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** The Books Of Sorrow cards actually go into greater detail on how Oryx and his family worked. It turns out he has a happy, loving relationship with not only his son, but his daughters and his two sisters, who rule the Hive alongside him.
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** The Books Of Sorrow cards actually go into greater detail on how Oryx and his family worked. It turns out he has a happy, loving relationship with not only his son, but his daughters and his two sisters, [[TheTrickster Savathûn]] and [[WarGod Xivu Arath]], who rule the Hive alongside him.him. Of course, this being [[OmnicidalManiac the Hive]], the Books of Sorrow also point out that their love for each other often takes the form of killing each other. However, since the Hive gods are {{Dimension Lord}}s who can only die permanently if killed in their own throne room, which are in AnotherDimension known as "Ascendant Realms", these are just tests of strength to keep them sharp.
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* HeroKiller: See TheDreaded. He's so dangerous that the Citadel calls in every single Guardian they have in defense of themselves, including the typically solitary Stormcaller Warlocks, Nightstalker Hunters, and Sunbreaker Titans.
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* HeroKiller: See TheDreaded. He's so dangerous that the Citadel Tower calls in every single Guardian they have in defense of themselves, including the typically solitary Stormcaller Warlocks, Nightstalker Hunters, and Sunbreaker Titans.
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* HorrorHunger: [[spoiler:As part of the pact with the Hive gods that gave him his power,]] Oryx feeds the "worm" that gives him his power Light through violence and destruction, making both of them stronger. However, the more Oryx himself feeds his worm, the greater it becomes, which makes it even hungrier. Oryx eventually realized that his worm's appetite was beginning to grow faster than he could feed it, at which point it would eat ''him'', until he came up with the Hive's tithing system. Each member of the Hive would feed some of the destruction they caused to their superiors, and they would pass it on to theirs, eventually reaching Oryx. Crota and his sisters are an instrumental link in this chain, and if Oryx's children died he would no longer be able to keep his worm fed and it would eventually turn on him.
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* HorrorHunger: [[spoiler:As part of the pact with the Worm gods of the Hive gods that gave him his power,]] Oryx feeds the "worm" that gives him his power Light through violence and destruction, making both of them stronger. However, the more Oryx himself feeds his worm, the greater it becomes, which makes it even hungrier. Oryx eventually realized that his worm's appetite was beginning to grow faster than he could feed it, at which point it would eat ''him'', until he came up with the Hive's tithing system. Each member of the Hive would feed some of the destruction they caused to their superiors, and they would pass it on to theirs, eventually reaching Oryx. Crota and his sisters are an instrumental link in this chain, and if Oryx's children died he would no longer be able to keep his worm fed and it would eventually turn on him.
* UnnecessarilyLargeVessel: The Dreadnought, Oryx's "fortress", which is millions of years old and clearly as decayed as the Hive themselves are. Surpassing the Fallen Ketches in size, it's so large it's going to be a "Patrol" area. [[UnnecessarilyLargeInterior it also houses gargantuan cavernous spaces]] such as [[http://i.imgur.com/zE9VnFb.png these]].
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* UnnecessarilyLargeVessel: The Dreadnought, Oryx's "fortress", which is millions of years old and clearly as decayed as the Hive themselves are. Surpassing the Fallen Ketches in size, it's so large it's going to be a "Patrol" area. [[UnnecessarilyLargeInterior it also houses gargantuan cavernous spaces]] such as [[http://i.imgur.com/zE9VnFb.png these]].
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: Amazingly enough, his origin as detailed in the Books of Sorrow indicate that he was [[spoiler: once an idealistic heir to the throne of a continent-sized kingdom. Unfortunately, the kingdom was betrayed, and a series of increasingly catastrophic events led to him pledging himself to what would become the gods of the Hive and ultimately serving the Darkness as its willing King. When a Vex simulation of his former self encounters him as he is now, she's appalled at what she's become.]]
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: Amazingly enough, his origin as detailed in the Books of Sorrow indicate that he was [[spoiler: once an idealistic heir to the throne of a continent-sized kingdom. Unfortunately, the kingdom was betrayed, and a series of increasingly catastrophic events led to him pledging himself to what would become the Worm gods of the Hive and ultimately serving the Darkness as its willing King. When a Vex simulation of his former self encounters him as he is now, she's appalled at what she's become.]]
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: His entire rebellion. By trying to kill Oryx, he passed. [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Oryx is very proud of him]].
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: His entire rebellion. By trying to kill Oryx, he He passed. [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Oryx is very proud of him]].
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* BigScrewedUpFamily[=/=]BlueAndOrangeMorality: He has a genuinely loving relationship with his sizable family, including his two sisters, his son, and his daughters. However, to the Hive, "genuine love" is the same thing as "murderous intent". He and his sisters once spent 20,000 years making war and killing each other whenever they got the chance because they loved each other so much.
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* DragonAscendant: Eris organizes the Sunless Cell strike specifically to avert this trope, fearing that if Alak-Hul were to take control of the Hive after Oryx is defeated, he could be even worse.
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* BodyHorror: Beneath his huge helmet, his head is covered in tumorous growths like those of Ogres.
* DragonAscendant: Eris organizes the Sunless Cell strike specifically to avert this trope, fearing thatif Alak-Hul were to take control would assume leadership of the Hive after Oryx is defeated, he could be even worse. Oryx's defeat.
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* OverlordJr: Believe it or not, he's Oryx's foster son.
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: His entire rebellion. By trying to kill Oryx, he passed. [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Oryx is very proud of him]].
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* HorrorHunger: [[spoiler:As part of the pact with the Hive gods that gave him his power,]] Oryx feeds the "worm" that gives him his power Light through violence and destruction, making both of them stronger. However, the more Oryx himself feeds his worm, the greater it becomes, which makes it even hungrier. Oryx eventually realized that at some point his worm would become too powerful and would consume him as part of its ravenous hunger, until he came up with the Hive's tithing system, whereby each member of the Hive would feed some of the Light they consumed to their superiors, and they would pass it on to theirs, eventually reaching Oryx. Crota and his sisters are an instrumental link in this chain, and if Oryx's children died he would no longer be able to keep his worm fed and it would eventually turn on him.
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* HorrorHunger: [[spoiler:As part of the pact with the Hive gods that gave him his power,]] Oryx feeds the "worm" that gives him his power Light through violence and destruction, making both of them stronger. However, the more Oryx himself feeds his worm, the greater it becomes, which makes it even hungrier. Oryx eventually realized that his worm's appetite was beginning to grow faster than he could feed it, at some which point his worm it would become too powerful and would consume him as part of its ravenous hunger, eat ''him'', until he came up with the Hive's tithing system, whereby each system. Each member of the Hive would feed some of the Light destruction they consumed caused to their superiors, and they would pass it on to theirs, eventually reaching Oryx. Crota and his sisters are an instrumental link in this chain, and if Oryx's children died he would no longer be able to keep his worm fed and it would eventually turn on him.
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* KingMook: At first, Oryx appears to be a Wizard with wings, and [[LivingShadow his body appears to be made of pure Darkness]]. He also has what appears to be another (possibly true) form which is decidedly more demonic looking, appearing to be a cross between a Wizard and a Knight, with some wings thrown in for good measure.
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* KingMook: At first, Oryx Averted, a first for Destiny. While his [[FightingAShadow Echo]] appears to be a as an oversized Wizard with wings, and [[LivingShadow a new model, his body appears to be made of pure Darkness]]. He also has what appears to be another (possibly true) true form which is decidedly more demonic looking, appearing to be a cross between a Wizard has no direct counterpart in any other Hive enemy, and uses both magic and a Knight, with some wings thrown sword against you in for good equal measure.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Despite being the God of evil Oryx did love Crota dearly and genuinely misses his son. Oryx goes far that he dresses up a fanatical knight in Crota's colours and knows that it is a pale imitation of Crota, but Oryx desperately just wants to see him again.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Despite being the God of evil Oryx did love Crota dearly and genuinely misses his son. Oryx goes far that he dresses up a fanatical knight in Crota's colours and knows that it is a pale imitation of Crota, but Oryx desperately just wants to see him again.
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: Amazingly enough, his origin as detailed in the Books of Sorrow indicate that he was [[spoiler: once an idealistic heir to the throne of a continent-sized kingdom, with ambitions to become a heroic knight and warrior who would defend his people. Unfortunately, the kingdom was betrayed, and a series of increasingly catastrophic events led to him pledging himself to what would become the gods of the Hive and ultimately serving the Darkness as its willing King. Also he used to be a she called Aurash, and when a Vex simulation of her witnesses her future self she screams in horror at what she becomes and what he does to her race.]]
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: Amazingly enough, his origin as detailed in the Books of Sorrow indicate that he was [[spoiler: once an idealistic heir to the throne of a continent-sized kingdom, with ambitions to become a heroic knight and warrior who would defend his people.kingdom. Unfortunately, the kingdom was betrayed, and a series of increasingly catastrophic events led to him pledging himself to what would become the gods of the Hive and ultimately serving the Darkness as its willing King. Also he used to be a she called Aurash, and when When a Vex simulation of her witnesses her future his former self she screams in horror encounters him as he is now, she's appalled at what she becomes and what he does to her race.she's become.]]
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* BigScrewedUpFamily[=/=]BlueAndOrangeMorality: He has a genuinely loving relationship with his sizable family, including his two sisters, his son, and his daughters. However, to the Hive, "genuine love" is the same thing as "murderous intent". He and his sisters once spent 20,000 years making war and killing each other whenever they got the chance because they loved each other so much.
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* CoolSword: His signature weapon was the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Sword of Crota]], which is infamous enough that the player goes on a mission specifically to destroy it. It consumes the Light of those it kills, and considering Guardians are powered by Light...When you fight Crota himself he uses another sword but to the same deadly efficiency. When he swings it, it often means dying in one hit regardless of class, equipment, or ability.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Killing Crota requires hitting him with a special weapon called the Ascendant Blade, which is a Hive weapon.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Killing Crota requires hitting him with a special weapon called the Ascendant Blade, which is a Hive weapon.
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* CoolSword: His signature weapon was the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Sword of Crota]], which is infamous enough that the player goes on a mission specifically to destroy it. It consumes the Light of those it kills, and considering Guardians are powered by Light... When you fight Crota himself he uses another sword but to the same deadly efficiency. When he swings it, it often means dying in one hit regardless of class, equipment, or ability. \n* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Killing Crota requires hitting him with a special weapon called the Ascendant Blade, which is a Hive weapon.
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* HorrorHunger: As part of the pact with the Hive gods that gave him his power, Oryx feeds the "worm" that gives him his power Light through violence and destruction, making both of them stronger. However, the more Oryx himself feeds his worm, the greater it becomes, which makes it even hungrier. Oryx eventually realized that at some point his worm would become too powerful and would consume him as part of its ravenous hunger, until he came up with the Hive's tithing system, whereby each member of the Hive would feed some of the Light they consumed to their superiors, and they would pass it on to theirs, eventually reaching Oryx. Crota and his sisters are an instrumental link in this chain, and if Oryx's children died he would no longer be able to keep his worm fed and it would eventually turn on him.
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* HorrorHunger: As [[spoiler:As part of the pact with the Hive gods that gave him his power, power,]] Oryx feeds the "worm" that gives him his power Light through violence and destruction, making both of them stronger. However, the more Oryx himself feeds his worm, the greater it becomes, which makes it even hungrier. Oryx eventually realized that at some point his worm would become too powerful and would consume him as part of its ravenous hunger, until he came up with the Hive's tithing system, whereby each member of the Hive would feed some of the Light they consumed to their superiors, and they would pass it on to theirs, eventually reaching Oryx. Crota and his sisters are an instrumental link in this chain, and if Oryx's children died he would no longer be able to keep his worm fed and it would eventually turn on him.
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* HorrorHunger: As part of the pact with the Hive gods that gave him is power, Oryx feeds the "worm" that gives him his power Light through violence and destruction, making both of them stronger. However, the more Oryx himself feeds his worm, the greater it becomes, which makes it even hungrier. Oryx eventually realized that at some point his worm would become too powerful and would consume him as part of its ravenous hunger, until he came up with the Hive's tithing system, whereby each member of the Hive would feed some of the Light they consumed to their superiors, and they would pass it on to theirs, eventually reaching Oryx. Crota and his sisters are an instrumental link in this chain, and if Oryx's children died he would no longer be able to keep his worm fed and it would eventually turn on him.
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* HorrorHunger: As part of the pact with the Hive gods that gave him is his power, Oryx feeds the "worm" that gives him his power Light through violence and destruction, making both of them stronger. However, the more Oryx himself feeds his worm, the greater it becomes, which makes it even hungrier. Oryx eventually realized that at some point his worm would become too powerful and would consume him as part of its ravenous hunger, until he came up with the Hive's tithing system, whereby each member of the Hive would feed some of the Light they consumed to their superiors, and they would pass it on to theirs, eventually reaching Oryx. Crota and his sisters are an instrumental link in this chain, and if Oryx's children died he would no longer be able to keep his worm fed and it would eventually turn on him.
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* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: They're essentially Zombie Alien Wizards [[RunningGag that came from the Moon]].
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* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: They're essentially Zombie Alien Wizards [[RunningGag that came from the Moon]].
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* ExtraEyes: Most of them have three glowing eyes on their helmets. Given that the helmetless Hivebeasts, Thralls and Ogres, are eyeless instead, these may be OrganicTechnology augmentations.
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* ExtraEyes: Most of them have three glowing eyes on their helmets. Given that the helmetless Hivebeasts, Thralls and Ogres, Ogres are eyeless instead, these may be OrganicTechnology augmentations.
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* ItCanThink: The Thralls are amongst the most animalistic and (apparently) mindless foes in the game, which makes it even more surprising when they sneak up behind you or lure you into an ambush. They do that a lot. This is true of all Osmium Hive, they possess a caste system that had Oryx's father on top. However something happened to the father that caused his madness,and Oryx's mother Taox a HIVE WIZARD attempted to have Oryx and his sisters assassinated. From the Grimoire there were two different kingdoms, the Helium Throne which was a kingdom that opposed Oryx, and the Osmium Throne which is Oryx's kingdom. This is a vastly different version of the Hive than the unified hive that were presented to players of Year One Destiny.
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* ItCanThink: The Thralls are amongst the most animalistic and (apparently) mindless foes in the game, which makes it even more surprising when they sneak up behind you or lure you into an ambush. They do that a lot. This is true of all Osmium Hive, they possess a caste system that had Oryx's father on top. However something happened to the father that caused his madness,and Oryx's mother Taox a HIVE WIZARD attempted to have Oryx and his sisters assassinated. From the Grimoire there were two different kingdoms, the Helium Throne which was a kingdom that opposed Oryx, and the Osmium Throne which is Oryx's kingdom. This is a vastly different version of the Hive than the unified hive that were presented to players of Year One Destiny.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Hive philosophers thrive on something called Blade Logic: If something dies, it had no right to exist in the first place. The universe, they believe, will end with all things broken but one, which will exist forever. They find this glorious. [[spoiler: This idea extends all the way up to their gods, who spend eternity [[ResurrectiveImmortality killing each other]] and learning from the attempt. For this gift, the Hive gods [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes love each other.]]]]
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Hive philosophers thrive on something called Blade Sword Logic: If something dies, it had no right to exist in the first place. The universe, they believe, will end with all things broken but one, which will exist forever. They find this glorious. [[spoiler: This idea extends all the way up to their gods, who spend eternity [[ResurrectiveImmortality killing each other]] and learning from the attempt. For this gift, the Hive gods [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes love each other.]]]]
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Hive philosophers thrive on something called Blade Logic: If something dies, it had no right to exist in the first place. The universe, they believe, will end with all things broken but one, which will exist forever. They find this glorious. [[spoiler: This idea extends all the way up to their gods, who spend eternity [[ResurrectiveImmortality killing each other]] and learning from the attempt. For this gift, the Hive gods [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes love each other.]]]]
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* {{BFS}}: Like his son, Oryx wields a massive Hive Cleaver.
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* BossBanter: His boss fight at the end of the "Taken King" questline has him repeatedly shouting his intent to avenge Crota, and sometimes switches to Hive BlackSpeech. His Echo is just as chatty during its many encounters.
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* RecurringBoss: The Echo of Oryx, a spectral manifestation of his presence, is fought a few times in the main questline, and fought several more times in the Taken Wars quest.
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* KillItWithFire: Solar damage is generally most effective against the Hive, particularly their Wizards.
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* HorrorHunger: As part of the pact with the Hive gods that gave him is power, Oryx feeds the "worm" that gives him his power Light through violence and destruction, making both of them stronger. However, the more Oryx himself feeds his worm, the greater it becomes, which makes it even hungrier. Oryx eventually realized that at some point his worm would become too powerful and would consume him as part of its ravenous hunger, until he came up with the Hive's tithing system, whereby each member of the Hive would feed some of the Light they consumed to their superiors, and they would pass it on to theirs, eventually reaching Oryx. Crota and his sisters are an instrumental link in this chain, and if Oryx's children died he would no longer be able to keep his worm fed and it would eventually turn on him.
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* GenderBender: As revealed in the Books of Sorrow, [[spoiler: Oryx was once Aurash, the oldest of three ''sisters.'']]
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* RedBaron: The Taken King. King, the Lord of Shapes, Carver of Tablets, and the First Navigator.
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: Amazingly enough, his origin as detailed in the Books of Sorrow indicate that he was [[spoiler: once an idealistic heir to the throne of a continent-sized kingdom, with ambitions to become a heroic knight and warrior who would defend his people. Unfortunately, the kingdom was betrayed, and a series of increasingly catastrophic events led to him pledging himself to what would become the gods of the Hive and ultimately serving the Darkness as its willing King. Also he used to be a she called Aurach, and when a vex simulation of her witnesses her future self she screams in horror at what she becomes and what he does to her race.]]
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: Amazingly enough, his origin as detailed in the Books of Sorrow indicate that he was [[spoiler: once an idealistic heir to the throne of a continent-sized kingdom, with ambitions to become a heroic knight and warrior who would defend his people. Unfortunately, the kingdom was betrayed, and a series of increasingly catastrophic events led to him pledging himself to what would become the gods of the Hive and ultimately serving the Darkness as its willing King. Also he used to be a she called Aurach, Aurash, and when a vex Vex simulation of her witnesses her future self she screams in horror at what she becomes and what he does to her race.]]
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** [[spoiler:Played straight in his backstory, where his father was killed in the invasion of a rival kingdom, made possible by the traitor Taox.]]
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* HeroKiller: See TheDreaded. He's so dangerous that the Citadel calls in every single Guardian they have in defense of themselves, including the typically solitary Stormcaller Warlocks, Nightstalker Hunters, and Sunbreaker Titans.
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"Where is my son? Where is Crota, your lord, your princely god, your godly prince? Tell me no lies! I feel his absence like a hole in my stomach."
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* MagicKnight: Oryx fights using a combination of dark magic and a giant cleaner called Willbreaker.
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* MagicKnight: Oryx fights using a combination of dark magic and a giant cleaner cleaver called Willbreaker. Willbreaker.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Despite being the God of evil Oryx did love Crota dearly and genuinely misses his son. Oryx goes far that he dresses up a fanatical knight in Crota's colours and knows that it is a pale imitation of Crota, but Oryx desperately just wants to see him again.
"Where is my son? Where is Crota, your lord, your princely god, your godly prince? Tell me no lies! I feel his absence like a hole in my stomach."
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Despite being the God of evil Oryx did love Crota dearly and genuinely misses his son. Oryx goes far that he dresses up a fanatical knight in Crota's colours and knows that it is a pale imitation of Crota, but Oryx desperately just wants to see him again.
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* FightingAShadow: You get to fight the Echo of Oryx in a few missions of the "Taken King" questline, though it's obviously a mimic that pales in comparison to the real Oryx.
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This page details the organic, zombie-like aliens that invade the Solar system in the name of their pantheon. For other characters, head back [[Characters/{{Destiny}} here]] for the character index.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: He is surprisingly fluent in English, moreso than Variks. This also makes him the only Hive to do so. He introduces himself through an apparition by [[PunctuatedForEmphasis slowly and angrily]] making this statement to your Guardian:
--> ''"YOU TOOK MY SON! CROTA! I... WILL TAKE... '''YOU'''!"''
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: He is surprisingly fluent in English, moreso than Variks. This also makes him one of the only few Hive to do so. He introduces himself through an apparition by [[PunctuatedForEmphasis slowly and angrily]] making this statement to your Guardian:
-->''"YOU TOOK MY SON! CROTA! I... WILL TAKE... '''YOU'''!"''''"Light! Give your will to me"''
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* EvilIsHammy: He's a ''King'' and he's pissed at you, so of course he'd get down to tearing your world to pieces in your own language.
--> ''"You... are the last hope of the Light? I have taken entire worlds. You are not worthy to face me."''\\
''"At last! I. Will. Have. Vengeance!"''
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''"At last! I. Will. Have. Vengeance!"''
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* SealedEvilInACan: Oryx locked him in a cell in the Dreadnaught for betraying him.
* TheStarscream: Rebelled against Oryx. He ''really'' shouldn't have done that.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Verok, a Hive Wizard.
* TheStarscream: Rebelled against Oryx. He ''really'' shouldn't have done that.
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* SealedEvilInACan: Oryx locked him in a cell in the Dreadnaught for betraying him.
him. The Strike's objective is to kill him so Oryx's defeat isn't followed up by something even worse.
* TheStarscream:Rebelled against Oryx. He ''really'' shouldn't have done that.
His ambition was to take out Oryx and become the Hive's next successor. Unfortunately for him, it didn't work out, and he got imprisoned for his troubles.
* StealthHiBye: His boss gimmick is to show up next to you and slam you with his axe, and, after taking a few shots, disappear from the map for a moment. This is enforced with the pitch-black darkness of the boss arena, and he usually appears [[RightBehindMe behind your back]].
* TurnsRed: As soon as his health drops to a third, part of his head burns red, and the game announces that he's about to "charge his foes", making him more aggressive.
* UnholyMatrimony:With Rebelled against Oryx in the name of Verok, a Hive Wizard.Wizard and his mate.
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* StealthHiBye: His boss gimmick is to show up next to you and slam you with his axe, and, after taking a few shots, disappear from the map for a moment. This is enforced with the pitch-black darkness of the boss arena, and he usually appears [[RightBehindMe behind your back]].
* TurnsRed: As soon as his health drops to a third, part of his head burns red, and the game announces that he's about to "charge his foes", making him more aggressive.
* UnholyMatrimony:
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[[folder:The Hive in General]]
!!The Hive
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->''"They are nightmares rising from the shadows, and they hunger for our dying hope."''
A mysterious race of techno-zombies whose primary base is on the Moon, but make regular attacks on Earth.
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* ActionBomb: Some Thralls are "cursed" with a volatility and a mission: to terminate themselves in a torrent of pain near their enemies, taking them with them if possible.
* AttackAttackAttack: Hive Thralls, the most newborn of the Hive, known few other tactics, being too bestial and zealous to do very much other than ZergRush their opponents.
* {{BFS}}: Cleavers, giant swords of bone and metal used by Knights to carve through enemy lines.
* BeefGate: In the Beta, a few Hallow Knights are presented as this in areas that contain goodies, or near places you can't explore.
* BeePeople: Despite their relatively humanoid shape and some identifiable human-like mannerisms, they have an extremely eusocial structure with Wizards breeding thousands of other Hive creatures each.
* CannonFodder: Thralls ZergRush tendencies leave them as little more than CannonFodder for the Knights and Wizards. [[spoiler:Apparently, the Darkness views the Hive as this, considering that the Vex are its [[TheDragon primary agents]].]]
* ChurchMilitant: As much crusading devotees in their ReligionOfEvil as they are soldiers.
* CloseRangeCombatant: The Thralls overzealous demeanor leads them to attack foes with their bare claws. Knights also fall into this when using cleavers.
* CreepyCathedral: A vague aesthetic for Hive interior decor, with lots of stone hewed into buttresses and alcoves, tattered ancient banners hung from walls, reliquary urns, and many little glowing crystals placed about that resemble clusters of candles. Given that they are a ReligionOfEvil, their fortresses are as much shrines of worship as cities.
* TheDragon: The Hive are one of the main forces projecting the Darkness' power in the universe.
* FantasticCasteSystem: Established by Oryx himself, in which tithes (read: violence and destruction) are passed up the line from Thrall to Acolyte to Knight, Wizard, and Prince, eventually reaching Oryx and his sisters.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The Hellmouth isn't just their only underground lair on the Moon. It's just where they started digging. By the time of the game, they've filled the ''entire moon'' with subterranean caverns and tunnel networks.
* EliteMooks: Hive Knights, the Hive's most zealous servants, are also the Hive's military leadership, their armor grown and shaped and hardened over centuries while their minds are honed to a tactical keenness and given some of the Hive's most powerful weapons.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: A strong aesthetic with the Hive. In particular, the Thralls, savage, animalistic Hive newborns, function, look, and act much like (fast and surprisingly cunning) zombies.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: From what little we hear of [[BlackSpeech their language]], it sounds like someone dragging a pumice stone over their tongues. The wizards in particular are strong examples.
* EvilIsVisceral: In contrast to the coldly mechanical Vex, [[spoiler:the Darkness's other principal agents in the solar system]], the Hive dive straight into this trope. They're big fans of OrganicTechnology, and even their (mostly) inorganic architecture has an uncomfortable biomechanical-gothic Creator/HRGiger vibe to it. They are also big fans of causing Guardians to die slow painful deaths by torture, as seen in a Grimoire card.
* {{Expy}}:
** A lot of Hive units seem to draw inspiration from the enemies from ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}''. This is especially apparent with Acolytes and Wizards, who are dead ringers for Pfhor Fighters and S'pht Compilers, respectively.
** The [[ActionBomb Cursed Thralls]] bare more than a passing resemblance to the [[DemonicSpiders often-hated]] Wights of Bungie's earlier ''VideoGame/{{Myth}}'' series.
** The Knights bear a strong resemblance to the Elite Zealots from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', being religiously fanatical, sword-bearing military commanders.
* ExtraEyes: Most of them have three glowing eyes on their helmets. Given that the helmetless Hivebeasts, Thralls and Ogres, are eyeless instead, these may be OrganicTechnology augmentations.
* GenderBlenderName: Contrary to the name, Wizards are in fact female.
* GiantMook: Knights are easily brought down by a few headshots, but Ogres are another matter -- very large, very durable, normally in the company of smaller mooks, and they constantly shoot lasers from their face.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: The World's Grave, a massive library containing the names of every planet the Hive have seen the Darkness destroy. An exact number is not given, but Ghost's dialogue indicates that it's ''very'' large.
* GrenadeLauncher: Boomers, the standard weapons for Knights, are energy weapons that function very similarly to conventional grenade launchers. [[spoiler:The similarity in design to Vex Torch Hammers may not be a coincidence.]]
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Male and female Hivebeasts are mutated from the basic Thralls and Acolytes in different ways after proving their worth. Males become Knights and Ogres, who smash stuff with swords, short-ranged grenade launchers, and their own bare hands. Females become Wizards, who hang back from the main battle line and disrupt the enemy with long-ranged energy blasts and poisoned clouds.
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The ''Hellmouth'', their base on the Moon.
* ItCanThink: The Thralls are amongst the most animalistic and (apparently) mindless foes in the game, which makes it even more surprising when they sneak up behind you or lure you into an ambush. They do that a lot. This is true of all Osmium Hive, they possess a caste system that had Oryx's father on top. However something happened to the father that caused his madness,and Oryx's mother Taox a HIVE WIZARD attempted to have Oryx and his sisters assassinated. From the Grimoire there were two different kingdoms, the Helium Throne which was a kingdom that opposed Oryx, and the Osmium Throne which is Oryx's kingdom. This is a vastly different version of the Hive than the unified hive that were presented to players of Year One Destiny.
* KnightOfCerebus: ''Destiny'' may be LovecraftLite, but that requires that it have some CosmicHorror elements to start with, and that's what the Hive first introduce to the storyline. Every time they play a greater role in events, things get that much darker and scarier - your first meeting with them on Earth features a GenreShift from PlanetaryRomance to horror as a tide of screeching Thralls ambush you in a pitch-black room, and the first mission on the Moon shows you your first permanently dead Guardian, and then reveals that he's permanently dead because [[spoiler:the Hive have ''kidnapped his Ghost and slowly tortured the poor little robot to death'']]. Yeesh.
* {{Magitek}}: The most prevalent users in the game, blending mechanical devices and OrganicTechnology with the power of the Darkness to create their tools of war. It's noted in the Grimoire that many Hive guns actually lack a mechanism that would allow them to shoot anything, but can spew baleful energy when held by one of their soldiers anyway.
* MookPromotion: Hivebeasts begin as Thralls and work their way up. Having proven themselves, they are mutated by a Wizard into an Acolyte, the next higher form in the Hive caste system. After an Acolyte proves itself, it be mutated into one of three forms: a Wizard, a Knight, or an Ogre.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: Wizards are responsible for birthing the Hive's armies, though the Hive's sociobiology is so weird that it's unclear whether they physically give birth or just oversee an artificial process.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: When Hive are killed, their bodies disintegrate into ash. And yes, [[OurZombiesAreDifferent you should be concerned by the implications]].
* OmnicidalManiac: The end goal of the Hive is quite literally the destruction of all life in the universe in the name of the Darkness. They operate under what is called "sword logic" - that only the only the strongest and most ruthless life forms have the right to exist, and anything not strong enough to withstand the Hive is quite literally not worthy of existing.
* OrganicTechnology: They make heavy, though not exclusive, use of it. Their soldiers are created through genetic manipulation, their body armour is actually grown from their hides, and several of their most powerful weapons, like the Ogre's EyeBeams, are part of their bodies rather than tools that they carry.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Grimoire card "Ghost Fragment: Hive" asks whether the Hive are even alive as we understand the term.
-->''"Are they alive? They move, they shriek, they fall upon us in ravenous waves. But I see death, decay, and corruption, not life."''
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When the player encounters the Hive in Old Russia, their Ghost notes that the Hive hasn't even set foot on Earth in centuries, and becomes terrified that the Darkness is coming back.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: They're essentially Zombie Alien Wizards [[RunningGag that came from the Moon]].
* ReligionOfEvil: While the Cabal and Fallen see humanity is a pest that needs to be destroyed for them to be able to take their possessions, the Hive ''worship'' the Darkness and see their war with humanity as a Crusade. They have a full pantheon of gods: [[TopGod Oryx]], Eir, Ur, Xol, Yul, and Crota[[note]]pessimistically speculated to be the youngest and weakest of them[[/note]].
* ScaryDogmaticAliens: Their dogma is as scary as it gets - they worship the Darkness as a universal force of destruction, and obliterate planet after planet to show their devotion to it. Their Bible, the Worlds' Grave, is a massive archive of every planet they have destroyed in service of the Darkness.
* ScreamingWarrior: Thralls tend to screech at opponents when charging them. Other Hive tend to just ''[[MightyRoar roar]]'' at opponents.
* SicklyGreenGlow: Much of their technology emanates it, in case they weren't ObviouslyEvil enough already.
* SmokeOut: Hive wizards can conjurer a cloud of darkness that obscures vision and slows and saps any non-Hive that pass through it. They will either project it around themselves to cover displacing their position, or project it onto an enemy to keep them pinned down.
* TurnsRed: A literal example. If a Knight or Ogre takes too much damage in too sort a space of time, they'll start glowing red, regenerate a little health, and charge towards you in a frenzied rage.
* UnholyMatrimony: Their Wizards may have something like this going on, if the BossSubtitles of Xyor being "the Unwed" is anything to go by.
* WeaponizedOffspring: The Thralls are the youngest of the Hive beasts, being the closest thing the Hive have to children. They are nearly mindless, sent almost like {{Attack Animal}}s to ZergRush the Hive's enemies under the supervision of more senior Hive beasts.
* WizardsFromOuterSpace: Their leadership caste (explicitly called Wizards, no less), who can directly employ the power of the Darkness to obliterate their foes and mutate their minions towards whatever purpose is necessary.
* WomenAreDelicate: Wizards, the advanced female Hive morphs, are much more physically fragile than male morphs like Ogres and Knights, though their dark magic makes up for it somewhat.
* WomenAreWiser: Whilst older Knights can have impressive tactical smarts, it's the all-female Wizards who serve as the Hive's scientists and leadership caste.
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!!Crota's Army
[[folder:Crota]]
!!Crota, Son of Oryx
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->''"He waits in the dark below."''
The ancient warlord of the Hive's invasion of the solar system, a Prince supposedly descended from Oryx, their mysterious God-King. In the past, he conquered the Moon and held it against a massive Guardian counterattack, killing hundreds alone in a single battle. A fireteam lead by Eriana-3 managed to assassinate him, but the Hive managed to capture his soul, and there are rumors that he's about to make a comeback.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The Hive's leader in our solar system and easily its most dangerous warrior.
* BigBad: Of ''The Dark Below''. Notably, he isn't personally directing the events of the story, and he only appears in the "Crota's End" raid, but everything is being done in his name.
* CoolSword: His signature weapon was the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Sword of Crota]], which is infamous enough that the player goes on a mission specifically to destroy it. It consumes the Light of those it kills, and considering Guardians are powered by Light...When you fight Crota himself he uses another sword but to the same deadly efficiency. When he swings it, it often means dying in one hit regardless of class, equipment, or ability.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Killing Crota requires hitting him with a special weapon called the Ascendant Blade, which is a Hive weapon.
* DeathCryEcho: Did you hear that last satisfying wail as Crota disintegrated? Unfortunately for you and the rest of the solar system his father Oryx heard it too, and Oryx is answering that cry with a vengeance.
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Pointing at Crota makes him point right back at you.
* TheDreaded: As the warlord responsible for slaughtering thousands of Guardians, he is rightly feared in the Tower.
-->'''Ikora Rey:''' We abandoned the Moon rather than face him.
* EnergyBeing: His true form appears to be as much solid bone as it is transparent greenish energy.
* EvilOverlord: Rules an monstrous underground fortress carved out beneath a lifeless, uninhabitable plain with an army of pseudo-undead and creepy wizards at his command, with ambitions to wipe out humanity in the service of an evil god. Really, he's the straightest example in Destiny. The Dark Below reveals that not only does he rule the Hellmouth, he's also got a [[FinalBossNewDimension personal pocket universe]] to call home. [[spoiler:The similarity between his dimension and the Vex's own pocket dimensions has been noted by Ikora Rey.]]
* FightingAShadow: Deliberately invoked in the Grimoire Card for Crota's End by Eriana-3, where she says that Toland describes his presence on the Moon was such. His actual self resides in AnotherDimension, which is the setpiece for Crota's End.
* GodEmperor: More like a God-Prince. While Oryx is described as the God-King of the Hive, Crota is described as the "heir to the Osmium Throne" and rules the Hive on the Moon in Oryx's name. In the House of Wolves, Petra Venj refers to Crota as a "Hive prince" in the video that plays when the player enters the Reef for the first time.
* GodOfEvil: The Hive views him as such. This being the Hive, of course, [[ReligionOfEvil they see that as a good thing]]. He's also the youngest, and possibly ''weakest'', of their gods.
* IAmXSonOfY: Crota, Son of Oryx. [[MightyRoar Not that Crota ever says that himself.]] Ikora Rey notes that the translation is somewhat disputed among Warlocks. Although that doesn't stop it from actually being literal, since Oryx goes out of his way to call Crota his son.
* KilledOffForReal: Crota appears and perishes during the same raid of ''The Dark Below'', "Crota's End". The third expansion focuses on Oryx, the Taken King, who is out for revenge against the Guardians who killed Crota two expansions earlier.
* KingMook: Not for nothing do they call him the God-Knight. He's a super-Knight and nearly two stories tall.
* OneManArmy: He singlehandedly "butchered the greatest army of Guardians ever assembled." When you go down into the Hive's temples to retrieve the Sword of Crota, your Ghost is able to track its location solely by the Light of the thousands of Guardians who were slain by it in Crota's hands.
* RedBaron: The Son of Oryx, the Monster of Luna, the God-Knight.
* StealthExpert: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKPqSXDTKaw No, seriously]]. It's not fair that something that large can move so silently.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: It turns out that Crota was the one who [[spoiler: woke the Vex up to the Darkness and the Hive gods, and only after studying them did the Vex decide worship was the ideal means to gain power from such entities]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Omnigul]]
!!Omnigul, Will of Crota
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->''"It has been told that with these screams another spawn is awakened, birthed in the name of the god it holds."''
Crota's chief servant, a Wizard working to gather an army of Hive in preparation for her master's revival.
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* ChekhovsGunman: At the start of "The Fist of Crota" mission, you come across her and several of her spawn as they engage the Fallen in battle, though she is not your objective and can be easily skipped over. Come the next mission, and she's directly interfering with Rasputin, requiring you to intercept her.
* TheDragon: To Crota, a role she split with Sardon.
* EnemySummoner: From groups of Thrall up to a giant Ogre called the Might of Crota.
* EvilLaugh: Every time she teleports away, it's punctuated by a high-pitched cackle that rubs in your face.
* EvilSorceror: Repeatedly billed by Eris as clever, Omnigul lays most of the groundwork in preparation for Crota's awakening and is even more powerful than any of the Wizards encountered.
* FlunkyBoss: '''''Good mother of Crota!''''' Her strike is one of the most hated due to the nature of her boss battle: it takes place in an incredibly small room (compared to the large areas of the other strikes' bosses), and she not only has a number of [[GrenadeLauncher Boomer]]-wielding Knights that spawn around the room, but she'll summon a posse of Wizards to fight alongside her multiple times as her health goes down. Throw Arc Burn[[note]]Increases all Arc damage, 3x for enemies, 2x for players[[/note]] into the mix, and trying to leave the hallway leading to this room is a death sentence.
* TheHeavy: Spends all of her time in ''The Dark Below'' ushering in Crota's return and attempting to eliminate threats like Rasputin, though this doesn't make her the expansion's main villain.
* LargeAndInCharge: As the bride of Crota, she's one of the most senior Wizards in the solar system, and much larger than her sisters.
* HornedHumanoid: Unlike other wizards, she has horns growing out of head.
* KingMook: A super-Wizard, with the primary difference being that she has an Arc shield rather than a Solar one.
* OurBansheesAreLouder: Screams constantly in contrast to the lesser Wizards' death wail, and usually summons reinforcements with a very high-pitched shriek.
* UnholyMatrimony: She's the mother of Crota's spawn, and is entirely devoted to him, though it's unlikely that it's because of anything as human and benign as romantic love.
* VillainTeleportation: Given enough damage on anything but the final stretch of her Strike mission, Omnigul will warp away to safety in a cloud of black smoke, often leaving hordes of Hive behind for Guardians to deal with.
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[[folder:Sardon]]
!!Sardon, Fist of Crota
->''"One sword stands tallest among them, leading the charge against us all."''
The primary general of Crota's armies and master of the Swarm Princes. He is dispatched to Earth to pave the way for Crota's return.
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* TheDragon: Shared this role with Omnigul for Crota. Omnigul would spawn the armies, and Sardon would lead them in battle.
* GroundPound: When he hits his cleaver on the ground, it sends an Arc wave along. To ensure that the player has trouble avoiding it, he gives a debuff called "A Dark Burden", which takes away the player's double jump ability.
* KingMook: He's an extra-strong Hive Knight.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Swarm Princes]]
!!The Swarm Princes
The field commanders of Crota's armies. They are also the guardians of the Sword of Crota, waiting for their master to return and restart his campaign.
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* BossInMookClothing: They're extra-strong Hive Knights.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Swarm Princes were the ones who made the Sword of Crota. The very same sword you use to kill them.
* MacGuffinGuardian: They are the protectors of the Sword of Crota.
* ThemeNaming: Each one seems to represent one of the Hive's other gods besides Oryx and Crota.
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[[folder:Phogoth]]
!!Phogoth, The Untamed
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->''"The summoning tempers their rage... but first that rage must be stoked."''
The boss of the Summoning Pits Strike, a Hivebeast currently in the process of being mutated to enormous size in order to serve as a living siege-weapon for his dark masters. It's your responsibility to ensure they don't finish the job.
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* BossDissonance: The whole level leading up to this guy is pretty trivial by itself. The guy himself? Let's just say that people have resorted to finding safe spots everywhere to beat him and camp it out, as much as possible.
* DamageSpongeBoss: An even more severe example than most Strike bosses. That hard-to-hit weakspot doesn't help, either.
* EyeBeams: All Ogres have these, though it's more accurate to say that they're projected from [[BodyHorror the mass of tumorous growths where eyes would otherwise be]]. Phogoth's are particularly large and powerful.
* FlunkyBoss: Not only is he personally formidable, but his mook summons are particularly dangerous, including powerful 'officer' enemies like Knights and Wizards in rather greater numbers than most players will be comfortable with. In fact, his main role in the battle is to use his massive eye lasers to keep Guardians pinned down on the edges of the arena while the Hive minions rush them in close combat. Killing his backup before it gets close enough to threaten the Guardians is a crucial part of the strategy to beat him.
* KingMook: An even more gigantic Ogre, with a much harder-to-hit weakspot.
* MakeMyMonsterGrow: According to the pre-mission dialogue, Phogoth used to be an average Ogre. The Hive than proceeded to "tame" the ever living hell out of him, until he earned his title.
* WakeUpCallBoss: By far, doing this boss even slightly below its recommended level, will kick your ass back to Orbit. His signature eye-laser will crush our health, and the enemies that spawn around him, right from Knights to Wizards, both enemies who are hard to fight on their own, and you got a recipe for a DifficultySpike.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Urzok]]
!!Urzok, the Hated
-> ''"By pleasing their gods, the Hive carve scars on the fabric of our realm."''
A Hive Knight who appears during public events at the Skywatch. He must be killed as part of the Urn of Sacrifice quest.
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* DamageSpongeBoss: By the Traveler, this guy is hard to kill. In addition to a ridiculously powerful Arc shield[[note]]Something Hive Knights only get with the Epic modifier, a difficulty level reserved for the [[BrutalBonusLevel Raids and Nightfall Strikes]][[/note]] (which will only deplete from Arc damage), he's got a rather high amount of health. Not the mention the fact that you'll have to keep clear of dozens of high tier Hive and Fallen while trying to kill him. All in all, he's one of the hardest sub-bosses in the game.
* IronicNickname: From the Hive's perspective, the epithet "the Hated" is highly desired, as it make the [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]] necessary to please the Hive's gods. [[ThatOneBoss The playerbase considers it completely fitting.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ir Yût]]
!!Ir Yût, the Deathsinger
->''"The song is death. To hear it is to die. To know the words is mortal."''
A Wizard, and one of the bosses of Crota's End, preceding the Monster of Luna himself.
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* BrownNote: Her primary attack is by signing the Liturgy of Ruin, a song that will kill the players if she finishes it. Toland the Shattered speculated that the Hive are part of the song to avoid dying to it.
* EvilSorceror: As a Wizard.
* PaletteSwap: She's one for Omnigul, right down to the horns.
* TimedBoss: Once she starts signing the Liturgy, you have thirty seconds to kill her before she kills the entire fireteam.
[[/folder]]
!!Oryx's Court
[[folder:Oryx]]
!!Oryx, the Taken King
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->''"Crota's spawn will snuff out the worlds of Light, and Oryx's coming shall be unfettered."''
The most important deity in the Hive pantheon, Oryx is the God-King of the Hive and the father of Crota, who conquered the Moon in Oryx's name, supposedly to pave the way for his father's own invasion of Earth. All Hive sects owe loyalty to him, and the Hive have built a number of shrines in the Solar system to him.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: He is surprisingly fluent in English, moreso than Variks. This also makes him the only Hive to do so. He introduces himself through an apparition by [[PunctuatedForEmphasis slowly and angrily]] making this statement to your Guardian:
--> ''"YOU TOOK MY SON! CROTA! I... WILL TAKE... '''YOU'''!"''
* AntagonistTitle: He is the eponymous "Taken King".
* {{BFS}}: Like his son, Oryx wields a massive Hive Cleaver.
* BigBad: He is set up as the main antagonist of ''Destiny''[='=]s third expansion, ''The Taken King''.
* TheCorrupter: In addition to the Hive, Oryx leads the Taken, an army made up of other races brought under his thrall by "taking" them from our dimension into Oryx's, altering them with the power of the Darkness to become Oryx's slaves, and then shoving them back into our dimension as little more than living shadows stripped of their free will.
* TheDreaded: To put it bluntly, ''everyone'' is afraid of Oryx. When we first meet him in "The Coming War", Eris Morn goes into a full blown FreakOut, and even [[TheStoic Commander Zavala]] panics slightly. When the Cabal on Mars learn that he's in the Solar system, they flee their bases on Phobos, leaving behind several of their own people, in outright terror. They proceed to send a warning back to the High Command on their homeworld, which gives Legions on Mars direct orders to ''crash a ship'' into the Dreadnaught to form a beachhead, then destroy the Dreadnaught's core. An action that will destroy not only the Dreadnaught, but most of the Solar system. They're that terrified of Oryx.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In this case, his son Crota. The latter's death in ''The Dark Below'' is enough to bring Oryx into focus for the game's third expansion.
** The Books Of Sorrow cards actually go into greater detail on how Oryx and his family worked. It turns out he has a happy, loving relationship with not only his son, but his daughters and his two sisters, who rule the Hive alongside him.
* EvilOverlord: Just as straight an example as Crota, and for many of the same reasons. He has an army of pseudo-undead knights and creepy wizards at his command, rules an OminousFloatingCastle that travels through space, and like Crota, desires to destroy the forces of light with the power of of an evil god (in Oryx's case, the Darkness).
* EvilSoundsDeep[=/=]VoiceOfTheLegion: Speaks with a deep, echoing voice.
* GodEmperor: While Crota was the ruler of the Hive on the Moon, Oryx is the ruler of all the Hive across the Universe. After destroying the Shrine of Oryx, Ghost notes that Oryx was either "Their God or King".
* GodOfEvil: As both their God and King, everything [[ScaryDogmaticAliens the Hive]] do is in his name.
* GodzillaThreshold: Oryx is one for the entire system. The Queen launches her armada away from the Reef to engage him, the Cabal ''hold their fire'' on Guardians when they respond to the distress beacon on Phobos, and eventually the Cabal assault his ship directly with the intent to destroy its core, which threatens to wipe out the entire Solar system. He's ''that'' much of a threat.
* GoodWingsEvilWings: He sports batlike wings that reinforce the feeling that you're dealing with a devil.
* KingMook: At first, Oryx appears to be a Wizard with wings, and [[LivingShadow his body appears to be made of pure Darkness]]. He also has what appears to be another (possibly true) form which is decidedly more demonic looking, appearing to be a cross between a Wizard and a Knight, with some wings thrown in for good measure.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Oryx's skin and armor (chitin?) is red and black. And there is no denying he's evil.
* RedBaron: The Taken King.
* TopGod: "King of the Gods" variety. He is the God-King of the Hive, but is described as "born of Darkness". Whatever that means, it makes Oryx the closest link to the Darkness that the Guardians have ever encountered [[spoiler:with the exception of the Black Heart]].
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Amazingly enough, his origin as detailed in the Books of Sorrow indicate that he was [[spoiler: once an idealistic heir to the throne of a continent-sized kingdom, with ambitions to become a heroic knight and warrior who would defend his people. Unfortunately, the kingdom was betrayed, and a series of increasingly catastrophic events led to him pledging himself to what would become the gods of the Hive and ultimately serving the Darkness as its willing King.]]
* UnnecessarilyLargeVessel: The Dreadnought, Oryx's "fortress", which is millions of years old and clearly as decayed as the Hive themselves are. Surpassing the Fallen Ketches in size, it's so large it's going to be a "Patrol" area. [[UnnecessarilyLargeInterior it also houses gargantuan cavernous spaces]] such as [[http://i.imgur.com/zE9VnFb.png these]].
* YouKilledMyFather: Inverted. The greatest of the Hive gods is coming to the Solar system to avenge his dead spawn, Crota, whom you defeated in "Crota's End".
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!!Other Hive
[[folder:Urrox]]
!!Urrox, Flame Prince
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-> ''"The ground you walk upon shall burn. YOU shall burn."''
Described as a "Prince to none", Urrox is an extremely powerful Hive Knight that is both fanatical in loyalty to the Darkness and not pledged to any of the Hive's deities. He is found in the Prison of Elders, but his reasons for being there are unknown- both why he was in the Reef to start with, and why the Awoken bothered capturing him. Nevertheless, he retains his primary goal as one of the Hive's most powerful- ending as many Guardians as he possibly can, and he's issued a challenge out to every Guardian who dares venture into the Reef saying as much.
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* BloodKnight: Like every other boss in the Prison of Elders, he's called you out to fight him, though in his case, it may only partly be for the thrill of battle.
* KingMook: Looks like a Gatelord-sized Swordbearer, only armed with an enormous boomer instead of a sword.
* LargeAndInCharge: Whatever he's doing in the Reef, it seems that leading every other Hive within it seems to be a part of it.
* PhysicalGod: He's a Hive Prince just like his brother Crota, and is almost as dangerous despite the lack of a home turf advantage.
* PlayingWithFire: He can summon his rage and set the entire arena on fire for 10 seconds at a time. This manifests as you taking Solar damage whenever you touch the floor. Either you bring in a Defender Titan to gain extra shields, or attempt to stay afloat for the gimmick's duration.
** HoistByHisOwnPetard: Is the Solar Burn modifier on? Bad news, his rage now deals much more damage. Good news? So do your Solar weapons, and no other Hive units can deal Solar damage. [[MacrossMissileMassacre Hope you have a team armed with Gjallarhorns]].
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[[folder:Gulrot]]
!!Gulrot, Unclean
-> ''"It is the physical form of sickness and rot; a walking disease."''
An Ogre raised outside of the Summoning Pits by the Worm Keepers, a coven of Hive Wizards trying to take control of the Hive sects in the Prison of Elders. However, the Summoning was flawed, and Gulrot is becoming a walking disease in the Prison.
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* BodyHorror: He has numerous sores covering his body.
* KingMook: He's a super Ogre.
* ZombiePukeAttack: Implied. His gimmick is that he occasionally "belches bile through the room", which causes you and your team to move so dang slow, you may as well not be moving. Add [[ZergRush the swarms of Hive Thralls]], [[OhCrap squads of Boomer Knights]] [[ThisIsGonnaSuck and Wizards into mix]] and you'll be wishing you had a Defender Titan with you.
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[[folder:Alak-Hul]]
!!Alak-Hul, the Darkblade
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The Boss of the Sunless Cell strike, Alak-Hul is a Darkblade, an elite class of Hive knight. One of Crota's lieutenants during the invasion of the Moon, he and his consort Verok were present to fight back Eris Morn and Eriana-3's assassination attempt, and their spawn killed the Titan Vell Tarlowe. Following the raid gone wrong, Alak-Hul and Verok launched a rebellion against Oryx, but the Taken King captured Alak-Hul and imprisoned him within the Dreadnaught, decreeing that he never see light again.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Unlike most Knights, which wield Cleavers or Boomers, Alak-Hul wields a massive axe made of the same properties as a Cleaver.
* DragonAscendant: Eris organizes the Sunless Cell strike specifically to avert this trope, fearing that if Alak-Hul were to take control of the Hive after Oryx is defeated, he could be even worse.
* TheHeretic: As Oryx is the God-King of the Hive, Alak-Hul rebelling against him makes him not only a traitor, but a heretic.
* KingMook: A super-Knight.
* RebelLeader: Lead a rebellion against Oryx after the invasion of the Moon. Apparently, eusocial, Darkness worshiping zombies don't always agree on everything.
* SealedEvilInACan: Oryx locked him in a cell in the Dreadnaught for betraying him.
* TheStarscream: Rebelled against Oryx. He ''really'' shouldn't have done that.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Verok, a Hive Wizard.
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[[folder:The Hive in General]]
!!The Hive
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->''"They are nightmares rising from the shadows, and they hunger for our dying hope."''
A mysterious race of techno-zombies whose primary base is on the Moon, but make regular attacks on Earth.
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* ActionBomb: Some Thralls are "cursed" with a volatility and a mission: to terminate themselves in a torrent of pain near their enemies, taking them with them if possible.
* AttackAttackAttack: Hive Thralls, the most newborn of the Hive, known few other tactics, being too bestial and zealous to do very much other than ZergRush their opponents.
* {{BFS}}: Cleavers, giant swords of bone and metal used by Knights to carve through enemy lines.
* BeefGate: In the Beta, a few Hallow Knights are presented as this in areas that contain goodies, or near places you can't explore.
* BeePeople: Despite their relatively humanoid shape and some identifiable human-like mannerisms, they have an extremely eusocial structure with Wizards breeding thousands of other Hive creatures each.
* CannonFodder: Thralls ZergRush tendencies leave them as little more than CannonFodder for the Knights and Wizards. [[spoiler:Apparently, the Darkness views the Hive as this, considering that the Vex are its [[TheDragon primary agents]].]]
* ChurchMilitant: As much crusading devotees in their ReligionOfEvil as they are soldiers.
* CloseRangeCombatant: The Thralls overzealous demeanor leads them to attack foes with their bare claws. Knights also fall into this when using cleavers.
* CreepyCathedral: A vague aesthetic for Hive interior decor, with lots of stone hewed into buttresses and alcoves, tattered ancient banners hung from walls, reliquary urns, and many little glowing crystals placed about that resemble clusters of candles. Given that they are a ReligionOfEvil, their fortresses are as much shrines of worship as cities.
* TheDragon: The Hive are one of the main forces projecting the Darkness' power in the universe.
* FantasticCasteSystem: Established by Oryx himself, in which tithes (read: violence and destruction) are passed up the line from Thrall to Acolyte to Knight, Wizard, and Prince, eventually reaching Oryx and his sisters.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The Hellmouth isn't just their only underground lair on the Moon. It's just where they started digging. By the time of the game, they've filled the ''entire moon'' with subterranean caverns and tunnel networks.
* EliteMooks: Hive Knights, the Hive's most zealous servants, are also the Hive's military leadership, their armor grown and shaped and hardened over centuries while their minds are honed to a tactical keenness and given some of the Hive's most powerful weapons.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: A strong aesthetic with the Hive. In particular, the Thralls, savage, animalistic Hive newborns, function, look, and act much like (fast and surprisingly cunning) zombies.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: From what little we hear of [[BlackSpeech their language]], it sounds like someone dragging a pumice stone over their tongues. The wizards in particular are strong examples.
* EvilIsVisceral: In contrast to the coldly mechanical Vex, [[spoiler:the Darkness's other principal agents in the solar system]], the Hive dive straight into this trope. They're big fans of OrganicTechnology, and even their (mostly) inorganic architecture has an uncomfortable biomechanical-gothic Creator/HRGiger vibe to it. They are also big fans of causing Guardians to die slow painful deaths by torture, as seen in a Grimoire card.
* {{Expy}}:
** A lot of Hive units seem to draw inspiration from the enemies from ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}''. This is especially apparent with Acolytes and Wizards, who are dead ringers for Pfhor Fighters and S'pht Compilers, respectively.
** The [[ActionBomb Cursed Thralls]] bare more than a passing resemblance to the [[DemonicSpiders often-hated]] Wights of Bungie's earlier ''VideoGame/{{Myth}}'' series.
** The Knights bear a strong resemblance to the Elite Zealots from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', being religiously fanatical, sword-bearing military commanders.
* ExtraEyes: Most of them have three glowing eyes on their helmets. Given that the helmetless Hivebeasts, Thralls and Ogres, are eyeless instead, these may be OrganicTechnology augmentations.
* GenderBlenderName: Contrary to the name, Wizards are in fact female.
* GiantMook: Knights are easily brought down by a few headshots, but Ogres are another matter -- very large, very durable, normally in the company of smaller mooks, and they constantly shoot lasers from their face.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: The World's Grave, a massive library containing the names of every planet the Hive have seen the Darkness destroy. An exact number is not given, but Ghost's dialogue indicates that it's ''very'' large.
* GrenadeLauncher: Boomers, the standard weapons for Knights, are energy weapons that function very similarly to conventional grenade launchers. [[spoiler:The similarity in design to Vex Torch Hammers may not be a coincidence.]]
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Male and female Hivebeasts are mutated from the basic Thralls and Acolytes in different ways after proving their worth. Males become Knights and Ogres, who smash stuff with swords, short-ranged grenade launchers, and their own bare hands. Females become Wizards, who hang back from the main battle line and disrupt the enemy with long-ranged energy blasts and poisoned clouds.
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The ''Hellmouth'', their base on the Moon.
* ItCanThink: The Thralls are amongst the most animalistic and (apparently) mindless foes in the game, which makes it even more surprising when they sneak up behind you or lure you into an ambush. They do that a lot. This is true of all Osmium Hive, they possess a caste system that had Oryx's father on top. However something happened to the father that caused his madness,and Oryx's mother Taox a HIVE WIZARD attempted to have Oryx and his sisters assassinated. From the Grimoire there were two different kingdoms, the Helium Throne which was a kingdom that opposed Oryx, and the Osmium Throne which is Oryx's kingdom. This is a vastly different version of the Hive than the unified hive that were presented to players of Year One Destiny.
* KnightOfCerebus: ''Destiny'' may be LovecraftLite, but that requires that it have some CosmicHorror elements to start with, and that's what the Hive first introduce to the storyline. Every time they play a greater role in events, things get that much darker and scarier - your first meeting with them on Earth features a GenreShift from PlanetaryRomance to horror as a tide of screeching Thralls ambush you in a pitch-black room, and the first mission on the Moon shows you your first permanently dead Guardian, and then reveals that he's permanently dead because [[spoiler:the Hive have ''kidnapped his Ghost and slowly tortured the poor little robot to death'']]. Yeesh.
* {{Magitek}}: The most prevalent users in the game, blending mechanical devices and OrganicTechnology with the power of the Darkness to create their tools of war. It's noted in the Grimoire that many Hive guns actually lack a mechanism that would allow them to shoot anything, but can spew baleful energy when held by one of their soldiers anyway.
* MookPromotion: Hivebeasts begin as Thralls and work their way up. Having proven themselves, they are mutated by a Wizard into an Acolyte, the next higher form in the Hive caste system. After an Acolyte proves itself, it be mutated into one of three forms: a Wizard, a Knight, or an Ogre.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: Wizards are responsible for birthing the Hive's armies, though the Hive's sociobiology is so weird that it's unclear whether they physically give birth or just oversee an artificial process.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: When Hive are killed, their bodies disintegrate into ash. And yes, [[OurZombiesAreDifferent you should be concerned by the implications]].
* OmnicidalManiac: The end goal of the Hive is quite literally the destruction of all life in the universe in the name of the Darkness. They operate under what is called "sword logic" - that only the only the strongest and most ruthless life forms have the right to exist, and anything not strong enough to withstand the Hive is quite literally not worthy of existing.
* OrganicTechnology: They make heavy, though not exclusive, use of it. Their soldiers are created through genetic manipulation, their body armour is actually grown from their hides, and several of their most powerful weapons, like the Ogre's EyeBeams, are part of their bodies rather than tools that they carry.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Grimoire card "Ghost Fragment: Hive" asks whether the Hive are even alive as we understand the term.
-->''"Are they alive? They move, they shriek, they fall upon us in ravenous waves. But I see death, decay, and corruption, not life."''
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When the player encounters the Hive in Old Russia, their Ghost notes that the Hive hasn't even set foot on Earth in centuries, and becomes terrified that the Darkness is coming back.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: They're essentially Zombie Alien Wizards [[RunningGag that came from the Moon]].
* ReligionOfEvil: While the Cabal and Fallen see humanity is a pest that needs to be destroyed for them to be able to take their possessions, the Hive ''worship'' the Darkness and see their war with humanity as a Crusade. They have a full pantheon of gods: [[TopGod Oryx]], Eir, Ur, Xol, Yul, and Crota[[note]]pessimistically speculated to be the youngest and weakest of them[[/note]].
* ScaryDogmaticAliens: Their dogma is as scary as it gets - they worship the Darkness as a universal force of destruction, and obliterate planet after planet to show their devotion to it. Their Bible, the Worlds' Grave, is a massive archive of every planet they have destroyed in service of the Darkness.
* ScreamingWarrior: Thralls tend to screech at opponents when charging them. Other Hive tend to just ''[[MightyRoar roar]]'' at opponents.
* SicklyGreenGlow: Much of their technology emanates it, in case they weren't ObviouslyEvil enough already.
* SmokeOut: Hive wizards can conjurer a cloud of darkness that obscures vision and slows and saps any non-Hive that pass through it. They will either project it around themselves to cover displacing their position, or project it onto an enemy to keep them pinned down.
* TurnsRed: A literal example. If a Knight or Ogre takes too much damage in too sort a space of time, they'll start glowing red, regenerate a little health, and charge towards you in a frenzied rage.
* UnholyMatrimony: Their Wizards may have something like this going on, if the BossSubtitles of Xyor being "the Unwed" is anything to go by.
* WeaponizedOffspring: The Thralls are the youngest of the Hive beasts, being the closest thing the Hive have to children. They are nearly mindless, sent almost like {{Attack Animal}}s to ZergRush the Hive's enemies under the supervision of more senior Hive beasts.
* WizardsFromOuterSpace: Their leadership caste (explicitly called Wizards, no less), who can directly employ the power of the Darkness to obliterate their foes and mutate their minions towards whatever purpose is necessary.
* WomenAreDelicate: Wizards, the advanced female Hive morphs, are much more physically fragile than male morphs like Ogres and Knights, though their dark magic makes up for it somewhat.
* WomenAreWiser: Whilst older Knights can have impressive tactical smarts, it's the all-female Wizards who serve as the Hive's scientists and leadership caste.
[[/folder]]
!!Crota's Army
[[folder:Crota]]
!!Crota, Son of Oryx
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->''"He waits in the dark below."''
The ancient warlord of the Hive's invasion of the solar system, a Prince supposedly descended from Oryx, their mysterious God-King. In the past, he conquered the Moon and held it against a massive Guardian counterattack, killing hundreds alone in a single battle. A fireteam lead by Eriana-3 managed to assassinate him, but the Hive managed to capture his soul, and there are rumors that he's about to make a comeback.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The Hive's leader in our solar system and easily its most dangerous warrior.
* BigBad: Of ''The Dark Below''. Notably, he isn't personally directing the events of the story, and he only appears in the "Crota's End" raid, but everything is being done in his name.
* CoolSword: His signature weapon was the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Sword of Crota]], which is infamous enough that the player goes on a mission specifically to destroy it. It consumes the Light of those it kills, and considering Guardians are powered by Light...When you fight Crota himself he uses another sword but to the same deadly efficiency. When he swings it, it often means dying in one hit regardless of class, equipment, or ability.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Killing Crota requires hitting him with a special weapon called the Ascendant Blade, which is a Hive weapon.
* DeathCryEcho: Did you hear that last satisfying wail as Crota disintegrated? Unfortunately for you and the rest of the solar system his father Oryx heard it too, and Oryx is answering that cry with a vengeance.
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Pointing at Crota makes him point right back at you.
* TheDreaded: As the warlord responsible for slaughtering thousands of Guardians, he is rightly feared in the Tower.
-->'''Ikora Rey:''' We abandoned the Moon rather than face him.
* EnergyBeing: His true form appears to be as much solid bone as it is transparent greenish energy.
* EvilOverlord: Rules an monstrous underground fortress carved out beneath a lifeless, uninhabitable plain with an army of pseudo-undead and creepy wizards at his command, with ambitions to wipe out humanity in the service of an evil god. Really, he's the straightest example in Destiny. The Dark Below reveals that not only does he rule the Hellmouth, he's also got a [[FinalBossNewDimension personal pocket universe]] to call home. [[spoiler:The similarity between his dimension and the Vex's own pocket dimensions has been noted by Ikora Rey.]]
* FightingAShadow: Deliberately invoked in the Grimoire Card for Crota's End by Eriana-3, where she says that Toland describes his presence on the Moon was such. His actual self resides in AnotherDimension, which is the setpiece for Crota's End.
* GodEmperor: More like a God-Prince. While Oryx is described as the God-King of the Hive, Crota is described as the "heir to the Osmium Throne" and rules the Hive on the Moon in Oryx's name. In the House of Wolves, Petra Venj refers to Crota as a "Hive prince" in the video that plays when the player enters the Reef for the first time.
* GodOfEvil: The Hive views him as such. This being the Hive, of course, [[ReligionOfEvil they see that as a good thing]]. He's also the youngest, and possibly ''weakest'', of their gods.
* IAmXSonOfY: Crota, Son of Oryx. [[MightyRoar Not that Crota ever says that himself.]] Ikora Rey notes that the translation is somewhat disputed among Warlocks. Although that doesn't stop it from actually being literal, since Oryx goes out of his way to call Crota his son.
* KilledOffForReal: Crota appears and perishes during the same raid of ''The Dark Below'', "Crota's End". The third expansion focuses on Oryx, the Taken King, who is out for revenge against the Guardians who killed Crota two expansions earlier.
* KingMook: Not for nothing do they call him the God-Knight. He's a super-Knight and nearly two stories tall.
* OneManArmy: He singlehandedly "butchered the greatest army of Guardians ever assembled." When you go down into the Hive's temples to retrieve the Sword of Crota, your Ghost is able to track its location solely by the Light of the thousands of Guardians who were slain by it in Crota's hands.
* RedBaron: The Son of Oryx, the Monster of Luna, the God-Knight.
* StealthExpert: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKPqSXDTKaw No, seriously]]. It's not fair that something that large can move so silently.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: It turns out that Crota was the one who [[spoiler: woke the Vex up to the Darkness and the Hive gods, and only after studying them did the Vex decide worship was the ideal means to gain power from such entities]].
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[[folder:Omnigul]]
!!Omnigul, Will of Crota
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->''"It has been told that with these screams another spawn is awakened, birthed in the name of the god it holds."''
Crota's chief servant, a Wizard working to gather an army of Hive in preparation for her master's revival.
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* ChekhovsGunman: At the start of "The Fist of Crota" mission, you come across her and several of her spawn as they engage the Fallen in battle, though she is not your objective and can be easily skipped over. Come the next mission, and she's directly interfering with Rasputin, requiring you to intercept her.
* TheDragon: To Crota, a role she split with Sardon.
* EnemySummoner: From groups of Thrall up to a giant Ogre called the Might of Crota.
* EvilLaugh: Every time she teleports away, it's punctuated by a high-pitched cackle that rubs in your face.
* EvilSorceror: Repeatedly billed by Eris as clever, Omnigul lays most of the groundwork in preparation for Crota's awakening and is even more powerful than any of the Wizards encountered.
* FlunkyBoss: '''''Good mother of Crota!''''' Her strike is one of the most hated due to the nature of her boss battle: it takes place in an incredibly small room (compared to the large areas of the other strikes' bosses), and she not only has a number of [[GrenadeLauncher Boomer]]-wielding Knights that spawn around the room, but she'll summon a posse of Wizards to fight alongside her multiple times as her health goes down. Throw Arc Burn[[note]]Increases all Arc damage, 3x for enemies, 2x for players[[/note]] into the mix, and trying to leave the hallway leading to this room is a death sentence.
* TheHeavy: Spends all of her time in ''The Dark Below'' ushering in Crota's return and attempting to eliminate threats like Rasputin, though this doesn't make her the expansion's main villain.
* LargeAndInCharge: As the bride of Crota, she's one of the most senior Wizards in the solar system, and much larger than her sisters.
* HornedHumanoid: Unlike other wizards, she has horns growing out of head.
* KingMook: A super-Wizard, with the primary difference being that she has an Arc shield rather than a Solar one.
* OurBansheesAreLouder: Screams constantly in contrast to the lesser Wizards' death wail, and usually summons reinforcements with a very high-pitched shriek.
* UnholyMatrimony: She's the mother of Crota's spawn, and is entirely devoted to him, though it's unlikely that it's because of anything as human and benign as romantic love.
* VillainTeleportation: Given enough damage on anything but the final stretch of her Strike mission, Omnigul will warp away to safety in a cloud of black smoke, often leaving hordes of Hive behind for Guardians to deal with.
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[[folder:Sardon]]
!!Sardon, Fist of Crota
->''"One sword stands tallest among them, leading the charge against us all."''
The primary general of Crota's armies and master of the Swarm Princes. He is dispatched to Earth to pave the way for Crota's return.
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* TheDragon: Shared this role with Omnigul for Crota. Omnigul would spawn the armies, and Sardon would lead them in battle.
* GroundPound: When he hits his cleaver on the ground, it sends an Arc wave along. To ensure that the player has trouble avoiding it, he gives a debuff called "A Dark Burden", which takes away the player's double jump ability.
* KingMook: He's an extra-strong Hive Knight.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Swarm Princes]]
!!The Swarm Princes
The field commanders of Crota's armies. They are also the guardians of the Sword of Crota, waiting for their master to return and restart his campaign.
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* BossInMookClothing: They're extra-strong Hive Knights.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Swarm Princes were the ones who made the Sword of Crota. The very same sword you use to kill them.
* MacGuffinGuardian: They are the protectors of the Sword of Crota.
* ThemeNaming: Each one seems to represent one of the Hive's other gods besides Oryx and Crota.
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[[folder:Phogoth]]
!!Phogoth, The Untamed
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->''"The summoning tempers their rage... but first that rage must be stoked."''
The boss of the Summoning Pits Strike, a Hivebeast currently in the process of being mutated to enormous size in order to serve as a living siege-weapon for his dark masters. It's your responsibility to ensure they don't finish the job.
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* BossDissonance: The whole level leading up to this guy is pretty trivial by itself. The guy himself? Let's just say that people have resorted to finding safe spots everywhere to beat him and camp it out, as much as possible.
* DamageSpongeBoss: An even more severe example than most Strike bosses. That hard-to-hit weakspot doesn't help, either.
* EyeBeams: All Ogres have these, though it's more accurate to say that they're projected from [[BodyHorror the mass of tumorous growths where eyes would otherwise be]]. Phogoth's are particularly large and powerful.
* FlunkyBoss: Not only is he personally formidable, but his mook summons are particularly dangerous, including powerful 'officer' enemies like Knights and Wizards in rather greater numbers than most players will be comfortable with. In fact, his main role in the battle is to use his massive eye lasers to keep Guardians pinned down on the edges of the arena while the Hive minions rush them in close combat. Killing his backup before it gets close enough to threaten the Guardians is a crucial part of the strategy to beat him.
* KingMook: An even more gigantic Ogre, with a much harder-to-hit weakspot.
* MakeMyMonsterGrow: According to the pre-mission dialogue, Phogoth used to be an average Ogre. The Hive than proceeded to "tame" the ever living hell out of him, until he earned his title.
* WakeUpCallBoss: By far, doing this boss even slightly below its recommended level, will kick your ass back to Orbit. His signature eye-laser will crush our health, and the enemies that spawn around him, right from Knights to Wizards, both enemies who are hard to fight on their own, and you got a recipe for a DifficultySpike.
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[[folder:Urzok]]
!!Urzok, the Hated
-> ''"By pleasing their gods, the Hive carve scars on the fabric of our realm."''
A Hive Knight who appears during public events at the Skywatch. He must be killed as part of the Urn of Sacrifice quest.
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* DamageSpongeBoss: By the Traveler, this guy is hard to kill. In addition to a ridiculously powerful Arc shield[[note]]Something Hive Knights only get with the Epic modifier, a difficulty level reserved for the [[BrutalBonusLevel Raids and Nightfall Strikes]][[/note]] (which will only deplete from Arc damage), he's got a rather high amount of health. Not the mention the fact that you'll have to keep clear of dozens of high tier Hive and Fallen while trying to kill him. All in all, he's one of the hardest sub-bosses in the game.
* IronicNickname: From the Hive's perspective, the epithet "the Hated" is highly desired, as it make the [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]] necessary to please the Hive's gods. [[ThatOneBoss The playerbase considers it completely fitting.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ir Yût]]
!!Ir Yût, the Deathsinger
->''"The song is death. To hear it is to die. To know the words is mortal."''
A Wizard, and one of the bosses of Crota's End, preceding the Monster of Luna himself.
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* BrownNote: Her primary attack is by signing the Liturgy of Ruin, a song that will kill the players if she finishes it. Toland the Shattered speculated that the Hive are part of the song to avoid dying to it.
* EvilSorceror: As a Wizard.
* PaletteSwap: She's one for Omnigul, right down to the horns.
* TimedBoss: Once she starts signing the Liturgy, you have thirty seconds to kill her before she kills the entire fireteam.
[[/folder]]
!!Oryx's Court
[[folder:Oryx]]
!!Oryx, the Taken King
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->''"Crota's spawn will snuff out the worlds of Light, and Oryx's coming shall be unfettered."''
The most important deity in the Hive pantheon, Oryx is the God-King of the Hive and the father of Crota, who conquered the Moon in Oryx's name, supposedly to pave the way for his father's own invasion of Earth. All Hive sects owe loyalty to him, and the Hive have built a number of shrines in the Solar system to him.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: He is surprisingly fluent in English, moreso than Variks. This also makes him the only Hive to do so. He introduces himself through an apparition by [[PunctuatedForEmphasis slowly and angrily]] making this statement to your Guardian:
--> ''"YOU TOOK MY SON! CROTA! I... WILL TAKE... '''YOU'''!"''
* AntagonistTitle: He is the eponymous "Taken King".
* {{BFS}}: Like his son, Oryx wields a massive Hive Cleaver.
* BigBad: He is set up as the main antagonist of ''Destiny''[='=]s third expansion, ''The Taken King''.
* TheCorrupter: In addition to the Hive, Oryx leads the Taken, an army made up of other races brought under his thrall by "taking" them from our dimension into Oryx's, altering them with the power of the Darkness to become Oryx's slaves, and then shoving them back into our dimension as little more than living shadows stripped of their free will.
* TheDreaded: To put it bluntly, ''everyone'' is afraid of Oryx. When we first meet him in "The Coming War", Eris Morn goes into a full blown FreakOut, and even [[TheStoic Commander Zavala]] panics slightly. When the Cabal on Mars learn that he's in the Solar system, they flee their bases on Phobos, leaving behind several of their own people, in outright terror. They proceed to send a warning back to the High Command on their homeworld, which gives Legions on Mars direct orders to ''crash a ship'' into the Dreadnaught to form a beachhead, then destroy the Dreadnaught's core. An action that will destroy not only the Dreadnaught, but most of the Solar system. They're that terrified of Oryx.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In this case, his son Crota. The latter's death in ''The Dark Below'' is enough to bring Oryx into focus for the game's third expansion.
** The Books Of Sorrow cards actually go into greater detail on how Oryx and his family worked. It turns out he has a happy, loving relationship with not only his son, but his daughters and his two sisters, who rule the Hive alongside him.
* EvilOverlord: Just as straight an example as Crota, and for many of the same reasons. He has an army of pseudo-undead knights and creepy wizards at his command, rules an OminousFloatingCastle that travels through space, and like Crota, desires to destroy the forces of light with the power of of an evil god (in Oryx's case, the Darkness).
* EvilSoundsDeep[=/=]VoiceOfTheLegion: Speaks with a deep, echoing voice.
* GodEmperor: While Crota was the ruler of the Hive on the Moon, Oryx is the ruler of all the Hive across the Universe. After destroying the Shrine of Oryx, Ghost notes that Oryx was either "Their God or King".
* GodOfEvil: As both their God and King, everything [[ScaryDogmaticAliens the Hive]] do is in his name.
* GodzillaThreshold: Oryx is one for the entire system. The Queen launches her armada away from the Reef to engage him, the Cabal ''hold their fire'' on Guardians when they respond to the distress beacon on Phobos, and eventually the Cabal assault his ship directly with the intent to destroy its core, which threatens to wipe out the entire Solar system. He's ''that'' much of a threat.
* GoodWingsEvilWings: He sports batlike wings that reinforce the feeling that you're dealing with a devil.
* KingMook: At first, Oryx appears to be a Wizard with wings, and [[LivingShadow his body appears to be made of pure Darkness]]. He also has what appears to be another (possibly true) form which is decidedly more demonic looking, appearing to be a cross between a Wizard and a Knight, with some wings thrown in for good measure.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Oryx's skin and armor (chitin?) is red and black. And there is no denying he's evil.
* RedBaron: The Taken King.
* TopGod: "King of the Gods" variety. He is the God-King of the Hive, but is described as "born of Darkness". Whatever that means, it makes Oryx the closest link to the Darkness that the Guardians have ever encountered [[spoiler:with the exception of the Black Heart]].
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Amazingly enough, his origin as detailed in the Books of Sorrow indicate that he was [[spoiler: once an idealistic heir to the throne of a continent-sized kingdom, with ambitions to become a heroic knight and warrior who would defend his people. Unfortunately, the kingdom was betrayed, and a series of increasingly catastrophic events led to him pledging himself to what would become the gods of the Hive and ultimately serving the Darkness as its willing King.]]
* UnnecessarilyLargeVessel: The Dreadnought, Oryx's "fortress", which is millions of years old and clearly as decayed as the Hive themselves are. Surpassing the Fallen Ketches in size, it's so large it's going to be a "Patrol" area. [[UnnecessarilyLargeInterior it also houses gargantuan cavernous spaces]] such as [[http://i.imgur.com/zE9VnFb.png these]].
* YouKilledMyFather: Inverted. The greatest of the Hive gods is coming to the Solar system to avenge his dead spawn, Crota, whom you defeated in "Crota's End".
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!!Other Hive
[[folder:Urrox]]
!!Urrox, Flame Prince
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-> ''"The ground you walk upon shall burn. YOU shall burn."''
Described as a "Prince to none", Urrox is an extremely powerful Hive Knight that is both fanatical in loyalty to the Darkness and not pledged to any of the Hive's deities. He is found in the Prison of Elders, but his reasons for being there are unknown- both why he was in the Reef to start with, and why the Awoken bothered capturing him. Nevertheless, he retains his primary goal as one of the Hive's most powerful- ending as many Guardians as he possibly can, and he's issued a challenge out to every Guardian who dares venture into the Reef saying as much.
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* BloodKnight: Like every other boss in the Prison of Elders, he's called you out to fight him, though in his case, it may only partly be for the thrill of battle.
* KingMook: Looks like a Gatelord-sized Swordbearer, only armed with an enormous boomer instead of a sword.
* LargeAndInCharge: Whatever he's doing in the Reef, it seems that leading every other Hive within it seems to be a part of it.
* PhysicalGod: He's a Hive Prince just like his brother Crota, and is almost as dangerous despite the lack of a home turf advantage.
* PlayingWithFire: He can summon his rage and set the entire arena on fire for 10 seconds at a time. This manifests as you taking Solar damage whenever you touch the floor. Either you bring in a Defender Titan to gain extra shields, or attempt to stay afloat for the gimmick's duration.
** HoistByHisOwnPetard: Is the Solar Burn modifier on? Bad news, his rage now deals much more damage. Good news? So do your Solar weapons, and no other Hive units can deal Solar damage. [[MacrossMissileMassacre Hope you have a team armed with Gjallarhorns]].
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!!Gulrot, Unclean
-> ''"It is the physical form of sickness and rot; a walking disease."''
An Ogre raised outside of the Summoning Pits by the Worm Keepers, a coven of Hive Wizards trying to take control of the Hive sects in the Prison of Elders. However, the Summoning was flawed, and Gulrot is becoming a walking disease in the Prison.
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* BodyHorror: He has numerous sores covering his body.
* KingMook: He's a super Ogre.
* ZombiePukeAttack: Implied. His gimmick is that he occasionally "belches bile through the room", which causes you and your team to move so dang slow, you may as well not be moving. Add [[ZergRush the swarms of Hive Thralls]], [[OhCrap squads of Boomer Knights]] [[ThisIsGonnaSuck and Wizards into mix]] and you'll be wishing you had a Defender Titan with you.
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[[folder:Alak-Hul]]
!!Alak-Hul, the Darkblade
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The Boss of the Sunless Cell strike, Alak-Hul is a Darkblade, an elite class of Hive knight. One of Crota's lieutenants during the invasion of the Moon, he and his consort Verok were present to fight back Eris Morn and Eriana-3's assassination attempt, and their spawn killed the Titan Vell Tarlowe. Following the raid gone wrong, Alak-Hul and Verok launched a rebellion against Oryx, but the Taken King captured Alak-Hul and imprisoned him within the Dreadnaught, decreeing that he never see light again.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Unlike most Knights, which wield Cleavers or Boomers, Alak-Hul wields a massive axe made of the same properties as a Cleaver.
* DragonAscendant: Eris organizes the Sunless Cell strike specifically to avert this trope, fearing that if Alak-Hul were to take control of the Hive after Oryx is defeated, he could be even worse.
* TheHeretic: As Oryx is the God-King of the Hive, Alak-Hul rebelling against him makes him not only a traitor, but a heretic.
* KingMook: A super-Knight.
* RebelLeader: Lead a rebellion against Oryx after the invasion of the Moon. Apparently, eusocial, Darkness worshiping zombies don't always agree on everything.
* SealedEvilInACan: Oryx locked him in a cell in the Dreadnaught for betraying him.
* TheStarscream: Rebelled against Oryx. He ''really'' shouldn't have done that.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Verok, a Hive Wizard.
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