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Grimoire » Enemies » Books of SorrowXXX: a golden amputation
Verse 4:0 — a golden amputation
... Oryx, coiled for ten thousand years. Behold the Golden Amputation: the fall of Taishibeth, the end of an age. We beat the worlds of Taishibeth like skull drums and we howl in joy for our black war moons as they ram silver orbitals and gleaming star-webs, where infant Taishibethi...
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Grimoire » Enemies » Books of SorrowXXXII: Majestic. Majestic.
Verse 4:2 — Majestic. Majestic.
Oryx, my King, my friend. Kick back. Relax. Shrug off that armor, set down that blade. Roll your burdened shoulders and let down your guard. This is a place of life, a place of peace. Out in the world we ask a simple, true question. A question like, can I kill you, can I rip your...
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Grimoire » Enemies » Books of SorrowXXXIV: More beautiful to know
Verse 4:4 — More beautiful to know
... 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 uni...
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Grimoire » Enemies » Books of SorrowXXXV: This Love Is War
Verse 4:5 — This Love Is War
...Oryx — Uttered by Xivu Arath — Sibling of Oryx — BETRAYAL. We have marooned Oryx within the Deep. This is our obligation as lords of the Hive, to make war upon each other, to eradicate weakness and make ourselves sharp. OBLIGATIONS. Once, I permitted Oryx to kill me so that he co...
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Grimoire » Enemies » Books of SorrowXXXVIII: The partition of death
Verse 4:8 — The partition of death
...Oryx decided to grow new wings. While he wrestled with his worm, he came upon his twin daughters dying in a wound between places. “What are you doing, my daughters?” he asked. He was afraid that Ir Halak and Ir Anûk were trying to go into the Deep, where only the Tablets of Ruin allo...
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Grimoire » Enemies » Books of SorrowXXXIX: open your eye : go into it
Verse 4:9 — open your eye : go into it
...tand the sword logic, which defined all rules in Oryx’s throne world. The geometry perplexed them. “I’ll cut them apart,” Crota said. But just then, the Vex ritual-of-better-thoughts manifested a Mind called Quria, Blade Transform. Quria deduced the sword logic. I have to kill ev...
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Grimoire » Enemies » Books of SorrowXL: An Emperor For All Outcomes
Verse 4:10 — An Emperor For All Outcomes
Oryx rushed home and read from the Tablets of Ruin. He put some of the Vex into wounds, to be taken by the power of the Deep. Thus he turned the Vex against each other. Quria manifested a range of tactics, but none of them were adaptive. Oryx crushed all the Vex in his throne. Oryx...
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Grimoire » Enemies » Books of SorrowXLI: Dreadnaught
Verse 4:11 — Dreadnaught
... Oryx scrimshawed one piece of Akka, who was dead but far from gone. He stole the Hammer of Xivu Arath and the Scalpel of Savathûn and he armored his ship in baneful armor. When Oryx had built his Dreadnaught, he pushed his throne world inside out, so that it bled into the material ...
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Grimoire » Enemies » Books of SorrowXLIV: strict proof eternal
Verse 5:2 — strict proof eternal
...ys Oryx. Savathûn, Witch-Queen, looks at him with dry wariness. “Is it the sword logic I need to go into the Deep, and take your power for myself?” Their echoes move among the war-moons, walking together on the hull of a two-thousand-year-old warship. Savathûn’s fleet has assembl...
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Grimoire » Enemies » Books of SorrowXLIII: End of Failed Timeline
Verse 5:1 — End Of Failed Timeline
... something pathological about the world inside Oryx’s ship. It resists analysis with hot, dead spite. And Oryx himself, he’s irreducible — he refuses to obey Quria’s simulations, he crashes around sowing chaos, he grabs subminds and compromises them with some kind of ontological weapon....
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Grimoire » Enemies » Books of SorrowXLV: I'd shut them all in cells.
Verse 5:3 — I'd shut them all in cells.
...rant one temple of tribute to the first Ascendant to kill a world! ORYX. I will have the Gift Mast to feast on! I will have it first! I am Xivu Arath and all war is my temple. Beware the daughters of Oryx, for they make and unmake with ease. SAVATHÛN. The Deceitful Sister will be ...
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Grimoire » Enemies » Books of SorrowXLVI: The Gift Mast
Verse 5:4 — The Gift Mast
...hûn keeps secret covens among the Harmony. But first of all was Oryx, whose brood grew in secret places in the rubble of the accretion disc. The First Navigator sends rocks and comets to crash into the Harmony worlds, so that the Harmony fleet will be disarrayed. He sends seeders ...
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Grimoire » Enemies » Books of SorrowXLVIII: aiat, aiat, aiat, aiat, aiat
Verse 5:6 — aiat, aiat, aiat, aiat, aiat
... 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....
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The Taken
From the Journals of Ikora Rey
...meaning; if they make appeals, then this is the judge. Oryx wields this power. But Oryx did not make it. We face the same flower we met in the Black Garden. The process is simple: an aperture opens, like a jaw, and swallows a living thing. It passes into — another place. Later, i...
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Taken Champions
...power as my knife bit home. I heard their song, for just a moment. I will hear it again. Oryx is the Truth. And I will have it....
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Kagoor
... is hidden in this sport I rendered my decision against her, as Oryx, Geometer of Shapes It was decided on the taste of her tribute Upon the shape of her sport Sayeth Crota, My Son I will raise new flesh that even Kagoor cannot rule. In this way I will expand Our Might That is the...
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Malok, Pride of Oryx
...om within Liar Malok! You are meant to tithe upon Oryx To feed your maker with secret blight Your secret is two lies You betrayed your maker; your mother You hid yourself from Savathûn The tithing does not reach her jaws Your Thrall strength now is Acolyte strength Your Acolyte strength ...
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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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Sylok, the Defiled
Mindscan of Subject 667, known as “Sylok the Defiled”
.... is he happy? ...Gragghh ...g-ggglorious pain!!! >>Memory synapses are firing. >Finally. Let’s see what we’ve... wh— what is that? ...Blllessssseeddd is the N-Nastareth!!! [Untranslatable noise] ...Ammm I strong enough, Oryx? Is it ttt-timme? >>It’s too much! It’s overloading! ...More! >>S...
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Grimoire » Inventory » Heavy WeaponsDark-Drinker
...hy you should not fear Willbreaker, the sword of Oryx. Firstly: Its blade is not dulled by age. Each death it trades for life hones its edge, gives it weight and gravitas and insistence within the vortex of its own totality. Nextly: Willbreaker transcends liminality. Willbreaker demands...
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Lore » Ghost StoriesGhost Community Theater Presents
... ORYX THE NIGHTMARE DADDY: One Brave Ghost Versus the Death from Outer Space A four-and-a-half-act play Written and directed by Didi, Ghost of Marcus Ren STARRING: Marcus Ren............................................Hero's Ghost Didi the Ghost.....................................Guardian He...
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Lore » Regarding StasisTo the Stranger
...es, I look to the Darkness and 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...
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Lore » A Drifter's GambitStep into the Shade
...n't dare it—too many legends of heroes lost to such unpleasant pursuits. But things have changed… The Oryx slayers and their like have danced within Ascendant Realms. The nightmare legends of bonewalkers and nether worlds have been cast into the Light. Old fears are now trampled benea...
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Lore » Inquisition of the DamnedI.IV: Of Tattered Blood and Broken Bone
...ust be subverted. I have studied paths both honored and depraved—the might of Oryx, the strength and cunning of his sisters, the folly of Crota's pride, and the necromantic sin of the unfavored. I have long since stolen knowledge from the World's Grave—known texts and secret learnings. I h...
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Lore » Inquisition of the DamnedIV: Blood Sport
...hter. None are worthy of the sword logic. Zulmak may be impressive. But he is no Crota. He is no Oryx. And he will fall. Besurith whispers. And the sisters turn to leave. The congregation on high all follow—their crimson temples emptied—leaving none to witness the assured disappoi...