#destiny cabal

Alien Factions: A Destiny Fan Zine has been released! This is a free fan zine created by 21 different contributors, featuring a variety of art and writing about the aliens of all the major factions in Destiny 2!

Thank you to those who participated, and I hope everyone enjoys viewing it!

Also, a huge thank you to @Monstyra for helping me with the cover art! 💚

Caiatl and my Exo Titan

Guardian,nodding in front of a very full white board: Yep.

Grace: and the Human world collapsed due to this race called the "Fallen"?

Guardian: Eh... Eliksni, but sure.

Guardian: and you now work with a "House" of them?

Guardian: Well... them and a smuggler.

Grace: and you fought with a group of space rhinos called the-

Guardian: Hippos and the Cabal.

Grace: Who all follow similar creeds to the Roman Empire... okay, but what's with those Hive things?

Guardian: Worms, mostly. They gave power to three beings, they became buggy, started colonizing planets via basically swarm, now we have a human Hive god, dont worry about it, and she's pretty neat.

Grace, takes off glasses and pinches nose: and theres the human side of-

Guardian: Oh, forgot the Vex. Sort of like your Astrophage, as in they are alive, but they are really annoying.... sea monkeys.

Grace: I just had to deal with Rocky, geez.

Guardian: Oh, I wish we just had the Edrians. Everyone race is larger than us, sometimes of a magnitude of four.

Grace: and you guys just have magic?

Guardian: Sort of. The Light allows manipulation of Constants. *summons the several floating buddies* Void is basically the true nothingness the universe holds. Solar is heat and its applications, and Arc is Energy transfer and all of that fun stuff.

Grace: You just said light, theres more isnt there.

Guardian: Yeah... *dismisses all of the buddies* theres two domains of what we call the Dark, which are inverse powers of our light ones.... sort of

Grace: Sort of?

Guardian: Well, the darkness is more of the unseen side of reality, Gravity between self and souls and the removal of all emotional energy or physical.

Grace: But that sounds lik-

Guardian: Yeah, Void is kinda the middle ground for both of these.

Grace: Okay then, and you are-

Guardian: Okay, in application, I'm considered a Warlock. Sort of like how you are a Science guy. I can publish findings on new applications of the Light and other things like that.

Grace: How did you learn about my work?

Guardian, pointing over at Ghost: He had been working on Decoding that one's *points over to Rocky* language. He has a rough idea of sentence structure of the language due to us having to deal with the Vex and the Coral.

Grace: And you've lost me

Guardian: and thats why I used Notebooks, but I forgot that Lodi had them all! Ugh, its so frustrating.

Grace: Lodi is...?

Guardian: A human thrown out of time to our time by the Nine I mentioned earlier.

Grace: Do I have to worry about that or?

Guardian: No, we kinda have that handled.

Grace: Okay but, how did we meet?

Guardian: So, mine and Ghost's theory is we accidentally ran into your universe because of our way of traveling. It happened before with Elsie so we can probably get back...

Grace: And if you can't?

Guardian: I get to find Clovis and kill him before any stupid experiments happen

I feel like the psions are the most underdeveloped in-game species, and when we do get development for them, it’s always in the context of them serving the cabal empire or the Conclave taking on antagonistic roles to sabotage the efforts of the Vanguard. I love the development of the eliksni and how in recent years, the game has really been pushing stories that humanize them, validates their struggles, and gives them hope for the future of their species, I just wish psions got the same courtesy.

Yes, they were freed under Caiatl‘s rule, but that wasn‘t given much narrative emphasis as they either continued to act for the empire or joined the Conclave, neither of which gave them a stronger presence in the story or a character that joins our cast of allies .

What was their servitude like? How much cruelty and discrimination did they face? Were there revolutions and movements for better legal protections? What parts of their culture, besides religion, did they bring with them when they were taken by the empire? Is there still anti-psion sentiments present in Uluran culture? What was their home planet like and do elder psions remember it like Riis-born eliksni remember Riis?

The psions have been influenced by Nezarec/the Witness, have been a part of the cabal empire and it’s turmoils for an extended period of time, posses incredible intelligence and psionic powers (that may have connections to the darkness), have a religious schism that was affected by Nezarec’s disappearance and the empire preventing open practices of their beliefs, and yet they are always treated as an afterthought (usually antagonistic), a one-off character in lore, or given a subservient role.

Psions are so cool and deserve the universe, yet we are given crumbs when we could have meals that accentuate the messages Destiny is trying to craft, such as respecting the right of others to have beliefs and perceptions of their own. Psions feel less like people and more like characters playing side roles to progress smaller story beats. It’s so infuriating and I don’t know if Bungie is just too timid to tackle a story involving slavery, there wasn’t enough time to develop them, or Bungie never intended for them to be more than what they currently are. I have hope we will get something soon though!!!

I’m only just realizing the way I draw Cabal is like-

So different from hwo they look in game 😭 like the face is fine but the arms like

I GIVE THEM PAWS LOL