Wellllllll, maybe not personal. More like ‘widely known but no one wants to admit it and get blown to dust’.
[There’s not a shred of dishonesty there, and instead Cayde sounds positively amused at the idea. Conditional immortality sometimes makes one forget that things like that? Are actually horrifying.
But- for the first time in a long while, at least since he’d first arrived in the Circle, he finds himself having to explain. It’s still a weird feeling, back home all this was common knowledge and he’d been doing this gig for centuries- and maybe he’s not the most unbiased source of information. But he’ll give it a go.]
Okay, quick and dirty lesson before we get to the shooting part.
[He crosses his arms, standing up a bit straighter as if that will somehow lend credibility to what he’s about to say.]
Where I come from there are people like me, well not as handsome mind you, called Guardians. We’re awesome, got a bunch of cool powers, think superheroes. A lot of us have been around a real long time, and people tend to kinda try to organize themselves, yeah? So you’ve got your Warlocks, your Titans, and your Hunters. Hunters are the best, that’s not even a lie.
[Absolutely unbiased.]
Warlocks are the whole ‘science and philosophy and books’ kinda type, do a lot of studying about the Light and the world and basically everything. They’re definitely not pushover nerds though, lemme tell you, they’ll light you up fast if you bug ‘em. Titans are the- Zavala would kill me if he heard this - the Honor and Sacrifice kind of guys. Not a lot of fun, they’re pretty serious, but they have some of the wildest stories. Like, did you know one of ‘em killed a Kell, big monster, but just headbutting it? That’s wild.
And then you have the best of the best, Hunters.
[He takes a little bow.]
Attractive, deadly, and all around amazing. Lone wolves that specialize in getting in and getting stuff done with panache, but also the stealthiest people you’ ever meet.
So you’ve got our three groups, and then from that you get three more groups each. So nine total. It depends on which way your Light, the superpowers, runs. There’s your Solar Guardians, so uh, fire. Then Arc, electricity. And then Void. I don’t think there’s really much of a comparison I can give there beyond ‘that creepy feeling when you go down into a dark basement’ or something like that. They all have names, that’s where you’re getting ‘Striker’ from, that’s an Arc Titan.
[Cayde takes a moment to breathe, even though he doesn’t have to. This is getting a little long-winded.]
Finally, you got the a lotta different factions running around but at the heart of everything you got the Vanguard. Like, as awesome as it is to just run around and be awesome some guys way back when decided that it might be good to try to organize up just a little bit. So you got your Titan Vanguard who looks over all the Titans, your Warlock Vanguard who does all the spooky Warlock stuff, and your roguishly handsome Hunter Vanguard.
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[There’s not a shred of dishonesty there, and instead Cayde sounds positively amused at the idea. Conditional immortality sometimes makes one forget that things like that? Are actually horrifying.
But- for the first time in a long while, at least since he’d first arrived in the Circle, he finds himself having to explain. It’s still a weird feeling, back home all this was common knowledge and he’d been doing this gig for centuries- and maybe he’s not the most unbiased source of information. But he’ll give it a go.]
Okay, quick and dirty lesson before we get to the shooting part.
[He crosses his arms, standing up a bit straighter as if that will somehow lend credibility to what he’s about to say.]
Where I come from there are people like me, well not as handsome mind you, called Guardians. We’re awesome, got a bunch of cool powers, think superheroes. A lot of us have been around a real long time, and people tend to kinda try to organize themselves, yeah? So you’ve got your Warlocks, your Titans, and your Hunters. Hunters are the best, that’s not even a lie.
[Absolutely unbiased.]
Warlocks are the whole ‘science and philosophy and books’ kinda type, do a lot of studying about the Light and the world and basically everything. They’re definitely not pushover nerds though, lemme tell you, they’ll light you up fast if you bug ‘em. Titans are the- Zavala would kill me if he heard this - the Honor and Sacrifice kind of guys. Not a lot of fun, they’re pretty serious, but they have some of the wildest stories. Like, did you know one of ‘em killed a Kell, big monster, but just headbutting it? That’s wild.
And then you have the best of the best, Hunters.
[He takes a little bow.]
Attractive, deadly, and all around amazing. Lone wolves that specialize in getting in and getting stuff done with panache, but also the stealthiest people you’ ever meet.
So you’ve got our three groups, and then from that you get three more groups each. So nine total. It depends on which way your Light, the superpowers, runs. There’s your Solar Guardians, so uh, fire. Then Arc, electricity. And then Void. I don’t think there’s really much of a comparison I can give there beyond ‘that creepy feeling when you go down into a dark basement’ or something like that. They all have names, that’s where you’re getting ‘Striker’ from, that’s an Arc Titan.
[Cayde takes a moment to breathe, even though he doesn’t have to. This is getting a little long-winded.]
Finally, you got the a lotta different factions running around but at the heart of everything you got the Vanguard. Like, as awesome as it is to just run around and be awesome some guys way back when decided that it might be good to try to organize up just a little bit. So you got your Titan Vanguard who looks over all the Titans, your Warlock Vanguard who does all the spooky Warlock stuff, and your roguishly handsome Hunter Vanguard.
[He waggles his browplates, clearly smug.]
You get all that?