strange matter" is another term for "quark stars." Quark stars only form under extremely, mind boggling, unbelievable gravitational strain. Considering how the darkness loves to use gravity as it's main tool, I wouldn't be surprised, or even doubt, that it can do exactly what Clovis speculates. The only reason it doesn't is the same reason it gave us Stasis: it wants to win a bet against the Gardener, i.e The Traveler.

[@lostfan10000]

5:24 I like the auto correct lines underneath the words "Fine I'm..."

[@relikt1065]

Didn't expect BL lore to come back this quick. Rather listen to this than play the game at the moment

[@kevinmaliepaard9640]

Listening to the lore is one of the few things that makes me want to play destiny these days

[@justinchalifoux4424]

@@kevinmaliepaard9640 fucking spot on. I just don't want to miss out in history in the making lmao. Everything else? Eeeeeh. The story? GIT DAMN

[@lowercaseperiod.]

1:39 what the Dreg doin?

[@loneenvoyyale5259]

"even if it were so malicious as to feed on the raw suffering of conscious minds, it would be easier to build vast hell simulations, or to engineer a custom species capable of limitless woe." My man Clovis predicted nightmares and The Hive.

[@NobodyAwsum]

Vast hell simulations = the vex Eternal suffering = hive.

[@colinwilliams3459]

That doesn’t describe the origins of the vex at all. The hive were not created to be capable of limitless woe, they were created to serve as practitioners of the sword logic.

[@aaronforsyth3486]

@@colinwilliams3459 they were drawing parallels to the statements which does fit those 2 races well. The vex create what we would believe to be hell simulations since it is a future where the universe is assimilated and the hive are an army of eternal space hitlers who literally feed off the suffering of others so the phrases where pretty apt

[@popapo-spuds]

Honestly Clovis' idea of hiding a weapon as a design flaw in this scenario is really cool

[@FM39__]

Who else but Clovis? He’s Clovis Clovis You never really know what he’s gonna do

[@Dripularstein]

Giggity giggity gooo

[@Floop654]

Your vids always make my day better

[@waterlight0243]

Byf, I’d love for you to cover the story of the Abram family, and Micah Abram/ Micah-10. I’d love to know you are thoughts on it and the ending of the Micah Abram’s lore book

[@luccabraun2204]

Love the Clovis bray and Europa story! Please keep it up, love your videos!

[@thepartydontstoptilliwalkin]

Byf playing as a hunter is the biggest twist this season

[@TheMrGlum]

Been waiting all day for this lore daddy

[@emiliobatres9581]

*Sees Title* Aww, Clovis cared. *watches video* oh no, Clovis cared-

[@jeffro719]

Good luck on the move Byf. Thank you for your continued perseverance as we Guardians new and old NEED your content. #loredaddy

[@travismurphy1105]

Love your videos byf. Ive been watching since d1 and you've given me hours of entertainment so thank you.

[@lightningking910]

This is the earliest I've ever been to a video

[@ytafshin]

Nobody saw the guy dancing on top of the servitor at about 1:40?

[@AnonymityIx]

I find the fallen the least interesting. Id say the darkness, Hive, Vex, Cabal(mostly because of Calus), then Fallen/Scorn(may be moved up if they are closely attached to whatever is going on with the tendrils on the ship in the DMT mission. You should run a poll. Im curious to see what peoples opinions are

[@kaueleao9957]

0:35 pov you thoght you had godtier warlock melee

[@remziel]

LOL @1:39 where the Dreg spawns on top of the Servitor, this game is silly sometimes

[@ippapp2]

Love the content and i think you should continue to introduce yourself BYF aka lore daddy it's very fitting

[@gremlin5664]

More content on the nine and the emmisary lore books for some more exploration of that topic at some point would be really good

[@titanvanguard299]

Wait...your saying that statue my fire team uses as a jungle gym killed 19 engineers? Huh neat

[@kamen.rider.decade]

7:59 Teammate protecting that vandal with a stasis grenade at the perfect time

[@CicadaOne999]

Strangelet is pronounced (strānj′lĭt) - as the name derives from it being made, in part, of strange quarks.

[@vpvasudevan]

Did the dreg @ 1:40 just invent Servitor Riding??

[@Gjallarhorn420]

Information leads to intelligence, intelligence leads to arrogance, and arrogance leads to death

[@shy5248]

It’s really interesting to see that the darkness is explained by theoretical quantum physics, such as strangelets

[@mattlessnau]

Does this lend support to he theory that the Darkness, in it's simplest definition, is just a reduction in entropy?

[@shy5248]

​@@mattlessnau I believe so. Stasis being ice would then make complete sense, being the absolute final perfect still shape of all matter. it also acts as a perfect opposite to solar, being nuclear fusion

[@bryceclark5024]

1:40 dreg on a servitor

[@miguelkoning7012]

Thank you for another great lore video! 😁😁😁

[@turdix6318]

Ur videos are amazing! Could you make a Video about Mara Sov and the Dreaming City because I saw some speculations about her returning in the Dreaming City

[@solstia458]

Back to clovis, love it

[@snivyland2878]

I know warframe is more of a back up when you have a content dry spell but I would love to see your thoughts on the new war reveal.

[@butterpecan077]

Byfs video was made possible by clarity control. Beautiful isn't it?

[@dradamov]

Isnt like the "custom species of limitless woe" a nod towards well... the Hive?

[@goldenguardian8753]

Hold up……Geez, Clovis actually doing something logical? Damn

[@romanbloomfield9066]

I feel like Byf really likes Stochastic Variable

[@totallyahuman.2955]

As Ripley wisely once said, "Nuke it from orbit. It is the only way to be sure."

[@Headloser]

hi there um can you put caption on this video please? I am hearing impaired so sometime it hard for me to listen what is being said. thank.

[@dazaitken1990]

Nice work with the grenade launcher at the plate. I'm hopeless with them lol

[@NobodyAwsum]

You do know theyre hold, and release right? Thats what makes them so effective. Also this has blinding nades on and it reduces blast radius so byf basically has to hit them with the grenade.

[@dazaitken1990]

@@NobodyAwsum yeah I know they are hold and release. I'm just not as good with them as they tend to be a bit too bouncie for my liking

[@bigboybeni3798]

Clovis kinda reminds me of doctor Edmund Rockwell from ARK

[@tonkmonster]

Mind warp jumping backwards in time like that

[@amandaaq8984]

What ever happened to that fish looking thing that was beside The Exo Stranger in the Europa trailer? Has that been explained yet ?

[@CheezerTheGrate]

I’m simple weapon.. I see Byf video I click

[@onlyplaywarlock434]

1:39 i thought eliksni should be respectful to their either machine.

[@f2t948]

One thing I would like to know. We know clovis had a fascination with the darkness but what did he think about the traveler

[@gabrielpineirogarcia2078]

Quite funny actually. The Traveller gave him a couple of dreams to warn him What he was doing was wrong. And the dude got extra sassy. "you! Go away! You got my grandaughters against me you dumb sphere, I dont care about your stupid dreams leave me alone!"

[@Aj-py8en]

I would love to see a short video explaining the mechanics of coldheart in the lore and why IT SHOULD NOT BE STASIS OH MY GOD WHY DO PEOPLE STILL THINK THE BEAM IS COLD ITS SUPER HEATED COOLANT FOR GODS SAKE

[@Aj-py8en]

OH MY GOD SOMEONE ON TWITTER JUST SUGGESTED IT INSTEAD OF NEW STASIS WEAPONS AAAAAAHH

[@Destiny-lb6mp]

Then it's solar?

[@Aj-py8en]

@@Destiny-lb6mp no its arc, the same way other Omolon juice guns can be arc. The gun works by using a cold fusion reactor (really hot reactor that doesnt need input energy to start) to propel a stream of ammo. The ammo also doubles as the coolant for the reactor so it absorbs all the excess heat from the reactor and the environment and gets hot itself. When you shoot there's less coolant which means hotter reactor and more heat per coolant, which is how it ramps up in damage. I think the biggest misconception comes from the name cold heart (because the reactor looks like a heart with tubes) and people not understanding that cold fusion doesn't refer to temperature and coolant itself being extremely hot.

[@Destiny-lb6mp]

@@Aj-py8en I will have to give you a Whooosh here my friend. I know it's Arc based which is electrical current as best described. I am making a joke on the idea that it's super HEATED coolant, saying that it's Solar.

[@thedarknesscallingme]

Clovis: "I say we take off and nuke he entire site from orbit, its the only way to be sure"

[@princeofmandalore8692]

You should make a lore video on crimson

[@kylekyle8790]

God I love clovis bray lore

[@wander-2]

1:37 what da dreg doin

[@Lexie_Tyler05]

Does anyone know what roll Byf's smg has? it's basically a budget trace rifle and I wish to acquire this power

[@NobodyAwsum]

Idk, but i have a dragonfly roll with phase mag that its a literal laser in both 600 and 900rpm forms. Its got NO recoil on the thing, its crazy.

[@Wildcard120]

Most interesting. I wonder did anyone besides Elizabeth survive.

[@bookwormsofconcord]

Serious question: Could we rightly theorise that the Darkness would've never come to the Sol system and, furthermore, caused the Collapse were it not for Clovis Bray's unhinged scientific curiosity and psychotic narcissism?

[@patiolunch]

Bruh the way I won’t even play this strike but I’ll sit here and watch someone else play it for 10 minutes

[@TheOneAndTrueHead]

Byf I wish this video had subtitles

[@MrPiccolo-du7ed]

How strong are destiny nukes? I was wondering that they would be vastly stronger than our real life nukes cause in dsc, the nukes and space stations detonating on Europa would destroy it. So are nukes planetary devastating devices?

[@Un4tunate_]

Hey Lore Daddy. Recently I've been trying to get friends into the game and since the vanilla campaign, curse of osiris and warmind have been sunset, I was wondering if it would be possible for you to make a video catching up newer players on what happened since the beginning of destiny 2 (i would explain it to them but i suck at telling stories :( ). I know you are working on the big project with the book of sorrows retelling so I thought i would just throw out an idea. Keep up the good work!

[@jacknicoletti3545]

His big 4-hour complete story video goes over them in great detail.

[@Un4tunate_]

@@jacknicoletti3545 Thats the thing, I don't think a new player would care for like a 4 hour video. I watched it and i love it but I dont think i can convince any of my friends (who don't care for the game yet) to sit through a 4 hour vid

[@juscallmesyn1381]

mannnn we need longer vids lol but i imagine they’re harder to make unfortunately

[@duburakiba]

not so much of a lore video but more of a question in the last D1 DLC or guardian learns how to build a Gjallarhorn yet there has been no attempt to rebuild it after the red war

[@BadAnalogy91]

I empathize. This is how women typically respond to my attempts at physical contact as well.

[@maximoboglioli9166]

Is there any possibility of continuing the Trials of Osiris series? PD: Thx for exist and being our Destiny`s Lore daddy

[@ryanhankey9269]

when is skrank gang lore video coming out?

[@gabrielpineirogarcia2078]

Wait. Do you mean Lore Daddy said the Markiplier meme? Lore Daddy: 5:35

[@LaurensCorner]

the statue is the goddess nyx

[@Ph0enix7373]

Im curious as to how exo's are capable of weilding the light since it seems like you could revive a ded exo without the light

[@GavinColeX]

We have souls, which i think is what the light needs in a species to allow them to manipulate it

[@ctdragonlord5]

There might no be a connection here but the coincidence of Colvis Bray and Port Clovis from Maneater, is there anything here or is it that that is something that happened on accident.

[@jafarbassim2878]

Will the veiled beings appear as a new race in Lightfall?

[@c4sualcycl0ps48]

Clovis Bray would build an orbital “RBMK-powered” space station just to simplify the process of blowing up a colony to hide his errors.

[@SheerAntAttack]

The lore daddy posted a new vid

[@dncadfunkero]

Clovis being Clovis nothing new to see here

[@Mark___Zuckerberg]

Last time I was this early gjallarhorn was still meta

[@maniceliksni2705]

"it would simply drop a strangelet to earth" god i love how smart the writers are

[@ronanoftheborealvalley4353]

Huh Clovis not being a idiot that's a first

[@vorpalweapon4814]

about time we started to finish BL lore

[@kiaroscyuro]

i loved that massive clovis bray lore drop, one of my favorites up there with the books of sorrow