[Top 15] Destiny 2 Secrets Players Should Know About

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23 Dec 2022

Destiny, even from its beginnings, has been a game deeply rooted in mystery and intrigue. Players have enjoyed the wackiest puzzles, easter eggs, and community secrets for as long as the game has existed. It’s become a kind of secret society where the old grandpas sit back in their rocking chairs and yap about “the good ‘ole days” of Corridors of Time and The Whisper. What’s that? You want to hear about these secrets? Well, sit down, kid, because I’m about to tell you of the best thing that’s ever happened to Destiny–secrets.

15. Secret Korean Vendor

This one’s not very relevant at all, but fairly mysterious nonetheless. If you load into the Korean version of Destiny 2 using a VPN or something, there will be a vendor in the Bazaar named Yuna who works for the Mugunghwa Legion (??) and sells exotics for Silver. Good thing she’s not in the American version of the game…

https://youtu.be/UJRZI9AZiik?t=78

14. Necrotic Grips + Thorn/Osteo Striga

This is one of the rare instances when insight into Destiny’s lore gives you an edge. The Necrotic Grips Warlock exotic gauntlets were created by darkness-infected guardian Dredgen Yor, and synergizes with the so-called “weapons of Sorrow”, such as Thorn and Osteo Striga. Getting a kill with either weapon will trigger a Necrotic Grips poison explosion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM7WOUxVKg0

13. Banshee is Actually Clovis Bray

Our resident gunsmith is actually the Exo personality (clone) of Clovis Bray I, Elisabeth and Ana’s mad darkness-crazed grandfather. Shocking, I know. But after 44 reboots, he has frequent memory gaps and losses, and can’t seem to remember anything for more than a few moments. His entire history is detailed in the “Legacy’s Lament” lorebook, and I definitely recommend checking it out.

https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/recovered-memory-clovis-43#book-legacys-lament

12. The Cat in Widow’s Court

PvP junkies probably already know this, but it’s uncommonly known enough for me to put it at number 12. If you spawn on the lake-facing side of the Widow’s Court crucible map, you might be able to spot a housecat near one of the beginning of your spawn. It’ll run away if you linger too long, so grab that snapshot right away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjZvhmDTpZ8

11. The Floor is Lava Mini-Game

This one’s been in the game since D2 vanilla, but a lot of players have either forgotten about it or never found it in the first place. If you head to the overhanging platform above the area where you spawn in, there will be a box with spherical-shaped objects and the text prompt “don’t pick me up”. And, well, this is exactly what you think it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHNaCUOYXKM

10. Hidden Rooms in The Tower

There are three of them. One in the Annex, one you have to OoB to get to, and one labeled the “lounge” that you can access from the Hangar. All serve no real purpose, possibly the second one to tease an exotic before it came out, but all are cool places to go to and mess around with friends.

SECRET ROOM in Destiny 2 Tower... (What does it mean?) - YouTube

Destiny 2 - SECRET TOWER ROOM EXOTIC! Exotic Bow! Free Loot! - YouTube

Destiny 2 - SECRET TOWER ROOM! - YouTube

9. The Ahamkara Know They’re In a Video Game

Yeah, Ahamkara. The mystical wish-dragons that caused a war that brought about their eventual extinction. They’re bad news, but lore implies that the dragons actually know that the world of Destiny 2 takes place inside a video game. The Skull of Dire Ahamkara’s (while a terrible exotic) lore tab hints at this, among other places.

https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/skull-of-dire-ahamkara?highlight=Skull+of+dire

8. Randal the Vandal

Mr. Reaver “Randal” Vandal is an easter egg dating back to the Destiny 1 vanilla beta. It originated from a yellow-bar elite vandal in the cosmodrome who was bugged to have an enormous amount of health, and afterwards he was referred to as “Randal” based on a reddit thread. Ever since, the “Reaver Vandal” in game has had a metric ton of hit points and is fondly remembered as “Randal”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1nY9Kj5lYQ

7. Zero Hour

Ah, now here we finally have a secret with some rewards! Zero Hour was a mission discovered by a group of gamers who solved a puzzle that brought them to the farm to help Mithrax with a secret operation that teased Eramis with the final boss. Completing the mission in the time limit granted the exotic weapon Outbreak Perfected, a beefed-up version of Outbreak Prime from Destiny 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_blKY7Y33nk

6. The Galaxy Pools

This one’s incredibly obscure, yet doesn’t have any purpose…that we can discern. Through a complicated series of OoBs (don’t ask me how people figured this out) between two people, you can reach the Galaxy Pools, an area on the EDZ that’s in…I don’t know, an alternate dimension. You tell me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2VhgFD_wI

5. Kingship Dock Oracles

These pyramid-shaped vex objects, available in the Tangled Shore lost sector Kingship Dock, were mysteriously added to the game in Season of the Splicer and would appear when you scanned the conflux near the end. Unfortunately, this is a puzzle that was never solved, as redditors shot the oracles over and over (yeah, I know they’re not REALLY oracles but whatever) and nothing came of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB3OHkYa1SQ

4. The Whisper

Forsaken was a magical time for Destiny. The game saw new rebirth as new players flocked in and old ones came back. It was a time of secret and intrigue, with things like the Black Armory’s Niobe Labs and The Whisper exotic mission. Much like Zero Hour, The Whisper had you kill a Taken boss that spawned on IO to trigger a portal to appear. Accessing the portal would start a timed mission with an exotic weapon as your reward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUcYe2JqyBY

3. Corridors of Time

If you participated in the Corridors of Time puzzle in Destiny 2 Season of Dawn, odds are you never left the game. (and never will, good luck with those addiction meds). It’s much too complicated to explain here, but it consisted of a string of rooms that had to be entered in a certain (very, very specific) order to obtain an exotic weapon early. Plus, you got to visit your own grave, so…there’s that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FwjQ5sKup4

2. The Fifteenth Wish

Destiny 2’s Forsaken expansion also brought with it the Last Wish raid, but once it was completed for the first time almost a full day after release, the players got access to the wishing wall, which was a grid of circles that players could input symbols in by shooting the circles a certain number of times.

There were Fourteen Wishes that were discovered, each giving a special effect once activated. The Fifteenth, however, was never found. Evanf1997 explains this much better than I ever could, so if you watch the documentary below you’ll be well-informed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjg5rKt6CBo

1. The Last Exit

The Last Exit is the granddaddy of all Destiny secrets. Originating back in Rise of Iron as an expansion for Destiny 1, The Last Exit was a Crucible map on earth which had (allegedly) a code hidden somewhere around the game’s many lines of text, mysterious maps, and flashing lights. To this day, people still haven’t figured out the mystery of the Last Exit, but somewhere in the RaidSecrets Discord, someone’s probably still trying. I lift my hat to you, mates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmC-tubzUFE

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