"We were some of the last refugees to make it to the City.
Yeah, yeah, I've heard all the jokes.
Know what?
We did get lost.
Many times.
It wasn't all that funny at the time.
My mama's shotgun, The Chaperone, was the only reason I made it here."
—Amanda Holliday Welcome back guardians, I am sure many of
you spotted what most would assume was a young Amanda Holliday in the Zavala D2 trailer.
Despite the joyous look on her face as a ship flies into the distance, not everyone knows
about the horror and hardships that Amanda Holliday witnessed as a refugee travelling
to the safety of the last City.
Today we will cover the lore of Amanda Holliday and the exotic shotgun, the Chaperone.
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[INTRO] Let's start with Amanda Holliday's journey
to the City.
At this point we still do not know the exact location of the Last City, however what we
do know, is that following the Collapse many people assumed that the safest place was to
be below the Traveler.
The period directly following the Collapse was known as the Dark Age, and many people
who were displaced from their homes made a pilgrimage towards the Traveler in search
of safety.
This is reinforced by the Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age, which reads,
It was a time of vast suffering and terrible evil.
But there was one hope: the promise of a refuge beneath the Traveler.
Consequently, the grimoire cards often describe the people of the Last City as refugees.
The Factions grimoire card reads, In the City's earliest days, various factions
vied for the hearts and minds of the refugee masses.
Power struggles threatened to shatter an already tenuous existence.
Why is this important to Amanda Holliday's story, well, she was one of those refugees,
her and her family made the treacherous journey towards the Traveler.
One of the reasons why the journey was so dangerous, apart from the obvious reasons
of shelter, food, water, was the presence of the Fallen.
We know that the Fallen arrived quite soon after the Collapse to loot and pillage Earth.
The Fallen grimoire card reads, The Fallen are ruthless scavengers.
Brutal and uncaring, they arrived on their massive Ketches in the wake of the Collapse
to loot and pillage our devastated worlds.
The story of Shin Malphur is another good example of how the Fallen would attack settlements
outside of the safety of the Last City.
As you can imagine, following the Collapse, people would have had to make a very tough
decision, whether they should bunker down and set up settlements or whether they should
risk making the journey to the Traveler and having to fend off the Fallen whilst on the
move.
Obviously, Amanda holliday's family choose the later.
In fact, Amanda Holliday was actually born on the road, whilst travelling to the Last
City, the Shipwright grimoire card reads, Born on the road, daughter of pilgrims, Holliday
grew up fixing and scavenging - maintaining the vehicles that saved her family from the
wilderness.
Her talent for engineering and her familiarity with Golden Age relics made her a leader among
the Tower's Shipwrights.
The terrors of Holliday's childhood galvanized her.
She knows and respects the dangers that press against the City's walls, and her drive to
rebuild the City's aerospace capabilities is driven as much by pragmatism as by her
love of flight.
Interestingly, even though Amanda Holliday was born on the road, her father is not mentioned
in the grimoire cards, yet her mother is quite prominent in the Lore.
For the most part, I get the impression that it was just mother and daughter traveling.
Even though it says, daughter of pilgrims, implying that both Amanda's mother and father
were already travelling, I have a feeling that Amanda's father was killed early in
the journey, leaving behind a pregnant Mrs Holliday.
Even though I don't have any evidence for this, I think it would be an amazing story
of Amanda's mother choosing to continue to journey to the Traveler, even whilst pregnant,
because she believed that it would be the safest place for her unborn baby.
Amanda's mother made that decision to push on, and then even gave birth to Amanda whilst
on the road, and of course fiercely protected Amanda Holliday from any threat.
The cool thing is, knowing that Amanda Holliday was born on road provides some indication
to the length of time they spent travelling to the Last City, as we see Amanda Holliday
as a young child in the Zavala trailer, I think it reasonable to say that Amanda and
her mother spent many years on the road making their way towards the City.
The question is, how did they survive for so long?
Well, Amanda Holliday recalls that her Mother's use of the shotgun Chaperone kept them alive.
The Chaperone grimoire card reads, "My mother had a shotgun we called the Chaperone.
Kept us alive out there, before we got to the City."
-Amanda Holliday
Amanda Holliday was born on the road, when the City was nothing more than a whispered
prayer.
Their only protection was the weapons they could scavenge, build or modify.
Weapons like her mother's two-barrel shotgun, with its black and gold filigree far too fine
for the world around it.
They called it the Chaperone.
That Chaperone lies in a shallow grave with its last owner, but Amanda recalls every detail
of its design.
And via a partnership with the gunsmiths of Tex Mechanica, she's brought the Chaperone
back to life.
Though the new weapon is much more powerful than the cantankerous relic the Hollidays
used on the road, it bears the appearance, and the name, of the Chaperone that saw the
one surviving Holliday safely to the Last City.
As you can see this grimoire card provides a ton of new information about the Chaperone
and Amanda Holliday.
The last sentence said that the Chaperone saw the one surviving Holliday safely to the
Last City.
So, the young girl we see in the Zavala trailer, if it is a young Amanda Holliday, she is an
orphan, she is the last surviving Holliday.
Her mother has already been killed and buried in a shallow grave with the original chaperone.
This is further confirmed in the exotic quest line where Amanda holliday says this,
"My mother didn't make it to the City.
Neither did the Chaperone.
We buried 'em together on the side of the road.
I hope whoever wins the weapon I designed with Tex Mechanica lives up to her heroism."
When it says, "we buried 'em", I do not know whether that is a reference to other
family members, maybe her father was still around, or maybe she had brothers or sisters,
however considering the previous card explains how Amanda is the one surviving Holliday,
I do get the impression, that she was traveling with other refugees.
So, Amanda Holliday makes it to the Tower, as a young child, however even as a young
child, it appears she learnt many skills on the road, primarily with scavenging and vehicle
repairs, I can only assume that Amanda Holliday would continue to hone those skills until
granted the position of Shipwright.
Mechanical knowledge was not the only thing she brought to the Tower, she also brought
the memory of her mother's shotgun Chaperone, which then leads to a partnership with Tex
Mechanica who agree to run a contest to win a replica of the Chaperone.
We, the Guardian enter this contest to win a replica of the Chaperone, the shotgun wielder
by Amanda Holliday's mother and protected her as they traveled to the City.
The interesting thing about this quest line, is that Tex Mechanica is described as a bit
old school, willing to bend the rules, and likewise so is Amanda Holliday.
In fact, Amanda Holliday recommends that you bribe Tex Mechanica in order to win the replica
Chaperone.
I found this to be a really nice touch to the characterization of Amanda Holliday, she
was an orphan from a young age, she likely saw her mother killed, or at very least buried
her whilst travelling to the City, she scavenged and repaired vehicles from a young age, doing
anything to survive, so of course, a little cheating never hurt anyone.
This is what the quest line says You entered the Tex Mechanica Crucible contest
to try to win my shotgun?
Hey, that's real dandy of you!
But I gotta tell ya, I think Tex is learning' toward someone else.
All right, here' what we're gonna do.
You need to go make a "generous donation" to Tex's research division.
Go talk to Cryptarch Rahool.
I'll let him know you're comin.
Amanda would also go on to confirm the attitude of Tex Mechanica, she says,
So listen, Tex Mechanica's one of the oldest foundries in the City.
They've still got a real Dark Age mindset.
This would also be confirmed by Banshee-44 who says
"You got no idea what it was like before the City.
Before the Walls.
That's the world for which Tex Mechanica was making weapons."
—Banshee-44"
To me, this Dark Age mindset, this time before the City walls, is not about being fair, it
is about surviving, doing anything it takes to be on top, and so we see Tex Mechanica
happily accept our bribe.
In fact, Tex Mechanica has also been known to try and bribe Lord Shaxx, which did not
go down very well.
This Dark Age mindset, this survival mindset is very prominent in Tex Mechanica and I think
that Amanda Holliday also has this similar mindset.
The perks of the Chaperone are called, Roadborn and The Survivor, and not too mention she
bends the rules for Cayde-6 when logging the ship entries for the ship Cayde wants us to
use to board the Dreadnaught.
Amanda Holliday is happy to bend the rules to get the job done, she is happy to do what
it takes to survive.
As you can see, she has complex and tragic history, she is much more than the Shipwright
and organizer of Sparrow Racing League.
When you win the Chaperone replica from Tex Mechanica, it is much more than a shotgun,
it was the protector of Amanda Holliday, symbolic of her mother's bravery, sacrifice and protection
and so when rewarded with the replica Chaperon, Amanda says this;
Congratulations, Guardian, You won.
Tex Mechanica let me give it to you myself.
It's called the Chaperone, same as the original.
I did the design work all from memory.
Use it to protect the folks who need help the most and ill be proud that you won the
contest.
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