#season of arrivals

[archivists-trove]

What Once Was / The Second Collapse - Taken as the occupied planets were removed from the sol system at the apex of the traveler's reformation.

#d2 #destiny 2 #season of arrivals #the darkness #pyramid #my screenshots

[thefirstknife]

Ok so i have to ask, i wasnt around for a lot of Arrivals, what was the Witness and the Black Fleet doing? Why did they come to the Sol system if to not conquer it? Very confuzzled

It's somewhat unknown to us as well, and was a major confusing point in-universe for characters. In Arrivals, the Black Fleet showed up and just kinda... stood there. They occupied several of our planets/moons and hovered ominously. The Witness was also unknown to us at the time.

Their major interest was the Tree of Silver Wings on Io. We are still unsure what the Tree is and what it means, but we do know a few things:

The Tree was planted by Osiris using the Seed of Silver Wings, in the Cradle on Io. He was told to plant it by Mara via Vance.

Osiris retreived the Seed from an unknown place at the edge of the solar system prior to the Fleet's arrival. He was directed by Rasputin to go to those coordinates because Rasputin detected the Fleet there. Osiris had a superbly wild experience in some strange dimension from which he retrieved the Seed. It's very unlikely he simply entered a Pyramid ship, and is far more likely that he was... in another dimension. Realm? Plane? Somewhere non-physical. It also appears that no time passed while he was in there, due to Sagira's comments. This is possibly relevant with the new hints from the devs about the Witness that I mentioned here (possible spoilers for Lightfall from a recent trailer, letting you know if you want to go in fully blind).

The Tree started as purely white, but got gradually converted into a more pyramidal hue and orange resonance effects due to the Pyramid ship beaming it from above. A Pyramid ship settled directly above the Tree.

The Tree was studied by Eris who received direct messages from the Fleet and interpreted those messages for us.

The Tree also shaped a special branch and gave us a gift in a form of a weapon: Ruinous Effigy.

Savathun used the help of her nephew, Nokris, to try and interfere with those messages and stop us from communing with the Black Fleet. This made Savathun even more of an enemy to the Black Fleet, but it was also not helpful to us because it was preventing us from understanding what the Black Fleet wants and why they are here. We had to fight her interferences every week.

At the end, the Tree was entirely consumed by the Darkness energy of the Pyramid and Io was taken away from our solar system.

The details about the relevance of the Tree, the Seed, the place Osiris took the Seed from and the full scope of what they wanted our planets for is still largely unknown. It's possible that we might get more about this stuff soon, given it's relation to the Witness and the way our planets were stolen, Witness' powers and reasons for stealing them and so on. I am also thinking that there's a possibility we will gradually get some of the planets back in a similar way to getting Mars back. Or perhaps even more expanded!

Getting Io back would be really interesting, as that would probably be a good opportunity to tell us more about what the Black Fleet and the Witness wanted with Io and with the Tree. The Tree of Silver Wings has a lot of strange connections and a lot of unexplained lore that we genuinely know nothing about. I hope we might learn more during the Lightfall year.

The Black Fleet essentially occupied the solar system in Arrivals, but it also seems like that wasn't the full bulk of the Fleet. It was a preparation, clearly aiming to take our planets away for the Witness' research on how it can come to the system as well. It feels like perhaps the Witness wasn't yet able to get here with the rest of the Fleet and the ones sent to us in Arrivals were the initial recon force meant to do something with the Tree and snatch our planets away. Savathun's interferences were most likely about Savathun doing her best to prevent us from acquiring Darkness powers or possibly even siding with the Darkness, as at this point, she was already a defector from the Witness and was actively defying them and the Hive. Merely weeks after this, Savathun snatched Osiris and infiltrated the City in disguise.

Arrivals also ended with the Traveler fully reforming itself, very likely in preparation for everything that was yet to come.

Highly recommending checking out Destiny Lore Vault's playlist with all story quests from Arrivals! Also this playlist features just the messages interpreted by Eris, Nokris' dialogues during Interference and the final quest bit where we get transported into the Pyramid. This playlist has dialogues from the seasonal activity, Contact.

#destiny 2 #season of arrivals #pyramid #darkness #tree of silver wings #savathun #ask #long post #looking back arrivals was really huge. there's still stuff we aren't fully aware of #especially in regards to the important of io and the tree #i'm really hoping we'll get more on this soon!

[pedanticauspice]

#destiny 2 #destiny 2 art #destiny the game #the emissary #orin #the nine #season of arrivals

[flowers-of-io]

Calamity Protocol

“The Traveler…” There is both awe and dread in Shinon’s voice. “It’s doing something. Healing itself, I think.”

“It can do that?” Runi spins in the air like a whirligig toy. “And why now? Do you think the Darkness—”

He cuts off. The civilians murmur in fear.

For the first time, Ór is afraid of dying.

Read on Ao3

#the first draft of this dates back to the night of the arrivals closing event... #big emotions and also i had stayed up till 4 am to witness it #anyway we're here now. #my fics #season of arrivals #the light #oc #ór #shinon-11 #cyle shao #runi #eris morning #sad man from the basement #bad coworkers #zavala #ikora rey #fireteam vanguard #traveler #destiny 2 #destiny 2 fanfiction

[laurarolla]

NODE.OVRD.AVALON

So, Destiny 2 dropped a mission that actually opens like one of the old-school secret missions.  No hints, no warning, just find something strange and investigate.  Awesome stuff.  But it does raise a few questions about some of the events and the nature of the Vex network.

We enter the network as Misraaks’s request, and travel through, doing some platforming and fighting some really rough battles with vex swarming while inputting access codes (easier to enter than the ones in the campaign, thankfully).  As we go along, we see effectively data ghosts of Asher Mir, and they disappear when you approach them.  He’s not entirely part of the network, it seems, but living in it, sneaking through and manipulating security for us.  As the final encounter, we are treated to the return of none other than Brakion, the boss of the Pyramidion strike from Io before the planet vanished at the end of Season of Arrivals, with Asher having gone down into the Pyramidion to collapse it, preventing the witness from having direct access and seemingly sacrificing himself in the process (second best self sacrifice of the season, because Brother Vance’s lightless blind trek to seal the infinite forest damn near makes me tear up everytime I think about it). So... if we finally kill Brakion this time, does it stick?  Is the vex network similar to the ascendant plane regarding the nature of Vex consciousness?  If not, is it ever actually possible to truly destroy a Vex if they are connected to the network?  The Undying Mind, Panoptes, and Quria are generally considered dead for good, and while Quria was killed in the network, she was a special case due to being part Taken.  Undying Mind was killed in the Black Garden, and Panoptes was killed inside the Infinite Forest.  Do the vex just... not ever actually die? Also, did Asher bring us into the network for one last moment of vengeance against Brakion, or was that just a nice bonus in addition to what he really wanted us to find?  Regardless, I’m glad to see the seasonal stories getting follow-up, and this seems to support the return of Titan and Sloane for Season of the Deep even more now.

#destiny 2 #destiny 2 spoilers #asher mir #brakion #vex #vex network #season of defiance #season of the splicer #season of arrivals

[xivu-arath]

Let us speak of the hunger of all growing things.

Or: Omen-5 is given the Seed of Silver Wings to deliver to another, and awakens it instead.

The seed is in xyr hand. It should not be, because it had been stored under Boon’s care before xe went to sleep.

No, not the seed, but maybe its remnants. The coil of it has flattened out, spreading and reaching blindly backwards.

#destiny ocs #omen-5 #my words #the seed of silver wings #mild body horror #plant horror #season of arrivals #here it is!! first half of seed fic! #very surprised I got it in before end of year #december having the bulk of my writing is... something

[cold401]

- Arrival

This drawing is a scene from Destiny 2s Season of Arrivals trailer. This was always my favourite part of the trailer because it really depicts how terrifying these ships are.

Also the trailer is terrible quality because YouTube hates the colour black in videos so I wanted to make a high quality version.

#destiny 2 #destiny art #pyramid ship #pyramid #season of arrivals #arrival #season #Jupiter #IO #space #ominous #creepy #horror #bungie

[shesareb3l]

Was experimenting and aiming for some kind of abstract-y look with these. Originally created when Season of the Arrivals dropped in Destiny 2.

#destiny 2 #destiny 2 fanart #destiny the game #destiny fanart #destiny traveler #destiny pyramid #abstract #destiny #season of arrivals #artists on tumblr #reb3ls art #my art #testing the cross post to twitter... #traveler #pyramid

[speaker-of-the-void-cats]

Working on a response to an ask I got and thinking back on a bunch of stuff just before Deep hits. This piece I wrote at the end of Arrivals came to mind. It was a summary of the year, but also about spending time in those places, looking at them differently while the Pyramids loomed overhead, and feeling "these places are being taken from me and I don't know why." Always liked this closing, informed by that being the year covid hit too:

And then I was somewhere else. A vision? Something of the Darkness; Humans and fallen and cabal, all bowing to a Pyramid. The Darkness reminded me of what it once said: In Light, there is only weakness, only failure, only death. But where the Light takes, the Dark gives. No longer will you be a pawn. No longer will you watch the lives of those you care for be lost. In Darkness, there is only strength, only victory, only life. This whole ordeal feels as though it should’ve been over now, but it is not. The days feel like weeks and the weeks like months. It constantly feels both like the end is near and like there is no end in sight. Right now, we’re celebrating the Festival of the Lost, celebrating Eris’ fireteam and Cayde and all the others we’ve lost. The Festival has extra weight this year. We’re donning our masks and taking part in the festivities despite what looms above. Sometimes it feels like we’re hiding in these masks, ignoring what’s coming, but Eva says this is good for us. That’s part of what the masks of the Festival show us, she says. We can be strong on the outside, even if we’re frightened within. I hope she’s right. We’ve faced so much this year, but it’s only the beginning. I’m sitting under a tree on Io as I write this. It’s a tree that’s tucked into an alcove near the Lost Oasis. For years, I never knew it was here, but when I found it it became one of my favorite spots. It’s so cozy here, peaceful, but even here I can’t escape. I can’t see the Pyramid hovering over head from this little hideaway, but I can feel it. I feel its corruption growing. Soon, this place will be lost; I may never see my tree again. But I’ll keep fighting, hoping that one day I’ll be back. I don’t know what’s coming or when, but it’s cresting the horizon. Could be one week, maybe two, but it’s soon. And every time I think of that uncertain future I remember something Eris told me once: The Pyramid takes advantage of our collective pain. We will not succumb. Do not succumb. Keep fighting. Be brave.

Titan coming back brings up so many of those feelings from that season, feelings that I don't think can be replicated because it happened to us in real time, we felt the loss of those places in game and in real life... and now we're going back. It's a really cool, unique feeling, I'm hyped, let's gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

#destiny 2 #destiny #destiny the game #season of arrivals #season of the deep

[aduckwithears]

The way Crowley automatically starts toward the bookshop, then has to do an about face for the coffee shop.

Little things to love about Good Omens S2 (17/?) - Masterpost

#crowley.exe having some problems with change #aziraphale =/= bookshop does not compute #good omens s2 #good omens meta #little things #a duck talks #a duck gifs #good omens 2 #good omens #crowley #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #the arrival #good omens season 2

[archivists-trove]

Blight of Interference - Photographed at the edge of Nokris' refuge, imminently prior to the disappearance of IO.

#d2 #destiny 2 #season of arrivals #nokris #taken #Io #my screenshots

[mindlessly-dying]

#911 abc #911 #ryan guzman #buddie #clowning season has arrived

[tizzymcwizzy]

what do you do when you look into your father's eye and all you see reflected back at you is a damned, broken boy

it's finally finished,,, man i spent so long on this holy cow djdbhdgbf i first started this back when clouds on the horizon aired and only just finished it, but im really happy with it!! :D ive never done something this complicated, and at that paint it all as well

also here's some closeups and the full background,

#it was originally supposed to be that moment that luz says the actual line but then i got carried away #i really like this one but it took so long jfc i need to either speed my process up by like 1000% or just not do things this ambitious #also idk if i ever mentioned this but i arrived safely on vacation! im chillin :)) #the owl house #the owl house season 2 #kings tide #toh #emperor belos #philip wittebane #hunter #toh hunter #gus porter #luz noceda #my art

[flowers-of-io]

Destinytober 2022 - 3. New Lights and 5. Artifact

(I did draw them in October but getting them scanned was... a longer process when you don’t have a printer at home lol.)

#destinytober #destinytober22 #lucent brood #hive #eris morning #season of arrivals #my art

[pianokantzart]

Oh! Hello Luigi! Hello Princess! What's that you're holding? Oh, this?... ask Mario.

#My art #Super rushed but have a bit of mareach for the season #With an actual background! 😲golly! #Mareach #super mario brothers #super mario bros #mario #princess peach #luigi #I headcanon that Christmas was a thing in the Mushroom Kingdom before Mario and Luigi arrived #but naturally both worlds have different customs #and Mistletoe is one of those things Peach is yet to know about #piano can art

[xivu-arath]

things you said 6, mayhaps with omen? :D

things you said... in the shade of a tree

“How is your hand?” Eris asks. They are again beneath the Tree of Silver Wings, but both it and Omen are much changed. The pale branches curve ever more tightly inward, but they are tarnished now. Something murky ripples over and within them.

Just looking at it makes xyr hand hurt, sharp and pounding.

“Tolerable,” Omen says, extending xyr arm to show her. “But it is still growing.” The bark approaches xyr elbow now in thin, scraggly layers. Where it first took root is now smooth and dense to the touch, nigh-impossible to pry at. There are still outcrops of growth though, sprouting from xyr knuckles and over xyr fingertips. “How are the Seeds?”

“Serving their purpose well,” Eris says. “But not unharmed.”

“It’s dying.” Drying up as if starved of water and good soil, just as xyr arm cannot seem to stop growing. A balance wrested apart. “Will they wither with it?”

She frowns, looking up at the closely furled branches with xem. Still and brittle, somewhere between metal and bone. “That remains to be seen. But it is likely. Yours may well be the only survivor.”

Omen cannot help curling xyr hand when speaking of it, as though proof of its existence may still be needed. It no longer creaks and splinters no matter how xe flexes it. The question of how much of xyr original arm is left beneath the bark occurs to xem often, but after the first time, xe isn’t eager to cut into it again.

“So much could have been learned.” Still could be, if this last wayward seed was not so entangled with xem.

“Do you resent it?” One of the several reasons Omen visits Eris of xyr own volition – she asks questions with answers that require digging for them, that provide clarity in the search.

Nor does she mind letting that question hang as xe thinks. She is not troubled by Omen’s silence, or xyr stillness. It is a comfort.

“No,” xe says at last. “I have... regrets. Lowering my guard and failing in my task. I regret that these will all die, and the remnant is bound to me. But it could not be anticipated. No one could have known.” A rare flash of insight as to why she is asking, more surprising because Boon does not have to guide xem to it. “None can be blamed for it. Not I and Boon, nor the Tree, nor you for leading me to it.”

She makes a low, thoughtful noise. “My regret is that you did not emerge unscathed. But even unwelcome changes can... have their uses.”

Omen has managed not to ask what she is capable of seeing, but xe often wonders.

“If it becomes a hindrance, you will tell me?”

Xe might not have told her to begin with, if failing to deliver the Seed had not required it. If it had been up to xem alone – but it never is, and xe cannot begrudge Boon for contacting her, or Ikora later. Since that is the course xe is set on, keeping to xemself now would be pointless.

“I will,” Omen says, and it becomes a promise.

#oh wow it's a writing prompt from this last year even #new record for timeliness #omen-5 #eris morn #season of arrivals #my words #destiny fic