A contradiction in the lore. Not too big to affect the current story but it still bothers me nonetheless.
When we first enter the black garden all the way back in vanilla Destiny 1, we enter through a portal on mars and once we enter, our ghost states that we seem to be in some type of space outside of time or the universe, I don’t know exactly what he said but something like that.
It isn’t until during the Taken War quest in one of the missions where the taken invade the black garden where we know the black garden’s actual location. As we travel through the subway system underground of mars, it leads us into the black garden which proves the black garden’s location is just in underground mars. Our ghost even states how we went through all that trouble trying to get the eye of a vex gate lord when all we had to do was go through the subway system of mars.
In Destiny 2 however, we return to the Black Garden during Shadowkeep in the Garden of Salvation raid. My problem I have is if you look up when you’re in the black garden, you can see different planets and a sun in the sky. This contradicts what Destiny 1 stated the black garden was being UNDERGROUND and on MARS.
So either Bungie completely forgot the lore to their own game or there is some type of lore I missed regarding the black garden
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Edited by damascus: 5/19/2025 5:33:53 PMI didn’t play earlier games. But is it possible you went through a portal to the Black Garden, at the end of traveling through the underground tunnel on Mars? Or some sort of space/time warp? We access the Black Garden for the Star Crossed mission (for the Wish Keeper Strand Exotic Bow) this way. We also access it this way (portal) from the Moon for the GoS raid. As far as concepts, maybe we see this theme a lot. I think about the Witch Queen campaign. We start on Mars, because we see Savuthun’s ship hovering above. But once rocketed up with Cabal technology, we enter her Throne World. We know her Throne world isnt really “on” Mars. It’s a complete separate reality, crafted by the Savathun herself. Much like Oryx’ dreadnaught “ship”. Perhaps the Black Garden can shift in time and space like the above worlds too. We only can interact with these spaces because we presumably possess technology and power (from the Traveler and others)