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{{Boss infobox
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|name= Araskes, the Trickster
|name= Araskes, the Trickster
|othernames=Araskes, the Wit<br>Butcher of Bamberga (self-proclaimed)<br>Slayer of the Psyche Hordes (self-proclaimed)<br>Terminus of the Gray Legion (self-proclaimed)<br>Silver of the Shadowed Veil (self-proclaimed)<br>Bandit of Old Bassa (self-proclaimed)<br> Dire Siren of Valian's Reprieve (self-proclaimed)
|othernames= Araskes, the Wit <br> Butcher of Bamberga <br> Slayer of the Psyche Hordes <br> Terminus of the Gray Legion <br> Sliver of the Shadowed Veil <br> Bandit of Old Bassa <br> Dire Siren of Valian's Reprieve
|image= [[File:The_Trickster.png|300px]]
|image= [[File:The_Trickster.png|300px]]
|homeworld= [[Eliksni homeworld|Eliksni Homeworld]]
|species= [[Fallen]]  
|birth=
|faction= [[Scorn]] <br> [[House of Exile]] {{c|formerly}}
|death=
|rank= [[Baron]] <br> [[Ultra]]
|species= [[Fallen]]
|class= [[Raider]]
|faction= [[House of Exile]] (formerly) <br> [[Scorn]]
|gender= Female <ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore entry]]'', [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/riddled-with-lies Riddled with Lies]</ref>
|rank= [[Baron]]
|height=  
|class= [[Ultra]] [[Raider]]
|gender= Female <ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken (expansion)|Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore entry]]'', [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/riddled-with-lies Riddled with Lies]</ref>
|height= 12'
|mass=  
|mass=  
|mission= [[Target: The Trickster]]
|mission= [[Target: The Trickster]]
|weapon= [[Scorn Rifle]] <br> [[Web Mine]]s
|weapon= {{Icon|Void}} [[Scorn Rifle]] <br> {{Icon|Arc}} [[Web Mine]]s
|ability= Teleportation <br> Ether Smoke Dash <br> Brief Immunity <br> Rapid Movement <br> High Durability <br> Summon Scorn <br> Ultra Smash
|ability= [[Ether]] Smoke Dash <br> Summon Scorn <br> High Durability <br> Rapid Movement <br> Teleportation <br> {{Icon|Kinetic}} Ultra Smash
}}
}}
{{quote|Whatever you do, don’t trust anything she touches. I promise you, it’ll bite.|Cayde-6<ref name=GIBarons>[https://www.gameinformer.com/2018/07/05/these-are-the-eight-barons-who-helped-kill-cayde-6-in-destiny-2-forsaken '''Game Informer''': ''These Are The Eight Barons Who Helped Kill Cayde-6 In Destiny 2: Forsaken'']</ref>}}
{{quote|Whatever you do, don't trust anything she touches. I promise you, it'll bite.|Cayde-6.}}<ref name=GIBarons>[https://www.gameinformer.com/2018/07/05/these-are-the-eight-barons-who-helped-kill-cayde-6-in-destiny-2-forsaken '''Game Informer''': ''These Are The Eight Barons Who Helped Kill Cayde-6 In Destiny 2: Forsaken'']</ref>


'''Araskes, the Trickster''', is a [[Baron]] of the [[Scorn]]. It seems that the Trickster takes on the form of a [[Raider]], as she is able to use an Ether Smoke Dash to escape the player.
'''Araskes, the Trickster''', was a [[Baron]] of the [[Scorn]]. She is a [[Raider]] class Scorn.


==Biography==
==Biography==
Little is known about her beyond legends of her own creation. As the spokesman and envoy of the Scorn, she is often the first to strike. Utilizing cloaking technology and leaving traps for unsuspecting enemies, Araskes has little skill in all-out battle beyond her ability to avoid it.<ref name=GIBarons/> She bartered with the Spider, and nearly cost him his life, she swindled numerous [[Hunter]] [[Bounties]] and profited off of them, she won battles where there is none, killed more rivals than could become one. At one point, she is known for her gambling habits in the [[Tangled Shore]], it wasn't until the Cayde's Six came along to eliminate her, though she managed to get away, unbenounced to her, Cayde left a tracking device that would lead them to the other Barons. She was captured later alongside the other Scorn Barons and imprisoned within the [[Prison of Elders]]. A year after the events of the [[Red War]] she was freed by [[Uldren Sov]] and was witness to the murder of [[Cayde-6]] at his hand.<ref name=GIBarons/> She established herself in [[Diaviks Mine]] afterward.
Little is known about her beyond legends of her own creation. As the spokesman and envoy of the Scorn, she was often the first to strike. Utilizing cloaking technology and leaving traps for unsuspecting enemies, Araskes had little skill in all-out battle beyond her ability to avoid it.<ref name=GIBarons/>  


When returning to the Prison of Elders, The Guardian team sent there failed to realize that the [[Warden|Warden Servitor]] was tampered by the Trickster herself.
She bartered with the Spider and nearly cost him his life, she swindled numerous [[Hunter]] [[Bounties]] and profited off of them, she won battles where there is none, killed more rivals than could challenge her. At one point, she was known for her gambling habits in the [[Tangled Shore]], it wasn't until Cayde's Six came along to eliminate her, though she managed to get away. Unbeknownst to her, Cayde planted a tracking device that would lead them to the other Barons.


==Gameplay==
She was captured later alongside the other Scorn Barons and imprisoned within the [[Prison of Elders]]. A year after the events of the [[Red War]] she was freed by [[Uldren Sov]] and was witness to the murder of [[Cayde-6]] at his hand.<ref name=GIBarons/> Before leaving, Araskes left one final trick within the Prison by rigging the loot chest at the treasure room. She established herself in [[Diaviks Mine]] afterward, attempting to smuggle a shipment of rigged engrams to [[The Last City]], but was stopped by the Guardian.
True to her nature, Araskes engages in little direct combat, preferring to use her smoke dash ability to escape trouble. She will also deploy [[Web Mine]]s disguised as loot as well as bombs made to resemble [[Exotic]] [[Engram]]s, both as a means to distract and trick [[Guardian]]s as she is chased down. When cornered, she will chip away at [[The Guardian]]'s health from a distance with her [[Scorn Rifle]], stomp the ground when faced at close range, teleport to evade or flank her opponent, and call for aid from lesser Scorn units. Due to her tendency to slip away from an engagement, it is best to keep watch of her by following her smoke trails. Once spotted again, one must keep the attack on her as to not let her escape.


==Personality==
==Personality==
[[File:Trickster.jpg|thumb|300px|The Trickster, Araskes, next to a pile of [[Glimmer]].]]
{{Quote|A liar and a schemer. Friendly advice: Trust nothing that she touches.|[[The Spider]]}}
{{Quote|A liar and a schemer. Friendly advice: Trust nothing that she touches.|[[The Spider]]}}
Araskes has demonstrated herself to be quite sadistic, as she seems to take perverse joy in duping the Guardian and cackling insanely whenever they fall for one of her traps. She also seems to be quite unhinged, frequently laughing in her dialogue, speaking in a maniacal, almost sing-song voice, and calling herself pronouns such as "our" or "we" rather than "me" or "I". She also seems to be quite overconfident, as she lured the Guardian directly into her lair in the hopes that the Guardian would fall at the hands of another trap, which ultimately lead to her death.
Araskes has demonstrated herself to be quite sadistic, as she seems to take perverse joy in duping the Guardian and cackling insanely whenever they fall for one of her traps. She also seems to be quite unhinged, frequently laughing in her dialogue, speaking in a maniacal, almost sing-song voice, and calling herself pronouns such as "our" or "we" rather than "me" or "I". She also seems to be quite overconfident, as she lured the Guardian directly into her lair in the hopes that the Guardian would fall at the hands of another trap, which ultimately lead to her death.


Her greatest weapon is the dissolution of truth, she gives people certainty, only to reshuffle the deck, she grants us desire only to come to regret it. She is described as the "first among devils to gods", where she is unknowable, unpure and her tongue would cut down anyone before their body fell, makes you question your own actions and the depths of her deceit, whether or not if we really killed the Trickster or if her trap is set.<ref>[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/riddled-with-lies?highlight=Araskes Riddled with Lies]</ref>
Her greatest weapon is the dissolution of truth, she gives people certainty, only to reshuffle the deck, she grants us desire only to come to regret it. She is described as the "first among devils to gods", where she is unknowable, unpure and her tongue would cut down anyone before their body fell, makes you question your own actions and the depths of her deceit, whether or not if we really killed the Trickster or if her trap is set.<ref>[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/riddled-with-lies?highlight=Araskes Riddled with Lies]</ref>
==Gameplay==
True to her nature, Araskes engages in little direct combat, preferring to use her smoke dash ability to escape trouble. She will also deploy [[Web Mine]]s disguised as loot as well as bombs made to resemble [[Exotic]] [[Engram]]s, both as a means to distract and trick [[Guardian]]s as she is chased down. When cornered, she will chip away at [[The Guardian]]'s health from a distance with her [[Scorn Rifle]], stomp the ground when faced at close range, teleport to evade or flank her opponent, and call for aid from lesser Scorn units. Due to her tendency to slip away from an engagement, it is best to keep watch of her by following her smoke trails. Once spotted again, one must keep the attack on her as to not let her escape.


==Quotes==
==Quotes==
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*[laughs] Welcome, minion of Cayde-6. [laughs]
*[laughs] Welcome, minion of Cayde-6. [laughs]
*[laughs] It wants revenge? Yes, we deserve it. Here is some ammo for you. [laughs]
*[laughs] It wants revenge? Yes, we deserve it. Here is some ammo for you. [laughs]
==Trivia==
*Araskes is the second shortest member of the Scorn Barons.
*Araskes is the First Female Fallen to be seen Speaking English Second being [[Elykris, the Machinist]].
*A shot of Araskes from a now-deleted promo video about her has become a [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-trickster| fairly well-established] meme even outside the Destiny community.


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
<gallery>
<gallery>
File:Trickster1.jpg|Close up of the Trickster.
File:Araskes.jpg
File:Araskes.jpg
File:Trickster.jpg|
Araskes render.jpg|Textureless render of the Trickster.
</gallery>
</gallery>
==Trivia==
*Araskes is the second shortest member of the Scorn Barons.
*Araskes is the first female Fallen to be seen speaking English, second being [[Elykris, the Machinist]].
*According to dialogue from the [[Warden of Nothing]] strike, [[The Drifter]] had some relation with Araskes.
*The Trickster tampered with the chest and panel it sits on, in the old treasure room from the old prison of Elders activities.


==List of appearances==
==List of appearances==
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Revision as of 23:09, January 27, 2024

This article is about the Baron. For the Adventure, see Target: The Trickster.
Araskes, the Trickster
The Trickster.png
Biographical information

Other names:

Araskes, the Wit
Butcher of Bamberga
Slayer of the Psyche Hordes
Terminus of the Gray Legion
Sliver of the Shadowed Veil
Bandit of Old Bassa
Dire Siren of Valian's Reprieve

Species:

Fallen

Faction:

Scorn
House of Exile (formerly)

Rank:

Baron
Ultra

Class:

Raider

Gender:

Female [1]

Combat information

Mission:

Target: The Trickster

Weapon(s):

VoidS.png Scorn Rifle
ArcS.png Web Mines

Abilities:

Ether Smoke Dash
Summon Scorn
High Durability
Rapid Movement
Teleportation
KineticS.png Ultra Smash

 

"Whatever you do, don't trust anything she touches. I promise you, it'll bite."
— Cayde-6.[2]

Araskes, the Trickster, was a Baron of the Scorn. She is a Raider class Scorn.

Biography

Little is known about her beyond legends of her own creation. As the spokesman and envoy of the Scorn, she was often the first to strike. Utilizing cloaking technology and leaving traps for unsuspecting enemies, Araskes had little skill in all-out battle beyond her ability to avoid it.[2]

She bartered with the Spider and nearly cost him his life, she swindled numerous Hunter Bounties and profited off of them, she won battles where there is none, killed more rivals than could challenge her. At one point, she was known for her gambling habits in the Tangled Shore, it wasn't until Cayde's Six came along to eliminate her, though she managed to get away. Unbeknownst to her, Cayde planted a tracking device that would lead them to the other Barons.

She was captured later alongside the other Scorn Barons and imprisoned within the Prison of Elders. A year after the events of the Red War she was freed by Uldren Sov and was witness to the murder of Cayde-6 at his hand.[2] Before leaving, Araskes left one final trick within the Prison by rigging the loot chest at the treasure room. She established herself in Diaviks Mine afterward, attempting to smuggle a shipment of rigged engrams to The Last City, but was stopped by the Guardian.

Personality

The Trickster, Araskes, next to a pile of Glimmer.

"A liar and a schemer. Friendly advice: Trust nothing that she touches."
The Spider

Araskes has demonstrated herself to be quite sadistic, as she seems to take perverse joy in duping the Guardian and cackling insanely whenever they fall for one of her traps. She also seems to be quite unhinged, frequently laughing in her dialogue, speaking in a maniacal, almost sing-song voice, and calling herself pronouns such as "our" or "we" rather than "me" or "I". She also seems to be quite overconfident, as she lured the Guardian directly into her lair in the hopes that the Guardian would fall at the hands of another trap, which ultimately lead to her death.

Her greatest weapon is the dissolution of truth, she gives people certainty, only to reshuffle the deck, she grants us desire only to come to regret it. She is described as the "first among devils to gods", where she is unknowable, unpure and her tongue would cut down anyone before their body fell, makes you question your own actions and the depths of her deceit, whether or not if we really killed the Trickster or if her trap is set.[3]

Gameplay

True to her nature, Araskes engages in little direct combat, preferring to use her smoke dash ability to escape trouble. She will also deploy Web Mines disguised as loot as well as bombs made to resemble Exotic Engrams, both as a means to distract and trick Guardians as she is chased down. When cornered, she will chip away at The Guardian's health from a distance with her Scorn Rifle, stomp the ground when faced at close range, teleport to evade or flank her opponent, and call for aid from lesser Scorn units. Due to her tendency to slip away from an engagement, it is best to keep watch of her by following her smoke trails. Once spotted again, one must keep the attack on her as to not let her escape.

Quotes

  • [laughs] Oh no... it found our factory of delights. If only we planned for this... [laughs]
  • [laughs] Welcome, minion of Cayde-6. [laughs]
  • [laughs] It wants revenge? Yes, we deserve it. Here is some ammo for you. [laughs]

Gallery

Trivia

  • Araskes is the second shortest member of the Scorn Barons.
  • Araskes is the first female Fallen to be seen speaking English, second being Elykris, the Machinist.
  • According to dialogue from the Warden of Nothing strike, The Drifter had some relation with Araskes.
  • The Trickster tampered with the chest and panel it sits on, in the old treasure room from the old prison of Elders activities.

List of appearances

References