I was looking through some old artwork... (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Tuesday, June 30, 2020, 19:19 (1613 days ago) @ Claude Errera

...and I ran across what might have been used as the inspiration for the Tree of Silver Wings (released during GDC 2013, more than 7 years ago):

https://destiny.bungie.org/galleries/gdc2013_concept_art/d/11

It's intriguing where they're mining for new content!

One of the things that's always intrigued me about Destiny is just how much of the content has been around since the beginning. Like how the Iron Lords or Seven Seraphs were just the names of guns or an odd faction symbol that Bungie made shirts of for themselves years and years before they became part of the story. The Tree of the Silver Wings, likewise, has been around, in game, since The Dark Below attached to the Titan Exotic Ruin Wings.

In the Garden grows a tree of silver wings. The leaves are ruin, the bark disaster. Of the seeds we do not speak.