The Messenger

The Messenger
Attributes
Season	21
Type	Pulse Rifle
Slot	Kinetic
Ammo	Primary
Rarity	Legendary
Damage Type	Kinetic
Foundry	Cassoid
Archetype	High-Impact
Description	The bearer of bad news.
Vendor	Saint-14
Statistics
Impact	33
Range	66
Stability	54
Handling	31
Reload Speed	38
Rounds Per Minute	340
Magazine	31
Zoom	18
Inventory Size	49
Aim Assistance	37
Airborne Effectiveness	20
Recoil	60

Acquisition
	Earned by completing challenges in the Trials of Osiris.

The Messenger PvP Stats

The Messenger is a Legendary Pulse Rifle.

Perks - Curated Roll

Intrinsic

• High-Impact Frame - Slow firing and high damage. This weapon is more accurate when stationary, moving slowly, and aiming down sights.

Sight / Barrel

• Arrowhead Brake - Lightly vented barrel.
  • Greatly controls Recoil.
  • Increases Handling Speed.

Magazine / Battery

• Extended Mag - This weapon has a greatly increased magazine size, but reloads much slower.
  • Greatly increases magazine size.
  • Greatly decreases Reload Speed.

Trait 1

• Rapid Hit - Rapid precision hits temporarily increase stability and reload speed.

Trait 2

• Kinetic Tremors - Sustained kinetic damage to a target emits a shockwave that damages any nearby targets.

Origin Trait

• Alacrity - Gain increased reload, stability, aim assist, and range when you are the last living member of your fireteam or running solo.
• One Quiet Moment - Grants increased reload speed when out of combat.

Perks - Random Rolls

Intrinsic

• High-Impact Frame - Slow firing and high damage. This weapon is more accurate when stationary, moving slowly, and aiming down sights.

Possible Sight / Barrel

• Arrowhead Brake - Lightly vented barrel.
  • Greatly controls Recoil.
  • Increases Handling Speed.
• Chambered Compensator - Stable barrel attachment.
  • Increases Stability.
  • Improves Recoil Direction.
  • Slightly decreases Handling Speed.
• Corkscrew Rifling - Balanced barrel.
  • Slightly increases Range and Stability.
  • Slightly increases Handling Speed.
• Extended Barrel - Weighty barrel extension.
  • Increases range
  • Decreases handling speed
  • Moderately controls recoil
• Fluted Barrel - Ultra-light barrel.
  • Greatly increases Handling Speed.
  • Slightly increases Stability.
• Full Bore - Barrel optimized for distance.
  • Greatly increases Range.
  • Decreases Stability.
  • Slightly decreases Handling Speed.
• Hammer-Forged Rifling - Durable ranged barrel.
  • Increases Range.
• Polygonal Rifling - Barrel optimized for recoil reduction.
  • Increases Stability.
• Smallbore - Dual strength barrel.
  • Increases Range.
  • Increases Stability.

Possible Magazine / Battery

• Extended Mag - This weapon has a greatly increased magazine size, but reloads much slower.
  • Greatly increases magazine size.
  • Greatly decreases Reload Speed.
• Alloy Magazine - Faster Reload when the magazine is empty.
• Appended Mag - This weapon's magazine is built for higher capacity.
  • Increases magazine size.
• Armor-Piercing Rounds - Rounds cause extra damage to shields and overpenetrate targets.
  • Slightly increases Range.
• High-Caliber Rounds - Shots from this weapon knock the target back farther.
  • Slightly increases Range.
• Ricochet Rounds - Rounds ricochet off hard surfaces.
  • Increases Stability.
  • Slightly increases Range.
• Flared Magwell - Optimized for fast reloading.
  • Slightly increases Stability.
  • Greatly increases Reload Speed.
• Light Mag — Improved reload and range.
  • Increases reload speed
  • Slightly increases range

Possible Trait 1

• Perpetual Motion - This weapon gains bonus stability, handling, and reload speed while the wielder is in motion.
• Outlaw - Precision kills greatly decrease reload time.
• Rapid Hit - Rapid precision hits temporarily increase stability and reload speed.
• Moving Target - Increased movement speed and target acquisition when moving while aiming down sights.
• Offhand Strike - Final blows grant additional weapon range, stability, and accuracy when firing from the hip for a short duration.
• Under-Over - Deals bonus damage to targets with overshields. Deals a small amount of bonus damage to combatant shields.
• Discord - Final blows with another weapon grant this weapon increased speed for aiming down sights, accuracy, and airborne effectiveness for a short time. When Discord is active, final blows refund ammo.

Possible Trait 2

• Headseeker - Body shots landed with this weapon increase precision damage for a short time. Improves stability.
• Kill Clip - Reloading after defeating a target grants increased damage for an improved duration.
• Desperado — Reloading while Outlaw is active increases your rate of fire.
• Harmony - Final blows with other weapons improve this weapon's damage and performance for a short duration.
• Encore - Precision final blows grant a stacking range bonus to this weapon. Non-precision final blows remove range stacks but grant bonus accuracy and stability when all range stacks have been removed.
• Kinetic Tremors - Sustained kinetic damage to a target emits a shockwave that damages any nearby targets.
• Keep Away - Increased reload, range, and accuracy when no combatants are in close proximity.

Possible Origin Trait

• Alacrity - Gain increased reload, stability, aim assist, and range when you are the last living member of your fireteam or running solo.
• One Quiet Moment - Grants increased reload speed when out of combat.

How to Obtain

Detailed explanation on how to acquire The Messenger

Lore

Digging leaves a mark.

Her wait was nearly over-Trestin could feel it as she climbed Cadmus Ridge.

Sunlight, amplified by snow, pierced her eyes now; she had ascended above the cloud line. She tilted her gaze down, focusing on the crags immediately before her. Her muscles cramped as she reached up for the next ledge.

No holding back now.

Over the radio, Lord Saladin's voice grew staticky: "Cabal incursion... Vex... up ahead." Without a word, Trestin's Ghost switched it off. There were others nearby to carry out the Iron Lord's orders. He wouldn't miss them.

She doubted anyone would-her ex-teammates least of all. She had betrayed them, or so Sadhij had screamed: "We're supposed to be the thin line drawn before the Darkness, you traitor!"

|| Thin indeed. So why not step over it? ||

Because they didn't have it in them. She checked. Cracked them both open and dug deep, just to be extra sure. But it wasn't there. That hunger, immense and buried, like the ocean under Europa's glacial crust. A riptide, undetectable from the surface, yet unrelenting in its pull. She never meant to betray anyone. She just wanted release.

|| Soon, you will have it. Soon, you will be freed. ||

Muscles shaking with exhaustion, she threw her hand up and, at last, grasped snow. She had reached the top.

For a moment, she laid on the embankment, chest heaving. When her vision cleared, she gasped. There it was, black-stone stark against the gleaming white. It seemed to pulse in time with her heart. Attuning to the desire churning within.

From the back of her mind came a warm, familiar voice: "You're a goober." Yara. Suddenly, a different hunger bloomed in her, small and keening. Was it... loneliness?

|| It is weakness. What lies before you is power.||

The pulsing intensified. She could feel the blood pumping through her veins as she stepped towards the obelisk, hand outstretched. She had never been so close-

"Not one more step." A new voice called out to Trestin. Only this one was not in her head. She turned to find a Warlock standing a few yards away, sword drawn. "You must be Trestin. I am Aunor. I encourage you to come with me. Quietly."

Trestin looked at her, then dove for the obelisk.

The last thing she felt was steel. Pure, cold steel piercing through her heart.

Images

Versions

• The Messenger (Season 21)
• The Messenger (Season 13)

Related Links

• The Messenger (Adept)

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