Board Thread:Destiny Forum/@comment-5820164-20130403210343/@comment-5904951-20130413192230

I completely agree with you. However, in the Game Developers Conference they implied that the scientific explanation to the Vex's 'soul-venting' upon death did not sound as appealing as the fact that they were ...venting their soul. They did not explicitly mention that they discarded the explantion, but to what extent outright magic will be involved is not know yet. The Traveler seems to be a good scientific excuse for the Magic of the Guardians, even though I currently do not understand how it would work from a science-fiction standing. We will just have to wait and see, but I would prefer the absence of direct fantastical magic as well. I would expect at least a small fraction of outright fantasy from Bungie's adamance in that it is not strictly sci-fi. I think the fantastical elements allows them to have an excuse to improve gameplay for the sake of gameplay without harming the realism of the lore relative to the physics of the Destiny Universe. It actually seems like a smart move, in my opinion.