Spawn of Crota: Difference between revisions

{{Quote|Crota's minions emerge once more. The Hidden Swarm that previously served Crota has banded together once again, leaderless but not purposeless.|[[Eris Morn]]}}<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Letters from Eris#Regarding_the_Hidden_Swarm|Regarding the Hidden Swarm]]''</ref>

Years in the aftermath of Crota's murder and Oryx's war had left the Hidden Swarm bereft of warriors of a caliber befitting royalty that could lead the Hive on the Moon.<ref name = "FiB">'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Inquisition of the Damned|X: Faith in Bone]]''</ref> When Oryx fell, Crota's brood rallied around the strongest of his children, including his four daughters [[Besurith, Daughter of Crota|Besurith]], [[Kinox]], [[Hashladûn, Daughter of Crota|Hasladûn]], and [[Voshyr]]. While the Swarm attempt to reaffirm their belief in the sword logic, the scheming daughters of Crota had enact a plot to recapture their grandfather's glory by going against his own logic.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], [[Toland, the Shattered]]: [[Toland, the Shattered#Quotes|When Oryx fell, Crota's brood rallied around the strongest of his children, reaffirming their belief in the logic, accepting their loss. But deep in the hearts of four of Crota's daughters - Besurith, Kinox, Hashladûn, and Voshyr - a seed of doubt quietly took root. They resolve to lead their leaderless Swarm toward a new dawn and slaughter all who stood in their way.]]''</ref>  

Hashladûn and her sisters sought to use the Luna [[Pyramid (Luna)|Pyramid]]'s power for its connection to the [[Darkness]] to revive Oryx in his full glory, <ref name = "FiB"/> having constructed a crimson fortress called the [[Scarlet Keep]] to amplify their magics and using the forbidden [[Cryptoglyph]] to safeguard the Hive of the Pyramid's trauma-inflicting influences.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], [[Eris Morn]]: [[Eris Morn#Quotes|The energy spilling from the tower suggests another purpose: I believe it amplifies Hive magic. This may be where the Hive achieve their immunity to the Pyramid's influences]]''</ref> <ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], [[Eris Morn]]: [[Eris Morn#Quotes|We now know what the Hidden Swarm have been using to shield themselves from the Nightmares - and where it lies. The Cryptoglyph. If ever there was a more powerful set of runes the Hive use to conjure their magics, I have yet to learn them...]]''</ref> Despite their best efforts, Hashladûn and her sisters could not conjure Nightmares in the shapes of their father or grandfather, so they resolve to use the phantasmal essence to raise a new [[Zulmak, Instrument of Torment|champion]] for the Swarm; one completely bound to their whims.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Item Description: [[Heretic#Lore|Heretic]]''</ref>

However, their resurgence caught the attention of [[Eris Morn]] and the [[Vanguard]] who sent the Guardians to push back the Hive, storming the keep for clues to creating [[Dreambane Armor|armour]] that can resist the newly-unleashed [[Nightmares]]. Hashladûn would confront the Guardains that killed her family at the Scarlet Keep, only to be killed atop the spire in her failed bid for vengeance.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], [[The Scarlet Keep]]''</ref> Her sister Besurith would attempt to keep the Guardians from stealing their Cryptoglyph only to be met with a similar fate.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], [[Into The Deep]]</ref> The last of Crota's spawn were survived by Voshyr and Kinox, who went into hiding and sought to preserve their forefather's legacy by reviving Zulmak as their Nightmare-hybrid champion, even if it went against the Sword Logic itself.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Item Description: [[Apostate#Lore|Apostate]].''</ref> Despite the Guardians killing Zulmak, the daughters would remain alive to attempt their ritual again in the near future.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Transcript: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/lingering-torment Lingering Torment]''</ref>