Just over a month has passed since the Destiny 2 expansion Forsaken was released and the curse in the Dreaming City has begun anew. Unlike the usual Weekly Reset, the city’s cycle is explained through the story.
The three-week cycle of the Dreaming City has been reset this week. The city now looks as it did before the first victory against the final boss of the raid “Last Wish”. Unlike the Weekly Reset, however, the repetition of tasks in the Dreaming City is incorporated into the Forsaken story.
Reset has strange effects
What is going on with the Dreaming City? The Dreaming City of the Awoken is in a three-week cycle. Each week, the city’s corruption by the Taken increases, only to recede again and start anew.
What effects does the reset have? The city now looks as it did at the beginning – before the curse was pronounced. A beautiful fantasy world, where the Taken only appear sporadically.
The greatest effect of the reset, however, is on the NPCs: Petra Venj is back on the beach, but remembers that we fought the Taken and the city now looks like it did three weeks ago.
Characters in missions comment that they knew exactly what would happen. However, they couldn’t act differently than they did three weeks ago.
Reset as part of the story
How cleverly is the cycle explained? Bungie has incorporated the reset into the main story this time. If you are not done with Forsaken yet or do not want to learn about the endgame, you should not read any further!
The story of the Dreaming City is closely intertwined with the lore. In short, here’s what happened:
Riven was kept by Mara Sov as a “pet” in the Dreaming City. Before the Guardians could defeat Oryx in the Destiny 1 expansion The Taken King, he sneaked into the city of the Awoken and corrupted Riven.
After Oryx’s death, his sister Savathûn took control of Riven. In exchange for her freedom – death by the Guardians – Riven fulfilled one last wish and cursed the Dreaming City.
What’s the deal with the curse and the cycle? Savathûn, like all members of the Hive, follows the religious principle of Sword Logic. The Sword Logic adheres to the law of the strongest, but for the Hive, it’s an extreme: The Hive eliminate those who cannot defend themselves and feed on their subordinates.
Savathûn, the Deceiver, is now using the curse of the city to strengthen herself: In the three weeks, her Taken either take over the Dreaming City, leading to death and destruction, or the Guardians fight the Taken, also leading to death and destruction. No matter what we do, Savathûn will always grow stronger.
By the way, the three-week cycle was conceived by Savathûn’s daughter Dûl Incaru together with the Vex Axis Mind Quria. Quria was manifested by the Vex to study Oryx but was corrupted by the King of the Taken.
Players assume that Dûl Incaru must be defeated to break the curse and free the Dreaming City.
What do you think of the story? Do you like that the reset of the city was incorporated into the background story?
