What the Nine Are

The Nine are thinking beings made of dark matter. In the lore, streams of dark matter were caught in looping orbits around the Sun and the planets, and the life of the solar system disturbed those loops until they began to think. They depend on those bodies and on the life around them, and they see past, present and future at once. They're also called the IX, or the Ennead.

Each of them is tied to one body. The Inner Orbits are IX, the Sun; I, Mercury; II, Venus; III, Earth, now dead; and IV, Mars. The Outer Orbits are V, Jupiter; VI, Saturn; VII, Uranus; and VIII, Neptune. The lore also speaks of Theia, a stillborn sister. The Edge of Fate's lore book Epochs & Orbits gives each of them an entry.

For centuries Guardians only guessed at them. Destiny 1's Ghost Fragment: Legends 2 lists nine competing explanations of who the Nine might be.

The Nine at a Glance · Next: Where They Live

Lore text © Bungie, Inc., from the Destiny 2 API.