Omar Agah: Difference between revisions

{{Quote|It's a funny thing, dying for good twice. I imagine my first death was frightening. But this one was calming. This time I knew I wasn't really gone forever. Neither were my friends. Vell. Eriana. Sai. Toland. …Eris. There was peace in that. Knowing we'd always be together, somewhere. Somehow.|Omar Agah<ref name="Finality">'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4, Item Description: [[Finality ]]''</ref>}}

During another encounter against the Hive, Omar was badly wounded and captured by the [[Heart of Crota]] and believed by Eris to be dead. The [[Wizard]] brought him deep into the Hive's tunnels to a chamber holding thousands of cocoons and freshly born Hive and held the broken Guardian in a vice of bone and pain, at which point she began to use Hive magic to peel his Light away. The Hive made his Ghost Karsys watch Omar's suffering, then killed it in front of him.<ref name="Descent">'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4, Item Description: [[Descent]]''</ref> Screaming in agony, Omar's pain and Light were used by the Heart of Crota to feed the newly born Hive creatures, and his screams drew Eris to the chamber, where she witnessed his demise.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/12/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Dark Below]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Exalted_Hive#Heart of Crota|Heart of Crota]]''</ref> Although considering stepping up to help her friend, Eris decided not to act, out of fear they would both perish - something she later felt tremendous guilt about.<ref name="Memory of Omar" /> Omar did not blame her, though,<ref name="Discovery">'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4, Item Description: [[Discovery]]''</ref> and found comfort in seeing a familiar face in his last moments; moreover, he noticed she was holding a trinket Omar had made her and she had rejected, and it made him feel less alone.<ref name="Volmâr">'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4, Item Description: [[Slay Volmâr, the Tempted]]''</ref> The fire in his heart stoked by her gesture, Omar was overcome with calmness and clarity, and believed neither him nor his fireteam members would truly be gone forever. In his last moments, he felt the peace of knowing him and his friends--even Toland--would somehow always be together.<ref name="Finality" />

Years after his original death, Omar Agah reawoke in the Light's presence, having learned that a mishap in the Heart's ritual had extracted not only his Light, but his very soul - causing him to have been transferred into the body of an insect-like creature.<ref name="Xeno">'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4, [[Xenophage]]''</ref> [[The Guardian]] began receiving messages from him, signed "A loyal friend", and prompting them to go for a quest to find the lost Lightbearer.<ref name="Emergence" /> He was eventually recovered from [[the Pit]] and brought to Eris, who recognised her old friend and infused his new form into the frame of his prized machine gun to create the [[Xenophage]].<ref name="Eris Finality">'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4, [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/interactions/eris-morn-finality Eris Morn - Finality]''</ref>