Editing Xita, the Nurturing Worm

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{{Quote|[In the Deep, my children pay a price in servitude, for survival. In ascendance, the Hive pay a price in servitude, for power. And in the dark, I pay a price in servitude, so that others may be nurtured.]<br> <br>[It must not be in vain.]|Xita, the Nurturing Worm}}
'''Xita, the Nurturing Worm''' is the mother of the five [[Worm Gods]] worshipped by the [[Hive]]. She and her children were imprisoned within the core of [[Fundament]] by the [[Leviathan (Fundament)|Leviathan]] for eons until the [[Disciples of the Witness|Disciple]] [[Rhulk, Disciple of the Witness|Rhulk]] sought her out on behalf of [[The Witness|the Witness]], after which Rhulk used her as a source of Worm larvae to support the Hive. She was formerly used to power the [[The Upended|Upended]] aboard the [[Sunken Pyramid]], and is currently either deceased or catatonic following Rhulk's defeat.

==Biography==
===Origins===
According to [[Ahsa]], Xita and the other Worms originated from a "proto-Worm" species that once lived peacefully on Fundament, before they became corrupted by the philosophy of the [[the Witness|Witness]] and began slaughtering one another to achieve [[paracausality|paracausal]] supremacy through the [[Sword Logic]]; Xita was presumably either one of these original Worms or one of their descendants. At some point, Xita and her five offspring - [[Eir]], [[Ur]], [[Xol]], [[Yul]] and [[Akka]] - were imprisoned within the depths of [[Fundament]], where they remained for millennia. There they slowly starved, cut off from any hosts from which to siphon power through the [[Anthem Anatheme]]. 

===Subjugation===
Eventually, the Disciple of the Witness known as [[Rhulk, Disciple of the Witness|Rhulk]] visited the imprisoned Worms to offer a bargain: serve the [[The Witness|Witness]] in exchange for access to plentiful hosts for her kin in the form of the nascent [[Hive|Krill]] on the surface of the planet. Xita agreed, surrendering herself to Rhulk and leaving her children behind in the depths of Fundament. She resided thereafter aboard Rhulk's Pyramid.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - Item Description: [[Resonant Fury Suit#Resonant Fury Mark|Resonant Fury Mark]]''</ref>

Some time after being brought aboard Rhulk's Pyramid, Xita overheard a conversation between Rhulk and the Witness, in which they discussed the Witness' plan to whisper a lie to [[Savathûn, the Witch Queen|Sathona]], one of the three daughters of the [[Osmium King]], to lead her and her sisters to seek out Xita's children in the planet's depths<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - Item Description: [[Resonant Fury Suit#Resonant Fury Plate|Resonant Fury Plate]]''</ref>. Around this time, Rhulk used pieces of Xita's body to breed a strain of parasitic "larvae" which could be implanted within a host, and set them adrift on the Fundament ocean so that they would wash up on the shores of the Osmium Court.{{Citation needed}}

Later, after the daughters of the Osmium King made their pact with Xita's children and became the Hive Gods [[Oryx, the Taken King|Oryx]], [[Savathûn, the Witch Queen|Savathûn]], and [[Xivu Arath, God of War|Xivu Arath]], Rhulk was tasked with keeping watch over Savathûn, and moved his Pyramid into Savathûn's Throne World. During this time, Xita was used as a source of Worm larvae to support Savathûn's Hive, and also as a source of energy for the Upended, which Rhulk planned to use to destroy Savathûn's Throne World in the event she stepped out of line.{{Citation needed}}

===Fate===
{{Quote|Worm Mother... though you sleep eternal, your role in grand symphony persists. Legacy will be carried best I can.|[[Savathûn's Worm]]}}
[[File:Xita large.jpg|thumb|360px|Xita's coiled body as seen from the [[Collection]]]]
After Rhulk's defeat at the hands of the [[Guardian]]s, Xita has shown no signs of life, and is presumably either deceased or in a coma-like state. However, physical deaths for Worm Gods mean little as seen with [[Xol, Will of the Thousands|Xol]], so exactly how permanent or impactful her physical death may be has yet to be seen.

==Trivia==
*Xita is the largest Worm seen in Destiny so far, easily outclassing [[Xol, Will of the Thousands]] in size. Though she has not yet been seen, one of Xita's deceased children, [[Akka, the Worm of Secrets]] is said to had been far larger than her, as a segment of his corpse was used by [[Oryx, the Taken King]] to craft his [[Dreadnaught]].
*Xita is so far the only confirmed female worm.
*The term [[wikipedia:Xita|"Xita"]] (literally: Western pagoda in Chinese) came from a pagoda accompanying the Tibetan Buddhist Yanshou Temple in Shenyang, China. Alternatively, [[wiktionary:xita|"xita"]] is a word in the Maltese language that means "rain".

==Gallery==
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File:Xita Doctrine.jpg|Xita in the distance of [[Sundered Doctrine]]

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==List of appearances==
*''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]]'' {{1st}}
**''[[Season of the Witch]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[Episode: Heresy]]'' {{Mo}}

==References==
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[[Category:Worms]]