Everyone knows Destiny 2‘s Saint-14 as the shining hero of humanity. But a new video now gives you a real bad conscience and depicts the Titan as a ruthless monster and allegedly even a baby killer.
This video has been found: The Season of the Splicer is only 2 weeks old. Players have now found a cutscene in the game data that will only be shown in-game later in Season 14. This video casts a whole different, much darker light on the “greatest Titan ever lived”, that is Saint-14.
Since the video itself is not yet live, we issue a slight spoiler warning here. Anyone who does not want to see the disturbing image of the hero has been warned.
For us a hero, for others the murderer of innocent babies?
A chilling picture is drawn: In the video, Mithrax, the leader of the Fallen House of Light and our ally who significantly helps us fight the Vex in Season 14, speaks.
His people, the Eliksni – known to us Guardians as the Fallen, were abandoned by the “Great Machine”, that is the Traveler. Then a creature appeared, driven by hatred. One sees then how Saint-14, depicted as demonized, lifts fleeting Eliksni and breaks their spines. His appearance increasingly resembles a monster.
Subsequently, we hear that Saint could not quench his bloodlust on the battlefields and even haunted the most innocent Eliksni. Considering that we have recently seen the Fallen with their sweet and defenseless babies, Saint-14 could indeed be a child killer, for who would be more innocent? The video also shows a mother trying to flee with her babies in the foreground.
It is then mentioned that this immortal monster drags its victims into its dome to stake and strangle them. The video ends with the frightened Eliksni staring at Saint-14 and Mithrax mourning that they have to see their tormentor every day in the Tower. The Eliksni must learn to live with it if they want to survive.
The innocent and especially super-sweet Eliksni babies are so popular with the Guardians that they will soon also be available as plush toys:
Destiny 2 gives us a bad conscience
The shocking thing is: The horror story about Saint-14 is well known to us. His iconic helmet is so dented because he smashed the skulls of Fallen like a production line. Yet these are for us the glorified tales of a hero who saved humanity.
We players have helped the hero of humanity in the past to exterminate Fallen and used the protection of his Light dome while doing so. And then we practically brought Saint-14 back from the dead so he can now stand in the Tower, where he loves to feed pigeons.
However, we ourselves have countless enemies on our conscience; in the first Destiny mission, we directly exterminate half a Fallen tribe. Of course, we as players did not raid villages or do worse, but only defended ourselves against aggressive opponents.
It is quite interesting how we appear to our enemies. Destiny 2 holds up a mirror to us and shows that behind the aliens there are not just heartless scoundrels, but their own sensitive peoples. What for us Guardians are the horror stories of Oryx and Crota, who slaughtered countless allies, are for the Fallen we Guardians – and especially Saint-14.
A visit to the Eliksni camp requires a strong stomach
Did you listen here? Right at the beginning of Season 14, we helped Mithrax get his people to safety in the Last City. Since then, they have been sheltering in the ruins of the old raid “Scourge of the Past“. They have set up a refugee camp there.
We see makeshift cots, too little space, and mothers with children fearing for their existence. In the conversations there, we learn more about the history of the Eliksni and how hopeless and homeless they are.
But the Fallen are also willing to survive and want to forgive humans. We hear that not all humans are the same, just as not all Fallen are the same. Both peoples must learn to coexist – so Eido, Mithrax’s daughter.
Fortunately, peaceful coexistence is already somewhat working. In the Tower, we see some Eliksni helping human technicians investigate the Servitor technology.
What do you think about this – do you see the Guardians and especially Saint-14 in a different light now? Do you find it an exciting approach how Season 14 shows us other sides than those dripping with pathos of hero stories? Or do you say the Fallen are enemies and Destiny would be pretty boring if you couldn’t shoot at anything? Let us know in the comments.
If you have always wanted to know what the Eliksni actually say in their native language, you will find it here: After 3 years, we finally know what our opponents say to us
