Eramis, Kell of Darkness
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- "To my Eliksni sisters and brothers out amongst the stars, and here at home on Europa. We are the future of our kind, and we will destroy all who threaten us. Remember, Light only burns bright so long, but Darkness is forever."
- — Eramis
Eramis, Kell of Darkness (formerly known as Eramis, the Shipstealer) is the Fallen Kell of the House of Salvation and the first Eliksni to wield the power of Stasis from the Witness and the Black Fleet. Prior to that, she was a former Baroness from the House of Devils having led the united front of Fallen Houses in the Battle of the Twilight Gap.
Captured and imprisoned in the Prison of Elders sometime during the Wolf Rebellion, she would escape during the mass breakout initiated by Variks and united Fallen traditionalists to create the House of Salvation and become a new "Kell of Kells". However, after her initial attempt to rally the Houses failed and her House increasingly became in the thrall of the Witness over the years, Eramis would eventually leave Sol altogether, planning on using an Echo released from the Traveler after the Witness's death to rebuild Riis.
She is the main antagonist of the Beyond Light expansion and later Season of Plunder, as well as a secondary antagonist in Season of the Seraph and Season of Defiance, and an ally in Episode: Revenant.
Biography
Early history
Eramis was born on Riis during the era of peace and prosperity brought about when the Great Machine uplifted their civilization, much like the Golden Age of Humanity. During this time, she and her mate Athrys were both members of the House of Dancers and had many hatchlings together, in addition to being a close friend of the scribe Variks of House Judgement.[citation needed] However, their world's prosperity ended with the arrival of the Witness and the Black Fleet, which brought about a cataclysmic event called the Whirlwind that destroyed Eliksni civilization. Eramis was one of the few Eliksni who witnessed the Traveler abandoning her people as it left Riis to its own destruction.[1]
Eramis survived the Whirlwind consumed with rage toward the Great Machine.[1] Starting a new life as a nomadic Fallen of the newly christened House of Devils, she elevated herself to the position of Baroness and earned the moniker of "Shipstealer".[2] She would later lead the Fallen charge against the Guardians of the Last City during the climactic battle of Twilight Gap, slaughtering hundreds of Lightbearers in their final deaths.[3]
Sometime during the Wolf Rebellion, Eramis would be captured and incarcerated in the Prison of Elders by the Reefborn Awoken.[2]
Reuniting the Devils
Eramis would be among the Fallen who escaped from the Prison of Elders in a mass breakout orchestrated by Variks, and would begin to rally loyalists to the House of Devils to rebuild the House.[4] Seven months after escaping, a large amount of Fallen united under Eramis attempted to enter the old Tower and steal an old weapon that held traces of SIVA Eramis sought to reclaim as a means of rallying more Fallen to her.[5][6] However, the heist would be thwarted by the Guardian with aid from Mithrax, the Forsaken.[7]
Following the failed attempt to steal Outbreak Prime and the SIVA it contained, Eramis abandoned the House of Devils banner, telling Atraks that they had to become something new.[6] In the time following, Eramis would be plagued by nightmares of twisted versions of her memories that guided her to the Pyramid on the Moon. After fighting her way through Hive, she reached the Pyramid, which would tell her to be "her own salvation" and give her a vision of power she would grasp in time and where she would get it.[8]
The Dark House
Eramis would begin her new House on Europa, the House of Salvation, with her as its Kell. There, they would construct a new home for them: Riis-Reborn. Former members of the Houses of Devils, Wolves and Dusk would rally to her, and even Variks and old allies like Phylaks and Kridis would join her.[9][10]
When the Pyramid touched down on Europa, Eramis would greet with her Dark Council at her side and claim the power of Stasis from it.[11] She would begin utilizing it, planning on using it to destroy the Guardians and The Last City, going against the Fallen's traditional rules and ideals by willingly using and harnessing the very thing that destroyed their home. Furthermore, Eramis sought revenge against the Traveler for abandoning her people centuries prior.[12]
Unfortunately for Eramis, Variks would learn of her hateful plans, disappointed that Eramis had turned their shared dream of rebuilding Eliksni civilization in peace on Europa into an opportunity to forge an empire for herself.[citation needed] Desperate to save his people, Variks stole a Splinter of Darkness and sought a means to contact the Guardians to warn them of Eramis's threat. Though he was almost killed when the Dark Kell caught up to him and personally docked his mechanical arm, Variks was successful in getting the Guardian to aid him in combating Eramis and her House of Salvation.[13] However, Eramis's use of Stasis, along with that of her lieutenants, proved too much for the Guardians to handle, forcing them to agree to work with the Exo Stranger in wielding Stasis themselves.[citation needed]
After enough training, the Guardians are able to take out Phylaks and Praksis, growing in strength with their Stasis abilities.[14][15] Hearing of her council being decimated, Eramis became enraged. Though Kridis advised caution, Eramis sought to retaliate,[16] initially through gaining reinforcements from the remnants of the old House of Devils but after the Guardian caught wind of her plan and routed the devils before they could reach Europa, the Dark Kell became further enraged and desperate.[citation needed] Seeking reinforcements of a different nature, Eramis began to activate a Vex portal that Clovis Bray was studying, which would allow the Vex to pour through and overwhelm Europa. Believing that Eramis had truly gone mad, Variks directs the Guardians to stop the Vex portal in haste, succeeding in doing so after destroying Belmon, Transcendent Mind. Eramis nonetheless gained something from the massive amounts of radiolaria the portal had created.[17]
With Eramis backed into a corner, the Guardian entered Riis-Reborn once more to confront the Kell of Darkness. As they proceeded, Eramis entered into one last argument with Variks, who furiously denounced all that she had committed, calling her a coward for turning her back on the Eliskni chance to live in peace. Infuriated, Eramis silences the Judgment Scribe before finally facing the Guardian. Though they put up a fight, Eramis nonetheless manages to trap the Guardian in stasis along with their Ghost and destroy their Splinter, robbing them of both Light and Dark. Heeding the Exo Stranger's words to look within, the Guardian embraces the Darkness, allowing them to break free and wield Stasis fully, sending the Dark Kell reeling. Battling against each other once more with their Stasis powers, Eramis quickly becomes desperate as the Guardian bests her forces and overcomes her power, leading her to rant and rave at them.[18]
Ultimately, despite her stasis powers, the Guardian beat her to submission. Refusing to admit defeat, Eramis attempted to rise again but noticed that Stasis began to encase her, due to her stasis gauntlet being damaged. Unable to accept that she had failed to meet the Darkness's expectations, Eramis attempted to reach out to the Pyramid but was nonetheless completely overcome with Stasis, rendering the Kell of Darkness a statue.[18] Without their leader, the House of Salvation began to fracture and flounder, as the Guardians dismantled their operations on Europa and helped fleeing Eliksni escape the conflict. Though Atraks and Kridis attempted to continue the war against the Guardian through separate means, they too both fell against the Guardians, rendering the House of Salvation a shell of what it was under Eramis.[citation needed]
Broken Free
- "I was not there when my House fell to ruin. Defectors joined the cowardkel Misraaks — and his worthless House of Light — and fled to the Last City. They devoted themselves to their oppressors: the Guardians and their "Great Machine." There is no greater shame. I tried to claim Stasis for my people... But I was judged. Bound. Abandoned by the same power I sought to command. Some chains cannot be broken. Or so they would have you believe."
- — Eramis.
After spending almost two years frozen in her Stasis prison on Europa, Eramis would hear a voice, demanding her to gather those who would serve her and claim relics that had been lost in the Dark Ages. The Dark Kell agreed and was released from her prison.[19] Furious over the state of the Fallen, from her broken house to the knowledge that Mithrax and his House of Light had sided with the Last City, Eramis begins her task of finding the relics by gathering those who would know their locations: the Old Crews, pirates of Fallen legend. As her name still carries great weight amongst the pirates for her reputation as the Shipstealer, many of the pirates do answer her call and begin searching for the relics.[20]
Eramis's efforts would catch the notice of the Guardians after they had rescued the Spider from some of her Salvation Fallen on Europa as he was being smuggled to the Last City.[20] Working alongside Drifter, Mithrax, Spider and Eido, the Guardian battled with Eramis's pirates and mercenaries, claiming their treasure for the Eliskni Quarter and the relics before Eramis can claim them. During their clashes, Eramis would get into heated arguments with Mithrax, expressing scorn for his decision to continue worshipping the Great Machine and siding with the Guardians while Mithrax expressed disappointment in Eramis continuing the cycle of violence through attempts to reason with her. The Shipstealer, however, was not receptive to the Light Kell's calls to back down.[citation needed]
Ultimately, the first pirate, Val'aug, the Brute, managed to locate the first relic but failed to deliver it to Eramis as the Guardians located her hideout, killed her and claimed the relic for Eido to study.[21] The second relic managed to be claimed by Iriks, the Sharpshooter but the pirate was bold or foolish enough to think he could extort Eramis with it. The Shipstealer was not amused by this, sending Iriks a threatening message for him to deliver the relic or he would face the wrath of a power he had no comprehension of.[citation needed] Unfortunately for the Kell, the Guardian managed to locate Iriks's hideout and claim the relic,[22] with Eido finding Eramis's message.[citation needed] The Light Scribe would claim that the power Eramis was referring to was the Witness and would come to the conclusion that Eramis had abandoned her calls for Eliksni unity.[citation needed] The third and fourth relics would ultimately be claimed by the Guardians but Eido would find a message Eramis had left in the fourth relic that Alaaks, the Beast Tamer initially claimed: a rallying cry for the Old Crews and Fallen to rise above their current squalor, claim their "rightful place" in the Sol System and begin a new age of Eliksni prosperity, with an implied threat towards Alaaks to join her cause, making Eido wonder what the Witness offered Eramis for the relics.[citation needed]
In time, as Eramis's forces failed to gather the next relics, the Dark Kell would receive a surprise transmission from Eido, Mithrax's adopted daughter, calling for a parlay to hopefully reach a peaceable agreement. Despite her views, Eramis responds to Eido and agrees to the parlay, but warns the scribe to not waste her time. Mithrax learned of his daughter's efforts and found them foolhardy, asking the Guardian to accompany them to the meeting for Eido's protection. The Guardian agreed and met at the parlay location, a remote asteroid in the Themis Cluster. Eramis arrives and despite taking offense to the Guardian's presence, proceeds with the parlay but it becomes clear that peace isn't possible. Eido attempts to appeal towards Eramis, stating that another party attempted to claim the relics from the Old Crews but when Eramis wished to know who this party was, Eido couldn't say but regardless, the relics in their hands could pose a serious danger. Unmoved, Eramis would take this opportunity to tell Eido that her father already knows how dangerous the relics are. Mithrax, still unwilling to tell Eido of his past himself, allows Eramis to regal the Light Scribe of her father's violent and brutal past, and of how he once wielded the relics, which are in reality, pieces of the dead Disciple of the Witness, Nezarec. Having become enthralled by its power, Mithrax became a cruel pirate leader and despite renouncing the relics and becoming Kell to the House of Light, Eramis claims that Mithrax will always be a killer. Eido is left silent as Eramis finishes her tale. Satisfied that she may have driven a wedge between Mithrax and his daughter, Eramis would take her leave to continue leading the Old Crews in claiming the remaining relics.[citation needed]
Despite Eramis's efforts, the Old Crews continued to fail in delivering the relics to her and, to her surprise, Eido continued to beseech Eramis to renounce the violence of the past and work towards a future where the Eliskni can live in peace.[23] Eramis, in a rare moment of gentleness, declines and states the violence she is a part of is all that she knows and it's the only thing that she believes will end the conflicts the Eliskni are embroiled in.[citation needed] Ultimately, both parties would discover that the third party seeking the relics of Nezarec is the Lucent Brood and the final relic was nearly within their grasp. However, Eido attempted to claim the relic first without violence but found herself cornered by the Hive. Desperate, the Guardian and Mithrax fight their way to Eido's position but find, to their surprise, that Eramis herself already arrived and saved Eido from the Hive. Mithrax then duels Eramis, despite Eido's pleas. Mithrax gains the upper hand, leaving Eramis at his mercy but despite her efforts to goad him into showing Eido how ruthless he really is, Mithrax refuses and spares her. Mocking his act of mercy, claiming that Eido could've had everything, Eramis makes her escape on her Ketch, with the Guardian claiming the last relic.[24]
Though glowering at her failure in claiming the relics and being spared by Mithrax, Eramis received one last message from Eido, asking her to once more renounce her violent cause and to "Come home," offering her a place in the new Eliksni society that the House of Light was trying to build.[25] Eramis, while considering Eidos communique, was unable to move past all that she had lost, such as her mate Athrys and the hatchlings they had together, and, lamentably admitted to herself that there was no place for her in such a society.[26]
Devil in the Details
Following her failure to claim the relics, Eramis would go into hiding once more. However, the Witness would see that she and her followers would be punished for her failure. As Xivu Arath worked to prepare for an invasion by corrupting the Warsat Network, the Hive War God used her Wrathborn to corrupt a majority of the Salvation Fallen while those that were slayed were resurrected as Scorn. Both would nonetheless serve Xivu Arath in her efforts to seize control over Rasputin's weapon systems.[27][28]
As Eramis continued to hide, the Dark Kell would send hidden messages to the Guardians as they traversed the Seraph Spire as it was being assaulted by Sol Divisive Vex. Each messages, at first, were threats and insults towards them but as the Guardians proceeded further in the Spire, Eramis's tone changed. She began to confide in the Guardian and even attempted to advise the Guardian that they don't need gods like the Traveler anymore.[29]
Further, despite her attempts to hide, Eramis continued to serve the Witness, even as her forces were corrupted and those she once knew would be raised from death. Praksis, for example, was raised as The Defiled and made to guard the Nexus Control of the Seraph Station, the central control hub of the Warsat Network. However, Eramis's tone showed that the Shipstealer was beginning to doubt her cause and grow tired of the fighting.[30] After the Guardians succeeded in infiltrating Seraph Station and slaying Praksis once again, Eramis made a brief correspondence with Mara Sov herself. The Reef Queen attempted to appeal to Eramis on what she used to be, how they can't get back what they lost and that they have only become tired with all that has happened. Despite Mara's efforts, Eramis merely sighed and cut communications.[31]
Unfortunately for the Shipstealer, her woes would only grow as more of her forces failed against the Guardians. One failing to prevent the Guardian from acquiring the remains of Lord Felwinter's Ghost, Felspring.[32] As a result, Eliskni traffic to House Light would rise sharply, as Rasputin would notice, leading the Warmind to believe that many Eliskni have come to think that following Eramis was no longer beneficial. In that, Elsie Bray hoped that Eramis will one day swallow her need for vengeance and see that herself.[citation needed]
Ultimately, Eramis discovered the virus the Guardians had planted within Seraph Station, blocking it and closing the backdoor the Guardians used to access the station, and gained access to Rasputin's ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE, a protocol that has all of the Warmind's Warsats target the Traveler in the event it ever left Earth. Desperate and with no other option, Rasputin believed the only way to stop Eramis from using the Warsats and causing untold destruction, the Warmind stated his intent to upload himself into Seraph Station and initiate his AURORA SACRIFICE protocol, which would destroy all the Warsats along with himself. Though Ana vehemently objected, she complied as there was no other way. The Guardian managed to reach the Station with Rasputin's aid and at the docking bay, they encountered Eramis herself. However, the brief skirmish between the two ends as Eramis flees to finish preparations to destroy the Traveler, sealing the entrance to the bridge with Stasis. Rasputin, however, finds an alternate route that gets the Guardians to the Bridge, where they face off with Ir Garza, Scourge of Earth, as Eramis slowly gains access to the ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE protocol.[33]
Though the Guardians succeeded in slaying Ir Garza and managed to upload Rasputin into the station, Eramis succeeded in gaining control over the Warsats, just as the Traveler began to leave the Last City and Earth's orbit. Believing that the Whirlwind is happening all over again, Eramis was prepared to fire the Warsats, despite Mithrax's pleas, after being reminded by the Witness to let the Traveler feel her pain. Though Eramis initiated the Warsats to fire, Rasputin succeeded in causing the Warsats to self-destruct but to her shock and fury, the Traveler ceased to move, staying within Earth's outer orbit. Aghast, Eramis asks why does the Traveler not flee but the Witness answers that it merely has no place left to run to.[34]
Despite failing to use the Warsat network to aid Xivu Arath or destroy the Traveler, Eramis continued to have her House battle the Last City, despite growing more and more weary with the fighting, seeing her people made into puppets of the Witness and hearing her foes entreaties to abandon her crusade.[citation needed]
Strange Situations
Following the destruction of the Warsat Network, Eramis went into hiding along with the majority of her House but still continued to serve the Witness. The Black Fleet and its master would soon arrive near Earth, igniting a large battle between the Vanguard Coalition and Pyramids but were ultimately overwhelmed by the Witness's power, even as the Traveler retaliated with a terraforming beam of Light. Subduing the Traveler and sending its Disciple Calus to locate The Veil on Neptune, the Guardians led efforts to prevent Calus from claiming the Veil on Neptune and rescuing civilians and pilots who have been taken prisoner by the Shadow Legion on Earth. The Shipstealer would largely and silently observe as the Guardians worked with Queen Mara, Crow, Devrim Kay, Amanda Holliday and Mithrax in infiltrating the Pyramid Outposts the Shadow Legion had built and housed the prisoners within, rescuing a great many.[35][36]
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However, after locating the largest and most heavily fortified prison, Eramis contacted Mithrax as the team began their rescue mission, warning him that the prison was different from the others they dealt with. The Light Kell however angrily refused to hear what Eramis had to say, having not forgotten that she still pulled the trigger for the Warsat's to fire despite his pleas. Despite this, Mithrax is aware that Eramis doesn't lie and thus advises his comrades to be cautious. As the Guardians took out the guards and Amanda reached the command center, Mithrax reached the prisoners but discovered that a powerful Tormentor was leading the prison and summons a powerful force of Taken. Despite the Tormentor's power and use of the Taken, the Guardian slays them, allowing Amanda to hotwire the command console to release the prisoners, thereby allowing Mithrax to lead them to safety. Tragically, however, the base began to self-destruct as the group attempted to leave, killing Amanda but at the last second, Eramis entered the scene and saved Mithrax with her Stasis powers. The Shipstealer only gave the Light Kell a stern reminder that she warned him before going her own way, leaving the Light Kell at a loss for words.[37] After that, Eramis went back into hiding, with Mithrax doubting Eramis had a change of heart regarding her allegiance to The Witness.[citation needed]
Following the battles with the Shadow Legion, Eramis would seek out a House of Wolves Ketch partially buried in the Tangled Shore. Despite the insistence of her Vandal lieutenant Kylaksis to attack and capture an Awoken patrol vessel, Eramis declared that the time of the Shipstealer was gone and that all that mattered was where she was when the Final Shape came. She then transmitted aboard the Wolf Ketch and made her way to the ship's navigation where she retrieved a map to Riis from its data core that her mate Arthys had used to navigate out of Sol. Eramis was unsure if Arthys was still alive or not, but being at her side when the end came was what she could think most about.[38] While the Vanguard still considered her a credible threat, their attention was focused more on finding a way to pa