History Characters / DestinyTheFallenScorn

* EnemyCivilWar: The Scorn, despite being Fallen, are at odds with both the House of Dusk and the Spider's Fallen mob.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Every Scorn so far has never been anything other then nihilistic savages hell bent on killing anything in their path.

* {{Foil}}: To the Hive. Both are InsectoidAliens who are themed after TheUndead and use a mixture of BlackMagic and technology, while possessing powers that makes each race an EvilCounterpart to the Guardians. Both also have massive religious undertones, with the Hive being a race-wide ChurchMilitant while the Scorn are an insane {{Cult}}. The similarities end here, though. While the Hive have a skeletal appearance and seem to be themed after skeletons, the fleshy appearance of the Scorn pegs them as closer to zombies. Hive technology is seemless and organic while Scorn technology is ramshackle and often spiked. The Hive are an ancient race while the Scorn were formed within living memory. Hive use their powers to try and cheat death while the Scorn have ResurrectiveImmortality. Most important, however, is that all Hive are sapient beings with complex motives, with some eventually defying the Darkness and, in the case of Immaru, actually going for an EnemyMine with mankind. By contrast, excessive resurrection gradually destroys the mind of a Scorn until they are a monster driven on by instinct and psychic orders from their commanders. The end result is that while the Hive gradually become more nuanced as the Saga of Light and Dark goes on, the Scorn become AlwaysChaoticEvil once the Barons all die.

* Arch-Enemy: With the death of Uldren and the other Barons, he sees himself as this to the Young Wolf.

This page deals with an undead faction of Fallen that was risen from the dead by Dark Ether.

* ChurchMilitant: Ditching the traditional SpacePirate design, the Scorn look more like a cult of crazed Fallen crusaders.

** As of ''Witch Queen,'' they've also gone to war with Savathûn and her Lucent Brood, having found a way to invade her Throne-World and attack her directly.

* ItCanThink: ''Season of the Lost'' deals with the more feral bunches of the Scorn suddenly partaking in advanced concepts of civilization such as industrialization and distinct culture, indicating that they're not entirely running on instinct and very basic mental programming, but are still 100% evil.

* ColorCodedArmies: Rather notably {{averted|trope}} - while every other (non-Taken) enemy group has at least two different sub-groups characterized by different design aesthetics and armor colors, the Scorn share the same appearance and color wherever they are encountered. Implicitly, this is because the Scorn are the only enemy force in the game that has a single goal shared by its entire membership, whereas the other factions have motives beyond just defeating mankind.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The only Barons who don't have English banter with you are the Rider, the Hangman and the Mindbender, though the latter two are excused due to their insanity. The rest of the Barons do taunt you, albeit mostly in barely coherent English given it's implied repeated resurrections is messing with their minds.
* AllTheOtherReindeer: The House of Exile was comprised of renegades and other undesirables from amongst the Fallen, but the young Barons in particular were considered outcasts even within a House that was made of them!

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu?: With our Guardian being Cthulhu here. They kill Cayde-6, one of said Guardian's closest friends, [[ButForMeItWasTuesday and yet seem genuinely surprised that they're being hunted like dogs for it]], [[BullyingADragon and continuously mock and attack both parties]] [[TooDumbToLive even as our chraracter fires lead into them.]] Given it's [[PlayerCharacter our]] [[OneManArmy Guardian]], [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu who's kind of made himself an image from killing beings of godlike stature]], [[DoNotTauntCthulhu it doesn't end well for any of them.]]

* FromNobodyToNightmare: The Barons started out at the very bottom as Dregs of one of the smallest Houses. Now they're some of the most powerful Fallen in the Sol System and are responsible for turning large swaths of the Reef into a lawless wasteland.

* RedBaron: All of them each possess an impressive title that reflects their speciality and role.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Only one of the voiced Barons (the Trickster) speaks grammatically sound English, though they still get their point across and taunt you with everything they can throw at you. The Mad Bomber has it worst since he's bordering on HulkSpeak, mocking Cayde's death like the raving lunatic he is. This seems to be inconsistent, as the Fanatic and the Rifleman are shown to be speaking perfect sentences anywhere but in the missions where you finally take them down. It is implied to be a sign that their minds are deteriorating due to the repeated resurrections.

* DarkChick: Plays this role among the Barons, manipulating her enemies from the shadows and typically avoiding direct combat.

* MysteriousBenefactor: Week 5 of ''Season of the Lost'' reveals that the someone or something the Scorn now answer to has also been teaching them advanced concepts related to industrialization, demonstrated by them [[ItCanThink skillfully operating a mining rig and refinery]] to extract and process raw materials in the Shattered Realm.