As part of its final ever content drop, a new secret Exotic mission has been added to Destiny 2. The reward is Cull’s Shadow–a fusion rifle with the intrinsic trait of Soulburn. Soulburn means that final blows or rapid hits with the weapon’s frontal blades heal you and provide Soulfire Charges, which cause rounds fired by Cull’s Shadow to inflict potent corruption. The frontal blades deal increased damage to targets afflicted by that corruption. As a nice added bonus, it’s also effective against Unstoppable champions.
How to start the Oblation: Bloodline mission
The Exotic mission wasn’t shown on the Director in-game, so we had to find out how to trigger it. First, head to the moon and open The Scarlet Keep strike. Play through it normally until the boss, Hashladun, spawns at the end. Leave the boss alive.
Now, get a Weapon of Sorrow. The Destiny 2 Weapons of Sorrow are a class of weapons created by fusing normal guns with Hive magic. You can choose from the hand cannon, Thorn, the scout rifle, Touch of Malice, the auto rifle, Necrochasm, or the submachine gun, Osteo Striga. You can just draw them from your collections.
Then shoot the Hive runes that spawn around the boss with that weapon. It doesn’t matter which you shoot, but you’ll need to shoot three. Then, to the right of the arena there’s a gated barrier that will lower.
There’s a Hive crystal through the barrier that you should interact with. This will bring up a message box saying that a suspicious signal is cropping up on the moon. It asks you to find more of these crystals to help pinpoint the source.
Finish the strike, and then return to the Moon. There will now be several waypoints to investigate to try and find the Hive crystals. They will be called the Suspicious Syndicate activity.
Archer’s Line Suspicious Signal
The first one is in Archer’s Line, you’re looking for a deceased Cabal. As you get closer to the dead Cabal, the Soulfire Network Frequency bar in the lower right will fill up. When you find it, interact with it to trigger a message that reads, “Soulfire seethes within a monarch’s Shrine.”
That shrine is the Shrine of Crota, and you’ll know you’re going the right way as you should see several further glowing dead Cabal bodies along the route. To get to that shrine, you want to follow the Hall of Wisdom, drop down the platforms, and follow the path through. You’ll eventually come to the Shrine of Oryx. In here, continue through the path to Crota’s Shrine.
When you get there, you’ll be faced with several enemies including large Psion. When you kill him, some more Hive runes will spawn. You can only see and shoot those runes if you still have the Weapon of Sorrow equipped.
Look at the door. You’ll see three specific Hive runes. Take note of them, and then find the corresponding runes around the shrine. From top to bottom, shoot these. If you’ve shot the correct one it will disappear.
Doing this successfully will open a nearby door and reveal another Hive crystal. Interacting with that will bring up another message box and complete the Archer’s Line suspicious signal.
Anchor of Light Suspicious Signal
The body of the dead Cabal is atop the yellow container in the area where the Soulfire Network Frequency is strongest. Interacting with this body will show the message, “Soulfire thrums deep within a princely Temple.”
Follow the glowing green Cabal bodies to the Temple of Crota. Enter the temple, and drop down the platforms at the back before going through to the back of the room and following the corridor. Continue through until you reach the caves, and navigate them. When you’re in the red area there will be more enemies to take down.
