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[[File:CryptolithSoO.jpg|thumb|300px|Shrine of Oryx Cryptolith]] | [[File:CryptolithSoO.jpg|thumb|300px|Shrine of Oryx Cryptolith]] | ||
{{Quote|There's a... new strange presence here. It grows as an organic technology, like a small tower. There were Cabal gathered around it, enraptured by something I could not perceive. Perhaps their own desperation — or madness.|Osiris's report upon discovering a Cryptolith}} | {{Quote|There's a... new strange presence here. It grows as an organic technology, like a small tower. There were Cabal gathered around it, enraptured by something I could not perceive. Perhaps their own desperation — or madness.|Osiris's report upon discovering a Cryptolith}} | ||
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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Like most Hive architecture, Cryptoliths are partially biological, growing like plants wherever they are seeded, with gristly living tissue as lubrication for its metal internals | Like most Hive architecture, Cryptoliths are partially biological, growing like plants wherever they are seeded, with gristly living tissue as lubrication for its metal internals<ref name="RETURN">'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]]'', ''[[Lore]]: [[Lore:Call_of_the_Cryptolith|Call of the Cryptolith]] - [[Lore:Call_of_the_Cryptolith#IV. RETURN|IV. RETURN]]''</ref> When dormant, they lie still and are mostly hidden below ground; when activated, they rise up and begin glowing, and various pieces of their outer shell begins to move. They are considered hard to remove, such as with a Cryptolith at the Reef that attempting to do so would destroy the Tangled Shore. Cryptoliths each also possess the ability to open up and reveal a portal to the [[Ascendant Realm]], presumably even [[Xivu Arath, God of War|Xivu Arath's]] throne world.<ref name="UNMADE">'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]]'', ''[[Lore]]: [[Lore:Call_of_the_Cryptolith|Call of the Cryptolith]] - [[Lore:Call_of_the_Cryptolith#VIII. UNMADE|VIII. UNMADE]]''</ref> | ||
According to [[Osiris]] and [[Ana Bray]], Cryptoliths are able to incite conflict in both mind and mechanism, able to cause technology and computer protocols to turn on each other to try and cannibalise the other, and cause even the sturdiest of blades to bend to Xivu Arath's will.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/12/06)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Seraph]] - Mission - Hierarchy</ref> According to [[Clovis Bray I]], files corrupted by Xivu Arath contain traces of a virus that contain code patterns reminiscent of biological encoding structures.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/12/06)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Seraph]] - Heist Battleground: Europa</ref> | According to [[Osiris]] and [[Ana Bray]], Cryptoliths are able to incite conflict in both mind and mechanism, able to cause technology and computer protocols to turn on each other to try and cannibalise the other, and cause even the sturdiest of blades to bend to Xivu Arath's will.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/12/06)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Seraph]] - Mission - Hierarchy</ref> According to [[Clovis Bray I]], files corrupted by Xivu Arath contain traces of a virus that contain code patterns reminiscent of biological encoding structures.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/12/06)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Seraph]] - Heist Battleground: Europa</ref> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
===Fall of Torobatl=== | ===Fall of Torobatl=== | ||
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ActiveKeresCryptolith.jpg|An active Cryptolith at the Spine of Keres | ActiveKeresCryptolith.jpg|An active Cryptolith at the Spine of Keres | ||
ActiveGardenCryptolith.jpg|An active Cryptolith at the Garden of Esilia | ActiveGardenCryptolith.jpg|An active Cryptolith at the Garden of Esilia | ||
ActiveHallCryptolith.jpg|An active Cryptolth in the Hall of Wisdom | |||
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**''[[Season of the Chosen]]'' {{Mo}} | **''[[Season of the Chosen]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
**''[[Season of the Seraph]]'' | **''[[Season of the Seraph]]'' | ||
==References== | ==References== |