How to get Destiny 2 Memory Vestiges of Light and Darkness

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Memory Vestiges are found in the Pale Heart in Destiny 2 and are used to unlock more Prismatic Fragments

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Rounding up Destiny 2 Memory Vestiges is worth the effort, as they provide one of the routes to getting more Prismatic Fragments, though you'll have to find several of them so they can be combined to form a useable Memory. While the Light and Darkness types are collected in different ways, there is a reasonably easy way to get both of them during the Alone in the Dark quest, as it provides the necessary activities in the Pale Heart as you play through Destiny 2 The Final Shape. If you're looking for more information about how these Memory Vestiges work, then here's everything you need to know about finding and combining them into completed Memories.

Where to get Memory Vestiges in Destiny 2

  • Memory Vestige: Light – Gathered by killing glowing enemies in Cysts. Once you get five of them, they'll automatically combine into a Memory: Refraction/Blooming/Seclusion of Light.

Destiny 2 Memory Vestige of light from glowing cyst enemies

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  • Memory Vestige: Darkness – Found in Darkness-corrupted chests across the Pale Heart. These chests are unlocked by completing a simple objective within 90 seconds, such as following a trail of light beacons, destroying red blights with grenades, cleaning dark sludge, and shooting a giant tumbleweed over to a bowl. Collecting five of these automatically fuses them into a Memory: Divisive/Impassive Darkness.

Destiny 2 The Final Shape Pale Heart corrupt chest

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Both types can be easily gathered by completing the Destiny 2 Alone in the Dark quest, which you can replay infinitely to get rewards. The quest involves Overthrow, which is a good opportunity to find corrupted chests for Memory Vestiges: Darkness, and then you can get Memory Vestiges: Light during the Cyst. You can easily get nine Destiny 2 Lost Encryption Bits by finding all the Region Chests while completing Overthrow, then look for the final six bits hidden in each Cyst.

Destiny 2 Memory Blooming of Light on map

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As mentioned, collecting five of the same type of Vestige causes them to automatically combine into a completed Memory that's related to a particular region in the Pale Heart. This reveals a search area for that region on your map that leads to a chest containing one Destiny 2 Prismatic Fragment – check out this guide to see where exactly all the Prismatic reward chests are.

Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, repeating Memories provides no other rewards. Furthermore, you can have only one Light Memory and one Darkness Memory in your inventory at once, otherwise your Vestiges won't combine.

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