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{{quote|Where is my son? Where is [[Crota]], your lord, your princely god, your godly prince? Tell me no lies! I feel his absence like a hole in my stomach. Where once his tender tribute whetted burrowed mouths, now only hunger remains. Hear me, O waning stars, O tattered rags of [[Light|Sky]] — I will stopper up this tearing gulf with vengeance.|Oryx}} | {{quote|Where is my son? Where is [[Crota]], your lord, your princely god, your godly prince? Tell me no lies! I feel his absence like a hole in my stomach. Where once his tender tribute whetted burrowed mouths, now only hunger remains. Hear me, O waning stars, O tattered rags of [[Light|Sky]] — I will stopper up this tearing gulf with vengeance.|Oryx}} | ||
'''Oryx, the Taken King''', born '''Aurash''' and formerly known as '''Auryx''' (meaning "Long Thought"<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#X:_Immortals|X: Immortals]]''</ref>), | '''Oryx, the Taken King''', born '''Aurash''' and formerly known as '''Auryx''' (meaning "Long Thought"<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#X:_Immortals|X: Immortals]]''</ref>), was the sovereign of the Osmium Throne, the God-King of the [[Hive]], and the master of the [[Taken]]. | ||
Reborn | Reborn in the [[Darkness]] itself through a wicked pact with the [[Worm Gods]], Oryx is the founder of the Hive race alongside his sisters and fellow deities, [[Savathûn, the Witch Queen]] and [[Xivu Arath, God of War]]. Of all the Hive gods, he alone held the power to bend other races to his will through the power to [[Taken|Take]]. Oryx is also the father of the dreaded [[Crota, Son of Oryx|Crota]], a deadly Hive Prince who slew thousands of [[Guardian]]s during [[the Great Disaster]], and [[Nokris]], his estranged firstborn and herald of the Worm God [[Xol]]. | ||
Enraged at the death of Crota, Oryx traveled to the [[Sol System]] aboard his [[Dreadnaught]] seeking revenge but was defeated by the [[The Guardian|Guardian]] and escaped to his throne | Enraged at the death of Crota, Oryx traveled to the [[Sol System]] aboard his [[Dreadnaught]] seeking revenge but was defeated by the [[The Guardian|Guardian]] and escaped to his throne world. His second match with the Guardians resulted in his permanent loss and ended the threat he posed to the Sol System. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
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===Legacy=== | ===Legacy=== | ||
[[File:Piotr-jablonski-oryx-defeated-color-crop-sharpaaassss.jpg|thumb|Concept art of Oryx, defeated.]] | [[File:Piotr-jablonski-oryx-defeated-color-crop-sharpaaassss.jpg|thumb|Concept art of Oryx, defeated.]] | ||
{{Quote| | {{Quote|Dwell a moment on the weight of what you’ve done. Contemplate the story you just ended. Will you ever do anything that screams down the millennia? Will you ever hammer your will on the universe until it rings and rings and rings? Oryx was an awesome power. Show reverence.|[[Toland, the Shattered]]}} | ||
Though his lifeless, calcified body was left adrift in orbit around Saturn, Oryx's Ravenous Heart however remained. [[Eris Morn]] used the heart to construct a weapon, the [[Touch of Malice]]. Ironically, in accordance to the [[Books of Sorrow]], Oryx had intended this, as it would had been his final means of maintaining his Ascendant immortality through the continued use of his Ravenous Heart to feed, as well as mantling the one who vanquished him as his successor to the Osmium Throne. He only succeeded in one of his goals, however; the one who defeated him, the Guardian, would not take Oryx's throne and therefore defied the logic Oryx spent millennia perfecting. | Though his lifeless, calcified body was left adrift in orbit around Saturn, Oryx's Ravenous Heart however remained. [[Eris Morn]] used the heart to construct a weapon, the [[Touch of Malice]]. Ironically, in accordance to the [[Books of Sorrow]], Oryx had intended this, as it would had been his final means of maintaining his Ascendant immortality through the continued use of his Ravenous Heart to feed, as well as mantling the one who vanquished him as his successor to the Osmium Throne. He only succeeded in one of his goals, however; the one who defeated him, the Guardian, would not take Oryx's throne and therefore defied the logic Oryx spent millennia perfecting. | ||