Has Anyone Spoken to the Big White Ball lately?

For my birthday, I was given Destiny 2’s new expansion, Witch Queen, as a present. The brand new campaign was fun and interesting, and it is something I’d kinda recommend playing. There was a lot going on in the Witch Queen campaign, as well as a lot of new revelations. After all, a long-standing enemy, having been working in the shadows for all these years, suddenly pops up on a planet that vanished. We get the return of Mars and the throne world that Savathun built for herself, as well as a bunch of weird new light users. The Lucent Hive (as they are called in-game) are Hive enemies blessed by Savathun and given their own Ghosts, to the point that we have human (or Exo or Awoken) Light users fighting against Hive (Knight and Witch) Light users.

Something that I found interesting though, in this campaign, is how the Light is described. Throughout the entire campaign, we are led to believe that the Light was stolen from us. After all, the Light was blessed upon humanity, and for the Hive to also be blessed with it, that means there’s something wrong. The Hive are bad guys and don’t deserve the Light, correct? They stole it from the rest of us, apparently.

Except, at first, they didn’t.

After Savathun had her Worm removed, she managed to disappear. Somewhere along the line, Savathun got stabbed and was bleeding internally, but she was alive enough to travel to Earth, watch the Last City from a mountain peak. Savathun went to see the Traveller and simply asked if she could be blessed by light. In fact, Savathun half-expected the Traveller to leave her to die. But as she closed her eyes, a Ghost appeared and Savathun got what she wanted. She was now a Lightbearer.

Thing is though, she didn’t steal the Light. She earned it the same way any other Lightbearer did, by dying and being revived by a Ghost.

Savathun does end up trying to steal the Light later on, by summoning the Traveller and wrapping it up in silk. But, from her point of view, Savathun believed that she was protecting the Traveller. She knew that the Witness was coming and wanted to protect the Light from its ultimate enemy. Savathun only announced her plan once all her silk spinners were in place, ready to seal the Traveller away.

My question though is this: did the Traveller want any of this? We all just assumed that the Traveller was stolen from us. But was it really?

Did the Traveller actually agree with Savathun? Maybe Savathun’s offer appealed to the Traveller. After all, the Traveller knows that the Witness was on its way, with its armada of dark pyramids. And Savathun is one of the few individuals who knows what the Witness even is. So, from the Traveller’s point of view, the thought of staying inside Savathun’s throne world, hidden away from the Darkness, might sound reasonable. The Traveller has no ability to protect itself, that’s why it gives us the Light. And Savathun’s offer seems reasonable enough.

Eventually though, the Traveller realises that Savathun can’t hold her side of the deal, so the Traveller runs back to Earth, where it feels safer.

My point is, perhaps the Light wasn’t stolen. Perhaps the Traveller is making its own decisions. After all, no one is perfect, and the Traveller is looking to protect itself. All Savathun did was prove that living among humanity is the better protector.