How to complete the Dreadful Discoveries triumph in Destiny 2

The new Destiny 2 season comes with a new seal and a bunch of triumphs you must complete to get the title. As always, there are a few secret triumphs in the Heretic seal whose objectives aren’t visible. One of these triumphs is Dreadful Discoveries.

The Dreadful Discoveries triumph seems to be time-gated. As of Act Two, you can only complete two objectives despite the description stating that the entire triumph is linked to the Echoed Warnings quest. The last objective will likely become available in Act Three.

Here’s how to complete the Dreadful Discoveries triumph in Destiny 2 and what you can get from it.

Dreadful Discoveries triumph objectives in Destiny 2

Hive Hacking

The first objective is called Hive Hacking and is connected to the main Act One story quest, Echoed Warnings. After collecting Skyburners’ data aboard the Dreadnaught, you must pick up three Mission Dossier side quests from the Shaping Slab in the Last City.

Each quest involves hunting down a specific Hive Wizard on the Moon. Land in the Sorrow’s Harbor on the Moon and follow the markers to find and kill the Wizards.

Here are the side quests and how to complete them:

• Lightsinger’s Limb: Follow the marker into the Summoning Pits. Kill adds, including the Overload Champion and Shriekers in the back to spawn Yor ur-Halaku.
• Cultist’s Limb: From the Summoning Pits, follow the marker to the Catacombs (don’t teleport back to the Landing Zone) to find Iyx ur Anûkru. Iyx is protected with a shield. Find three Revenant Knights around the room. Kill the Knights and shoot the Hive runes next to them to remove the shield.
• Blade Navigator’s Head: Complete tiers of Altar of Sorrow public event in the Sorrow’s Harbor. In between runs, you’ll see a marker and “A powerful foe appears” notification. Follow the marker to find Sarûk ur-Omni.

After you gather all Wizards’ “parts,” head back to Eris’s apartment in the Last City and submit the quests to the Shaping Slab. This completes the Hive Hacking objective for the Dreadful Discoveries triumph.

Willbreaker shards

The second objective is tied to the main Act Two story quest, Rites of the Deep. Similarly to the first objective, during the Act Two story, you must complete side quests to collect the Willbreaker shards across the system.

While the quest step requires you to collect only three shards, the triumph objective needs all six. You get one shard at the Shaping Slab during the Rites of the Deep questline, and another five are locked behind side quests.

Here are the side quests and how to complete them:

• Shattered Will: Vorok, Sentinel Eternal: Find and defeat Vorok in The Nether. You can summon Vorok using lanterns in each of the Dreadnaught’s areas. After defeating Vorok, kill targets using swords anywhere in the system.
• Willbreaker: Dreadnaught: Defeat enemies in Court of Blades or loot chests in The Nether. After you collect the fragments, head to the Drifter in the Tower.
• Shattered Shards: An Entity Manifested: Find and defeat all the Expression of Many entities in the Cosmodrome.
• Shattered Shards: Lost in Prophecy: Defeat bosses in the Prophecy dungeon or defeat powerful Taken across the system, including seasonal activities.
• Shattered Shards: Innermost Power: Defeat Taken or Hive with abilities. Defeating enemies in seasonal activities, like The Nether and Court of Blades, grants additional progress.

The easiest way to do most of these quests is by playing the Court of Blades seasonal activity. It has powerful Taken enemies, Hive, and drops fragments for the Willbreaker: Dreadnaught quest. The only exceptions are the quests with dedicated objectives, like the Expression of Many.

Dreadful Discoveries triumph rewards in Destiny 2

Completing all three Dreadful Discoveries objectives awards The Ruinous Flame Legendary ship. It’s a purple variant of the standard issue Vanguard gunship. Other ships with the same model include the Alpha Umi from season three and the Egbe-01X from season six.

The ship’s icon also has the season three icon in the top left corner. It’s unclear if this is a placeholder or simply a ship designed back in the days of the Warmind expansion.