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Setak (formerly) |
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Seeking the Seeker (briefly) |
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- "Oryx was felled due to his own curiosity. Savathûn excommunicated for heresy. Xivu hides in the shadows like a coward.
This was not the legacy I sought for the Osmium lineage.
Perhaps I should make my own."
Shin'ra, the Sorrow Maker is a Hive Knight and founder of the element known as Corruption. Acting as the Hive's weapons master, he commands a Hive Brood devoted to his craft of the Weapons of Sorrow. He also possesses untold power over the Darkness and the Black Fleet through the creation of Corruption. He acts as a reoccurring antagonist in Destiny 2 and is most notable for his major roles in Season of Sorrow, Season of the Wish and Into the Light, along with minor roles in Season of the Deep and Season of the Witch.
Biography
Origins
- "I am Setak, great advisor to the Osmium King and his court. I watched as the endless storms raged against the Fundament. I bid my time by training the youngest of the King's daughters to hunt the Bait Stars that sought our frail forms."
- — Setak
Shin'ra, born as Setak, was a proto-Hive Krill on Fundament in the Osmium Court. He was nothing more than a mere scribe and advisor to the Osmium King. He would be a secondary teacher to the daughters of the Osmium King and favored the youngest, Xiro, as she would become his prized pupil. He would help to teach her to catch the Bait Stars that threatened the weak Krill with his own special form of cunning, and that be to study and strategize the enemy's movements.
When the Osmium King reached the end of his ten-year lifespan, Setak sought to study his madness by navigating the royal orrery and understand the words of the dead Worm familiar. He would fall into the influence of the same lies of the Witness, believing that a great cataclysm would befall the Fundament, the Syzygy. Though he had been driven mad by the whispers of the worm familiar, he would still assist the Osmium daughters by readying the craft that they would escape on. Shortly thereafter, Setak would flee from the Osmium Court towards Kaharn Atoll to find the means to escape the Fundament.
Prior to the Hive's emergence in the Fundament, Setak would reach the end of his ten year lifespan and had grown senile, much like the Osmium King before. Called a mad hermit by those at Kaharn, he still held onto what little remained of his sanity, believing that there was still a fragment of hope left for his people to survive.
Serving Auryx
- "I live to serve you King Auryx, as I always have.
Then you must take this worm and be reborn.
No longer will you be Setak.
You will be known as.
Shin'ra" - — Auryx offering Setak on of the Worm larvae
Eventually, when the Hive arose from the depths of the Fundament, many tried to flee to Kaharn as a means to escape, Setak among them. However, when the Hive reached Kaharn, many of the proto-species fell to the power of Auryx, Savathûn and Xivu Arath. Being the last survivor and at the height of his madness, he begged Auryx to convert him into one of them. Holding sympathy for the one who helped his sisters to escape the Helium Drinkers, Auryx offered Setak one of the Worm larvae, which the Osmium Advisor would ingest and take his morph and new name, Shin'ra.
Setak, now Shin'ra, would live to serve Auryx and act as his advisor when invading the rest of the Fundament and its many moons. When Auryx first invaded the Ammonites, he sought amnesty with them. Shin'ra saw this as weakness, allowing Savathûn to kill him. In his time in the Ascendant Plane, Shin'ra made it his mission to conquer the Ammonites and sought to gift the corpse of the Leviathan as tribute to the Worm Gods. He earned a reputation during this campaign with many Darkblades bearing war paint based on Shin'ra's own appearance.
When Auryx returned from death, Shin'ra would learn of the Ascendant Realm from Auryx and its ability to survive death in the mortal plane. Shin'ra would construct a Throne World of his own, seeing it as his vision remaking the universe in his own image. He would take the moniker as the Hive God of Forge, seeking to contract and build new weapons for the Hive to wield in order to conquer the stars.
Hunting the Leviathans
- "The Leviathans.
They will be hunted down to the very last.
And I will bask in that glorious victory and drink from their blood" - — Shin'ra's command to hunt the Leviathans
In between the years of conquest of the Ammonites and the Harmony, Shin'ra tasked himself with hunting down any remaining Proto-Worms or Leviathans that remained from the Fundament's bloodbath. He tasked his Celebrants to hunt down these traitors by plunging into the depths of various worlds to root out any remaining Leviathans. Many Leviathans would be slaughtered and offered to Shin'ra for tribute to satiate his hunger for the hunt. Using the various Worm corpses, Shin'ra would meld them together, forming a monstrous Tomb Carrier he would call the Nephilim. He would use the Nephilim to continue his conquests across the universe and return back to the service of Auryx and his sisters.
Greater Truth
Shin'ra would be present in the Hive's war against the Harmony, destroying their many vessels and successfully conquering their Wishful Bishops compared to Xivu Arath who struggled against them. When Oryx toppled the Gift Mast and offered its pieces to his broods, Shin'ra would take one of these fragments for study. He would use the fragment as a basis for what would later be known as the Weapons of Sorrow, while the shard itself would become known as the Lucent Armament, the basis for the Weapons of Sorrow's antithesis, the Weapons of Hope.
His studies of the Light and Dark would bring the attention of the Witness to Shin'ra, who would believe that the Maker was worthy to look after the Darkness progenitor, the Veil. Shin'ra would place the Veil deep within the Nephilim's vaults, believing that its intense Darkness would fortify his ship from the inside, and he could continue his studies of the paracausal.
Studies of the Veil
Sol Incursions
Trivia
- Shin'ra's name is likely derived from Shinra Myōjin (Japanese: 新羅明神), a Buddhist god associated with the Jimon branch of Tendai, a school of Japanese buddhism.
- It is possible that the Shin'ra himself is one of the Disciples of the Witness due to his strong connection and influence with the Black Fleet as seen with the shackled servants of the Witness.
- While he knows much of the history of the Hive, Shin'ra however does not know the origins of Wizard and sees her as an anomaly in the Hive history.
List of appearances
- Destiny 2: Season of Sorrow (First appearance)
- Season of the Risen (Mentioned only)
- Season of Plunder (Mentioned only)
- Season of the Deep (Voice only)
- Season of the Witch (Voice only)
- Season of the Wish
- Into the Light
- The Final Shape (Mentioned only)
- Dread