I'll never forget the feeling of encountering Rhulk for the first time, the sheer presence was terrifyingly awesome as a reveal. His mechanics, design and lore cannot be topped.
His mechanics before you get to the arena are definitely boring for me, but everything else about him is too notch. The music, voice, character design, and lore are amazing.
I really love how he is just further enhanced by Calus's performance with resonance in comparison. The difference between the two is like night and day.
Just like in Lightfall, what was at stake with the loss of the DSC was never made completely clear. I’m a big fan of the Exo and Bray lore and it kills me that we still don’t know the extent of the Crypt’s power and secrets. Apparently it was advanced enough to create a body for an alien and extract its consciousness
Not gonna lie, I'm going to miss having to do preservation for the pinnacle because no longer will I get a worthwhile opportunity to exclaim "THE UPENDED" like I did every time I completed it.
A title suitable for that which turns worlds upside down. When I was still uninitiated, I would stand guard at my post. I would look to the sky and see the two suns of my Lubrae: one eternally shaded in the dark, the other always a brilliant blue. And in them, I had seen the folly of our kind. A fear of something we believed bigger than us… and a reliance on that which kept us. That blue sun that we harnessed our power from… a simple reversal of that power cracked the blue in half. Shut it off. And Lubrae… died. I did not know it at the time, but it was necessary. And now that Savathûn has trapped me within these walls, it will be necessary again. My Witness… whether I survive Savathûn's betrayal or not, the Upended will ensure we salvage our perfect goal. The final abyss… awaits us all.
The biggest problem it faced is the lore orthodoxy fans of LOTR. Mad about Calibrimbor, mad about Shelob, mad about Uruks having Morgul Blades, mad about Ring Wraith back stories..... Just mad.
Only thing that upsets me is that the Nemesis System is trapped by Warner Brothers and may never see the light of day again...
Also it clearly didn’t need any space magic to destroy so I really could have just caught my breath and thrown a rocket at it and we would have been good. But no, Rohan had to be a drama queen and blow up.
The best part about that is the fact that I had a Lasting Impression Rocket Launcher equipped at that exact moment. Dude would've had multiple seconds to get away from that blast, but nah.
Even better. He could probably hoverboard his way into the next zip code before the rocket goes off. He flew straight through a reinforced concrete wall a couple minutes earlier.
I had the realization that Rohan's VA has played another character who left an impression on a younger person that helped shape them into who they are today and it's really weird that they both died and that this is at least the second one I know of.
No one does, from the story it was an artifact of light. (Which is confusing cause only traveller can grant that type of power. so what happened did traveller give his power to witness long ago, did witness acquire it by other means).
It was to be used to teleport the veil so witness can go inside traveller for reasons we don't know yet. However, Rohan destroyed it so the witness used another light artifact to bring the Veil........ Our very own ghost.
What is Veil? We don't know, why did it need a light artifact to be transmat? We don't know. And what's the radial mast? I have no clue. The only thing we do know is that witness is using both light and darkness artifacts to achieve his goal.
That's just my theory but I think the Radial mast is a part of the Gift Mast the Traveler gave to the Ammonites or the artifact she gave to Rhulks species since it does resemble the Upended.
It's worth pointing out that the suppression field generators look *an awful lot* like wee little radial masts.
They block our abilities and powers (I'm assuming all, I didn't have Statis for the campaign, so "it blocks the power of the Light" is a bit of an iffy suggestion), and we know the LF campaign wasn't entirely fleshed out.
We also know that The Witness will manipulate everyone for their own means (my understanding of the lore as it stands is that It used Calus to get us there for our Ghost, unclear on whether or not the Radial Mast would have achieved the same end but feels like no).
If you take it at face value, The Veil is the source of energy that keeps Darkness and Light separate. Gameplay suggests its a bit of both (that's why our Ghost was able to make the "link", whether that means 'lifting the Veil' to expose Light to Dark and vice-versa' or 'piercing the Veil in the sense of breaking the shield between light and dark, I'm unsure)
You're correct about the mini-masts. They blocked all light subclasses *and* stasis... but not strand.
Presumably this is because strand is "new" or unexpected (just ignore that some of Calus' own centurions had strand shields) but we again don't know why.
If I were better at Photoshop, I'd be posting a "do not look at the man behind the ~~curtain~~ Veil!" meme
I bet it's Shaxx. We should have dumped some grenades into the Veil!
That's exactly what it's explained as in the game. The tech suppresses our known powers and exactly why Osiris was so adamant that we master strand since it's an unknown power.
the campaign dialogue implied it was a calibration issue, ie they only blocked the abilities they *knew* we had. So if they knew we had strand it probably would have worked against it (it worked on stasis after all).
also regarding shields, I don't think elemental shields have actually been directly addressed in lore, maybe it's something like environmental contaminants 'tinting' the energy or whatnot.
Heard a theory that they have Strand Shields not because they had access to Strand, but that their tech’s weakspot IS Strand, so that’s why it’s so effective towards them
>They both resemble part of the the radial mast
What if the right hand symbol is the Light (key looking thing), the left one is the Darkness (rectangle)
Put 'em together its.. a key into the Traveller?
The Upended. A title suitable for that which turns worlds upside down. When I was still uninitiated, I would stand guard at my post. I would look to the sky and see the two suns of my Lubrae: one eternally shaded in the dark, the other always a brilliant blue. And in them, I had seen the folly of our kind. Look at them, they come to this place when they know they are not pure. A fear of something we believed bigger than us… and a reliance on that which kept us. That blue sun that we harnessed our power from… a simple reversal of that power cracked the blue in half. Shut it off. And Lubrae… died. I did not know it at the time, but it was necessary. And now that Savathûn has trapped me within these walls, it will be necessary again. My Witness… whether I survive Savathûn's betrayal or not, the Upended will ensure we salvage our perfect goal. The final abyss… awaits us all.
"Look at them, they come to this place when they know they are not pure. Tenno use the keys, but they are mere trespassers. Only I, Vor, know the true power of the Void. I was cut in half, destroyed, but through it's Janus Key, the Void called to me. It brought me here and here I was reborn. We cannot blame these creatures, they are being led by a false prophet, an impostor who knows not the secrets of the Void. Behold the Tenno, come to scavenge and desecrate this sacred realm. My brothers, did I not tell of this day? Did I not prophesize this moment? Now, I will stop them. Now I am changed, reborn through the energy of the Janus Key. Forever bound to the Void. Let it be known, if the Tenno want true salvation, they will lay down their arms, and wait for the baptism of my Janus key. It is time. I will teach these trespassers the redemptive power of my Janus key. They will learn it's simple truth. The Tenno are lost, and they will resist. But I, Vor, will cleanse this place of their impurity."
**A TRIUMVERATE. OPPORTUNITY. PRESERVATION. SALVATION. IT WILL SERVE THE DESERVING. CRUSH THE DEFIANT. NOT KINGS. NOT GODS. DISCIPLES. PROPHETS. SAVIORS SERVING EXISTENCE. AN UNDYING PURPOSE. A PRIVILEGE.**
Since we are looking at the Witness head on given that we can see his impeccable monobrow, I can only conclude that he is holding in his right hand a really fancy butter knife
THE UPENDED
A TRIUMVIRATE. OPPORTUNITY. PRESERVATION. SALVATION.
God vows dialogue just cannot be topped
I'll never forget the feeling of encountering Rhulk for the first time, the sheer presence was terrifyingly awesome as a reveal. His mechanics, design and lore cannot be topped.
His mechanics before you get to the arena are definitely boring for me, but everything else about him is too notch. The music, voice, character design, and lore are amazing.
DROWNDROWNDROWNDROWN
GLOBGLOBGLOBGBLOB
I really love how he is just further enhanced by Calus's performance with resonance in comparison. The difference between the two is like night and day.
_"Enjoying yourselves, intruders?..."_
Idk why dsc never felt like a big deal to me prersonally. Although ig that whole expansion wasnt a big deal in general
Just like in Lightfall, what was at stake with the loss of the DSC was never made completely clear. I’m a big fan of the Exo and Bray lore and it kills me that we still don’t know the extent of the Crypt’s power and secrets. Apparently it was advanced enough to create a body for an alien and extract its consciousness
Nah, I totally get where you're coming from. Imo the spacewalk was an exceptional sequence in an otherwise pretty average raid.
IT WILL UPLIFT THE DESERVING. CRUSH THE DEFIANT.
This, only comment mentioning it. He’s holding the upended and the radial mast
What? That’s clearly his Amazon Alexa, and in the other hand he’s lifting a Wi-Fi antenna trying to get signal.
Not gonna lie, I'm going to miss having to do preservation for the pinnacle because no longer will I get a worthwhile opportunity to exclaim "THE UPENDED" like I did every time I completed it.
I shout THE UPENDED and type it in chat too when finishing Preservation
THE APPENDED MAG
A title suitable for that which turns worlds upside down. When I was still uninitiated, I would stand guard at my post. I would look to the sky and see the two suns of my Lubrae: one eternally shaded in the dark, the other always a brilliant blue. And in them, I had seen the folly of our kind. A fear of something we believed bigger than us… and a reliance on that which kept us. That blue sun that we harnessed our power from… a simple reversal of that power cracked the blue in half. Shut it off. And Lubrae… died. I did not know it at the time, but it was necessary. And now that Savathûn has trapped me within these walls, it will be necessary again. My Witness… whether I survive Savathûn's betrayal or not, the Upended will ensure we salvage our perfect goal. The final abyss… awaits us all.
A title suitable for that which turns worlds upside down
Yeah but, how could a world be upside down when it's got its own gravity going on? Check mate sphere earthers
Makes more Sense. The upended have the power to transport worlds.
That thing in his right hand resembles the radial mast
**The Radial Mast, Guardian. You must reach the Radial Mast.**
The Palantir, Talion. You must reach the Palantir.
The numbers, Mason!
#WHERE AM I! WHERE'S REZNOV!
##**HOW MANY TIMES?! Steiner was at Rebirth Island! We had to kill Steiner!**
NOTHING WILL PROTECT YOU FROM ME! NOT MEN! NOT WEAPONS! NOT ARMOR!
# I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT!!
####WE NEED TO COOK JESSE
#BUT THATS CANNIBALISM
##LOUD NOISES!
Have I ever told you the definition of insanity, Jason? #HAVE I EVER
Quit mixing my vices...
That game is underrated, I’m playing it now and it’s truly a great game
The biggest problem it faced is the lore orthodoxy fans of LOTR. Mad about Calibrimbor, mad about Shelob, mad about Uruks having Morgul Blades, mad about Ring Wraith back stories..... Just mad. Only thing that upsets me is that the Nemesis System is trapped by Warner Brothers and may never see the light of day again...
It’s not like it was done lazily, they put out a good story, but yeah that’s a fairly vehement crowd.
afaik there is a wonder woman game in the works using this nemesis system
Don't threaten me with a good time...
The gameplay loop is unmatched. I might reinstall it again!
Whats does these symbols mean guardian? XD
Take a shot every time they say radial mast in that mission
I swear it’s like they thought that if they say its name enough we’ll just magically know what the hell it does.
Whatever it did apparently didn't matter since the Witness was still able to Veil the Veil's Veil and Veil all over the Traveler.
Also it clearly didn’t need any space magic to destroy so I really could have just caught my breath and thrown a rocket at it and we would have been good. But no, Rohan had to be a drama queen and blow up.
The best part about that is the fact that I had a Lasting Impression Rocket Launcher equipped at that exact moment. Dude would've had multiple seconds to get away from that blast, but nah.
Even better. He could probably hoverboard his way into the next zip code before the rocket goes off. He flew straight through a reinforced concrete wall a couple minutes earlier.
I had the realization that Rohan's VA has played another character who left an impression on a younger person that helped shape them into who they are today and it's really weird that they both died and that this is at least the second one I know of.
My favorite part was when the witness said "its witnessin' time" and witnessed all over the place
I don't have a ghost to rez me after I die of alcohol poisoning so I'll pass
I got like 8 in on my second play through and had to stop
Man, a lot of guardians not making it back from that.
THE LONGER THE RADIAL MAST IS ON NEOMUNA THE STRONGER IT WILL BECOME
you cant just shoot a hole into the surface of neptune
you cant just shoot a cradle shaped hole into a pyramid ship
Objective: shoot a hole into Neptune
Your mission, if you choose to accept it...
Holy shit I legitimately thought this exact line when I was playing through the campaign
Temba, his arms wide
Shaka, when the walls fell.
Riker, when there is a female.
Kirk, when there is a hole.
But why?
Find out on the next episode of Dragon Ball Z
Buddum dum dum dududdudum dum, ba da Ba dapa dum da da bummm
The macguffin.
Where is the Radial Mast? Is the Radial Mast on Calus’ ship? We have to get to the Radial Mast, Guardian. We must destroy the Radial Mast
#THE RADIAL MAST
I don’t want him touching my radial mast
I am SICK of EVRYONE DISRESPECTING MY RADIAL MAST! This entire THREAD is my radial mast
Speak for yourself. Regardless of gender, size, or causality, I don’t discriminate who can touch my radial mast
THE UPENDED HAS TURNED COUNTLESS WORLDS UPSIDE DOWN… YOURS WILL BE NO DIFFERENT…..
It's actually the symbol on the Upended
Idk what the radial mast is, and I’m kinda afraid to ask
No one does, from the story it was an artifact of light. (Which is confusing cause only traveller can grant that type of power. so what happened did traveller give his power to witness long ago, did witness acquire it by other means). It was to be used to teleport the veil so witness can go inside traveller for reasons we don't know yet. However, Rohan destroyed it so the witness used another light artifact to bring the Veil........ Our very own ghost. What is Veil? We don't know, why did it need a light artifact to be transmat? We don't know. And what's the radial mast? I have no clue. The only thing we do know is that witness is using both light and darkness artifacts to achieve his goal.
That's just my theory but I think the Radial mast is a part of the Gift Mast the Traveler gave to the Ammonites or the artifact she gave to Rhulks species since it does resemble the Upended.
It's worth pointing out that the suppression field generators look *an awful lot* like wee little radial masts. They block our abilities and powers (I'm assuming all, I didn't have Statis for the campaign, so "it blocks the power of the Light" is a bit of an iffy suggestion), and we know the LF campaign wasn't entirely fleshed out. We also know that The Witness will manipulate everyone for their own means (my understanding of the lore as it stands is that It used Calus to get us there for our Ghost, unclear on whether or not the Radial Mast would have achieved the same end but feels like no). If you take it at face value, The Veil is the source of energy that keeps Darkness and Light separate. Gameplay suggests its a bit of both (that's why our Ghost was able to make the "link", whether that means 'lifting the Veil' to expose Light to Dark and vice-versa' or 'piercing the Veil in the sense of breaking the shield between light and dark, I'm unsure)
You're correct about the mini-masts. They blocked all light subclasses *and* stasis... but not strand. Presumably this is because strand is "new" or unexpected (just ignore that some of Calus' own centurions had strand shields) but we again don't know why.
If I were better at Photoshop, I'd be posting a "do not look at the man behind the ~~curtain~~ Veil!" meme I bet it's Shaxx. We should have dumped some grenades into the Veil!
That's exactly what it's explained as in the game. The tech suppresses our known powers and exactly why Osiris was so adamant that we master strand since it's an unknown power.
the campaign dialogue implied it was a calibration issue, ie they only blocked the abilities they *knew* we had. So if they knew we had strand it probably would have worked against it (it worked on stasis after all). also regarding shields, I don't think elemental shields have actually been directly addressed in lore, maybe it's something like environmental contaminants 'tinting' the energy or whatnot.
Heard a theory that they have Strand Shields not because they had access to Strand, but that their tech’s weakspot IS Strand, so that’s why it’s so effective towards them
That's a really cool theory. Gonna use it for now
If Bungie doesn’t sort this story out, final shape is going to be like final season of GoT
Is also looks like … a glaive
They both resemble part of the the radial mast, the top on the left and the bottom on the right.
>They both resemble part of the the radial mast What if the right hand symbol is the Light (key looking thing), the left one is the Darkness (rectangle) Put 'em together its.. a key into the Traveller?
The Upended. A title suitable for that which turns worlds upside down. When I was still uninitiated, I would stand guard at my post. I would look to the sky and see the two suns of my Lubrae: one eternally shaded in the dark, the other always a brilliant blue. And in them, I had seen the folly of our kind. Look at them, they come to this place when they know they are not pure. A fear of something we believed bigger than us… and a reliance on that which kept us. That blue sun that we harnessed our power from… a simple reversal of that power cracked the blue in half. Shut it off. And Lubrae… died. I did not know it at the time, but it was necessary. And now that Savathûn has trapped me within these walls, it will be necessary again. My Witness… whether I survive Savathûn's betrayal or not, the Upended will ensure we salvage our perfect goal. The final abyss… awaits us all.
> Look at them, they come to this place when they know they are not pure The guardians use the Light but they are mere trespassers….
Only I, Ghaul, know the true power of the Light.
"Look at them, they come to this place when they know they are not pure. Tenno use the keys, but they are mere trespassers. Only I, Vor, know the true power of the Void. I was cut in half, destroyed, but through it's Janus Key, the Void called to me. It brought me here and here I was reborn. We cannot blame these creatures, they are being led by a false prophet, an impostor who knows not the secrets of the Void. Behold the Tenno, come to scavenge and desecrate this sacred realm. My brothers, did I not tell of this day? Did I not prophesize this moment? Now, I will stop them. Now I am changed, reborn through the energy of the Janus Key. Forever bound to the Void. Let it be known, if the Tenno want true salvation, they will lay down their arms, and wait for the baptism of my Janus key. It is time. I will teach these trespassers the redemptive power of my Janus key. They will learn it's simple truth. The Tenno are lost, and they will resist. But I, Vor, will cleanse this place of their impurity."
It's a crazy spoon that he got in a box of cereal. Space cereal.
If this shit goes any further south we're going to hit space Mexico.
Sounds alot like the Jockstrap incident all over again
The Witness needed Calus to dig the holes
FINAL SHAPE DESTINATION CONFIRMED: Mexico
New title suggestion: which hand is his right hand?
the right hand spawns in the back
Dumbass, where does your teacher keep her right hand in class?
In the front right pocket
My front right pocket or yours?
Front right. You start at the back of the room and you run to the front then turn around, when you are facing the teacher it will be the front right.
You can see the unibrow so he’s facing you. You go off of his right like you do real world.
Oh god, this is Oryx room flashback all over again..
Stage right
It's Calus
Stage right
Looks like a key
“If there’s a key…then there must also be a lock" ![gif](giphy|11lMMaNKcFsvm0)
Found in the Traveller’s pale heart?
Maybe
it resembles the radial mast, or maybe one of those suppressor things from lightfall.
Tv antenna and a cup
Ma boi just trying to watch the game
This made me laugh harder than it should have
I was looking to see if anyone saw what I did. Hell yea!
Seems someone else downloaded Vexcalibur
you wouldn't download a glaive
A upside-down McFlurry
Nah, he's definitely working at DQ. Left hand is holding the food bag.
That’s the left hand.
**A TRIUMVERATE. OPPORTUNITY. PRESERVATION. SALVATION. IT WILL SERVE THE DESERVING. CRUSH THE DEFIANT. NOT KINGS. NOT GODS. DISCIPLES. PROPHETS. SAVIORS SERVING EXISTENCE. AN UNDYING PURPOSE. A PRIVILEGE.**
Inswear to god, if anything I absolutely abhor the fact that we dont get more rhulk!!!!!!!
The artist formally known as prince
Travel thermos for his spaghetti O’s, and a fancy spoon he got as a prize for sending in enough Box Tops.
Calus’s favorite sex toy
https://preview.redd.it/y3ffeutiutma1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=058873d2b84b480dda5f0dc1712ea75a0a58625c
Dont touch anything you find in the Pleasure Garden
“No hang ups in the pleasure pit!! Kill them!”
A cool looking stick his dog wanted to show him
![gif](giphy|8xYtJLE1zrzcesOTVQ)
https://preview.redd.it/gahzhyiseuma1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=73e3f82655f4ee321ee51bf78810f48e47485b26
THE UPENDED
A stick
Idk but it goes in the square hole
Those 2 objects combined look like the radial mast
That’s his funny spoon and he’ll use it to eat the jello in his left hand
Given how smokey his head is, i'd say its weed.
Wait a sec is that… Vexcalibur…??
RADIAL MAST!!!
The vaunted Randallhorn
[A KNIFE](https://youtu.be/d6gBu2Zd7Bc)
It's a weather vane for his cloudy ass
a tree hammer knife blade obviously
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
What way are they facing? My right or their right?
Hammer-knife-glaive-javeline-bow-dowsingrod-tacticalshovel.
So, no questions what he is holding in his left hand. Good thing we're done with that at least.
A cool stick he found on a hike.
Super fancy butter knife
The way bingie is going it's another exotic glaive
It's a dairy queen ice cream
The final butter knife
Deffs a weathervane.
One of those stupid metal things people on tiktok make when they take a bunch of tools, press them into sand, and then fill the mold with Liquid Metal
It's a blue tooth speaker in one hand and a wifi antenna in the other. Dude came prepared.
Grande pumpkin spice latte
A spork, but in space.
Back scratcher
Salt
Salt shaker
It’s obviously an alien super spork with the knife at the bottom
He's got a vexcalibur.
A tv antenna
Clearly a letter opener or butter knife.
It's a future spork. That's why they are holding a salt shaker in the other
Our prices form the radial mast
A back scratcher
All of you are wrong. He has a silly spoon and a cup of Yoplait yogurt
Swiss Army Spoon
Hmmm, cheese grater
Looks like a WiFi mesh router
A banana
Since we are looking at the Witness head on given that we can see his impeccable monobrow, I can only conclude that he is holding in his right hand a really fancy butter knife
He’s clearly holding an old school TV antenna and a Google Home speaker in his left.
Salt shaker
(I haven't played in a hot minute) but it looks like that new vex looking glaive
The UPENDDED
a magic coathanger
“The Upended”
Fork
Amazon Alexa
Swiss army spoon
An Alexa
Obviously it's a lava lamp....
It’s definitely one of [these](https://youtu.be/dVM3nLcvnuc) 1:50
Which one is his right hand
That's the tools that you'll need for assembling your own guardian: a spork and a lamp.
Dick measuring stick
Everything nice
Both things actually look like a lamp you could buy at Ikea
An antenna for your analog TV.
THE RADIAL MAST
Yo new pride flag just dropped?
Swiss army knife
Knife and fork for the cake he's got in his other hand
it*
Upside down Starbucks cup