| “ |
All is well. Aiat: what is at war is healthy, what is at peace is sick. My son Crota feeds me rich, rich tribute. My lineages are strong, my worm is vast and satiated, and with that security I can spend my time on study and communion with the Deep. As I learn more secrets, my power grows; as my power grows I use it to learn more secrets. Aiat: let it be thus because it must. I wonder if my sisters have secrets of their own. If my power exceeds theirs I may kill them permanently and subsume their thrones. But I think they have strength that they hide from me, developed in time of separation. Aiat: the only meaningful relationship is the attempt to destroy. The Deep doesn’t want everything to be the same: it wants life, strong life, life that lives free without the need for a habitat of games to insulate it from reality. When I make my Taken I make them closer to perfect, I heal their wounds and enhance their strengths. This is inherently good. Aiat: the only right is existence, the only wrong is nonexistence. I am Oryx, the First Navigator, the Taken King. Aiat: let me be what I am because to be anything else would be fatal. |
„ |
| ~ Oryx |
| “ | Sometimes I wonder if I’m a nihilist.
I don’t do much except break things. That’s what they say about me: we could’ve had a great civilization, if it weren’t for that damn Oryx, that damn Hive. They don’t believe in anything but death. The only way to make something good is to make something that can’t be broken. And the only way to do that is to try to break everything. I’m glad I learned that the universe runs on death. It’s more beautiful to know. |
„ |
| ~ Oryx |
| “ | When Oryx looks upon you, you feel that you may vanish if he looks away.
The crest of Oryx’s skull is as long as an arm. In the course of its life, a thought moves from one end to the other. Upon his crest I have painted a line in my blood, so that he will remember me. Each of Oryx’s fangs has the precision of a finger and the acuity of an eye. Although he was born at the bottom of the universe, and taught to burrow, Oryx has grown wings. The light of wildfire shines through them. Oryx teaches but he will not be taught. Oryx’s body is corded with strength. His sinews and his muscles are as strong as his children, and his children are the strength of him. Oryx wears a raiment of worm silk, made from the caul of gods. The voice of Oryx may cause two different numbers to become equal. Oryx my Brother is the bravest thing I know. Upon Fundament he learned that we were the natural prey of the universe, the most frail and desperate of things. He thought about this carefully and he found a way to fix it. He made us strong. He will lead us into eternity. Oryx my Brother loves me and this love is war. |
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| ~ Xivu Arath describing Oryx |
| “ | Your life will be a battle too. You will have to win your place at the High War. I will give you nothing... except this, your first sword, and this name I have prepared for you.
We fight a war against false hope, Crota. We chase a god called the Traveler, a huckster god who baits young life into building houses for it. These houses are unsafe, for they cannot stand against my Hive. And these houses are a trap — for they lead young life away from the blade and the tooth, which are the tools of survival and the means of ascension. Only when the Traveler is extinguished will the universe be free to arrange itself, and assume, by ruthless contest, its final perfect shape, a shape which depends on nothing but itself. Thus I name you Crota, Eater of Hope. |
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| ~ Oryx to Crota |
| “ | Child, I have everything you wanted. I am immortal. I know the great secrets of the universe. I have scouted the edges of the Darkness and I have chased the lying god down galactic arms in a howling pack of moons. In my fist I carry the secret power that will rule eternity. In my worm I bear the tribute of my Court and of my children, the Hope-Eater, the Weaver, and the Unraveler; and with this tribute I smash my foes. I am Oryx, the Taken King. I am almighty. | „ |
| ~ Oryx to Quria |
| “ |
Abase yourself, weapons and instruments. Submit yourself, shapes and gliders, automata all. I am Oryx, Lord of Shapes, Carver of Tablets. Behold my performance of the Last True Shape. The final axiom. Witness the space that I define. I approach the asymptote. I grow vast across topologies. I am not simply connected. |
„ |
| ~ Echo of Oryx |
Background
Oryx, the Taken King, born Aurash and formerly known as Auryx (meaning "Long Thought"), is the sovereign of the Osmium Throne, the God-King of the Hive, and master of the Taken.
Reborn from the Darkness itself through a wicked pact, Oryx is the founder of the Hive race, alongside his sisters and fellow deities, Savathûn, the Witch-Queen and Xivu Arath, God of War, and the source of their terrible power. Of all the Hive gods, he alone holds the power to bend other races to his will. Oryx is also the father of the dreaded Crota, a deadly Hive Prince who slew thousands of Guardians during the Great Disaster, and Nokris, his estranged first-born and then herald of the Worm God Xol.
Enraged at the death of Crota, Oryx traveled to the Solar System aboard his Dreadnaught seeking revenge but was defeated by the Guardian. After escaping to his throne realm; his second match with the Guardians ends with his permanent loss and the threat he posed to the Solar System.
Powers and Stats
Keys: Material Plane | Ascendant Plane
Tier: 3-A, likely 2-A | High 1-B
Dimensionality: 4-D | Uncountable Infinite-D
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery (Type 1), Immortality (Types 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. He was granted eternal life by the Worm Gods. Oryx cannot be conventionally killed since his death is "hidden" on his Oversoul, which resides in the Ascendant Plane. Will eventually corrupt others through the Touch of Malice, turning them into Oryx. The Hive are undead beings without life. He has resurrection reliant on the concept he embodies, like his sisters. He will keep reviving as long as his true body exists in the Ascendant Plane), Regeneration (Low-Godly. Hive Gods can recover after complete body destruction due to their connection with the Ascendant Plane; possibly High-Godly. Due to his status as the top Hive God, he should be able to do the same as his daughters and has likely usurped their powers at some point via the Sword Logic), Self-Sustenance (Types 1, 2 and 3), Abstract Existence (Embodies concepts just like his sisters, in his case, those of curiosity and exploration), Higher-Dimensional Existence (Hive Gods can manifest as a 4-D waveform), Acausality (Type 5. Users of Darkness inherits its paracausality and are no longer bound by causal closure. Oryx in particular was described as an existence that "escaped" causality completely), Existence Erasure, Soul Manipulation, Corruption (Type 2), Mind Manipulation, Possession (The ability to Take passively erases existence in the area around them, which ontologically destroys foes and makes them return as taken subservient to the will of Oryx, compromising their minds), Non-Physical Interaction, Conceptual Manipulation (Type 3. Deathsongs can kill and create the axioms/truths that underpins reality across the entire Ascendant Plane), Death Manipulation, Immortality Negation (Types 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9) and Regeneration Negation (High-Godly. Can use Deathsongs, which can permanently kill other hive existences, even when they are not in their own Throne Worlds. Deathsongs can also permanently kill Sunsingers who can come back after complete retroactive erasure across past, present and future. His presence prevented the Guardian from using Fireborn), Matter Manipulation (Macro-Quantum. Oryx was able to split a quark with his Willbreaker), Poison Manipulation (Poisoned Xivu Arath), Dimensional Travel (Can move between dimensions), Technology Manipulation (Can disable the technology of the Ghosts), Summoning (Can summon an infinite batallion of soldiers), Law Manipulation (His will alone can warp laws), Truth Manipulation (Can deny a truth, making it a lie, and can turn lies into truths), Spatial Manipulation (Can cut through space. His will alone defines space), Mathematics Manipulation (His voice can make two numbers become equal), Fate Manipulation (Those who stands against the Sword Logic are fated to be destroyed and no longer exist), Power Nullification (Rendered the Vex unable to use their abilities through his will alone), Statistics Amplification (By killing their enemies, Hive and other Sword Logic users assert their superiority over the defeated foe and in doing so gain the strength that they had.), Power Mimicry & Power Absorption (Sword Logic users can take positive attributes of those they kill for themselves, ranging from their minds, strength, abilities, and experiences), Pocket Reality Manipulation (Can use his Throne World as a weapon on the material plane, which passively destroys the mind and bodies of those who enters), BFR (Can cast his foes into the reaches of The Darkness or send them to the Ascendant Plane), Fire Manipulation, Time Manipulation, Resistance Negation (Can override resistances to the Sword Logic and Taken Blight), Teleportation, Absorption (The Hive can absorb the Light from guardians), Acausality Negation (Even the Light, which is paracausal, is forced to obey the Sword Logic)
Resistance to BFR, Death Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation (Type 3), Immortality Negation and Regeneration Negation (High-Godly) (Unaffected by Deathsongs. His death resides on the Ascendant Plane, as well as his Oversoul), Corruption (Type 3), Law Manipulation, Spatial Manipulation, Time Manipulation, Existence Erasure, Possession, Mind Manipulation (Unaffected by Taken Blight, and spreads the power himself), Pain Manipulation (Pain isn't a negative concept to the Hive), Information Analysis, Precognition (Type 1) (Quria couldn't analyze nor predict Oryx, finding his existence completely incomprehensible), Power Mimicry, Magic, Resistance Negation, Absorption, Subjective Reality, Reality Warping, Statistics Reduction, Quantum Manipulation, Causality Manipulation, Heat Manipulation, Gravity Manipulation, Black Holes, Energy Manipulation, Electricity Manipulation, Poison Manipulation, Physics Manipulation, Life Manipulation, Fire Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation, Explosion Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Light Manipulation, Transmutation, Technology Manipulation, Vibration Manipulation, Sound Manipulation, Matter Manipulation (Macro-Quantum), Perception Manipulation, Memory Manipulation, Curse Manipulation, Size Manipulation, Telekinesis, Telepathy, Power Nullification, Information Manipulation, Void Manipulation, (Unaffected by the abilities of the Hive due to the nature of the Sword Logic and can resist most abilities of the Guardian), Sense Manipulation, Plasma Manipulation, Fusionism (Can withstand the Ascendant Realm where beings confuse their shapes and end up in masses of merged corpses), Antimatter Manipulation, Biological Manipulation, Radiation Manipulation (Common Vex abilities are not effective against Oryx), Disease Manipulation, Sealing (Should be unnafected by Xol's abilities), Truth Manipulation (Unaffected by Akka's abilities), Chaos Manipulation, Absolute Zero, Quantum Manipulation (Lesser Hive can break out of Stasis after a few seconds)
Attack Potency: Universe level, likely High Multiverse level (Much stronger than his children, such as Crota. Pushed his own Throne World inside out) | High Hyperverse level+ (Overpowered the Vex Collective and the latter calculated that no amounts of efforts would let them win against Oryx, suffering an inevitable defeat, in addition of finding his existence completely incomprehensible. Can fight against the Guardian, who destroyed the Black Garden, which transcends the Vex)
Speed: Immeasurable (Comparable to the Vex Collective, the latter who can disrupt the weft and weave of time itself and also sidestep through time. Powerful Vex minds are responsible for keeping certain realms locked outside of time. Fought against Guardians, who have moved in the Black Garden, which grows into the past and future and also is adrift in time and space. Comparable to Crota)
Lifting Strength: Immeasurable | Immeasurable
Durability: Universe level, likely High Multiverse level | High Hyperverse level+
Stamina: Infinite
Range: Universal, likely High Multiversal | High Hyperversal+
Standard Equipment: Willbreaker, The Dreadnaught, Akka, Worm of Secrets
Intelligence: Supergenius (Created a spaceship out of the bones of Akka. Has billions of years of fighting experience and overcame Quria's range of tactics, whereas Quria instantly deciphered Sword Logic when normal Vex could not). Nigh-Omniscience within his Throne World (The Hive Gods' Throne Worlds are indistinguishable from their own mind, with them being aware of every step taken, every bullet fired, and every thought whispered)
Weaknesses: None notable.
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