Focused Fire Chat, a Destiny Lore Podcast

Episode 27 brings Blue, Justin, and Willy back together (against the wishes of the evil forces of Skype and AT&T - which tried multiple times throughout the night to thwart their progress) to discuss the information that we have available to us on the three individuals who we know as the Vanguard Mentors. From a summary of the individual Mentor's past lives, to a rather heated argument regarding the previous Mentors who held the positions prior to the current generation of Mentors - the group walks through the information covered in the chat room and from the Grimoire. While the debate on who really owns the title of "master class" in Destiny is still certainly in motion - one thing can be for certain...Skype really wanted to mess with things. 

As usual, please let us know any feedback you have by or any questions that you might want us to start considering for our upcoming Lore 101 and Spinfoil Corner series by emailing us at [email protected] or on twitter @FocusedFireChat. Thank you again for giving our ramblings a listen!

Also, be sure to jump over to iTunes to give us a quick review on how we're doing. We are also available on the Destiny Community Hub app, if you use that app or would like to have quick access to a wide range of various informational sources on Destiny!

Vanguard Mentors Map

As noted in the show - please be sure to send any song requests for the after show segment to Justin on his twitter account, and be sure to use #justinsanerequest28 for us to make sure we see them all!

This mashup episode brings the Return to Orbit podcast hosts Jay and Mark together with Blue to chat about the recent Destiny update that released this week, from the potential secrets noted in a recent Kotaku article to a rough rundown of the new Grimoire information that was provided to the players. We even got a chance to hear Blue's introduction to gaming and how he stumbled across Destiny, as well as a brief glimpse in to the theory of what it means to be a Guardian within the Destiny universe and the nethervese that he touched on in the Focused Fire Chat's earlier episode this week (Darkness & Light). 

Special thanks to the Return to Orbit podcast team for the amazing chat - be sure to check their podcast out here and give them a follow here:

As usual, please let us know any feedback you have by or any questions that you might want us to start considering for our upcoming Lore 101 and Spinfoil Corner series by emailing us at [email protected] or on twitter @FocusedFireChat. Thank you again for giving our ramblings a listen!

Also, be sure to jump over to iTunes to give us a quick review on how we're doing. We are also available on the Destiny Community Hub app, if you use that app or would like to have quick access to a wide range of various informational sources on Destiny!

Episode 26 brings Blue and Willy together to discuss the slippery irreality of Darkness and Light within the world of Destiny...or at least to start the conversation of this massive undertaking. Touching on basic topics such as what are those Motes of Light we keep acquiring to a more detailed, Aristotelian theory on the nature of the Guardians by Blue - the duo try to touch on the majority of the larger theories thrown around in the chat this past week. And, to be fair - they do a pretty impressive job, considering that the deities of technology and the internet worked pretty hard to prevent them from succeeding. But patience and a fair amount of post-production editing creates success!

As usual, please let us know any feedback you have by or any questions that you might want us to start considering for our upcoming Lore 101 and Spinfoil Corner series by emailing us at [email protected] or on twitter @FocusedFireChat. Thank you again for giving our ramblings a listen!

Also, be sure to jump over to iTunes to give us a quick review on how we're doing. We are also available on the Destiny Community Hub app, if you use that app or would like to have quick access to a wide range of various informational sources on Destiny!

Darkness & Light Map

Episode 25 brings Blue, Justin, and Willy together to discuss the Black Garden, a central piece of the vanilla Destiny experience - and something which still, to this day, remains a mystery. What is the Garden? What does the Black Heart intend to use the Sol Progeny for? How does Paean fit into this week's episode? We know the really important questions you want us to answer. We manage to cover the chat's theories,as well as delve into some interesting trivia about the naming of some individuals connected to the Garden, a particular set of seemingly random armor, and even discuss those little "Vex ducks" that are seen on the Pantheon crucible map. 

Apologies for the spotty audio - some of the team was traveling this week, so we were relying on the amazing hotel internet for a connection, but Blue did his best to clean up the quality and trim out those pesky bursts of sound for you guys. 

As usual, please let us know any feedback you have by or any questions that you might want us to start considering for our upcoming Lore 101 and Spinfoil Corner series by emailing us at [email protected] or on twitter @FocusedFireChat. Thank you again for giving our ramblings a listen!

Also, be sure to jump over to iTunes to give us a quick review on how we're doing. We are also available on the Destiny Community Hub app, if you use that app or would like to have quick access to a wide range of various informational sources on Destiny!

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Black Garden Mind Map

Extra Lore 02 brings Blue, Justin, and returning guest Mel (Wind of the Stars) together to discuss a brief introduction to The Elder Scrolls games - something that is a rather large challenge, considering the sheer amount of information that is available on the series. Primarily focusing on the basic makeup of the game world, a very, very, very basic overview of the timeline and a decent conversation about the summary of the five main title games, the group actually manages to get through it. And Justin even has the energy to work in a small Dragon Theory, as well as an interesting challenge for our guest at the end of the episode.

Blue also would like to extend an invitation to anyone who is interested in continuing this conversation to jump into the chat - let us know that you're looking to help continue building out the mind map (linked below) and are also looking for a place to enjoy some great conversations about The Elder Scrolls!

As usual, please let us know any feedback you have by or any questions that you might want us to start considering for our upcoming Lore 101 and Spinfoil Corner series by emailing us at [email protected] or on twitter @FocusedFireChat. Thank you again for giving our ramblings a listen!

Also, be sure to jump over to iTunes to give us a quick review on how we're doing. We are also available on the Destiny Community Hub app, if you use that app or would like to have quick access to a wide range of various informational sources on Destiny!

WindoftheStars on Twitter

WindoftheStars on Twitch

WindoftheStars on Facebook

Elder Scrolls Mind Map

Episode 23 brings Blue, Justin, Willy, and returning guest, Uni, together to discuss the nature of dreaded Weapons of Sorrow - from the very basis of what makes up the Weapons to the overarching impact of the ideas of Sword Logic and what the theories behind the creation of weapons such as Bad Juju and Red Death could mean. The nature of the known Weapons gives us the means to build up some pretty interesting theories - though even the Paean champion himself is hard pressed to find enough spinfoil to build a bridge for his lord on this one. 

As usual, please let us know any feedback you have by or any questions that you might want us to start considering for our upcoming Lore 101 and Spinfoil Corner series by emailing us at [email protected] or on twitter @FocusedFireChat. Thank you again for giving our ramblings a listen!

Also, be sure to jump over to iTunes to give us a quick review on how we're doing. We are also available on the Destiny Community Hub app, if you use that app or would like to have quick access to a wide range of various informational sources on Destiny!

Unisys on Twitter

Weapons of Sorrow Map

Episode 22 brings Blue, Justin, and Willy back together to discuss the Cabal and the lore around this militaristic species. From delving into the historical tie-ins to Roman and Spartan military structure and culture to the introduction of the "Paean Trombone", the team goes through the majority of the Grimoire that we have available to us currently and breaks it out as much as possible. However, it wouldn't be right if we didn't have an appearance of some good old fashioned spinfoil or our "Paean Theory of the Week" as it has now been coined. 

As usual, please let us know any feedback you have by or any questions that you might want us to start considering for our upcoming Lore 101 and Spinfoil Corner series by emailing us at [email protected] or on twitter @FocusedFireChat. Thank you again for giving our ramblings a listen!

Also, be sure to jump over to iTunes to give us a quick review on how we're doing. We are also available on the Destiny Community Hub app, if you use that app or would like to have quick access to a wide range of various informational sources on Destiny!

Cabal Mind Map

Episode 21 brings Blue, Justin, Willy and a very good friend and one of our many resident lore gurus, Unisys together to chat about the lore surrounding the seemingly incomprehensible Vex. The team covers a lot of the basic lore before diving right into the deep spinfoil covered in the chat as well as some of the team's own theories. There is a lot of information that was covered in the earlier Vault of Glass episode, so be sure to also check that out as well! 

As usual, please let us know any feedback you have by or any questions that you might want us to start considering for our upcoming Lore 101 and Spinfoil Corner series by emailing us at [email protected] or on twitter @FocusedFireChat. Thank you again for giving our ramblings a listen!

Also, be sure to jump over to iTunes to give us a quick review on how we're doing. We are also available on the Destiny Community Hub app, if you use that app or would like to have quick access to a wide range of various informational sources on Destiny!

Unisys on Twitter

Vex Mind Map

Episode 20 brings Blue, Justin, Willy (now powered up by Red Bull), and a special guest and friend, WindoftheStars (a.k.a., Mel) together to chat about the lore surrounding one of the three races that we have the ability to experience the world of Destiny through, the Exos. The team dive straight into the Grimoire - pulling in weapons and armor, as well as the elusive Treasure Island book that belongs to one of our favorite Exos, Cayde-6 - and discuss some amazing theories from r/DestinyLore and from the chat. 

As usual, please let us know any feedback you have by or any questions that you might want us to start considering for our upcoming Lore 101 and Spinfoil Corner series by emailing us at [email protected] or on twitter @FocusedFireChat. Thank you again for giving our ramblings a listen!

Also, be sure to jump over to iTunes to give us a quick review on how we're doing. We are also available on the Destiny Community Hub app, if you use that app or would like to have quick access to a wide range of various informational sources on Destiny! 

WindoftheStars on Twitter

WindoftheStars of Twitch

WindoftheStars of Facebook

Episode 19 brings Blue and Willy back to chat about the lore behind two of the more well recognized names within the Destiny story, Dredgen Yor and Jaren Ward. While here there be no dragons, due to the absence of Justin, the pair make up for it in diving into the Grimoire to address the topics of identity and come to realize that not all are ready to go up against the test of time (see if you can figure out where the pair...becomes the one). 

As usual, please let us know any feedback you have by or any questions that you might want us to start considering for our upcoming Lore 101 and Spinfoil Corner series by emailing us at [email protected] or on twitter @FocusedFireChat. Thank you again for giving our ramblings a listen!

Also, be sure to jump over to iTunes to give us a quick review on how we're doing. We are also available on the Destiny Community Hub app, if you use that app or would like to have quick access to a wide range of various informational sources on Destiny! 

As promised, here are the links to an amazing reading of the Last Word and Thorn Grimoire cards (produced by Ghosts and Echoes from the Guardians of Destiny, from Guardian Radio):

- The Legacy of the Last Word and Thorn (Ghost Fragments: The Last Word, The Last Word 2, Dark Age 2, The Last Word 3, Thorn, Thorn 2, and Thorn 3)

- Ghost Fragment: Thorn 4