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{{Quote|We gathered to fight against our twilight, King and Devil, and Winter, all of us but us, the Wolves. Why? What kept us from the Gap? The Reef. The Queen. The slavers who played us against each other and docked us into subservience. These sly sterile un-people, these mirages with cold minds twinned to their own, these Carybdis butchers, they set us against each other. She played us. She made herself our Kell.|Skolas, Kell of Kells<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen#Ghost Fragment: Fallen 3|Ghost Fragment: Fallen 3]]''</ref>}}
{{Quote|We gathered to fight against our twilight, King and Devil, and Winter, all of us but us, the Wolves. Why? What kept us from the Gap? The Reef. The Queen. The slavers who played us against each other and docked us into subservience. These sly sterile un-people, these mirages with cold minds twinned to their own, these Carybdis butchers, they set us against each other. She played us. She made herself our Kell.|Skolas, Kell of Kells<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen#Ghost Fragment: Fallen 3|Ghost Fragment: Fallen 3]]''</ref>}}
[[File:Crow and queen of the Reef.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Queen Mara and Uldren with the House of Wolves under her command]]
[[File:Crow and queen of the Reef.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Queen Mara and Uldren with the House of Wolves under her command]]
The flotilla arrived at the Reef during the early [[City Age]]. After some initial encounters with the [[Fallen]] and upon receiving reconnaisance date about [[Earth]], the [[Traveler]] and the sorry state of [[humanity]], about a third of the expedition members voted to go to Earth and join [[the Last City]], despite Mara Sov's prohibition<ref name="revanche-2">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken (expansion)|Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Awoken of the Reef#Revanche II|Revanche II]]''</ref>. Some of them even used salvaged Human spacecraft to flee the flotilla<ref name="revanche-3">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken (expansion)|Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Awoken of the Reef#Revanche III|Revanche III]]''</ref>. Failing to keep order, Mara Sov agreed for thousands of rebels to leave and reunite with humanity on Earth; thus the next generations of the Awoken people were split into Reefborn and Earthborn. Mara Sov was proclaimed Queen of the Reef on [[4 Vesta]]; at the same time, some [[Fallen]] [[Baron]] detected ships moving towards Earth and traced their paths back to Vesta<ref name="revanche-5">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken (expansion)|Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Awoken of the Reef#Revanche V|Revanche V]]''</ref>. This first major assault was repealed, but the Awoken of the Reef had to militarize and finding superior weapons to fight back. At the Queen's order, her brother [[Uldren Sov]] scoured the Solar System for "a power unknown to all the other powers of this world" and discovered the last [[Ahamkara]] called [[Riven]]; Mara Sov's covenant with this creature laid a foundation for the Reef's prosperity<ref name="tetic-2">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken (expansion)|Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Awoken of the Reef#Tetic II|Tetic II]]''</ref>.
The flotilla arrived at the Reef during the early [[City Age]]. After some initial encounters with the [[Fallen]] and upon receiving reconnaisance date about [[Earth]], the [[Traveler]] and the sorry state of [[humanity]], about a third of the expedition members voted to go to Earth and join [[the Last City]], despite Mara Sov's prohibition<ref name="revanche-2">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken (expansion)|Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Awoken of the Reef#Revanche II|Revanche II]]''</ref>. Some of them even used salvaged Human spacecraft to flee the flotilla<ref name="revanche-3">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken (expansion)|Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Awoken of the Reef#Revanche III|Revanche III]]''</ref>. Failing to keep order, Mara Sov agreed for thousands of rebels to leave and reunite with humanity on Earth; thus the next generations of the Awoken people were split into Reefborn and Earthborn. Mara Sov was proclaimed Queen of the Reef on [[4 Vesta]]; at the same time, some [[Fallen]] [[Baron]] detected ships moving towards Earth and traced their paths back to Vesta<ref name="revanche-5">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken (expansion)|Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Awoken of the Reef#Revanche V|Revanche V]]''</ref>. This first major assault was repealed, but the Awoken of the Reef had to militarize and finding superior weapons to fight back. At the Queen's order, her brother [[Uldren Sov]] scoured the Solar System for "a power unknown to all the other powers of this world" and discovered a young [[Ahamkara]] called [[Riven]]; Mara Sov's covenant with this creature laid a foundation for the Reef's prosperity<ref name="tetic-2">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken (expansion)|Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Awoken of the Reef#Tetic II|Tetic II]]''</ref>.


Noticing the Fallen massing to destroy the Last City in an effort to steal back the [[Traveler|Great Machine]], the Queen chose to intervene and keep the oblivious outsystem [[House of Wolves]] from [[Twilight Gap|joining their brethren]] on [[Earth]]. While the House of Wolves had hundreds of thousands and probably millions of fighters, the Awoken used cunning and advanced weaponry. Striking suddenly, the Awoken fleet destroyed [[Ceres]] with a single salvo of the [[Harbinger]]s, taking down half of the Wolves' fleet stationed here and the [[Kell]] [[Virixas]] himself<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen_Hunted#Wanted: Skolas, Kell of Kells|Wanted: Skolas, Kell of Kells]]''</ref>. The remainding Wolves were scattered across the Reef and found themselves in a civil war between three [[Baron]]s [[Irxis]], [[Parixas]] and [[Skolas]], each wanting to claim the Kellship for themselves. The Reef Awoken launched a several-year-long campaign that whittled the Fallen's numbers and nobility to insignificance. This war involved a long siege of the asteroid [[Pallas]] by [[Pirsis]] and his fleet, with neither side willing to use their firepower in fear of hitting their own troops. Eventually, Awoken commander [[Hallam Fen]] managed to break the stalemate by creating an enormous visual illusion of another salvo of Harbingers, thus scaring Pirsis's ships off without a single actual shot being fired<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen_Hunted#Wanted: Pirsis, Pallas-Bane|Wanted: Pirsis, Pallas-Bane]]''</ref>. Another major engagement was in the Hildian Asteroids where the Awoken used the Carybdis, a gravity weapon strong enough to catch an asteroid Tinette and hurl it at another asteroid Fortuna which served as the Fallen fleet base<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen_Hunted#Wanted: Kaliks-12|Wanted: Kaliks-12]]''</ref>. Even though [[Skolas]] defeated his contenders and proclaimed himself the Kell of Wolves, [[Variks]], a Wolf scribe disillusioned with Skolas, defected over to the Queen's side. Thanks to this betrayal the remaining Wolves were defeated in the decisive battle of Cybele and Skolas was taken prisoner<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen_Hunted#Wanted: Kaliks-12|Wanted: Kaliks-12]]''</ref>.
Noticing the Fallen massing to destroy the Last City in an effort to steal back the [[Traveler|Great Machine]], the Queen chose to intervene and keep the oblivious outsystem [[House of Wolves]] from [[Twilight Gap|joining their brethren]] on [[Earth]]. While the House of Wolves had hundreds of thousands and probably millions of fighters, the Awoken used cunning and advanced weaponry. Striking suddenly, the Awoken fleet destroyed [[Ceres]] with a single salvo of the [[Harbinger]]s, taking down half of the Wolves' fleet stationed here and the [[Kell]] [[Virixas]] himself<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen_Hunted#Wanted: Skolas, Kell of Kells|Wanted: Skolas, Kell of Kells]]''</ref>. The remainding Wolves were scattered across the Reef and found themselves in a civil war between three [[Baron]]s [[Irxis]], [[Parixas]] and [[Skolas]], each wanting to claim the Kellship for themselves. The Reef Awoken launched a several-year-long campaign that whittled the Fallen's numbers and nobility to insignificance. This war involved a long siege of the asteroid [[Pallas]] by [[Pirsis]] and his fleet, with neither side willing to use their firepower in fear of hitting their own troops. Eventually, Awoken commander [[Hallam Fen]] managed to break the stalemate by creating an enormous visual illusion of another salvo of Harbingers, thus scaring Pirsis's ships off without a single actual shot being fired<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen_Hunted#Wanted: Pirsis, Pallas-Bane|Wanted: Pirsis, Pallas-Bane]]''</ref>. Another major engagement was in the Hildian Asteroids where the Awoken used the Carybdis, a gravity weapon strong enough to catch an asteroid Tinette and hurl it at another asteroid Fortuna which served as the Fallen fleet base<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen_Hunted#Wanted: Kaliks-12|Wanted: Kaliks-12]]''</ref>. Even though [[Skolas]] defeated his contenders and proclaimed himself the Kell of Wolves, [[Variks]], a Wolf scribe disillusioned with Skolas, defected over to the Queen's side. Thanks to this betrayal the remaining Wolves were defeated in the decisive battle of Cybele and Skolas was taken prisoner<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen_Hunted#Wanted: Kaliks-12|Wanted: Kaliks-12]]''</ref>.