Highlights

  • Destiny 2's Season of the Wish brings closure to the narrative that started with Forsaken, the Dreaming City, and the Last Wish Raid.
  • Players will finally be able to find and enter the code for the missing 15th Wish into the Wall of Wishes, making the whole plot thread come full circle.
  • A new Ahamkara egg is revealed, and when it hatches, the creature will be able to grant wish number 15, possibly bridging the gap with Destiny 2's The Final Shape.

Destiny 2 has often been a game of secrets and mysteries, from things left in the game by developers at Bungie for players to find to lore books foreshadowing significant events in the series' universe, but none come close to the title's infamous puzzles. Destiny 2's Raids typically involve some form of jumping puzzle that tests the manual and logical skills of every Guardian going through it, and while some can be cheesed or skipped entirely, others remain unavoidable. Similarly, there are some things about the game that have never officially surfaced, only for Destiny 2's API to tease fans and dataminers with, such as the 15th Wish and the recently revealed Season of the Wish.

Destiny 2's Forsaken is the standard for The Final Shape for a reason, as it was the most beloved expansion for the game on release, and even years later. The love for Forsaken is not something that players lavishly bestowed upon Bungie and Destiny 2, but rather it comes from the many great changes and additions to the game, including the Dreaming City location and the Last Wish Raid. These are both pieces of content that most vanilla players keep dear to their hearts, and the fact that Season of the Wish makes them come full circle, alongside Forsaken as a whole, is unlikely to go unnoticed.

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Why Destiny 2's Season of the Wish is a Big Event Ahead of The Final Shape

The Last Wish Raid was not only an amazing piece of endgame content when it came out, but it also quickly became a source of speculation and thorough research from players when the Wall of Wishes was revealed. Here, players started to use specific combinations of symbols found in the game to activate a total of 14 specific "wishes" - in-game mechanics capable of allowing players to do certain things, such as skipping to a given boss or zone of Destiny 2's Last Wish Raid.

However, there seemed to be a 15th Wish that was never found, but it was listed as a possible in-game Triumph in the game's API, leading to players trying their best to chase the ghost of this wish. It was never found, but hope was reignited in Season of the Lost due to the hard focus on the Dreaming City and Savathun, which seemed plausible enough for a sendoff of the in-game location by breaking its curse and finding the remaining wish. This was not the case, though, and Destiny 2's focus never fell back on the Dreaming City since.

Given that Season of the Wish is not only about the 15th Wish, but also about the so-called "Wish Dragons" - known as Ahamkara - players will finally be able to find and enter the code for the missing wish into the Wall of Wishes, making the whole plot thread come full circle.

It's unclear whether players will also break the never-ending curse of the Dreaming City in Season of the Wish, but it seems they will indeed awaken a new Ahamkara, possibly the spawn of Riven of a Thousand Voices from the Last Wish Raid.

It's also fitting that this brings closure to the narrative that started with Forsaken, the Dreaming City, and the Last Wish Raid as players find the actual last wish in the game to bridge the gap with Destiny 2's The Final Shape. Wish Dragons went extinct with the Great Hunt, and with Riven being Taken and then granting the wish to curse the Dreaming City as she died, the only known remnants of the species lay in the Dreaming City in the form of Riven's own heart and Mara Sov's Taken Ahamkara egg. Now, a new Ahamkara egg is revealed, and when it hatches, the creature will be able to grant wish number 15.