Destiny 2's The Edge of Fate redirects the franchise by making the Nine active, interdimensional forces central to the plot and situating action on the new planetoid Kepler. The expansion introduces Lodi, a non-Guardian temporal outsider and former member of the 1960s US Department of External Observation, providing a grounded human viewpoint rather than immortal Traveler-resurrected Guardians. The DEO connection expands Cold War-era lore, brings UFO and conspiracy elements into the setting, and even hints at a DEO probe into the Kennedy assassination. These narrative shifts create new quests and establish the franchise's future direction.
And a lot has changed with The Edge of Fate. The expansion takes players to Kepler, a new planetoid, with a story that hinges on the Nine--powerful interdimensional entities tied to the planets of the solar system. The Nine have been string-pulling entities existing mostly in the background of Destiny 2 for its entire run, but with The Edge of Fate, they're putting fingers on the scales and driving the narrative in the most direct way ever.
Central to the story is Lodi, a new character introduced with the expansion who's different from those we've seen before. Lodi isn't a Guardian, resurrected by the Traveler with special new powers and immortality; instead, he's a man out of time with a perspective closer to those of the people playing the game than of the futuristic space wizards we've been dealing with up to now.
That has brought a whole lot of new lore into the Destiny world, with a closer look into the past than the game's story has ever provided before. The Collector's Edition of The Edge of Fate gives a closer look at the DEO, and even suggests it investigated the Kennedy Assassination--which had fans wondering if Lodi was the man on the grassy knoll.
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