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Taken are composed of sterile neutrinos and resemble their former selves for the most part, but are ghost-like, shadowed and eerily glowing, with a blindingly bright orb typically obscuring their facial features. Many Taken are seen to shiver or twitch in a disturbing manner, and their vocalizations are warped into shrieks and howls. Over time, exceptionally powerful Taken have been seen to grow pairs of black, curving spikes from their bodies, pustules over their skin, and gaining silver, golden and red colorations. | Taken are composed of sterile neutrinos and resemble their former selves for the most part, but are ghost-like, shadowed and eerily glowing, with a blindingly bright orb typically obscuring their facial features. Many Taken are seen to shiver or twitch in a disturbing manner, and their vocalizations are warped into shrieks and howls. Over time, exceptionally powerful Taken have been seen to grow pairs of black, curving spikes from their bodies, pustules over their skin, and gaining silver, golden and red colorations. | ||
Taken ontology | It has been shown that in extraordinary circumstances that Taken corruption can be reversed, as its own hunger-based ontology will devour itself in turn. This was revealed in the [[Dreaming City]] after [[Guardian]]s used Taken essentia in their battles to free [[Kalli]], [[Shuro Chi]] and [[Sedia]] from their corruption and even purge an [[Ahamkara]] egg of [[Riven]]'s own clutch of Taken influence. | ||
It is possible, though rare, for entities of paracausal nature to be partially Taken. In the case of Deputy Commander Sloane, with the corruption crawling upwards from her limbs. While her Light and her connection to Ahsa can hold it back, she can still hear the whispers of the Darkness, as well as being susceptible to control from Xivu Arath. | It is possible, though rare, for entities of paracausal nature to be partially Taken. In the case of Deputy Commander Sloane, with the corruption crawling upwards from her limbs. While her Light and her connection to Ahsa can hold it back, she can still hear the whispers of the Darkness, as well as being susceptible to control from Xivu Arath. | ||
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While all Taken are enslaved to their master's will, more powerful Taken retain a degree of independent thought and initiative, mostly at the discretion of the master themselves, to "keep them interesting." After Oryx's defeat, the Taken Knight Malok, Pride of Oryx, attempted to seize the vacant throne for himself. Other Taken had been allowed or managed to keep a modicum of free will, such as Quria, Blade Transform and Riven, they were still subservient to the cause of the Darkness. Other Taken, such as [[Noru'usk, Servant of Oryx]], have aspirations to ascend while many, like [[Keksis, the Betrayed]], are lost and leaderless. | While all Taken are enslaved to their master's will, more powerful Taken retain a degree of independent thought and initiative, mostly at the discretion of the master themselves, to "keep them interesting." After Oryx's defeat, the Taken Knight Malok, Pride of Oryx, attempted to seize the vacant throne for himself. Other Taken had been allowed or managed to keep a modicum of free will, such as Quria, Blade Transform and Riven, they were still subservient to the cause of the Darkness. Other Taken, such as [[Noru'usk, Servant of Oryx]], have aspirations to ascend while many, like [[Keksis, the Betrayed]], are lost and leaderless. | ||
===Taken Echoes=== | ===Taken Echoes=== | ||