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 [[File:Grimoire Ascendant Sword.jpg|thumb|right|150px|The [[Hive]] [[Cleaver]], signature weapon and illustration of the Sword-Logic]]
 {{Quote|The sword binds wielder to victim. It binds life to death.|[[Toland, the Shattered]]<ref name="Ascendant Sword">'''Bungie (2014/12/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire/Activities/Raids#Ascendant_Sword|Ascendant Sword]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Item Description: [http://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/dreadfang Dreadfang]''</ref>}}
-The '''Sword Logic''' is the guiding religious principle of the [[Hive]]. Most of our information comes from the Hive religious text known as the [[Books of Sorrow]]<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard''</ref> and scattered pieces of arcana from Toland's journal.<ref name="Ascendant Sword"/>
+The '''Sword Logic''' is the guiding religious principle of the [[Hive]]. Most of our information comes from the Hive religious text known as the [[Books of Sorrow]]<ref name="Activision">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard''</ref> and scattered pieces of arcana from Toland's journal.<ref name="Ascendant Sword"/>
 ==Overview==
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 ==The Taken==
-{{quote|I am Oryx, the Taken King. And I have the power to take life and make it my own.|Oryx declaring his power after slaying the [[Worm]] god [[Akka]]<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire/Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXVIII:_King_of_Shapes|The Partition of Death]]''</ref>}}
+{{quote|I am Oryx, the Taken King. And I have the power to take life and make it my own.|Oryx declaring his power after slaying the [[Worm]] god [[Akka]]<ref name="partition"/>}}
-The Taken are corrupted members of the various [[races]] within the [[Solar System]]. According to the Hive religious texts, Taken are individuals that have been sent to another place where they are "inhabited" and sent back into our dimension as servants of the [[Oryx, the Taken King|Taken King]].
+The Taken are corrupted members of various [[races|species]] the Hive have encountered and destroyed. First demonstrated against the [[Ecumene]]<ref name="Eat the Sky">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire/Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXVII:_Eat_the_Sky|XXVII: Eat the Sky]]''</ref> after Oryx communed with the Darkness,<ref name="King of Shapes"/> the Taken as a whole are described as a "paracausal [http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Ontopathogenesis ontopathogenic] weapon" which infects the physical existence of an enemy and transforms them into compliant slaves, bound to the will of Oryx.
+The Taken are essentially the direct arm of Oryx, killing to feed his worm, bypassing the Hive hierarchy and tribute system entirely.<ref name="Carved in Ruin"/> This method allows him to kill ''en mass'', far more than his armies could do alone, even when outmatched.<ref name="Eat the Sky"/> Nothing has shown resistance to being Taken<ref name="Activision"/> except the Guardians, possibly because their Light-based origin is antithetical to reality-warping abilities gifted by the Darkness,<ref name="Activision"/> and Ascendant Hive.<ref name="Activision"/>
+==Trivia==
+*The Sword Logic is very similar to the "might makes right" alprohism with several meanings.
+*:One is that a ruling elite determines what society views as right and wrong.
+*:Another is that whomever "labels what they think is good for [themselves] as right, only those who are able to defeat their enemies can push their idea of what is right into fruition".<ref>'''Wikipedia''', ''[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Might_makes_right Might makes right]''</ref>
+*According to William Montague<ref>'''Wikipedia''', ''[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/William_Pepperell_Montague William Pepperell Montague]''</ref>, '''Kraterocracy''' (Gr. κρατερός, or ''krateros'', meaning "strong") is a form of government ruled by those strong enough to have seized the reins of power through might or cunning.<ref>'''Dictionary of Philosophy''', ''[http://www.ditext.com/runes/k.html Kratocracy]''</ref> This is similar to how the Worms introduce Sword Logic to Auryx.<ref name="Weakness Verse"/>
 ==List of appearances==