Destiny 2 Lore - How the Exos were created! Clovis Bray, The Deep Stone Crypt & "Clarity!"

Destiny 2's Lore tells us about the Deep Stone Crypt & how it led to the creation and birth of the exos. This was accomplished by Clovis Bray, who's story talks of the Darkness of Clarity, The Vex & immortality!
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[@MynameisByf]

So... as a little programming note. I've got tons of scripts written... I'm trying to get them out... If things are a little irregular that's entirely why.

[@daddychocolate9214]

U got dissss

[@jayweber3022]

It’s all right byf don’t worry we know this year has been bad and that people need time to do things take your time

[@bspoon2529]

hey man no worries we are here for it all... btw loving the series you and unknown got going on very good stuff fans of you both for a long time!

[@mitchelldondlinger1876]

I read all the lore already so I’m in no rush. Take your time

[@EiferBrennan]

I have a question and I hope you can at least lend some insight to. Are Guardians sterile, and if not and the Light be passed down? Additionally can Exos perform coitus?

[@Zenlore6499]

Came across a dead Exo that remembers the taste of a dish his mom would prepare, but doesn’t remember his mom and “technically” hasn’t ever eaten that dish. That hit me so freaking hard, I felt so bad for him!

[@Angel-sf4ct]

I found one saying when he needed to be reset he would write down things and feelings he wanted to remember. This time he didn’t want to be reset because he didn’t want to forget what it felt like to hold his son, and it was too difficult to write in words.

[@zombiepicnic9683]

Destiny Community: Lore Daddy Byf, how are Exos born? Byf: Well, when a mad scientist and his ego love each other very much they make a deal with the devil for eternal life. Then they mix the devils essence with the goo from a murderous, time traveling robot, and that is how Exos are born.

[@ebake200]

Drifter: if the vex could time travel they would have already won

[@AnvilJeff]

@@ebake200 you must be new around here.

[@ebake200]

@@AnvilJeff kinda

[@AnvilJeff]

@@ebake200 lol at least you admitted it... Byf has many many videos focused on the Vex, I highly recomend seeking them out, especially his recap on the Vault of Glass... their quite an extraordinary race.

[@ebake200]

@@AnvilJeff yea I started d2 during forsaken when it was free for playstation and I started a little bit of d1 in 2017-18 ish but I've always been so curious about the lore especially the vex and I've recently seen byfs video on the complete story of destiny but the lore behind the vex was always so vague

[@averymorrish9686]

The plot point I have been most interested in for the last 6 years: Exos.

[@3rdrick]

you're not alone.

[@Birbucifer]

Can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.

[@jackthompson7546]

Man for me it was the vex and I was so hyped for mercury haha was nice to get this depth

[@averymorrish9686]

@@Birbucifer definitley not

[@ethan520427]

Ikr been killing gods and fighting this "darkness" only for some robot bois to tell me who their daddy was. I dont care about some fake humans. I want to know about the hives next move or you know ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT THE COSMIC BEASTS THAT WANT TO TAKE THE CITY BESINDS SOME OLD ROBOTS

[@beninmalgaard9836]

I bet someone, somewhere is working on a Five Nights at Bray Exoscience with that one teaser Bungie released.

[@mikzpwnz_3199]

That would have been awesome for the Halloween event. Shame they delayed beyond light until after it

[@Zagafur]

ngl, a survival mode with like us in a central area and five corriders that rabid exos come from would be awesome

[@dyno017rhino]

They are, I've seen it multiple times in KZbin stories.

[@Matthiasflint]

Not gonna lie, I'd play it at least as much as the Menagerie

[@khaos_the_fox]

Clovis Afton Bray

[@nickmacias00]

Cool little extra lore, the mask of bakris hunter exotic is atraks’ skull face, she ripped it off her organic body after turning into a exo to prevent going insane like the other exos

[@nickmacias00]

@TenseDart no she ripped it off of her dead organic body to trick her mind into thinking the original body was a imposter and she was alive since the consciousness would freak out when in a exo body, and then she put the skull onto a helmet so whenever a opponent wears it she sees them as a imposter

[@sine9596]

@@nickmacias00 When the guardian is sus...

[@filipporoversi9833]

@@sine9596 you didn’t just do that

[@osmacar5331]

@@filipporoversi9833 he did, 20mm HE-I?

[@paulcarpenter885]

@@osmacar5331 fuck that 120mm apfsds is what we need for that degeneracy

[@bobisconsumed520]

Exos: go insane and die Rasputin: has Multiple Personality Disorder and maybe on the spectrum Clovis Bray AI: suffers from narcissism and egotism Combat AI: cowers in corners ....What in the Darkness's name is making all the AI in Destiny go nutty (edit) -Failsafe crazy AI too

[@strangegreenthing]

Yes

[@TerrariaGolem]

@@strangegreenthing I love your pfp

[@worldeater2414]

Someone tried to open too many windows on the Bray PC, and the AI is still trying to deal with the viruses that came from the Cats: the Anime movie.

[@elijahbergeron7118]

Failsafe also has MPD.

[@abdansyakuro1105]

@@elijahbergeron7118 she's bipolar

[@daddychocolate9214]

I’ve waited 6 years for this

[@DeadlyblueEdward]

You? We've ALL waited for this!

[@wanderingexo8689]

Indeed

[@deadmen5672]

Indeed

[@JohnIsaacXIV]

Indeed, I will never forget when I played Destiny 1 for the first time, I always wondered what was the Lore behind the Exo's and their origins. Even though 6 years is quite a long time it is indeed satisfying to finally know the story behind them.

[@whatthehellamilookingat9149]

I always thaght the story behind the exos was not going to be a pleasant one but boy was it way more horrifying than I expected

[@belliebun4529]

Exos are a lot more existentially terrifying than I thought they would be...

[@BigBossGorgutz]

Yeah not gonna lie my first character was an Exo hunter because "lmao I'm a robot", but now, uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@wanderingexo8689]

Yeah being a death toaster can be rough sometimes

[@DaMasta981]

This is the most realistic portrayal of trying to digitize consciousness and could be relevant. Many of this could and would occur. But how would we solve it besides the lack of alien tech and paracausal entities?

[@osmacar5331]

Well, it's actually true, bungie, weather a mere fluke or researched, got that right on a psychological point

[@techpriestemily]

Yessss, inject that delicious Exo lore directly into my veins.

[@heyj64]

Uh, that's actually Vex fluid in that syringe you got there

[@zhalosupercell2486]

@@heyj64 oh fu-

[@commanderjason7786]

Clovis Bray: *confused screaming*

[@therandomlaniusedward2140]

@@heyj64 It will not make trouble, because it is darkness-infused. Wait. what??

[@WhoisPersona]

Ghost “ We could bring Cayde back, but he wouldn’t be our Cayde...... Rest in peace buddy!” Me flinging Exo minds around. “Screw that, I need my Raman buddy!”

[@EiferBrennan]

It might be nice but we got to think about how Zavala and Ikora would react, they buried Cayde.

[@derpmanaveragegamer7791]

kinda always made me wonder, *technically* caydes mind should still be in his corpse somewhere stored digitally since he is an exo. so couldnt they just extract his mind from his corpse and put it into a new exobody?

[@hammer9856]

@@EiferBrennan Saint too was dead, we brought him back... everyone celebrated. But Cayde wouldn't come back as our Cayde that we know and love... In fact he hints that he might not have been such a nice guy back then. He also hints that we shouldn't bring him back if we found the Deep Stone Crypt.

[@hylianglitchmobber7570]

@@derpmanaveragegamer7791 sadly that's not how exos work. Having a human mind, rather than a robot mind, means that at the time of Death the mind is shut down and destroyed just like a normal human. Elsie and Clovas found a way around this by uploading copies of their minds into a storage device and basically streaming their memories directly to it so as they were dying they were still being brought back as there current selves with all memories intact

[@kiryuplayz]

@@hylianglitchmobber7570 shoot i would like to be an exo, though rebooting would be rough

[@biiill5259]

I find the races and their connection to the light and dark very interesting. Humans have pretty much only known the light. The awoken are a mix of light and dark and exos are just dark

[@KRYMauL]

Except Ada.

[@cally2984]

@@KRYMauL What's different with Ada? :)

[@KRYMauL]

@@cally2984 She was created by a different faction than Clovis Bray.

[@BenMaguireLONEWOLF9989]

@@KRYMauL Same process though, otherwise she would have had the same issues

[@KRYMauL]

@@BenMaguireLONEWOLF9989 She’s a prime, though, it’s a similar process as Clovis Bray not the others.

[@hylianglitchmobber7570]

Ever since the reveal that the Deep Stone Crypt is on Europa, I've been very curious as to what exactly Cayde was talking about when he left the "it's on enceladus" message for Petra

[@shorddy1668]

Pretty sure it was the harbingers and/or the body and worm of Oryx

[@elitegamer9310]

Maybe Kaliks Prime? Or some Clovis bray facility.

[@toma.w1820]

Yesss this comment, seems everyone forgot about that mission on titan*

[@hylianglitchmobber7570]

@@shorddy1668 I've heard the Harbinger theory. I'm not a fan of it. There's very little to back it up. I do however love the Oryx theory and the implications of it. Perhaps Mara plans to use it to exploit a weakness that Savathun may have. Or maybe the Awoken are trying to recover his body before the hive necromancey cult gets ahold of it.

[@katieskye8853]

It's obviously taniks the annoyance

[@cy282x]

Exo: I can't taste... Clovis Bray: That's Covid

[@nullandvoid7524]

Covid Bray

[@Cpt_John_Price]

Covid-19 seems to be like a good exo name to me

[@t3hrevan73]

clovid-19

[@benidaorangutan6566]

HERE IT IS BOIS!!!!!

[@FireMobius]

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO

[@Sky_Ler2000]

Hype

[@chris4540]

FINALLLYYYYYY YEAAAAAAAAA

[@deadmen5672]

Oh yeah yeah

[@Hellsing_Montana]

My thoughts exactly brotha😤😤😤

[@99bajakid]

"Imagine that you feel that your body is rotting, and that you are suffocating. You feel that you have no pulse, you feel that you cannot breathe, you feel that you cannot taste; and you feel nothing that indicates you are alive. You are still conscious." oh cool.. so a panic attack, been there.

[@CoolGuy7159]

yea seems about right seems more like my panic and anxiety attacks always so much fun -_- I am doing better thanks to my psychiatrist and pills I'm on :)

[@Kan-o-tex]

Sounds like me before my first cup of coffee in the morning.

[@BigBossGorgutz]

Yeah now imagine that, but constantly. That's Exoscience 101 for y'all.

[@Daves-not-here]

A panic attack that never ends. Literally never ends, never subsides and only gets worse with every passing second.

[@CoolGuy7159]

@@Daves-not-here will sorry but I have to say can’t talk for everyone but the ones I hand the more you think about them the worse it is so it becomes a loop you have to breach that loop to try and calm your self down ie taking pills or else it could last for hours or days mins fells like hours so yes it’s not the same as for ever but it’s still crazy just wanted to add that because I felt people was not realizing just how bad an attack can be sorry for the story ;p

[@Brad.M.]

Finally. The Exo birth story. Back in Destiny 1, I had always wondered just exactly how I (my Exo Titan main) was born.

[@squidonyoutube]

Same except I’m a hunter

[@auro6136]

@@squidonyoutube Same for me too except I’m a Warlock.

[@tylertate3584]

Ayy exo titans unite

[@nojusticenetwork9309]

Here's my biggest questions: Are Exo Guardians still at risk of suffering from DER? Does the Ghost resurrection process count as a mental reset in delaying DER? Does the Traveler's/Ghost tech provide a possible solution to it?

[@icesoul17z]

There's a theory that since Ada-1 never had to be reset and was made by the black amour who wouldn't have had access to clarity. That they used their own alkehest one forged using the light. Because while the darkness breaks things down to their most base form. The light want life to be complicated and flourish. Thus, if one used the light to make exo's there would be no bilboarding or ddr because the exo mind can grow and flourish like any humans would.

[@mebnme5127]

@@icesoul17z Yes

[@okruma625]

Guardians are not at risk of any disease, including DER

[@Kalin5513]

@@okruma625 the only thing guardians are at risk of death from in terms of bodily failure is hunger. I remember reading a lore page that mentioned how the Guardian in the lore page died of starvation, his ghost resurrected him, and then he was still hungry afterwards. Though this may be a human and Awoken thing only. Purhaps the Exo don't need to eat, they are just programmed to do so because it is a human action.

[@Caliif]

@@Kalin5513 I think that this "guardian" was the drifter so it should definitly count for all human light bearers

[@ianrobertson6672]

So if to stave off DER an exo would need to have all their senses, a similar body, voice, etc then what you’re saying is that exos DO indeed have junk

[@BigBossGorgutz]

Technically speaking they have everything that an actual human body needs to experience life, so.... *yes*. Also, even besides sexual innuendos, they still need to evacuate what they eat and drink, so eh.

[@marlinazul7786]

MY GUARDIAN HAS A ROBO DOCK LETS GO

[@Mechanomaly-NB]

@@marlinazul7786 I'm laughing even harder that you said dock, oh my Lord...

[@Flustershy]

I paid 40 bucks for the confirmation that my guardian has a robo rod down there, money well spent.

[@wood5596]

So the exo stranger..

[@matthewbryan9231]

I still miss my last vaulted scouting reports, and Cayde’s ramen coupon. Still don’t know why they had to take the coupon.

[@skyzgone2953]

13:35 so thats basically darkness, imprisoning me, all that I see, absolute horror, I cannot live, I cannot die, trapped in myself, body my holding cell?

[@Bassman-mp8lh]

Metallica FTW!

[@sciurusvulgari3687]

Byf talking about what DER feels like actually make me really uncomfortable send help

[@projectsinclair]

Good

[@noman1122]

So I wasn't the only one who started to feel uneasy just thinking abt it.

[@Firewolf161]

When I was reading the journal of Clovis Bray I was also very uncomfortable whenever it was talking about anything Exo related, it’s stuff out of a horror movie lol.

[@jakedempsey3809]

So now that the Stranger is back I think a time travel breakdown might be good. I'm confused on how the Vex and Elsie use it

[@hunter_michelie4425]

The Vex time travel using an extreme amount of mathematical calculations to accurately relocate a vex body to the correct location (the minotaur teleports are them phasing in and out of time basically). They effectively use time travel as a means of finding idealistic futures based on these ridiculous maths and then manipulating the variables in the current timeline to veer it into the one they desire (basically, multiverse theory). They do not wish to manipulate the future they go to otherwise this will rip a hole in space-time, fucking up their ideas.

[@nostop7794]

You can check out his VoG video for a philosophical explanation.

[@noman1122]

My guess is that the time traveling ability that Elsie has is given to her by traveller of her timeline. The last thing she remembers before she woke up in a different timeline was seeing the blinding light of traveller that tried to push back Eris with it's light when Mara Sov got murdered by Ana.

[@sachbi3482]

Next season, season of time

[@Cpt_John_Price]

At least in Elsie's case, her time travel is in "bursts" and needed an "anchor" of some sort like her pulse rifle from a different timeline.

[@salamanda550]

I've never seen that dialogue in the Glassway's beginning, and I now understand how Ghost suddenly knew Elsie's name when it was the Nightfall

[@BigBossGorgutz]

afaik it only plays for "old accounts", whatever the hell it may mean. Like, I've been there since before Forsaken, but apparently the game knows that only when I'm on my Hunter, but not on the other two characters. So honestly? No fuckin' idea.

[@prince_abo1340]

@@BigBossGorgutz old accounts as in d1 cacs being transferred from there to d2

[@KRYMauL]

@@prince_abo1340 Yeah, the part that sucks is that if you transfered to pc in vanilla you can't get the dialogue from knowing things about the stranger because the accounts can't overlap.

[@BobinT4lif]

::Guardian finally beats all of Destiny:: Clovis: 'It's been a long time. Longer than we thought. I have a few questions for you...the last steps of a baseline interview to allow us to verify.' Guardian: 'Verify what?' Clovis:...Fidelity'

[@maniacalmeme5022]

You should upload these as podcasts! I would love to be able to download these and listen to them while working or driving without needing to use KZbin, and I think a lot of people would agree! And it wouldn't be hard, you already have the audio!

[@TheLewieV]

I wanted to know what’s up with the exo dream, where they say they only remember when born a tower where some get to it peacefully but others don’t? Or something like that

[@paintothemax7126]

That is also the Deep Stone Crypt. The Deep Stone Crypt isn’t just a physical place, it’s also a state of being an Exo must get to when they die. When an Exo dies, the “dream” as you call it, has them in a field, wherein they fight everyone they’ve ever met, both in their present and past reboots/lives. When they have, they can get to the tower, which is the Deep Stone Crypt.

[@iCore7Gaming]

@@paintothemax7126 i have a feeling it has to do with the simulations actually

[@mantis7331]

@@paintothemax7126 yeah I think you're totally mistaken

[@whatthehellamilookingat9149]

Long slow wisper, calling it!

[@walrideralp6275]

Saint says something about it when idle: "So, you have found the Deep Stone Crypt, but what of the golden fields in my dreams?"

[@kelionpro9612]

I’ve been waiting for this video!! Thanks so much, Byf

[@edlex94]

14:46 explains why the Exo Stranger is so THICC

[@corniel657]

This guy got his priority straight

[@xlord0653]

Yeeeeesssss! As an exo, I have been waiting for this!!

[@ericbright1742]

There is a theory in science called Time Symmetry. A lot of Physics actions is time-reversible, which is to say that regardless of which direction Time is running along a series of interactions, the laws defining those interactions are constant and consistent. Clarity is not time reversible. Clarity appears to be, potentially, paracausal in nature.

[@anthonyfuller7540]

The long slow whisper..

[@Lichtboys]

I cannot wait for this series. It’s definitely going to be my favorite. The whole Clovis Bray and exos ripping themselves apart is so fascinating

[@markstar0069]

Just listening to byf explain this makes me wish that they would explain this in game Destiny lore is crazy good

[@rancidpotatos8226]

I’ve been waiting for this for a while!! Although I am always excited when a notification comes up from byf

[@Wake_18]

All these years later and i can still count on byf with the lore, thanks man ❤️

[@Tuffbunny13]

So happy to start learning more about Exo. It's so intriguing yet creepy at the same time.

[@nauroticdax]

Point that was interesting to me when talking about DER don't know if it would be for anyone else, the brain will try to protect itself from perceived death through what is called a myoclonic jerk (this is what happens when you are kinda falling asleep and you start getting electric shock like twitches) as your heart rate and breathing slow down and your brain interprets this as the body dying and tries to shock itself to remain stable. I wonder if this manifested in the exo body during DER? it would be feasible to assume that the lack of stimulus would be interpreted the same way even in a simulated mechanical mind and you'd have exo's jerking and spasming uncontrollably as it's inefficacy generates a feedback loop.

[@ModuliOfRiemannSurfaces]

Whoever wrote the Clovis Bray and exo stuff is really smart.

[@thatoneguy1553]

I want some of that good shit that bungie was smoking

[@marblejt8541]

Awesome video Byf, can't wait for the rest of the series!

[@funkyxii8496]

for me this is a great example of why the writing in destiny is so good this gave me chills constantly

[@bumx_]

EXO LORE, EXACTLY WHAT IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THANK YOU BYF !

[@deeds4147]

I can't wait for you to talk about everything we learned from the lament quest. I think that particular character is going to play a HUGE role in the rest of the story of destiny 2. Thanks as always man,

[@Emeowy]

I do wonder if they will ever make anything with banshee, just imagine the lament wielded by him

[@tezra9085]

Even though I read the lore books/wiki inside out you always come up with new info. This is awesome, hope you can pump these out every few days.

[@novajuventa865]

Omg I have been waiting forever for this! Thank you! I cannot wait for the follow up videos about the Exos. ❣

[@daddy-odestiny301]

Whomever at Bungie decided to take the lore in this direction is brilliant. I love your exploration of this.

[@mystikad3]

The similarities between the horrors of exo creation and the game Soma are strikingly similar in how the human mind naturally breaks when given immortality in a foreign form. It's truly a terrifying concept to explore

[@Munkee7777]

This lore hits different now that we know more about darkness post-Final Shape. Darkness remembers…..

[@captindo]

Been waiting for this story to be told, thank you Byf.

[@dragonarmy2008]

About the 'Fish'... I'm willing to bet that in a later season, we find out it's a darkness version of a ghost and {Redacted} who just lost there ghost will get one. through that story and events we'll learn about them.

[@woahthere2594]

This feels less like a friendly destiny lore video and more like a science lecture.

[@GiancarloPaniccia]

This is going to be one of the best lore series this channel has ever seen.

[@captainseabass874]

Love your videos Byf. Work nights so I just listen to your lore playlists all night long

[@Jackelson116]

Byf, you forgot a key part of the exo-mind connection with their resets! You brought jt up back during Warmind- that the mind connection is able to reset SAFELY about 12 times. More than that, and the mind starts to fragment and lose memories. Hence why Banshee-44 has such an awful memory. They can't be done constantly, because eventually it could actually destroy their mind, and kill them.

[@Canadianweeb]

I can finally begin to understand how my Guardian was created now

[@Yuki-bk2my]

This is one of your best videos, I am someone who likes to keep up with the lore and even I couldn't understand how clarity control works until I watched this. Really great video Byf keep it up mate

[@aq5426]

Excellent work as always, Byf! Thank you so much!

[@Jaaxfo]

The thing that Clarity does to the radiolaria almost sounds like Taking

[@inquisitorichijou883]

Intergrating human mannerisms probably was also why we had Cayde coughing after he was shot by Uldren. And as far as we know, Felwinter was an artificial consciousness in an Exo body and therefore wouldn't need a reset.

[@wigbeats]

Yeah, as the “son” of Rasputin I think he was just a simulation of human consciousness created by Rasputin putting an aspect of himself into an exo

[@SlyBlu7]

It would also make sense that Cayde's "cough" was so that outside observers could tell when something was wrong with an Exo. "Dude, you just got shot in the chest. But you're a robot right, so you're gonna be fine - it probably didn't hit anything important, right?" "Yeah - hack, cough - totally missed all the important - cough - stuff" "Alright buddy, hang in there. Let's get you to a mechanic."

[@inquisitorichijou883]

@@SlyBlu7 Sounds kinda genius when put like that. Tho better not tell Clovis. His head is already big enough.

[@Gastlykid]

GOD YES!!! IVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU BYF!!!

[@DeathRobotKailozo]

Thank you for the content. Please take your time and don’t burn out. I really appreciate your work.

[@lorkess1749]

5:43 someone’s been using the lament too much

[@Strider258]

I hope for all the exo guardians out there (including me) can get some background on why we signed up for the program

[@SlyBlu7]

It would be really cool if we could dig around and find our own backstory in the Deepstone Crypt. Kind of how Anna dug around and found her own background, or Cayde found his journals. But I imagine that would leave non-Exo players feeling left out, and a Guardian with a history is too big a deal to just let it slide and not fork the storyline.

[@Strider258]

@@SlyBlu7 That would be cool man!

[@vuvuzela4570]

Finally! Been waiting. Destiny really isn’t the same without your lore videos.

[@75KUAKKU]

Once again. Thanks for all your videos and help. Keep up the good work

[@bachelorbanana982]

Nobody: Byf: Big brain time.

[@theshadowsofdestiny4710]

When are we going to see the darkness SFM again?

[@BladesofElysian]

SFM?

[@theshadowsofdestiny4710]

@@BladesofElysian remember at the full darkness lore vid

[@BladesofElysian]

@@theshadowsofdestiny4710 Yeah...

[@DaMasta981]

@@theshadowsofdestiny4710 when the devs decide exactly what they want it to be. The good thing about slowly building up the franchise is you can have time to figure it out

[@bluephoenix4994]

This video was so good. I can’t wait for more info on Brovis.

[@dankmemes2382]

I have been waiting for this for years and years I am so hyped for this thank you lorekeeper bfy

[@HarryC03]

Hey Byf, great video as always! I'm interested to know if we now know more about Cayde? I thought that he was involved in the exo testing (based on the taken king journals) because of his debts so do we now know more about his involvement in that stuff with all the new lore about exos and Clovis?

[@hylianglitchmobber7570]

The implications brought up by the fact that it took Darkness Whispers to have a healthy and stable transfer of the human mind into its Exo body. Perhaps darkenss played a role in the creation of the human mind

[@bspoon2529]

yes great point

[@user-st6nb3bo2x]

You know, wasn't there that one thing in the Unveiling? P53. A bomb in the body. Where it suggests that aspects of current, successful life are fueled by the Darkness?

[@smallen6872]

@@user-st6nb3bo2x well yes actually. In the trials of the nine armour it says how in a world without darkness is a world without end. Nothing can die. It's never dark. It's purgatory in life.

[@EstrelSidus]

I think thats what their hinting at. The awoken where created by light and dark, exos needed the dark to be created. Humans are the last race to have an explanation about their connection to the dark. I mean there are pyramid ships in our solar system within planets and moons that were hinted to be there before the Traveler! It'll be the biggest reveal yet.

[@brentgarrison6245]

@@user-st6nb3bo2x Not fueled by Darkness, but created using it's methodology. Humans evolved, we exist thanks to competitive evolution. Competitive evolution is effectively the core philosophy of the Darkness. Survival of the fittest, adapting to changing stimuli (sharpening), overcoming competitors by proving to be better suited to overcoming challenges (or by just directly proving their better by killing them, same difference in the Darkness' eyes). Without the process the Darkness stands for we wouldn't exist.

[@troysultana1491]

Dude I just got back into destiny after a 2 year break and if you weren't here byf my mind would've melted

[@boneyardghoul931]

Thank you Byf this was an incredibly well done, it confirmed and answered a lot of my thoughts

[@Circuses]

Been waiting for this. That’s how you know you’re a good content creator. People avoiding content waiting on you to make the video lol

[@mrjdog05]

I am still waiting for an answer on the long slow whisper. when bungie does that, I can rest haha

[@emoboy163]

I'm so excited that we're finally getting exo lore, I've been so curious about it all since destiny year 1

[@staticchronos2780]

I am so glad I chose exo for all of my characters when I had no idea of the lore behind it

[@dantepettinato9591]

Will you be doing a “lorethrough” with T1 for Deep Stone Crypt?

[@DKYoungOne]

Are we just gonna ignore that martyr's whiff at the beginning 😂

[@ezgvo]

that's how you use martyrs wym

[@ezgvo]

oh nvm i just saw that lmao

[@lonecalzone6901]

he just looked into the void of the glassway and shot his last martyr's shot

[@DracoMaverick]

After playing Beyond Light I'm so happy my Guardian is an Exo. Also I'm so happy how they brought back yeh Stranger she's now my favorite character

[@lumapop8245]

LORDDDD I WAS JUST WATCHING YOUR VIDEO LIKE A MINUTE AGO AND WANTED TO LOOK UP DSC LORE AND YOU JUST UPLOADED IT POG

[@jellofish2412]

exo master race, you can't convince me otherwise

[@gurney_3915]

human doctor race, you can't convince me otherwise

[@bilalsaleem6658]

You guys are made from vex and darkness

[@ThaIronman37]

Hey Byf what about when cyade 6 mentioned the long slow whisper

[@sweep_swoop]

The Long Slow Whisper is the veil statue in Clarity Control.

[@tadhg6999]

i love u byf keep doing what you’re doing

[@golfmaster7]

Love you so much byf. Thank you for the stories, lore father.

[@NateFigs]

Ok but this doesn't explain why Elsie is abnormally cute

[@alvarosolorzano5405]

*CUSTOM BODY* Aside from that yeah, I simp for Elsie too

[@hylianglitchmobber7570]

*abnormally thicc

[@hammer9856]

What if Anna is really an exo too with a more advanced human looking body... For instance we know that her eyes are mechanical in nature from past season cut scene when see scans the horizon on Mars and we see it from her perspective. If that were true that would be a hoot...

[@selvbilde253]

That one piece looking bodysuit on elsie has some pretty good form factor

[@Jake-zk3eb]

Question is, apart from her cloak is her exo body naked? Seeing as we can see the mechanical parts.

[@nasonwithann7114]

Could you explain why the hole in the wall in the cosmodrome is repaired? Like is there any lore reason at all or was it just for convenience?

[@KRYMauL]

Wasn't it all done by Siva? So, maybe the Earth Warmind repaired it during the Red War.

[@stequan77]

My man Byf rocking the Ehroar berserker build! I love it too

[@JimboJason]

Thanks for making this! Destiny lore has been getting pretty good lately.

[@HammerdWalrus]

The DSC "Statue" moves by the way.

[@BigBossGorgutz]

The one in the Moon kinda did too, although that was more within texture than mesh. And I mean, it's creepy, but it's perfectly fitting for the Darkness.

[@meyham1949]

Riiiight the fish Elsie had, what's up with that, I wanna know!

[@therewillbefire1833]

It is nice to have complete lore on all three of our playable races. So much behind the choice of who your guardian is, something to ground them to the fascinating world we travel in.

[@talondarkfire]

I've been hoping for videos on this. Really glad to hear how clarity and the radiolarian fluid came to being such an integral part in Exo creation. I'm not sure if you've already made them (I've subscribed and will do a search through your videos) but I'd like to see more about what happened to the Brays. I think I've heard his grandson was one of the early exos who tore himself apart.

[@okashiad6930]

Except Exos don’t have to sound the same as their living counterparts. See: Banshee vs Clovis.

[@Renthur1]

That could also be a part of the degradation from 44 resets in a single day.

[@gzuzsquirt169]

@@Renthur1 basically smoked 44 packs of cigarettes in a day, thats how you get his voice.

[@Spike2276]

Banshee had a bad startup, and Clovis-43 wanted to be different from his original self, it makes sense that Banshee would be the one exo that sounds different Then again Banshee might actually have the voice of Clovis and the AI might have the fake voice, you never know

[@itskxrda7080]

you do know banshee is clovis. right?

[@Zeraybifive]

Did... Did Clovis Bray built SCP-914 ?

[@Emeowy]

Everyone is set to coarse

[@Legbas_Ear]

Thanks, Byf. These sorts of vids, combined with the storytelling in-game, really just make me want to see what future expansions will bring, so job well done (as always) for piquing my curiosity. Been getting more into lore with the release of BL, and I'm suuuuuuper curious to see if Venus will come back with VoG (or of we'll see a new Vex-centered destination all together), how the connection between Bray and the Vex will be further explained, and what direction additional darkness subclasses will go in...

[@macattack7949]

Random question: Has there been any lore pieces to explain why Wyvern vex are a thing now?

[@dundun9731]

WHO GAVE HARPIES LEGS IS WHAT IM ASKING

[@user-Xx0xxxxx]

simple, the vex are always evolving new containers for their Radiolaria/ weapons to fulfill their timeline, so, they are simply creating a new implement of war by combining 2 pre existing tech pieces, which is more efficient then making something from scratch

[@XavierDhc]

Pretty sure there’s not but it’s probably, as Calus stated, the very first vex combat unit that we ever meet, he said that every single vex that we’ve killed until now were farmers, builders etc. And since Clovis Bray intentionally « attacked » the Vex I guess that the Wyverns are combat units to bring massive firepower to the others on Europa. To be fair, I find them terrifyingly powerful and I cannot wait to see more advanced combat units!

[@macattack7949]

@@XavierDhc Ooo, I actually like this concept best. The thought hat after all we've done up until now, the Vex haven't considered us a threat large enough to send their actual fighting units after us and we've been mostly just fighting their general workforce, but now they're actually ticked off enough to send the real fighters in. I was mostly just curious if they were a type of vex specifically crafted due to what Clovus Bray had been doing much like how they made a custom vex mind to counter the hive in oryx's throne world

[@nullandvoid7524]

Wyverns are first glimpse that we've had of actual Vex soldiers Goblins, Harpy's, Minotaurs, Hydras, Gate Lords are all essential construction workers of sorts. Wyverns are sent to Europa as a direct result of Clovis' meddling.

[@bluedog4248]

Ya know. This would mean humans are the only ones that were not born of both light and darkness

[@jebhank1620]

Maybe we are. I wouldn't be surprised if they pulled the classic 'the real darkness is human nature" bullshit.

[@DaxterKing]

@@jebhank1620 lmao yeah, with Exos and Awoken having it already, Im calling that for a Witch Queen reveal

[@Jack-gh9xb]

IVE BEEN WAITIN FOR THIS ONE

[@newabba1]

I love your explanations and the way you put such care into your research! My kids have even started listening in whenever I play one of your vids. That being said, please do take care of yourself! Burnout can take something you love and care about doing and make it so exhausting that you feel trapped by what used to be an escape. Love your content, but take care of you first :)

[@alpha36455]

My character is an exo And according to my name Man my mind got wiped alot!!

[@SlyBlu7]

Mine's been wiped 7 times, going by my Gamertag. My girlfriend pointed out after Cayde died, that I was a 7, that my guardian lived "longer." Both of my Exo guardians have always worn Memory of Cayde items ever since. They will be his -7.