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What was The Dawning? ❄️
The Dawning was Destiny’s Winter Event.
- Eva Levante would provide Guardians with a light-infused oven capable of baking goods.
- Guardians were tasked to gather enough supplies to create baked goods to deliver to vendors all across the solar system to earn rewards.
- With the final The Dawning, a PvP Snowball Fight activity was released.
May 27, 2026
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Happy Holidays!
Objective
- 1 − Visit Eva Levante in the Tower to begin the Seasonal Quest. She will provide you with a light-infused oven.
- Eva will provide some ingredients to get you started (through the introductory quest steps), but you will need to go out into the world to gather more ingredients by defeating enemies and completing various activities in Destiny 2.
- Once you have your ingredients, you can start combining them to create some tasty treats like Gjallardoodles or Telemetry Tapioca.
- 2 − How to Play:
- Earn ingredients by defeating different combatant factions and by using specific weapons, elements, and abilities.
- Earn Dawning Essence by completing various Portal activities, including the new Dawning Snowball Fight activity.
- Combine ingredients and Dawning Essence to bake cookies, which can be delivered to vendors across the system in exchange for rewards, including Dawning Spirit, and occasionally A Gift in Return, which can be opened for unique Dawning weapons and rewards.
- Redeem Dawning Spirit through Eva in order to empower your ingredient gathering capabilities, unlock new gift options, and harness the power of snowballs.
- 3 − Purchase a variety of upgrades using Dawning Spirit, which you can get by activating Boons of Friendship, and delivering baked treats.
Eva's Upgrades
- Upgrades: Eva offers upgrade items that will offer additional rewards or benefits during the event! Upgrade items range from 10-20 Dawning Spirit.
- Merrymaker: Receive three Boons of Friendship each day from Eva Levante.
- Quintessence: Activities grant bonus Dawning Essence.
- Season’s Spirit: Activities grant bonus Dawning Spirit.
- Bountiful Harvest: Earn ingredients by completing Orders and Dawning Daily Challenges.
- Essential Harvest: Earn a small amount of Dawning Essence by completing Orders and Dawning Daily Challenges.
- Long Winter: Increases the duration of slow effects applied by snowballs.
- Longer Winter: Increases the amount of slow effects applied to all combatants damaged by snowballs.
- Longest Winter: Snowballs instantly freeze combatants damaged by them.
- Stay Frosty: Snowballs leave a stasis mine on impact.
- Gift that Keeps on Giving: Shattering frozen combatants causes them to drop snowballs.
Rewards & Materials
- Earn ingredients by completing Orders and Dawning Daily Challenges.
- Defeating enemies with Dawning weapons or abilities will create a Snowball spawn point where an enemy was defeated!
- Select the weapon icons below to learn more about the weapon. This will redirect you over to Light.gg or Bray.tech.
Active Items
⭐New
⭐New
Reprisal
⭐New, Low Drop Rate
Event Materials
Event Materials
Event Materials
Event Materials
Loot Not in Rotation
Legacy Weapon
Legacy Weapon
Legacy Weapon
Legacy Weapon
Legacy Weapon
Legacy Weapon
Dawning Surprise
Rapidly defeating targets awards a Dawning gift. Defeated powerful targets count as more than one.
Enhanced: Earn a Dawning gift at a much faster rate.
Found on any The Dawning Event weapon found during or after Season 19.
Dawning Memento
- In Dawning 2025, you can still have Dawning Mementos drop by opening Gifts in Return.
- Mementos are special cosmetic upgrades you can equip on enhanced weapons and crafted weapons. They cannot be applied to tiered weapons.
- The drop chance of these mementos are low, so you may need to grind a bit!
Video Guides
Dawning Video Guides
2025 Event
12:03
17:04
9:32
Previous Years
14:35
9:38
6:32
13:54
8:39
5:40
3:02
6:49
Recipes
Active Recipes
Dark Matter Drizzlers (Dean)
Peanut Butter Paw Prints (Archie)
Gjallardoodles (Zavala)
Traveler Donut Holes (Ikora)
Starwort Thins (The Stranger)
Telemetry Tapioca (Banshee)
Eliksni Birdseed (Hawthorne)
Gentleman's Shortbread (Devrim)
Strange Cookies (Xur)
Infinite Forest Cake (Failsafe)
Vanilla Blades (Shaxx)
Lavender Ribbon Cookies (Saint-14)
Ascendant Oatmeal Cookies (Eris)
Ill-Fortune Cookies (Petra)
Dark Chocolate Motes (Drifter)
Bright-Dust Snowballs (Tess)
Classic Butter Cookies (Eva)
Blueberry Crumblers (Shaw)
Etheric Coldsnaps (Variks)
Bittersweet Biscotti (Crow)
Lucent Crunch (Fynch)
Neomun-Pie (Nimbus)
Cosmic Sugar Cube
- The Sugar Cube is obtained as a random drop during the Dares of Eternity 6-Player Event, which is free for all players!
- Once acquired, you will want to deliver this to the Starhorse in Xur’s Treasure Hoard at Eternity.
- The Starhorse will reward lucky Guardians some extra loot!
Legacy Recipes
Chocolate Ship Cookies (Amanda)
Candy Dead Ghosts (Spider's)
Burnt Edge Transits (Rahool)
Ascendant Apple Tart (Mara Sov)
Ingredients
- While Eva will bring her Holiday Oven with her, players will have to go out into the world to gather Materials by defeating enemies and earn Essence of Dawning by completing Portal activities.
- Once players have enough materials, they can combine them together to create tasty treats like Gjallardoodles and Dark Chocolate Motes.
- Players can combine Materials by finding Eva’s Holiday Oven 2.0 in their Quest Tab, (or via Portal, or Inventory tab) viewing the Oven’s “details,” and selecting the Materials they wish to combine.
- Players can then give these holiday gifts to vendors across the system, depending on what baked good has been created.
Use CTRL-F or use our search bar (bottom left) to find the ingredient below!
Defeating VEX enemies.
Best Source: The Orrery via Artifact’s Edge and The Inverted Spire.
- Nessus: Free Roam, Orrery via Artifact’s Edge, The Inverted Spire, Spire Integration Public Event
- Europa: Free Roam (especially Asterion Abyss), The Glassway Strike, Spire Integration Public Event
- Neomuna: Free Roam, Terminal Overload
- Kepler: Free Roam, Sieve
- Lawless Frontier: Tharsis Reformation activities
Defeating FALLEN enemies.
Best Source: Trostland, EDZ and Glimmer Drill Public Events.
- EDZ: Free Roam, Trostland, Glimmer Drill Public Events, Fallen Walker Public Events, Ether Servitor Public Events, Lost Sectors
- Nessus: Free Roam, The Rift via Exodus Black, The Carrion Pit via Glade of Echoes, Glimmer Drill Public Events, Ether Servitor Public Events
- The Moon: Free Roam, K1 Logistics via Archer’s Line, Ether Servitor Public Events, Fallen Walker Public Events
- Europa: Free Roam, (especially Cadmus Ridge and Eventide Ruins)
- Cosmodrome: Free Roam, Glimmer Drill and Walker Public Events
- Kepler: Free Roam, Sieve
- Lawless Frontier: Piker activities
Defeating CABAL enemies.
Best Source: The Insight Terminus and The Arms Dealer.
- EDZ: Free Roam, The Pit via Firebase Hades, Skydock IV via The Sunken Isles, The Arms Dealer
- Nessus: Free Roam, The Conflux via The Cistern
- Neomuna: Free Roam, Terminal Overload.
- Lawless Frontier: Renegades campaign, Totality Division activities.
Defeating HIVE enemies.
Best Source: The Disgraced, and Scarlet Keep.
- The Moon: Free Roam, Warsat, K1 Revelations via Sorrow’s Harbour, The Scarlet Keep, Nightmare Hunts
- The Dreaming City: Curse II Blind Well, Free Roam
- Cosmodrome: Free Roam, The Disgraced, Veil Labyrinth via The Forgotten Shore
- Savathûn’s Throne World: Free Roam, The Lightblade
Defeating TAKEN enemies.
Best Source: Lake Of Shadows and The Corrupted. Alternatively, the Whisper Pinnacle Ops activity and Last Wish Raid.
- EDZ: The Sludge, Lost Sectors, Lake of Shadows
- The Dreaming City: Free Roam, Chamber of Starlight via Rheasilvia, Aphelion’s Rest via The Strand, Taken Blight Public Event, Heroic Rift Generator Public Event, The Shattered Throne, Last Wish, Curse III Blind Well, The Corrupted
- The Pale Heart: Free Roam
Rare Ingredients
Defeating SCORN enemies.
Best Source: Rift Generator Public Event, Ether Ritual Public Events and Resonant Elements Public Events
- The Dreaming City: Free Roam, Curse I, The Rift Generator, Bay of Drowned Wishes via Divilian Mists
- Savathûn’s Throne World: Free Roam, Birthplace of the Vile.
- The Pale Heart: Free Roam
Defeating enemies with Grenades, Grenade Launchers and Rocket Launchers.
Defeating enemies with Swords.
Defeating enemies with Solar Weapons and Solar Abilities.
Defeating enemies with Arc Weapons and Arc Abilities.
Defeating enemies with Void Weapons and Void Abilities.
Eliminate combatants with darkness weapons or ability final blows. This includes Stasis or Strand.
Defeating enemies with Melee Final Blows.
Defeating enemies with Precision Kills.
Defeating enemies with Auto Rifles, Submachine Guns, and Machine Guns.
Tip: Use a Machine Gun and participate in the Rift Generator public event in the Dreaming City.
Defeating enemies with Finishers.
Defeating enemies with Scout Rifles and Sniper Rifles.
Defeating enemies with your Super.
Defeating multiple enemies at a time.
Tip: Rocket Launchers, Machine Guns and Swords work best for rapid kills.
Collect Orbs of Power.
Orbs generated by weapons, melee, or grenade final blows (if you have the appropriate mods on) can drop orbs of power. Super Final Blows only generate orbs for your teammates.
Generate Orbs of Power.
Tip: Ensure you have Orb Generating Mods equipped on your helmet and arms (weapon final blows, melee final blows & grenade final blows). For enhanced kinetic weapons, the Synergy Weapon Mod has a chance of making orbs of light. Weapons with Attrition Orbs can also generate orbs.
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