The release date of Destiny 2's Lightfall is fast approaching, and with it will begin the sixth year of the game's lifespan, on its road to the conclusion of the Light and Darkness saga with The Final Shape, sometime in 2024. Thanks to the shift toward the live service model, Bungie was able to make Destiny 2's seasonal content more impactful both in terms of gameplay loops and in terms of storytelling, with the latter becoming ever more important to the overarching narrative. Some Seasons are more self-contained, but the vast majority of them have a rippling effect on the story Bungie is trying to tell, with a great example coming from the pre-Witch Queen era with all the build-up to the confrontation with Savathun and the Lucent Hive.
Some plot threads have been left hanging for a while now, whereas others were simply used as Chekhov's guns of sorts, creating these hints and references to events, places, and even characters that were never under the spotlight. Bungie mostly does this through lore tabs on weapons or other pieces of gear, as well as the lore books available throughout the game's activities. Among these Chekhov's guns that have yet to fire is a peculiar prophecy that has to do with Destiny 2's Eliksni, and it's one that would make for a great Game of Thrones-like space opera.
What Destiny 2's Kell of Kells Prophecy is
In the Destiny universe, the Eliksni, also called by mankind Fallen, are seen as space pirates and scavengers who attacked humanity to exact revenge for what happened to their homeworld, Riis, back when the Traveler left them and caused the cataclysm known as the Whirlwind. The Eliksni have a long-lost prophecy that has yet to come true in the form of the Kell of Kells. In Eliksni culture, Kells are chiefs of their Houses, and each House has its own traditions, beliefs, and ways of life.
The Kell of Kells is someone who could hypothetically unite all Eliksni Houses, and according to the prophecy, this individual could be blessed by the Great Machine, which is the Eliksni name for the Traveler. Ever since Destiny 2's Season of the Splicer, a popular theory has been that the Kell of Kells would be Mithrax at some point, as he is a natural leader and one of the few Eliksni left who still believes in the Traveler and the Light. Whether Mithrax will indeed become the Kell of Kells or someone else will, if at all, this prophecy and the Eliksni people as a whole have many similarities with Game of Thrones.
How Game of Thrones Can be Compared to Destiny 2's Kell of Kells Prophecy
At its core, Game of Thrones is a story that goes deep into what motivates human beings and their actions in the climb to power, and while this aspect isn't necessarily reflected in Destiny 2, George R. R. Martin's work has many different shades. Like the Kell of Kells, Game of Thrones' overarching plot is all about who sits on the Iron Throne and how, what the various Houses do as the power shifts in the kingdom, and who lives to tell their story or who becomes the story others tell.
Game of Thrones also has its fair share of prophecies, with some of them revolving around the main characters in the saga, which makes it easy to see how this could become a space opera adaptation in Destiny 2. If the game doesn't end up fulfilling the Kell of Kells prophecy, then Bungie and Sony could very well make it into a multimedia project further down the line, which would also help provide more context and background to the Eliksni as a people. Ultimately, the comparison with Game of Thrones works because even in a universe like Destiny 2's with sentient aliens and guns, the question of "what it means to be a human?" still remains, but the answer may be told by different perspectives.
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