It Happened! The Sword From Your Guardians Grave: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gp-Un6aqfNR2otE Final Shape Campaign Explained: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGncl4KVr7WbbKc
@vgernyc5 ай бұрын
IMO It wasn't The Witness that gave us Stasis but a Dissenter trapped in the Europan Pyramid.
@levicarpenter55095 ай бұрын
We weren't given stasis
@memecrider35855 ай бұрын
@levicarpenter5509 yes we were? Did you play Beyond light?
@bryan_hilo62635 ай бұрын
@@memecrider3585not excactly… we technically just took it.
@lucaruxyz10755 ай бұрын
@@bryan_hilo6263 it's not something you can give...it's something you take.
@levicarpenter55095 ай бұрын
@@memecrider3585 yes I did, we took stasis, unless you are talking about bungie giving us stasis
@DeusExAngelo5 ай бұрын
The fact that there are several more statues within The Pale Heart than seen is very telling. It could well mean that as the Witness was enacting The Final Shape and corrupting The Traveler...alot of minds in it's collective were having second thoughts. Thus they were removed until The Final Shape was completed by those who still remained true believers. This might also explain why The Witness was so weak at the end of the campaign, and why the statues previously unable to commune now could. This could also explain why The Witness is so scared, because the number of the dissenters within are growing and growing. Meaning it's losing it's godhood.
@c.d.mcclendon12645 ай бұрын
The accursed legion is coming apart at the seams... who would have thought self-doubt would be quite the poison for a self-proclaimed God?
@hush63525 ай бұрын
ooh, that makes sense, and that also explains why the witness is saying "I" and not "we" how it used to.
@adamherrick60775 ай бұрын
It’s seriously compelling stuff. I’ve always been very intrigued and behind the ideas of the witness. But this elevated it to a force of a villain.
@markusjanz42265 ай бұрын
@@c.d.mcclendon1264 Man, that sounds so cool. Imagine it being voiced, now that would be awesome to hear
@Jakepopper015 ай бұрын
After the development it got in this expansion, I think the witness is one of the coolest concepts for a character ever. The idea of a race of people merging themselves was already cool enough but to have dissenters that don’t exactly agree with the collective makes so much sense, and the design to match with all the faces, the voices, and hands of all the people is awesome. I was worried before release that the witness would be too flat for me to care about it as a character but now I love it. Also that thumbnail art is SICK.
@ElToland5 ай бұрын
Zavala kinda predicted how to defeat the Witness, I remember one of the entries of the Season of the Deep lorebooks, after Ahsa revealed the origins of the Witness. Zavala and Ikora were discussing about its true nature, and Zavala questioned if all the beings that merged to become the Witness did it because they really wanted and not because they were forced to, and if the Vanguard itself wasn't the same.
@CrawfordPrime5 ай бұрын
Spoilers: At the end of Salvation’s Edge, when the witness dies, and that final voice from it says “we… I, I don’t understand.” What if that voice was of the very precursor who conceived of the idea of merging together and thus was a driving force for the Witness
@vexmyth0clast5 ай бұрын
Bungie cooked so hard with this dlc. The campaign was incredible. That Witness art wallpaper worthy.
@sakara755 ай бұрын
i see the statues as conduits for the Witness, which includes the Dissenters stuck within him. Outside of the Pale heart they had no way to speak to us. The witness uses the statues as a conduit to speak to people, even if those statues represent the dissenters, they have no power to fight back, until now.
@blackbird133715 ай бұрын
When redoing the campaign in legendary difficulty i noticed something interesting. (SPOILER ALERT!!!) When we find Crow in that cave, he talks about hearing some whispers, whispers coming from the veiled statue. They were trying to warn/help us at first the opportunity. Funny how you only figure this "foreshadowing" when playing the campaign again..
@greenwithevil65 ай бұрын
Also when Zavala is saying his "goodbye" you can make out that the statue is saying "help me"
@charmboy52415 ай бұрын
I predict the guardians need to use the sword for the raid or a sword where they have to destroy the statues with it in order to bring down his shield where he becomes vulnerable
@marsmech5 ай бұрын
Just like conan 2.
@ashhodgson85615 ай бұрын
All the elements of the campaign will be in the raid. They do it every time to prepare people - So the balls which protect you from darkness, the shield, the sword, it'll all be in there. Probably Mara flipping reality to see what the taken see etc.
@Psion_Phoenix5 ай бұрын
Could it be that the witness never gave us Stasis? Could it have been that these dissenters gave us stasis in order to fight the witness?
@David-i7n2m5 ай бұрын
I wonder if we will ever get a physical image of the Winnower (or the Travelers opposite)? The Gardner (the light) takes physical form in our universe as the Traveler. People always thought the veiled statues was the winnower, but we know now it’s always been a representation of the Witness’s species. Cloaked, no individual identities but all the same collective. It would be awesome if we get to see an actual light filled humanoid form the traveler reveals itself as apart from the sphere. Hope the same eventually happens with the darkness/winnower. 🤞
@flyernight88075 ай бұрын
Yeee
@qoni_swe5 ай бұрын
The bird (eagle, falcon, idk) maybe is a represantive of the traveler. It’s not a human but close anough?
@connorricketts13235 ай бұрын
i also hope we get to see the traveler or lights real form it's got to have one
@gaiofattos25 ай бұрын
@@qoni_swe Like the story that Mara Sov tall us ? The one about the falcon and a storm.
@CosmeGamerXD075 ай бұрын
During the campaign I was thinking how to defeat the witness, first thing comes to my mind was "what if we make the voices fight each other" and kinda is what happens 😂
@ZarMationStudios185 ай бұрын
I wonder if RS was the Dissenter who was trying to guide Zavala... it would bring all the letters in the lore-book back full-circle.
@nicholastrotter47815 ай бұрын
I feel like this expansion so far is okay; it's not done yet so ofc you cant completely judge but we havent learned much of anything we didn't already know. It is cool to see the veiled dissenting members but I was really hoping we would learn more about the traveler after all this time. So much of the campaign was finding the vanguard but I feel like we are literally inside the traveler, we should finally know clearly what the traveler is, where it came from whatever, and the same goes for the darkness and the veil too. Seeing Zavala be angry against the traveler was so cool, they should've really gone further with that but it was over before it even really began. How cool would it have been to fight zavala as he took the witnesses side or was possessed but in the end of the campaign he betrays the witness and gives us the opportunity to strike or something like that ???? I feel they are still holding back narratively (maybe because for so many people the final shape will be their last expansion, and they dont want to completely explain the universe and lose this interesting mysterious destiny air?) AND for being nostalgic ??? i like the vanguard and its great that cayde is back and all that but we can be nostalgic years from right now in the last chapter of this story. Now is the time for like wild storytelling and really pushing their pen. Anyways chile
@superior_nobody075 ай бұрын
it makes sense for the traveler to not give us answer imo. The whole existence of the witness came from the fact that the traveler gave life but no meaning, no answers. It just sat there never communicating or giving guidance
@cjallenroxs62395 ай бұрын
Dude give it time goddamn shit just came out
@lolbots6865 ай бұрын
Ok so ive done digging of my own,and id like to add to evaze theorys and make my own in a fashion. I do not believe that the dissenters were helping us,at least not at first. My take is that due to the pale heart,the witness cut out a great many dissenters,in attempt for the greater hivemind to focus its corruption on the traveler more clearly. Yet despite it the precursors all made up the witness,and within the darkness manifest each as statues,when one statue is destroyed or harmed in some form,the witness feels it,and if enough are unmade,so will the witness. So in short i do think maybe its possible we had help from 1 dissenter perhaps,its because of the pale heart of the traveler that now the witness is vulnerable and ways into the dark are possible,and perhaps with salvations edge we perhaps lay the souls of the precursors to rest,destroying the witness in the process? Idk.
@colorknight7365 ай бұрын
6:14 I can’t help but feel there are references similar to this one. If there’s more than this artwork, the more likely this story Bungie had it cooked, is mostly repeated before.
@HuskySansVergogne5 ай бұрын
to me it doesn't make sense that the statues are not all somewhere in the same place, protected inside a fortified pyramid ship or something. If they are part of the Witness why would he just let them scattered across Sol and other systems for all to see, potentialy being destroyed and hurting him ?
@Rodneygonazaled5 ай бұрын
Why wouldn’t he he’s been an unbeatable force until us
@colorknight7365 ай бұрын
If only we knew this sooner… They are the weak minds that the witness doesn’t want. Clarity is so limited Disposable Expendable
@Stigness235 ай бұрын
The Witness kinda reminds me of Emperor Palpatine
@marlo225 ай бұрын
G comment
@HuskySansVergogne5 ай бұрын
for a moment when Zavala was being all depressed and all, and The Witness was tempting him, I thought of it. Like Anakin becoming Vader.
@cptbuxbaum5 ай бұрын
This also brings us to the point that we may have received the powers of darkness from a member of the “Witness” who did not fully stand by him.
@TrepidDestiny5 ай бұрын
After years, we finally face our ultimate enemy. The mighty, the legion.... Oogie Boogie. We're going to rip at their seams, and the writhing mass will unravel.
@raptorprimal10775 ай бұрын
I wonder who was the first original precursor that even thought of the idea to create the witness in the first place, that is truly the most evil precursor
@Blakarot115 ай бұрын
“What was made, can be unmade.”
@Seeker_4205 ай бұрын
After the Mainquest from Beyond Light Zavala said "They say that they are our salvation. But we will be theirs"
@pokerus45115 ай бұрын
What if a person of great magic but limited fighting potential planted the seed of becoming the unified witness. Like a parasite that told an individual what to do to get others to join. Together the “Parasite” joins and is the main Voice/Drive
@richardthompson53635 ай бұрын
I think it’s something along these lines too. Maybe the Witness has never truly been a united being, but one individual tricking and/or dominating the rest. The first knife. This is out there but maybe that controlling individual isn’t even the a precursor. What if the ritual with the veil allowed the winnower (if it exists) to possess the newly created witness.
@dannykrakt7365 ай бұрын
I hope either the actual raid boss or the campaign ending fight is a singular individual after all of the other dissenters are freed. The true character behind all evil doing this whole time
@xXx_Regulus_xXx5 ай бұрын
I think probably most of the faction that wanted to make the Witness to begin with should be held responsible, but it has existed for millennia, so it's easy to imagine the less zealous ones changing their minds and wanting out.
@kingk48825 ай бұрын
Wasn't there this old concept art from Bungie with an alien race leaked as the Veil? They looked similar to the veiled race that merged to the Witness. And on top they used the Veil as the source of darkness... So this species from that concept art eventually found its way into the game.
@connoremerick74055 ай бұрын
There’s every chance I’m forgetting something, but it feels like the statues mostly just ask people to embrace darkness. I’m not sure if it was for the witness’ benefit or trying to get help lol
@Devastor20415 ай бұрын
It's somewhat funny that two of Bungie's greatest villains turned to be collectives of sorts.
@Elnato235 ай бұрын
Man Gabriel better win art of the week with that absolute masterpiece, really well done, great vid as always too man 👌
@Dubediton75 ай бұрын
What part do the nine add to this?
@carla.n.50785 ай бұрын
Personally, I think the Witness and its many voices are and were afraid of their own mortality and afraid of being forgotten. The final shape is just their means to put the universe on hold.
@sdkingz845 ай бұрын
I think the Witness kidnapped them somehow and they are reaching out to us now since we are within the Traveler and for us to fully free them we will with Prismatic which is light and dark to destroy him. All he is pure darkness and we are both but are able to control both as the Witness is still trying to fully control it.
@jaredhussey69685 ай бұрын
What if bungee pulls a lynch king? And our guardian or someone crow ikira whoever has to become the witness? Maybe they’re always has to be a witness or at least someone to control the darkness
@LAKush905 ай бұрын
What if at some point in this DLC all the guardians morph into one *LIGHT* like the *witness*
@idontlikeachu5 ай бұрын
Thinking of it now all the statues had such weird spots but I'd say the statues that were up high on pedestals almost like in the Europa pyramid and the moon were for the witness as a way of the witness being able to control the ship through the statue cause they all seem to talk through each other then other statues like the one in garden of salvation and the pale heart and the one in the red room in root of nightmares and in odd places could be the ones that got put in time out then all the other places could just be to be made example of or to keep an eye out or the witness is an artist who likes statues
@TommyGunnz265 ай бұрын
I think the witness as a full body is only there to make us sumbit by force, but i feel a lot of dissanters have their own tactics to tempt us to the darkness. It like when they merged, a lot of them had the idea of doing the final shape but some by different means. Maybe some take different tactics to draw us into the darkness. Some with power, some with riches, some with the dreams of being a god. But after that statue sound like it got upset and told you embrace the darkness little light, i stopped trusting any of them.
@sm5pac35 ай бұрын
does it make sense? I'm not sure the statue explanation makes the most sense in context of how we've encountered them prior to final shape.
@Rynobii5 ай бұрын
Yea we knew that hes scared when he keeps convincing us to join
@gabetrout99305 ай бұрын
I have a theory(spoiler warning), remember when the witness enrages and suddenly his voice becomes clearer yet enraged, what if that is the leader of those souls and as soon as many begin to doubt, we may see who the "real villain" of the destiny franchise truly looks like
@adapterchris30475 ай бұрын
They try to warn us
@devilghostface87985 ай бұрын
What is the anomaly though ? Could it be the black heard ? Or something?
@resher5 ай бұрын
The power of the Witness is the power of the Deep (Darkness/Winnower). The Witness is not the Winnower, rather as the prime servant of it.
@stew-035 ай бұрын
As Savathun said, it “wears the Darkness like a cloak”.
@THEMULTIVERSEMASTER5 ай бұрын
The thumbnail hits hard tho!
@taylorsps125 ай бұрын
do we know 100% that the statues are the forced to turn disenters? i interperated it as thats just the end result of the ritual he uses to become 1. like they all are statues but the statues likely hold their *fears and pain they cast away.* so their mortal bodies and so on are stuck inside the statue. and by destroying them it releases the emotions they locked away during the ritual making him vulnerable again. even the ones that believed and wanted to be part of him became statues. unless they became like rhulk. at least thats how i understood it at least.
@WillBillBilly5 ай бұрын
wow great artwork!!
@mizznekoxfeko105 ай бұрын
Nightmare fuel!
@forgottenvy5 ай бұрын
I can 1v1 this guy (Clears throat) (....remembers memory of deleting destiny 2) EXPECTO PATRONUM 😊
@vac595 ай бұрын
The witnesses is the Borg
@Dubediton75 ай бұрын
What is the opposite of the traveler and its purpose
@stevenschultz93235 ай бұрын
The veil
@Dubediton75 ай бұрын
😂
@Fantasygod9305 ай бұрын
Cool video and all but I want that cool picture of the witness I went into the guy twitter and artstation and I couldn't find it so could you please give me a link I know I'm a random guy in the internet but I really want that picture or download of it not for any malicious Intent I can assure you I just really like that picture
@EvazeOfficial5 ай бұрын
He will post it
@espectrodelayautja63205 ай бұрын
Bungie might be holding back stuff but prismatic is severely underwhelming. As predicted, the enemies disappear before it expunges or it does what all other classes already do. Much rather had a SIVA plague as a subclass.
@q8_cyber5 ай бұрын
Siva is not paracausal
@bignutty51805 ай бұрын
Siva as a subclass literally makes zero sense
@calus_bath_water5 ай бұрын
Worst take ever
@Cellardoor_5 ай бұрын
The Witness is a next level cult.
@codscientist48775 ай бұрын
Correct me if I'm wrong but does anybody else hear Riven's voice on few occassions, such as 0:47
@cy282x5 ай бұрын
The Witness is a Commie >A collective >Exiles/Bound/Purge Dissenters Therefore, Destiny 2 is a Commie hunt Simulator
@Astrapionte5 ай бұрын
I love your voice 😍
@EmTuu-v7b5 ай бұрын
sooooo....what is the veil? lol🤭
@stevenschultz93235 ай бұрын
Veil is darkness traveler is light
@bignutty51805 ай бұрын
The other half of the traveler
@HighTierExo5 ай бұрын
within first 43 seconds
@Levendula54485 ай бұрын
First
@am_rzq68195 ай бұрын
The thumbnail goes crazy! Is it AI generated??
@PokemonBigSad5 ай бұрын
No
@xXx_Regulus_xXx5 ай бұрын
artist's X account is onscreen at 6:14, it was painted digitally
@am_rzq68195 ай бұрын
@@xXx_Regulus_xXx thanks!
@stew-035 ай бұрын
The Witness looks badass in the artwork. I love it