The new lore book, The Dark Future, details the Exo Stranger’s failed timeline and reads like a lore nerd’s wildest dream. It is at this point that the Exo Stranger reveals she is from a failed timeline, one where Guardians were corrupted by the Darkness. The Exo Stranger is helping us to understand and wield the Darkness by uncovering her grandfather’s research at Deep Stone Crypt. Beyond Light finally confirms this in-game, with the Exo Stranger revealing her origins. The failed timeline of the Exo StrangerĮver since the release of the Warmind DLC, the community has suspected that the Exo Stranger was Elsie Bray. The Exo Stranger is helping us gather this information because she has seen what happens when Guardians succumb to the Darkness's corruption. Throughout the Born in Darkness quest we are trying to decrypt Clovis Bray’s journal entries to better understand the Darkness, and therefore wield Stasis with more efficiency. 'Acquire his digital journal, and you’re bound to discover further truths about Stasis.

His experiments on Europa were filled with deceptions and secrets-the most important of which may have involved Exos, Darkness, and by association, Stasis. 'She reveals herself to be Elisabeth 'Elsie' Bray, granddaughter of Clovis Bray I. Clovis Bray only refers to it as Clarity, however, in the Beyond Light campaign, the Exo Stranger makes it clear that the archives of Clovis Bray contain valuable information about the Darkness, information that we need if we hope to master our new subclass, Stasis. The source of the Darkness for Deep Stone Crypt is less obvious. Like I said, Clovis needed two ingredients for the Exo mind transfer: Vex fluid and Darkness. The end of the collector’s edition lore book describes Clovis Bray infected by the Vex, and transferring his mind into two places: an Exo and the Deep Stone Crypt facility itself. Elisabeth Bray, Clovis’s granddaughter, reluctantly becomes an Exo so that she can fight off the Vex. This is the start of the Exo Stranger's origin story. Naturally, then, over the course of Clovis’s Vex fluid experimentation, the Vex infected his researchers, and Clovis Bray himself. It acts like a virus-Asher Mir had his arm transformed into a Vex limb just from contact with the Vex. If you have ever spoken to Asher Mir, you will likely know that it's not a good idea to touch Vex fluid. We see this portal in the new strike mission, The Glassway.Įlisabeth Bray, Clovis’s granddaughter, reluctantly becomes an Exo so that she can fight off the Vex. The Vex portal led to a Star Forge-a place where the Vex were using a literal star to create their metal robot housing. To acquire a steady source of Vex fluid, Clovis Bray created a Vex portal after stealing a Vex specimen from the researchers at Ishtar Collective. The Deep Stone Crypt is the production facility of the Exos, which required a mixture of Vex fluid and the Darkness for a successful mind transfer. The facility was known as Deep Stone Crypt. Clovis created a production facility for the Exos that utilised these components. Clovis believed that the Darkness artefact provided the solution to the human mind transfer using Vex fluid and the Darkness. Eventually, though, his sprawling research brought Clovis into contact with what we believe to be a Darkness artefact, which he refers to as Clarity Control. His son, Clovis Bray II, ripped himself apart after being transferred into an Exo. His son, Clovis Bray II, ripped himself apart after being transferred into an Exo.įor Clovis Bray to achieve his goal, he needed to solve multiple problems with transferring the human mind into a robot body. 'I plan to be the LUCA of all future human thought.'

All its contemporaries have been extinguished by the passage of epochs. But it was the only life whose descendants survived to the present. For Earth life, it is a single cell that lived in the deep ocean billions of years ago, flourishing in the warmth of magma or sulfur vents. 'The LUCA is the most recent common ancestor of all living things. Here is an excerpt from the collector’s edition lore book that was released with Beyond Light. Clovis Bray wanted to be the origin point of interstellar human civilisation, what he refers to as the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA). Clovis didn't just want to outlive his disease, he desired immortality and to trigger the next step in human evolution. This was one of the reasons why Clovis wanted to create the Exos he wanted to transplant his mind into a robot body, allowing him to escape his genetic disease.But that wasn't the only reason for him creating the Exos. (Image credit: Bungie) Clovis Bray I, the path to immortalityĭuring the Golden Age, Clovis Bray had a fatal genetic disease that was slowly destroying his body.

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