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- "Six of us went down into the pit. Only one crawled out. I am Eris, the last. I have seen what the Hive call a god."
- — Eris Morn[12]
Eris Morn is a former Hunter and member of the Hidden who serves the Vanguard as an expert on Hive lore. She is the sole survivor of the ill-fated fireteam led by herself and Eriana-3 that attempted to assassinate Crota after the Great Disaster. After guiding the Guardian on the path to Crota's destruction, she helped coordinate the fight against Oryx, the Taken King while maintaining secret alliances with Queen Mara Sov of the Reef and the exiled Warlock Osiris. Before the Red War, Eris left the Last City to gather more information on future Hive threats with the aid of Mara.
After discovering the growing threat of Savathûn and the encroaching Black Fleet was closer to humanity than they believed, Eris returned to the Last City to warn the Vanguard before venturing once more to the Moon. There she uncovered the existence of a Pyramid beneath the surface, unleashed its Nightmares upon the Moon, and then guided the Guardian in their investigation of the Pyramid. She would also receive the power of Stasis during her own voyage into the Lunar Pyramid.
Upon the Black Fleet's arrival at the Sol system, Eris played a prominent role in interpreting the Witness's encoded messages despite interference from the Witch Queen. Although sorely tempted by the power of Darkness she was offered previously, she formed an alliance with the Exo Stranger and the Drifter to learn how to utilize Stasis safely as a tool against their foes. In addition, she & the Drifter grew close over the course of the war and eventually form a relationship.
As a result of a ritual involving the Proto-Worm Ahsa, Eris briefly became the Hive God of Vengeance to challenge Xivu Arath and gained strength from the Sword Logic using blood tithes from the Guardians. After slaying her sister Savathûn and consuming her stored tithes through the Sword Logic, Eris became the most powerful Hive God in existence, allowing her to seal Xivu Arath out of her own Throne World and render her mortal. In doing so, she created her own throne world, the High Heresy, within the Ascendant Realm.
After the War against the Witness, Eris helped Drifter when he became the target of Dredgen Bael and the Barant Imperium and an unwilling pawn in the Nine's machinations.
Biography[edit]
First life[edit]
As with all Guardians, Eris does not remember her life before being resurrected by her Ghost. A series of messages addressed to the Guardian from Savathûn, the Witch Queen provided a false account of her first life, claiming that she had been named "Erisia Pyatova-Hsien" and had lived in St. Petersburg, Russia during the Golden Age.[13] A subsequent counter-inquiry and investigation by Ikora Rey's Hidden agents revealed that Eris was in fact born to civilian parents in the Last City, over 300 years before Guardian life; this was corroborated by Ghost recordings from the period and a double-blind forensic analysis.[3]
The Great Ahamkara Hunt[edit]
- "We will take extreme measures. We must. But these creatures have such means… They will flee. Far and wide. Perhaps all the way to you. Mara, I implore you. If you hold your people as dearly as you say you do, you will end them on sight."
- — Eris writing to Queen Mara on the eve of the Great Ahamkara Hunt[14]
When the Ahamkara on Venus began warping the world in dangerous and unexpected ways due to the strength they gained from wishes made by Guardians seeking more power, Eris participated in studying the effects of the Ahamkara, but as timelines began to fracture and some Guardians were driven to suicide by the paracausal phenomenon, the Vanguard prepared to exterminate them through the Great Ahamkara Hunt. Eris wrote to her friend Queen Mara Sov of the Reef to warn her of the coming hunt and shared her fears that some Ahamkara would flee to the far edges of the Sol System to escape the Vanguard's reach. She pleaded with the Queen to kill any Ahamkara that entered her realm on sight if she truly cared for her people, as they were too dangerous to be left alive and used.[14]
In the early days of the Great Hunt, Eris was assigned to work with Wei Ning to eliminate seven Ahamkara. The fight with their first target lasted an entire day, as Eris watched Wei Ning fight their foe in hand-to-hand combat. She started to believe that Wei Ning was insane, a fear that was given strength when the Titan admitted to wishing that the fight would never end. Eris was horrified and told her to stop, as they needed to kill their other targets as well, but Wei Ning asked her to trust her. An hour later, their other targets arrived, having been drawn in by the power the seventh was gathering from Wei Ning's wishes. Pulling out her Arc blades, Eris Blinked and began her bloody work culling the Ahamkara. As their last foe fell, Eris believed she heard Wei Ning whisper something and asked what she said. However, the Titan stated she was about to ask her the same thing, leaving the two Guardians confused.[15]
Likely with the same Ahamkara, Eris surprised the Ahamkara and used Arc energy to blind it, while Wei Ning sliced its belly, ending its life. While Wei Ning left to join another fray, Eris recovered a sliver of its rib, chipping her sword in the process. She held the bone between her thumb and forefinger, causing her to hear whispers. She kept the bone as a souvenir since Shaxx had taken an entire skull to the City.[16]
Eris was later tasked to work with the Warlock Ikora Rey against an entire army of Ahamkara. During the battle, they whispered offers to Eris and showed her images that she believed came from her life before being revived as a Guardian. After an hour-long battle, the two emerged victorious and gazed upon a mile of Ahamkara bones. As they prepared to destroy the bones and their whispers, Eris asked Ikora what they offered her. The Warlock stated that they probably offered them the same thing. Eris remained disturbed and stated that everything the Ahamkara said was true. Ikora warned her that sentiments like that led to morbid places and told her to take her Light north while she cut south. Eris was still focused on what they showed her, but Ikora told her to focus as the two began summoning a storm of Light to destroy the bones. The whispers from the remains of the Ahamkara grew as their work progressed, to the point where Eris could not discern between the storm and the whispers.[17]
A year into the Hunt, Eris fought alongside Zavala and Lord Shaxx against one Ahamkara. After they mortally wounded the beast, Eris and Zavala watched as Shaxx laid a hand on its snout. She wondered if he was gloating, but Zavala believed he was too pragmatic for that. Eris then suggested he might be mourning, which Zavala thought was a possibility. The Ahamkara began to glow, causing Eris and Zavala to shield their eyes as it exploded. When they looked back, Shaxx was standing in a crater and covered in green flames. As Eris and Zavala prepared to say something, Shaxx quieted them and told them to listen. They all heard a disembodied whisper but were used to such things by then.[18] Despite her concerns about the Ahamkara and the disturbing whispers from their bones, Eris kept a fragment of bone from the Great Hunt.[19]
The Hunt for Crota[edit]
Following the Vanguard's failed attempt to reclaim the Moon from the Hive during the Great Disaster, Eris met with the Praxic Warlock Eriana-3. Together, they sought to discover a way to kill the Hive Prince Crota, Son of Oryx, who led the Hive on the Moon and was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Guardians. When their research brought no answers, they sought out Toland, the Shattered, an exiled Warlock who was said to be insane but had unmatched knowledge of the Hive. From him, they learned that Crota could be killed for good if they entered the Ascendant Realm and slew him in his throne room. Armed with this knowledge, Eris, Eriana, and Toland recruited three more Guardians for their mission: the Titan Vell Tarlowe and the Hunters Omar Agah and Sai Mota.[20] Eris began to learn Hive lore from Toland, who explained how when Crota's will was challenged, he would unleash Ogres known as the Might of Crota. She questioned if he had learned this knowledge from The Speaker, but Toland claimed to have received it from the Darkness itself.[21]
After landing on the Moon, the fireteam began to walk towards the Temple of Crota while questioning Toland about the Hive champions they would be facing. As they discussed the thousands of Guardians killed by the Blades of Crota and others like them, Eris worried that Light would not be enough for them to emerge victorious. Eriana told her that they could just take the blades of their foes and use those to cut them down if necessary. Eris was deeply concerned about using a weapon of the Darkness to fight their enemies, and Eriana claimed she would do anything for vengeance. Eris told her friend that she prayed it would not have to come to that.[22] When Vell commented that he wished to kill Sardon and the Swarm Princes, Eris reminded him that their mission was to kill Crota, but Toland told her that the Hive Prince's lieutenants were extensions of him. Vell reassured her he had faith in all their Light, but Eris did not believe that faith would help and told him that they had no time for individual battles and must fight together as a unit.[23]
Inside the Temple of Crota, the Fireteam heard screams from deep in the Hive tunnels. Toland told them the screams came from Omnigul, Will of Crota and that they signified the birth of new spawn in the service of Crota and that if they killed her, Crota's threat in the physical world would be ended. Eris declared that they would follow her screams deeper into the tunnels.[24] As they descended, the fireteam suffered their first casualty: Vell was overwhelmed and killed by Thrall.[25]
Eris, Omar, and Toland were separated from Eriana and Sai soon after Vell's demise. As they moved through the tunnels, Eris told them that she felt something watching them. Toland explained that those were Crota's eyes, leading the Guardians to be sacrificed to wake Crota by draining their Light. Eris berated him for holding onto his secrets like weapons and asked if he meant to damn them all. Toland told her his secrets were weapons and that they could use them to complete their mission, directing her and Omar to hunt the Eyes of Crota, kill them, and then follow their draining Light to where Crota waited.[26] This plan also failed, and Eris was separated from Toland and believed Omar to be dead after another encounter with the Hive. As she skulked in the shadows of the tunnels to avoid the Hive, she heard screams from below and followed them into the darkest chambers of the Hive, where she saw that Omar had been captured by a Wizard called the Heart of Crota. Eris watched in horror as the Wizard flayed the Light from her fellow Hunter and used it to feed the newly spawned Thrall. After seeing this, Eris believed Omar to be dead when actually, his soul was transferred into a Hive bug that she would later use to create Xenophage for the Young Wolf.[27][28]
With the rest of the fireteam dead and her Ghost, Brya, sacrificing itself to try and save her,[29] Eris was left alone in the depths of the Hive's warrens. Against all odds, she managed to survive in the Hellmouth's shadowy tunnels for years, using Toland's journal as a guidebook to survival.[30] Eris learned much about the Hive, its hierarchy, and how to wield some of their magic.[31] However, she would eventually run low on options. Eris held the bone of an Ahamkara that she had kept since the Great Hunt and wished for a way to survive, her human eyes replaced with a trio of Hive eyes. With these, she would finally find her way out.[32]
Return to the Tower[edit]
- "My role among the Hidden is an honor."
"None would argue. But it's had its cost. Your place is to gather the understanding we need to wage these wars, but your own war is long done. Let those prepared to fight, fight."
"And should they die?"
"None who walk these Towers is afraid…" - — Eris and Ikora Rey[33]
With her escape from the Hellmouth, Eris returned to the Last City alive but vastly changed by the experience. As she recovered from her experience, she was cared for by her friend Asher Mir. Thanks to his compassion, Eris regained some hope and recovered some sense of her old self.[34] Her continued obsession with defeating Crota and newfound knowledge of the Hive made her a pariah back at the Tower, but though the Speaker and Commander Zavala believed her fascination with Hive lore unhealthy and made her untrustworthy, Ikora Rey secretly employed her as a member of the Hidden to infiltrate and keep watch on the activities of the Darkness.[31] Though she worked for Ikora, she also conspired with Osiris and Queen Mara Sov of the Reef.[35]
Ikora wrote a letter to Eris, catching her up on the events of Osiris's banishment while she was in the Hellmouth.[36]
Eventually, Eris informed Ikora that the Hive were becoming more active and that Omnigul had left the Hellmouth. She was concerned that the Hive was targeting the Warmind Rasputin in the Cosmodrome and that if such a being was twisted by the Hive, all would be lost. Ikora asked her to remain at the Tower to aid in the battle against the Hive and promised to convince the other Vanguard leaders to listen to Eris while also promising to find Guardians to aid her.[33]
War against Crota[edit]
- "Crota's soul is banished. You have given me the gift of vengeance. I thank you… and even if they don't know it yet… The City thanks you."
- — Eris Morn[37]
After learning of a newly risen Guardian who raided The World's Grave on behalf of the Speaker, Eris summoned the Guardian. She declared the Speaker a fool for not seeing that the true threat was Crota and for clinging to his belief in a dead god, and tasked the Guardian with slaying the Swarm Princes and destroying the Sword of Crota, which the Vanguard mistakenly believed had been destroyed long ago.[38] After they succeeded, Eris requested they kill Sardon, Fist of Crota, who was leading the Hive in the Cosmodrome in preparation for the revival of Crota's soul. As they hunted Crota's general, Eris explained to the Guardian Sardon's role in conquering the Moon and how she survived for years in the Hive's warrens there. The Guardian defeated Sardon, but Omnigul was spotted in the Cosmodrome as well, and Eris requested that the Guardian return to the Tower to discuss their next step.[39]
Eris learned that Omnigul was targeting Rasputin, proving her previous concerns about the Hive's plans correct. She sent the Guardian to stop Omnigul from destroying or corrupting the warmind, which would allow the Hive to invade Earth without worrying about Rasputin's defenses. Eris was surprised when Rasputin allowed access to his bunker and was shocked to discover Omnigul had already found a way inside. The Guardian stopped Crota's mate, who fled to safety, and Eris noted that the Hive on Earth were more powerful than she had assumed. She summoned the Guardian back to the Tower to discuss how they would stop the Hive from waking Crota's soul.[40] Despite this victory, Eris was concerned about why Omnigul fled, as she usually feasted on Light, and feared that she may have found what she was looking for in the bunker. Eris was also cautious of Rasputin's motives and wondered if its survival of the Collapse came at some cost to humanity.[41]
With Rasputin safe, Eris tasked the Guardian with going to the Temple of Crota and stopping the Wakers of Crota from beginning a ritual to restore Crota's soul. When the Guardian arrived, they discovered that the ritual had already begun, and Eris desperately urged them onward to stop it from being completed. After the Guardian destroyed the Wakers, Eris directed them to destroy the crystal that the Wizards were using for the ritual. Once it was destroyed, she thanked the Guardian for banishing Crota's soul and bringing her some measure of vengeance for her fallen friends.[37] With Crota's soul banished, Eris declared that Omnigul now had to die to truly ensure that Crota could not return to the world. She had located Omnigul in the Skywatch, where she was creating a new Hive army to carry out Crota's will. Once the Guardian slew Omnigul, Eris thanked them and hoped that her friends would now find some measure of peace. She rewarded the Guardian with the Fusion Rifle Murmur.[42] She also explained that many of Crota's disciples still walked the Moon and Earth, and suggested they find a way to enter the Hellmouth and find a way to destroy Crota for good. [43] Eventually, the Guardian also killed Crota, venturing into the Ascendant Realm and slaying him at his Oversoul Throne.[44]
The Taken War[edit]
- "My Queen. You were right. The Guardian was the key. For the first time the whispers are silent. It is done. I have accepted my fate. I will not fail."
- — Eris Morn to Mara Sov[45]
With Crota's death, Eris turned her attention to his master and father, Oryx, and for this purpose, she turned to Queen Mara Sov of the Reef and the exiled Warlock Osiris for help. The three met in the Queen's throne room in the Reef, where Eris declared that she had no wish to play any games of politics with them and was only there to ensure a united front met Oryx when he invaded the system. The Queen agreed with her, and the three began plotting to end the Taken King.[46] She kept her alliance with the Queen and Osiris secret from the City's leadership. During the Wolf Rebellion, she secretly met with Prince Uldren Sov at the Vestian Outpost, avoiding the other Guardians who were now allowed into the Reef. She informed Uldren that she had news from the beyond that the Queen needed to hear.[47] Together, they formed a plan to defeat Oryx; the Awoken would prevent his fleet from entering the inner system, while Eris would help the Guardians enter the Dreadnaught and defeat Oryx. She is one of the guides for the Guardian during the Taken War, and among the first to detect the threat of the Taken.[48][49]
Cayde-6 liked to refer to her as his "creepy sidekick" in their efforts to stop Oryx, much to her immense annoyance.[50] When Eris found out that her ship was destroyed in Cayde's mission to board the Dreadnaught, she was enraged at Cayde for the loss.[51] Despite her anger, she still worked with him to help bring down Oryx. However, once Oryx is defeated permanently, she refuses to let go of her anger.[52]
After the Taken King's defeat, Eris aided the Guardians in slaying would-be contenders and pretenders to Oryx's throne. Chief among them were Alak-Hul and Malok. Regarding the Darkblade, she hoped to gain