Season of the Seraph is the final season for year 5 of Destiny 2 and will ultimately set the stage for the events of the upcoming expansion, Lightfall. Players must work alongside Clovis, Ana, and Elsie Bray, Mara Sov, and Osiris to reform the AI Rasputin after being dormant since The Witness’ Black Fleet arrived in Season of Arrivals. Players must also stop attempts by The Witness’ forces to claim Rasputin’s dormant arsenal and wealth of data to use against The Last City and uncover information that could shape the future of the galaxy.
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Week 4 of the season saw players finally restore Rasputin, who can directly communicate with players for the first time, and expose Clovis Bray’s intent to upload and take control of Rasputin systems to become a “machine-god,” himself. It resulted in a confrontation between Ana and Clovis Bray, with Clovis claiming he has humanity’s interest at heart and questioning the motives of The Traveler, especially in the wake of The Witch Queen. Clovis’ motives appeared to hit a chord with Reddit user EyeInTheSky127, who felt Clovis’ stance on the Traveler isn’t wrong.
Since the events of The Witch Queen, Bungie’s narrative team has introduced several elements meant to call The Traveler’s motives into question. Players could argue the biggest among these was The Traveler gifting Savathun the Light and making no effort to defend itself when Savathun attempted to seal it off inside her thrown world. Bungie also offered additional details on how quickly The Traveler abandoned the Eliksni, the other races it uplifted and ultimately abandoned to The Witness, and how it seemingly waited to the last possible moment to save humanity from extinction during the Collapse.
The aforementioned plot details about The Traveler’s history make it understandable why EyeInTheSky127 would side with Clovis, however, it can also be argued Clovis is not much better. Clovis’ own history of using The Witness’ power was on full display in the Deep Stone Crypt raid, showing he has no problem tapping into dangerous powers if it advances his own goal. It now becomes a question of who players can actually trust and, given Clovis’ motives, if he will attempt to bring them to fruition before the end of the season.
Destiny 2 is currently available on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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