
Sathona sided with Aurash, goaded on by a worm that their father had kept the worm had washed up on the Osmium Court's shores and was seemingly dead, but Sathona could hear it speak. Xi Ro wanted to sell it at the Kaharn Atoll, a gathering place of Fundament's many species, in order to raise enough money to hire a mercenary army, but Aurash wanted to take command of the ship. Īfter a year of traveling the sea, the sisters salvaged an ancient, high-tech ship they called "the needle" from the Shvubi Maelstrom. The Helium Drinkers invaded and slew the Osmium King, but Aurash and her sisters, two years old at the time, escaped on a ship and vowed to return one day for their revenge. Taox, a sterile mother who served as the teacher to the King's daughters, feared the royal heirs were too weak to succeed the King and invited a rival kingdom, the Helium Drinkers of the Helium Court, to invade the Osmium Court, kill the royal family, and allow Taox to rule the Osmium Court as their regent. When the Osmium King was ten years old, a lifetime to the proto-Hive, he succumbed to senility madness, fearing an event called the Syzygy wherein Fundament's fifty-two moons would align and create a massive tidal wave that would destroy all of Fundament's civilizations. Aurash's sisters were Xi Ro and Sathona, who together made up the final brood sired by the Osmium King. Oryx was born as Aurash, a proto-Hive female and one of three surviving daughters of the Osmium King, ruler of the continent called the Osmium Court. Oryx, the Taken King traces his origins to a gas giant named Fundament, where the proto-Hive eked out a harsh existence on floating "continents" comprised of the shards of their shattered homeworld. If the end of the world is coming, I will understand why. I will know what changed the motion of our moons. I will chase my father's last screamed warning. " I am Aurash, first daughter of the dead king. The three princesses of the Osmium Court. His second match with the Guardians resulted in his permanent loss and ended the threat he posed to the Sol System. Oryx is also the father of the dreaded Crota, a deadly Hive Prince who slew thousands of Guardians during the Great Disaster, Nokris, his estranged firstborn and herald of the Worm God Xol, as well as two Deathsingers and inventors of the Oversoul, twins Ir Anûk and Ir Halak.Įnraged at the death of Crota, Oryx traveled to the Sol System aboard his Dreadnaught seeking revenge but was defeated by the Guardian and escaped to his throne world. Of all the Hive gods, he alone held the power to bend other races to his will through the power to Take. Reborn in the Darkness itself through a wicked pact with the Worm Gods, Oryx is the founder of the Hive race alongside his sisters and fellow deities, Savathûn, the Witch Queen and Xivu Arath, God of War. Oryx, the Taken King, born Aurash and formerly known as Auryx (meaning "Long Thought" ), was the sovereign of the Osmium Throne, the God-King of the Hive, and the master of the Taken. Hear me, O waning stars, O tattered rags of Sky - I will stopper up this tearing gulf with vengeance." - Oryx Where once his tender tribute whetted burrowed mouths, now only hunger remains. " 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.
