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Ancient Psions practised a form of ancestor worship, communing with the divine spirits of the dead through a Y-goblet that "cupped their spirits" and poured out their souls into new Psions. Worship involved daily rituals in which the Y-goblet was filled with offerings for ancestors, such as water to wash out their eyes, <ref>'''Bungie (2019/7/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Penumbra]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Entry I]]''</ref> salt to roughen their skin, <ref>'''Bungie (2019/7/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Penumbra]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Entry II]]''</ref> or linen to bind their wounds. <ref>'''Bungie (2019/7/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Penumbra]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Entry VI]]''</ref> Other practices included physically drawing the Y-goblet on a nearby surface. Adherents believed that every other person, or at least Psions, had a spark of the divine within them, physically evident in their Y-shaped pupils. <ref name = "Entry III">'''Bungie (2019/7/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Penumbra]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Entry III]]''</ref> | Ancient Psions practised a form of ancestor worship, communing with the divine spirits of the dead through a Y-goblet that "cupped their spirits" and poured out their souls into new Psions. Worship involved daily rituals in which the Y-goblet was filled with offerings for ancestors, such as water to wash out their eyes, <ref>'''Bungie (2019/7/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Penumbra]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Entry I]]''</ref> salt to roughen their skin, <ref>'''Bungie (2019/7/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Penumbra]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Entry II]]''</ref> or linen to bind their wounds. <ref>'''Bungie (2019/7/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Penumbra]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Entry VI]]''</ref> Other practices included physically drawing the Y-goblet on a nearby surface. Adherents believed that every other person, or at least Psions, had a spark of the divine within them, physically evident in their Y-shaped pupils. <ref name = "Entry III">'''Bungie (2019/7/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Penumbra]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Entry III]]''</ref> | ||
In prehistory, long before | In prehistory, long before the Psion species joined the Cabal, a group of exceptionally powerful Psions known as the God-Thoughts dominated the species with their psychic abilities. They destroyed the Y-goblet faith for seeing divinity in every common person. Its suppression was so brutal that while the faith survived to the present, its practitioners still feared discovery and worshiped only in secret.<ref name = "Entry III" /><ref>'''Bungie (2019/7/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Penumbra]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Entry VIII]]''</ref> | ||
The Psions were assimilated into the Cabal empire either before or during [[Emperor Calus]]'s reign. They were largely enslaved under indenture, but some were allowed to remain free. | |||
The legendary, clairvoyant [[OXA Machine]] has been built, lost, and rebuilt many times in Psion history, passing down from civilization to civilization over the ages. <ref>'''Bungie (2019/7/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Penumbra]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Entry IV]]''</ref> Its most recent iteration was destroyed by the Cabal, but rebuilt centuries later on [[Brand]]by [[Freeborn Otzot]], a particularly brilliant Psion. When [[Umun'arath]] moved to destroy this newest version of the machine, Emperor Calus stopped her in recognition of Otzot's genius, and welcomed the freeborn Psion into his court as his Imperial Dreamer. | |||
Late into Calus's reign, he attempted to grant freedom to all indentured Psions, but was [[Ghaul's Coup|overthrown]] before this could happen. Ironically, Otzot was one of the conspirators against him. | |||
==Biology== | ==Biology== | ||