Prediction: the Egregore was always connected to an Eldritch being, which is now influencing the Taken

Egregore has always looked tentacley, wormy, Cthulhuy. I don’t believe the Witness invented it, and from what I know it’s a fungus that is attuned sharply to the Darkness.

With the eldritch motifs of eyes looking in and tentacles from the deep (for Cthulhu, deep underwater, in Destiny, the Deep being darkness), I think it’s hinting at the Egregore always/recently attuning to some new higher unknown power that is now attempting to gain some sway over us now.

On top of this, Oryx communes with a definite SOMETHING to learn how to Take. So far we’ve only thought it was Winnower/Witness, but now I’m thinking it’s more like Winnower/Witness/Cthulhu analogue. I’m inclined to think either Witness/Cthulhu analogue now, since while the Winnower likes to talk to us and sway us to its side, its victory seems self assured. Therefore, like the Traveler, it sits back and doesn’t interfere much. It’d be kinda lame if it’s just the Winnower doing all this anyways.

If I’m right, it begs the question of how the Witness got ahold of Egregore and this power in the first place as well.

Perhaps this ties into Vespers Radius, and where the message was being sent to (location: incomprehensible)? I know it’s a long shot but 🤷‍♂️

Side tangent- I’m thinking Oryx will be a vendor or helper of some kind. His philosophy states we should mantle him and Take his power since we killed him. We just didn’t take it right away. We will learn the power to Take and use it to use the Dreadnaught/Ascendant Plane on a very expedient time table (as opposed to Fallen/Cabal FTL), leave the system, and go fight the new Eldritch bad (since Episode 3 is gonna set up Frontiers)