Given that with the end of service for Destiny 2, players would never see another expansion again, it stood to reason that the game’s story would be left forever unfinished. While that may be true, the Destiny narrative team jammed as much lore and story as they could into the Monument of Triumph update, including two actual endings for the game, albeit avoiding a cliffhanger entirely was almost impossible, given the situation at hand.
The two endings, however, are ones that you are not likely to stumble upon naturally, at least not for many weeks or even months, as you work your way through triumphs. But if you want to see how it all ends now, you can follow these steps. I will not be posting spoilers of the endings here, just how to access them.
Step 1: You need to complete any seven subcategories of triumphs that have been added to the game. What that means is that for every triumph that gives legendary marks, you need to finish the top level one, which is always “complete X amount of triumphs” in the category. It will never be all of them, but the majority. These can be from any category, from Patrol to Raids; it just depends on what content you want to play, or how fast you want to go to get to these endings.
Step 2: Then, you’ll be able to go to the Tower, where there will be a prompt for a rather lengthy final cutscene from Zavala. We’ll call this the “nice” ending, and I think it finishes an arc well, but that’s all I will say.
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Step 3: Once that’s done, you can claim the “Big Blue” triumph under the Allies category.
Step 4: That will open up access to the last ending. You will need to go to the Dark Forest accessible through the north side of The Sludge in the EDZ. You’ve been here a lot. But now, once you progress, you will be able to find a portal to take you to the normally inaccessible Shard of the Traveler.
Step 5: Behold the “Oh my God” ending, one that makes you wonder what could have been if Destiny were able to fulfill its next long-term arc, however many years it might have taken.
It truly does seem like the end, as between this and a bunch of written lore and conversations scattered through this update, Bungie is spelling out plotline after plotline of what might have been, whether that was new Destiny seasons, expansions or with this last ending, the long journey to the next huge conflict based on the previous 11 years of story. It’s a shame we won’t see it. Or, maybe we will, someday, if we’re extremely lucky. Go see it for yourself, and I will discuss it all with spoilers another time.
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