The story of The Last Word is tied as tightly to the corrupted Guardian Dredgen Yor as it is Jaren Ward, but Yor was not always the evil that the world now knows him as.

Some years after his rebirth, Shin Malphur lives as a boy in the town of Palamon under the rule of the ruthless Magistrate Loken... until Jaren Ward walks into town.

The Last Word is one of Destiny's most iconic guns, so, of course, its history is one of Destiny's longest and most iconic backstories.

With one third of her people gone and the rest still reeling from a Fallen attack, Mara Sov sends her brother Uldren to secure a power that will see the Awoken through even the toughest of times.

A third of Mara Sov's Awoken depart the Reef in order to help the people of Earth. Meanwhile, Sjur sacrifices herself to save thousand of Awowken lives.

Mara's Awoken have found Earth, but for the first time in the thousands of years since she awoke on the Distributary, Mara has a major political problem.