Light and dark end up destroying each other or crippling eachother. We fight Xivu Arath in a flagship above the Last City while the Traveler holds the Pyramids back. New Monarchy, Dead Orbit, Future War Cult, and Black Armory evacuate humanity. We leave the system and see the Traveler and Pyramids nuke each other. Calus contacts us and asks for our help at reclaiming his home world and in advance, tells us of an Athenaeum world humanity and its Eliksni allies can settle on. This all leads to a Destiny reboot or spiritual successor hundreds of years later where Guardians have become myths and humanity has found new tech and power to survive.

My guess is after we use the power of friendship to destroy the Darkness, the Traveller will decide to peace out and decide to help out some other civilization. I just think no matter what happens the Traveller will leave. There’ll of course be some twists and turns that we could speculate about, but I’m tired and I want to sleep. Shit, it’s only 4:00 o’clock in the afternoon. Actually I work best when I’m sleep deprived or just tired, so let’s do this. The Traveller will be revealed to be a bird, and will eat the Hive Worm gods, thus eliminating the Hive as a threat. Tess Eververse or whatever her name is will convert the Hive to a new type of philosophy. That philosophy being capitalism. Calus will eat every Cabal who isn’t loyal to him, and will ally himself with the City so we can feed him Cabal like a choo-choo train. He also needs someone to remind him to eat his vegetables, or he doesn’t get Vex for desert. This will also conclude the war with the Cabal on Mars, so Zavala can retire and settle down with his new Cabal wife. The Fallen will be told by the Traveller bird to chill out, and that mama loves them just as much as their younger brother. Now with mom’s approval, they’ll unite under the super secret awesome Treehouse of Light. We have 2 rules in the Treehouse of Light. These are 1, we don’t talk about the Treehouse of Light, and 2, no darkness allowed. If we follow these rules and do our chores, mom says we can have lunch in the fort. To stop the Vex we simply use duck tape on all their portals, and now they can’t use them. Now to wrap up some individual threads. Mara will finally accept Uldren’s flowers from the Black Garden, but when informed Crow will just reply “New life who dis?” Saint-14 and Osiris will fly off together with the Traveller. Two birds and one Russian. A love story for the ages. Elsie and Ana Bray will re-establish Braytech. Successful business women by day, vigilante crime fighters by night. Someone has to continue the Brayman legacy, so Elsie will use her trauma to become the new Brayman, Ana will become Robin, Banshee will be Alfred, and Rasputin is the Batcomputer. It’s canon and you can’t change my mind. Shaxx will adopt troubled kids and turn them into the greatest people to ever exist, by supporting and encouraging them with the power of love AND YELLING. Shaxx is dad of the year, every year. Eris Morn with the support of her bestie, Ikora, will finally get therapy. Hawthorne and Louis will help rebuild PETA. Which is... just... so great... thanks Hawthorne. I won’t spoil what’ll happen to Difter, as I think that’ll be revealed in Brayman: The Long Dawning, which will be coming out soon. I think it’s supposed to be about the downfall of Spider’s mafia, with murders taking place on the days of holiday events. And finally the Ghost and Guardian will become a musical sensation with the hit songs: Unlocking (the doorway to my heart), In your Walls, Wizards from da Moon, and Guardian’s Paradise (featuring Lord Shaxx). In the end, none of this matters as NO ONE EXPECTS THE SCORN INQUISITION. Thus concludes the story of Destiny, the origins of a new super hero, and the start of Nolan North’s music career. @Bungie you’re welcome.

<Given that a Shadowkeep ViDoc showed us a plan that goes up to Year 7, Lightfall being Year 6, I'm inclined to believe that Lightfall is a part 1. A moment where the Darkness, whether it's a quick and instant assault or one that builds up until halfway or even until the end of the campaign, attacks the City and decimates everything. This to the point where it makes Elizabeth's future and the Red War look like a joke. I want to feel absolutely hopeless for this campaign up until the very end, and then work on rebuilding that hope. Given the year gap and Bungie's inability to take much-needed breaks, a seasonal year is obviously in order. With the four seasons in addition to Y6 and Y7 campaigns, you could touch on every major faction. For example, Fallen for Lightfall, Cabal for Season 20, Nine for Season 21, Hive for Season 22, Vex for Season 23, rounding all up in Season 24 AKA Y7. That's when we fight the Pyramid Armada. That's when we win. Alternatively, Bungie could expand the gap between Part 1 and Part 2 by adding a couple years. After all, given my own expectations for Witch Queen, I'm expecting Xivu Arath and at least two Worm Gods to be alive after this war begins. There's also a personal thing in here because I also want a big Nine DLC because that's the only way I can guarantee new music will be written for it, and Prophecy was awesome. Maybe this proposed war and wrapping up loose ends is very Mass Effect 3-like, but I see no other way. The Pyramids are the enemy, even if we can use their power for good. The Winnower will not change its nature, and the Gardener won't change either. Let the Hive go extinct, let everyone else join up on the major alliance needed to beat the Darkness, nuance comes from Cabal and Vex plot threads. After all, if they set up Caiatl to be an ally, who knows what'll happen when Calus shows back up? Or how about the Vex, will the greater Collective seek us out in order to prevent the Darkness from wiping everything out? Who knows?>

i never really saw the traveler and the pyramids as good and evil, more like just opposite forces. and with that i believe in a balance. i don’t think we’ll ever actually defeat the darkness and be rid of it completely, just stop it from overpowering the light. as far as an ending to destiny goes, i’ve had several thoughts on how it could go! one of my faves is that, in lightfall, the last battle will be us on the pyramid facing the darkness. maybe in its “true form” (if it has one) or something like that. then, in the final fight, our guardian will have to do something drastic to stop the darkness, and thus, sacrifice themself in order to save everyone else. there’s a touching, heartbreaking scene between guardian and ghost, since they both know in order to save everyone this time there will be no coming back. and then, they do it. they sacrifice themself. i see it as something like using their light to blow up the pyramids somehow, and so after the touching scene, it cuts to the battle below and we see all our fave characters look up to see the pyramids explode in a brilliant, bright light. everyone is looking up in awe, but then someone out of the crowd remembers: the guardian was the only one that went up there. they try to get a hold of the guardian on comms but... no answer. then it turns into that scene in the avengers when iron man dies lol... or something like that. after that i can see it going two ways. one, if it’s really the end, then we see the guardian’s funeral. or two, if it isn’t the end, i see the guardian escaping death by elsie pulling us back in time just before we die then bringing us back. heck, there could be a whole mission where we’re stuck in the past for a bit and we see some characters that were before our time. (example: andal brask or felwinter) but yeah i thought something like that would be hella cool to see! it would be sad tho if that was the end and our guardian died. i would cry!!

You act like Destiny will have a playerbase in 2 years... With the way things are going I expect the final battle to be a reskinned Knight with a bloated hp pool.