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Lore » Letters from a RenegadeV: Echoes Followed by Silence
... When you are at your lowest. When hope has faded and you're all alone—in the world, inside your head. When the odds are stacked and despair has taken hold. Remember your fire. It's always there. Once sparked, once the anger—once fear—has lit the fuse, the flame will remain, alway...
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Lore » ConstellationsLonging
...taken prisoner. The greatest surprise isn't being captured; it's being captured by a Dreg. In the end, when they drag me, tied and bound, into a damp cave miles out from my settlement, it's three Dregs. I look around for a Kell or a Priest—someone in charge—but we're alone. There...
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Lore » The Dark FutureChapter 3: Towerless
...er of the Vanguard, disheveled, in rags. His ghastly white beard is as thick as a steel door. And from the looks of him, a gentle breeze would knock him off his crutch and one remaining leg. They must have taken his Ghost too. Sad to see the deterioration of a body that's been stripped...
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Lore » For Every Rose, a ThornA Matter of Trust
...d around it as all we are ripples out beyond who we are. And war? There is only one. It has taken many forms, but it is always raging, always smoldering below the surface of societies grand and small, hidden in our broken, fearful hearts. I offer all of this as means to further o...
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Lore » For Every Rose, a ThornThe Pain of What's Right
...y all start with Shin, the poor, lost, lonely boy whose entire world had been taken from him. The tale of my youth and Palamon is all true. That it tends to illicit sympathy and set my story on the path of the right and just is not a ruse. I am right, and I am just. But ask yourself… D...
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Lore » The Singular ExegetePROTECTED
...hey understand how I am vacuum welded to the enemy? Ikora would understand. She studied the Taken with me, despite the risks. And Zavala values foresight. But he also fears the next Lysander, the next Toland. The next Rezyl Azzir. He fears what I could teach his Guardians. He is ...
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Lore » The Singular ExegeteYES
...ility to evade being robbed. It can only take. What could this YES mean except that it has taken something from me? My course is set. I did not tell Zavala. I take this onto myself in the hope of helping others. [a small space] —the Sumerian woman returned at last. She found an a...
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Lore » The Singular ExegetePURITY
...ifice. It may draw an ironic comparison between the Taken and our own relationship to the Traveler. I am sure the idea that we are Light Taken is a popular heresy, but the difference should be plain. We do not lose the capacity to choose; we make our own fate. [Personal notes, scratched ...
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Lore » RevelationClassified
...o see a number of corrupted files. Firewall, have you been manipulated by Clovis Bray since your installation? AI-COM/FRWL//NEGATIVE. Why is so much data being taken up by hidden files? AI-COM/FRWL//MENDACITY//CLASSIFIED. I see. I suppose you want me to have a Clovis Bray technician com...
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Lore » Inquisition of the DamnedV: A Sinister Plot
...Malkanth smiles. Hashladûn and her siblings have taken their leave, their disgust evident. They too have found cause to doubt the logic. The politics of the self-appointed puppet masters will distract from the continuing ritual. But, in their dismissal, the high-seated neglect a si...
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Lore » Inquisition of the DamnedVII: The Severed and the Unmade
...stolen limb, lost to the Light-born in defense of our Taken King's futile reign, has made me a pariah. The dishonor of my failings has cast upon us an unwavering shame that spreads like disease, tainting not only my broken self but you and dearest Malkanth alike. I am plague. I am...
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Lore » The Dreaming CityThrone
...edia augured the first borehole with the help of Riven, who had taken the shape of a needle-nosed basilisk, while Kalli and Shuro Chi constructed the gate itself, deep below, in a hall they named The Confluence. Illyn made tincture after tincture of queensfoil until her clothes stank ...
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Lore » Stolen IntelligenceRinger
...formation security to the Hive—unlikely, given the interception of a Cabal distress signal in the wake of the Taken War? Did some agency, henceforth unknown, act to conceal Ghaul's approach from our protectors? One that shared with Ghaul some central motive—whether the destruction of t...
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Lore » Stolen IntelligenceOutliers
... erase the wrongs of past centuries, nor should their good-faith efforts to correct the sins of their forebears be taken as sufficient symbolic reparation. Second, the would-be separatists: VIP #4503, a recent personality known as Fikrul, or the Fanatic. A close confederate of the m...
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Lore » Stolen IntelligenceLease
...that this decision will be unpopular with certain agents who have taken it upon themselves to investigate #1315's history and moral character. Please remember that I sidelined myself from active duty in order to personally surveil his activities in the Tower, and that I kept guard ...
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Lore » Stolen IntelligencePotential
...at Guardian forces engaged and destroyed en masse during the Taken War (cf. Ghost-stream footage here: CATHEDRAL.OF.DUSK.DREADNAUGHT). This has proven false. Spectral analysis from multiple Ghosts participating undercover in Prime and Reckoning confirms that the impossible world ...
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Lore » Truth to PowerWill you smile?
... I did not fail her. I engineered the death of ancient Oryx, the Taken King, assAIssinated by Guardians in the depths of His own throne world—one of only three ways a Hive god can be permanently killed. Royalty knows its own. When Oryx destroyed Mara's Ketch, He used his crowning we...
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Lore » Truth to PowerMedusa
...le who send you on errands. 1. The pathological entities you call Taken appeared in this city at the moment the Hive Dreadnaught detonated its main weapon above Saturn. Without access to the Skyshock arrays, I can't be certain, but something must have connected the weapon's area ...
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Lore » Truth to Poweract|choose|react
...he corpse speaks to you. The curse placed upon the Dreaming City was modeled upon the recursive timeloop computations of the Vex and made real through the power of a Taken Ahamkara feeding upon the unified wish of six elite Guardians. I created these circumstances to attract Guardians...
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Lore » Truth to PowerInjection
... here. There are no Vex, nor any conspiracy to un-Take that which was Taken by my uncle and which now serves my Queen. All of those lies were part of my throne world, which you have sought. Is my cyclical death not the very engine which brings you here, again and again, in hope of...
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Lore » Truth to PowerasudeM
...he Dreaming City's defenses and invite Dûl Incaru inside. Dûl Incaru and her Taken are simply scouring the city for Awoken secrets; you don't need to fret about any greater agenda. Remember that you face an agent of Savathûn. It's to her advantage to make you see schemes and conspiracies ev...
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Lore » The ChroniconDCII.
... the fullest versions of their very species. They are everything I need to reclaim what was taken from me, and they are the ones I want by my side as I prepare this world for its end....
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Lore » The ChroniconMCXX.
...nly a dwindling army of ambivalent soldiers. I am the Young Wolf. I killed the Taken King. I defeated Ghaul, I roused the Traveler, I silenced the Moon, I stopped the invasion, I broke the curse, I broke the Houses, I killed the queen! I am the Shadow of Earth! In the following silence, ...
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Lore » The Warlock AunorMessage from Aunor V
...minds onto the idea that Darkness is a tool worth using. This City was built on a foundation of fighting the Darkness and everything it stands for: the erasure of order, individual empowerment over the common good. The Hive and the Taken live to serve their gods. The Traveler empowers ...
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Lore » The Forsaken PrinceOn the Hunt
...'s sweet. Like pollen and thunder. Why did you come here? Not by any chance of oir own, ser. The milk robots abducted us. The whispers have taken on a soft hint of Ulurant grammar, confirming Uldren's suspicion. This is a place where abstract patterns war for survival, fighting t...