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Destiny Lore - Vault of Glass


General idea of the Vault of Glass.
Beneath Venus the Vex have constructed a massive structure that is acting as a meeting point of past, present and future. Their long-term goal is to basically unchain themselves from the constraints of a physical reality and turn themselves into a sort of epistomological computer virus in the very fabric of reality, incorporating the very idea of themselves into the fundamental laws of the universe.
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Pahanin on Kabr, the Legionless.

His name was Kabr. He wasn't my friend but I knew and respected him as a Guardian and a good man.

He fought the Vex alone. This destroyed him. In the time before he vanished he said things that I think should be remembered. These are some of them:

"In the Vault time frays and a needle moves through it. The needle is the will of Atheon. I do not know the name of the shape that comes after the needle.

No one can open the Vault alone. I opened the Vault. There was no one with me but I was not alone.

You will meet the Templar in a place that is a time before or after stars. The stars will move around you and mark you and sing to you. They will decide if you are real.

I drank of them. It tasted like the sea."

That is all I can remember.

- Pahanin


Basically, Pahanin shares with us some of Kabrs story. Apparently, Kabr was in the Vault of Glass by himself, but he wasn't alone. I believe he had a team, but the Templar expunged them, leaving only Kabr alive. He doesn't realize this because they were written out of existence, therefore, they would not be apart of his memory.(This will make sense later)



The final words of Kabr, the Legionless


I have destroyed myself to do this. They have taken my Ghost. They are in my blood and brain. But now there is hope.

I have made a wound in the Vault. I have pierced it and let in the Light. Bathe in it, and be cleansed. Look to it, and understand:

From my own Light and from the thinking flesh of the Vex I made a shield. The shield is your deliverance. It will break the unbreakable. It will change your fate.

Bind yourself to the shield. Bind yourself to me. And if you abandon your purpose, let the Vault consume you, as it consumed me.

Now it is done. If I speak again, I am not Kabr.


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The above pictures depict how Kabr would have looked, and the relic that he created.

This passage tells us of Kabr's struggle within the vault, but also how he managed to make a crack in it. With the construction of the relic, Kabr may have single handedly facilitated the success of guardians within the vault. He made the relic by killing a Gorgon(Vex enemy) himself and hammered its corpse into a vessel for the Light, turning it into a shield that maintains a small space of stable reality around it.




The Templar

Even among the Axis Minds, the Templar is extraordinary. Fragmentary glimpses and scattered reports suggest a Hydra of impossible capabilities - a creature out of time.

The Templar and the Oracles guard the way into the deeper Vault. Legends say that the Oracles foresee what is to come, a world as the Vex desire it - and that the Templar has the power to shape reality to match the Oracles' design, expunging any threats.

The power of the Vault flows through the Templar. It will take something extraordinary to shatter its shield.


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Just to reiterate, Oracles are essentially supercomputers that calculate reality, determining what is and is not real. Then the Templar processes these calculations into reality. It's shield needs something extraordinary to be taken down. That's where the relic comes in.(Does Kabr's story make a little more sense now?)




The Gorgons


Deep in the Vault of Glass, the fabric of reality bends to the will of the Vex. Warlocks speak in tones of awe of the Gorgons - creatures that seem to possess a dreaded, almost unimaginable strength: an ontological weapon.

Like the Oracles and the Templar, the Gorgons reputedly possess the ability to define what is and is not real. Whatever they perceive becomes subject to erasure at their will. Until a countermeasure can be found, Guardians must avoid their gaze at all costs - or reply to any detection with immediate, overwhelming force.

The Gorgons' ability must be tied to the nature of the Vault of Glass. We can take some solace in the clear fact that the Vex cannot manifest this power in the world outside.

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Atheon, Time's Conflux


To speak of Atheon is to accept certain limitations. We are ill-equipped to understand an entity that defies simple causality. Let us accept these limitations and proceed.

Atheon waits in the Vault of Glass. Just as Atheon sidesteps 'past' and 'future', it is impossible to say whether Atheon created the Vault or the Vault created Atheon. Causal pathways converge on Atheon from every axis in the space-time bulk.

Atheon has a function. We hazard that it regulates and oversees the Vex conflux system. What are these confluxes? How do they relate to the physical Vex network that has devoured so much of Mercury and Venus?

We might guess that the Vex confluxes represent the extension of this network across space and time. Perhaps the Vex use closed timelike curves to solve unfathomable computations. Or the Vex may seek to transcend a physical substrate, and move their thoughts directly into the fundament of the universe.

If physics is a set of rules that the cosmos uses to calculate itself, perhaps the Vex seek to worm their way into these calculations: to become a law of reality, inseparable from existence. A virus in the system. Perhaps Atheon was the centerpiece of this project, a command nexus that unified efforts across time.


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Vex Mythoclast


"...a causal loop within the weapon's mechanism, suggesting that the firing process somehow binds space and time into..."

Some legends live forever. Others are overwritten - reshaped by the sheer will of those who believe that any ordeal can be conquered, any foe vanquished, any god cast down.

The Mythoclast is a Vex instrument from some far-flung corner of time and space, mysteriously fit for human hands. Its origins, mechanism of action, and ultimate purpose remain unknown. Perhaps it will reveal itself to you, in time...


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The last few sentences of the passage intrigue me. Why does it fit human hands? Who or What forged this?
I looked up the definition of Mythoclast and it means "destroyer or debunker of myths."
Because this is the Vex Mythoclast, a lot of questions are raised. Maybe it's purpose is to rid the idea of the vex. With the vex trying to intertwine themselves with the very fabric of reality, it would make a lot of sense for this weapon to be the denier of that. This weapon seeks to destroy the vex and all that they are attempting to do.
But that's just my own speculation.





Most of the information in the post is directly from the grimoire cards. Some is my own, and there is also a bit from the destiny community all over the internet.


Thanks for reading. Please share what you think of Destiny's lore. I'd love to know some theories and ideas of yours.
I hope I was able to help you all understand the Vault of Glass better. Sadly, bungie didn't directly tell these stories in the game, but at least we got grimoire cards for them.
And although Atheon has been defeated, the some mysteries of the vault will remain just that. Mysteries.

If the mod here will allow it, I'd like to add to this with more than just Vault of Glass lore. Over the next few weeks I'll compile more lore into the thread. To have it as a sticky would really be appreciated. I just want this Destiny section to be less about finding groups. I want the people who play this game as religiously as I do to appreciate the lore.

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