I think Bungie should release Destiny novels.
Because there is so much of the world that can be explored, that likely would never get explored in game. Like Taox, Efriediets pacifist settlement, Dione,... There is so much story that could get told, but we always have to wait and hope that the narrative team is interested in using it for their story.
But I would like if we could get more storys that are fleshed out and involve such lore mysterys without needing it to fit and explore more of the current storyline.
We get lorebooks that tell of singular storys in game, like the gardenway, Divinity, Achilles weaves a cocoon, or Fetwinters story. They are great reads, but also very short and just focus on key events of their story. Imagine you could read Fetwinters story from the beginning to the fall of the Iron Lords as a book.
I understand that Bungie wants to keep their options open for the future, but damnit let some of the ideas just go. Over ten years they did nothing with Taox. Just give us "The Book of Hope" with her perspective on the "Books of Sorrow" to til the point she dies, becomes the Oxta machine, or whatever. Her character and perspective in comparison to the hive siblings was something I was always very interested in and I find it annoying that she is just an useless open plotthread for over ten years.
There are also plotthreads that seem bad or not interesting enough to explore in game, but would still very much interesting to explore as a story. I see the pacifist settlement with Efriediet as something like that. In game I feel they would just feel like an other Aionians settlement, because the Aionians lived in peace until shortly before Edge of Fate. They wouldn't be so special for the game, but still a story for them could be made with them in a book.
They could also do something wild like a book about an other civilisation in an other solar system that was attacked by the Vex and failed to fight them off. In game we have the problem that we don't have a real feeling on how dangerous the main collective is and they could it very well do it in a book (still means they have to make them noticablely threatening in game, but a book can more easyly explore how threatening they are)
Something I also always wanted to get more of in way more depth than a usual lorebook could do is the creation of the Last City. How started the settlement underneath the Traveler? What conflicts were there and how were they solved? How and why did people come to the Last City? How was the transition from Dark Age to City Age? We know some stuff and can puzzle out the rest, but still we could get an deeper exploration of the time and the city that time created. They could also use it to go into more smaller stuff, like how people traveled from europe to america (by ship, or spaceship? Was the path under warlords control?).
They could tell us more of how life was in the Golden Age (and how they dealed with the ahamkara...)
There is just so goddamn much to explore of the world and storys to tell in book form, that it is a same that we always have to hope they somehow touch the topics in game and where they also have to somehow make it relevant for the current story. I understand that Bungie wants to keep mysterys open in case they would like to use them in the future, but they have so much that it wouldn't hurt to let some mysterys to get told in books by other autors (under some restriction on what they can do and add to the lore).
Posted Mar 5, 2026, 7:57 PM UTC