Oryx, the Taken King

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==Summary==
Oryx, born Aurash and formerly known as Auryx (meaning "Long Thought"), is the God-King of the Hive and Taken. Being born as a mere Krill princess, she along with her sisters narrowly escaped a conspiracy set up by their mentor that resulted in the death of their father and subsumation of the Osmium throne. They journeyed down deep into the core of their homeworld, Fundament, eventually meeting the five Virtuous Worms, Akka, Eir, Xol, Ur, and Yul. These worms were beings with deep connections to the Darkness and they bestowed upon the trio great power so long as they each continue to fulfill their respective geas. With this power Auryx, now having taken the King morph, and his siblings would go on destroying species and worlds for thousands of years, until the hunger of the Worms began to outstrip the destructive intake that the three siblings could provide. Under the threat of consumption, Auryx slew his sisters to gain their power, and killed his patreon Worm God, Akka. This action supposedly gave him a direct connection to the Darkness itself and resulted in his ascension into becoming Oryx, the Taken King. He and his resurrected sisters would proceed to go on, causing even more destruction to both the species of the universe and each other, such was their love.
Billions of years later, Oryx arrives at the Sol system enraged due to the death of his son, Crota, at the hands of the Guardians. His Taken influence would spread throughout the Sol system, and he would prove to be the greatest threat to the Light yet, even causing the Vex to foresee their own demise and frantically start searching for any possibility of changing their fate. But despite all of this, Oryx was eventually killed twice by the Guardian: Once in the material realm, and an ostensibly final death in his own throne. With his vengeance denied and his vanquishers refusing to take up the mantle of Taken King, Oryx left behind an immense power vacuum, a vacuum his sisters would take advantage of.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: At least , Environmental Destruction through the destruction of the Dreadnaught's core | At least , likely 
Key: Material Projections/Echoes | Outside of Material Space
Name: Oryx, The Taken King, formerly Auryx and Aurash, The First Navigator of Phase Spaces, The Great Navigator, The Demon King, King of Shapes, Harrowed God, King of the Deep, Carver of Tablets, Destroyer of Light, Taker of Will, Osmium King, Lord of Shapes, King of Bone, Primogenitor of Possibilities, Lord of Chaos and Ruin, King of Subjugation, King of Depths, He-Who-Mastered-Shapes, Edge-and-Point, VIP #2015
Origin: Destiny
Gender: Male, technically King, formerly Female
Age: Billions of years
Classification: God-King, Hive, Ascendant
Powers and Abilities:
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Attack Potency: At least Continent level (Oryx is stronger than the Worm Gods, of which Xol is the weakestApocrypha), Solar System level Environmental Destruction through the destruction of the Dreadnaught's core (The Dreadnaught's core would destroy the solar system if containment was brokenShield Brothers) Ignores durability with most abilities, the Tablets of Ruin, and Willbreaker | At least Universe level+, likely Low Multiverse level (Stomped Quria, a Vex Mind who his kids could not defeat. Upon his arrival Oryx was able to quickly overwhelm the Vex presence in the Sol System.Paradox The Vex in the Vault of Glass were powerless against a Taken imbued with just a fraction of Oryx's power, making him far stronger than Atheon), Ignores durability with most abilities, the Tablets of Ruin, and Willbreaker
Speed: Massively Hypersonic+ (Oryx is one of the faster enemies, who fought with the the Guardian. The latter was able to react to lightning during their Stormcaller training.Shard of the Traveler (Stormcaller) Should be superior to the The Stormherd, who can hook lightning from the air mid-descentCloudstrike) | Unknown
Lifting Strength: Class P (More powerful than Xol, Will of the Thousands. Physically moved the pieces required for the creation of the Dreadnaught) | Immeasurable (With help from his court, Oryx pushed his throne world, which is an infinite space-time continuum,Thank you inside out)
Striking Strength: At least Continent level (Comparable to his AP) | Universe level+, likely Low Multiverse level (Even while weakened, Oryx can kill the Guardians who killed Atheon with a single strike)
Durability: At least Continent level (Can take hits from his siblings, who are comparable to him) | Universe level+, likely Low Multiverse level (Totally immune to the effects of max power Guardians until his own power is used against him. Fought his sisters, who are comparable to him, for billions of years, strengthening each other. Quria was forced to abort her invasion of Oryx's throne and retreat shortly after him entering the fray. The Vex, which includes minds such as Atheon, Time's Conflux, cannot defeat him even in their own domains)
Stamina: Superhuman (Warred with his sisters for tens of thousands of years at a time, each death he inflicts replenishes some of his strength), Eventually will become infinite
Range: Interdimensional, at least Interplanetary | Interdimensional, at least Multiversal (He has greater range than his son, Crota)
Standard Equipment:
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Oryx's weapon of choice, an enormous ascendant sword that is used to activate the Dreadnaught's super weapon. Willbreaker's edge is sharp enough to cut through quarks and as its name suggests, it can break the wills of others. 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. Willbreaker transcends liminality. It does not have to touch you to wound you. And lastlyto be taken in Willbreaker's grasp 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 only pain.
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After slaying Akka, Oryx took from the Worm God's remains the secret to call upon the Deep (the Darkness). He wrote this secret upon a set of tablets, which he called the Tablets of Ruin. From the secrets written upon these tablets, Oryx learned about the power to Take. With the Tablets of Ruin he could also commune with the Deep and travel to it, when no other Hive could.
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DreadnaughtGrimoire.jpg|The Dreadnaught, accompanied by multiple Hive warships
DreadnaughtCinematic.jpg|The Dreadnaught after its super weapon annihilated the Awoken fleet
DreadnaughtSaturn.jpg|The Dreadnaught positioned within the hole it blew in Saturn's ring
The Dreadnaught is Oryx's flagship. It was made from a piece of the Worm God Akka's corpse and it seems to be around the size of the moon. Oryx's throne world is housed by the Dreadnaught, giving him the advantage of having a mobile realm. The ship's hull is so durable that it was completely unaffected by the impact of multiple Harbingers, the Awoken's super weapons, which were tearing through the Hive fleet prior. Through the power of the Deep and clever systems built into the Dreadnaught by his daughters, Oryx can push part of his throne world into reality in order to decimate anything within range. This is the ship's paracausal super weapon.
 
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Intelligence: Supergenius (Has had billions of years to accrue knowledge and fight, he can take the knowledge of those he kills or Takes, can outwit his sister who is the Hive goddess of cunning, deduced the hive social structure to fulfill the tithes necessary for the Worm Gods, figured out how to kill Akka, one of their gods, and take his power for himself, can lead his entire kingdom of the Hive to such efficiency that he can cause civilizations to go extinct without even needing to become personally involved. Oryx can also outsmart the Vex, as well as being able to understand things they were unable to comprehend. The Vex are a race of robots who can simulate an infinitely expanding multiverse's timelines with near 100% certainty and are capable of collective thought across space and time. Vex minds can warp reality through extremely advanced science, and the Vex have already made significant progress to their goals of becoming a law of the universe, having already achieved near absolute hegemony over areas such as the Vault of Glass)
Weaknesses: Failing to live up to his nature of understanding and curiosity as well as failing to uphold his tithe of death to his worm will result in his eventual consumption. Killing him in his own throne world makes it much harder, though not impossible, for him to return.
Feats:
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*Warred for billions of years with his sisters, who are all comparable to him.
*Slew the worm god Akka, a being who should have been far above him in terms of power through the exploitation of the Sword Logic.
*Singlehandedly caused the extinction of the Ecumene after his ascension in power, an extremely advanced, galactic civilization who before this were one of the few legitimate threats to Oryx and his sisters, nearly causing them to fail to tithe their worms due to their difficulty to kill.
*Stomped Quria and Took many Vex, foes who his children were unable to deal with.
*Incomprehensible even to the Vex.
*By pushing part of his throne world into material space, he obliterated an entire attacking fleet of ships from the Reef.
*With one attack, caused extremely severe casualties to the Cabal to the point where they sent out a distress beacon. The Cabal are a race that has no word for 'retreat' and six for 'advance'. To them failure is unacceptable and they would generally rather die than enlist the aid of other non-Cabal.
*Can drain the light from top tier Guardians with his mere presence.
*Corrupted the Dreaming City with his presence and Took Riven of a Thousand Voices, an Ahamkara. Ahamkara before were able to empower cultists enough to stalemate Xivu Arath, Oryx's sister.
*The threat Oryx posed was great enough for figures such as Osiris, Eris, and Awoken queen Mara Sov to ally with one another to take action against him.
*Even when having his true form eradicated in his throne room, he still lives on within Touch of Malice and possibly the concepts of understanding and curiosity.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
*Acolyte Grenade: Oryx conjures a solar magic explosive and throws it at the enemy. It explodes upon contact, leaving behind a pool of fire.
*Darkness Blast: Oryx fires darkness projectiles of the arc element.
*Fist of Darkness: Oryx punches the ground, creating a large shockwave capable of obliterating his enemies.
*Poison Cloud: Oryx summons a dark cloud of poison on top of his enemies. These clouds deal damage over time, blur the enemy's senses, and slow them down.
*Wall of Darkness: Oryx raises his hand and summons a large shield made of shadows that is impervious to harm.
*Void Blast: Oryx fires powerful blasts of the void element.
*Necromantic Gaze: Oryx charges up a sphere of solar energy in his hands before firing a barrage of projectiles from the sphere at his enemies.
*Searing Torrent: Oryx fires a stream of flames to incinerate his enemies, dealing solar damage.
*Axion Dart: Oryx fires off a flurry of void projectiles that aggressively seek out and track enemies, detonating with an explosion of void once they reach their target.
*Retaliation Swarm: Oryx fires off a set of three void projectiles that aggressively seek out and track enemies. These projectiles can be fired in response to Oryx taking a hit of any kind.
*Darkness Bolt: Oryx throws a large orb of darkness at the enemy, dealing arc damage, blinding and deafening them and inflicting the Shadow Touched debuff, disabling double jump abilities and teleport, nullifying healing or regenerative effects, and drastically slowing them down, and applying a damage over time effect.
*Malificent Eye: Oryx summons Taken constructs that act as long-range stationary turrets, bombarding enemies with a stream of arc energy.
*Teleportation: Oryx teleports to avoid danger.
*Burning Effect: Oryx summons a blight-like bomb over his enemy's head that burns the area below it before exploding.
*Grasp of the King: Oryx drains light from a Guardian, disabling all abilities. If he isn't staggered immediately, this triggers a second ability.
*King's Decree: If he remains uninterrupted too long during Grasp of the King, causes instant death that cannot be revived from. Likely derived from the Deathsongs created by his daughters. Note that Grasp of the King is likely not an absolute prerequisite for this ability, but rather it is used first to stop the Guardian from resurrecting in any way.
*Darkness Dimension: Oryx BFR's the target to a pocket reality of his own design. It's surrounded by an impenetrable mist, which Oryx stays behind. Abilities are nullified, along with healing, the slowing of movement speed, and the ability to double jump. Staying here too long results in death.
*Doxology: Oryx drains the power of all Guardians not protected by the Aura of Immortality and inflicts an irrevocable death upon them all. Note that the Aura of Immortality is Oryx's own power.
*Take: Oryx’s most powerful ability is an ontological weapon, or ontopathogenic to be more precise, meaning it infects the very existence of things. It is heavily implied to be the inspiration of the Gorgon's Gaze, another ontological weapon. The ability to Take involves conducting a mathematical operation on the target and reforming matter in a self-contained reality, where the creator defines past, present, and future, imposing a singular origin and all decisions that follow. When a being has been Taken, their wounds are healed and they return to reality possessed and empowered by Darkness, recasted into a fanatically loyal servant of Oryx and closer to their perfect 'shape'. While some Taken may seem to retain a degree of independence, this is only because Oryx allows it in order to keep his legions interesting. Oryx and all Taken passively exude the blight, spreading the corruption of the Taken wherever they go. The blight erases existence and warps spacetime around them, while also inflicting a statistics debuff over an even larger area. While it is usually just a consequence of the Taken's existence and as such passive and unfocused, Oryx can consciously use its effects to do things like summon legions of Taken on a whim, fill areas with blights, empower other Taken, spawn blights directly on top of enemies, corrupt the geography of locations and so forth.
*Shadow Touched: A debuff inflicted by smaller Taken Blights. This debuff disables double jump abilities, teleportation, nullifies any regenerative effects, and drastically slows down movement speed while applying damage over time.
Note:
The Hive abide by a concept of Sword Logic, which is basically the concept of "Might makes Right" as a law of the universe. While an explanation can be found in greater detail on the page, it is important to note that even the light of Guardians is forced to abide by this Sword Logic, and they arguably did not entirely subvert the system as by taking raid gear and Touch of Malice, they claim the power of Oryx, allowing him to corrupt its wielders into his own image over time. This aspect of inheritance of power would insinuate that Oryx has the powers of everyone he's ever killed, backed up by statements stating that the power of the Hive and Taken is his and that his power was that of the Hive and Taken. As such through his mastery of the Sword Logic, Hive magic and his power mimicry, Oryx should have a number of abilities that he does not display in the game. See here for more information.
To explain the Abstract Existence of Oryx: Oryx in present exists only as a syllogism, exists in a realm where metaphor is truer than reality and inhabitants exist as a 'shape' rather than a physical entity, and his existence is bound to the concepts of curiosity, understanding, and his own Sword Logic that both sustains and confines his existence. He can be brought back even from a true death (one that takes place in his throne) should any of these three be properly evoked or should otherwise be thoroughly described. Eventually Oryx would have been ale to transcend his limitations and free himself from the tyranny of his worm's voracious appetite for death, existing as nothing more except a pure axiom. Oryx's type 6 immortality would have allowed him to reach this state, had his plan worked as he hoped it would and the Guardian had taken the mantle of the Taken King. His existence is explained here and his type 6 here.
For more details and justifications, see here, though some parts are outdated at this point.
==Gallery==
File:OryxRegicide.jpg|Oryx at the start of his fight with the Guardian
File:OryxRegicide2.jpg|Oryx during his fight with the Guardian
File:OryxAttacks.png|Oryx attacks the Guardian
File:OryxTake.jpg|Oryx wields the power to Take
File:OryxTakesKnight.gif|Oryx Takes a Knight
File:OryxWeapon.gif|Oryx uses his throne world as a weapon
File:VisageOryx.jpg|A visage of Oryx
File:OryxEcho.png|An Echo of Oryx
File:Oryx-Art (1).png|A render of Oryx
File:DestinyThreeSisters.jpg|Sathona, Aurash and Xi Ro
File:Oryx Battles Akka.jpg|Oryx Battles Akka
File:OryxDefeated.jpg|Oryx has been defeated for good
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