Ascendant Challenges
- See also: Ascendant Challenge (Bounty)
Ascendant Challenges are a weekly activity found in the Dreaming City patrol zone.
Overview
Ascendant Challenges take place in the Ascendant Plane and feature Taken enemies. They test the player's platforming and combat skills.
Only one Ascendant Challenge is active per week. Petra Venj offers a weekly bounty that requires the player to complete the current week's Ascendant Challenge. The description includes a quote from Toland, the Shattered, that hints at the location of the current challenge.
Challenges are accessed through portals in certain Dreaming City sectors, which can only be seen after consuming a 
Tincture of Queensfoil and gaining the Ascendance buff. A message saying "The seam between realities grows weaker..." appears when the player is near a portal.
Ascendant Challenges can be completed in a fireteam of up to three players. If a player dies while inside a Challenge, they respawn outside of it. If there are no more players present in the Challenge, it resets. When all players leave a Challenge through the exit portal, the Challenge resets and the portal leading back inside reopens after a short while.
Each Challenge also has a time trial. Completing a Challenge within a certain amount of time will complete its associated time trial triumph. However, the required times are not shown in-game, and a timer is not displayed during the Challenges. Earning its associated triumph is the only confirmation that a time trial was completed successfully.
Ahamkara Bones and Corrupted Eggs can be found in these Challenges. The spirit of Toland, the Shattered, appearing as a ghostly ball of light, can also be found. If approached, he will say some dialogue before disappearing. Finding him is the objective for the Challenge: The Shattered daily bounty obtained from Petra Venj. Note that this is separate from the Toland wisps that appear as part of the Challenges' mechanics.
Challenges
There are six Ascendant Challenges, but only one is available per week. They rotate in the following order:
- Forfeit Shrine — located in the Gardens of Esila, players have to cleanse corruption with three Arc Charges and then defeat three Ultra Knights.
- Shattered Ruins — found in the Spine of Keres, players have to climb up a tower and defeat an Ultra Taken Phalanx at the top.
- Keep of Honed Edges — in Harbinger's Seclude, the team has to reach the chamber in the center, defeat three Ultra Knights with a Hive Cleaver, and escape through a portal at the edge of the Challenge area.
- Agonarch Abyss — in the Bay of Drowned Wishes, players have to descend into a chamber way below the starting point and defeat two Ultra Taken Wizards.
- Cimmerian Garrison — located in Chamber of Starlight, requires players to run through an obstacle course filled with Taken enemies and defeat an Ultra Knight at the end.
- Ouroborea — located in Aphelion's Rest, players have to destroy four Taken Blights at the edge of the area and then eight Void Crystals at the starting point.
Rewards
Completing an Ascendant Challenge rewards a Dreaming City weapon or armor item from the chest that appears at the end. A Dreaming City gear reward will only be given on the first completion in a given week, once per character. The Ascendant Challenge weekly bounty from Petra Venj will also reward a Dreaming City weapon or armor item drop.
Weapons
Armor
Triumphs
- Ascendant Intruder: Complete an Ascendant challenge.
- Ascendant Champion: Complete all six Ascendant challenges.
- Rewards the
Secret Victories emblem.
- Rewards the
- Honed for Speed: Complete the Ascendant time trial in the Keep of Honed Edges.
- Shatter That Record: Complete the Ascendant time trial in the Shattered Ruins.
- Agonarch Agony: Complete the Ascendant time trial in the Agonarch Abyss.
- Eating Your Own Tail: Complete the Ascendant time trial in Ouroborea.
- Never Forfeit: Complete the Ascendant time trial in the Forfeit Shrine.
- Run the Gauntlet: Complete the Ascendant time trial in the Cimmerian Garrison.
- Ascendant Paragon: Complete all Ascendant challenge time trials.
- Rewards the
Transcendent emblem.
- Rewards the
