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'''Mara Sov''' is the [[Queen]] of the [[Reef]], ruler of the [[Awoken]], and former [[Kell]] of the [[House of Wolves]]. Born as a [[Humanity]] during the late [[Golden Age]], Mara and her family were colonists aboard the ''[[Yang Liwei]]'' before it was brought into the pocket dimension known as the [[Distributary]] during the [[Collapse]]. Mara was the first to emerge as an Awoken in the new dimension and crafted its society for millions of years in preparation for returning to the [[Sol System]] to help those left behind. Once returned, Mara established a kingdom amongst the asteroid belt and began gathering powerful allies and pawns to her side, including her brother Prince [[Uldren Sov]], her lover and [[Queen's Wrath|Wrath]] [[Sjur Eido]], the [[Ahamkara]] [[Riven]], and the rogue [[Guardian]]s [[Eris Morn]] and [[Osiris]].

Three weeks later, Mara allowed the Guardian to return to her court once more after the first repeat of the time loop the Dreaming City found itself trapped in. As she stared across the starfield visible from her throne room, Mara revealed to the Young Wolf that she had once had the opportunity to destroy the [Traveler and regretted not having done so due to the fears of those who wondered what would happen should it be destroyed. Mara scornfully noted that those people did not stop to consider the wars that she claimed the Traveler deliberately sought out and theorized that too much of a good thing, like the Light, would still make someone sick. She believed that the Awoken stuck to the balance between the Light and Dark created during the Collapse and wondered what could awaken during the next such calamity that would hit the solar system, which she hoped would help the Guardian understand why all she had done.<ref name="AwtQ"/>

Following the Guardian's trials on Titan and tangling with the Hive Gods, the Coalition learned that their only way to pursue the Witness within the Traveler's Pale Heart is to make a wish with a Ahamkara to open a pathway after finding a pure Ahamkara egg within Savathûn's Spire, likely to have originated from Riven's clutch. Despite the risks in making a wish with a Ahamkara who are notorious for twisting the intention of the wishes they grant, Mara Sov agrees with the plan. However, since Riven was slain years ago by the Guardians on Mara's orders, she and her Techeuns conjure Riven's spirit using the Ahamkara's Heart, awakening her. However, when the Guardian uses the Wall of Wishes to enact the 15th Wish, Riven refuses to grant it, surprising and angering Mara.

In private conversation with Riven's spirit, Mara demands an explanation to which Riven merely explains that she had no reason to grant it since she is already dead, along with the rest of her kind, which the Vanguard had ensured. The Last Ahamkara further admonishes Mara for going further in not only having the Guardian slay her but also had her forces destroy her clutch of eggs. Or at least most of them as Riven managed to hide many of them, like the one found within Savathûn's Spire. Riven then offers Mara a bargain: ensure the safety of her kind and she will grant the 15th wish. Though Mara scoffs as such a bargain, believing that it would only ensure the Ahamkara will terrorize the system once again but weighing the options, Mara agrees with Riven's bargain.

Speaking with the Guardians on this matter, Mara voices what she has always feared, that the Curse over the Dreaming City cannot be lifted, after combing through the Scrolls found in the Witch Queen's domain. Nonetheless, Mara refuses to give up on the Dreaming City and those trapped within. Thus, she asks the Guardians to proceed with Riven's bargain and do what they do best: carve a path. They must descend into Riven's Lair to find her clutch of eggs even though it has become infested with Sol Divisive Vex and Taken. However, as the Guardians reached the end of Lair and opened the Vault, they find it empty which angers Riven. Accusing her of dispatching her last clutch, Mara voices her innocence before ordering Petra and her Techeuns to figure out how this happened. They soon learn that Riven's eggs had been cased to drift in the Ascendant Plane, leaving them to orbit the material plan like "comets to a star". Despite this set back, Mara was able to use the Ley Lines to acquire at least one of the eggs, a similar strategy they used to rescue her Techeun Coven, with the Guardian descending into the Lair to procure the egg. However, during the whole time, Riven would taunt her, the Guardian, Petra and Crow, testing the limits of their patience.

As the Guardian worked in securing the eggs, Mara began to formulate contingency plans in the event Riven's bargain becomes lethal to them. She would correspond with Osiris in trying to find alternate methods in following the Witness but the former Warlock's research into The Veil yielded little save an understanding the link between it and the Traveler. Thus with no other choice, the Coalition must continue in cooperating with Riven's bargain.