History Characters / DestinyTheTaken

* PowerTrio: Three very angry Taken champions aiming to ruin Eido's legacy by claiming it for the Taken. Querim is a Minotaur, Xavoth is an Ogre, and Eriviks is a Captain. Subverted in Eleusinia, however, as they scatter and go their separate ways, throwing the Young Wolf off their trail.

!!Quria, Blade Transform, The Dreaming Mind

* ArcVillain: [[spoiler:As revealed in Week 5 of ''Season of the Splicer'', Quria is responsible for the Vex Simulation of the Endless Night. That being said, [[GreaterScopeVillain it's acting on Savathûn's orders.]]]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:As revealed in Week 5 of ''Season of the Splicer'', Quria is responsible for the Vex Simulation of the Endless Night. That being said, [[GreaterScopeVillain it's acting on Savathûn's orders.]]]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:As revealed in Week 5 of ''Season of the Splicer'', Quria is responsible for the Vex Simulation of the Endless Night. That being said, [[GreaterScopeVillain it's acting on Savathûn's orders.]]

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: By deducing the sword logic that defines the Ascendant Realms, Quria was able to fight Crota and his sisters to a stalemate for over a century. [[spoiler:Toland heavily implies that Quria is how Savathûn has the power to Take, as It has learnt to simulate Oryx and thus his Taken powers for Savathûn's use.]]

[[folder: The Taken in general]]
!!The Taken
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->''"These new enemies have been wholly consumed, possessed by the Darkness, bodies and mind twisted into service of their King. Now, they are bent to a singular purpose – our eradication."''

A new enemy faction of sorts coming with ''The Taken King'' expansion. Not so much a new race, but rather an amalgamation of several enemies across all four enemy races that have been "taken" from our dimension by Oryx and so severely corrupted by the Darkness that there's barely a semblance of what they originally were.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Both Ghost and Cayde-6 refer to Ta'aun as a "Centurion", but Ta'aun is quite clearly a Colossus, using a Heavy Slug Thrower and missile backpack in combat.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: He is the only member of the Court of Oryx that wasn't Hive in origin.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Every strike that has been updated for year two, despite including Taken enemies, kept the same boss at the end. Aksor, on the other hand, has been completely replaced by his Taken counterpart.

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!!Quria, Blade Transform

* AGodAmI: Its ultimate goal: take advantage of the sword logic and bootstrap itself to godhood by ''killing everything''.
** In Truth to Power, [[spoiler: Quria ([[UnreliableNarrator maybe]]) outright proclaims this once it explains that it had discovered a way to simulate Light.]]

A new enemy faction of sorts coming with ''The Taken King'' expansion. Not so much a new race, but rather an amalgamation of several enemies across all four enemy races that have been "taken" from our dimension by Oryx and so severely corrupted by the Darkness that there's barely a semblance of what they originally were. Currently, not much information has been released on them.

* AndIMustScream: They have a tortured look to them as they twitch and jitter. But if you read their Grimoire entries, it turns out this is an inversion; the Taken are actually in ''ecstasy'' after being thoroughly {{Mind Rape}}d by the Darkness, who strips away their doubts, fears, and burdens and replaces them with peace and singular purpose.

* WalkingWasteland: The Taken are anathema to the very landscape itself, and prolonged taken presence will irreversibly poison an area. In the Lake Of Shadows strike, they actively weaponise this trait to poison the water supply of the Farm, although thankfully the cell responsible are eliminated before any lasting damage can be done.

* DiscardAndDraw: Many new powers the Taken gain come at the cost of a previous ability:

[[center:[-[[Characters/{{Destiny}} Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/DestinyTheGuardians Active Guardians]] | [[Characters/DestinyHistoricalGuardians Historical Guardians]] | [[Characters/DestinyGuardianClasses Guardian Classes]] | [[Characters/DestinyTheTower The Tower]] | [[Characters/DestinyTheReef The Reef]] | [[Characters/DestinyTheFallen The Fallen]] | [[Characters/DestinyTheFallenHouseOfDevils House of Devils]] | [[Characters/DestinyTheFallenScorn The Scorn]] | [[Characters/DestinyTheVex The Vex]] | [[Characters/DestinyTheCabal The Cabal]] | [[Characters/DestinyTheHive The Hive]] | '''The Taken''' | [[Characters/DestinyOthers Other Characters and Entities]]-]]]

[[center:[-[[Characters/{{Destiny}} Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/DestinyTheGuardians Active Guardians]] | [[Characters/DestinyHistoricalGuardians Historical Guardians]] | [[Characters/DestinyGuardianClasses Guardian Classes]] | [[Characters/DestinyTheTower The Tower]] | [[Characters/DestinyTheReef The Reef]] | [[Characters/DestinyTheFallen The Fallen]] | [[Characters/DestinyTheFallenHouseOfDevils House of Devils]] | [[Characters/DestinyTheFallenScorn The Scorn]] | [[Characters/DestinyTheHive The Hive]] | [[Characters/DestinyTheVex The Vex]] | [[Characters/DestinyTheCabal The Cabal]] | '''The Taken''' | [[Characters/DestinyOthers Other Characters and Entities]]-]]]

** Phalanxes can no longer extend their shields.

* GlassCannon: Extremely fragile compared to the other raid bosses.
* KingMook: Without his weapon, Morgeth is just a larger and more muscular Ogre who has the misfortune of having his entire backside coated in weakspots.
* ManaBurn: His fight revolves around weaponizing this trope, constantly absorbing Taken Strength to prevent him from charging his weapon.

* PuzzleBoss: To lower Vorgeth's shield, the Wizards backing him up must be killed and the charges they leave behind must be deposited in one bank to extinguish a rune. Doing this in one phase will award a Triumph.

* RecurringBoss: You get to encounter it in all three cycles of the Dreaming City's curse ("Broken Courier", "The Oracle Engine" and "Dark Monastery" story missions), and it is always located out of the way of the normal path.

Quria is also [[spoiler: the third narrator of Truth to Power, guiding the player through what appears to be a Vex simulation and seemingly claiming to renounce its allegiance to the Taken... [[MindScrew or is it?]]]]