greetings guardians my name is by fear okay so i figured if i was going to start the series
of videos on the lore of the king's full raid we really needed to start from somewhat of the
beginning i wanted to cover the touch of malice originally and i think that's still going to be
a good second or third video to make but i think we're really gonna need to talk about king stall
in depth by starting with who oryx is now i know that this is going to be retreading a lot of old
ground for those of you who've played the series for years but for those of you who haven't even
seen oryx up until this point you've only heard whispers and odd bits here and there this is gonna
be important this is gonna be a review and sort of a vague overview of one of destiny's greatest
villains so today we're going to give the briefest overview of who oryx is and for those of you
who know all of it i'm sure this is going to be an opportunity to go over some bits of more obscure
lore about oryx that you might have missed so don't worry there's stuff in here for everyone
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anyway back to the law so as far as the big bads of destiny are concerned oryx is really the very
first that we ever saw that challenged us and changed the world in a serious manner
back in destiny 1 he was a villain heralded by a villain an expansion hinted to by an expansion
and his arrival was the first point at which the game of destiny truly changed on a macro level
that was due to the taken arriving and infesting literally every destination in the game let's not
worry about all of that to start with let's think about oryx's origins really briefly and for those
of you wondering yes you can absolutely just get a lot more detail on this particular part of it
all by just watching dynasty but i'm here to give you the bigger picture and some important details
along the way oryx and his two sisters shivoha wrath and savathun were originally a triarch of
sisters known as orash shiro and sathona this was in the time before the hive were called the hive
back in this time they were known as the krill and lived on a massive gas giant world
called fundament that had deep oceans below its layers of many clouds now the krill as they were
known at the time lived short but hard lives on fundament and scratched out in existence
through their hardship but they at one point were supposedly going to be chosen by the
traveler to be uplifted it's here that the witness intervened you see before they could be uplifted
the witness initiated its plan to corrupt the krill initially it sent its first disciple rulk
down into the crushing depths of fundamental oceans to subjugate sheiter the worm mother
in exchange for this sheiter's children the worm gods were given power and roped into the plan to
corrupt the krill a dead worm larvae then mysteriously washed up from the deep ocean
i say mysteriously it's quite deliberate that this happened it was then picked up by the father of
the three sisters orash sathona and shiro the old osmium king whose name we still do not know
eventually this worm was passed to sathona who would hear the whispers of the worm insisting
that they should venture down into the depths of fundament's oceans there the three siblings found
the worm guards who offered them immortality in exchange for a constant blood tithe
though the nature of the deal wasn't quite expanded on by the time that they actually
heard the deal the three siblings would eventually accept and this is the moment at which the three
siblings began to transform they turned from urash siro and sathona into oryx shivoha wrath
and savathun they then went on to corrupt and uplift the rest of their species and thus the
krill were transformed into the hive they were the eternal servants of the witness at this point and
whilst they didn't truly discover the nature of their place in its hierarchy for quite some time
they would serve it loyally for billions of years and all the same they didn't seem to care
by this point their corruption was so far gone and this was the only life they could conceive of
at least this was the only life that most of them could conceive of
the hive would go on to fight countless wars against many civilizations and would become
stronger up until the point that they stepped into a war with a stellar empire known as the acuminae
when they discovered that the accumulator were too great oryx and his two sisters communed in
oryx's throne world in order to divine a solution and it's here that oryx decided to kill his two
sisters and then akka the worm god of secrets from the power that he'd accumulated and from
the secrets he'd learned from arca he gained the power necessary to commune with the deep
as well as the power of the witness to be able to pull things into a dimension of darkness
this power in its greatest form is literally capable of abducting whole planets but in the case
of oryx it showed him a way to corrupt the forces of his enemies and to turn them into mindless
thralls that would fight for him these would be known as the taken oryx inscribed these secrets
that he had learned from akka onto a series of tablets that he called the tablets of ruin and
they would hang about his waist when he went out into the universe next he proclaimed himself to be
the taken king which is where his title comes from he used the taken to decimate the humane and
declared his dominion over the hive from that moment onward his power was so great at this point
that he would actually be able to bring back shiva rath and savithoon after true deaths simply by
embodying them and thus manifesting them back into the universe oryx's power would go on to
become utterly remarkable from this point it was so excessive that savathun and sivuarath actually
departed from him and his hive swarm because they were so overwhelmed by his power and they needed
time and space apart from their brother to develop differently so that they might develop it all
so we can tell from all of this history alone that oryx is quite literally the meanest
thing the hive have known and for the longest time wherever there were hive in our system
you could feel his very subtle influence this is greatest displayed by the actions of his son
crota who was responsible for the greatest defeat that guardians had ever suffered
the event is so terrible that in destiny's history it is literally called the great disaster but
there's a whole lot of stuff that you probably didn't know about oryx and so today we're going
to fill in some of those gaps further firstly when comparing his actual powers it's entirely the case
that he's comparable to beings such as rulk in terms of stature within the witness's hierarchy
although rulk undoubtedly comes out on top given his placement in the witness's hierarchy as
its first disciple he has personally spoken to the witness and has been given insight into the end of
the universe as the witness wishes it to be oryx would from that point become obsessed with trying
to embody the witness's goal his obsession was to live forever and to claim the secrets of the final
shape so that he might become one with it and so it was that in many of his actions he attempted
to emulate the witness that is to say he attempted to emulate what he understood of the witness that
which is formless and yet sharp one of the key ways in which oryx did this was with his echoes
just in the same way that the witness seldom stepped beyond the veil into our universe oryx
attempted to accomplish the same thing by sending out shades of himself cloaked in dark energies
to accomplish his goals his actions in embodying the sword logic led to the obvious brutality of
his conquests and it is said that by the time he arrived in seoul he had become as a syllogism of
the sword logic and the final shape this is to say that he was often closely associated with it
where he walked often it would follow however oryx's plan was to become an axiom to it in other
words to make it law that wherever he trod the final shape was present merely by his association
for a hive he is the most powerful thing they can hope to become and also he represents what was to
many of them the apex of their accomplishment he represents the closest that a hive can come to
perfection having attained godhood and having become one of the closest confidants of the
witness a harbinger of the final shape but it was not by his power alone that oryx gained his
authority he gained power because he was supported by those below him in station who tithed tribute
up to him this is one of the mechanics of the hive that oryx imposed personally however peculiar
beings because of the fact that they need this destruction to exist without sowing destruction
and the ruin that they reap from it being their reward they cannot feed their worms if they don't
feed their worms they will be unable to survive as the hunger of the worms will then destroy them
thus they require an endless blood tithe in order to live and maintain their immortality
as well as their power however oryx was in his own way a shrewd political operator
and in this sense politics for the hive is very much a real life and death consequence
because if you have power over someone else it means you also control their life and all the
things that they tithe oryx created this system after having destroyed the accumenae and set many
of their worlds to the torch oryx declared that all the hive that gained sustenance from conquest
and destruction would then have to tie the portion of that conquest up to their superiors thralls
would tithe up to acolytes acolytes to knights and wizards and eventually all those beneath oryx
would tithe until that destruction reached all the way up to him at the apex of their civilization
in doing so oryx essentially created a system by which he was always given an excessive amount
of destruction whilst those at the base had to struggle and survive this is one of those systems
that meant that he was perpetually in power until something greater than him could dethrone him and
yes for those of you wondering this is very much the same kind of structure as a pyramid scheme
great irony indeed there were also certain key elements of his hierarchy that were
powerful in their own right and allowed him to maintain power much more easily
powerful ascendant hive in particular were crucial to his power see those that roamed within the
high war also known as the court of oryx those who were capable of tithing great power to him
but then there are others that have to be mentioned those who are even closer to him
ascendant hive such as his son crota the light eater his daughters ur halak the unraveller and
uranuc the weaver and the war priest all of whom helped oryx to maintain his power
many of these individuals were members of his family and it's important to understand
that because family for the hive is an important part of their civilization how important exactly
well it's important enough to die over and to kill over to kill over a lot in fact
hive familial bonds are not like those of humans and there's a simple reason for that to them
love is war and war is love there is no greater respect or gift that one can show
than to bring them closer to the truth of the final shape this is for the eyes of the hive
that is they do this by sharpening themselves and becoming stronger in the process and they
do so by making war with those that they also desire to make strong oryx and his family have
embodied this well the three hive god siblings have killed each other countless times and have
gained much knowledge of combat in the process as well as the means by which they might survive
thus they show their affection to each other because their rivals are not strong enough to
survive and learn thus they are not worthy of such knowledge and such experience that moulds them
into what the hive perceive as something greater the growth that one obtains from experience and
survival through combat by claw and blade and darkness is something that the hive treasure
and if they can share it amongst themselves they will in their early days the hive were at war with
themselves for 20 000 years growing strong and sharp as they fought to maintain their supremacy
and start to grow in power in the time between the spaces of fundament and their next quarry this is
realistically the best way to understand the hive they value strength and when you understand that
strength can only come from conflict it is only a natural act of love to invite conflict on those
that you care for because if you did not care for them you wouldn't want to see them grow
those that have stood against oryx are not all remembered most of them have been lost to the
sands of time as all memory of their civilizations has been erased the world's grave the ancient
record of the hive's history tells us nothing of many of those who were defeated but we know at
very least that before oryx arrived in seoul he had previously fought both the elixini and the
cabal the elixini saw chelches the hell of stone fall to the forces of oryx and the witness at the
last stand made by the elixini at reese after the traveler had left them and the whirlwind had begun
the cabal had seen scout legions led by a certain primus arn killed to a man word of
which had clearly made its way back to the high command of the kabul empire including the likes
of evacute general and primus of all legions umuna wrath omun wrath remember is the one that would go
on to train empress keital and to warn her of the dangers that the hive presented to any who opposed
them in this strange way the sword logic that oryx has imposed upon his foes and his friends alike
has made strange ripples that have even touched the life of the current empress of the cabal
there are also those countless others that have fallen in his wake the helium drinkers of
fundament the ammonite of fundamental moons the kugu the humane the harmony and the taisha beth
there are billions of souls that have been fed into the power of his blade and the blades of
his followers he has become mighty indeed by their deaths and speaking of blades one of
the last things we'll touch on today is oryx's powerful blade that is known as will breaker
and its name was well earned it was capable of cutting the strands of one's mind and tearing
them apart by the force of oryx's determination once orex fell the blade came to pass to us
we would discover one of the reasons for its power it was made of a substance known as
hadium a metal not native to our solar system one which was capable of containing within its bounds
some measure of paracausal power hedium is in this sense a special material because it can be
empowered by the light or the darkness we would know this is how we crafted
dark drinker raise lighter and bolt caster back in destiny 1. flakes of hadeum this strange material
can still be found lingering about the remains of the dreadnought and a weapon of such construction
would be mighty indeed from here there is still a lot more to say about oryx but i really want to
leave it all up to you what should i speak about first when i talk about oryx and king's fall
do you want the law of specific encounters are there choice questions that you want answered
do you want to know about the touch of malice or the weapons that we obtain from the raid
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