The Destiny Lore Quiz

By: Ian Fortey
Estimated Completion Time
3 min
The Destiny Lore Quiz
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About This Quiz

Any good video game these days needs a little bit of lore and history to keep players interested and engaged with the characters. Long-running RPG creators have always known this, and the stories in games like Final Fantasy and World of Warcraft have always been rich and detailed. But man, do they have anything on Destiny? The lore of Destiny is almost as complex and detailed as real life history. From the very beginning of the universe and even before, to the farthest reaches of time and space, Destiny goes everywhere. Beings of dark matter and pure thought run into great civilizations that rose and fell even before mankind existed. Billions of years of history and evolution of races like the Hive come into play to set the stage for the game when you get to take control of your Guardian. There's so much richness and depth you couldn't possibly have encountered it all. But surely you came across a lot of it if you played through Destiny and Destiny 2!

If you're confident you know who rules the House of Wolves, or where Ghosts get their power, or what happened to the Helium King, then it's time to take the Destiny lore quiz and show your stuff!

Question 1 - Extinction
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What event nearly caused the extinction of the human race?
The Reckoning
The Collapse
The Breaking
The End Time
Question 2 - Darkness
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When was the Darkness created?
At the beginning of time
10,000 years ago
Before the beginning of time
One million years ago
Question 3 - Sword
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Who practices a religion known as the Sword Logic?
The Hive
The Vex
The Traveler
The Cryptarchy

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Question 4 - Dark
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Do you know which of these is another name for the Darkness?
The Winnower
The Deep
The Formless One
All of the above
Question 5 - Scorn
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The Scorn are undead members of which species?
Vex
Awoken
Human
Fallen
Question 6 - Gjallarhorn
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Who created the Gjallarhorn?
Lord Shaxx
Vell Tarlowe
Feizel Crux
Ana Bray

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Question 7 -  Black Garden
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Where is the Black Garden?
Venus
The end of the universe
Mars
Beyond space and time
Question 8 - the Vex
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What part of the Vex is biological?
Nothing
Their brains
Mind-core fluid
Their eyes
Question 9 - Exos
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Who created Exos?
Humans
The Fallen
The Darkness
No one knows.

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Question 10 - Warmind
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What intelligence do the Vex have a hard time simulating, due to its complexity?
Awoken
Hive
Exominds
Warmind
Question 11 - Ghaul
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Dominus Ghaul is the ruler of which group?
The Cabal
The Guardians
The Fallen
The Taken
Question 12 - Ghosts
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Who created Ghosts?
Guardians
The Vex
The Traveler
Oryx

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Question 13 - Hive
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The Hive have spread across the galaxy, but where do they call home?
Sol
Fundament
The Moon
The Black Garden
Question 14 - Helium King
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Do you know who killed the Helium King?
Savathun
Oryx, the Taken King
Xivu Arath
The Traveler
Question 15 - Awoken
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When were the Awoken created?
At the beginning of time
Before the beginning of time
During the Collapse
At the Battle of Six Fronts

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Question 16 - Nine
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Do you know what the Nine are?
The original Vex
Emissaries of the Darkness
The rulers of the Fallen
Dark Matter beings
Question 17 - Thorn
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Who was the original wielder of the weapon called Thorn?
Uldren Sov
Dredgen Yor
Lord Felwinter
Saint-14
Question 18 - Golden
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The Golden Age came before the Collapse. What came after?
The End Time
The New Beginning
The Return
The Dark Age

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Question 19 - Nessus
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Which race invaded the planet Nessus after the Vex converted it to a machine world?
The Fallen
The Hive
The Cabal
The Taken
Question 20 - the Guardians
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Who founded the Guardians during the Faction Wars?
Rezyl Azzir
Lord Shaxx
Saladin Forge
Andal Brask
Question 21 - Last City
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What was the first battle that the Last City fought?
The Battle of the Twilight Gap
The Reef Wars
The Battle of Burning Lake
The Battle of the Six Fronts

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Question 22 - Saint
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Who was the Exo Titan who fought the Fallen after the Battle of Twilight Gap?
Solkis Devil Kell
Saladin Forge
Praedyth
Saint-14
Question 23 - Hive
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Do you know who attacked the Last City in the Battle of Burning Lake?
The Taken
The Hive
The Cabal
The Fallen
Question 24 - Ahamkara
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What dangerous power did the Ahamkara have that led the Great Hunt to destroy them?
Mind reading
Wish granting
Time traveling
Porta making

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Question 25 - Yor
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With what weapon was Dredgen Yor finally slain?
Thorn
Rose
The Last Word
Apotheosis
Question 26 - Oryx
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Why did Oryx want revenge during the Taken King expansion?
The Vex destroyed his homeworld.
The Guardians killed his son.
The Fallen killed his sisters.
The Guardians nearly killed him.
Question 27 - Curse of Osiris
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Where does the Curse of Osiris take place?
Earth
Mars
Luna
Mercury

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Question 28 - Wolves
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Who was the leader of the House of Wolves?
Osiris
Skolas
Craask
Keldar
Question 29 - Vanguard of the Warlocks
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After Osiris is deposed, who eventually takes over as Vanguard of the Warlocks?
Banshee-44
Suraya Hawthorne
Mara Sov
Ikora Rey
Question 30 - SIVA
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SIVA is dangerous nanotechnology created by whom?
The Taken King
Kell of Kells
The Darkness
Clovis Bray

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Question 31 - Phobos
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What race set up shop on Phobos before they invaded Mars?
The Cabal
The Vex
The Hive
The Fallen
Question 32 - Eris
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Do you know who died while swimming in their first life, before becoming a Guardian?
Commander Zavala
Lord Saladin
Asher Mir
Eris Morn
Question 33 - Books of Sorrow
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Who wrote the Books of Sorrow?
The Darkness
Oryx
Crota
Dominus Ghaul

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Question 34 - the Fallen
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What is the name of the event that caused the Fallen to become the Fallen?
The Whirlwind
The Cataclysm
The Reaping
The Rendering
Question 35 - the Reef
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Where is the Reef?
Behind the sun
In an asteroid field
Below the Moon's surface
Phobos