WARNING: This guide contains minor SPOILERS for Destiny and Destiny 2

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There's much more to Destiny 2 than meets the eye, but a hidden room in the game's Tower may hold a major clue towards the future of the game's fiction... and a potential cover-up in its past. It's no secret that lore has been held primarily to the background of the Destiny series, with the entire history of the Traveler, humanity's Golden Age, the Collapse, the creation of the City, and more communicated only to players actively searching for it. The search continues in Destiny 2, but this time, the developers have hidden it in a completely secret room, tucked away in the final Tower where few would find it.

Yet find it they did, as Destiny players are known to do. And whether you're interested in the cryptic lore suggested by a hidden journal, or simply exploring every single secret Destiny 2's Tower has to show you, it's a secret room you'll want to enter yourself. To find the room will require a bit of a journey, and exploring an area not likely to be spotted in regular play. Because of that, we'll do our best to be as specific as possible.

Not to mention offer a theory of what the items in the room may mean for Destiny's past - and future. And be sure to check out our other guides to Destiny 2's secret and easter eggs:

How To Find The Secret Room

When spawning in to the Tower, make a quick turn to your left and begin the regular run to the Hangar. Over the catwalk, down the stairs, around the corners to the right, and straight towards the blue-lit hallway with the large 'Hangar' marker in red on the left wall. Now, when you make this final turn at the blue light, take a moment to note your overhead surroundings.

It should be possible to see a welder on a catwalk above, with the view obstructed by a number of steel beams and supports. In the distance is the entrance to the Hangar itself, but if you've already gotten the boost to jumping and speed awarded for completing the Tower's 'Floor is Lava Challenge,' then the next part of this guide can be ignored. Simply leap up into the beams, and your Guardian should hoist themselves up right next to the welder.

If you're more interested in lore and potential teases of mysteries yet to be explored, disregard that challenge, and proceed down into the Hangar entrance. Again, pausing at the threshold.

Looking straight ahead, another welder should be visible on another overhead catwalk directly opposite the entrance. That's where you'll head, but to get there, make an immediate right turn and go up the multi-level metal staircase to its top level (then following the obvious catwalk over to the welder's location). Once you've reached his side, you should be able to look across the Hangar to the welder above the entrance - and note the railway between your location and his, specifically the gap in the railing to the right of the entrance.

Proceed to the right, but hop the railing down onto the parallel pipes (a set of bright white lights marks the spot to make the jump). Get up to a sprint and don't be afraid to cut the corner next to the massive metal pipe, and you should glide to the other walkway with ease. Then it's up the stairs, through some ductwork, and into the Tower's secret room... and the mystery of Ana Bray.

Upon entering the room overlooking the Hangar, head to the large table to find a goblet, a journal, and a few digital notepads. When investigating the items, your ghost will note who the journal originally belonged to... and why you may have stumbled onto a mystery too large to yet understand:

"Looks like a journal: Ana Bray. But I can't tell who - Pretty much the entire thing is redacted. And there are whole pages missing. Something about all this seems... wrong. Am I worrying too much?"

It's a bigger reveal than casual fans may realize. But to grasp the importance of Ana Bray, and why her personal history being censored could be a sign of a much larger conspiracy, we'll need to dive much deeper into the mythology of Destiny...

Who is The Guardian Ana Bray?

To know just what Bungie's storytellers may be driving at here, it's worth brushing up on House Bray in the lore of Destiny 2. The name might ring a bell for the first person to actually wield it: Clovis Bray, the human who lived during the Golden Age and founded the sizable Mars corporation named after him. The company played a larger role in the Rise of Iron storyline, but Clovis and his descendants as best known for creating SIVA, the nanotechnology that plagued the Cosmodrome and players in the same story.

As for Ana Bray, her mentions have been of a far more glowing, heroic sort. It may be simplest to say that among the older Guardians who once defended the City following the Collapse, Ana Bray became a legend for her skills in combat. Specifically renowned for her skills as a Hunter Gunslinger in the defense of the City at the Battle of Twilight Gap - the location where the Fallen, under the leadership of the House of Kings, mounted their greatest attack. An attack in which Ana Bray's heroism became legend - and Lord Shaxx led the City and its Guardians to victory.

So, what does all this have to do with Ana Bray's journal locked away in a concealed room in the new Tower? Well, the significance of the Battle of Twilight Gap, and the larger City defense in which it took place can't be understated. Longtime Destiny players will know that the defense of the City was led, at the time, by the Vanguard Commander Saladin Forge - eventually leaving the City behind to become the primary Iron Lord character in Rise of Iron. It's also worth knowing that, when the massive attack on the City took place, Saladin had two pupils to command in the defense: Zavala, the loyal student who would later become the Titan Vanguard in Saladin's place, and Shaxx, the soldier who defied Saladin's orders, and launched his massive counterattack at Twilight Gap.

Destiny - Rise of Iron

Shaxx - eventually Lord Shaxx - is still kicking around the game, impossible to miss thanks to his one-horned-helmet and acting as the guardian of the game's Crucible. He actually founded the Crucible in the game's fiction after Twilight Gap, intended to harden the City's Guardians for such a test. But there's a reason why Saladin, Zavala, and Shaxx aren't warm and friendly. Shaxx's choice to defy orders saved the City... but had his plan failed, he would have doomed everyone within it. Which makes it pretty interesting that Ana Bray is one of the only other heroes mentioned as prominent in that battle... and why her journal is now turning up, with pages and entire sections removed.

Bungie has dropped little information about Bray to this point, but the growing prominence of the characters surrounding her most iconic role in the Destiny fiction could be telling. Whether it's a sign that the truth of the Battle of Twilight Gap will be something hidden - something "wrong" - or just a compelling narrative Bungie is stringing through its lore, it's a question they want fans to be asking.

Be sure to let us know your own theories on Ana Bray's journal in the comments.

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