Eris didn't quite make the cut, but it doesn't mean we're not interested in telling stories with Eris. It gets to a point where we can't put any more characters into a story without diluting the quality of the story we're trying to tell. We knew we needed Saint involved because Saint was Osiris' partner. We knew we were revealing Osiris to be Savathun, so automatically we need Ikora involved because Osiris was her mentor and she's one of the leaders of the Vanguard. It would've been amazing if we could've included Eris in Season of the Lost, but as we were writing the list of characters who would be invested in what's going on, we've got Crow in front of Mara Sov, so we need Mara Sov. 'One of the challenges we have with the stories we're trying to tell, because we've got multiple seasons in a year and we have a very small window in which to write a season, work with the other disciplines, and create this cohesive thing, is there's not a lot of room to do all the things that we want to do,' she says. How does Bungie pick and choose what and who to put on stage? The answer, Nardin tells me, is triage. Destiny's rich universe is sometimes a burden there are tons of characters fighting tons of battles at any given moment. One constraint here is choosing a cast who can carry the story forward. They're more based in being able to move the story forward or have deeper interactions with the gameplay itself.' 'That presents one challenge immediately, but I think Bungie has done a really good job over the course of the development of Destiny to invest in some of those tools that are not primarily based in shooting enemies. 'When you're working on a game that's primarily a first-person shooter, primarily a looter-shooter and MMO-lite, traditionally the systems used to prop up an FPS game are not necessarily cohesive with systems used for telling story,' explains senior narrative designer Nikko Stevens. The studio has had to poke at this method for quite some time, refining its approach on two key fronts. Bungie didn't stumble upon a magic formula that suddenly solved all of Destiny's story issues.

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