Well, Destiny 2’s Revenant episode certainly…existed. Now that Act 3 has arrived, the story of the extremely long episode has finished, told in a very unfortunate way where about 90 minutes of story content was released every six weeks or so. It proved to be not exactly most coherent way to unravel a plotline.
I feel like I need to recap what exactly happened here because it has been hard to follow along and I know a lot of people just gave up.
- Scorn undead boss Fikrul got his hands on a powerful “Echo” object that shot out of the Traveler after The Witness died.
- That Echo allows him to turn living Eliksni into Scorn, not just dead ones.
- Mithrax is currently suffering from Nezarec’s curse from a while back, and his daughter Eido is looking for a potion-based cure.
- Crow tries to confront Fikrul, but Fikrul believes his father to be only Uldren, not this “imposter,” so needless to say there’s no truce.
- Fikrul brings back a bunch of dead things including Skolas from Destiny 1, who we promptly kill again. This week, he brought back a bunch of Forsaken Scorn bosses. He never actually transformed any live Eliksni who mattered.
- Eramis ends up in the middle of this and we catch her and put her in jail, only to free her later as Eido thinks she’s the only one who can find Fikrul.
- Eido develops a potion that will separate Fikrul from his Dark Ether allowing us to give him a true Final Death instead of him coming back to life every few months.
- Once this happens, Eramis and Nezarec Mithrax both go for the Echo staff, but it “chooses” Eramis. She then uses it to blast the Nezarec straight out of Mithrax as that’s a thing that can happen, apparently.
- Eramis’ plan is to take a bunch of Eliksni and return to the Traveler-destroyed Riis to rebuild her homeworld and “never see us again,” which she seems thrilled about. I can’t say I’m sad about it either.
The problem with this story was not necessarily the events, but how it was told given the jammed-together release schedule. This resulted in bizarre situations like hopping back and forth between characters and holoprojectors multiple times five feet apart, or things like the story of Act 3 this week being to run the exotic mission literally three times back-to-back. Then there were just weird, buggy moments like a “freed” Eramis still being locked in jail consulting with a lawyer for the duration of Act 3. All of this is due to these weekly story moments being smooshed together at what appeared to be the last minute.
The Riis reveal, at least, seems to have given us a hint at what might be coming in Frontiers. The planet itself is shown, a rarity, and we know we are leaving the system to go to new worlds. The new worlds in question no doubt are many of the ones from the lore, including places like Vex, Cabal and Hive homeworlds/systems. And now, Riis, the Fallen/Eliksni homeworld. Even if Eramis doesn’t want to see us again, it stands to reason there may be some disaster or threat where she reluctantly calls for our help. This may not be the Frontiers Year One location added, but it seems likely down the road. We’ll see.
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