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Seditious Mind
... future. Both enslaver and enslaved. You have been Taken. The great fortress of your thoughts has been breached, your unity broken. The network around and within you lies ruptured. You are cut out from the fabric, a hole in the whole. Observe this area of negative space, shaped like...
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Noru'usk, Servant of Oryx
A king is dead, but his power lingers. A king is dead, and with him the fatal flaw. This was not conquest, this war where Light yet offends. This was selfish — a father’s rage in place of a king’s measured hand. There was a time to conquer the Light that a purer truth might overt...
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Keksis the Betrayed
...m Taken. My guiding shadow has become formless, my directive is gone. I know I have one; I cannot remember what it was. Pinions of [Light] surround me; they are antithetical to my being. I hate them; perhaps an echo of my forgotten directive. I kill them. I am not the same. In my...
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Sylok, the Defiled
Mindscan of Subject 667, known as “Sylok the Defiled”
[Datascript 1245.5] >Stasis is online. Initiating eighth attempt to probe mindscape. >>It’ll work this time. I’ve mapped every synapse. >Sure you did. >>There. Did you see that? >>A flare of neural activity. Stimulate that region. ...I can feel you. >This will never work. We shou...
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Report: Taken Power
Crow Report 13458.87
...nce, please see reports 13455.45, 13455.58, and 13455.98: Post Taken War Reef politics, Tech Witch Conversations and Petra, and Assassination Attempts, Petra) After some initial trials with Prison specimens, we can report the program is now ready for full-scale production. Please...
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Ghost Fragment: Warlock 2
...im the Moon. But the battle goes against us. I have taken a prisoner and this is the record of its interrogation. If I transgress in your eyes I ask for your forgiveness. [sound of current or discharge] /Eriana. It responds to pain. It responds to the Light. Hurt it again. Monster,...
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The Guardian
...d, of course, it was the Guardian that led the assault on the Taken King's Dreadnaught. All of the after-action reports I've shown you about the Taken War, the calm state of the system... we have this Guardian to thank. I've attached more details, if you want to read ...
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Grimoire » Inventory » Primary WeaponsGhost Fragment: The Last Word
...ydream, and a small light, like the spark of their souls. It's not anything I dwell on. They left me early, taken by Dregs. Palamon raised me from there. The family I call my own - called my own - cared for me as if I was their natural born son. And life was good. Being the only...
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Grimoire » Inventory » Primary WeaponsGhost Fragment: The Last Word 5
...DIO UNAVAILABLE// //TRANSCRIPT FOLLOWS.../ [u.1:0.1] Will you fight them? [u.2:0.1] The Shadows? [u.1:0.2] Those who have taken up arms in the name of Yor. [u.2:0.2] The hope is they are more careful than their inspiration. [u.1:0.3] Do you believe that will make a difference? [silence] ...
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Grimoire » Inventory » Special WeaponsQueenbreakers' Bow
A reminder that while so few 'Breakers remain, Her Majesty still stands.
...he Queenbreakers were eliminated, their line rifles taken as trophies. Some remain at-large. Known as Queenbreakers' Bows, the very weapons once used in an effort to assassinate the Queen of the Reef are now prized possessions for Guardians—not only for their storied history, b...
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Grimoire » Inventory » Heavy WeaponsDark-Drinker
...ch you to wound you. And lastly—and this is critical: To be taken in Willbreaker's grasp is to know true bliss; that is, to be simplified; that is, to be reduced to one's most basic level, shedding all higher-order thoughts of fear or duty or selfishness; that is, to feel o...
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Lore » Eva's JourneyLast Day
...weapons ready. Eva Levante, seamstress of the Tower, would have been taken aback. The gaunt woman she'd just seen in the mirror had spent months dry firing the weapon. Endless drills had trained her for action and her first shot took the one on the right in the chest and blew him ...
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Lore » EcdysisQueenslaw
...ight as well have a drink. 23. Namqi is not particularly tall, nor particularly handsome. Taken in isolation, parts of him are beautiful. His nose. His hands. The lines of his throat. The coruscating light that passes over his skin fascinates her; she watches to see if its patterns m...
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Lore » Nothing EndsThe Darkest Shadow
...so easily swayed? Never. After all, was that our intent? Isn't this why Callum has taken this burden upon himself? Vale: It is. The division is becoming clear. As our numbers grow, more join Callum. As we gun them down, still more take up arms. The weak are being culled, as inten...
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Lore » Eva's JourneyThe Good Fight
...an a few of the Guardians that went through the Underground had taken to calling her grandmother, but Ramos had stuck with the group through all the long months of the war. He was very protective, sometimes smothering, and she sighed as she rubbed at her eyes. I'm up. I'm up. What ...
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Lore » Nothing EndsThe Brilliance of Bloom
... his deeds and manner, his weapons and journeys have taken on lives of their own. So too, in time, will yours. I don't know that he ever reflected on his legacy. Truth told, I'd imagine he never considered his own death until after becoming the other—until after becoming Yor. I o...
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Lore » Nothing EndsThe Long Goodbye
... a constant among any group striving to better themselves, and they will drag you down into the abyss faster than any Taken horde or Red Army. Good luck, Guardian. Hero. Friend. The true Shadows are no more—only myself, Grey, Maas, Pavic and Yasuul remain, and we take our leave of...
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Lore » Ghost StoriesProtector of Ghosts
...raft over the Pacific. Keep an eye on this one, Tallu. He has taken the name Andal Brask, and I believe he will be trouble. Perhaps all this travel has made me sentimental, for when one of my Ghost wards finds their Guardian, I am sad, because my pack grows smaller. I miss them when ...
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Lore » Ghost StoriesWho Guards the Guardians?
...n. Empty. Soulless. Lightless. The Red Legion has come and taken it all away. Eventually the desperate steps diminish. For a few minutes, the Last City falls silent. Then… The low growl of their breathing. The clanking metal of heavy slug throwers against their crimson armor. The...
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Lore » Regarding StasisTo the Stranger
... our enemies. See how it empowers them, while it toys with us? Oryx would never have led the Taken without its guidance. Eramis's army has been a vile, deadly force due to its influence. We should learn from their examples. It will subjugate us all if we allow it, so we must spread...
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Lore » Regarding StasisTo Osiris
... feelings to factor into actions. I have allied with those branded unsavory and have taken the power the Darkness holds to oppose it. It cannot oppress that which it does not control. For so long, we have clung to the Light, denying the strength offered by the Dark. By using Stasis, ...
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Lore » A Drifter's GambitShadow on a Wall
...kill two birds, one stone. There were signs of a Shadow's presence, but they were cold—old. I waited anyway. Shot me some Taken to kill the time. The wait paid off. Callum entered. Could hear him before I saw him—he was arguin' with his Ghost. I waited on the hope they'd spill goods...
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Lore » A Drifter's GambitBright Side of a Bad Idea
...lf a little piece of hell. While Guardians have been waging war with the Taken, while the City's newest legends have been trespassing on Ascendant ground and kicking in Taken skulls, the Drifter's been playing Warlock—which he ain't, if it wasn't clear. Not by common understanding, an...
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Lore » A Drifter's GambitA Matter of Trust
...s crossin' a bridge too far as is. But those beasts? Those weren't normal Taken possessed and set to rage. They were born of that shadow realm and they were… angry. Worse. They were hungry for the Light. You could feel it. Even a ways off. Their aura and their rage weighed on me—cast a s...
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Lore » Letters from a RenegadeI: An Introduction to Consequence
... choice. By consequence. By random luck, and those steps taken and decisions made. Our individual lives shaped by the person we were, the person we are, the person we claim to be, the person we hope to be—the stages of our singular existence. Or so we tell ourselves, lost as we a...