Destiny 2: How to Start and Complete A Single Thread

There are a lot of quests in Destiny 2 that don’t always spell out exactly what you need to do. To complete A Single Thread, for instance, you only need to do two things, but it can be confusing if you don’t know exactly what to look for.

How to Start and Complete the A Single Thread Quest in Destiny 2

Before you can start A Single Thread in Destiny 2, there’s one thing you need: the Witch Queen Dungeon Key, available from the in-game store for 2,000 Silver. That’s the equivalent of about $20. You can open the purchasing screen from the Store tab, by visiting Hawthorne in the Tower, or by visiting the Dungeon node for either Duality or Spire of the Watcher on the Moon or the Throne World, respectively.

However, like many quests in the game, A Single Thread doesn’t automatically show up in your Destiny 2 quest inventory. You need to speak to a vendor to acquire it. The vendor in question is Hawthorne, who you’ll find in the Bazaar section of the Tower. She’s on an overlook gazing down at the city next to her hawk Louis. Don’t mind him. He doesn’t do much.

Provided you own the Witch Queen Dungeon Key (or got it by purchasing the Witch Queen Deluxe Edition when it was available), Hawthorne will start by offering you the quest. There are only two steps:

Step 1 of A Single Thread: Complete the Duality Dungeon

Duality is one of the more involved Dungeon activities in Destiny 2, with lots of technical and time-sensitive mechanics that take a bit to master. However, it’s been out long enough that most of the community familiar with it knows it like the back of their hand. And so do I, because I wrote our Complete Duality Dungeon Guide back when it first came out, and I’ve run the thing several times since then.

Step 2 of A Single Thread: Talk to Hawthorne (again)

There’s not much more to completing A Single Thread than doing the Dungeon and then confirming with Hawthorne that you did the Dungeon. It doesn’t matter how long the process takes or how many times you fail. If you and your team (or you alone, if you’re daring) beat the final boss, you’re essentially done.