Destiny 2 Lore - The Ahamkara. The story of Destiny's Dragons. Origins, The Hive & The Awoken.

[LambdaSolo]

Byf I just wanna say that you're amazing. Way back when I was in middle school (I'm in college now) your lore videos got me hooked on the Destiny narrative, specifically your videos on Rasputin and SIVA. The Ahamkara have always been a super interesting topic and I'm so glad that you've made this! I can't wait to see what lore videos you make next, you'll always be my favorite youtuber <3

[tysonkrunek]

There’s an old sparrow who’s lore has its guardian getting in trouble for having a dragon painted on it and the vanguard chastised them for it. The response was “dragons are cool”

[twelved]

Destiny has had incredible designs over the years, some incredibly creative and unique.

But I don’t think I’ve ever seen such an amazing design for these beasts. I can’t imagine any other way dragons obsessed with Faustian bargains would look.

[kurtisl]

Praedyth: Man, I hope I get to fight like this forever.

Ahamkara: *Bet.*

[cee_ves]

The techeuns watching us land in the dreaming city : uh, watcha got there?

Hunters carrying several ahamkara exotics : a smoothie

[falseomega]

Ahamkara have to be my favorite things in destiny lore. Everything about them is great, the O ___ mine stuff, granting wished from just a bone, even just the choice of the name Ahamkara is great. It just is a word that feels so good to say.

[Emberbro]

“Oh how I have changed”
I found this quote by Azirim really haunting, because it partially subverts the ‘Oh -noun- mine’ form of the invocation, as a really casual rhetorical trick, before using the full invocation to commit murder.

[connormacdonald]

That white glowing flame around the Ahamkara in the spoiler for the season released shortly after the puzzle was solved looks quite a bit like the odd mist floating out of Cayde's eyes in the trailer for The Final Shape. Perhaps the 15th wish is to put someone behind the enemy's defenses, someone who could open the gates for us to follow. Wouldn't it make a ton of sense if the final wish of Forsaken, tucked away in its Triumph page for 5 years, was the one thing every player of the expansion wanted?

[yhelloh]

4:58 Quick and super important note. Remember what Savathun said during the intro to season of the lost? "Who is Savathun you ask? You already know, oh guardian mine..."

And Riven at the end of Last Wish? "I thought they'd never leave. You and I are not done. We're inseparable now. Through your actions, we've forged an age-old bond between my kind and yours. One wish granted deserves another. And I cannot wait to show you what SHE asked for. O murderer mine..."

[ThePaulper]

As another sucker for dragons, I can't wait to see the full series of Ahamkara lore. Wish they were talked about and expanded upon more in-game. I'll wait for season of the wish tho, not sure how deep they'll go.

[PANCAKEMINEZZ]

6:38 How fitting that Ahamkara, while originally being likely a tongue in cheek reflection of how it's a looter shooter and Guardians wants loot, Ahamkara became a reflection of the predatory entity that Bungie eventually became.

[garrettviewegh]

Part of me hopes we see Asha and the new generation of Ahamakara meet. The worms and the wish dragons have always had an interesting similarity. Yet, are different, but so much the same. Parallels almost.

[oracle]

Bit of an odd thought regarding the Ahamkara egg we found in the Imbaru engine. What if the egg was taken from the conquest of the Harmony? It would certainly be from a time before Savathun met Riven who was corrupted by Taken energy. Also it is said in the books of Sorrow that Savathun had completed something in secret after the battle with the Harmony. Mind you this is just a thought on how the Witch Queen obtained an Ahamkara egg uncorrupted.

[Thelacker]

Oh man, it'd be hilarious of Savathun's egg wasn't of Riven's brood, but was an old Harmony egg she's squirreled away for a later date.

[allentayoto]

It is fitting that the last two seasons before Final Shape are centered around two opposite usage of a power that we've always been curious about. Season of the Witch somewhat explained how Hive magic operates and what role the worms play in that usage of that magic. Here in the upcoming Season of the Wish, I hope we'll be given a much more elaborate explanation of how Awoken powers operates and how they tied the wish magic into it during the time Riven was still alive.

[GrayvesX]

I havent thought about the Ahamkara since Lightfall. Im now really seeing them as Darkness parasites. Feeding on wishes, a particular type of thought and there for darkness

[dynojackal]

The use of the "O [noun] Mine" is very similar to what Dr. Strange did to Dormammu in 'Doctor Strange (2016)', using the Time Stone to trap the dark entity until a bargain was made.
The fact that Titans are the only Guardian class without any Ahamkara-themed Exotic armors is probably connected to the Great Hunt, as Eris mentions in the lore tab featuring Wei Ning.

[BIONICforge_Studios]

Thank you for giving the lore on the dragons of desire the space it needs to breath. This is one of my favourite topics in Destiny, second only to the Warmind, Rasputin. Wish-dragons and their tricky ways really make me feel like we play as space knights, rogues, and wizards. And hopefully, our desire to follow the Witness isn't undermined by our own desire for personal power.

[ravenstales]

awesome to see that you're bringing out the lore on the ahamkara at this time, as a wannabe hive god, the ahamkara are my 2nd favorite design so far

[Toadsmoothie]

WHOOHOO YEAH BABY THATS WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!