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|othernames= The First Disciple <br> Subjugator <br> Worm-father

|title1=Phase One

|content1= [[File:RhulkInfobox.jpg|300px]]}}

|homeworld=[[Lubrae]]

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|ability= Summon Resonate Spikes <br> Summon [[Scorn]] <br> Summon [[Taken]] <br> Suns of Lubrae <br> Savage Strike <br> Pervading Darkness <br> Umbral Suffocation <br> High Durability <br> Flight <br> Teleportation  

'''Rhulk, Disciple of the Witness''' is the first of the [[Disciples]]: extraordinarily powerful [[Darkness]]-wielding entities who collectively follow and do the bidding of [[The Witness]]. Hailing from the planet [[Lubrae]], he played a prominent role in the creation of the [[Hive]] by subjugating the [[Worm]]s into servitude of the Witness and then facilitating their production in [[Savathûn's Throne World]], all while keeping tabs on the [[Savathûn, the Witch Queen|Witch Queen]] herself from his own [[Sunken Pyramid|Pyramid]].

After Savathûn's rebirth in the [[Light]], he was imprisoned within his own Pyramid by a curse of Light placed by the Witch Queen. However, Rhulk would retaliate by bringing the [[Scorn]] into her throne world and subsequently taking command of them. He is the final boss of the ''[[Vow of the Disciple]]'' [[Raid]], where he ultimately met his demise at the hands of [[Guardian]]s.

Rhulk was born to his father [[Rhelik]] and mother [[Vrhuna]] on the planet [[Lubrae]], a civilization that had been blessed by the [[Traveler]] but fell into a military dictatorship after it left. Rhulk lived with his clan of [[Wanderers]] in the [[Wildlands]] outside of the sole city on the planet that was controlled by [[The Regime]]. The Wanderer clans were subject to frequent dangers, including monstrous wildlife that emerged under the Umbral Sun at night and the [[Stalkers]] sent by the Regime to hunt and kill the Wanderers who rejected the city's ways. When he was young, Rhulk witnessed his father kill Stalkers who threatened the clan with a brutality fueled by a bloodlust that Rhulk also felt. He confided in his father about their shared rage and was taught to hate the Regime by him, but when the rest of their clan began to shun Rhelik for his brutality he softened, much to Rhulk's disappointment.<ref name="Tainted">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Shattered_Suns#Tainted|Shattered Suns: Tainted]]''</ref> His father attempted to teach him patience by making Rhulk watch as other Wanderers were killed by a hunting party of Stalkers and holding him back when Rhulk attempted to intervene. Rhulk was enraged and confused by his father's inaction and believed he was betraying his principles and vows to bring down the Regime.<ref name="Untamed">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Shattered_Suns#Untamed|Shattered Suns: Untamed]]''</ref>

Although the clan only tried to help others in need of assistance and care for the land, the Stalkers continued to pursue them. During one battle several members of the clan were killed, including [[Fhent]] and one of Rhulk's clan-uncles. Rhulk fought back against the Stalkers and killed several of them, claiming their supplies and equipment as his own, including a [[Glaive]] and [[Sapphiric Converter]]. However, Rhelik was captured during the raid by the Stalkers and the rest of the clan, including Rhulk's mother Vrhuna, looked upon him with only concern and fear due to his brutality during the fight. Frustrated by what he perceived as their weakness, that night as the clan danced and sang in tribute to their survival and in honor of the dead, Rhulk ripped apart a pet [[Yhadt]] that belonged to some of the clan's children. The clan was horrified, and Rhulk felt powerful in that moment but feared that made him a monster.<ref name="Endangered">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Shattered_Suns#Endangered|Shattered Suns: Endangered]]''</ref>

Reborn as the First Disciple, Rhulk became the Witness' chosen enforcer and executioner for its wrath; bringing destruction through fire and [[glaive]] and leading [[Pyramids]] of the [[Black Fleet]] to wipe the races uplifted by the [[Traveler]]. He would also utilize the [[Upended]] to burn all traces of their passing much like his home Lubrae. He would also overseer the induction of new Disciples including that of [[Nezarec]] whom he gifted his [[Nezarec's Whisper|Glaive]].<ref name="Nezarec's Whisper">'''Bungie (2022/5/24)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Haunted]] - Item Description: [[Nezarec's Whisper]]''</ref> After eons of supplication, however, Rhulk would find himself bereft of purpose and fulfillment in his duty, which he unrelentingly challenges the Witness to be recognized as an equal. Instead, he would constantly debate with his god over his repeated attempts to elevate above his intended station, much to his own sense of self-loathing and inadequacy.

At one point, the Witness endowed him with the task of subjugating a mighty race, that being of the insectoid race of [[Ahslid]], into their servitude. The Witness stated to Rhulk that this opportunity would test his worth in enlightening the Ahslid with the same lessons of irrelevance the latter learned from his master. As a condition, however, Rhulk is tasked to do so without revealing his presence to the Ahsild. Feeling castrated of his favor, Rhulk took the Witness' message to heart and changed his warmongering approach to one of unseen guidance and outreaching subterfuge.<ref name="Resonant Fury Mask">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Hunter)#Resonant Fury Mask|Resonant Fury Mask]]''</ref>  

At first, Rhulk stalked the race of Ahslid for fourteen solar years and offered every warrior he met opportunity to prove their worth, only for them to cower in fear and be bled at the tip of his glaive. The disciple would eventually comprehend his master's commandment as a lesson in insight and his own folly of spilling their blood blindly by himself. Instead, the disciple would act in discreet as Rhulk culls key members of the race in secrecy and spread fear and paranoia amongst the Ahslid from his intended violence; creating a generation of their kin that would closely follow Rhulk's philosophies.<ref name="Resonant Fury Grips">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Hunter)#Resonant Fury Grips|Resonant Fury Grips]]''</ref>  

In the span of years, the Lubrean fosters this new generation by acting as their unseen guide; presenting opportunity to families lacking it and inducing suffering to those unsullied of it. Amongst the new brood was the youngest foundling Rhulk named [[Uun]], whom the disciple took a particular interest in after their first kill. The Subjugator, seeing himself in the young Ahslid, would uncharacteristically spare him of ostracization from his peers and leave him to grow as a warrior. This experience would cause Rhulk to question the Witness' hand in shaping his own destiny.<ref name="Resonant Fury Vest">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Hunter)#Resonant Fury Vest|Resonant Fury Vest]]''</ref>

Over time, the Ahslid became a race divided between themselves and gripped by paranoia wary of the disciple's machinations. Now indirectly uplifted by Rhulk's guidance and teachings, they build weapons of massive destruction that could destroy their world. Only Uun, now cast in doubt of himself, remained a disappointment to Rhulk who cast him from his graces and into obscurity. At the same time, Rhulk had withheld teaching the insectoid race of irrelevance: the same lesson he himself learned from Lubrae's destruction. Rhulk is left to brood over his inability to teach the Ahslid the most challenging lesson he knew, and thus finds himself unworthy of emulating his idol.<ref name="Resonant Fury Strides">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Hunter)#Resonant Fury Strides|Resonant Fury Strides]]''</ref>

Rhulk ultimately failed in his task, underestimating the Ahslid's capability for destruction which drove them to wipe out all life on their world in atomic fire. Only Uun, whom he once shunned of weakness, would be left tenaciously alive to face the disciple as both his greatest failure and biggest pride. The Ahslid's attempt to challenge Rhulk was ultimately futile, leaving Uun prostrate on the floor near death and begging for Rhulk's name. In a moment of weakness, Rhulk whispers his name to the dying Uun moments before his passing. Despite having failed his task of uplifting the Ahslid, Rhulk would only further appreciate his master's lessons.<ref name="Resonant Fury Cloak">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Hunter)#Resonant Fury Cloak|Resonant Fury Cloak]]''</ref>

After Rhulk's failure with the Ahslid, the Witness instead sought the [[Worm]]s for their paracausal connection to [[Sword Logic]], with the [[Worm Gods]] imprisoned far beneath the seas of [[Fundament]]. Serving as its herald, Rhulk swam deep into the depths of the planet's ocean, to which he was met with the [[Leviathan (creature)|Leviathan]] acting as the warden of their prison. Despite its repeated warnings to the disciple to turn from Darkness, Rhulk defiantly rebukes the massive creature before proclaiming that he "''rise''" instead of "drowns" with the [[Darkness|Deep]]. Rhulk then grievously injures it within a millisecond as he held the Leviathan's rib in one hand and pushed aside its maimed body with the other. <ref name="Leviathan">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Rhulk]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uy37eDdZdI "The Creature Known to Some as the Leviathan"]''</ref> The wounded Leviathan could only avert Rhulk's gaze as the disciple places the rib beneath the beast's skull and raises it's head to meet his eye level to address it directly: proclaiming that the Worms it kept beneath belonged to neither it nor the [[Traveler]], but to the Witness only. He drops the discarded rib into the Worm Gods' dwelling with force before announcing his presence, uplifting the sediment of the seabed into a dense cloud from which he emerged before his captive audience.<ref name="Resonant Fury Gauntlets">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Titan)#Resonant Fury Gauntlets|Resonant Fury Gauntlets]]''</ref>

With the Nuturing Worm kept in his grasp, the Subjugator had Xita imprisoned as a battery to power the Upended with paracausal Sword Logic. From her body, Rhulk created a strain of miniature Worms made of the Worm mother's living segments small enough to be implanted into a host. He would set these so called "larvae" adrift on Fundament's ocean, knowing full well they would reach the shores of the [[Osmium Court]] to find their respective sustenance.<ref name="Resonant Fury Greaves">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Titan)#Resonant Fury Greaves|Resonant Fury Greaves]]''</ref> Soon as the Witness and Rhulk predicted, one of these larvae reached its intended target: the [[Osmium King|King]] of the [[Osmium Court]]. The dead white larvae spoke to the king of a cataclysm that would result from a Syzygy of Fundament's fifty-two moons (though no such danger actually exists). However, the King's mind would prove to be too feeble to the Witness' whispers and thus drove him to insanity and senility.<ref name="Syzygy">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#IV: Syzygy|IV: Syzygy]]''</ref>

===Savathûn's Throne World===

Rhulk and Savathûn would form an impertinent rivalry in the eons they spend in each other's company; the former being ordered by the Witness to station his Pyramid in Savathûn's newly constructed [[Savathûn's Throne World|Throne World]] to assist the Witch Queen in the production of [[Worm]] larvae for the rest of the Hive. At first Rhulk was displeased with this assignment, taking an immediate dislike to Savathûn and wondered whether he was being punished for his prior failure with the Ahslid. The first time Rhulk stepped foot into her realm, the Witch Queen kept her face twisted to betray restrained delight at the Lubrean's arrival. In his messages to the Witness, Rhulk would only scoff at her willfulness to turn a blind eye from the precarity of her current situation: being that she was now living within a prison formed from her own ego and the First Disciple was to be her jailer.<ref name="Resonant Fury Cowl">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Warlock)#Resonant Fury Cowl|Resonant Fury Cowl]]''</ref>  

Rhulk would occasionally relay reports to his master voicing his concerns with Savathûn, one of which being that of her peeved reaction to his continued presence in her throne world. The disciple, who was initially elated much to the delight from her indignation, had his suspicions of any ulterior motives that she possessed given her conniving and opportunistic nature, but remained hopeful nonetheless of her growing conviction to their cause. Regardless of her unwilling cooperation, construction of the larvae breeding chambers had commence with the armies of [[Oryx, the Taken King]] and [[Xivu Arath, God of War]] expected to grow exponentially in short order. Should Savathûn do anything to cross their interests, however, Rhulk would not hesitate to threaten the destruction of her throne world with the [[Upended]].<ref name="Resonant Fury Gloves">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Warlock)#Resonant Fury Gloves|Resonant Fury Gloves]]''</ref>  

When word of Oryx's death in the [[Taken War]] reached Rhulk, the Subjugator observed Savathûn building a palace within her domain as he relayed word of her brother's immediate [[King's Fall|demise]]. Having suspected her of played a role in the Taken King's permanent end, Rhulk nonetheless offers condescending commendation for having outlived Oryx and seizing his secrets of [[Taken|Taking]] as spoils. Savathûn smugly denies Rhulk any straight answers but the latter warns her that Oryx's death now placed a target on her by the god-slaying [[Guardians]], without the presence of her brother to shelter her in the shadows. She instantly rebukes Rhulk's words having nothing to fear from her exposure, showing no restraint in her expression.<ref name="Resonant Fury Boots">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Warlock)#Resonant Fury Boots|Resonant Fury Boots]]''</ref>   

Savathûn would end up betraying Rhulk and the Witness with her attempt to [[Interference|interfere]] with the latter's [[Lore:The Singular Exegete|transmissions]] to the [[Guardian]]s on [[Io]], triggered by the [[arrival of the Black Fleet]]. After she hide within the [[Last City]] for a year and her subsequent rebirth in the Light, Rhulk would try subduing her with the Upended triggering her throne world's destruction only to have his attempt failed. He was then trapped within his [[Sunken Pyramid|Pyramid]], now sunken in the swamps of [[Miasma]] and blocked off from the rest of the realm thanks to her usage of the [[Wellspring]].<ref name="Resonant Fury Bond">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Warlock)#Resonant Fury Bond|Resonant Fury Bond]]''</ref> During his imprisonment, Rhulk had summoned the [[Scorn]] to the throne world as his army to fight the Witch Queen's new [[Lucent Brood|Lucent Hive]]. This resulted in an ongoing attrition war for the throne world itself, which was further complicated with the addition of the [[Guardians]] of the [[Last City]]. Rhulk also began conducting experiments with the undead Scorn, making them more powerful with Worm larvae in combination with Hive resonant runes. The cumulation of his work would be [[The Caretaker]], a massive [[Abomination]] successfully fused with a worm larva and armed with [[Pyramid]] resonant technology.<ref name="Report: PYRAMID-INSPECT">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Lore]]: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/interactions/evidence-board-report-pyramid-inspect-2 Evidence Board — Report: PYRAMID-INSPECT]''</ref>  

At one point during Rhulk's detainment, one of the [[Hive]] [[Ghost]]s had drifted into the Pyramid and encountered the disciple, who was immediately intrigued by its design and function. After a while of talking with it and plotting to pry its shell for secrets of the [[Traveler]], the Ghost would be possessed by someone Rhulk identified as the Adversary (presumably the Traveler itself). The Ghost was destroyed in an blinding explosion of Light and reduced to scrap, denying Rhulk its secrets.<ref name="Imperious Sun Shell">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Ghost shell|Ghost shell lore]]: [[Imperious Sun Shell]]''</ref>

After Savathûn's death at the hands of [[The Guardian]], the Scorn began to invade her fortress en masse and threatened to destroy the Wellspring: the main source of Light distribution across the throne world and of the curse which had kept Rhulk trapped.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[The Wellspring]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfixEake1QQ First Defense]''</ref> Instead the Guardians would repeatedly quash their attempts and keep the Wellspring secured from both Scorn and Lucent Hive parties. [[Fynch]] would also inform to [[Ikora Rey]] and the [[Vanguard]] of the curse surrounding the Sunken Pyramid, albeit unaware of the disciple inside it kept from escaping.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[The Wellspring]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE2QCYmKWSI "A Pretty Hefty Light Curse On It"]''</ref>  

Eventually, [[The Guardian]] would lead a six-manned [[raid]] fireteam to investigate the sunken Pyramid. [[Mara Sov]] would warn them of the threat posed by Rhulk only to be cut of by his own whispers greeting the Light bearers and inviting them to enter; cryptically warning them to either "drown in the [[Darkness|Deep]]" or "rise from it".<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Vow of the Disciple]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwmyC-ixHqQ "A Dark Entity, Unknown In Power"]''</ref>  

The Guardians would first approach [[Vow_of_the_Disciple#Acquisition|Acquisition]], a repository of Rhulk's vast collection of museum artifacts including the rib he took from the Leviathan of Fundament. The Subjugator would then explain that the Witness would see the Light fall and glimpsed of the potential Guardians would possess freed of its chains.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Vow of the Disciple]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-c2uX0E0zk "The Witness... Sees Light Fall"]''</ref> Despite opposition by both Scorn and [[Taken]] forces marshalled in the structure, the Guardians journeyed deeper into the hull of the Pyramid. They had then glanced upon the Upended in the distance, which Rhulk described as a "triumvirate" of the three core tenants of the Darkness: opportunity, preservation, and salvation.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Vow of the Disciple]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTLuH1Tt_ic "Opportunity. Preservation. Salvation."]''</ref>   

After observing the Guardians killing [[The Caretaker]], Rhulk would remark that those "defiant" would be subjugated in service of the Final Shape, which was described as an "ailing, endless, void".<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Vow of the Disciple]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_rkt8YXbaI "In Service of an Ailing, Endless Void."]''</ref> As they approached the Upended, he then stated that they were resilient yet credulous of themselves. In blindly killing scores of Scorn and Taken, however, the fireteam had aided Rhulk instead in powering the Upended with their bloodshed as its fuel. With the machine reaching full power, Rhulk was prepared to seal the throne world permanently of the Light; leaving both the Guardians and the Lucent Hive to suffer. As a final rebuke, the disciple told the Guardians they were not fit to serve the Witness nor the Disciples, instead deserved to drown in the Deep.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Vow of the Disciple]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HsNx_IwT8U "This World Will Be Sealed From the Light"]''</ref>       

With the Guardians having reached their destination on top of the Upended, Rhulk emerged from his suspended sarcophagus to personally greet them. Stating that he had no use in them anymore, the Subjugator commenced a climactic battle with his interlopers by dropping his [[Lubrae's Ruin|glaive]] and unleash a massive resonant barrier of Darkness to push them back.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Vow of the Disciple]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-CIVBDKevk "All That Awaits You Now is the Gift of Death"]''</ref> The fireteam retaliated in turn by exploiting his attacks to eliminate the barrier, all while Rhulk taunts the fireteam as they fight Scorn and Taken reinforcements. While the barrier is exhausted, Rhulk moved inward to the core of the Upended and challenged the Guardians in person, to which he would toy with the fireteam and even kick them to death on occasion. His composure was only short-lived as they discovered and took advantage of four chinks in Rhulk's impervious state, enraging the disciple as he became vulnerable to their attacks. In his final moments, Rhulk could only cry out begging the Witness for forgiveness as his body contorted by his own out-of-control powers, transforming him into what appeared to be a lifeless tree with gnarled vein-like roots of Darkness growing from it.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Vow of the Disciple]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftOWxGbDj98 "Witness... Forgive Me!"]''</ref>

The death of the First Disciple held major ramifications throughout the Throne World, the Scorn became driven to a frenzy without his leadership. Wanting control of the now vacant Pyramid on behalf of the Witness, the Scorn made repeated attempts to storm Rhulk's former stronghold but are eradicated by Guardian fireteams to keep it under [[Vanguard]] occupation.<ref name="Preservation">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Preservation]]''</ref>  

Rhulk's remains would be secured by the Guardians who survived the raid and transported by a [[Hidden]] agent named [[Marco]] back to [[The Enclave]] for study. Traveling en-route on [[Mars]]' desert surface, a motor accident caused his [[Sparrow]] to crash and grievously injure himself with a broken leg and a punctured lung. The container storing samples of the  

disciple's corpse laid cracked against a spar of basalt, to which Marco could hear whispers of Rhulk's thoughts echoing from it. From it black veins snaked through the red dust of the wreckage to approach Marco's position, infecting his wounds with [[Darkness]]. They then began to heal his wounded knee as Marco felt himself possessed by the disciple's vestige, fighting it off with what willpower he held before he turned his [[Sidearm]] towards the cracked reactor shielding of his broken Sparrow. With one shot, the Sparrow ruptured into a small-scale nuclear blast which killed Marco and destroyed what remains of the First Disciple for good.<ref name="Gouging Light">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - Item Description:[[Gouging Light]]''</ref>

In this phase, the Disciple's body will blacken, spikes will grow along the back of his neck, he will pull out his glaive, and will assume a hunched position with much a faster movement speed. Rhulk can now take damage, with his weak spots being his head and the four previous weak spots that had to be broken, but he will continue to pursue the players, attacking and slashing at them with his glaive, charging, and launching force beams, even in combination with one another. The Guardians should try to damage him as much as possible during this window while attempting to keep at range to avoid his vicious glaive slashes. After a while, Rhulk will become invulnerable again, and kneel down for a few seconds, restoring his barrier and pushing off any Guardians still on his platform, possibly to their deaths. He will then return to the outside of the Upended, and the whole process must be repeated. If he reaches the last tenth of his health, he will inexorably apply Pervading Darkness to the fireteam. The Guardians will have limited time to damage him before the darkness kills them all. Dealing enough damage to Rhulk before all fireteam members' Pervading Darkness debuff reaches 10x will cause him to drop his glaive and be consumed by his own [[Darkness]], calling out to [[The Witness|the Witness]] as he is petrified, marking the end of the encounter and the end of [[Vow of the Disciple]].

Even as a young warrior, Rhulk showed disturbing signs of bloodlust and callous brutality, which ultimately caused his own clan and family to fear him. As a Disciple, he was praised by the Witness for these qualities, as they better enabled him to follow the tenets of the Darkness. Most notably and uniquely, Rhulk values honesty immensely, to the point that it meant everything to him, both as a Lubraean and as a Disciple. So much so, in fact, that he could not understand why the military regime on Lubrae was able to be honest about their shortcomings and misdeeds, while his parents had to lie to him about their motivations and actions.

*Rhulk has a very rare chance that if he is forced to melee too many times in quick succession; instead of kicking a too close opponent, to instead quickly bend down and throw a hook punch, seemingly roaring at the opponent afterwards as he stands back up and resuming his normal animations. The punch functions the exact same at the kick gameplay-wise and the roar-like animation he does after the punch doesn't have any voice line attached to it.

*''[[Destiny 2]]''

**''[[The Witch Queen]]'' {{1st}}

***''[[Season of the Haunted]]'' {{Mo}}