Destiny 2: The Witness's Origins Cinematic

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So basically the traveler traveled and the witness witnessed.

Can't believe a seasonal cutscene explained The Veil and everything else more than an entire DLC.

Normally I avoid leaked stuff like this but considering how astronomically hard Bungie dropped the ball with Lightfall’s story I was done waiting.

Wow. The fact that this cutscene is able to explain in less than 4 minutes what Lightfall wasn't able to convey in its entirety, is absolutely astonishing. There is an astronomical mismanagement of writers/writing within Bungie.

this cutscene was way better then all of lightfall campaign story

Ok, so let me see if I got this correctly, 1.) The Witness isn't some elder god from the beginning of the universe, it was once an entire race of aliens and is the first race to find the traveler and be uplifted by it. 2.) This race worshipped the traveler as a god; however, despite the traveler granting this race gifts of power and knowledge, they craved to understand their purpose in the universe, so they set out in their pyramid ships to find the answer. 3.) The race found The Veil, which is the Darkness’ version of the traveler, a “dark mirror,” as Xur put it. After studying the veil, the race learned that the traveler, and by extension, the light, is a form of chaos and change, which can provide life and cause death and destruction. 4.) The race saw this power or change as a curse that only leads to suffering, so they decided to use what they had learned by studying the veil to steal the traveler’s power, or its “pale heart,” to reshape the universe so there would be no life or death, no suffering or change, just complete nothingness. 5.) Obviously, the traveler fled from them. So in order to be powerful enough to pursue the traveler and defeat it, this race sacrificed themselves on mass and combined their essence into a singular being, The Witness. 6.) So the traveler keeps hopping from planet to planet, hoping to find a race that can defeat the witness once and for all Edit: Damn! well thanks for all the likes guys, I’ll see you stateside!

This fully explains how the Witness is so powerful, too. If the Darkness is found in consciousness, then melding an ENTIRE RACE into one being would definitely do wonders for enhancing that power.

Finally the Statues found in the Pyramid ships have been explained. They are the symbol of the Final Shape. A Veiled (Darkness) Female (Gardener/Light) - literally what the Witness wants SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMP

But has the witness ever been faced with a 4th times target lock retrofit + witherhoard

This at least explains why the Pyramids are empty, which has been my biggest complaint with the Pyramids was the lack of some other race that was not the ones we’ve known. Essentially the lost 5th race is literally the witness, except it’s just bonded into one being. 😅

What an extremely good cutscene, The Traveler basically creates the evil against it and The Witness is the entire first race that the Traveler looked over, fascinating

THIS is what we should've had in Lightfall. We should've been shown this cutscene in Lightfall and probably the biggest complaint of the campaign would've been negated.

Xur has been telling us since D1 that the traveler has a dark mirror. This is the veil.

So it’s not Pyramid Ship versus Big Ball—it’s half ball versus big ball. It’s crazy that the pyramid fleet is more of a token to what the traveler was rather than an anthesis.

honestly, if this cutscene was displayed near the start of the lightfall campaign, almost the entire DLC's story would've been saved, it provides motive to the witness, tells us the mcguffin (the veil) and explains why the hell we are on neomuna at all

This is giving me Mass Effect vibes where all the civilizations in the galaxy that were harvested had their own Reaper. I wonder if Final Shape will involve something wild like our guardian becoming the complete embodiment of the light, absorbing all of the light bearers into ourselves to become an entity just like the Witness...and then the two of us start the game all over again.

So... The Witness is basically the Antispiral. Alright, I see you Bungie, I know what's up

This civilization..is billions of years old..

These cutscenes art styles are so brilliantly done!!!!