Shadow Legion: Difference between revisions

|image= [[File:SLCinematic1.jpg|300px]]

|objectives= Enforcers

|Keep(s)=[[Typhon Imperator]] <br> [[Shadow Legion Prison|Shadow Legion Prisons]]

|war= [[Awoken]] <br> [[Cloud Strider]]s <br> [[House of Light]] <br> [[Imperial Cabal]] <br> [[Vanguard]] <br> [[Sol Collective]]

|ally= [[Black Fleet]] <br> [[Taken]]

|preceded=[[Loyalists]]

{{Quote|My faithful Shadow Legion, this is your glorious emperor speaking. Our alliance with the Witness bears such "delectable" fruits. [chuckles] Together, we will devour Sol!|[[Emperor Calus]].}}

The '''Shadow Legion''' (also known as the '''Dark Cabal''') is a [[Cabal]] Legion that act as enforcers to the newly risen [[Disciples of the Witness|Disciple]] of the [[The Witness|Witness]], [[Emperor Calus]] and possess Pyramid tech to suppress the Guardian's powers.<ref>'''Bungie''' - ''[https://www.bungie.net/7/en/Destiny/Lightfall Lightfall]''</ref>

The Legion would arrive at the city of [[Neomuna]] and come into conflict with the Guardian and the city’s protectors, the [[Cloud Strider|Cloud Striders]] [[Rohan]] and [[Nimbus]]. They would be ordered by [[Emperor Calus]] to retrieve the [[The Veil|Veil]] and create a link with it and the [[The Traveler|Traveler]] using the [[Radial Mast]]. The Guardian infiltrated [[Emperor Calus|Calus’s]] ship the [[Typhon Imperator]] to destroy the [[Radial Mast|mast]]. Despite their best efforts, the [[The Guardian|Guardian]] would be forced to retreat with the assistance of the [[Imperial Cabal]] led by [[Empress Caiatl|Caiatl]]. The Legion would attempt to create the link but the [[Radial Mast|mast]] was destroyed by [[Rohan]] who sacrificed himself. [[Emperor Calus|Calus]] would lead an attack to attempt to capture the [[The Veil|Veil]], the former Cabal Emperor would meet his end in the Veil containment room by the hand of the Guardian. However, the [[The Witness|Witness]] possessed the Guardians Ghost and created a link, beginning its plans for the [[Final Shape]] and entering a portal.

Despite the death of their leader, the Shadow Legion would continue to withstand. They began capturing and imprisoning people on [[Earth]] in their [[Shadow Legion Prison|prisons]]. The Coalition would break out [[Amanda Holliday|Amanda]] and organize strike teams to free other prisoners. They would serve and fight for the [[Disciples of the Witness|Disciple]] [[Nezarec, Final God of Pain|Nezarec]] at the [[Essence|terraformed pyramid]], where the resurrected Disciple would be slain. The Guardian, [[Amanda Holliday]], and [[Mithrax, Kell of Light|Mithrax]] would infiltrate a secret prison. They would be warned by [[Eramis, Kell of Darkness|Eramis]] of the danger that resided inside, but they still persisted. They defeated the [[Tormentor]] [[Vereziia, Reverent of the Witness]], and freed the prisoners, but [[Amanda Holliday|Amanda]] was killed in a explosion. The forces of the Coalition would infiltrate and destroy one of the Legion's flagships to take revenge for the death of [[Amanda Holliday|Amanda]].

Fundamentally, the Shadow Legion bears little differences to either Calus's [[Loyalists]] or even the [[Red Legion]], but only augmented by Pyramid technology. Unlike the Loyalists during ''[[Season of the Haunted]]'',  a majority of the Shadow Legion's soldiers are mainly deserters and traitors to the empire while a small number are fully grown cloned Cabal and have no independent thought or higher-brain functions beyond following the will of Calus and The Witness. Prisoners of the Shadow Legion noted that when not being given orders, some of the soldiers just stood guard silently and breathe deeply, almost wheezing, which unnerved the prisoners more than anything. Devrim Kay would add to this during his recon missions on Shadow Legion troops, citing a lack of nuance in their voices and an "emptiness" within them. Crow would later further add that during his engagements with the Shadow Legion, stating that they "fight like [[Frame]]s", mindlessly devoted to the orders they were given.

One notable distinction within the Shadow Legion is that it employs the [[Tormentor]]s, direct soldiers of The Witness, acting as either personal agents of Calus or as specialized field commanders to combat the Guardians thanks to their abilities to drain a Guardian of their powers. Further, due to their shared service to the Witness, the Shadow Legion has also been seen to fight alongside the [[Taken]].

*[[Sizmic, the Net-Desecrator]]

*[[Disruptor Array]]

*''[[Destiny 2]]''

**''[[Lightfall]]'' {{1st}}

***''[[Season of Defiance]]''

***''[[Season of the Deep]]''