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The '''Ascendant Realm''' (also known as the '''Ascendant Plane''',<ref name="Gift">'''Bungie (2015/15/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XLVI:_The_Gift_Mast|XLVI: The Gift Mast]]''</ref>  '''Netherworld''', '''Overworld''',<ref name ="Hellmouth">'''Bungie (2015/15/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Places/Moon#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Hellmouth|Ghost Fragment: The Hellmouth]]''</ref> '''Sea of Screams''',<ref name="Carved">'''Bungie (2015/15/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXIX:_Carved_in_Ruin|XXIX: Carved in Ruin]]''</ref> or the '''Howling'''<ref name = "Reverie Dawn">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Reverie_Dawn_Armor#Reverie_Dawn_Grasps_/_Gauntlets_/_Gloves|Reverie Dawn Grasps / Gauntlets / Gloves]]''</ref>) is an extradimensional plane of existence related to the [[Darkness]].<ref name="Weak">'''Bungie (2015/15/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XVII:_The_Weakness_Verse|XVII: The Weakness Verse]]''</ref><ref name="Crota"/>  

Existence in the Ascendant plane is mutable, and maintained by force of will. Well-defended ideas there take physical form,<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Item Description: [[Fist of Eight Moons]]''</ref> creating bizarre and twisted landscapes.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/11)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Weblore]]: [[Weblore#Dust|Dust]]''</ref>  

The Ascendant Realm can also seemingly pull locations within the physical universe into itself, as it did with the [[Dreaming City]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyLore/comments/8vwncp/possible_spoilers_dreaming_city/</ref> Asteroid [[128 Nemesis]] within [[The Reef]] also phase shifts between our world and the Ascendant Realm, due to experimentation upon it by [[Hiraks, the Mindbender]].<ref name=GameInformer/>

Beings which have obtained sufficient paracausal power have the ability to create pocket universes within the Ascendant Realm known as Throne Worlds. These are personal realms whose forms and laws are defined by their creators, and which serve as a refuge for the creator's consciousness or "soul" in the event of their death in the physical world.

The most prolific creators and users of Throne Worlds are the Hive, who may become "Ascendant" through practicing the Sword Logic and eventually become powerful enough to create their own Throne Worlds.<ref name="Weak"/> All laws within these realms obey the Sword Logic, even other paracausal forces, such as the [[Light]].<ref>'''Bungie (2015/15/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXXIX:_open_your_eye_:_go_into_it|XXXIX: open your eye : go into it]]''</ref> They are typically formed and can grow in size by the deaths of powerful entities, including the Light-affiliated [[Guardian]]s. Throne Worlds are completely immune to the effects of paracausal weaponry, such as the [[Harbinger]]s of the [[Awoken]], being spiritual worlds created from the mind of their resident Hive god.<ref name="Weak"/> If one of the Hive gods is slain in the material world, or in another god's Throne, their soul will pass to their throne where they will regain their strength until they can re-enter the material world; this can potentially be accelerated by the sacrifice of lesser Hive.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, ''"The soul of a Hive is sleeping inside. The Disciples of Osiris believe Ascendant Hive can be reborn in our realm when the time is right and with the sacrifice of lesser Hive souls. I think this one is marked for sacrifice"'', [http://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/ghost-scan-sacrificial-stone Ghost Scans]: Sacrificial Stone''</ref> If an Ascendant Hive is killed within their own throne, they will die permanently.<ref name="Weak"/> The lesser Hive may enter the Ascendant Realm at will,<ref name="Crota"/> but only if they are [[Ascendant Hive]], those Hive warriors who command legions of lesser soldiers and can pay a tithe of death and destruction to the Hive god who rules them.<ref name="Carved"/>

 

Prior to the [[Taken War]], [[Mara Sov]] also developed a Throne World known as [[Eleusinia]] using [[Eris Morn]]'s knowledge of the [[Sword Logic]] along with [[Riven]]'s wish-magic <ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Lore: [[Reverie_Dawn_Armor#Reverie Dawn Strides / Greaves / Boots|Reverie Dawn Strides / Greaves / Boots]]''</ref>. However, it was corrupted by [[Oryx]] following Mara's death in the [[Taken War]], and became the lair for [[Dûl Incaru, the Eternal Return]], who perpetuates the [[Taken]] curse of the [[Dreaming City]].

With the aid of [[Mara Sov]], the Guardians would use the Ascendant Realm to bypass the defenses of [[Shadow Legion Prison]] structures located all across the [[Earth]] and its orbit, freeing prisoners captured by the [[Shadow Legion]].

*[[Black Terrace]]—[[Xivu Arath]]'s realm.<ref name="Weak"/>