greetings guardians my name is baifia today i wanted to answer a question which might seem
simple to some of you but is actually at the heart of the reason for conflict this season generally
within the darkness and their various factional powers and it's quite simply why is shivoha rath
hunting savafoon this is a question that i think seems obvious to some but is not
at all obvious to everyone it seems odd that one hive entity would hunt another
and so we're going to go back and we're going to explore this but before we do this is relevant to
it i promise i want you to cast your minds back to a conversation that was had long long ago
between savithoon and oryx in the books of sorrow it's from the entry called strict proof eternal
and it's just a little excerpt but it provides a lot of context as to what's going on
i don't have a strict proof yet you know silvaphone strokes the void with one long claw
and space-time groans beneath her touch this thing we believe that we're liberating the universe by
devouring it that we're cutting out the rod that we're on course to join the final shape i haven't
found a strict eternal proof we might yet be wrong oryx looks at her and for a moment just a
moment he is nostalgic he is sentimental he thinks imagine the years behind us the things we've done
and yet being old doesn't feel like a scar does it it hasn't left me dull i feel alive alive with you
and every time i step back into this world from my throne i feel like i'm two years old again
at the bottom of the universe looking up but he says sister it's us we're the proof we the hive
if we last forever we prove it and if something more ruthless conquers us then the proof is sealed
she looks back at him with eyes like hot needles i like that she says that's elegant although of
course she has had this thought before it was this proof eternal that savathun was relying on
it was this proof eternal that failed when we killed oryx the taken king
not simply with sword logic but with bomb logic in that moment we unleashed the lighty
to ogre's bounty the corrupted light and freed it thus defeating the taken king
and defying the darkness's laws within the throne world of its greatest champion and in that moment
by defying the champion of the final shape we proved that we held the right to exist in spite
of his darkness and not because we had eclipsed it as none had before we proved that the sword logic
was fallible that day in many respects it still is to this day the greatest victory that we have
ever attained as guardians but it also set off a chain of events that has led us here to this place
where savathun has enacted her current plans she is indeed a terrible power to behold the worrying
thing is perhaps that she has abandoned any belief in the darkness's power as being absolute the
result of her abandonment of the darkness can best be described as a schism within the hive itself
sarvaphoon has thus far disappeared and has congregated her strength with what she can
within the broods she still controls but shivoha raf has used her disappearance to consolidate her
own power over the unclaimed hive legions and has converted many of those previously loyal broods
to her side this is the basis of a conflict that has been going on for well over a year now
and represents such a significant betrayal for the hive and such a departure from their billions of
years of history that it's really quite remarkable we haven't heard more about it until now
granted we were obsessed with the pyramids and the discovery of stasis at the time
the first time it was truly mentioned i don't know any of us
who might have actually been watching so maybe we can't be blamed for missing it
one of the last known communications from osiris before he was possessed by sabathun
is actually one of the first notes we get on this topic it was a report that followed his search
across the system for more information on the invading forces of the darkness and the hive
of shiva wrath the entry in question follows him directly interfacing with the dreadnought
on saturn and discovering more about the present state of the hive take a listen to this audio log
it was a success i was able to reverse engineer the hive's organic communication
systems within the dreadnought i directly interface with their
network of collective consciousness things that learn survival
things i learned hive is fractured shattered turned on itself the black fleet intends to punish
savathune for interfering with its efforts to communicate with us no one knows where the witch
queen is not even her own court now zebra rath is using this opportunity to consolidate her power
i will return to the reef tomorrow to confer once more with spider he says he has news for
me with that something has been told to us that i think he is hard to contemplate
or was hard to contemplate at the time being savathun has chosen a side
aside in a cosmic war that has been distinctly between the forces of light and dark
but by breaking away and trying to prevent our communications with the pyramids she has won
the ire of her former gods and the master that controls them oh how high the pyramid of gods and
demons climbs and savafoon was indeed a few rungs from its apex by the seemingness of the situation
the witch queen already controlled the taken and was perhaps still only subservient to the worm
gods but now her choices have set her as a supreme enemy of the darkness in a way that perhaps only
one other hive understood i refer of course to nokris servathun's communications with nokris are
in fact another great hint within the law at her position and the reason why shiva arath began to
hunt for her in the season of arrivals the most hated hive heretic was ushered into the court of
sevethun to speak to a false version of the witch queen a puppet through which she spoke to him
and deceived him but through which i believe her intents were made clear and true it is here that
nokris stood and conversed with her and it is here that she stated that nocris's abandonment of the
darkness is something she should have honestly perceived as wisdom sooner a transcript from the
false idols law entry explains more nokris raised his gaze what use would i be to a god no gods
he nodded so it has always been savathun's voice converged onto him from every direction
you a usurper the first tug at the end of the chain to act as distraction or await slaughter
nocros's voice sunk with disappointment no as a thorn you have circumvented the deep through
forbidden sacrament and so you shall continue the deep fears me as we feared you ignorance keeps
knowledge usurps in this you have found purpose in my court the high priest's shoulders straightened
you feared me in a younger time intents were narrower i see your value as we should have
then all who denied you blinded by the sword let them fall away as grains from the scythe
i am the implement you are the mechanism by which we sever their chain
savathun's voice filled his skull with silken promise teach me your necromancies usurper of
the ordered way so that together we may circumvent the anchored logic that drags us into the depths
serve as foil to scatter the pieces of their grand game across the cosmos as zol did for my
heart i offer a trade knowledge for knowledge grant me sight into the dreaming mind's talent
and i will teach what you ask a rebellious bargain in the midst of dark tides it is bound
under my symbol reborn and made in my image our bargain will set new beginnings in motion
the masters convene here concern dripped from nocruce's words do we mean to move against them
not so directly a rival is imminent a shadow will reach out and make itself known
i am to obscure the connection where sky meets deep you shall be the scream that sows dissonance
and for it we will walk unhindered by the parasitic inclinations of those who believe
themselves mighty no chris saw the scheme the will of many bent to our hand no longer do they draw
upon us freedom they are beset against each other we walk the space between
nokris and savithoon's speech here is muddled by the poetry of their discourse but in short
savithoon admits that the hive were too quickly blinded by their belief in the darkness and the
sword logic to acknowledge the wisdom and strength of nocris's newfound power of necromancy she then
states that they will work against the pyramids to toe the line between light and darkness and find
true freedom between the two she states that she will unanchor herself using nocris's necromancy
from the logic that has pulled so many down into the deep it was for this and her interference
with our communications with the darkness that shivoha wrath and the entity behind the darkness
began to hunt the witch queen her bargain and the way it split the hive is best expressed perhaps
in some of the more recent law in the law book ripples in the third entry kel gorath a hive
knight that we killed in the very first story mission of the season of the lost
expressed his rage and anger at the betrayal of savathun before ushering in another challenger
kell gorath knight champion of death kneels before his shrine of bone in the fog ridden
depths of the ascendant plane soul fire recedes into the ground around him he places his forehead
against the shrine smudging a freshly bloodied sigil of zevua wrath he has added so many layers
but this is the first time the blood is his own he does so to show his devotion to reject the
heretic sister to pledge himself anew to war the ascendant sky churns around him he breathes deeply
it is his first breath of this life he looks to the shrine before him every vanquished contender
ground to meal and packed between skulls to cement them in place trinkets of conquest and old spent
weapons adorn the shrine from base to apex he looks at them as he prepares to face his adversary
an empty ghost whose core he had gifted to defected scarlet wizards
its guardian had ended him many times but he is kalgaroth and through battle he is reborn
no guardian can escape him for they are heralds of death and he swims in their wake his eyes
drift to another conquest crystalline implants torn from the forehead of an awoken tekken
he hunted her through the ley lines for three days tracking her by the stench of her fear
when he found her she brought the ascendant plane down on him he did not fall for this trick twice
he caught her again with his next life the turkian's final words echoed in his thoughts i
still see the flecks of scarlet in your chitin how quickly you abandon your witch queen kel'garath
recalls the night he renounced savathun the night he had scoured the scarlet from his flesh on
the serration beds deep within the hellmouth the night osiris slaughtered all crota's kin
servophone was weak to allow their deaths to cede ground to the celebrant to guardians shivorath
avenged them shivor wrath took osiris light and kelgarath guzzled from it with vows of vengeance
he would prove his allegiance by stamping out any trace of the heretic sister
her drew his adversary was a knight who still claimed fealty to savathun
her drew would be an instrument of example through battle kel garath would confirm his new god
through blood he would erase the name savathun and don that of shivoha wrath he stands bows
grips the cleaver and shield he will carry until he falls again her drew he whispers to the bones
tonight he will purify himself in death salvathoon's unique position
and her abandonment of the ways of darkness has put her at odds with her kin and her former master
she is now hunted by all and is attempting to eke out a victory by an alternate means in the battle
between the light and the dark she represents a distinct third party who aligns with no gods and
worships no logic but her own deception cunning knowledge and the exaltation of enforcing perhaps
the greatest constant in the universe upon others ignorance by imbaru she shall gain power
and by imbaru she hopes she will be liberated but soon she will also take up a new shivaleth
she will embrace the powers of the light and will steal them for her own
this plan and her abandonment of darkness is why shiva wrath now hunts her sister she hunts
her because she abandoned the deep the sword logic and the darkness because savathun is now a heretic
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have perhaps disengaged do you reckon that the hive is in itself completely split and sundered
now or do you think that shivorath has been able to consolidate all of her forces and many of the
remaining hive that were not truly loyal to savathun let me know what you think in the
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