Akka, the Worm of Secrets

"Akka my God, Worm of Secrets. I am Auryx, sole king of the Hive. I have come to receive a secret. I want the secret power of the Deep, which you hold."

- Oryx, the Taken King

Akka, the Worm of Secrets was one of the five Worm Gods, ancient beings second only to the Darkness itself in the hierarchy of the Hive pantheon.

Biography
"Akka yearned for nurture. It did so through secrets."

- Xita, the Nurturing Worm Billions of years ago, Akka and the other Worm Gods were trapped deep beneath Fundament and guarded by the Leviathan. During their imprisonment they would be greeted by the Disciple known as Rhulk. Rhulk would convince them to pledge their allegiance to the Witness and would take their mother Xita, the Nurturing Worm from the deep oceans of Fundament to his ship. Later the heirs to the Osmium Throne, Aurash, Sathona, would travel to the domain of the Worm Gods while being guided by a dead worm larvae. The Worm Gods offered them power and immortality in exchange for becoming parasitized by their larvae. The siblings accept becoming Auryx, the King of the Hive, Savathûn, the Witch Queen, and Xivu Arath, God of War, spreading the larvae among their people. The Worm Gods oversaw the Hive's conquest of Fundament, providing knowledge, orders, and censure to their leaders as necessary. When the war freed the Worm Gods from Fundament's core, they responded by opening a wormhole into geostationary orbit, allowing the Hive to invade Fundament's moons and the Ammonite civilization that dwelled there.

Auryx, the King of the Hive, seeking to gain the power to feed his worm, traveled the Ascendant Realm in search of Akka. Akka and Auryx spoke of the power of the Deep, and since their power was gifted, and not taken, it was not true to the Deep. Auryx attacked Akka and slew him, then communed with the Deep himself. When he was finished he crafted the Tablets of Ruin, gaining the power to Take and becoming Oryx, the Taken King. Though dead, Akka was not gone, and Oryx was forced to battle his god's "swarming corpse" while escaping his sisters' treachery years later. Oryx used part of Akka's body to craft his Dreadnaught, a massive ship in which to house his Throne world. Billions of years later, Akka's name has fallen into near obscurity, as Toland, the Shattered had only the faintest idea of his existence, but not his name.

Trivia

 * Verse 3.8 of the Books of Sorrow seems to imply that some of Akka's paracausal powers are ontological in nature: when he is confronted by Oryx, Akka is said to have been "denying a truth until it became a lie," and was afraid to deny the truth of Oryx's words lest "the truth might become false."
 * Therefore, when Akka denied that Oryx had the strength to slay him, he may have inadvertently sealed his own demise.
 * Based on the size of the Dreadnaught, Akka would appear to have been immensely larger than Xol or even Xita, possibly approaching the size of a small celestial body.
 * Akka is the first known Worm God to be killed by not just the Hive, but by any being.
 * In the Temple of the Navigator you can see a statue of Oryx fighting Akka.

List of appearances

 * Destiny
 * The Taken King
 * Destiny 2
 * Warmind
 * Shadowkeep
 * Beyond Light
 * The Witch Queen