Forum:House of Lions
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| House of Lions | |
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Nobility: |
Yorvik, Kell of Lions |
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Lair: |
The Lions' Run |
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At war with: |
House of Sky (formerly) |
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Allied with: |
House of Judgement |
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Encountered: |
Gray Wars |
- "Not all the Houses have yet been lost. Yes?"
- — Variks, The Loyal
The House of Lions is an older, massive Fallen House, distinguishable by their vanilla and dark brown colored armors and octogonal cloaks with fur pelts. They are allied with The Last City and The Reef.
History[edit]
Early History[edit]
- "House Lions were amongst the oldest Houses known, the pride of Eliksni, they claimed as many star systems as their House members, and were close to House Judgment"
- — Divhoris
The House of Lions were amongst the oldest Houses that existed before the Whirlwind occurred. Originating from Riis, they were once known as the House of Templars, and were amongst many that were uplifted by the arrival of the Traveler. Comprising primarily of warriors, they gained notoriety during the Edge Wars, infighting between Houses, being known as amongst the most aggressive and domineering compared to the others, defeating several Houses and seen as barbaric and unruly, to the point of being treated as outcasts for a short time. But when the House of Judgment and House of Kings ended the Edge Wars and ushered their golden age, the Lions would support their cause to the surprise of many. Rising to prominence, they would closely ally themselves with members of House Judgment, with Lions becoming personal bodyguards for members of Judgment. At the height of their golden age, the Lions become one of the most renown Houses amongst Eliksni, looked at as knights, crusaders, and conquerors for their people; controlled many Star systems that were inhabited, and became a symbol of pride for their people. During this time they would also cooperate with the House of Sky to help with navigating to unknown worlds, but a rift would soon grow as the House of Sky grew further distant from the rest of the Houses.
When the Whirlwind began, many of the Lions helped try to defend Riis alongside House of Stone and help evacuate the rest of the people, in its aftermath, it was believed that the Lions had died out alongside Stone and other unknown Houses. In reality, the Lions had survived and fled to one of their star systems and settled on a planet known as Striviis.
Gray Wars[edit]
The Gray Wars initially began around the events of the Long Drift, the House of Sky, influenced by Skevsis, the Prowling, moved out into a Star System that was in control of the House of Lions, and attempted to take over Striviis from the Lions, resulting in many Lions living on the planet to be killed by the invading Sky. This would cause Yorvik, the Kell of Lions to retaliate against the Fallen Sky, causing the Wars to began. During the courses of the wars, the Lions and Sky battled out for control over the planet, lasting for many years, resulting many to be perished, including most of the Sky leadership, would soon end with the revealing of the Sky Kell's location, Yorvik would group his powerful forces and allies to obliterate the Sky's lair and their Kell, which succeeded and would effectively bring a temporarily end to the Gray Wars.
However the wars would continue on as the Lions were reaching to the Sol System, as Skevsis had drawn the remnants of Sky to chase after the Lions across space, and would eventually break the Lions' leadership, destroying Lionship Jobiks-Fel, which caused Yorvik to perish, as he was within the Ketch at the time. This would lead to the Lions to follow the temporary leadership of Jobiks Prime until a new Kell would take over, Jobiks, with the help of Wardriks, would be able to keep its power over the House. Despite this placated the broken leadership of the House, other nobility still attempted to claim Kellship, most notably Tarviks, Lion Baron, Skrixas, the Wise, and Skevsis, the Prowling.
This led to Skevsis defeating both Tariks, and Skrixas, taking over as the new Kell of Lions. Under his rule, he would claim the control of the House from Jobiks Prime and began the usage of veneration of Servitors and docking caps to control the masses, although this had succeeded, many Lions had suffered problems under Skevsis's rule, due to many of the masses were starved from Ether and malnourished, while higher ranking Captains and nobility had the largest amount of Ether, even to the point of Skevsis grew more than the others, and the worship of Servitors being used to control the people. This would lead to a revolt, orchestrated by Joskaa, the Open-Minded, whom was a freelancer working for the Lions, the Lions would rebel and push back Skevsis's power, causing him to flee from the Lions into Sky's territory, but with the Lions chasing in tow, soon Joskaa and his allies were able to corner Skevsis and slew him, along with defeating what remained of House of Sky. This led to Joskaa becoming the Kell of Lions and led the House to reach to the Sol System.
Arrival in the Sol System[edit]
After finally arriving into the Sol System, the Lions would settle down in the frontal edges of the Kuiper Belt, but were rumored to have a minor presence amongst Callisto and 2 Pallas. During their early times there, the House would remain in hiding from both any enemy factions and even other Houses, sticking to mostly spy and observe for possible allies or enemies, the only time the House ever made contact was during the Reef Wars in the Siege of Pallas, where the Lions attempted to defend themselves and their location from invading Wolves, and stole minor items from both Wolves and the Awoken, keeping any attention from the two factions. After the War ended, the Lions would approached the Reef to form a neutrality with each other, hoping to at least keep the House's existence a secret from other Houses but mostly, The Last City. The two would agreed although their areas within Pallas would be supervised by the Awoken while the Lions had permissions to some of the Awoken's relics and other Golden Age objects to learn more about the System they currently lived in.
Wolf Rebellion[edit]
Despite not physically being in the Wolf Rebellion, the Lions did however minorly assist the Awoken by keeping the Wolves from going into the outer System, pushing most of them back into the inner system should they tried to expand further outward. Later Joskaa, the Kell of Lions would be approached by Skolas, the Kell of Wolves himself, in hoping to combine their forces together to take back the Traveler, although Joskaa would deny him in order to keep the House from being discovered and not to break the Awoken's trust. After the Rebellion ended, Joskaa kept watch over the wandering Wolves, whom are without a Kell after the defeat of Skolas.
At some point during this time, the Lions would soon be discovered by a young Guardian whom was searching for answers about the Fallen. However, after learning more about the House and their reason why of their obscurity to anyone else, he would continue to keep the House's secret from the Vanguard, in fear of them targeting the Lions. Soon the Guardian would began to help the House out more, eventually becoming their ally and became their Kell's subordinate and friend after gaining an audience with Joskaa and participated in the Kell's Gauntlet, a gladiatorial combat challenge, representing as the Kell of Lions.
Taken War[edit]
During the Taken War, the House of Lions, like many other Houses, were effected by Oryx, the Taken King and his Taken, although the Lions stood strong due to most of their leadership was still intact, the Lions had to abandon their strongholds within the Kuiper Belt as Oryx was traveling into the system, and escaped into the Reef, holed up over at Pallas and acted as a safe haven for surviving Fallen suffered from the Taken invasion.
Later, the House's Splicers, the Lion Splicers began experimenting on the Taken, most specifically their Blights and attempted to harvest them in hopes of turning them into weapons for the Fallen. A few Splicers were also mentioned helping the Awoken infuse Taken energy into their weapons and armor, hoping to learning ways to infuse Taken energy into their own weapons.
Recent Events[edit]
Siege on Mars[edit]
Rise of the Storms[edit]
Following the defeat of the Star Blazers, the House of Sky would finally reemerge once more, although under a new name known as: House of Storm. Led by Tikmiks, the House of Storm would enter the Sol System, and began to pillage from remnants of broken Houses and bringing any Fallen to join their banner, even getting their message from areas such as the Prison of Elders. Soon they attempted to attack the Prime Servitor, Andiks Prime, but would be stopped by the House assisted by AJ, soon this would result in occurring battle between the two Houses, and forced the Storms to flee to Mars, and taking refuge within Cerberus Vae III, resulting in the remaining Cabal inside to be pushed out of the tank and drove a patrolling Fireteam out of the vicinity. Meanwhile the Lions would begin to rally their forces to attack the Storms on Mars, getting those by the likes of Magnoriks, Lions' Palatine and Grakis, Lion Captain, even gaining help from AJ once more along with Variks to hunt down the Storms. After they found the Storms' location, they would travel to Mars, but would enter a skirmish with the provoked Cabal. Meanwhile the Vanguard would take notice of the displaced Fireteam and sent a Guardian to deal with the odd commotion, running into the fighting Lions and Cabal, and would be forced to work with the Fallen under the influence of AJ, they would take out the Cabal and force the House of Storm out of the tank and drew out Tikmiks, however he would unfortunately escape. This gave the Lions a temporary victory and a loose alliance with The Guardian for the time being until they could catch the fleeing Archon.
Red War[edit]
A few months after the defeat of the House of Storm, and the end of the SIVA Crisis, many of the Fallen had began to pull out from their old hideouts to come together under one banner. The Lions were one of few Houses that didn't heeded the call for union from the Kell of Kings, due to their leadership haven't been destabilized. However, as the Red War began, the Lions suffered from attacks on the Reef created by the invading Red Legion, Hive, Taken, and a rising group of Fallen called the "Scorned Barons", causing the Lions to move out of their lair on Pallas and flew to Earth in a search for a home, arriving in the Monégasque Ruins, attempting to form a home but were stopped by a Cabal Red Legion Company, forcing the Lions to move up into a mountain called Mont Agel and lived there for a while, occasionally scavenging for supplies and pushing Cabal out of their areas. The Lions also conducted raiding parties against the Cabal, this raids would be led by AJ, whom was lightless thanks to the Traveler becoming trapped by the Red Legion, but nonetheless He would direct minor and quick raids over the Cabal's supplies in hopes of learning any possible way to push the cabal out of the ruins.
Crusades of the Jackals[edit]
- "So, this "Syndicate" made by my sister, thinks they're a theat to us, We'll show them whos the real threat here, hehe.."
- — Joskaa
Joskaa's sister, Seriviks, who was once a notable Archon to Andiks Prime, left the House, due to the Lions making peace with The Last City and Awoken. But after years and years of waiting, she would gathered up many Fallen from all around the system, including House of Storm remnants, who refused to bow to Joskaa and Lion deserters who were loyal to Seriviks, to form the Jackal Syndicate, and remain hidden from the system. However, a Jackal member, by the name of Chelsik would began an attempt to assassinate Joskaa and Grayvis by hacking Lion Shanks and Walkers, to distract any Lions or Guards, while his crew infiltrates the area to kill them. But The Guardian, However thwarts his attempt and kills him, but would cause the Jackals to be revealed, and thus, the Crusades of the Jackals begans.
After the failed assassination, Seriviks, would take refuge on Nessus through a abandoned Kell's Scourge lair. But when scouts, belonging to the Lions found her location, Joskaa send in The Young Wolf to take her down and capture her. While arriving to Nessus, She was seen commanding Jackal operatives. But after She spotted the Guardian, she would escaped and would send Giltris, the Prowler to distract The Guardian, while She escape. After the unsuccessful capture, Joskaa would order the guardian to stand down while letting his Invisible Claw dealing with her capture. But despite the Guardian unable to capture her, they would intercept a hidden transmission from Magnoriks, Lions' Palatine, which would include the coordinates to her location, deep within the vicinity of the moon: Titan. The Young Wolf would discover Jackalship Semkis-Fel and would fight her Kell's Guards, to reach her in the throne room, but even though they have almost catch her, She would escaped once again. Joskaa would find the Guardian, and question their motives. But they would explain it to him, he would allow the Young Wolf to continue their hunt over the Jackals, while he would re-open the Kell's Wrath to counteract the Jackal leadership.
With the return of Kell's Wrath, Guardians all around the system began hunting down any Jackal's Barons, Baronesses, or Generals such as Thresik, the Swordsman, Graksul, the Headhunter, Kithiks, the Pathfinder, and Pavik, Once Meek, they even make a more bigger blow with the destruction of Semkis Prime, The Crimson Widow, and the Metal Siblings. But with these victories, the Lions would staged a full-scale assault into the The Jackals' Den to defeat Seriviks and any remaining Jackals. So with the help of the Guardians, they were to kill most of Jackals' Generals, push further into their Lair and face Seriviks. But despites her Stock pile and reinforcements, they were able to execute her. crippling the Jackals, and the end of the Crusades.
Season of the Relentless[edit]
Season of the Emperors[edit]
(TBA)
Season of the Vipers[edit]
(TBA)
Structure[edit]
- "House Lions are not like the rest of the others. They are quiet, they prowl, learn your tactics, learn your ways, and learn your weaknesses. But, just like Variks, they are smart enough to side with you than to face death (laughs)."
- — Variks, The Loyal
The House of Lions appears to express a very unique structure of organization unlike most other Houses, seemingly similar to the House of Wolves.
The Lions maintain the typical leadership of a Kell, Archon, and a Prime Servitor, however currently there are no known House Archons due to the previous two defecting from the House. They also at one point possessed two Primes and their respective lines of Servitors, but would lose one of them to destruction. Under them exists a council which assist the Kell and maintaining order of the House, they are handpicked by the Kell to represent the best of the House. Members of the council, regardless of rank or title, outranks the rest of the Lions' nobility due to their importance. The council is guarded by the Lions' Guard, a role opposite of a typical House's Guard whom usually would've protect the Kell. In their stead is just the Kell's Guards whom protects the Kell already. The council also uses the Lion Enforcers to enact their will over the House in addition to serving the Kell to maintain the Kell's control. After the council is the typical Barons and high-ranking Captains who serves them.
Specific groups exists within the House, the Vanishing Claw acts as a network of spies and saboteurs that serves the Kell, and operates across the system to monitor any possible threats or allies the Lions would need to address. The Lion Splicers is the Splicer sect of the Lions, led by Skorvik, a former Rising Archon, usually modifying tech and weaponry, as well as studying and reverse engineering technology of other species they come across. The Blades of Joskaa are an elite kill team directly overseen by the Kell and either sent to go after dangerous threats outside of the House or operate bounties directly ordered by Lion leadership. Other groups that exist within the House includes the Cabal-Hunters and Pike Gangs.
Outside the political and other leaderships of the House, the society of the House acts very more different than a House normally should. The House has an abnormal amount of Vandals compared to other Houses. This is due to Joskaa's belief in value to everyone, leading a large number of gangs and certain individuals to have a degree of operational freedom, long as they keep their loyalties to the House and bring valuable data and intel to the Lion leadership. Captains continues their roles as leaders of crews or as elite warriors, given the best weaponry for their talents and to suit their needs. Subject of docking is shown to be a taboo, as the Kell sees worth out of everyone and rather use other alternative punishments instead. However docking is still used instead for mainly traitors and renegades in order to restore their allegiance to the Kell, serving crews and teams as labor and support, once they prove themselves, they can be allowed to regrow their lower arms.
Following the collapse of the older Houses and societies, giving rise to the House of Dusk and other newer factions and Syndicates, as well as their alliances with the Last City, the House of Lions have faced both large defections, as well as newer and younger members joining from former Houses and Syndicates collapsing, leading to a shift towards adopting newer cultures from former factions and even human cultures. To the point of their Kell, Joskaa becoming more fluent in human languages and growing a fascination with their history, especially as the Lions would move towards Earth and make a home within the ruins of a Human city. As well as adoptions of newer weapons and technology from both other Houses and even Humanity due to their alliance.
Members[edit]
Kells[edit]
Prime Servitors[edit]
Archons[edit]
- Wardriks, Archon Priest — Archon of Jobiks Prime (formerly)
- Seriviks, Lion Archon — Archon of Andiks Prime (formerly)
- Dalkis, Archon Rising
Lions' Council[edit]
- Divhoris, the Knowledge-Keeper
- Skorvik
- Delkris (formerly)
- Grayris, Lost to Winter
- Julsis, Lion Baron
- Felnai, Apothecary
- Magnoriks, Lions' Palatine
- Jaksis, Lions' Palatine
Notable Fallen[edit]
- Tarviks, Lion Baron
- Skrixas, the Wise
- Grakis, Lion Baron
- Sksori, Lion Captain
- Skeriks, the Cabal-Hunter
- Lions' High Emissary
- Paliks, the Roaring
- Daskin, Kell's Guard
- Delksis, Envoy of AJ
- Kralikss, Joskaa's Champion
- Biraksis, Disguised by the Kell
- Makasiss, Courier for Lions
- Bekris
- Esivir
- Mavpiks, Envoy of AJ
- Marlovks
- Povik
- Venriss, the Silent Squall
- Bovriks, the Unbent Hand
- Dovsis
- Cerbiks, Reborn
- Atirlaks
- Pevkis, the Honorless
- Vithrax, the Tainted (inferred)
- Navizas
Notable Servitors[edit]
Notable Automata[edit]
- P.H.O.E.N.I.X.-1
- P.H.O.E.N.I.X.-36
- Alfagonos, Envoy of AJ
- The Mightful Pride
- The Unending Wrath
- Fury of Grayvis
Former Lions[edit]
- Tikmiks
- Rulkis, Archon Rising
- Maksis
- Pavik
- Shangris
- Atrykis, Lion Baron
- The Crimson Widow
- Andiks-9, the Enslaved
- Andiks-27
- Kalviks, the Unforgiven
Notable Associates[edit]
- AJ, Joskaa's Champion
- Disaraaskian (meaning respect)
- Micheal the Silent
- Brayden, Emperor's Hand
- Graziks (contractual alliance)
- Trigoris, Deserter to Wolves
- Lirsis, Wolf Exile
- Mercedes, the Exo
Notable Groups[edit]
- The Vanishing Claw
- The Lion Splicers
- Blades of Joskaa
- The Lions' Guard
- The Lion Enforcers
- The Lion Scouts
Unique Forces[edit]
Major variants
- Lion Kell's Guard
- Lion High Servitor
- Overpowered Servitor
- Unbounded Dreg
- Freelancer Vandal
- Freelancer Captain
Minor variants
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Technology[edit]
Weapons[edit] |
Vehicles[edit]
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Miscellaneous[edit]
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Gallery[edit]
Joskaa, Kell of Lions
Seriviks, the Renegade Archon
Andiks, the Constructor of Weapons
A House of Lions Banner
Andiks-5, the Lion High Servitor
Lionship Andiks-Fel, the flagship of Lions
The Overpowered Servitor
A House of Lions Dreg in Destiny 2.
A House of Lions Wretch
A House of Lions Marauder
A House of Lions Vandal in Destiny 2.
A House of Lions Captain in Destiny 2.
A House of Lions Shank in Destiny 2.
A House of Lions Servitor in Destiny 2.
Lion's Pride, a Fallen style Hand Cannon
Trivia[edit]
- It has been rumored that there's a House of Lions' Den in the vicinity of Jupiter, as it been noted that there's some Lion Scouts seen on Callisto, one of the moons of Jupiter.
- The Lions are the only known House, to have both their House Archons leave their House, as Seriviks, the Archon of Andiks Prime, left the House to create The Jackal Syndicate, while Wardriks, Jobkis's Archon was exiled.
- The House of Lions appears to be similar to the House of Wolves in terms of their style of armor colors, with both their armors colored in their main House colors rather than a secondary color. Both having a complex system of leadership and stations, and both having fur scarfs on their armors.
- Similar to the House of Wolves, the House of Lions carries multiple lines of Servitors in the form of the Andiks line of Servitors and the Jobiks line. Andiks Servitors are a variant of the Jobiks Servitors but used to hold permissions over them. But with the gradual shrinking of the Jobiks Servitors due to its Prime's destruction, the Andiks became the House's primary Servitors.
- If including the absorbed House of Storm, the House of Lions would technically possess three lines of Servitors, with the Raviks line of Servitors that originated from the House of Sky.
- Similar to the House of Wolves, the House of Lions carries multiple lines of Servitors in the form of the Andiks line of Servitors and the Jobiks line. Andiks Servitors are a variant of the Jobiks Servitors but used to hold permissions over them. But with the gradual shrinking of the Jobiks Servitors due to its Prime's destruction, the Andiks became the House's primary Servitors.
- Their appearance in D1 went through several changes in D2, with the House having a blend of their D1 appearance while some of their members having a resemblance to House of Dusk Fallen (mostly their Wretch and Marauder units), possibly former Dusk members who defected from Dusk and join the Lion banner. However, ever since Beyond Light, the House of Lions' entire appearance would change entirely; their units carrying a similar style to their House of Salvation counterparts. This would be the same for the House of Vipers, the House of Emperors, and other newer Houses, after them.
- However, their Servitors had carried the appearance of the Destiny 1 Servitors, until Beyond Light where they all had the appearance of Lion High Servitors. Reason why for this is unknown but it’s possible their Servitor line, the Andiks line, are the only Servitor line from D1, that still exists in D2.
List of appearances[edit]
- Destiny:
- The Lions' Armistice (First appearance)
- Destiny 2 (Mentioned only)
- Forsaken (Mentioned only)
- Season of the Forge (Mentioned only)
- Season of the Drifter (Mentioned only)
- Jackal's Labyrinth
- Season of Opulence (Mentioned only)
- Shadowkeep (Mentioned only)
- Season of Dawn
- Season of the Relentless
- Season of Arrivals (Mentioned only)
- Beyond Light (Mentioned only)
- Rise of the Emperors
- Season of the Chosen (Mentioned only)
- Season of the Splicer (Mentioned only)
- The Witch Queen (Mentioned only)
- Lightfall
- The Void Within (TBA)
- Forsaken (Mentioned only)
- Destiny 3 (TBA)