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Despite serving the [[Worm Gods]] and the [[Darkness]] for eons, Savathûn has always displayed more skepticism and hesitancy about the righteousness of the Hive's cause than her siblings, despite the fact that she encouraged them to follow her into the deep and meet the Worm Gods. Several of her most elaborate schemes have revolved around trying to rid herself and her Hive subjects of the burden imposed by their Worm symbiotes, such as her plot to use the [[Dreaming City]] (and subsequently the [[Distributary]]) as a "murder battery" to feed her Worm with less effort on her part. Given this and her inherently deceitful nature, it is perhaps unsurprising that she would eventually choose to betray the Darkness and actively work toward freeing herself from its influence by seeking the Light. Despite becoming a lightbearer, Savathûn remains the god of deceit she has always been, as she aims to hoard the Light for herself and her Lucent Brood, and seems to have no interest in lending her support to the [[Vanguard]] or the [[Guardians]], whom her Brood continue to oppose after her death. | Despite serving the [[Worm Gods]] and the [[Darkness]] for eons, Savathûn has always displayed more skepticism and hesitancy about the righteousness of the Hive's cause than her siblings, despite the fact that she encouraged them to follow her into the deep and meet the Worm Gods. Several of her most elaborate schemes have revolved around trying to rid herself and her Hive subjects of the burden imposed by their Worm symbiotes, such as her plot to use the [[Dreaming City]] (and subsequently the [[Distributary]]) as a "murder battery" to feed her Worm with less effort on her part. Given this and her inherently deceitful nature, it is perhaps unsurprising that she would eventually choose to betray the Darkness and actively work toward freeing herself from its influence by seeking the Light. Despite becoming a lightbearer, Savathûn remains the god of deceit she has always been, as she aims to hoard the Light for herself and her Lucent Brood, and seems to have no interest in lending her support to the [[Vanguard]] or the [[Guardians]], whom her Brood continue to oppose after her death. | ||
However, Savathûn's chief weakness is her overconfidence in her belief that she has all the cards, that she truly knows the whole truth while others are lost in searching for it. When the Guardian showed her a piece of her past that she was completely unaware of, including the secret that the Witness had lied to her at the very beginning, Savathûn, for the first time, lost composure and flew into a rage. Incensed that the Guardians are using her own tricks against her, Savathûn discarded her usual scheming, calm and focused self and began ranting against the Guardian as they undid her plans. Ultimately, after being defeated and brought low by the Guardian, Savathûn admitted she had miscalculated, but accused the Guardian of having done the same by not letting her protect the Traveler from the Black Fleet and the Witness, with whom the Last City would now have to deal with by themselves. | However, Savathûn's chief weakness is her overconfidence in her belief that she has all the cards, that she truly knows the whole truth while others are lost in searching for it. The Witness, in fact, used her pride in her belief that she knew the way during her time as Sathona, whispering its lie to her which allowed it to manipulate Sathona and her siblings into becoming the Hive. When the Guardian showed her a piece of her past that she was completely unaware of, including the secret that the Witness had lied to her at the very beginning, Savathûn, for the first time, lost composure and flew into a rage. Incensed that the Guardians are using her own tricks against her, Savathûn discarded her usual scheming, calm and focused self and began ranting against the Guardian as they undid her plans. Ultimately, after being defeated and brought low by the Guardian, Savathûn admitted she had miscalculated, but accused the Guardian of having done the same by not letting her protect the Traveler from the Black Fleet and the Witness, with whom the Last City would now have to deal with by themselves. | ||
She also reveals a marked lack of value in the life of those around her, even some of her closest allies. In her early experiments with Light, she gladly slew both Hive and Hive Ghost alike to investigate properties of the Light.<ref>https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/sparagmos</ref> Her "arcane oubliette" in her Throne World also contains Lucent Hive, thrown in and forgotten about until required for her experiments or plans. She also encourages the Vanguard to kill her birth sister Xivu Arath, though claims that to kill another is to display the height of your love, under the Sword Logic and in the nature of the Hive. | She also reveals a marked lack of value in the life of those around her, even some of her closest allies. In her early experiments with Light, she gladly slew both Hive and Hive Ghost alike to investigate properties of the Light.<ref>https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/sparagmos</ref> Her "arcane oubliette" in her Throne World also contains Lucent Hive, thrown in and forgotten about until required for her experiments or plans. She also encourages the Vanguard to kill her birth sister Xivu Arath, though claims that to kill another is to display the height of your love, under the Sword Logic and in the nature of the Hive. | ||