‘Destiny 2’ Says ‘Veiled Threats’ Will Emerge This Week, What’s That Mean?

When we hit reset next Tuesday, it will be just two weeks until the launch of The Final Shape in Destiny 2, and as part of its process to get anyone and everyone onboarded before that expansion hits, Bungie appears to have something planned in-game.

The “Next Week in Destiny” popup on Friday had an opening line that read “Veiled threats emerge.” Now, players are wondering what exactly that means, and there are a few best-case scenarios, and perhaps a few more realistic ones. Here are what I think are the options.

The Dread Are Roaming – If “veiled threats” are emerging, this would be a really cool time to debut the Dread a bit early, the new enemy race that Bungie has built out, extended from Tormentors and Rhulk, and becoming fully its own thing. One thing we do not know about the Dread is how and why exactly they exist, and why now, so this could be some clue as to that.

The “roaming” bit of this is a reference to the Destiny 1 House of Wolves expansion that had an in-game event that people still cite to this day as a cool example where future content could be previewed. In it, Fallen “Wolves” (House of Wolves) roamed the landscape you could hunt, and you could even farm them for unreleased weapons. The idea here is that maybe they could do the same thing with the Dread. Again, this is in the “best-case scenario” tier where you should probably not get your hopes up.

Nezarec Dread Minions – This was a cool theory I saw in my comments that when Nezarec arrives as the final Pantheon boss, that instead of the enemies that aided him before, he will instead of Dread, essentially his Tormentor-ish kin, aiding him as the “modification” for his challenge, a step beyond the “two Rhulks” we saw last week, and another very, very cool way to debut the Dread, this time for mainly elite players running Pantheon, who would get the early sneak peak. That would be a pretty fantastic surprise.

Final Mission – Sure, again, there could be some new mission starring the Dread. But at this point, we should also open up the possibility that there is maybe (probably) not going to be a debut of the Dread at all, and “veiled threats” may mean the general threat of the Witness and his forces in some new mission or cutscene. The Veil, of course, is also the big Lightfall MacGuffin that could have something to do with the terminology here. This may be the most likely option.

I want to believe this has something to do with an early reveal of The Dread. I normally would say there’s probably a zero percent chance this happens, but Bungie has been in full-on “wish-granting” mode for a while now, and people have been saying “why don’t we do anything like the Wolves are Roaming anymore?” for years now. So I’m not ruling it out. But something is happening, in any case, and unlike the last few weeks, I’ll be there.

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