With the release of The Final Shape, we’ve all braced ourselves for our big final showdown against the biggest, baddest, evilest monobrow-wearing, billion-of-creatures-in-one-man-with-a-penchant-for-weird-leather-outfits our Guardians have ever seen. Does this mean The Final Shape is the end of Destiny 2?

Short answer, no. Destiny 2 doesn’t end with the release of The Final Shape, but it does end the Light and Dark saga, which is just as important. The Light and Dark Saga is the story that has been going on since the release of Destiny 1 in 2014, and it will officially end with the release of the raid, Salvations Edge.

For 10 years, we Guardians have been fighting on behalf of The Light, a paracausal force of nature that has taken form in the entity known as 'The Traveler', to help it survive against The Darkness (another paracausal entity). Their roots stretch back before the birth of the universe itself, with The Gardener and The Winnower, once trapped in an endless cycle of life and growth, death and decay. The Gardener broke free from their endless game to spread the chaos of life and creation throughout the universe, only for The Winnower to follow in an attempt to restore the logic and finality of silence to all that it gave life to.

And of course, it wouldn't be science fiction if a bunch of tiny, startled humans, man-made robots, and things that used to be humans didn't get VERY confused in that scene; albeit with Traveler given space magic that lets you throw grenades, knives, and hammers at anything that even remotely resembles a sentient being.