The confounding story of Destiny 2 has finally started to make sense in recent months, thanks to the arrival of its long-unseen threat, the Darkness, and the return an infamously mysterious graphic symbol, the Exo Stranger. The Stranger, at present officially confirmed to exist prominent lore character Elsie Bray, was a notorious symbol of Destiny one's barebones story, telling players, "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have fourth dimension to explicate." Her return brought fans some answers, but many elements of the Exo Stranger's story inDestiny 2 are nevertheless a mystery.

Observing players' Guardians throughoutDestiny i, the Stranger is an enigmatic time traveler who comes from a timeline where the Darkness defeated the Traveler and the Light. In Beyond Light, she shows herself again, calling Eris Morn, the Out-of-stater, and players' Guardians to Europa in order to learn how to harness Destiny ii's freezing Stasis powers to defeat the Darkness.

Players larn much of the Stranger'due south past as Elsie, granddaughter of vile scientist Clovis Bray, of her many failed attempts to stop humanity from succumbing to the Darkness, and of the potential role of Guardians and Stasis in finally winning that struggle. Merely the details of what set her on her time-hopping mission remain unclear. In the coming seasons, Bungie still has a number of questions to answer about Destiny 2's Exo Stranger.

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What Is The Exo Stranger's Ghost-Like "Fish" Companion?

Although Elsie had fourth dimension to explain a lot in Destiny 2: Beyond Light, fans never got an explanation of her floating, fish-like companion. In fact, information technology never even showed upwards in-game, only appearing in the Darkness Ziggurat'due south introductory cutscene. One of Ghost's in-game voice lines confirms the fish is "not a Ghost," adding that the Stranger seems to be playing its identity close to the breast. In a June 2020 interview with streamer DrLupo, game managing director Luke Smith implied players will larn more nearly Elsie'southward companion - and maybe even obtain one similar it themselves - in a future year.

Who Is The Exo Stranger Talking To In Destiny 1?

When she met the player's Guardian on Venus in Destiny 1, Elsie spoke to someone over a communications device, telling them, among other things, to "Hold position, kill the engines, and don't permit them discover y'all." Since this implies information technology's someone accompanying Elsie and controlling her ship, the person on the other end is most likely the "fish," as she hasn't been seen with whatsoever other traveling companions (besides, very recently, Eris and the Drifter). That said, it could as well be some kind of larger, time-traveling resistance try, of which the Exo Stranger is the leader - or mayhap even a time-hopping version of Eris or the Drifter.

How Exactly Does The Exo Stranger Time Travel?

Elsie says she comes from a timeline where the Darkness won, and the Lost Memory Fragment lore entries (via The Ishtar Collective) from Destiny ii's Warmind expansion imply she uses technology derived from the Vex to time travel, but the details of how this works are unclear. Is she really traveling between timelines, or is she merely simulating them with pinpoint accuracy? And is there even a deviation of outcome? Regardless, a dialogue-based explanation (every bit opposed to disjointed bits of lore) would do much to clarify how Destiny 2's Exo Stranger came to larn so much about the Darkness.

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