History of Scythe

The Scythe is a Solar Relic weapon introduced in Season of the Haunted: "Light and Dark, forged together into a physical manifestation of terror." Holding it moves you to third person and disables your normal abilities. It has a ground slam that sends out Solar waves and melee swings that throw spinning projectiles; it inflicts Scorch, can ignite, and kills create healing orbs and restore Super energy.

Where it appears

• Seasonal activities such as Nightmare Containment and Sever missions, and in Savathûn's Spire encounters, returning in later seasons.
• In Red Rum(ble) at Festival of the Lost, a defeated Headless One drops a Scythe for any player. A kill with it scores 2 points, but Destinypedia calls it slow and risky compared with pumpkin charges.