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{{quote|Take into your bodies our children, our newborn larvae. From them you shall obtain eternal life. From them you shall gain power over your own fragile flesh: the power to make of it as you will. And should you find an imperfection in the world, an injustice or an inconvenience — you will have the power to repair it. Let no mere law bind you.|[[Yul]]<ref name="Bargain">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#IX:_The_Bargain|IX: The Bargain]]''</ref>}} | {{quote|Take into your bodies our children, our newborn larvae. From them you shall obtain eternal life. From them you shall gain power over your own fragile flesh: the power to make of it as you will. And should you find an imperfection in the world, an injustice or an inconvenience — you will have the power to repair it. Let no mere law bind you.|[[Yul]]<ref name="Bargain">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#IX:_The_Bargain|IX: The Bargain]]''</ref>}} | ||
The '''Worms''' are an ancient, parasitic worm-like species | The '''Worms''' are an ancient, parasitic worm-like species aligned with the [[Darkness]]. | ||
==Overview== | |||
They are disciples of the [[Darkness]] and draw their power directly from it. It is through a pact with the Worms that the ancestors of the [[Hive]] became the Hive and launched their conquest of the whole universe. The Worms are worshipped and revered as the Hive's highest deities, beyond even [[Oryx, the Taken King]] and his sisters [[Savathûn, the Witch-Queen]] and [[Xivu Arath, God of War]]. All Hive are bound symbiotically by a larva from one of the five [[Worm Gods]], which drives them to feed off constant conquest and destruction lest the Worm grow unsatisfied and consume them instead.<ref name="Bargain"/> | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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As adults, Worms can reach tremendous size; [[Xol]], the first of the five Worm Gods encountered by the Guardians, was hundreds of meters in length, and the size of the [[Dreadnaught]] suggests that [[Akka]] (one of whose segments was used by [[Oryx]] to craft his flagship) was orders of magnitude larger. Fully grown Worms are covered with segmented plates and numerous spines, and have heads with six barbed mandibles surrounding glowing eye-like structures. | As adults, Worms can reach tremendous size; [[Xol]], the first of the five Worm Gods encountered by the Guardians, was hundreds of meters in length, and the size of the [[Dreadnaught]] suggests that [[Akka]] (one of whose segments was used by [[Oryx]] to craft his flagship) was orders of magnitude larger. Fully grown Worms are covered with segmented plates and numerous spines, and have heads with six barbed mandibles surrounding glowing eye-like structures. | ||
Notably, the Worm God [[Yul]] describes himself as having wings, while Xol is not seen to possess wings when encountered on [[Mars]]. This may suggest that only the largest and most powerful Worms possess wings, as Xol is implied to have been the least powerful of the Worm Gods.<ref>[https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/46779 '''Bungie''': ''Destiny 2 Narrative Preview'']</ref> | |||
==Worm Gods== | ==Worm Gods== | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*The Worms have very similar speech patterns to the [[Ahamkara]]. As a result, it was theorized that Ahamkara are closely related to, if not the same species as, the Worm Gods, given the similar language used to describe the two, and the use of the phrase "O [subject] mine". The craftmind Medusa (who may in fact be Eris Morn) suggested in a lore entry that this theory was not true, | *The Worms have very similar speech patterns to the [[Ahamkara]]. As a result, it was theorized that Ahamkara are closely related to, if not the same species as, the Worm Gods, given the similar language used to describe the two, and the use of the phrase "O [subject] mine". The craftmind Medusa (who may in fact be Eris Morn) suggested in a lore entry that this theory was not true, instead [[Wikipedia:Convergent evolution|hypothesizing that both species separately evolved to harness the underlying power within the phrase]].<ref>[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/asudem?highlight=Dreaming+City '''Ishtar Collective''': ''[[Dreaming City]]'']</ref>The similarities in the phrases used by the two species can be noted in the table below. | ||
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