The Fragmented

The Fragmented are monstrous conglomerates of lesser Fragments that form powerful and formidable entities. As envoys of The Indifference, they are employed to sow chaos and tether down the mysterious Strands of Khra, the Void phenomenon associated with the very concept of causality, allowing their nightmarish master to travel across time.
The baseline bosses are known as the The Fragmented Suzerain, The Fragmented Anchorite, and The Fragmented Zelator, while the most powerful version is known as The Fragmented One. They are Assassination Bosses found on Effervo, Deimos, following the completion of Whispers in the Walls.
==Behavior==
The Fragmented have different types of special attacks depending on the variant that appears, but they all share a few basic attacks, followed with unique mechanics for each Fragmented. Multiple attacks will expose the Fragmented's headshot weakspots in the form of glowing teal spheres down its body, which will enhance all damage inflicted up by an additional Critical Hit tier (e.g. a yellow crit enhanced to an orange crit). Additionally, these weakspot counts as a headshot and will charge up any Incarnon weapons used to damage it. 
=== Basic Attacks===
Default attacks shared by all Fragmented.
Attack 	Description 	How to Counter 	Dispels, Disables and Magnetic(TFO-only)
Arm Swipe 	Swipes at any nearby Tenno in melee range. 	Avoid getting close to the Fragmented. 	✓
Beam March 	Projects four laser beams as a semi close-range move and marches forward. 	The Fragmented will reveal its headshot weakspots in the form of glowing teal spheres. 	✓
Ground Slam 	Rears up and slams the ground, sending out four lines of hands in an X-pattern. The hands have tracking and will linger on the field for a while, inflicting and . 	During the charge-up, the Fragmented will reveal its headshot weakspots in the form of glowing teal spheres.	✓ (Slam AoE)✗ (Protruding Hands)
Burrow & Tide Summon	Triggered during the second phase. Burrows underground and then launches itself into the air to bodyslam nearby Tenno. Additionally, summons a large swarm of Murmurs.	Look for a moving dust cloud to determine the Fragmented's position. 	✓ (Body Slam)
===Special Attacks===
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|-|Fragmented Suzerain=
Attack 	Description 	How to Counter
Laser Blades & Flail 	Creates two laser blades and spins them around, the lower blade rotating twice and the upper blade once. The boss then winds up a forward slamming flail that will inflict . 	When it creates the flail, it will expose its headshot weakness spots in the form of teal spheres.
Siphon Shield & Knockback	Unleashes an arena-wide sphere that blocks incoming bullets and draws in nearby Fragments, before imploding and flinging away all enemies and players from the epicenter of the boss.	Move into the sphere to deal damage to the Fragmented. The boss will also reveal its headshot weakspot in the form of glowing teal spheres.
|-|Fragmented Zelator=
Attack 	Description 	How to Counter
Rock Fling 	The Zelator leans down and picks up bundles of stones and tosses them around the arena in omnidirectional arcs. Has a chance to deal damage. 	Avoid getting close to the Fragmented.
Seeking Missiles	Triggered during the second phase. The Zelator conjures a large swirling orb of energy that releases multiple smaller projectiles that curve around the area. Has a chance to deal damage.	During the animation, the boss will reveal its headshot weakspot in the form of glowing teal spheres down its body.
|-|Fragmented Anchorite=
Attack 	Description 	How to Counter
Tower Eruption	The Anchorite moves to the middle of the arena and forms a spinning tower, conjuring energy geysers to erupt from the floor that inflicts .	
Lock-on Beam 	Summons a lock-on beam that targets all present Tenno. 	If baited to hit the boss, it stuns them for a brief period, revealing its headshot weakspot in the form of glowing teal spheres.
|-|The Fragmented One=
A unique boss that is a combination of the other three.
Additionally, all attacks inflict procs and can dispel buff-based abilities (i.e: but not ), and will also disable player abilities for 3 seconds. 
Attack 	Description 	How to Counter 	Dispels, Disables and Magnetic
Laser Blades & Flail 	Creates two laser blades and spins them around, the lower blade rotating twice and the upper blade once. The boss then winds up a forward slamming flail that will inflict . 	When it creates the flail, it will expose its headshot weakness spots in the form of teal spheres. 	✓
Tower Eruption 	The boss moves to the middle of the arena and forms a spinning tower, conjuring energy geysers to erupt from the floor that inflicts . 	 	✓
Lock-on Beam 	Summons a lock-on beam that targets all present Tenno. 	If baited to hit the boss, it stuns them for a brief period, revealing its headshot weakspot in the form of glowing teal spheres. 	✓
Siphon Shield & Knockback	Unleashes an arena-wide sphere that blocks incoming bullets and draws in nearby Fragments, before imploding and flinging away all enemies and players from the epicenter of the boss. 	Move into the sphere to deal damage to the Fragmented. The boss will also reveal its headshot weakspot in the form of glowing teal spheres.	✗
Rock Fling 	The One leans down and picks up bundles of stones and tosses them around the arena in omnidirectional arcs. Has a chance to deal damage. 	Avoid getting close to the Fragmented. 	✗
Seeking Missiles 	Triggered during the second phase. The One conjures a large swirling orb of energy that releases multiple smaller projectiles that curve around the area. Has a chance to deal damage. 	During the animation, the boss will reveal its headshot weakspot in the form of glowing teal spheres down its body. 	✗
Cascading Fragmentation 	A soft-enrage sequence that begins at the second phase. Applies all players with a unique debuff known as Cascading Fragmentation, which deals periodic damage and speeds up boss movement. Every 60 seconds the debuff will continuously increase by one stack until the Tenno or the boss is slain.	 	✗
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==Strategy==
===Phase 1===
Tenno must acquire Atropos Probes and inject their serums into Vitreum scanners to scan for nearby Murmur Eyes. Up to three Vitreum scanners can be active at a time (other than the first Vitreum scanner, where only one can be active), each taking a minute to reveal the Eyes, which can be accelerated by killing enemies in the marked yellow objective circle.
Enemies within 10 meters of an active Vitreum will halt its searching progress. Additionally, Hurling Fragments may sometimes cover revealed Eyes, preventing their collection and accelerating their disappearance. However, they can be destroyed to acquire the Eyes.
Collection area is changed once 8 eyes and 18 eyes are collected. Once 30 Eyes (or sometimes 45 on bounties) are collected, the location of The Fragmented will be revealed.
===Phase 2===
To fight The Fragmented, the entire squad must locate a marked Murmur Eye shrine and interact with it to begin the encounter. After interacting with the shrine, the Tenno must then fight off an encroaching swarm of Murmur Fragments in the form of The Fragmented Tide. Once the tide is broken, the remaining Fragments will fuse together into a Fragmented, usually in one of three forms: the Anchorite, Suzerain, or Zelator. Which of the three spawns is dependent on the tile that the mission has generated: a narrow canyon will spawn the Anchorite, a wide open canyon will spawn the Suzerain, and a cave will spawn the Zelator.
The boss has two health bars. On its second health bar it will begin using special attacks and Murmur reinforcements will appear.
====The Fragmented One====
There is an optional, but more challenging variant of the boss known as The Fragmented One, which can only be accessed by collecting 60 Murmur Eyes on The Steel Path. Upon starting the fight, there are a few special conditions that are activated:
*Fight level will be adjusted depending on how many players are present in the session. This will affect the level of the adds spawned.
**On solo session, enemy level is set to 225.
**On 2-player session, enemy level is set to 250.
**On 3-player session, enemy level is set to 275.
**On a full squad, enemy level is set to 300.
*Much like in Archon Hunts: Self-revives are disabled, Bleedout timer is reduced each time the Tenno has fallen down to a minimum of 5 seconds, 's drain occurs 2 seconds earlier with each use, and the mission will fail upon the death of all players.
*Eximus variants of The Anatomizer, The Hollow Vein and The Severed Warden will continually spawn in.
Upon its defeat, in addition to its usual drops, the One will yield a single and a unique reward: the Manus Sumdali. If defeated solo with / , , / , / , / , and / , the player will earn their respective Accolade Glyph.
===Summary===
#Phase 1: Use Atropos Probe to activate Vitreums and collect 30/45/60 Murmur Eyes to spawn the boss.
#Phase 2: Face off against the Tide and The Fragmented boss.
==Notes==
*During certain attacks, a Fragmented may reveal their weak spots in the form of glowing cores in the middle of their body.
*Much like the Ropalolyst, defeating the Fragmented does not anger the (Shadow) Stalker, and therefore players will not be marked for killing it.
==Trivia==
*The lesser Murmur Fragments that make up the Fragmented consist of two Lumbering Fragments and four Shuffling Fragments.
*The Fragmented appearing in the Whispers in the Walls demo during Tennocon 2023 is named "The Fragmented One", yet appears and behaves like the Suzerain that appears in the final game.
*A Suzerain is a term used to describe an overlord, usually of multiple vassal or tributary states.
*An Anchorite (ἀναχωρέω, anakhōréō, "I withdraw, retire," female: Anchoress) is a term used to describe a person that withdraws from secular society to pursue a prayer-oriented life, and are required to take an vow of stability of place, often a cell attached to churches.
*A Zelator is a term to describe a zealot, a person fanatical and uncompromising in their beliefs.
*The developers collectively refer to The Fragmented as "Octopedes" on occasion, and related in-game assets refer to them as such.
==Gallery==
File:Fragmented One promo.jpg|A Fragmented Suzerain
File:Murmur fragmented promo.jpg
==Patch History==
es:El soberano fragmentado
Category:The Murmur
Category:Boss
Category:Update 35