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===Uun and the Ahslid=== | ===Uun and the Ahslid=== | ||
{{Quote|You taught me the most precious lesson of irrelevance. Only purpose can be momentous. It is the moment of clarity that freed me from worldly soil. This final gift I withhold from my progeny. It is the most challenging lesson to teach, and I stand in awe of the elegance with which you revealed the truth to me. I cannot do the same without reflection. I have imitated myself all too well, but to imitate you, my Witness, it is the one challenge to which I find myself unworthy.|Rhulk, as he remarks his failure of teaching the Ahslid.}} | {{Quote|You taught me the most precious lesson of irrelevance. Only purpose can be momentous. It is the moment of clarity that freed me from worldly soil. This final gift I withhold from my progeny. It is the most challenging lesson to teach, and I stand in awe of the elegance with which you revealed the truth to me. I cannot do the same without reflection. I have imitated myself all too well, but to imitate you, my Witness, it is the one challenge to which I find myself unworthy.|Rhulk, as he remarks his failure of teaching the Ahslid.}} | ||
Reborn as the First Disciple, Rhulk | Reborn as the First Disciple, Rhulk became the Witness' chosen enforcer and executioner for its wrath; bringing destruction through fire and [[glaive]] and leading [[Pyramids]] of the [[Black Fleet]] to wipe the races uplifted by the [[Traveler]]; using the [[Upended]] to burn all traces of their passing. After eons of supplication, however, Rhulk would find himself bereft of purpose and fulfillment in his duty, which he unrelentingly challenges the Witness as an equal only to be put in his intended station repeatedly. | ||
At first, Rhulk stalked the race of Ahslid for fourteen solar years and offered every warrior he met opportunity to prove their worth, only for them to cower in fear and be bled at the tip of his glaive. The disciple would eventually comprehend his master's commandment as a lesson in insight and his own folly of spilling their blood blindly by himself. Instead, the disciple would | At one point, the Witness endowed him with the task of subjugating a mighty race, that being of the insectoid race of [[Ahslid]], into their servitude. The Witness stated to Rhulk that this opportunity would test his worth in enlightening the Ahslid with the same lessons of irreverence the latter learned from his master. Doing so, however, Rhulk is tasked to do so without revealing his presence to the Ahsild. Feeling castrated of his favor, Rhulk took the Witness' message to heart and changed his warmongering approach to one of unseen guidance and outreaching subterfuge.<ref name="Resonant Fury Mask">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Hunter)#Resonant Fury Mask|Resonant Fury Mask]]''</ref> | ||
At first, Rhulk stalked the race of Ahslid for fourteen solar years and offered every warrior he met opportunity to prove their worth, only for them to cower in fear and be bled at the tip of his glaive. The disciple would eventually comprehend his master's commandment as a lesson in insight and his own folly of spilling their blood blindly by himself. Instead, the disciple would act in in discreet, culling key members of the race in secret and spreading fear and paranoia amongst the Ahslid; indirectly creating a generation of their kin that would closely follow Rhulk's philosophies.<ref name="Resonant Fury Grips">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Hunter)#Resonant Fury Grips|Resonant Fury Grips]]''</ref> | |||
In the span of years, the Lubrean fosters this new generation by acting as their unseen guide; presenting opportunity to families lacking it and inducing suffering to those unsullied of it. Amongst the new brood was the youngest foundling Rhulk named [[Uun]], whom the disciple took a particular interest in after their first kill. The Subjugator, seeing himself in the young Ahslid, would uncharacteristically spare him of ostracization from his peers and leave him to grow as a warrior. This experience would cause Rhulk to question the Witness' hand in shaping his own destiny.<ref name="Resonant Fury Vest">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Hunter)#Resonant Fury Vest|Resonant Fury Vest]]''</ref> | In the span of years, the Lubrean fosters this new generation by acting as their unseen guide; presenting opportunity to families lacking it and inducing suffering to those unsullied of it. Amongst the new brood was the youngest foundling Rhulk named [[Uun]], whom the disciple took a particular interest in after their first kill. The Subjugator, seeing himself in the young Ahslid, would uncharacteristically spare him of ostracization from his peers and leave him to grow as a warrior. This experience would cause Rhulk to question the Witness' hand in shaping his own destiny.<ref name="Resonant Fury Vest">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Hunter)#Resonant Fury Vest|Resonant Fury Vest]]''</ref> | ||
Over time, the Ahslid became a race | Over time, the Ahslid became a race divided between themselves and gripped by paranoia wary of the disciple's machinations. Now uplifted by Rhulk's guidance and teachings, they build weapons of massive destruction that could destroy their world. Only Uun, now cast in doubt of himself, remains a disappointment to Rhulk as the latter casts him from his graces and into obscurity. At the same time, Rhulk had withheld teaching the insectoid race of irrelevance: the same lesson he himself learned from Lubrae's destruction. Rhulk is left to brood over his inability to teach the Ahslid the most challenging lesson he knew, and thus finds himself unworthy of emulating his idol.<ref name="Resonant Fury Strides">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Hunter)#Resonant Fury Strides|Resonant Fury Strides]]''</ref> | ||
Rhulk ultimately failed in his task, underestimating the Ahslid's capability for destruction which drove them to wipe out all life on their world in atomic fire. Only Uun, whom he once shunned of weakness, would be left tenaciously alive to face the disciple as both his greatest failure and biggest pride. The Ahslid's attempt to challenge Rhulk were ultimately futile, which left Uun prostrating on the floor near death and begging for his name. In a moment of weakness, Rhulk whispers his name to the dying Uun moments before his passing. Despite having failed his task of uplifting the Ahslid, Rhulk would only appreciate his master's | Rhulk ultimately failed in his task, underestimating the Ahslid's capability for destruction which drove them to wipe out all life on their world in atomic fire. Only Uun, whom he once shunned of weakness, would be left tenaciously alive to face the disciple as both his greatest failure and biggest pride. The Ahslid's attempt to challenge Rhulk were ultimately futile, which left Uun prostrating on the floor near death and begging for his name. In a moment of weakness, Rhulk whispers his name to the dying Uun moments before his passing. Despite having failed his task of uplifting the Ahslid, Rhulk would only further appreciate his master's lessons.<ref name="Resonant Fury Cloak">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Hunter)#Resonant Fury Cloak|Resonant Fury Cloak]]''</ref> | ||
===The Subjugator=== | ===The Subjugator=== | ||
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{{Quote|She was a frog in my estimation; small and colorful but toxic to touch. (...) My place is not to understand you, my Witness, but to serve that final goal you see more clearly than I. But now, your gold-leaf parasites call themselves gods and carve out their divine homes. And I am to watch the sniveling frog.|Rhulk}} | {{Quote|She was a frog in my estimation; small and colorful but toxic to touch. (...) My place is not to understand you, my Witness, but to serve that final goal you see more clearly than I. But now, your gold-leaf parasites call themselves gods and carve out their divine homes. And I am to watch the sniveling frog.|Rhulk}} | ||
Rhulk and Savathûn would form an impertinent rivalry between each other in the eons they spend in each other's company, the latter being ordered to station his Pyramid in [[Savathûn's Throne World]], assisting [[Savathûn, the Witch Queen]] in the production of [[Worm]]s for her brood. Rhulk was displeased with this assignment, taking an immediate dislike to Savathûn and privately wondering whether he was being punished for his failure with the Ahslid<ref name="Resonant Fury Cowl">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Warlock)#Resonant Fury Cowl|Resonant Fury Cowl]]''</ref>. | |||
After Savathûn's rebirth in the Light, Rhulk would be trapped within his [[Sunken Pyramid]], blocked off from the rest of the realm thanks to her usage of the [[Wellspring]]. During his imprisonment, one of the [[Ghost]]s had drifted into the Pyramid and encountered Rhulk. After a while of talking with it, the Ghost would possessed by someone (presumably the [[Traveler]]) and destroyed it in an explosion of Light before Rhulk could to anything to it<ref name="Imperious Sun Shell">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Ghost shell|Ghost shell lore]]: [[Imperious Sun Shell]]''</ref>. | After Savathûn's rebirth in the Light, Rhulk would be trapped within his [[Sunken Pyramid]], blocked off from the rest of the realm thanks to her usage of the [[Wellspring]]. During his imprisonment, one of the [[Ghost]]s had drifted into the Pyramid and encountered Rhulk. After a while of talking with it, the Ghost would possessed by someone (presumably the [[Traveler]]) and destroyed it in an explosion of Light before Rhulk could to anything to it<ref name="Imperious Sun Shell">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Ghost shell|Ghost shell lore]]: [[Imperious Sun Shell]]''</ref>. | ||