This story contains major spoilers for Destiny 2: Season of the Splicer.

While Destiny 2’s Season of the Splicer runs through until 24th August, the story tied to the season is drawing to an end.

There is one more major story mission to complete according to the Triumph tracker in-game but this week there was a development that warrants addressing.

This is your last chance to avoid spoilers so get out now.

Everybody who doesn’t want to read spoilers gone? Let’s dive in.

On Tuesday, Destiny 2 players were tasked with entering the Vex network they have been “hacking” since 11th May and destroying the Vex Mind controlling the network.

That Vex Mind is actually the Taken Vex Mind, Quria, the Dreaming Mind or Blade Transfrom.

If the mention of Dreaming Mind has you thinking about the Dreaming City, that’s good because the two are linked. We won’t go into the lore surrounding Quria – you can read more here – but the cliff notes are that Quria has trapped the Dreaming City in a simulation since Guardians slayed Riven of a Thousand Voices in the Last Wish raid.

Since then the Dreaming City has been cursed, locked in a three week cycle that escalates in severity each week.

This has been a major plot point in Destiny 2 since the launch of the Last Wish raid in 2018. In fact the quest to end the curse on the Dreaming City has occupied players for years. Some players even took a piece of lore from the Destiny 2 equivalent of a misinformation blog, seriously in a bid to break the curse.

Back to the present and on Tuesday players took on Quria but the enemy wasn’t an alternative boss in the Vault of Glass raid or a Dungeon. No, Quria was the target in a single player mission that took us all of 11 minutes to complete.

While we understand that Bungie has to make this story content accessible, it feels disappointing to meet such an important boss in a mission that is no harder than a Lost Sector.

Bungie has made a habit of turning important antagonists into mindless quests. Dominus Ghaul from the vanilla Destiny 2 campaign was a joke, as was Xol, a literal Hive God that lived for aeons before we dispatched it with a glorified fire-stick. Even the final fight against Eramis, Kel of House Salvation was over to quickly for our liking.

This habit has lead us to fear that the biggest bad in Destiny 2 to date, Savathûn the Witch Queen, will meet a similar fate.

Bungie would have to be completely blind to what players want for this to happen but as we’ve already outlined, the developer has done this before.

We don’t want to say that Quria should have been the final boss in the Vault of Glass Raid but its presence there would’ve made a lot more sense and helped to loop the Raid into Destiny 2’s storyline.

Would this have been more work for Bungie? It’s likely it would have and since the developer is working hard on the game behind the scenes in preparation for The Witch Queen’s release in 2022, we hesitate to say Quria should’ve been the Vault of Glass final boss.

Aside from this tragic handling of Quria’s fate, Bungie has hit the story beats for Season of the Splicer out of the park with each week providing another great revelation or story to immerse yourself in.

We are not blind to the fact that Quria’s death could be fake or a red herring set lose by Savathûn and with one more major mission left in the season, we won’t have to wait too long to find out what’s behind the next corner.