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Much later, the Hive God Auryx (who was once Aurash) slew the Worm God Akka in order to obtain enough power to commune with the Deep directly, and the Deep soon gave him the power to [[Taken|Take]]. He became thereafter known as [[Oryx]], the Taken King. Some time later, he sought to commune with the Deep directly and prepared an Ogre as a sacrifice, which the Deep inhabited and used to converse with Oryx.

===The Cambrian Explosion===

{{Quote|And then—one day—the fall occurred. So much earlier and so much more necessary than your myths remember. Some poor mutant discovered that it could collect carbon compounds much faster if it stopped grazing on the bacterial mat and started dissecting and eating the lumps of predigested carbon all around it: its neighbor oozeballs. <br>It couldn't help but do it. It couldn't help but thrive. We don't get a choice about the rules. We just play the game.<br>It was the first defector—the first predator. It changed everything. Now the oozeballs needed sensors to watch for danger, and brains to integrate those senses and generate plans of survival, and swift neurons and muscles to enact that plan. This was the Cambrian Explosion, the great birth of complex life on your world. I caused it. I, the defector, the destroyer, the one who takes.|The Darkness}}

According to the Darkness itself, the Cambrian Explosion (i.e. the rapid appearance and diversification of complex life on Earth) was one of innumerable examples across the history of the universe where the Darkness played a role in bringing about complex life, by virtue of curtailing the existence of weaker organisms and thereby driving biological evolution.

===The Whirlwind===

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 Much later, the Hive God Auryx (who was once Aurash) slew the Worm God Akka in order to obtain enough power to commune with the Deep directly, and the Deep soon gave him the power to [[Taken|Take]]. He became thereafter known as [[Oryx]], the Taken King. Some time later, he sought to commune with the Deep directly and prepared an Ogre as a sacrifice, which the Deep inhabited and used to converse with Oryx.
+===The Cambrian Explosion===
+{{Quote|And then—one day—the fall occurred. So much earlier and so much more necessary than your myths remember. Some poor mutant discovered that it could collect carbon compounds much faster if it stopped grazing on the bacterial mat and started dissecting and eating the lumps of predigested carbon all around it: its neighbor oozeballs. <br>It couldn't help but do it. It couldn't help but thrive. We don't get a choice about the rules. We just play the game.<br>It was the first defector—the first predator. It changed everything. Now the oozeballs needed sensors to watch for danger, and brains to integrate those senses and generate plans of survival, and swift neurons and muscles to enact that plan. This was the Cambrian Explosion, the great birth of complex life on your world. I caused it. I, the defector, the destroyer, the one who takes.|The Darkness}}
+According to the Darkness itself, the Cambrian Explosion (i.e. the rapid appearance and diversification of complex life on Earth) was one of innumerable examples across the history of the universe where the Darkness played a role in bringing about complex life, by virtue of curtailing the existence of weaker organisms and thereby driving biological evolution.
 ===The Whirlwind===