Destiny 2’s enormous ball has had many names throughout its history, but why did humans call it The Traveler?

2024 marks ten years of Destiny, a space fantasy story that has taken us to (almost) every corner of the solar system and much further in some cases, as will happen this summer in the expansion The Final Form of Destiny 2. It’s not a bad time to review a little history and understand the origin of some things we take for granted.

The Final Form It will allow us to enter The Traveler and finally know what is inside… more or less. This is a very mysterious entity and one that we have taken for granted for an entire decade. “We called him The Traveler and his arrival changed us forever,” said The Speaker in one of the first cutscenes of Destiny 2 in times of the Red War.

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, offers us a very simple explanation. He comments that he has had many names throughout his history: Gardener by the Precursors of the Witness or The Great Machine by the Fallen, among others. Each one was a cultural interpretation.

humans discovered The traveler just before beginning the Golden Age, a time of exploration and great expansion because this entity chose us as guardians. The ball moved from one planet to another to terraform it and it was during its stop on the planet Mars when the crew of the Ares 1 ship, whom we see in the current opening cinematic of Destiny 2

, they named him The Traveler. Much is still unknown about his nature, but the upcoming expansion may reveal a lot about his nature.

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