Váli-3

Váli during the Red Legion invasion of the Last City

## Biography

**Váli-3** is an Exo Hunter known for his quiet personality, and speed in a fight. although Váli prefers to form his light under the banner of an Arcstrider, he often harnesses Solar and Void light, as well as the dark Stasis and Strand powers.

### Lifestyle

Váli spends most of his time patrolling earth and the inner planets for signs of refuges or recently resurrected Guardians in hopes of bringing them to the last city, including Eliksni who are open to co-operation with the Vanguard and House Light.

Váli also acts as a resource collector for the Last city and House Light. He hunts animals and collects important materials and information for the Last City, he also tracks down specific mechanical parts and blueprints for the Eliksni of House Light.

Apart from these activities, Váli-3 can often be found partaking in Vanguard operations, planetary patrols, and city militia training.

### Namesake

Váli, and by extension, his ghost Fen, claim that during their travels soon after Váli was resurrected, they came upon a destroyed golden age museum. In this museum they chose their name from pages scattered around the museum library. Although almost entirely destroyed, Váli and Fen were able to figure out that the pages they took their names from originated in a museum piece covering Norse mythology.

## History

### Fight against Crota

When the Hive re-awakened on the Moon, and Crota became a target, Váli-3 was among the first Guardians to volunteer to take him down. Váli fought alongside 5 other Guardians, 4 of whom he knew prior to the mission, and after many trials and near misses, he and his fireteam finally managed to take down Crota, ending his reign. From this mission, Váli-3 gained a newfound respect for his power, and that of others

### Invasion by Oryx

After the fall of Crota, the Taken King invaded the Sol system, leaving his dreadnought in orbit of Saturn.

After the battle between the Queen of the Reef and the Taken Kings forces, Váli-3 and Fen began their infiltration of the Dreadnought; after a fellow Guardian placed a Transmat beacon in a hull breach of the dreadnought, the two moved in and began fighting Oryx's forces.

Although Váli was not part of the 6 member Fireteam that eventually ended Oryx's reign, he did have a significant impact in the battles in and around the dreadnought.

### Siva Crisis

During the events of the Siva Crisis, Váli shifted almost all of his focus to carrying out missions for Lord Saladin and the Vanguard, as long as it meant fighting Siva, Váli was there.

### The Red War

Váli and Fen were outside of the Last city on a hunt during the initial invasion by the Red Legion, however he quickly flew back towards the last city upon seeing many Cabal warships approaching it. Upon arrival he began to engage in ship to ship combat, but was quickly downed and crashed in one of the bodies of water within the walls of the last city. When Váli awoke, he found that he could not summon the light, and his injuries remained, he also noticed that Fen seemed exceptionally weak. After a period of shock, Fen told him that the Traveller had somehow been trapped, and the light within trapped as well.

After emerging from the sinking wreck, and avoiding Cabal patrols, Váli began his fight against the Cabal within the last city. Váli constantly moved, never giving the Cabal a chance to see him, when he fought, he did so with as much speed as he could find in himself, killing small groups of Cabal in seconds. During this time he earned the nickname "Bolt", for his speed, and ferocity. Váli claims that he killed roughly 380 cabal while lightless, however, many survivors stuck in the city claim he killed far more.

After the Last City was retaken from it's Cabal occupiers and the light had returned, Váli continued his fight against the Cabal, wiping out many outposts and finding new techniques to harness his Arc light abilities, giving himself more speed and agility. After months of this, Váli seemingly took a break and disappeared for nearly 3 months. Although Váli refuses to confirm any suspicions on what he did during the three months, it is widely speculated that Váli tried to settle down into a secluded life out in the wilderness, and returned for unknown reasons.

### Death of Cayde-6

Upon Váli's return, he was called into action at the Awoken Reef in order to assist with a prison break that had occurred in the Prison of Elders, during his flight there, Váli learned of the death of Hunter Vanguard Cayde-6. Although Váli did not know Cayde on a deep personal level, he knew him enough to consider him a friend, the death of Cayde caused Váli to return to his ways of killing as many servants of the Dark as possible, Váli killed thousands of Scorn after Cayde's death, and partook in multiple killings of the constantly resurrected Fikrul, The Fanatic, Váli also unsuccessfully made attempts to kill Uldren Sov, Caydes' killer, However he wasn't able to track Uldren down before another Guardian got to him first.

### Arrival of the Black fleet

After the death of Uldren Sov, Váli and Fen once again disappeared, falling out of contact from the last city.

Even after the arrival of the Black fleet, and the subsequent chaos that ensued, Váli would not return until House light put out a call for help from Europa.

## Blind Vengeance Lore Book

### Part 1:

The snow was silent and still, covering the frozen landscape like a white blanket. Beneath it, something stirred. A metallic figure emerged from the icy depths, gasping for air. It was an Exo, a risen. He had no memory of who he was or how he got there. He only heard a faint voice in his head, calling to him. He tried to focus on it, hoping it would give him some answers.

“Easy, Guardian,” a female voice said. The Exo focused his eyes on the strange floating figure in front of him, an orb with a blue eye at its center, surrounded by a shell of individual triangular pieces.

"What? Where am I, What are you!". The Exo shouted, scrambling to his feet.

"I'm you're Ghost, and you're my Guardian, I've chosen you to-".

"Ghost? Guardian? I don't understand". The Exo interrupted.

"That's why I'm here, I will help you understand, start you on a path of greatness" The ghost declared. "But we really must move, it's cold here, and the Fallen have patrols near"

"Fallen? I don't want an explanation later, I want it n-" The Exo was cut off by a loud shot, he gasped and fell to his knees, his vision went black.

The silence was suddenly broken as the Exo once again gasped for air, his body stiff, he heard only one word "Run!"

The Exo sprang to his feet and sprinted in a random direction, dodging a burst of energetic gunfire from a four-armed figure ahead. It was aiming something at him, something deadly. He could barely see its shape through the trees, but he knew it was not human. He ran until his legs gave out, with no idea of where he was going or when he should stop. He fell under a tree, breathless and weary from the ordeal.

"Relax Guardian" The Ghosts voice asserted "Slow down, take a breath and listen, I will explain everything"

"Then start" The Exo insisted.

"My name is... well I don't really have a name, most just call me ghost"

"We'll have to change that if you're staying with me" The Exo interrupted.

"We can figure that out when we get there, anyway. I'm a Ghost, born from the traveler, a being of the light, which you now are." A short silence followed. "You are a Guardian, I have chosen you to wield the light, a... lets call it a paracausal force the will allow you to do all kinds of things no one else can" The Exos' eyes squinted slightly, but he remained silent. "It's a Guardians job to fight the forces of the darkness, and protect the traveler, and in this case, that also means protecting the last city. You have no memory but you died during the collapse, a cataclysm that nearly destroyed humanity, if it wasn't for the Traveler and it's guardians, your race would be extinct"

"I.. I Died? what do you mean?" the Exo interjected.

"You are a Guardian, or a Risen, or a Chosen, people will call you different things, but all of them mean one thing. you wield the light. That means you can form the light into abilities, abilities you can wield in combat, or use to help others, and importantly, I can resurrect you from the dead, so long as i can get to you without being shot myself" The Exo grunted quietly and spoke "Continue".

"Well, right now I'm going to try to get you to the last city. There, other Guardians can help you better than I can, they'll train you properly on how to wield the light. For now I can give you pointers but... you'll have to figure it out yourself most of the time" "We're quite far, and I don't think there are any Jumpships around, so we'll have to walk for now. Also, you might be immortal, but you'll still get hungry, thirsty, tired, cold, and all of the other humanly functions. Don't starve to death, if I resurrect you from that, you'll still be hungry."

"Well, lets' walk and talk, where to?"

"South" The Ghost replied.