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{{quote|The process is simple: an aperture opens, like a jaw, and swallows a living thing. It passes into — another place. Later, it returns. What returns is... I try to use the word ‘shadow’ but Eris hisses at me ''[...]'' insists that these Taken are more real, somehow. She uses words like inhabited, exalted, rendered final... ''[...]'' My Hidden tell me that the Taken shine with seething, negative light. As if the universe is curling up around them. As if they radiate some pathology that decays into our world as nothingness... The Taken serve Oryx. But I think those jaws lead elsewhere.|[[Ikora Rey]]<ref name="Taken">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/The_Taken#The_Taken|The Taken]]''</ref>}} | {{quote|The process is simple: an aperture opens, like a jaw, and swallows a living thing. It passes into — another place. Later, it returns. What returns is... I try to use the word ‘shadow’ but Eris hisses at me ''[...]'' insists that these Taken are more real, somehow. She uses words like inhabited, exalted, rendered final... ''[...]'' My Hidden tell me that the Taken shine with seething, negative light. As if the universe is curling up around them. As if they radiate some pathology that decays into our world as nothingness... The Taken serve Oryx. But I think those jaws lead elsewhere.|[[Ikora Rey]]<ref name="Taken">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/The_Taken#The_Taken|The Taken]]''</ref>}} | ||
The '''Taken''' are beings that have been corrupted by the [[Darkness]] and altered to better serve its purposes. Once used by [[Oryx, the Taken King]] as his personal army, they have more recently been utilized by other powerful Darkness-aligned entities in the wake of Oryx's defeat, including [[Savathûn|Savathûn, the Witch Queen]], [[Quria, Blade Transform]], [[Xivu Arath|Xivu Arath, the War God]] and the Taken [[Ahamkara]], [[Riven]]. | The '''Taken''' are beings originating from multiple species that have been corrupted by the [[Darkness]] and altered to better serve its purposes. Once used by [[Oryx, the Taken King]] as his personal army, they have more recently been utilized by other powerful Darkness-aligned entities in the wake of Oryx's defeat, including [[Savathûn|Savathûn, the Witch Queen]], [[Quria, Blade Transform]], [[Xivu Arath|Xivu Arath, the War God]] and the Taken [[Ahamkara]], [[Riven]]. | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
{{quote|IMPERATIVE CORRUPTED. SEEK LIGHT. DESTROY LIGHT. OBEY THE COLLECTIVE MIND, OBEY THE #$422*! ORYX. OBEY ORYX.|Recovered from Simulation Core of Corrupted Minotaur<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Mission Description: [[Not Forged in Light]]''</ref>}} | {{quote|IMPERATIVE CORRUPTED. SEEK LIGHT. DESTROY LIGHT. OBEY THE COLLECTIVE MIND, OBEY THE #$422*! ORYX. OBEY ORYX.|Recovered from Simulation Core of Corrupted Minotaur<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Mission Description: [[Not Forged in Light]]''</ref>}} | ||
The power to create Taken is granted by the Darkness itself, and is bestowed only to its most formidable servants. The process of Taking | The power to create Taken is granted by the Darkness itself, and is bestowed only to its most formidable servants. The process of Taking involves summoning a portal or aperture that rips an individual out of the universe, and returning them with new paracausal abilities and a compulsion to serve the one that Took them.<ref name="Taken"/> Taken resemble their former selves for the most part, but are both shadowed and eerily glowing, with a blindingly bright orb typically obscuring their facial features. Many Taken are seen to shiver or twitch in a disturbing manner, and their vocalizations are warped into shrieks and howls. Over time, exceptionally powerful Taken have been seen to grow pairs of black, curving spikes from their bodies. | ||
Taken versions of enemies have radically different behaviors from their standard counterparts, including new abilities designed to counter Guardian abilities. Groups of Taken can be mixed with members of different species,<ref>[http://planetdestiny.com/taken-king-analysis/ '''Planet Destiny''': The Taken King Trailer Analysis]</ref> and can appear on [[Earth]], [[Venus]], [[Mars]], [[Dreadnaught]] and [[Io]] in most activities; on the [[Moon]], in select [[Destiny]] [[Story]] missions and certain [[Patrol]] activites in both Destiny and [[Destiny 2]].<ref>[http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-06-30-the-taken-king-is-the-expansion-destiny-has-been-waiting-for '''Eurogamer''': The Taken King is the Expansion Destiny has been waiting for]</ref><ref>[http://planetdestiny.com/sleeper-simulant-perks/ '''Planet Destiny''': Sleeper Stimulant Gameplay & Perks]</ref> | Taken versions of enemies have radically different behaviors from their standard counterparts, including new abilities designed to counter Guardian abilities. Groups of Taken can be mixed with members of different species,<ref>[http://planetdestiny.com/taken-king-analysis/ '''Planet Destiny''': The Taken King Trailer Analysis]</ref> and can appear on [[Earth]], [[Venus]], [[Mars]], [[Dreadnaught]] and [[Io]] in most activities; on the [[Moon]], in select [[Destiny]] [[Story]] missions and certain [[Patrol]] activites in both Destiny and [[Destiny 2]].<ref>[http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-06-30-the-taken-king-is-the-expansion-destiny-has-been-waiting-for '''Eurogamer''': The Taken King is the Expansion Destiny has been waiting for]</ref><ref>[http://planetdestiny.com/sleeper-simulant-perks/ '''Planet Destiny''': Sleeper Stimulant Gameplay & Perks]</ref> | ||
Taken are unwaveringly loyal to their master, and will turn on former allies without hesitation. Even strong-willed enemies such as Vex Axis Minds or Cabal commanders are incapable of resisting this change. Although new Taken can only be created through the Taking of new victims, existing Taken will remain (albeit aimless and disorganized) indefinitely if their master is killed. A sufficiently powerful being | Taken are unwaveringly loyal to their master, and will turn on former allies without hesitation. Even strong-willed enemies such as Vex Axis Minds or Cabal commanders are incapable of resisting this change. Although new Taken can only be created through the Taking of new victims, existing Taken will remain (albeit aimless and disorganized) indefinitely if their master is killed. A sufficiently powerful being with the ability to Take can assume control of Taken previously generated by a different individual. | ||
While all Taken are enslaved to their master's will, more powerful Taken retain a degree of independent thought and initiative, mostly at the discretion of the master themselves, to "keep them interesting." After Oryx's defeat, the Taken Knight [[Malok, Pride of Oryx]], attempted to seize the vacant throne for himself. Other Taken, such as [[Noru'usk, Servant of Oryx]], have aspirations to ascend while many, like [[Keksis, the Betrayed]], are lost and leaderless. With the advent of the [[Red War]], Taken activity spiked and was more coordinated. Ikora hypothesized that the Taken were no longer leaderless, with signs pointing to Savathûn being the one controlling the Taken, possibly claiming the power to Take for herself. | While all Taken are enslaved to their master's will, more powerful Taken retain a degree of independent thought and initiative, mostly at the discretion of the master themselves, to "keep them interesting." After Oryx's defeat, the Taken Knight [[Malok, Pride of Oryx]], attempted to seize the vacant throne for himself. Other Taken, such as [[Noru'usk, Servant of Oryx]], have aspirations to ascend while many, like [[Keksis, the Betrayed]], are lost and leaderless. With the advent of the [[Red War]], Taken activity spiked and was more coordinated. Ikora hypothesized that the Taken were no longer leaderless, with signs pointing to Savathûn being the one controlling the Taken, possibly claiming the power to Take for herself. | ||
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==History== | ==History== | ||
{{Quote|Oryx wields this power. But Oryx did not make it. We face the same flower we met in the Black Garden.|Ikora Rey<ref name="Taken"/>}} | {{Quote|Oryx wields this power. But Oryx did not make it. We face the same flower we met in the Black Garden.|Ikora Rey<ref name="Taken"/>}} | ||
In the distant past, the [[Hive]] god Auryx sought to obtain the power to Take in order to help him defeat the [[Ecumene]]. He killed his [[Xivu Arath|two]] [[Savathûn|sisters]] to gain an audience with [[Akka]], the [[Worm]] god of Secrets, whom he then slew in turn. Auryx stole the secrets from its flesh and wrote them upon a set of tablets he named the [[Tablets of Ruin]]. After speaking to the [[Darkness|Deep]] directly, he returned, mantled as [[Oryx|Oryx, the Taken King]].<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXVI:_star_by_star_by_star|XXVI: star by star by star]]''</ref> | |||
With this new power Oryx waged war upon the Ecumene and defeated them utterly over a period of one thousand, one hundred and forty years, in the process conjuring back his two sisters in the same way he had killed them.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXIX:_Carved_in_Ruin|XXIX: Carved in Ruin]]''</ref><ref name="Eat the Sky">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXVII:_Eat_the_Sky|XXVII: Eat the Sky]]''</ref> | With this new power Oryx waged war upon the Ecumene and defeated them utterly over a period of one thousand, one hundred and forty years, in the process conjuring back his two sisters in the same way he had killed them.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXIX:_Carved_in_Ruin|XXIX: Carved in Ruin]]''</ref><ref name="Eat the Sky">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXVII:_Eat_the_Sky|XXVII: Eat the Sky]]''</ref> | ||
