Destiny 2 Lore - The Traveller's Blade Reveals it's thoughts & was found on our grave.

At this point, I don't read the exotic lore tabs knowing that Byf will read it to me like a teacher reading a class Dr Seuss.

19:05 I think that this is referring to the Hive turning to the Witness. The Traveler wanted to uplift the Krill, the Krill instead went down into the Deep to become the Hive, and eventually Savathun came back to the Traveler to be reborn.

I agree with most of this. The key lesson here is that the traveler truly does care about life. About us. And that it didnt want to release the ghosts. It sees the powers of the light as a burden. And it didnt want to force a destiny on anyone. It wants to reach out but not order us. It wants to help us. This is so important to finally confirm. The traveler has always been silent because it finds it cruel to take away our purpose and become an object of worship. But it loves granting us gifts and watching us use them. If it wasnt so threatened it would never have guided us at all. And maybe most interestingly. It doesnt react badly to use using the darkness. It sees it at decay sure. But it almost seems...Pleasantly surprised? Like its a spectator among our many that are in awe of our actions and choices. The traveler is essentially the biggest fan of life. Always helping how it can. But never wanting the spotlight.

I think the full quote is, Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum. ("I doubt, therefore I think, I think therefore I am")

one thing i absolutely love about this expansion is how gentle the traveler is portrayed. Not just Ergo Sum's lore but also all the little travelers you find throughout the pale heart to get Kvostov add to the gentleness of the traveler. The lighthouse keeper from this sword's lore and how its implied that the traveler doesn't quite understand worship from the collectables are some of my personal favorite bits from final shape.

That imagery of the Traveler drowning in the Deep and recognizing us desperately trying to reach it is such evocative imagery, it made me weep.

The bit about Ghaul actually brought me to tears- to know that the Traveler heard Ghaul, and nearly wanted to give him and his people the Light, but held back because he wanted it too harshly, and because it would only condemn them to the same fate all species the Traveler touched seemed to earn. Also, the idea that the Traveler's voice is too faint for anyone to truly hear is HEARTBREAKING. It wants to share its Light and guide every being who it touches, and yet literally cannot breach that wall of Silence. Im not sure if anyone in the history of the Light has ever had this idea- that the Traveler waan't silent by choice, but by its own nature.

I like that the name of the sword is also a nod to the nature of Guardians and the Traveller. It's simply called "I am" rather than "I think, therefore, I am" because we are paracausal. There is no causality necessary for us to simply be, we simply just ARE. Guardians make our own fate, after all.

What if this was to be our fate. Perhaps in that timeline when we confronted the witness. We won in the same way we did in this timeline, at the cost of our ghost. Because of Cayde, our light was restored but what if Cayde wasn’t there? Yes, at some point our guardian will die but who’s to say that this grave is of our timeline. I believe that this was to be our fate before Cayde’s intervention.

I think it's notable that the sword models are technically different if you really look at it. I like also like to believe that the difference is important; the Traveler refining and reimagining a sword that symbolized our final death, symbolizing a new beginning and hope.

The last time I was this early Pulse Rifles and Scout Rifles had their models swapped

“The cause of our death is currently unknown , the fact we do die at some point in the future does imply their is a more terrible threat than the witness, lurking on the horizon, a threat who’s power exceeds anything we’ve seen before” (dies 2000 times to Randal the vandal)

To me the Ergo sum is like the coolest lore I’ve ever seen. This is the sword we know without a shadow of a doubt we die holding and yet when we see it embedded in that statue we grab it by the handle and make our own fate.

15:23 Looking at the man reaching for a book, the Traveler could be referencing to when Zavala tries to bring back his son, the books representing the lives of the universe, adding to the pile of books upon death.

I considered the one about 'Reaching back' was the Hive, going "down, down, down, into the abyss, and Savathuun reaching back was just as surprising to the Traveler as it was to us.

One interesting thing about the traveler referring to the risen being books from a stack is that it gives more context to the fact that ghosts are born to only resurrect a single guardian wether that guardian exists yet or not. If the traveler has some form of stockpile or codex of sorts it would mean that by extension the gardener knows who has live AND who will live in the future. I say this because ghosts have been documented as being spawned decades and even centuries prior to the game without ever having found their guardian. With some having found their guardian only recently. Like with crow whose ghost was spawned far prior to his demise but was always meant to be his ghost somehow.

I really like the idea that the Traveler is so stricken with love that it has done what it has done, and that it is pleased that we reach back to it. It’s comforting

I think the passage with the books is an analogy to memories and its connection to Darkness. The Traveler is holding on to Memories of those who died, it "remembers" them, but memories are heavy and drag it "down", to the Darkness. But it takes all of its strength to carry those memories, as a being of the light. Being unable to do anything else, but to hold on to those we've lost. That is also why we would be "all connected" by the light. Also, maybe by holding on to those memories, it's like keeping pieces from being taken off the field, like in chess.

In saint's eulogy, he mentions that he doesn't truly think we are dead, maybe that funeral could take place after a battle where we are "lost"

The section at 19:00 SCREAMS the story of the hive/savathun. The idea that the Krill were sent into the oceans of Fundament to discover the worms, and turning to darkness until their entire civilization is serving it, only for savathun to show back up to the Traveler fits SO well