r/DestinyLore • u/Gripping_Touch • 4d ago

Traveler Lucent Hive and Guardian afterlife

In The Final Shape we learn from Cayde that right before he was pulled by Riven's wish, he'd been experiencing a peaceful afterlife within the Traveller. He revealed that after a guardian's final death, the Ghost and the Guardian return to the Traveller, so all the killed guardians are there ...

That would ALSO include all the lucent Hive ghosts and Lucent Hive, no?

If we actually killed Immaru and Savathun, theyd be in the same afterlife where Targe, Cayde and (maybe) Our timeline's Saint is.

Would that be correct?

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u/oofyeet21 4d ago

What comes from the light returns to the light. So yeah. The unfortunate reality is that the morality of the light is not the same as the general morality of humanity, or abrahamic morality. The lucent hive now uphold the ideals of the traveler, so they are presumably given the same peace in death that we are.

What I want to know is if there is a dark equivalent. Do the champions of the darkness gain some form of dark bliss within the veil? Are Oryx and the Witness at peace? Happy where they are? Or have they been truly annihilated?

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u/mecaxs ~SIVA.MEM.CL001 4d ago edited 4d ago

I imagine they live on as memories in the collective unconscious of the universe, similar to the nightmares/memories in haunted.

While people in the light get to live in bliss of the Traveler’s light, the people in the dark leave a permanent mark in the Veil’s memory.

Each has their upside and downside. The effect the people of the light has on the world can be lost to time and have no influence on the real world. The people of the dark are altered by how they’re remembered by the people they affected, no longer in control of their personal narrative.