Year 4: Taking the Fight to the Darkness
Fine, so if Bungie is insistent on having the Darkness arrive in this next season, Year 4 must be when we turn the tide, stop the bleeding, and start pushing the Darkness back, or possibly even defeat it.
While it’s safe to say the Darkness will be heavily involved in Year 4 – I’m not really going out on a limb there – trying to figure out to what extent is pure speculation. Your guess is as good as mine.
Personally, I’m thinking this is like a Negan/The Walking Dead kind of moment. The Darkness is going to show up in Destiny 2 and be a major part of the story for the foreseeable future. I don’t see it wrapping up within the confines of the vanilla Year 4 expansion pack. By the end of Year 4 though? That’s possible, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
Teaming Up With the House of Light
I do foresee this intriguing story thread finally being pulled at. There have been so many hints towards a revisiting of Siva, Eramis, House of Judgment and just the Fallen in general over the last few seasons in various lore tabs. Not to mention they are kind of just “due.”
It’s just time for them to be involved in the plot again somehow and having this civil war that involves the three main players (Mithrax, Variks, and Erami) take place seems like the most obvious way for that to happen. I restructured this, just double check it still make sense from a Destiny perspective
It would be a worthwhile diversion for a season if Bungie wanted to give us a break from fighting the Darkness directly, if the goal is to get a faction of Fallen on our side to help us in the war.
Year 4+: Calus or Savathun or Uldren Finally, Maybe Do Something
The late game of the war against the Darkness probably will involve at least one, if not all of these people. I’d say Savathun is the least likely to show up, as Bungie might want to save her to be the big bad villain when the Darkness storyline finally comes to a close, but yeah, I’d bet good money on the other two finally showing up.
Calus has to show up right? What else would bring Calus into the fold if not the Darkness? Calus is obsessed with the Darkness, and his lavish lifestyle if fueled in part because he believes the Darkness will win and he wants to unite everyone (or whoever is left after stamping out any resistance) under his rule and just enjoy our last years, months, or even days that we have left in luxury. This bit is confusing – it might be the “his lavish lifestyle if…”
As for Uldren, I truly have no idea what his deal is. He just appears to be wandering around aimlessly trying to figure out why everyone hates him. The only reason I bring him up is because Mara is likely to reappear in some significant way in this Darkness saga and that will probably loop the Uldren thread back into the main story fold as well.
How did I do? Like my predictions or am I totally off? Let me know in the comments below.
