The Black Garden and the Undying Mind

[Sennex 1,903]

More Lore stuff. Its a shame that we have to dig the internet for this shit and its not in the actual game.

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Now the First ever mention of the Black Garden within Destiny was actually not from The Exo Stranger. It actually came from Lakshima-2. One of her sayings is "A trillion timelines, and all at war. Like a thousand red flowers growing in a black garden." This is pretty good tie in to the Theme of the Future War Cult and to Vex having the power to Travel through time.

 

The Warlock Pujari of the Pujari Position went to some lengths to try to figure out what was going on in the There. These are his words. I am Pujari. These are the visions I have had of the Black Garden.

 

The Traveler moved across the face of the iron world. It opened the earth and stitched shut the sky. It made life possible. In these things there is always symmetry. Do you understand? This is not the beginning but it is the reason.

 

The Garden grows in both directions. It grows into tomorrow and yesterday. The red flowers bloom forever.

There are gardeners now. They came into the garden in vessels of bronze and they move through the groves in rivers of thought.

 

This is the vision I had when I leapt from the Shores of Time and let myself sink:

 

I walked beneath the blossoms. The light came from ahead and the shadows of the flowers were words. They said things but I will not write them here.

At the end of the path grew a flower in the shape of a Ghost. I reached out to pluck it and it cut me with a thorn. I bled and the blood was Light.

 

The Ghost said to me: You are a dead thing made by a dead power in the shape of the dead. All you will ever do is kill. You do not belong here. This is a place of life.

The Traveler is life, I said. You are a creature of Darkness. You seek to deceive me.

 

But I looked behind me down the long slope where the blossoms tumbled in the warm wind and the great trees wept sap like blood or wine.... and I felt doubt.

When my Ghost raised me from the sea there was a thorn-cut in my left hand and it has not healed since.

 

Now lets break this down. Pujari says the Traveler Moved across Mars, which is referred to as an Iron world. Mars red color comes from all of the Iron Oxide in the Atmosphere. The Traveler then began to Terramorph the Geological structures and Created a new atmosphere that could support life. You can even see this in the beginning of Destiny. However, he's careful to point out that "This is not the beginning but it is the reason." The Traveler did not create the Garden, but it's actions may have allowed the Garden to come into existence, because "In these things there is always symmetry." He also points out that The Vex, the bronze gardeners, occupy the area. While on Venus at the Shores of time he drowns himself to let his conscience try get more information. This is actually a known warlock practice of being a Thanatonaut. Trying to get more information while the conscience is in a state of Death.

 

He has some strange visions and has a short conversation with what looks like a ghost. He believes the ghost in the vision is trying to deceive him into thinking Guardians are evil but the experience leaves him with doubt. On Venus Pujari's ghost brings him back to life, but the incident left a mark on his him both physically and I would bet mentally.

 

Many times I have been with my fireteam and before entering a new room I have said "Ok lets kill everybody in the next room but remember, we're the good guys". Now much as there is symmetry to the universe there may also be symmetry in Violence. To have that vision in a place that extends both forward and backward through time is food for thought.

 

Beyond the towering Meridian Bay gate lies the Black Garden, adrift in time and space. And within the Garden dwell the Vex of the Sol Divisive, frozen in rapture. There is precious little insight into the Divisive's behavior. They seem central to Vex actions in the solar system: the Garden is clearly a place of enormous power.

 

Legends and field reports all indicate that the Divisive Vex behave religiously. Why would a hyperintelligent, time-spanning thought mesh exhibit religious behavior? The answer seems as obvious as it is chilling: if the Vex found worship and devotion more effective than any other behavior, they would adopt worship. Whatever the Vex found - or made - in the Garden, it transcends even their power.

 

Now Your told The Black Garden is an actual place and not just some Legend by the Exo Stranger and on your quest the Queen of the Reef gives you information so you can gain access to the Garden. But why was the queen so helpful? She has no issue with the Vex and helping Guardians seems pretty low on her things to do list. Well it turns out she has interest on what lies within the Garden.

 

The Queen has a network of Small black Spy drones covered in sensors that resemble feathers. They are called Crows. The Crows were ordered to mind the Gardens gate and follow anyone who passed through. Guess who that was? Thats right, it was you. She wanted information and you unknowingly got it for her. The Crow reported back that The heart of Darkness had grown stronger, The Vex transformation had begun and that Sol Progengy were stirring. The Queen has an interest on the Shard of Darkness that had layed in the Garden. The same one that you destroyed. The Speaker had said "At last, the Heart of the Garden has been destroyed, its stranglehold on the Traveler released. Our Light brightens. But the power of the Vex is not broken. Look into the Vault, Guardian, for it is said to hold powers the Progeny were meant to bring forth."

 

Now if you watched my Story of Kabr and the Mythoclast your starting to get a good picture of what the Vex plan was. They were going to use what they learned to do in the Vault and use Black Garden to disperse it. The interesting part of this is that the Vex needed the Heart to activate the Progeney. So for this plan to work the Vex need the Darkness shard. So once you have Destroyed the Sol-Progeny, Destroyed the Heart, and beaten the Vault of Glass you have thoroughly set back the plans of the Vex.

 

Lord Shaxx of the Crucible had a good idea. In an area Designation called the Pantheon, fearing that the Minds which live within seek to return, he set up shop here so guardians could master the ins and outs of Vex-controlled landscapes and keep watch should any Vex find a way back. This is an Idea that paid off. The Vex returned.

 

Maya Sunderesh a scientist on Venus of the Ishtar Collective had an interesting theory. He had said “We are starting to believe that time is home to the Vex, and somewhere in those unmappable voids, dwell their undying minds.” Ikora Rey has warned “The Black Garden may not stay among us for long. Something has begun to repair the schism torn by its destruction. Vex now flood the Garden channels to protect it. We must stop the weavers before they seal the Garden and begin to summon back its heart.“

 

Well guys one of these Weavers has been named. Its known as the Undying Mind.

[TigerBurge 2,375]

That was a interesting read

[Sennex 1,903]

Going to post more as I find them. One of my biggest gripes is Destiny has NO backstory or lore. The need to go elsewhere for it is incredibly dumb and poorly planned.

[TigerBurge 2,375]

I've read a lot of the grimour cards. Tons of story in them. Just up to interpretation

[Diddums 4,350]

Bored at work today Bartacus?

[Sennex 1,903]

yea, pretty much, but still the stuff is cool to read