Taken Subclass inbound (read post)

Bungie is starting to tease the Mastery of the taken powers this season turning into a fully fledged subclass. I’d never thought they’d do this but here we are with very obvious teasers.

• When you access the seasonal thing in Eris’ room it shows your Guardian pulling out a taken blight, floating it in his left hand, just like the inspection screens for the other subclasses.

• There are two new verbs that have been added, specifically tied to the taken abilities this episode called ‘disrupt’ and ‘exhaust’ with one of them stunning overload champions.

• At the end of the mission in the dreaming city with the eyeballs everywhere, you interact with a blight which throws you into the animation of reaching out for power (same one in lightfall with strand) then absorbing it.

• Acquiring a tablet of ruin as part of this episodes artifact is also important as the tablets of ruin is what Oryx recorded his knowledge for the power to take on after communing with the deep.

• Our interaction with Oryx could also reveal further implications later this episode.

This all seems deliberate and my best guess is that we will master the power to take and could possibly end up communing with the deep ourselves with the help of Oryx. I know that ‘taking’ is inherently a very bad thing especially coming from a Guardian but have a look at the Artifact lore. The Winnower’s direct message suggests that we need to look past the ‘wrong’ of our actions, essentially encouraging us to pursue the power to take.

I think we will see this subclass unlock as part of Frontiers. Bungie… don’t do all of this just to throw it away man… It’s too on the nose…