In Destiny 2 the encroaching Darkness is no longer a distant noise. It stands right at the door of the Guardians and wants to sell them the paracausal downfall. And as if that weren’t enough, you as a Guardian are also insulted again by a grumpy scientist who should actually be dead. Have you discovered him yet?
What have players discovered in Lightfall? The new expansion reveals more and more of its secrets that one could discover after the campaign.
- New collectibles in the form of Cloudstrider figurines have been discovered
- Strand apparently revealed its full potential earlier than planned and is fun now
- Additionally, there were several exotic quests
- One revealed a machine gun that is perfect for mob control
- The first heavy glaive with the element Stasis could be unlocked
- And a pistol that causes nasty laughs in PvP, because it shoots mean around corners
Besides these obvious tasks, well-hidden messages have also been revealed. As players could now decipher, the Sparrow “Inner Track” from Season 20 contains a grumpy Morse code. But that’s not all. The important message was simultaneously an insult that immediately evoked old memories.
Secret message leads to the grimmest NPC from Destiny 2
Players decode Morse code: It took a while to discover the message and to decode the hidden Morse codes within it. But the Destiny community cracked the code, and the message revealed the following in the end:
STILL ### ALIVE ### INSIDE ### THE ### NETWORK ### IDIOTIC ### KIDS
was the decoded Morse code in the Sparrow “Inner Track”
After this insult, long-time Destiny 2 players immediately thought of the grumpy, ungrateful Vex scholar who once called them “assistants” on IO and should actually be dead. His name is: Asher Mir.
Who was Asher Mir and what happened to him? Asher Mir may not have been a hero in Destiny 2, but he was certainly grumpy in dealing with Guardians. And that’s exactly why they found him so cool. But when the dark Pyramid ships first arrived in the solar system in Season 11, it was the end for Asher Mir.
Since back then, as now in Lightfall, there was little to counter the mysterious power, the planets Mars, Mercury, IO, and Titan were evacuated before they could be consumed by the Darkness. Bungie transferred the contents into the player-hated content vault, which locked away beloved content and caused a lot of discontent.
- Ana Bray, then NPC vendor for Mars, managed to flee the planet just in time and save the last remnants of the Warmind Rasputin in an engram.
- Sloane, the NPC vendor from Titan, was less fortunate. She apparently did not survive.
- Brother Vance, NPC vendor from Mercury and a crazy follower of Osiris with his own cult, likely sacrificed himself for his research in the Infinite Forest.
- Asher Mir, the NPC vendor of IO with the Vex arm, barricaded himself in the Pyramidion and blew up the entrance. This way, the Darkness was deprived of the opportunity to claim important information from the Vex.
Since then, these planets have disappeared into darkness and are no longer accessible. Only Mars returned here and there as time dilation.
Offensively popular: However, players and fans of Asher Mir never gave up hope that the grumpy old man somehow managed to survive. And that despite the fact that he always insulted them, constantly complained during strikes, and every now and then told them how stupid they really were because they didn’t know about Radiolaria.
Was Asher the friendly Vex Harpy? The first suspicions that Asher Mir might have survived the attack of the Darkness arose for the first time in Season 14. There, players were observed from a distance by a friendly Harpy during the last override mission.
Asher Mir lives and now exists in the Vex network
Season 20 in Lightfall now brings players assurance. The old man actually made it and now exists as a copy of himself in the Vex network.
Players can even see him already when they speed through the new mission Sub-Zone: Restart. He appears unexpectedly in various places and then disappears again. But you have to take some time and look closely, as this clip shows:
So writes player BIONICforge Studios on YouTube:
Asher Mir was one of my personal favorite characters when Destiny 2 was released. I still miss the old man. I couldn’t be happier that he’s still around!
comments BIONICforge Studios via YouTube
Whether this will be Asher Mir’s only appearance in Year 6 of Lightfall is still unknown. But the Vex obviously have something planned, and Asher is probably one of the few NPCs in the Destiny universe who knows the most about Vex technology. So it is not excluded that his story is indeed not over yet and is only just beginning.
On Neomuna, you can now hear a whisper: But this hidden message and the return of Asher Mir was apparently not everything that Lightfall has kept hidden.
Strange things are currently starting to happen in the game. Everywhere there are whispering messages that can be heard both in the minds of the inhabitants of Neomuna and in those of the Guardians. If you want to hear the messages, head to Neomuna and equip one of these items:
- The exotic Warlock helm “Nezareks Sünde”
- The legendary glaive “Nezareks Flüstern”
Are you happy that Asher is still alive? Or do you not even know the character? Of course, we also want to know from you if you have already heard the whispering voices? Feel free to tell us directly in the comments.
For those still farming Strand meditation, here is a short guide and a warning for all players with 3 characters:
