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|species= [[Vex]] {{c|Partially}} <br> [[Taken]]

|faction= [[Taken]] <br> [[Weavers]]<ref>'''YouTube (2017/10/1):''' ''[https://youtu.be/3nINsw9tOLM Destiny 2 Corrupted Styx Transcript – Timestamp 01:30s]''</ref>  <br> [[Nexus Collective]]

|weapon= [[Aeon Maul]]

|ability= Take <br> Simulate <br> Summon Vex <br> Summon Taken <br> High Durability <br> Midair Levitation <br> Temporal Disintegration Protocol <br> Temporal Shockwave <br> Rotational Shields

'''Quria, Blade Transform''', also known as the '''Dreaming Mind''', is a [[Vex]] [[Axis Mind]] [[Hydra]] that was [[Taken]] by [[Oryx, the Taken King]].<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XLIII:_End_of_Failed_Timeline|XLIII: End of Failed Timeline]]''</ref>  

Quria was created by the Vex with the objective of conquering Oryx's throne world and unravelling its secrets by gaining an understanding of the [[Sword Logic]]. Quria was unsuccessful in its campaign against Oryx and was [[Taken]], but retained a measure of free will. The Mind was later gifted by the Taken King to his sister, [[Savathûn, the Witch-Queen]].  Following Oryx's death, Quria served as the  Taken commander for Savathûn, having acquired the ability to Take via paracausally-enhanced simulations of Oryx.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], PlayStation 4, [[Toland]]: [[Toland#Quotes|Quria is the key. The mind simulates Oryx, and thereby masters the power to Take. But of course, Quria is no power unto itself.]]''</ref>

Later, Quria played an integral role as the architect of the [[Endless Night]], and served as the season antagonist for "''[[Season of the Splicer]]''".

===Birth of the Vex Blade===

{{Quote|I have to kill everything... Then I will be powerful.|Quria, deducing the Sword Logic.}}

The origins of Quria emanates from an ancient conflict between the Vex and the [[Hive]]. [[Crota, Son of Oryx]] once aspired to match the powers of his sister's and cut open a wound into an unknown region of space with the goal of obtaining new secret power, however, he unknowingly released the Vex onto the throne world of [[Oryx, the Taken King]].<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXXVIII:_The_partition_of_death|XXXVIII: The partition of death]]''</ref> The machines quickly dominated his father's throne and constructed large problems to understand the rules of the realm, however they lacked the ability to understand the [[Sword Logic]] and perplexing geometry of the world. The Vex then reformulated their strategy and sent the problem to a higher consciousness known as the "ritual-of-better-thoughts" who manifested a new [[Axis Mind]] into existence named '''Quria, Blade Transform'''. The Mind was built with aim of deducing the metaphysical framework that governed Oryx's realm. Quria deduced the secrets of the Sword Logic and understood that for the Vex to succeed they must kill everything to become powerful as only the strongest entities were able to rule and with the ultimate aim to survive anything in the universe.<ref name="Quria 1">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXXIX:_open_your_eye_:_go_into_it|XXXIX: open your eye : go into it]]''</ref>

Soon it summoned a warrior class of Vex to flood the realm through the portal. Crota attempted to fight these Vex, but they teleported away and slaughtered thousands of Hive in order to establish themselves as new powers and to usurp the established hegemony.  

[[File:Vex Army.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Quria, Blade Transform invading the throne world of Oryx.]]

The Hive pantheon launched their own attack against the Vex incursion when the [[Deathsinger]] twin sisters of [[Ir Anûk, Deathsinger|Ir Anûk]] and [[Ir Halak, Deathsinger|Ir Halak]] constructed an [[Annihilator Totem]] to repel the Vex, whilst Crota attempted to close the gate he opened. Quria prevented this by positioning itself on the other side of the portal and built a device to keep it open. The Mind still had an unfinished directive to attain divinity and organised a series of test invasions to better exploit the paracausal physics of the world. For centuries the Hive and Vex clashed against each other and suffered major casualties when they ventured to the opposite worlds. A stalemate ensured as neither race was able leave their origin world as the Vex were annihilated in the throne world, whilst the Hive lost too much power to win in the Vex world.<ref name="Quria 1"/>

The Blade Mind became sharper in its understanding when it captured [[worm]] larvae for experimentation. It discovered that the Hive worshipped the worms and realised that by directing worship towards the worm would grant Quria the ability to alter their reality with mild ontopathogenic side effects. In brief terms an infection that plagues very existence of a thing. With quick efficiency, Quria created a new priesthood and directed its subminds to believe in worship of the worms. They then set out to abduct and kill dangerous organisms to bootstrap, in computational term, itself into the Hive godhood. For some reason only known by the Vex, Quria refrained itself from introducing a worm into its own organic mind fluid, possibly because its observations of the Hive revealed the dangers of the parasitic symbiosis.

The Witch Queen, [[Savathûn]], laughed at the ordeal as she was the principal reason for influencing her arrogant nephew into cutting that region of space. This caught the attention of the worm god, [[Eir]], who commanded the Taken King to bring order and to extinguish the forces of Quria.<ref name="Quria 1"/>

Oryx returned to his throne world and quickly turned the Vex against each other with his [[Taken]] abilities and proceeded to send some into the Vex world through the wound opened by Crota. Quria attempted to fight the former Vex by employing a range of tactics against them, but was unable to adapt to the new threat. The Vex incursion came to an end when Oryx banished his son, Crota, into a Vex gate as punishment. Meanwhile Oryx reflected on the Vex and thought he found a worthy rival. His conversation with Savathûn revealed the nature of the Vex who sought to understand everything so they are primed as the last victors of the universe in its end stages. Quria's invasion highlighted a fundamental weakness within Oryx's throne world and inspired its reinterpretation by constructing the [[Dreadnaught]].<ref name="Quria 2">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XL:_An_Emperor_For_All_Outcomes|XL: An Emperor For All Outcomes]]''</ref>

 

The Blade Mind later ambushed the Taken King inside the [[Nicha Thought-ship]] after he destroyed the [[Harmonious Flotilla Invincible]] war fleet with his newly constructed ship.<ref name="Quria 2"/>

Following the [[Red War]], [[Hidden]] agents reported unusual activity on the moon of [[Io]] where they observed the Taken behaving strangely with the Vex. [[The Guardian]] was enlisted by [[Ikora Rey]] to investigate and found the Vex imprisoned within Taken containment rifts.<ref>'''YouTube (2017/9/9):''' ''[https://youtu.be/NzkvjJ4vpMU Destiny 2 Dynasty Quest – Timestamp 00:45s]''</ref> This raised alarms and [[Asher Mir]] noted that the absence of their King, Oryx, meant the Taken shouldn’t have the capacity to capture even the most dim-witted of [[Goblin]]s. The Guardian then tracked a Vex distress signal broadcasted from the [[Spine Burrows]] and confronted a [[Taken Knight]] bearing the name of Quria called [[Ir Arok, Tongue of Quria|Ir Arok]]. As they attempted to challenge the Tongue of Quria, it disappeared as [[Elatiox, Beloved of Quria]] appeared to battle them, but was quickly defeated.<ref>'''YouTube (2017/9/9):''' ''[https://youtu.be/NzkvjJ4vpMU Destiny 2 Dynasty Quest – Timestamp 04:00s]''</ref>  

Ikora feared the Taken may have found new leadership and asked the Guardian to investigate a [[Cabal]] [[Excavation Site II|base]] that reportedly had a lot of Taken activity. They found more Vex were being abducted through dimensional rifts and trapped within containment fields and forcefully transformed into Taken by drowning them in the [[Blight]]s energies.<ref>'''YouTube (2017/9/9):''' ''[https://youtu.be/NzkvjJ4vpMU Destiny 2 Dynasty Quest – Timestamp 11:20s]''</ref> As they ventured into the main Taken conversion site, Ir Arok was spotted again, but left the scene. Nearby an imprisoned [[Hydra]] transformed into [[Erosus, Spawn of Quria]] after being corrupted by the Blights energies. Following its defeat, Ikora suspected that the Taken were now building an army. The Taken were later spotted near the Pyramidion and the Guardian finally cornered Quria's commander, Ir Arok, near the wrap gate of the Vex Collective. While the Tongue of Quria met its demise, some Taken however got through the Vex warp gate.<ref>'''YouTube (2017/10/1):''' ''[https://youtu.be/oEUq-l081-c Destiny 2 Long Play Transcript – Timestamp 01:15s]''</ref>

Prior to the arrival of [[Black Fleet]] into the [[Solar System]], [[Nokris]] sought an audience with his aunt, Savathûn, and both came to an accord to exchange secrets. The Witch Queen desired Nokris’s knowledge of [[Necromancy]], whilst the High Priest wanted to witness  the talents of the Dreaming Mind, Quria. Nokris was then instructed act as an interference between the [[Pyramids]] and [[Guardian]]s.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/6/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], [[Weblore]]: [[Weblore#False_Idols|False Idols]]''</ref> To aid his efforts, Quria began to direct its force onto the moons of [[Io]] and [[Titan (moon)|Titan]] which allowed the Taken to draw power from the nearby infestations of [[Darkness]].<ref name="Threat">'''YouTube (2020/6/10):''' ''[https://youtu.be/jA8YDgEtktA Destiny 2 "Threatened"]''</ref><ref>'''YouTube (2020/6/10):''' ''[https://youtu.be/uDg1esKpN7I Destiny 2 "Draw Power"]''</ref> As the Guardians attempted to make [[Contact|contact]], the [[Taken Will of Quria|Wills of Quria]] intercepted them on various fronts. [[Eris Morn]] noted that Savathûn commanded great strength to wield Quria and believed the presence of Quria's Taken on Titan meant the Queen was threatened by the communications between the Pyramids and Guardians.<ref name="Threat"/><ref>'''YouTube (2020/6/10):''' ''[https://youtu.be/jHA1Tl38uDM Destiny 2 "To Wield Quria"]''</ref>

After the events of [[Season of the Chosen]], a shroud of night emerged over the [[Last City]], requiring assistance, Warlock Vanguard [[Ikora Rey]] and Warlock [[Osiris]] ask the Kell of the [[House of Light]], [[Mithrax]], for help. <ref> '''Destiny 2 Season of the Splicer''' Trailer </ref> Mithrax agrees, in exchange for aiding the House of Light in evading the Vex. On their first incursion to the [[The Outer Nexus|Outer Nexus]] of the Vex domain, Quria detects the Guardian's presence after they had eliminated the [[Subjugated Curator]]. It attempts to purge the Lightbearer from the system while countering Mithrax's attempts to create an exit, but falls short of stopping the Kell from retrieving them moments after its first sighting.  

Soon after the Young Wolf destroyed [[Dimio, Oppressive Mind Reborn]], Mithrax uncovered Quria's location at the core of the Vex domain. After going through the Nexus one final time, the Guardian faced the Dreaming Mind. Quria could not stop them, and perished after a long battle, leaving only it's head behind. [[Saint-14]] was ecstatic to hear the news of Quria's demise, while Ikora and Mithrax were more skeptical of the Witch Queen's scheme. <ref> '''Expunge: Delphi''' </ref>

Quria begins the encounter by putting up two pairs of rotating circular shields, making head on combat unadvised. Each shield set is powered by an [[Ultra]] located on the edges of the battlefield named the [[Evaluator of Savathûn]] and [[Nexus Minotaur]], these minotaurs must be destroyed to make Quria vulnerable. The Evaluator of Savathûn, a [[Taken Minotaur]], is located on the left side of the battlefield while the Nexus Minotaur is on the right, both are protected by a shield that must be taken down through delivering an authentication key to a deposit, which will leave them vulnerable. Once the key is inserted the minotaur becomes killable, which doing so will result in one of Quria's shields being destroyed and their immunity shield destroyed until a third of their health is drained. Repeat this for the other minotaur on the other side of the arena and Quira will become permanently damageable.

Quria itself can be a formidable foe if fought without a strategy. While completely immobile, Quria has a wide arsenal of weaponry it can use to overwhelm its attacker. Its main way of attack is with its pair of aeon maul [[Torch Hammer]]s, along with summoning Temporal Disintegration Protocol walls to deal a third of the attacker's health regardless of any defenses once its shields are removed. Besides its own weaponry Quria can summon a swarm of [[Taken Psion]]s to pressure the attacker, summon a pair of [[Taken Hobgoblin]]s which can quickly finish off a foe after being weakened by Quria's Disintegration Protocols, and occasionally simulate a Harpy seeker which can detain anything it makes contact with, which can lead to a quick death if successfully landed.

Despite how powerful Quria is, it still has weaknesses. Due to its immobile state, precision-based weapons like snipers, linear fusion rifles, and machine guns are much easier to use. Quira's shields can also be bypassed via a weapon equipped with an anti-barrier mod. It is advised to finish the fight as quick as possible as Quria's whole strategy revolves around overwhelming and trapping with its Harpy seekers, constant summoning of Taken Psions, and the splash damage from its aeon maul preventing shield regeneration.

 

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