I really hope someone makes an anime of the stories of both The Last Word and Thorn. I want to see them in movie form so badly!

Which makes me happy because maybe Natela Tamaya Murk's use of Light without dying first fits...

I always pictured her as a normal citizen of the Last City, perhaps someone who didn't accept being confined behind the walls, and was living out in the world. But now that I really think about it, I'm not sure that makes much sense, as the I don't get the impression that The Last City is anywhere near the Cosmodrome, so that would be quite a journey on foot. Which doesn't make it impossible, just less likely.

I don't think I have that grimoire :(

Or maybe the Traveler pulled your consciousness from a different point in time to stick in your newly materialized body.

I've been mulling that as an answer to how Awaken characters can be found in the Cosmodrome, given that there were none before the collapse and I gather none fled to Earth until considerably later.

-- Steve could be way wrong on that, though.

Taken King also plays a lot with the idea of dimensions and perceived realities, and machine consciousness. Maybe at some point during the Golden Age, anyone who's now a Guardian had scanned or uploaded their consciousness to some database? Or maybe the Traveler pulled your consciousness from a different point in time to stick in your newly materialized body.

Maybe in the Destiny universe, there is another dimension for the consciousness of dead people? We've seen frequent references to Thanatonauts who presumably enter this other realm. A ton of the flavor text on year 2 warlock gear references things like "where we were before it brought us back".

Besides, if the nine were confident we would win, they could have pointed oryx in our direction to get rid of him.

The Ghost is, in effect, carrying our death.

Except that we never took any action to "put our death" in our Ghost. We were already dead when the Ghosts were created. Do the Ghosts take our death and prop us up with Light?

I feel like I'm over-thinking it at this point.

Which raises a related question; when the Dreadnaught arrived over Saturn, why didn't the Nine intervene?

Well, you're assuming they have enough power to intervene with the Dreadnaught's fleet. You're also assuming they didn't, which, to be honest, is the more interesting thing to wonder about.

We still don't really know anything about the Nine or what's beyond the Jovians. Xur certainly doesn't look like anything produced by the Light.

Which raises a related question; when the Dreadnaught arrived over Saturn, why didn't the Nine intervene? I don't think any political entity would be happy to have a major naval battle right in their backyard.

-- Steve's got a lot of questions about the geo*politics in Destiny.

* If that's quite the right prefix...

I dunno where I'm going with this. I hope they explore this more in upcoming content.

You know, it occurred to me when this thread popped up that maybe the Awoken are actually all bound to worms like the Hive and Ahamkara but I dunno. Maybe the worms aren't the only thing in the dark.

They're almost certainly not the only things. All signs point to the Traveler being a small beacon of light in a vast sea of darkness. There are almost certainly stranger things out there, and definitely more powerful ones (since we've already defeated the Hive, and video games tend to get more difficult over time rather than easier).