I thank the content creators, specifically Esoterickk in my case, for providing the solutions to the Chess Midgame activity, so I could get my hands on the new lorebook's pages as fast as possible. There isn't anything new or groundbreaking about the lore book, and all the entries are relatively short. It details where the Drifter went briefly after Eris Morn was killed by Keit'Ehr. What is interesting is how each page describes a location corresponding to where we found the 11 Chess Pieces off the Dreadnaught - in the Tower, Eris' residence, the EDZ in the Forest and Grove, and finally on Europa. I genuinely wonder why Chess Pieces spawned at the places Drifter visited, whereas the rest were on the Dreadnaught or acquired through the Resolve and Ambition Paths. Then again, it could be just for the community puzzle. One passage in the lore caught my interest, however, from Reconsidering: [b]"Getting out in the woods could clear his head. Maybe he shouldn't go after all. Familiar energy readings. Not Darkness, not Light, [i]but the in-between stuff. Sterile neutrinos.[/i] Makes him think of a time way back when: Moondust and him. And the arrival of the Pyramid fleet..."[/b] As I said, quite short. The curious thing is how he describes the energy as "in-between stuff", not Light and not Darkness, and sterile neutrinos are there because of the Taken presence. However, the Dark Forest is the spot where a shard of the Traveler crashed down during the Collapse. That and the Taken presence should mean there are readings of Light and Darkness in the area, not an absence of them and "in-between stuff". Perhaps he was referring to what happens when Light and Dark "mix" out in the wild, which is different from how Prismatic erases the boundary between the two, but I don't know. ------------------------------------------------------------ As to the puzzle itself, I applaud Bungie for sneaking this into the game before the Edge of Fate reveal next week. From my understanding, based on what has been put together, the spaces in the middle will be used to determine where each piece goes on the chessboard in the room, and you'll need to match pieces based on the border. However, there is an additional variable in the color of each frequency, of which there are four - Dark Red, Light Red, Grey, and a 4x4 QR Code. Between the colors and possible chess pieces in the middle, I think which combination is most frequent in each sub-section will determine what piece is supposed to go where. Once you split the 4,096 pieces into 64 subsections. Only then, I think, will people be able to figure out which piece is supposed to go where, and what is supposed to be blank. Finding all the pieces is just the start. Either way, Bungie knew what they were doing. This isn't something that can be brute-forced. With six possible arrangements of each square, that would be 6.334e+49 possible arrangements. The last time we got a puzzle like this was the Corridors of Time, and that took a while. We found our grave through that puzzle, with the sword laid to rest on it that we only discovered last year was Ergo Sum, a sword gifted to us by the Traveler. I wish the community luck in figuring this one out, and I am anticipating something special from this.