With the arrival of The Witch Queen, there’s now a mission that ends with us playing two truths and two lies with Savathun. One of those statements is that the Hive would not be the last race to get the Light. Now, while this could be false, this is one of the things I’m declaring as likely to be true, based on the trajectory of the overall story of Destiny.
One of the biggest surprise (unless you called it, like me!) was that Savathun had not actually stolen the Light for herself, she prostrated herself before the Traveler and she and her brood were given the Light. As such, as the Traveler fights for survival, it stands to reason that he might give the Light to other races, as the Darkness broadens its own influence.
So, here are the candidates, and how likely they are to get the light.
Scorn/Taken (0/10 likelihood) – I am putting these two in the same category as they are essentially nothing more than puppets of the Darkness at this point. The Taken are more an elemental force than a race at this point, and while the Scorn are familiar with dying and coming back to life, they are the primary agents of the Darkness right now, and if anything they’re only going to get more deeply intertwined with new experiments putting worms inside Scorn instead of Hive now.
Vex (2/10 likelihood) – The Vex have served as agents of the Darkness for a while now, and given how they function as a race, it’s hard to imagine what “giving the light” the Vex would even look like. They cannot die in the traditional sense, so why would you need a ghost to resurrect them? If I were the Traveler I would be extremely wary of granting that kind of power to a race that would probably figure out a way to wipe out all of existence, light and darkness both, if they got their hands on the one thing they have yet to be able to simulate.
Cabal (7/10 likelihood) – I mean, clearly at this point at least Caiatl’s collection of Cabal have proven that they are fighting on the “right” side of things, though it’s unclear if the Traveler may resent being caged by Ghaul when the light was actually stolen from his chosen people (us). That said, with heavy hints that Calus’s forces may be getting deeply involved with the Darkness and could receive power from them, it may make sense to arm Caiatl and her army with the Light.
Fallen (9/10 likelihood) – I mean at this point, the Fallen have put their time in. They even made “House Light” in honor of the Traveler. Mithrax, his daughter and his friends deserve the light at this point, and back in season of the Splicer, there seemed to be some lore passages that imagined Fallen gaining light powers. The Darkness already gave Fallen stasis, so it seems like it’s the Traveler’s turn to give them recompense for abandoning them.
One problem with this, however. While it may make story sense for Caiatl or Mithrax and their troops to get the light, from a gameplay perspective, we would probably need to have a reason to be fighting lightbearing Cabal or Fallen, the way we are with the Lucent brood now. It already feels weird enough we’re doing it with the Hive when we’re all supposed to be on the same side against the Darkness, but how would that work with other races? Caiatl gets the light and becomes corrupt with the new power, and we fight her to get her back in line? I don’t know, this is why game writing is hard. What makes sense for the story may not always make sense for on the ground gameplay. But we’ll see, and I do think in the end, this is a truth Savathun is telling us.
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