So have Bungie just forgotten that the House of Exile were made up of the malcontents from other Fallen Houses over the centuries of their presence in Sol? They are now being described as arriving in Sol during the Dark Age after fleeing Riis which is completely false.
I know there is time shenanigans going on in this expansion but I don’t think this can be explained away by that. They are also led by an Archon which goes completely against their principles in D1.
Bugs me that Bungie could have created a new house for this or simply said that they are a splinter of House Salvation or Dusk. Instead they break the lore for seemingly no reason, not like House Exile being present thickens the plot.
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It looks like the [url=https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/twid_07_03_2025]recent TWAB[/url] answered your question: [i]House of Exile is a lower House made predominantly from the remains of other Houses defeated at Twilight Gap. However, according to the Cryptarchy, the Exile banner pre-dates Twilight Gap, albeit without an official title. It was simply a collection of malcontents, outcasts and, well, exiles during the ‘Long Drift’ to Earth from Riis. While many of the Exiles reconstituted into a House on the Moon, Luna, a subsect of the House broke away prior to the battle of Twilight Gap, refusing to invade Earth. They retreated to the edge of the Sol system to live in peace. The Exiles on Kepler are believed to be those defectors.[/i]