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 {{Quote|The sword binds wielder to victim. It binds life to death.|[[Toland, the Shattered]]<ref name="Ascendant Sword">'''Bungie (2014/12/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Activities/Raids#Ascendant_Sword|Ascendant Sword]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Item Description: [[Dreadfang]]''</ref>}}
-The '''Sword Logic''' is a supernaturally [[wikipedia:Thanatology|thanatological]] study of the [[Darkness]] which serves as the guiding religious principle of the [[Hive]] and the [[Worms]]. It is closely related to the philosophy of [[the Witness]], although it may be viewed as an interpretation rather than necessarily synonymous with it. Most information regarding the Sword Logic comes from the Hive religious text known as the [[Books of Sorrow]]<ref name="Activision">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard''</ref> and scattered pieces of arcana from Toland's journal.<ref name="Ascendant Sword"/>
+The '''Sword Logic''' is a supernaturally [[wikipedia:Thanatology|thanatological]] study of the [[Darkness]] which serves as the guiding religious principle of the [[Hive]] and the [[Worms]]. It is closely related to the winnowing philosophy of [[the Witness]], although it may be viewed as an interpretation rather than necessarily synonymous with it. Most information regarding the Sword Logic comes from the Hive religious texts known as the [[Books of Sorrow]],<ref name="Activision">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard''</ref> the scriptures of [[Dredgen Yor]],<ref>'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], Playstation 4, [[Lore:The Singular Exegete]] - [[Lore:The Singular Exegete#UNBORN|UNBORN]]''</ref> and scattered pieces of arcana from Toland's journal.<ref name="Ascendant Sword"/>
 ==Overview==
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 ===Application===
 {{quote|You are no longer bound by causal closure. Your will defeats law. Kill a hundred of your children with a long blade, Auryx, and observe the change in the blade. Observe how the universe shrinks from you in terror.|[[Yul, the Honest Worm]]<ref name = "The Sword Logic">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XVI:_The_Sword_Logic|XVI: The Sword Logic]]''</ref>}}
-The Sword Logic is how individual Hive grow in power. In essence, by killing their enemies, the Hive prove that they are stronger than that enemy, and through the Sword Logic gain that strength in reality. When Oryx killed Xivu Arath in his throne world, he proved he was mightier than her; when Oryx killed Savathûn there, he proved he was more cunning than her. <ref name = "stars">'''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> Having proved that he was stronger than both, Oryx had demonstrated logically that he was strong enough to take on the Worm God [[Akka]], and by killing Akka, Oryx proved he was strong enough to commune with the Darkness directly, as the Worms did.<ref name="King of Shapes"/><ref name = "The Sword Logic"/>
+Those who practice the Sword Logic follows what the Hive call the Bladed Path, a methodology to how individual Hive grow in power. In essence, by killing their enemies, the Hive prove that they are stronger than that enemy, and through the Sword Logic gain that strength in reality. When Oryx killed Xivu Arath in his throne world, he proved he was mightier than her; when Oryx killed Savathûn there, he proved he was more cunning than her. <ref name = "stars">'''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> Having proved that he was stronger than both, Oryx had demonstrated logically that he was strong enough to take on the Worm God [[Akka]], and by killing Akka, Oryx proved he was strong enough to commune with the Darkness directly, as the Worms did.<ref name="King of Shapes"/><ref name = "The Sword Logic"/>
 Repeated application of the sword logic causes the wielder to gradually become "self-defining" and "sharp": both no longer bound by physical laws and capable of outright violating them at will. It is existence asserted by violence.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/8/5)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Warmind (expansion)|Warmind]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Whisper of the Worm]]''</ref> Both the Hive and the Worm Gods, for example, achieve faster-than-light travel by using their sharpness to cut wounds in space, which they pass through.<ref name = "The Sword Logic"/><ref name = "an incision">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXI:_an incision|XXI: an incision]]''</ref> Due to paracausal entities being "beyond" the normal laws of physics, they are impossible for the Vex's otherwise-perfect simulations to model.<ref name="Failed Timeline"/>