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==Biography==

===Origins===

{{quote|I am Setak, great advisor to the Osmium King and his court. I watched as the endless storms raged against the Fundament. I bid my time by training the youngest of the King's daughters to hunt the Bait Stars that sought our frail forms.|Setak}}

Prior to the Hive's emergence in the Fundament, Setak would reach the end of his ten year lifespan and had grown senile, much like the Osmium King before. Called a mad hermit by those at Kaharn, he still held onto what little remained of his sanity, believing that there was still a fragment of hope left for his people to survive.

{{quote|I live to serve you King Auryx, as I always have. <br><br>Then you must take this worm and be reborn.<br>No longer will you be Setak.<br>You will be known as.<br>Shin'ra|Auryx offering Setak on of the Worm larvae}}

Eventually, when the Hive arose from the depths of the Fundament, many tried to flee to Kaharn as a means to escape, Setak among them. However, when the Hive reached Kaharn, many of the proto-species fell to the power of Auryx, Savathûn and Xivu Arath. Being the last survivor and at the height of his madness, he begged Auryx to convert him into one of them. Holding sympathy for the one who helped his sisters to escape the Helium Drinkers, Auryx offered Setak one of the Worm larvae, which the Osmium Advisor would ingest and take his morph and new name, Shin'ra.  

When Auryx returned from death, Shin'ra would learn of the Ascendant Realm from Auryx and its ability to survive death in the mortal plane. Shin'ra would construct a Throne World of his own, the [[Forum:High Forge|High Forge]], seeing it as his vision remaking the universe in his own image. He would take the moniker as the '''Hive God of Forge''', seeking to construct and build new weapons for the Hive to wield in order to conquer the stars.

{{Quote|Acaeleon of the Nadheal proved himself a champion to his people. They in turn were blasphemous and turned against one another against its practice. Acaeleon was one of them who fell to such praxis.|Shin'ra}}

Fully under the thrall of the Hive God, Acaeleon would instigate a galactic scale civil war in the Nadheal home system. Their various colonies burned and destroyed and their capital in ruins with all that remained of their civilization forced to live on large cruisers for survival. Even under the control of Shin'ra, Acaeleon doubted his own actions and the destruction of his people. His doubt invoked Kuldax to appear before him, declaring that he was unworthy of the power he sought to gift. He would then stab the weakened Nadheal with his blackened blade, and the power of the Hige corruption spread throughout his body, leaving it as a shriveling corpse. Shin'ra would have his followers destroy any that remained of the Nadheal people, including their home world.

{{Quote|The Ussatan were a tribal race, worthy of the logic. Their recantation of it proved to be their undoing.|Shin'ra refers to the fall of the Ussatan species}}

When Shin'ra descended upon the Ussatan home world, he would blot out the planet from its star, starving the species of their crops and resources produced by the star's light. After several days, he launched [[Seeder Ship]]s onto the planet to not only destroy the landscape and devastate the tribal homes, but to launch a ground invasion by unleashing the stowed Hive from within the Seeder Ships. The conquest would only last a day as the Ussatan did not last against Shin'ra's strategies and the power the Hive held.

{{quote|The Leviathans.<br>They will be hunted down to the very last.<br>And I will bask in that glorious victory and drink from their blood|Shin'ra's command to hunt the Leviathans}}

In between the years of conquest of the Ammonites and the Harmony, Shin'ra tasked himself with hunting down any remaining Proto-Worms or Leviathans that remained from the Fundament's bloodbath. He tasked [[Forum:Celebrant of Shin'ra|his Celebrants]] to hunt down these traitors by plunging into the depths of various worlds to root out any remaining Leviathans. Many Leviathans would be slaughtered and offered to Shin'ra for tribute to satiate his hunger for the hunt. Using the various Worm corpses, Shin'ra would meld them together, forming a monstrous Tomb Carrier he would call the Nephilim. He would use the Nephilim to continue his conquests across the universe and return back to the service of Auryx and his sisters.

===Greater Truth===

Shin'ra would be present in the Hive's war against the [[Harmony]], destroying their many vessels and successfully conquering their Wishful Bishops compared to Xivu Arath who struggled against them. When Oryx toppled the [[Gift Mast]] and offered its pieces to his broods, Shin'ra would take one of these fragments for study. He would use the fragment as a basis for what would later be known as the '''[[Weapons of Sorrow]]''', while the shard itself would become known as the ''Lucent Armament'', the basis for the Weapons of Sorrow's antithesis, the ''Weapons of Hope''.

Along with creating the basis of both the Weapons of Sorrow and Hope, he would eventually learn to master the former's corrupting potential, and being the first to fully master the newfound Darkness element, [[Forum:Corruption (element)|Corruption]]. His studies of the Light and Dark would bring the attention of the Witness to Shin'ra, who would believe that the Maker was worthy to look after the Darkness progenitor, the [[The Veil|Veil]]. Shin'ra would place the Veil deep within the Nephilim's vaults, believing that its intense Darkness would fortify his ship from the inside, and he could continue his studies of the paracausal.

In various attempts to study the Veil, Shin'ra sought to outright take the information directly from it, leading to grave consequences. In a similar instance to what it would do to the [[Ishtar Collective]] centuries later, causing instant brain death to those that made contact with the Veil. In order to properly interface with the paracausal object, Shin'ra developed a "meta concert" of the various Hive minds to be joined together into a singular entity.