Destiny Audiobooks

Season of the Worthy released in March 2020 and has a reputation for being light on narrative - imagine my surprise when this release was even longer to run through than Dawn!The two lore books we got in this release - Felwinter and Trials & Tribulations - are joined by several substantial Weblore entries (Remembrance, Legacy Part 1 & 2, Maintenance Operations Log and What Gives Me Pause) and it was a lot of fun to break out some Rise of Iron music and start to prepare for Season of Arrivals. I hadn’t read the Legacy weblore in a while so it was a surprise to see the framework for what would later be used as the lore foundation of the dungeon ‘Spire of the Watcher’ (2022) be set out when Ana Bray explores a destroyed Pillory Bunker on Mars.
Timestamps:

• 0:00:00 0.00 - Introduction
• 0:00:32 1.00 - Chapter 1 - Felwinter
• 0:00:55 1.01 - The Liar - 9. SIDDHARTHA GOLEM
• 0:03:36 1.02 - Winter’s Guile
• 0:04:37 1.03 - The Liar - 1. The Beginning, Part 1
• 0:08:02 1.04 - The Liar - 2. The Beginning, Part 2
• 0:10:55 1.05 - The Liar - 3. The Name
• 0:14:03 1.06 - The Liar - 4. The Assailant
• 0:18:42 1.07 - The Liar - 5. The Bunker
• 0:20:44 1.08 - The Liar - 6. The Mountain
• 0:23:56 1.09 - The Liar - 7. The Warlord
• 0:27:16 1.10 - The Liar - 8. The Search
• 0:29:50 1.11 - The Liar - 10. The Discovery
• 0:32:39 1.12 - Felwinter’s Lie
• 0:33:56 1.13 - The Liar - 11. The Iron Lord
• 0:35:40 1.14 - Felwinter’s Helm
• 0:37:55 1.15 - Citan’s Ramparts
• 0:39:50 1.16 - Lord Felwinter
• 0:44:18 1.17 - Weblore: Remembrance
• 1:06:22 1.18 - Obsidian Wings
• 1:08:00 1.19 - The Liar - 12. The Lure
• 1:11:49 1.20 - The Liar - 13. The Mistake
• 1:14:40 1.21 - Rise of Iron Cutscene - End of the Iron Lords
• 1:16:40 1.22 - Worthy Quest: The Lie
• 1:18:33 1.22 - Worthy Quest: The Tyrant
• 1:22:44 2.00 - Chapter 2 - Worthy Seasonal Story
• 1:23:06 2.01 - Seventh Seraph Head
• 1:25:41 2.02 - Seventh Seraph Chest
• 1:27:54 2.03 - Seventh Seraph Arms
• 1:30:13 2.04 - Seventh Seraph Legs
• 1:32:08 2.05 - Seventh Seraph Class Item
• 1:34:27 2.06 - Weblore: Legacy Part 1 - Rust
• 1:45:08 2.07 - Weblore: Legacy Part 1 - Patina
• 2:09:39 2.08 - Weblore: Legacy Part 2 - Contingency
• 2:36:58 2.09 - Weblore: Legacy Part 2 - Acrimony
• 2:45:25 2.10 - Weblore: Legacy Part 2 - Descendant
• 2:57:47 2.11 - Worthy Opening Cutscene
• 2:58:32 2.12 - Worthy Opening Cinematic
• 3:01:17 2.13 - Worthy Quest: A Looming Threat
• 3:02:11 2.13 - Worthy Quest: Raising Our Defences
• 3:03:15 2.14 - Worthy Quest: Into the Mindlab
• 3:04:35 2.15 - Warmind Khanjali
• 3:05:32 2.16 - Worthy Quest: Seraph Bunker EDZ
• 3:07:26 2.17 - Tartarstan
• 3:09:04 2.18 - Worthy Quest: Seraph Bunker Moon
• 3:10:21 2.19 - Worthy Quest: Seraph Bunker Io
• 3:12:35 2.20 - Worthy Quest: Rasputin Rising
• 3:14:01 2.21 - Worthy Quest: Rasputin Full Power!
• 3:15:25 2.22 - Seasonal Event: Destruction of the Almighty
• 3:15:41 2.23 - Worthy Quest: Sister’s Vengeance
• 3:16:17 2.24 - Worthy Quest: United in Victory
• 3:17:21 2.25 - Weblore: Citizens of the City: Generations
• 3:22:05 3.00 - Chapter 3 - The Seed
• 3:22:28 3.01 - Trials & Tribulations - 1. Insti|gate|
• 3:26:58 3.02 - Trials & Tribulations - 2. Postexilic
• 3:32:05 3.03 - Trials & Tribulations - 3. The Cult of Personality
• 3:39:54 3.04 - Trials & Tribulations - 4. Reflections
• 3:44:59 3.05 - Trials & Tribulations - 5. [Ambition]
• 3:52:33 3.06 - Trials & Tribulations - 6. Beguiled
• 3:58:33 3.07 - Trials & Tribulations - 7. Nyctalopia
• 4:01:44 3.08 - Weblore: Maintenance Operations Log 30037
• 4:05:53 3.09 - The Summoner
• 4:08:02 3.10 - Astral Horizon
• 4:09:01 3.11 - Exile’s Curse
• 4:11:50 3.12 - Eye of Sol
• 4:13:39 3.13 - Tomorrow’s Answer
• 4:16:06 3.14 - The Scholar
• 4:19:03 3.15 - Worthy Teaser Cutscene
• 4:19:57 3.16 - Weblore: What Gives Me Pause
• 4:28:55 3.17 - Trials & Tribulations - 8. Idolatry
• 4:33:16 3.18 - Saint’s Vocation
• 4:34:25 3.18 - Trials & Tribulations - 9. In|spire|

The two lore books we got in this release - Constellations and The Pigeon and the Phoenix - are significant texts - the former gives us the most intimate look at the Traveler’s motivations ahead of whatever comes out during the Final Shape and the latter substantially fleshes out some major moments in the history of the Last City and the Vanguard.

I’ve split this episode into 4 sections:

1. The origin of the Speakers and the Last City
2. The origins of Saint-14 and Osiris and their actions before the events of Destiny the game
3. The period of time where Saint-14 was in the Infinite Forest
4. The seasonal story itself.

There are timestamps and a full list of all the entries used in the description below - I hope you enjoy.

Timestamps:

• 0:00:00 - Introduction
• 0:01:12 - The Dawn of the Last City
• 0:26:32 - The Rise and Fall of Osiris
• 1:50:28 - Saint-14 in the Infinite Forest
• 2:04:20 - Dawn Seasonal Story

This is the third in a series of videos taking the written lore & stories from a Destiny Release and reading them out kind of like an audiobook, with chapters grouping different stories into logical groups, and an attempt is made to put them in a broadly chronological order.

Content by Chapter:

The Dawn of the Last City

Book: Constellations

The Rise and Fall of Osiris

Book: The Pigeon and the Phoenix

Book: Constellations

Exotic: The Bombardiers

Weblore: The Accolade

Weblore: Vanguard Commander

Grimoire: Legend: Saint-14

Exotic: Saint-14’s Gray Pigeon

Saint-14 in the Infinite Forest

Weapon: Martyr's Retribution

Weapon: Steelfeather Repeater

Weapon: Breachlight

Weapon: Gallant Charge

Weapon: Line in the Sand

Weapon: Perfect Paradox

D2 Quest: Legends Lost

Weblore: The Accolade

Dawn Seasonal Story

Weblore: The Sundial

Weblore: Sisters

Weblore: Actions of Mutual Friends

D2 Quest: A Matter of Time

Weblore: Desperate Times

Artifact: The Lantern of Osiris

D2 Quest: The Sundial Activity Dialogue

D2 Quest: The Phased Object

D2 Quest: Corridors of Time Part 1

D2 Quest: Corridors of Time Part 2

D2 Quest: A Hero’s Welcome

D2 Quest: A Tour Through History

Exotic: Devil’s Ruin

D2 Quest: Exploring the Corridors of Time - Pay Respects

Weblore: Joining

D2 Quest: Bright Future

Book: The Pigeon and the Phoenix

Season of the Undying released alongside the Shadowkeep expansion in September 2019 and at just 70 days long is the shortest Season in all of Destiny’s history. Despite it’s length this season’s lore has some very deep cuts as it picks up a number of loose ends going back to Destiny 1 and also kicks off a year of expanding player’s knowledge about the events of the Collapse and the history of Destiny’s world.

Timestamps:

• 0:00:00 - Introduction
• 0:00:49 - The 227 and the Vault of Glass
• 1:02:14 - Undying Seasonal Story
• 1:13:54 - Rasputin & The Collapse

This is the second in a series of videos taking the written lore & stories from a Destiny Release and reading them out kind of like an audiobook, with chapters grouping different stories into logical groups, and an attempt is made to put them in a broadly chronological order.

Anything I have left out is because it does not relate to what I think were the main narrative threads, beats, goals or objectives of a particular release as far as I can tell - for example a lot of exotic armour during Shadowkeep had lore tabs that are there to give some colour to or reflect the characteristics of their specific Class and it’s relation to it’s exotic perks - there are exceptions such as The Bombardiers during Season of the Dawn and I always aim to include as much as I can without having to include a chapter called “Random, unrelated stories”.

This is very much a fan project by an amateur so please forgive any novice recording, voiceover, mixing and editing mistakes which I hope to repeat less of in the next one.

Images are generally taken from Press Kits, in-game screenshots and concept art created for Bungie. Music comes from Destiny OSTs that I’ve collected and supplemented with music from the Destiny Content Vault that has been archived by Last City Radio.

I want to thank everyone involved at Ishtar Collective, Destinypedia, Destiny Lore Vault, the DestinyLore subreddit and Last City Radio for their work that allows fan projects like this to exist, and as always to all the writers, artists, designers and developers at Bungie who create Destiny.

This is the first in a series of videos taking the written lore & stories from a Destiny Release and reading them out kind of like an audiobook, with chapters grouping different stories into logical groups, and an attempt is made to put them in a broadly chronological order. This is very much a fan project by an amateur so please forgive my (many) novice recording, voiceover, mixing and editing mistakes which (fingers crossed) I will repeat less of in the next one.

Timestamps:

• 0:00:00 0.0 - Introduction
• 0:04:25 1.0 - Chapter 1 - Moon’s Haunted Intro
• 0:04:56 1.1 - Eris’s Letter
• 0:06:08 1.2 - Codes & Procedures
• 0:21:50 1.3 - Luna Logbook
• 0:48:55 1.4 - Revelations
• 1:41:14 2.0 - Chapter 2 - The First Crota Fireteam Intro
• 1:41:49 2.1 - Grimoire & Pre-SK Items
• 2:06:26 2.2 - Luna’s Lost
• 2:30:02 2.3 - The Journey & Xenophage
• 2:36:35 3.0 - Chapter 3 - The Heresy Intro
• 2:37:27 3.1 - Cryptoglyph Messages
• 2:55:40 3.2 - Inquisition of the Damned
• 4:06:45 3.3 - SK Narrative Preview
• 4:28:15 3.4 - Letters from Eris
• 4:55:14 4.0 - Chapter 4 - Voice in the Dark Intro
• 4:56:30 4.1 - Grimoire & Pre-SK Items
• 5:30:17 4.2 - Kentarch-3
• 5:55:04 4.3 - Beyond & GOS
• 5:58:45 4.4 - Unveiling