Destiny 2 Lore - About 20 minutes of analysis of the Pale Heart Trailer. Secrets in the Traveller.

Byf vs. Kelgorath is the true final battle in TFS

I can't wait for WTF moment when Cade sees Crow, Caiatl, Savathun, and Mithrax

The Memory of Kelgorath back again for vengeance HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON, OLD MAN?!

I think that crow opening the door for us opens the door for EVERYONE in Sol, so Xivu's armies follow us, savathun's lucent brood enter to study and experiment with the light, and our allies come to reinforce us.

I just noticed something extremely cool that I've never heard mentioned before! Look at the Witness' forehead closely. See the checkered pattern? Some of the squares are filled in and others are hollow. Its the flower game literally tattooed on its forehead!

For the damaged statue at about 7:45, there is already at least one damaged veiled statue in the game. In Root of Nightmares, the statue in the room past the tormentor that guards the first secret chest, if you drop down in the red room you'll see the statue is floating with the bottom broken.

Important note! The annihilator totem is glowing with arc energy, rather than the standard fiery solar darkness energy. It's very possible this is the first time we've seen a Light powered annihilator totem, thanks to Savathun's experiments.

I feel like, if Savathun really is there, she might be there only as an ally of opportunity. She doesn't want the final shape to be enacted, so it would make sense if she pledged her troops to this, but only at this moment. As the old saying goes: the enemy of my enemy is my friend

I'm surprised nobody is talking about the voice shouting "Enough" at the end. It's almost certainly the Witness growing frustrated, but the way the voice trails off sounds...very different. Just struck me as curious.

At this time, I’m reminded of the Early Cut version of the Destiny 1 Intro, and it actually explained why the Astronauts came with guns. Humanity detected a Alien Ship Crashing on Mars, so weaponized Astronauts go to check it out, they encounter “The Witch” which looks like a White-Blueish Humanoid being with white gear and a white-blueish Raghu robe. They say in an alien language ”The Traveler is coming. Everything you know is about to change.” The Traveler then began causing Rain on Mars, the Witch touches a drop, and disappears… I’d love it if they ended up bringing back “The Witch” as a Light-Version of the Witness. It could be the Female voice we heard in the last trailer! Video Starts at 2:31

The Mithrax frame is strange - as you pointed out a few videos ago, Mithrax specifically says he can't go with us in the autograph book. So is he somehow able to get in at the final battle? Is he just fighting out in Sol? Is it a memory? Very interesting.

I still have my wish/hope that Savathun goes the revive oryx while we’ve been busy and we see all 3 siblings together, and the biggest hope is that all 3 siblings get revenge against the witness for lying to them and using them

2 things interesting to note about the weird looking ogre clip: 1. There seems to be some sort of cloaked figure on top of a rock arch that the guardians go through. Who is that? 2. The aforementioned guardians are using the Aegis. How did it get there? Is it a memory or the real shield?

I hope the veiled statue person shows up in a cutscene at the end of everything like when we first saw the Witness

I've got an idea for what the covered statues could be. For a while I was thinking that they were representing a Humanoid personification of the traveler, but I think they might actually just be the one precursor that got away. The collectors edition lore books talked about two precursor that mimicked the gardener and winnower, one joined in the merging while the other left. I think the voice In the trailer is that precursor who has been hiding in the traveler trying to help stop the final shape and the covered statues were made by the witness to remember that precursor.

There is also a different looking tormentor in the trailer, that may be Nezarec. Remember that his voice persists after he dies and tells us he will live on in our memories, the pale heart is shaped by memories

The enemy variety in the Pale Heart is nuts!! We have seen Hive, Scorn, Taken, Shadow Legion and the Dread

I was looking to see if you’d done a more recent deep dive of the prophecy dungeon lore after seeing this, but couldn’t find one. The dungeon appears to foreshadow more and more as time goes on. The cube room’s shifting orientation appears here in the trailer, the colour palette of the moonfang armour sets (and rainbow road) is reminiscent of the prismatic subclass. The multiple platforms in the kell echo boss room is similar to the platforming sections showcased in the final shape trailers, which makes me think it might be implemented in the final boss fight against the witness in the raid. Perhaps we’ll have to choreograph damage phases around moving platforms. We already know we’ll have to use light and dark together in combination, as implied by the light and dark motes. I really think there’s more to it than we realised.

The witness screaming “enough” At the end hit different.

The appearance of the leaders of our allies showing up makes me hope for one of two things: 1. An Endgame style final battle montage where all the power of our side is brought to bear on the Witness' forces. 2. Some new public events that when you turn then heroic one of our "hero" units joins the fray; Zavala with a supercharged shield, Ikora blasting things with void; Mithrax and the splicers stunning enemies; Caiatl calling down a few royal guard and charging into the fray, and Savathun calling down a few Lucent Wizards and zapping the battlefield with arc to stun and destroy the forces of the Witness. :)