In Destiny 2, a creepy voice welcomes you in the launch trailer for Shadowkeep. It definitely has something to do with a Ghost – but what?
This is what the voice is about: Yesterday, on September 24th, Bungie revealed the launch trailer for Destiny 2 Shadowkeep. As has been customary in Destiny for years, the Guardians immediately eagerly dive into a trailer as soon as it goes live to discover all sorts of secrets and hints about the future of the game. This was also the case yesterday. For example, Trials gear was discovered.
A particularly exciting scene runs in the launch trailer from 0:12 to 0:17. The Guardians are in a gigantic column hall, and a creepy voice greets them with the words: “Welcome, we have been waiting.”
Interestingly: In various trailer analyses by YouTubers, this voice is not addressed at all. Probably because no one really knows who is speaking at all. Houndish is one of the few who even comments on it: He suspects it could be an “evil Ghost.” It seems to be a story teaser, but he concludes: “I have no idea what it’s about.”
And he is not alone. Many Guardians are currently scratching their heads in confusion and wondering what kind of voice this is.
In the comments under the launch trailer, a player also asks the question: “Why is no one talking about the Ghost that sounds corrupted?”
What does the voice have to do with a Ghost?
The voice comes from our Ghost: On reddit and YouTube, several Guardians agree that the original English voice in the trailer sounds like Nolan North. Although it has been distorted and altered, North can still be recognized. And Nolan North lends his voice to the Ghost (and since Forsaken also to Cayde-6) in Destiny.
In the German version of the launch trailer, the voice of our Ghost is also recognizable – especially if you listen to the scene multiple times.
In the original English version, however, it is clearer that a Ghost is speaking here. Because the “mechanical” sounds that the Ghost makes when scanning things are heard more frequently and clearly while the voice speaks:
What kind of Ghost is this? Since Sagira, we know that Ghosts in Destiny have different voices. Since the Ghost in the launch trailer sounds like our Ghost, there are several speculations on reddit about how this could be:
- A new threat in Shadowkeep speaks to us through our Ghost. The Ghost is therefore just a mouthpiece and translator.
- A new threat has corrupted our Ghost and taken possession of it.
- A new threat has created a copy of our Ghost.
- A new threat itself has ghost-like beings, “evil Ghosts” – and this one just happens to sound like our Ghost.
And what is this new threat? There are two enemies that could welcome us here. Either Darkness itself or the Hive.
What suggests Darkness?
Where is the voice actually speaking? Before the creepy voice greets the Guardians, the camera moves through this tunnel-like structure:
At first glance, this resembles a setting around the Warmind. However, it could also be a kind of access lock to a completely new area. Because right after that, this column hall is seen (see also title image):
The architecture doesn’t quite fit all the enemy races we know so far. Therefore, there is speculation on reddit that this could be the interior of one of the Pyramid ships shown at the end of the Destiny 2 story and associated with Darkness:
This would mean that a Darkness entity is speaking to us directly here. But even if this is not the inside of the Pyramid ships, but possibly a room in the Citadel of the Hive on the Moon, it is not excluded that we will soon encounter Darkness.
After all, there are indications that we will finally come into contact with Darkness in Shadowkeep. Eris Morn said in the Gamescom trailer for Shadowkeep that we have not yet encountered Darkness – not yet. And Bungie writes about Shadowkeep that we must defeat nightmares on the Moon before they leave the Moon and plunge humanity into an age of Darkness.
The encounter with Darkness is therefore becoming closer.
Or is there just a Hive villain speaking?
There are still several theories about the Ghost’s voice:
- It could be a Ghost of a member of Eris’ old fireteam .
- In Shadowkeep, there will be “nightmares” as enemies. Maybe this is a kind of nightmare Ghost.
- Savathun, a sister of Oryx, could communicate with us through this possessed Ghost.
- It’s some creepy Hive stuff.
- Compared to other Destiny releases, Bungie has not said anything about the main villain of the upcoming expansion so far. While Ghaul or Uldren were announced in advance with trailers, the big bad of Shadowkeep is still unknown. Maybe he is welcoming us here.
- We are fighting a nightmare of ourselves in Shadowkeep. Against a possessed copy of our Guardian along with Ghost. This is also boldly predicted.
Bottom line: We do not know who is welcoming us here. It remains exciting to wait for who speaks to us with a distorted voice of our Ghost. What do you think about it?
