TRENCHWAY, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
Sloane: Be ready, Guardian. The Dreadnaught will try to push you out. Keep fighting.
The Guardian enters the Nether.
Drifter: Hit back, killer. Run 'em down.
THE MAUSOLEUM, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
Sloane: The Taken and Dread think this ship belongs to them. They want a new base of operations in Sol. Rip them out of the hull, every inch of it.
Xivu Arath: LIAR! HERETIC! YOU HAVE RAISED YOUR BLADE TO ME AND I WILL RAISE MY OWN.
HALL OF SOULS, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian explores the Nether after defeating the first boss.
Sloane: Eris' killer in somewhere on the Dreadnaught. A Taken subjugator... I don't know who's doing the Taking now, but that's a problem for another mission. Let's hit this first. We left this place to rot, like a bad memory tarnishing Saturn's rings. Not a smart call, and it cost us too much.
THE FOUNTS, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian enters the Nether.
Sloane: Taken power is pulsing through this place. It's... alive. Breathing.
The Guardian defeats the final boss.
Sloane: Transmatting you out, Guardian. You fought hard, but the Dreadnaught fought back. If we're going to do this, then we need to change our tactics. We need to adapt.
HALL OF SOULS, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian explores the Nether after defeating the first boss.
Sloane: When Ikora heard what happened… Rage. It was rage. But she couldn’t just abandon the Tower. So Ikora sent us as her rage, Guardian. Let’s do her justice.
THE MAUSOLEUM, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian explores the Nether after defeating the second boss.
Sloane: The Dreadnaught’s always been dangerous. Any fireteam we send in takes on tremendous risk. The Vanguard kept it monitored, but bringing Oryx’s flagship under our control? We’d never hold it for long enough to matter. Well… sometimes, you do the impossible. You just have to cinch up your armor straps and get to work.
The Guardian defeats the final boss.
Sloane: Eris always did whatever she set her mind to, regardless of the risk. And regardless of who told her no. I can respect that, but that risk gets an edge when you encounter something you’re not ready for. We can’t let ourselves be caught off guard again. We’re going to peel this place apart until there’s nowhere to hide another ambush.
The Guardian explores the Nether after defeating the first boss.
Sloane: Drifter. You and Eris were close.
Drifter: Not anymore. She’s dead.
Sloane: That’s all you have to say?
Drifter: That’s all.
Sloane: This was hard on all of us. You know you aren’t alone, right?
Drifter: See, that’s the thing, Thunderguns. We try to distract ourselves from it, but… we’re all alone.
THE ASCENDANT PLANE
The Guardian explores the Nether after defeating the second boss.
Sloane: I don’t believe we’re all alone, and neither do you. We’ve built a community in the City.
Drifter: Not my community. There’s no use putting my life on the line for it.
Sloane: Stop throwing chaff. You choose that community, every day. It’s why the loss hurts. Why it demands justice. So we take it and put that justice between us and our enemies.
Drifter: I’d envy you… if you weren’t so damn gullible. Justice! Does justice keep your heart from collapsing? No! Never does.
Sloane: You finish, and she’s still just gone.
TRENCHWAY, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian defeats the final boss.
Sloane: This isn’t what she would have wanted. You know that.
Drifter: What do you want? Some kinda sappy confession? I don’t do those! I’m not gonna say she made me a better person! That wasn’t on her. I am who I am! And I sure as hell ain’t gonna say, “She’s in a better place.” She fought to live! I saw it, in her eyes! She trusted me, and I failed her. That’s it! She’s dead! And I’m done talkin’.
The Guardian explores the Nether after defeating the first boss.
Drifter: Whenever you dust a Taken, they get sent back to the Ascendant Plane; then they come right back to fight again. Only good thing is, they couldn't Take anymoe. Now they can, and no one here knows why.
HALL OF SOULS, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian explores the Nether after defeating the second boss.
Drifter: Here's something big about the Taken: they need someone to tell them what to do. Oryx, the Witness... bet Mara could grab 'em, too, if she wanted. Hell, even I can get ahold of 'em for Gambit. So, I got a question for you, killer: Who told them to murder Eris?
The Guardian defeats the final boss.
Drifter: Eris wouldn't have wanted you to quit. And she didn't want me to quit, either. Probably why she said what she said. Keep us strong. I dunno if I... coulda been stronger. I died too. I... Only difference is that... I could wake up. To this. You know... you're the closest thing I got to a friend. Ain't that the saddest thing you ever heard?
THE FOUNTS, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
Nether Mortem - Objective- Destroy Hostile forces or WIPE
Sloane: Stay focused, Guardian. Don't let your fear overwhelm you.
HALL OF SOULS, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
Nether Mortem - Objective- Destroy Hostile forces or WIPE
Sloane: Taken suffocation. Control your fear, and find the source.
TRENCHWAY, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian readies to fight Lezrel, Eversion Channeler
Objective- Disrupt Eversion Ritual
Drifter: That Eversion Anchor is readying up! It's gonna spit out Taken all across the system!
Sloane: More Eversion Anchors. Shut it down, Guardian.
HALL OF SOULS, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian readies to fight Herald of the Weapon
Objective- Defeat the Subjugator
Sloane: Sterile neutrinos. The Dreadnaught's weapon systems are engaging.
THE MAUSOLEUM, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
Objective- Defeat the Taken Cluster Keeper
The Guardian readies to fight Kelrosh, Spawn Keeper
Sloane: The Hive have established a breeding ground. Clear it out, fireteam.
Sloane: You riled up the nest's caretaker. Put it in the ground.
THE FOUNTS, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
Objective- Banish the Taken entity
The Guardian readies to fight Hashon of Endless Horrors
Sloane: A Taken Chimera. Send this thing back to the Ascendant Plane.
Sloane: Taken converging on your position, Guardian. Be ready.
THE MAUSOLEUM, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian defeats Kelrosh, Spawn Keeper
Drifter: Taken, Hive, Dread... don't matter to you, does it? Ha!
Sloane: Every enemy you put in the ground secures our hold on the Dreadnaught. Keep pushing.
Sloane: We've got this area cleared. Resume operations.
HALL OF SOULS, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian defeats Herald of the Weapon
Sloane: Done and done. Keep moving, fireteam.
TRENCHWAY, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian defeats Lezrel, Eversion Channeler
Sloane: We have this sector locked down. Keep digging, fireteam. This place is a maze.
THE MAUSOLEUM, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian enters the Nether (Act I, Week 3)
Echo of Navigation: Heir presumptive. You have returned to my throne.
Echo of Navigation: My Dreadnaught tests you, heir-presumptive. Show me your sharpness.
Echo of Navigation: Heir-presumptive, I make you sharp so that you may continue my logic and uphold my law. You will take up my mantle and become me. You will remove everything that can be removed. And you will bring extinction to your enemies, as I brought extinction to mine.
Echo of Navigation: I am told that in my last life, I had a son. Crota, my sister tells me, came to your only moon and hollowed it with his throne. When you destroyed him, I brought my Dreadnaught to bear my High War upon this system. Is that what drove me here? Sentimental revenge? A waste of my logic. The dead deserve extinction.
HALL OF SOULS, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian defeats the final boss (Act I, Week 3)
Echo of Navigation: What other heresies did I entertain as the years unfolded? What else, besides my death? Xivu Arath fails to test her strength out of fear of her own mortality. She wants me to turn away from our logic out of liar’s love. In my resurrection, I only see her failure. Hers, and mine. In you, I see the strength I had that can endure forever.
The Guardian defeats the first boss and enters the next area (Act I, Week 3)
Xivu Arath: WHY DOES OUR BROTHER REFUSE TO PICK UP HIS SWORD ONCE MORE, IN FLESH AND BONE?
Echo of Navigation: I spoke to the Deep. If I truly died, then I am dead. Aiat. You followed a charlatan into heresy and lost your edge. What truth can you offer?
Xivu Arath: AN UNWORTHY SPEAKER, PUNISHED. A FALSE IDOL, UNSEATED. AND I WAS DETHRONED. AND YOU WERE DEAD. WHAT IS BEHIND IS TAINTED. WHAT IS FORWARD IS TRUTH. TITHES, AND SWORDS, AND ORYX, OUR KING.
THE FOUNTS, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian defeats the second boss and enters the next area (Act I, Week 3)
Xivu Arath: YOU ARE HERE, WITH ME. WE MAY RETURN TO OUR PATH. WE MAY REJOIN OUR CONQUEST.
Echo of Navigation: Then test me, sister. Destroy me. Are you afraid that you will fail? Or are you afraid you will succeed?
THE FOUNTS, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian defeats the final boss (Act I, Week 3)
Xivu Arath: BROTHER! YOU WOULD LAY DOWN YOUR EXISTENCE FOR AN UNWORTHY SUCCESSOR! YOU WOULD MANTLE A LIAR. WHY? I WILL NOT LET YOU!
Echo of Navigation: We agreed: if something greater comes to destroy us, then we do not deserve existence. I must be what I am, and I am defeated. My logic is true. This is proof eternal. And yet you deny it. That, sister, is heresy.
THE MAUSOLEUM, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian defeats the first boss and enters the next area (Act I, Week 3)
Echo of Navigation: Knife of My Slaying, you walk these halls as heir-presumptive. Answer.
Sloane: The Guardian doesn’t want it. Doesn’t NEED it.
Echo of Navigation: This is what they are. There is nothing else they can become. The ruthless will drag them down to die, unless they become so. Unless they become free.
THE FOUNTS, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian defeats the second boss and enters the next area (Act I, Week 3)
Echo of Navigation: Taken, yet you retain your will. Sword-bearer, Knight of the Deep. You defy your king.
Sloane: I’m no Taken, and you’re no king. The universe is more complicated than you think. That’s why you failed, and your legacy died with you. I barely remember your name.
Echo of Navigation: Hm. So you say. Yet here you are, vying for the remnants of my kingdom.
The Guardian defeats the final boss (Act I, Week 3)
Echo of Navigation: The halls of my Dreadnaught are filled with the gleeful exploration of knives. They descend as I descended, carving their names into the Deep, where dead worms speak sharp truths.
Sloane: Is that some sort of challenge? The Guardians killed you once, Oryx. They’ll kill you again.
Echo of Navigation: Let us discover that end together, then. Aiat.
THE MAUSOLEUM, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian explores the Nether. (Act I, Week 3)
Sloane: Guardian. I mentioned that there's a new influence on the Taken. Like feedback over a comms channel. It's been getting stronger, and gaining clarity. Like a radio signal gradually tuning in. I didn't want to mention this until I was sure but... it has a familiar rhythm to it. A cadence. I'm not sure how, but I'm afraid a Dread commander gained access to the Taken. Keep this between us for now. I don't want to raise alarm unnecessarily. Just... keep your eyes open.
TRENCHWAY, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian explores the Nether. (Act 2)
Eris Morn: The Dreadnaught is filled with terrors. Do not be afraid; staunch them at their source!
HALL OF SOULS, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian readies to fight Herald of the Weapon (Act II)
Objective: Defeat the Subjugator
Eris Morn: Guardian! You must disempower the Dreadnaught's systems before its weapon can be readied.
THE MAUSOLEUM, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
Objective: Defeat the Taken Cluster Keeper
The Guardian readies to fight Kelrosh, Spawn Keeper (Act II)
Eris Morn: The Taken corruption spreads to the Hive's spawn! Remove the infection and destroy its caretaker!
HALL OF SOULS, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian defeats the final boss (Act II)
Eris Morn: Well done, Guardian. Each blow dealt to the Dreadnaught holds the line against our enemies.
TRENCHWAY, THE DREADNAUGHT, RINGS OF SATURN
The Guardian explores the Nether (Act II, Week 2)
Eris Morn: Sloane. Drifter tells me that you confronted him in the wake of my sudden absence.
Sloane: I may have lost my temper, but... He abandoned his post. That doesn't bother you?
Eris Morn: It troubles me, yes. But he has returned to us, and to our goal. I believe that is what matters, regardless of what drives him. When all was lost, he sought the only thing he thought would give him comfort. Escape. When escape did not comfort him, he returned to face his guilt. I will not judge him for it.
The Guardian explores the Nether (Act II, Week 2)
Eris Morn: Oryx’s return instigated a grand schism in the Hive. They are shaken. They entertain the first doubt, the oldest doubt. They call it the “Entaoxuanna.” The doubt that will destroy them. The doubt that will undermine their core philosophy. Whatever happens must be so, but what must be so, is poison. Their king was slain, but his mantle went unassumed. Now he returns as a sword: wormless, resurrected, and without the strength of his brood. There is no greater heresy than this. His sisters know it. He knows it. And so, in this, Oryx wishes to begin again.
The Guardian explores the Nether (Act II, Week 3)
Sloane: You know, Drifter kept me grounded when I came back from Titan. I was surprised he left.
Eris Morn: Once, he would have killed himself again and again to avoid feeling a thing like grief. He has grown, but we can all fracture.
Sloane: We need to be able to absorb hits like this without backsliding. How can we be sure he won't walk out again?
Eris Morn: We cannot. All we can do is trust and heal.
The Guardian explores the Nether (Act II, Week 3)
Sloane: Losing you broke him. I should have realized how bad it was. I'll give him time.
Eris Morn: We all recoil sometimes when challenged. I have done the same. Isolate, throw myself into danger. Wallow. Rage. Is running worse than self-immolation?
Sloane: You did something with your grief. Helped humanity.
Eris Morn: It is grief all the same. That it did not inspire sacrifice in him is not a fault. Grief is a knife clutched in a closed fist, and he used it to harm himself. We must extend grace. That is all.
The Guardian explores the Nether (Act II, Week 3)
Drifter: Hey, Eris. When you got all Hive-like to take on Xivu, I knew you’d be there when the job was done. I don’t doubt you now either, but… maybe you hang out back from now on. I can’t take that again. Please.
Eris Morn: Your worry is sweet, but unnecessary. In my absence, I did not mean to cause such grief.
The Guardian explores the Nether (Act II, Week 3)
Drifter: I know you have your shiny new immortality palace, but… That’s just it. You’re bringing Oryx there. And I trust you, but…
Eris Morn: You trust, but you fear. I understand your guilt. But I would have been aboard the Dreadnaught with or without you.
Drifter: But I WAS there. And then I woke up to a world without you.
Eris Morn: There is no blame for my death… nor your surviving it. I woke to a world of my own. Put down your fear, Drifter. You do not deserve such a burden.
The Guardian explores the Nether (Act II, Week 3)
Drifter: Keepin’ the Echo locked down is tough. I ain’t gonna tell you what you can and can’t do. Still, it could go sideways fast. But I’m here if it does. And so in Thunderguns. Taken King won’t one up us. I trust us. I trust you. We’ll get it done. And after…
The Guardian explores the Nether (Act II, Week 3)
Xivu Arath: SISTER! YOUR TRICKERY WOULD HAVE DENIED THE LIARS THEIR LIGHT. YOUR CUNNING COULD HAVE DENIED THEM THEIR SKY. YET YOU OPPOSE ME. YET YOU REFUSED THE FINAL SHAPE. YOU COURT EXTINCTION AS YOU INDULGE HERESY.
Savathûn: Aren't you tired, sister? That sword logic must be so heavy. I know you'd put it down, if you could. Don't you want to be on the right side of the blade when it falls?
The Guardian explores the Nether (Act II, Week 3)
Savathûn: I needed you off the board, little sister. I knew that you would hide and lick your wounds without your throne. It kept you from invading the Traveler. It kept you away from the Witness' failure. Now I can extend a hand in familial love. Now that you need protecting, I can protect you.
Xivu Arath: YOU REFUSED MY LOVE WHEN YOU GUIDED OUR HERETIC-SISTER TO HER THRONE. I REJECT YOU.
The Guardian explores the Nether (Act II, Week 3)
Savathûn: You were lied to, Xivu. Just like Oryx. Just like me.
Xivu Arath: YOUR WORDS LED US TO THE DEEP. YOUR CUNNING BROUGHT US POWER. NOW YOU ASK US TO RELINQUISH IT? NOW YOU AKS US TO TURN AWAY FROM THE LOGIC THAT HAS HELD US SINCE WE TOOK OUR MORPHS? REMEMBER, SISTER: WE WOULD HAVE BEEN EATEN AS PREY. WE WOULD HAVE BEEN DROWNED BY THE GOD WAVE.
Savathûn: That was long ago. Now look at it this way: unless you escape this game, you'll be worm good. And no one wants that.
The Guardian fails to defeat the Hostile Forces (Act II, Week 3)
Drifter: That's it, bringing you back. Head in when you're ready, hero.