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|name= The Undying Mind | |name= The Undying Mind | ||
|image= [[File:UndyingMindGrimoireCard.jpg|300px]] | |image= [[File:UndyingMindGrimoireCard.jpg|300px]] | ||
|species= [[Vex]] | |species= [[Vex]] | ||
|faction= [[Sol Divisive]] <br> [[Weavers]] <ref>'''Bungie (2020-05-08)''', ''[[Destiny]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard,[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/the-undying-mind The Undying Mind]''</ref> | |faction= [[Sol Divisive]] <br> [[Weavers]] <ref>'''Bungie (2020-05-08)''', ''[[Destiny]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard,[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/the-undying-mind The Undying Mind]''</ref> | ||
|rank= [[Ultra]] | |rank= [[Axis Mind]] <br> [[Ultra]] | ||
|class= [[Hydra]] | |class= [[Hydra]] | ||
|mission= [[The Undying Mind (strike)|The Undying Mind]]<br>[[Vex Offensive|Vex Offensive: Final Assault]] | |mission= [[The Undying Mind (strike)|The Undying Mind]]<br>[[Vex Offensive|Vex Offensive: Final Assault]] | ||
|height= | |height= | ||
|mass= | |mass= | ||
|weapon= [[Aeon Maul]] | |weapon= {{icon|Solar}} /{{icon|Void}} [[Aeon Maul]] | ||
|ability= | |ability= Rotating Shields <br> Midair Levitation <br> High Durability <br> {{icon|Kinetic}} Detonation Melee <br> Summon Blockage <br> Blinding Confluxes <br> {{icon|Solar}} Death Blast <br> Summon Vex | ||
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{{Quote|When the Undying Mind is threatened, its [[Precursors|ancient creators]] step through time portals to defend it, ensuring that it will continue to thrive, until the Vex once again control the [[Black Garden]].|In game description}} | {{Quote|When the Undying Mind is threatened, its [[Precursors|ancient creators]] step through time portals to defend it, ensuring that it will continue to thrive, until the Vex once again control the [[Black Garden]].|In game description}} | ||
'''The Undying Mind''' is an ancient [[Axis Mind]] of the [[Sol Divisive]] [[Vex]], serving as the final boss of | '''The Undying Mind''' is an ancient [[Axis Mind]] of the [[Sol Divisive]] [[Vex]], serving as the final boss of the [[The Undying Mind (strike)|eponymous]] [[Strike]] and later the main antagonist in ''[[Season of the Undying]]''. Its purpose is to protect the [[Black Garden]] from intrusion by sealing it out of space and time and to restore the [[Black Heart]]. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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A fireteam of [[Guardian]]s is dispatched to the Black Garden at Ikora's behest to face the Undying Mind, while dealing with a growing number of Sol Divisive Vex protecting it. With the ancient Mind under threat by the Light-bearing intruders, swarms of Precursors are summoned to defend it with a massive [[Divisive Oculator]] barring the way. The Guardians kills the [[Cyclops]] and its Precursor army as they proceed to an open Vex gateway and disrupt the nearby [[Conflux|Confluxes]]. The Undying Mind is successfully drawn out of the gateway along with armies of Precursors to defend it, but it is destroyed nonetheless. | A fireteam of [[Guardian]]s is dispatched to the Black Garden at Ikora's behest to face the Undying Mind, while dealing with a growing number of Sol Divisive Vex protecting it. With the ancient Mind under threat by the Light-bearing intruders, swarms of Precursors are summoned to defend it with a massive [[Divisive Oculator]] barring the way. The Guardians kills the [[Cyclops]] and its Precursor army as they proceed to an open Vex gateway and disrupt the nearby [[Conflux|Confluxes]]. The Undying Mind is successfully drawn out of the gateway along with armies of Precursors to defend it, but it is destroyed nonetheless. | ||
True to its name, the Undying Mind would not stay dead for long. It would come back from its destruction to seal the Garden yet again, forcing fireteams of Guardians to confront the immortal Vex mind for no end until the events of the [[Red War]]. The arrival of the [[Red Legion]] would push the [[Cabal]] to retake the [[Meridian Bay]] and destroy the only gate to the Black Garden, sealing it off once more and completing the Undying Mind's objective for it.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]'', ''Activision Blizzard'', [[Ghost Scans]]: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/ghost-scan-the-cistern-nessus-3 The Cistern, Nessus, 3]''</ref> | True to its name, the Undying Mind would not stay dead for long. It would come back from its destruction to seal the Garden yet again, forcing fireteams of Guardians to confront the immortal Vex mind for no end until the events of the [[Red War]]. The arrival of the [[Red Legion]] would push the [[Cabal]] to retake the [[Meridian Bay]] and destroy the only gate to the Black Garden, sealing it off once more and completing the Undying Mind's objective for it.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]'', ''Activision Blizzard'', [[Ghost Scans]]: ''[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/ghost-scan-the-cistern-nessus-3 The Cistern, Nessus, 3]''</ref> | ||
===Season of the Undying=== | ===Season of the Undying=== | ||
{{Quote|When Guardians last faced the Undying Mind, the Vex were trying to seal the Garden to resurrect the Black Heart. The object of their worship. Darkness incarnate. I wonder if that's still the case… or if the Pyramid forced a change of priority.|Ghost}} | {{Quote|When Guardians last faced the Undying Mind, the Vex were trying to seal the Garden to resurrect the Black Heart. The object of their worship. Darkness incarnate. I wonder if that's still the case… or if the Pyramid forced a change of priority.|Ghost}} | ||
An undetermined amount of time | An undetermined amount of time would pass outside the timeless Garden as the Sol Divisive Vex lie patiently in wait for the [[Witness]] to return power to them. During this time, the inactive Undying Mind became buried in a barrow of flora growing around it. Their prayers would be answered as Darkness returned to their realm in the form of a distant pulse sent across space-time by the [[Pyramid (Luna)|Lunar Pyramid]]'s awakening, empowering the Vex within the Garden yet again and causing the Mind to stir once more. With their faith rewarded, Vex [[Goblin]]s write more circuits to weld to the Mind, building it up to take advantage of their newfound power.<ref name="Realis">'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]]'', ''[[Lore]]: [[Lore:Aspect|Aspect]] - [[Lore:Aspect#Realis|Realis]]''</ref><ref name="Irrealis">'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]]'', ''[[Lore]]: [[Lore:Aspect|Aspect]] - [[Lore:Aspect#Irrealis|Irrealis]]''</ref> | ||
The Undying Mind re-establishes itself after a group of Guardians launched an [[Garden of Salvation|excursion]] through a [[Embrace|gateway]] found on [[Luna]] and destroyed the [[Consecrated Mind, Sol Inherent|Sol]] [[Sanctified Mind, Sol Inherent|Inherent]] Minds. With the Black Garden lying open yet again, the ancient Mind directs the [[Sol Divisive]]'s activity in an ongoing [[Vex | The Undying Mind re-establishes itself after a group of Guardians launched an [[Garden of Salvation|excursion]] through a [[Embrace|gateway]] found on [[Luna]] and destroyed the [[Consecrated Mind, Sol Inherent|Sol]] [[Sanctified Mind, Sol Inherent|Inherent]] Minds. With the Black Garden lying open yet again, the ancient Mind directs the [[Sol Divisive]]'s activity in an ongoing [[Vex Invasion|invasion]] to claim the Moon for the Vex; drawn to the [[Pyramid (Luna)|Pyramid]] buried beneath its surface.<ref name="Eyes On The Moon">'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]]'', ''Transcript: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/vex-invasion-eyes-on-the-moon Eyes on the Moon, Vex Invasion]''</ref> In addition, it began hiding in multiple co-occurrent timelines, making copies of itself in hundreds upon thousands of different realities to evade the Guardians.<ref name="Patternbreaking">'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]]'', ''Transcript: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/vex-invasion-patternbreaking Patternbreaking, Vex Invasion]''</ref> | ||
The Mind was considered unreachable until [[Ikora Rey]] constructed a modified Vex gate built from Vex | The Mind was considered unreachable until [[Ikora Rey]] constructed a modified Vex gate built from Vex components, which she and Zavala had tested by killing two dozen of its copies.<ref name="To Destroy a Mind">'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]]'', ''Transcript: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/to-destroy-a-mind To Destroy a Mind]''</ref> This allow the Guardians to draw the ancient Hydra out of the timelines it established and destroy it once again. However, as multiple copies of the Undying Mind existed in the timeways, the Guardians had to summon every single copy one at a time until all were destroyed in a matter of weeks. With the destruction of the Undying Mind, however, the Guardians had irrevocably changed the Vex's projected futures in the [[Infinite Forest]]; one that [[Osiris]] revealed all sharing the same simulated future of subatomic annihilation by the [[The Witness|Witness]].<ref>'''Bungie, (12/7/2019), [[Weblore]]:''' ''[[Weblore:Season of Dawn#Actions of Mutual Friends|Actions of Mutual Friends]]''</ref> | ||
==Gameplay== | ==Gameplay== | ||
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*While the Undying Mind's [[Aeon Maul]] blasts are orange-colored ([[Solar]]) the killcam clearly shows they are the same as ordinary [[Torch Hammer]]s or [[Aeon Maul]]s ([[Void]]). This may be a developer oversight. | *While the Undying Mind's [[Aeon Maul]] blasts are orange-colored ([[Solar]]) the killcam clearly shows they are the same as ordinary [[Torch Hammer]]s or [[Aeon Maul]]s ([[Void]]). This may be a developer oversight. | ||
*The Undying Mind is the third Axis Mind to return. [[Sekrion, Nexus Mind]] and [[Dendron, Root Mind]] being first and second respectively. | *The Undying Mind is the third Axis Mind to return. [[Sekrion, Nexus Mind]] and [[Dendron, Root Mind]] being first and second respectively. | ||
*The Undying Mind's appearance in Destiny 2 has been slightly altered, bearing a resemblance to [[The Templar]] | *The Undying Mind's appearance in Destiny 2 has been slightly altered, bearing a resemblance to [[The Templar]]. | ||
*Despite the Undying Mind being part of the Sol Divisive, [[Precursors]] are seen protecting it in [[Destiny|Destiny 1]]. This may show the desperation of the Vex to keep the Undying Mind active as to bring forth models from other times to protect it. | *Despite the Undying Mind being part of the Sol Divisive, [[Precursors]] are seen protecting it in [[Destiny|Destiny 1]]. This may show the desperation of the Vex to keep the Undying Mind active as to bring forth models from other times to protect it. | ||
*The Undying Mind is one of the few characters in Destiny that the player canonically kills multiple times. | *The Undying Mind is one of the few characters in Destiny that the player canonically kills multiple times. | ||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||
*''[[Destiny]]'' | *''[[Destiny]]'' | ||
**''[[The Dark Below]]'' {{1st}} | **''[[The Dark Below]]'' {{1st}} | ||
**''[[Rise of Iron]]'' | **''[[Rise of Iron]]'' | ||
*''[[Destiny 2]]'' | *''[[Destiny 2]]'' | ||
**''[[Season of the Undying]]'' | **''[[Season of the Undying]]'' | ||
**''[[Season of Arrivals]]'' {{Mo}} | **''[[Season of Arrivals]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Vex]] | [[Category:Vex]] | ||
[[Category:Characters]] | [[Category:Characters]] | ||
[[Category:Main antagonists]] | |||