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|homeworld= [[Fundament]] {{C|formerly}} | |homeworld= [[Fundament]] {{C|formerly}} | ||
|focalworld(s)=[[Ascendant Realm]] <br> [[Earth]] <br> [[Moon]] <br> [[Dreadnaught]] <br> [[Titan (moon)|Titan]] <br> [[Mars]] <br> [[Reef]] <br> [[Savathûn's Throne World]] | |focalworld(s)=[[Ascendant Realm]] <br> [[Earth]] <br> [[Moon]] <br> [[Dreadnaught]] <br> [[Titan (moon)|Titan]] <br> [[Mars]] <br> [[Reef]] <br> [[Savathûn's Throne World]] | ||
|goals=Serve the Hive pantheon by consuming all [[Light]] <br> Live forever by being synonymous with death <br> Break free from the [[Worms]] | |goals=Serve the Hive pantheon by consuming all [[Light]] <br> Live forever by being synonymous with death <br> Break free from the [[Worms]]'s Pact, and the [[Sword Logic]]; find another way to acquire sustenance | ||
|war=[[Last City|The Last City]] <br> [[Reef|The Reef]] <br> [[Fallen]] <br> [[Cabal]] <br> [[Vex]] | |war=[[Last City|The Last City]] <br> [[Reef|The Reef]] <br> [[Fallen]] <br> [[Cabal]] <br> [[Vex]] | ||
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===Origins=== | ===Origins=== | ||
[[File:Destiny-2-Artwork-Grimoire-Anthology-Piotr-Jablonski-The-Three-Sisters.jpg|thumb|right|The three princesses of the Osmium Court.]] | [[File:Destiny-2-Artwork-Grimoire-Anthology-Piotr-Jablonski-The-Three-Sisters.jpg|thumb|right|The three princesses of the Osmium Court.]] | ||
{{quote|The Fundament is very large. We are the smallest things in it. If you | {{quote|The Fundament is very large. We are the smallest things in it. If you don't understand something, it will probably kill you. My teacher [[Taox]] says this is why we have such short lives. So we can breed and adapt quickly.|[[Xivu Arath|Xi Ro]]<ref name="Predators">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#I:_Predators|I: Predators]]''</ref>}} | ||
The Hive trace their origins to a gas giant named [[Fundament]]. Long ago, the Krill crashed their homeworld into Fundament, ostensibly to hide from something unknown. The shards of this homeworld became a number of continents that floated upon a sea called the Fundament Ocean within a layer of the gas giant's atmosphere, and the Krill eventually built a meager civilization upon them and forgot their old history. In addition to the Krill, Fundament was home to hundreds of other intelligent species, and Fundament's fifty-two moons were inhabited by a space faring species called the [[Ammonite]]s who were overseen by the [[Traveler]].<ref name="Curiosity">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Darkness#Calcified_Fragments:_Curiosity|Calcified Fragments: Curiosity]]''</ref><ref name="Syzgy">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#IV:_Syzygy|IV: Syzgy]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XIV:_52_and_One|XIV: 52 and One]]''</ref> | The Hive trace their origins to a gas giant named [[Fundament]]. Long ago, the Krill crashed their homeworld into Fundament, ostensibly to hide from something unknown. The shards of this homeworld became a number of continents that floated upon a sea called the Fundament Ocean within a layer of the gas giant's atmosphere, and the Krill eventually built a meager civilization upon them and forgot their old history. In addition to the Krill, Fundament was home to hundreds of other intelligent species, and Fundament's fifty-two moons were inhabited by a space faring species called the [[Ammonite]]s who were overseen by the [[Traveler]].<ref name="Curiosity">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Darkness#Calcified_Fragments:_Curiosity|Calcified Fragments: Curiosity]]''</ref><ref name="Syzgy">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#IV:_Syzygy|IV: Syzgy]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XIV:_52_and_One|XIV: 52 and One]]''</ref> | ||
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===The Wrath of Crota=== | ===The Wrath of Crota=== | ||
{{Quote|We went to the Moon seeking vengeance, but it found us first. Crota, the Son of Oryx. | {{Quote|We went to the Moon seeking vengeance, but it found us first. Crota, the Son of Oryx. We'd never faced anything like him. In the end, only I was left. Crota and his armies destroyed our Moon. If we don't stop them, I fear Earth will suffer the same fate.|[[Eris Morn]].}} | ||
[[File:Crota.png|300px|right|thumb|Crota, God-Knight and Hope-Eater]] | [[File:Crota.png|300px|right|thumb|Crota, God-Knight and Hope-Eater]] | ||
Having conquered many worlds in pursuit of the [[Traveler]], Crota's spawn had arrived at the [[Sol system]] long before the [[Golden Age]] and his armies, lead by [[Sardon, Fist of Crota]],<ref name=Fist">'''Bungie (2016/4/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Dark Below]], [[Fist of Crota]]''</ref> encroached upon [[Luna]] and embedded themselves deep in the crust of the Moon, where they constructed their brooding grounds close to an inactive [[Pyramid (Luna)|Pyramid]] found buried beneath the surface. Their presence was first discovered by [[humanity]] sometime during the [[Collapse]], where they had slaughtered the human inhabitants of the [[First Light Lunar Installation]] and the [[K1]] [[The Anomaly|Project site]].<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Lore: [[Lore:Revelation#Downfall|Downfall]]''</ref> <ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], Blizzard Activision, Grimoire: [[Grimoire:Places/Moon#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Ocean_of_Storms_2|Ghost Fragment: The Ocean of Storms 2]]''</ref> Eventually they completely geoengineered the entire interior of the planetoid from the bottom up into an impregnable fortress called the [[Hellmouth]];<ref name= "Hellmouth">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], Blizzard Activision, Grimoire: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Hive#Ghost Fragment: Hive|Ghost Fragment: Hive]]''</ref> laying dormant and silently building their strength for centuries until the threat of their existence faded to myth.<ref name="Moon">'''Bungie (2016/4/15)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Legends & Mysteries#Rezyl Azzir - Before These Walls|Rezyl Azzir - Before These Walls]]''</ref> | Having conquered many worlds in pursuit of the [[Traveler]], Crota's spawn had arrived at the [[Sol system]] long before the [[Golden Age]] and his armies, lead by [[Sardon, Fist of Crota]],<ref name=Fist">'''Bungie (2016/4/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Dark Below]], [[Fist of Crota]]''</ref> encroached upon [[Luna]] and embedded themselves deep in the crust of the Moon, where they constructed their brooding grounds close to an inactive [[Pyramid (Luna)|Pyramid]] found buried beneath the surface. Their presence was first discovered by [[humanity]] sometime during the [[Collapse]], where they had slaughtered the human inhabitants of the [[First Light Lunar Installation]] and the [[K1]] [[The Anomaly|Project site]].<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Lore: [[Lore:Revelation#Downfall|Downfall]]''</ref> <ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], Blizzard Activision, Grimoire: [[Grimoire:Places/Moon#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Ocean_of_Storms_2|Ghost Fragment: The Ocean of Storms 2]]''</ref> Eventually they completely geoengineered the entire interior of the planetoid from the bottom up into an impregnable fortress called the [[Hellmouth]];<ref name= "Hellmouth">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], Blizzard Activision, Grimoire: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Hive#Ghost Fragment: Hive|Ghost Fragment: Hive]]''</ref> laying dormant and silently building their strength for centuries until the threat of their existence faded to myth.<ref name="Moon">'''Bungie (2016/4/15)''', ''Destiny, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Legends & Mysteries#Rezyl Azzir - Before These Walls|Rezyl Azzir - Before These Walls]]''</ref> | ||
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Following the Black Fleet's arrival, Nokris' fall, and various worlds of the Sol System going dark, the Guardians discover a rise of corrupted Hive activity within the Tangled Shore and the Dreaming City of the Reef. They soon learn that the Hive's God of War, [[Xivu Arath]], has begun to marshal her influence upon the Sol system in absence of her excommunicated sister. From her [[Cryptolith|Cryptoliths]] this was achieved. These organic Hive structures burrowed into the material plane while rooting themselves in the Ascendant Realm, calling out to nearby beings to be transformed into [[Wrathborn]]. These Cryptoliths started corrupting Eliksni but quickly spread to Hive and Cabal. Commanded and aided in their spread by the [[High Celebrant of Xivu Arath|High Celebrant]], they would be the Wrathborn's command and Xivu Arath's foothold in the system. To combat this threat, the Guardians agree to a partnership with the Spider and to work with a mysterious Lightborn called the Crow, who is really Uldren Sov revived as a Guardian. In the ensuing weeks Wrathborn of [[House of Spider]], [[House of Dusk]], and the broods of the Hive would be hunted down. As for the corrupted Red Legion, none have been encountered which has concerned Crow. | Following the Black Fleet's arrival, Nokris' fall, and various worlds of the Sol System going dark, the Guardians discover a rise of corrupted Hive activity within the Tangled Shore and the Dreaming City of the Reef. They soon learn that the Hive's God of War, [[Xivu Arath]], has begun to marshal her influence upon the Sol system in absence of her excommunicated sister. From her [[Cryptolith|Cryptoliths]] this was achieved. These organic Hive structures burrowed into the material plane while rooting themselves in the Ascendant Realm, calling out to nearby beings to be transformed into [[Wrathborn]]. These Cryptoliths started corrupting Eliksni but quickly spread to Hive and Cabal. Commanded and aided in their spread by the [[High Celebrant of Xivu Arath|High Celebrant]], they would be the Wrathborn's command and Xivu Arath's foothold in the system. To combat this threat, the Guardians agree to a partnership with the Spider and to work with a mysterious Lightborn called the Crow, who is really Uldren Sov revived as a Guardian. In the ensuing weeks Wrathborn of [[House of Spider]], [[House of Dusk]], and the broods of the Hive would be hunted down. As for the corrupted Red Legion, none have been encountered which has concerned Crow. | ||
Roughly eight weeks following its initial escape, the Crow was able to locate the Celebrant hiding within the [[Dreaming City]] thanks to the Guardian's numerous Wrathborn hunts. After upgrading the [[Cryptolith Lure]], The Guardian and Crow made their way to the Cryptolith within [[Harbinger's Seclude]] to summon the High Celebrant and end it once and for all. As the Guardian was able to activate the Cryptolith, the Crow was able to tag it to make sure it | Roughly eight weeks following its initial escape, the Crow was able to locate the Celebrant hiding within the [[Dreaming City]] thanks to the Guardian's numerous Wrathborn hunts. After upgrading the [[Cryptolith Lure]], The Guardian and Crow made their way to the Cryptolith within [[Harbinger's Seclude]] to summon the High Celebrant and end it once and for all. As the Guardian was able to activate the Cryptolith, the Crow was able to tag it to make sure it wouldn't escape from them again. The Celebrant would lead them through a wild goose chase throughout the Harbinger's Seclude and the Ascendant Plane while summoning both Fallen and Hive Wrathborn to delay both Guardians. However, it would succeed in escaping back into the Ascendant Realm and closing the portal behind it, leaving Crow inside to deal with him. While the Guardians were seemingly stuck in a hard place, the Guardian used what remained of the Cryptolith to forcefully open up one of the preexisting rifts within the Dreaming City to track down the Celebrant. During the battle, the Celebrant contains the Guardian within a [[Hive Trap]] and opens up another rift to make its escape, only for the Crow to intervene by destroying the portal from the other side. While the Knight was staggered from the destruction of its only exit, kneeling to the floor, the Guardian finishes the Celebrant off and ends its reign of terror once and for all. | ||
====Fall of the Cabal==== | ====Fall of the Cabal==== | ||
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The Hive have great hatred for the [[Light]], and to them, the eternal struggle between light and dark is not only a war, it is a crusade; all Light must be devoured so Darkness can reclaim the universe.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/6/12)''', ''Destiny: Alpha PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies#The Hive|The Hive]]''</ref> They have even attempted to attack the [[Traveler]] directly, through a ritual in which they drained its light through a fragment that they captured in the [[Chamber of Night]].<ref name = "Destiny"/> | The Hive have great hatred for the [[Light]], and to them, the eternal struggle between light and dark is not only a war, it is a crusade; all Light must be devoured so Darkness can reclaim the universe.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/6/12)''', ''Destiny: Alpha PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies#The Hive|The Hive]]''</ref> They have even attempted to attack the [[Traveler]] directly, through a ritual in which they drained its light through a fragment that they captured in the [[Chamber of Night]].<ref name = "Destiny"/> | ||
The Hive use a unique glyph system of runes which they describe as a "viral language" for their forbidden Hive magics, including the use of [[Shadowrift]]s and the [[Weapons of Sorrow]]. Hive runes draw their power from a different dimension, where | The Hive use a unique glyph system of runes which they describe as a "viral language" for their forbidden Hive magics, including the use of [[Shadowrift]]s and the [[Weapons of Sorrow]]. Hive runes draw their power from a different dimension, where there's no difference between a word and its meaning. When the Hive erode the barrier between our dimension and theirs, the rune for 'death' brings literal death. | ||
===Sword-Logic=== | ===Sword-Logic=== | ||
[[File:Destiny-HiveKnight-Swordbearer-Screen.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Swordbearer]]]] | [[File:Destiny-HiveKnight-Swordbearer-Screen.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Swordbearer]]]] | ||
{{Main|The Sword Logic}} | {{Main|The Sword Logic}} | ||
{{quote|Ah, Oryx, how do we explain it to them? The world is not built on the laws they love ''[...]'' but in the cold hard self-verifying truth of that one ultimate arbiter, the only judge, the power that is its own metric and its own source—existence, at any cost. Strip away the lies and truces and delaying tactics they call ' | {{quote|Ah, Oryx, how do we explain it to them? The world is not built on the laws they love ''[...]'' but in the cold hard self-verifying truth of that one ultimate arbiter, the only judge, the power that is its own metric and its own source—existence, at any cost. Strip away the lies and truces and delaying tactics they call 'civilization' and this is what remains, this beautiful shape.|The Darkness<ref name="Majestic">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXXII:_Majestic._Majestic.|XXXII: Majestic. Majestic]]''</ref>}} | ||
The Hive religion is not based on any sort of conventional morality; in fact, they see morality and the "false hope of comfort" as an abomination. Instead, a metaphysical principle known as the "[[Sword Logic|Sword-Logic]]" forms the basis of the Hive's belief system. According to the Sword-Logic, it is the ultimate goal of intelligent beings to challenge one another for the right to continue existing, and a being may acquire paracausal power by defeating another being.<ref name="Darkness 3">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Darkness#Ghost_Fragment:_Darkness_3|Ghost Fragment: Darkness 3]]''</ref> All such power must necessarily be taken by force, not received as a gift.<ref name="King of Shapes"/> This is why Hive swords are so deadly to Guardians; they create a bridge in which the wielder saps the power of the victim. | The Hive religion is not based on any sort of conventional morality; in fact, they see morality and the "false hope of comfort" as an abomination. Instead, a metaphysical principle known as the "[[Sword Logic|Sword-Logic]]" forms the basis of the Hive's belief system. According to the Sword-Logic, it is the ultimate goal of intelligent beings to challenge one another for the right to continue existing, and a being may acquire paracausal power by defeating another being.<ref name="Darkness 3">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Darkness#Ghost_Fragment:_Darkness_3|Ghost Fragment: Darkness 3]]''</ref> All such power must necessarily be taken by force, not received as a gift.<ref name="King of Shapes"/> This is why Hive swords are so deadly to Guardians; they create a bridge in which the wielder saps the power of the victim. | ||