The Destiny Lore Quiz

By: Ian Fortey
Estimated Completion Time
3 min
The Destiny Lore Quiz
Image: Bungie /Activision

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
Bungie /Activision
What event nearly caused the extinction of the human race?
The Reckoning
The Collapse
The Breaking
The End Time
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Once upon a time, humanity had populated all corners of the galaxy — until the Collapse. The evil known as the Darkness forced humans all the way back to Earth and almost destroyed them entirely. The intervention of the Traveler kept humankind alive.

Advertisement

Question 2 - Darkness
Bungie /Activision
When was the Darkness created?
At the beginning of time
10,000 years ago
Before the beginning of time
One million years ago
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

The Light and the Darkness are primal forces in the world of Destiny. Both have existed since before time and the universe itself began. The Darkness enacts its will upon others, agents that do its bidding, including the Vex and the Hive. Essentially, it is an eternal force of nature.

Advertisement

Question 3 - Sword
Bungie /Activision
Who practices a religion known as the Sword Logic?
The Hive
The Vex
The Traveler
The Cryptarchy
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

A product of the Darkness, the Hive religion known as Sword Logic is explained in what is essentially their Bible, the Books of Sorrow. Those who practice Sword Logic can do magic by accessing the same sort of power that is found in the Darkness.

Advertisement

Question 4 - Dark
Bungie /Activision
Do you know which of these is another name for the Darkness?
The Winnower
The Deep
The Formless One
All of the above
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Something as primal as the Darkness has to be known by a few names. The Winnower, the Deep and the Formless One are just a few of the titles attributed to it. Sometimes it's also called the Flower Eater, the Black Edge, Titanomach or the Queen of Final Shapes.

Advertisement

Question 5 - Scorn
Bungie /Activision
The Scorn are undead members of which species?
Vex
Awoken
Human
Fallen
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

The Scorn are undead Fallen, brought back to life by Fikrul, the Fanatic, using tainted Ether. They're the primary villains in Destiny 2, and they're a little more diverse than their still-living counterparts in terms of how they can attack and what weapons they use.

Advertisement

Question 6 - Gjallarhorn
Bungie /Activision
Who created the Gjallarhorn?
Lord Shaxx
Vell Tarlowe
Feizel Crux
Ana Bray
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

One of the founders of Cruz/Lomar, Feizel Crux was a master weaponsmith who crafted the Gjallarhorn rocket launcher. He made it personally as a gift to the Guardians who fought in the Battle of the Twilight Gap, using the armor of their fallen comrades.

Advertisement

Question 7 -  Black Garden
Bungie /Activision
Where is the Black Garden?
Venus
The end of the universe
Mars
Beyond space and time
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

The Black Garden may be the place where the Vex come from. Though it can be accessed by a gate on Mars, as well as one on Luna, it is not physically at either of those locations. It is somewhere beyond space and time, linked to the Darkness.

Advertisement

Question 8 - the Vex
Bungie /Activision
What part of the Vex is biological?
Nothing
Their brains
Mind-core fluid
Their eyes
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

The consciousness of the Vex spans space and time, and their bodies are almost 100% mechanical. Within their mechanical shell, in their mind core, is a radiolarian fluid that looks like milk and is the last remnant of their biological nature.

Advertisement

Question 9 - Exos
Bungie /Activision
Who created Exos?
Humans
The Fallen
The Darkness
No one knows.
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Exominds, usually abbreviated as Exos, are living machines that were created by humanity during the Golden Age, before the Collapse. A man named Clovis Bray may have been their creator, but after the Collapse, most of their history, including their reason for being, was lost.

Advertisement

Question 10 - Warmind
Bungie /Activision
What intelligence do the Vex have a hard time simulating, due to its complexity?
Awoken
Hive
Exominds
Warmind
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

The Vex are able to simulate human intelligence with ease, but they struggle to understand the massive artificial intelligence known as a Warmind. At least one Warmind, known as Rasputin, survived the Collapse.

Advertisement

Question 11 - Ghaul
Bungie /Activision
Dominus Ghaul is the ruler of which group?
The Cabal
The Guardians
The Fallen
The Taken
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

The Cabal come from outside the Solar System but have set up colonies on several planets, including Mars. The hulking aliens are subject to the rule of Dominus Ghaul. Before Ghaul, Emperor Calus was the leader of the Cabal.

Advertisement

Question 12 - Ghosts
Bungie /Activision
Who created Ghosts?
Guardians
The Vex
The Traveler
Oryx
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

After the Collapse, the Traveler created the Ghosts from actual pieces of its own body. The pieces created the mechanical shells that house the inner Light and have an instinctive need to raise their companions from the dead using the Light.

Advertisement

Question 13 - Hive
Bungie /Activision
The Hive have spread across the galaxy, but where do they call home?
Sol
Fundament
The Moon
The Black Garden
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

The planet Fundament is a gas giant where the Hive first evolved billions of years ago. They were simple creatures at first, but, through their introduction to the Darkness-worshipping worms at the center of the planet, they became the sinister Hive.

Advertisement

Question 14 - Helium King
Bungie /Activision
Do you know who killed the Helium King?
Savathun
Oryx, the Taken King
Xivu Arath
The Traveler
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Savathun the Witch Queen, once known as Sathuna, daughter of the Osmium King, is responsible for killing the Helium King. After she and her siblings made a deal with the worms, they became the progenitors and gods of the Hive.

Advertisement

Question 15 - Awoken
Bungie /Activision
When were the Awoken created?
At the beginning of time
Before the beginning of time
During the Collapse
At the Battle of Six Fronts
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

The precise origins of the Awoken are not known, but the belief is that they were created during the Collapse. Before the Collapse they were humans, but as they fled to the outer reaches of space, the remnants of the Collapse changed them forever.

Advertisement

Question 16 - Nine
Bungie /Activision
Do you know what the Nine are?
The original Vex
Emissaries of the Darkness
The rulers of the Fallen
Dark Matter beings
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

The Nine are beings made from a sort of coalesced Dark Matter — basically, pure thought that came into existence as life in the galaxy emerged. They can only exist as thinking beings as long as other thinking beings exist on the planets of Sol.

Advertisement

Question 17 - Thorn
Bungie /Activision
Who was the original wielder of the weapon called Thorn?
Uldren Sov
Dredgen Yor
Lord Felwinter
Saint-14
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

One of the Weapons of Sorrow, the exotic hand cannon called Thorn, was first used by the Guardian Dredgen Yor. In the beginning, Thorn was known as Rose, and Dredgen Yor went by the name Rezyl Azzir until he fell to Darkness.

Advertisement

Question 18 - Golden
Bungie /Activision
The Golden Age came before the Collapse. What came after?
The End Time
The New Beginning
The Return
The Dark Age
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

After the Collapse and the end of the Golden Age, the Dark Age began. The Dark Age lasted for an extended period of time, but it was replaced by the City Age when the Last City was founded. The city was built on Earth under the floating Traveler, and most of the remaining humans live there.

Advertisement

Question 19 - Nessus
Bungie /Activision
Which race invaded the planet Nessus after the Vex converted it to a machine world?
The Fallen
The Hive
The Cabal
The Taken
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Nessus exists in a deep orbit that sometimes goes right into the Kuiper Belt. The Vex made it into a machine world long ago, but then the Cabal took over to mine it for whatever technology and resources they could find.

Advertisement

Question 20 - the Guardians
Bungie /Activision
Who founded the Guardians during the Faction Wars?
Rezyl Azzir
Lord Shaxx
Saladin Forge
Andal Brask
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

It was Rezyl Azzir who founded the Guardians by uniting the Risen during the Faction Wars. Thanks to the influence of the Guardians the war was ended, and those in the city were able to unite against the Fallen.

Advertisement

Question 21 - Last City
Bungie /Activision
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
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

The Battle of the Six Fronts was the first major offensive that the Last City had to face. The Fallen attacked, and the Guardians were able to hold off the attack on every front. The Iron Lords became legends during this time.

Advertisement

Question 22 - Saint
Bungie /Activision
Who was the Exo Titan who fought the Fallen after the Battle of Twilight Gap?
Solkis Devil Kell
Saladin Forge
Praedyth
Saint-14
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

After the Fallen attack during the Battle of Twilight Gap, Saint-14 led forces to take out the Fallen based around the Last City. It was once thought that he died in the Infinite Forest, but, thanks to time travel, he survived and exists in the present timeline of the game.

Advertisement

Question 23 - Hive
Bungie /Activision
Do you know who attacked the Last City in the Battle of Burning Lake?
The Taken
The Hive
The Cabal
The Fallen
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

In what was called the Late City Age, the Hive came to Earth and attacked at the Battle of Burning Lake. The Guardians were successful in ending the invasion. Lord Shaxx used this as an opportunity to start reverse engineering Hive blades for Guardian use.

Advertisement

Question 24 - Ahamkara
Bungie /Activision
What dangerous power did the Ahamkara have that led the Great Hunt to destroy them?
Mind reading
Wish granting
Time traveling
Porta making
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Viewed as legendary dragons, the Ahamkara had the power to grant wishes and make someone's darkest desires into reality. The Guardians exploited this power at first but later came to fear the great cost of such power. They hunted the species nearly to extinction.

Advertisement

Question 25 - Yor
Bungie /Activision
With what weapon was Dredgen Yor finally slain?
Thorn
Rose
The Last Word
Apotheosis
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

After Dredgen Yor turns on his fellow Guardians and slaughters many of them, he is confronted by Shin Malphur, the son of the Hunter Jaren Ward. Malphur wields the weapon known as the Last Word to take out Yor.

Advertisement

Question 26 - Oryx
Bungie /Activision
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.
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Oryx, the God-King of the Hive, sought revenge against the Guardians for killing his son Crota. To this end, he entered the solar system in an absolutely massive ship called the Dreadnought, but he was unable to take the ship all the way to Earth.

Advertisement

Question 27 - Curse of Osiris
Bungie /Activision
Where does the Curse of Osiris take place?
Earth
Mars
Luna
Mercury
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

The Curse of Osiris expansion pack deals with the Guardians' attempts to rescue the Warlock Osiris from the Vex on Mercury. He was exiled from the Last City because he was a little too obsessed with the Vex.

Advertisement

Question 28 - Wolves
Bungie /Activision
Who was the leader of the House of Wolves?
Osiris
Skolas
Craask
Keldar
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Skolas the Rabid was the Kell of the House of Wolves who sought to unite all of the Fallen Houses and become the Kell of Kells. He's the big bad of the House of Wolves expansion. Skolas is known for being both vicious and delusional.

Advertisement

Question 29 - Vanguard of the Warlocks
Bungie /Activision
After Osiris is deposed, who eventually takes over as Vanguard of the Warlocks?
Banshee-44
Suraya Hawthorne
Mara Sov
Ikora Rey
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Ikora Rey is a human who was the disciple of Osiris. She took on more and more of his duties as his obsession with the Vex grew. Eventually, when Osiris was given the boot, Ikora was elevated to his former position as Vanguard.

Advertisement

Question 30 - SIVA
Bungie /Activision
SIVA is dangerous nanotechnology created by whom?
The Taken King
Kell of Kells
The Darkness
Clovis Bray
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Once upon a time in the Golden Age, Clovis Bray created SIVA as a tool to help construct extrasolar colonies. The Warmind called Rasputin ended up using it as a weapon against the Iron Lords, and later the Fallen discovered it and unleashed it once again.

Advertisement

Question 31 - Phobos
Bungie /Activision
What race set up shop on Phobos before they invaded Mars?
The Cabal
The Vex
The Hive
The Fallen
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Before plotting their invasion of Mars, the Cabal set up a base on the Martian moon of Phobos. This base stood for quite a while, until Oryx arrived in the Solar System, at which point the Fallen overtook the base and forced the Cabal out.

Advertisement

Question 32 - Eris
Bungie /Activision
Do you know who died while swimming in their first life, before becoming a Guardian?
Commander Zavala
Lord Saladin
Asher Mir
Eris Morn
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Eris Morn, a Hunter, is an expert on the Hive. While Guardians generally don't remember their first life, Eris learned some facts from hers, including that she was from Russia and she died while swimming in the Neva River.

Advertisement

Question 33 - Books of Sorrow
Bungie /Activision
Who wrote the Books of Sorrow?
The Darkness
Oryx
Crota
Dominus Ghaul
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

The Books of Sorrow were composed by the Taken King, Oryx. He's not solely responsible for its contents, as there are verses from the Worm Gods as well as Oryx's sisters. The Books go into detail about the philosophy of the Hive.

Advertisement

Question 34 - the Fallen
Bungie /Activision
What is the name of the event that caused the Fallen to become the Fallen?
The Whirlwind
The Cataclysm
The Reaping
The Rendering
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

The Fallen were once known as the Eliksni, until an event called the Whirlwind. The Traveler chose the Eliksni before he chose humanity, so they had their own Golden Age and period of advancement. The Whirlwind occurred when the Traveler left them and they fell into civil war.

Advertisement

Question 35 - the Reef
Bungie /Activision
Where is the Reef?
Behind the sun
In an asteroid field
Below the Moon's surface
Phobos
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

The Awoken reside in the Reef, which exists in an asteroid field. Queen Mara Sov is the regent there. Remnants of ancient ships from the Golden Age are adrift in the Reef. It was as far as those fleeing the Collapse ever made it.

Advertisement

You Got:
/35
Bungie /Activision