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5/18/2025 6:54:16 PM
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Black Garden contradiction
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 Shockwave 989: 5/19/2025 8:36:52 PM[url=https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/tenebrous-tunnels]Tenebrous Tunnels[/url] [quote]When we destroyed the Heart, we locked the Garden to the surface of Mars. All the Taken had to do was... walk through the front door.[/quote] The mission you’re citing has the answer. What’s happened inbetween is that the Vex have once again taken the Black Garden from Mars and stitched it back up, as the Undying Mind was trying to do within the Destiny 1 Strike. Most likely spurred on by the Red Legion invasion of Mars where they actively targeted Vex installations, such as blowing up the original gate to the Black Garden. The one of the Moon was constructed very recently (at the time of Shadowkeep) by the lack of other Vex architecture, no doubt spurred by the awakening of the Pyramid on the Moon.
