Hunter of Many Names

The **Hunter of Many Names**, also going by the contradictory title of "**Nameless Hunter**," is a female Awoken Hunter who was risen at some point before the arrival and defeat of Oryx. Like other Lightbearers, she initially lacked memories from her previous life. She was unable to select a name for herself, believing none to be "the right name." While not actively seeking the information, the Hunter of Many Names would later learn the details of her previous life but refused to use her former name. Her Ghost goes by the name "Patchwork."

Instead of using a specific name for herself, she instead encourages everyone she encounters to pick their own nickname to refer to her by. Some of the Vanguard refer to her as **Names** and most of Sylph's Stardogs call her **Kate**, but other aliases she has been referred to as include **Curio**, **Songbird**, and **Risks**. Prior to her first resurrection she held the name **Iona**.

## Biography

### Iona

#### Early Life

Iona was born to two Eccaleists in a small village in Nova Scotia, making her a first generation Earthborn Awoken. Shortly after her birth, the village fell under the rule of the Warlord Damien.

#### Damien's Bane

Around Iona's sixteenth birthday, she sought out to sabotage Damien's rule over her village. She snuck her way into the Warlord's stronghold, stole what she could wear and carry, and torched the rest of his treasure hoard. To make things even worse for the Warlord, she also tampered with his jumpship, removing the entire control panel in pieces and tossing it into a nearby river. Despite the need for multiple trips, Iona avoided detection throughout the entire sabotage.

Fearing retaliation on her village if Damien ever discovered her meddling or his loot in her possession, Iona ran from her home in self-imposed exile and set up camp in faraway hills. Twice more within the month, Iona would return to further sabotage Damien, avoiding capture both times but being detected on the second. Hesitant to return a third time, Iona set off for other lands, transporting her ill-gains on a cart she acquired from Damien's belongings.

#### Lady Vagrant

Warlords across human space began to dread the mysterious individual able to completely dismantle their rule effortlessly and without the power of the Light. The Warlords, having no knowledge of the individual's true identity, began to give her titles. "Lady Vagrant" soon became the subject of a few Warlord summits, but all plans to put an end to the elusive threat failed.

Lady Vagrant would eventually slip and fail, and without the power of the Light, she would only need to make one mistake for the Warlords to put an end to her meddling.

Some Warlords on the other hand sought to benefit from Lady Vagrant's fun. These Warlords would post notices showing their support of the vigilante's actions and providing intelligence on rival Warlords. When the Vagrant capitalized on the opportunities, the Warlords who supported her would snatch up the remains from their fallen rivals. But even these Warlords weren't safe from Lady Vagrant's destruction.

Geography and distance were seemingly never obstacles for Lady Vagrant. Her sabotage affected Warlords on all continents, although it appeared she maintained an interest primarily in the northern hemisphere. While never proven, some Warlords believed the more outlier spottings of Lady Vagrant were instead of pretenders being inspired by her actions.

#### Fall

Lady Vagrant would seal her fate by infiltrating the Steelclad Keep in Wales. Belonging to a small group of Warlords lead by the Titan Valora, the Steelclad Keep was considered untouchable. However, Lady Vagrant's mythical infiltration skills led to the fall of multiple other powerful strongholds, which made the Steelclad Keep an enticing target for the thief.

Lady Vagrant was not one to fall for traps, however even she wasn't infallible. She fell for a particularly clever trap left behind by the Warlords and ended up cornered by Valora. Narrowly escaping the Warlord's clutches, Lady Vagrant made a break for the exit, only to set off a series of carefully planned explosions that destroyed the only bridge and sent her flying backwards through the air. Heavily injured and suffering from a concussion, Lady Vagrant was unable to muster enough strength to continue her futile attempt to escape.

Valora, boasting her success at defeating the Uncatchable One, grabbed Iona by the neck and hoisted her onto a meat hook overlooking the main gate to the Steelclad Keep. Iona, unable to free herself, would die from her wounds while being used as a trophy and symbol of Valora's power.

### Hunter of Many Names

#### New Light

Iona later was discovered and resurrected by her Ghost while still mounted on the meat hook, requiring the newly resurrected Guardian to remove herself from her hanging mount. After some nonspecific introductions, the Ghost aided the Guardian with retrieving some basic gear and evading the nearby Hive. While scavenging, the Guardian was able to locate some tape to repair the Ghost's shell, as he had been damaged sometime before her resurrection. Around this time, it was revealed that neither Guardian nor Ghost had picked a name for themselves. While the Ghost was quick to adopt the Guardian's suggestion of "Patchwork" due to his damaged and crudely repaired exterior, the Guardian assured the Ghost she wasn't prepared to choose a name.

After a few firefights, Patchwork's Guardian was able to escape the old Warlord's keep and locate a place to rest in a nearby abandoned village. Alongside other more conventional names, Patchwork suggested to the Guardian to adopt the name "Risktaker" due to their seemingly careless attitude when presented with danger. The Guardian declined, stating that none of the suggested names were the correct one. However, Patchwork would continue to call the Guardian "Risks," calling it an affectionate nickname until she picks her own.

Risks and Patchwork would later acquire a ride to the Last City via a Vanguard patrol craft. Shortly later, her insistence on not settling on a name would result in her title and the nickname "Names," the latter gifted to her by the Hunter Vanguard Cayde-6. From this point onward, the Hunter of Many Names would encourage others to adopt their own names for her, both to collect as many names as she can and as an effort to stumble into the right name by happenstance.

It did not take long for the Hunter of Many Names to be recognized by the older Lightbearers to be a resurrected Lady Vagrant, but she failed to identify with her old name as well.

#### Fireteam Solaris

Independent of the Vanguard, the Hunter of Many Names was recruited into Fireteam Solaris alongside the Hunter Finn-2 and the Warlock Lorelei by the Titan Ercan. This fireteam tasked themselves with eliminating the dangerous Skariks, Baron of Devils, who was terrorizing the region of Albion.

Skariks had previously conducted an arms trade with another Eliksni named Viksis, the Silverbroker. Having no knowledge on the location of Skariks's stronghold but knowing that information may be obtainable from any trade records in Viksis's possession, Fireteam Solaris attempted to infiltrate the ever-repositioning lair of the Silverbroker, at the time located somewhere in Iberia. The Fireteam failed to secure the information without being caught, and was forced to negotiate with the mysterious individual claiming to represent the Eliksni House of Silver for the data. In exchange, the members of the fireteam would each owe the House of Silver a favor, despite all evidence indicating the House of Silver to be a fabrication. Fireteam Solaris reluctantly agreed to the trade, retrieving the data and beginning to decrypt it.

Locating Skariks's stronghold using the Silverbroker's data, the fireteam elected to utilize a less stealthy approach. Fighting their way into and through the stronghold, the fireteam was able to locate Skariks's throne room. However, the fireteam was too slow, and the Baron had already escaped the room prior to their arrival.

While looking for clues, Finn-2 set up a sniper perch on the throne room's balcony overlooking the rest of the stronghold. This would prove to be a fatal mistake, as Finn-2 and his Ghost Casper would quickly fall to a series of sniper shots originating from the Baron somewhere nearby. Casper was destroyed by a devourer round, dooming the two to a permanent death.

The remaining members of Fireteam Solaris rediscussed their situation while Patchwork uncovered from Viksis's data that the Baron had acquired a total of four devourer rounds from his trade agreement. While Lorelei and Ercan agreed to abandon the mission, the Hunter of Many Names was determined to avenge Finn-2 alone.

The Hunter of Many Names tracked Skariks to an abandoned cliffside lighthouse near the stronghold and engaged the Baron in a duel. Throughout the engagement, the Hunter of Many Names was able to bait the Baron into wasting his remaining devourer rounds before defeating him.

#### Tusk Rats

After suffering significant losses during the Taken War, reserve Cabal forces known as the Tusk Rats swiftly occupied many of the moons around Jupiter and Saturn in an attempt to secure the Dreadnaught. The Hunter of Many Names would conduct many missions against the new legion following its arrival.

While the Hunter of Many Names frequently rotated between fireteams during this time, many of her missions were conducted alongside the Warlocks Lorelei and Sylph-7, the former of which she operated alongside as part of Fireteam Solaris.

One of the Hunter's last missions before the outbreak of the Red War was a failed assassination attempt on Primus Virathal, leader of the Tusk Rats.

#### Red War

The Hunter of Many Names, while operating as part of Fireteam Juneau alongside Lorelei and Sylph-7, was camped on Enceladus at the start of the Red War.

Panic rose within the fireteam when all three Guardians and their Ghosts spontaneously lost their connection to the Light. Lorelei and the Hunter of Many Names immediately began to experience side-effects of the -200°C weather, only temporarily survivable thanks to recovered Golden Age technology. Fortunately, Sylph-7 was far less impacted by the extreme temperatures and was able to transport her two teammates to a warmer subsurface research center before also succumbing to the cold.

Days later, the three of them reunited with a small contingent of Vanguard forces that survived the first wave of the Red Legion attack. After learning of the fate of key local Vanguard commanders and system-wide loss of communications, Sylph-7 elected to place herself in charge of the remaining survivors until communications with Commander Zavala could be reestablished. Knowing the group's supplies and heat would eventually run out, Sylph-7 prioritized the goal of escaping Enceladus and reuniting with the rest of the Vanguard on Earth, unaware of the loss of the Traveler and fall of the Last City.

The Hunter of Many Names was placed in charge of planning and executing an operation to hijack a Cabal warship. While such a stunt was considered hopeless by most of the Guardians present, the Hunter of Many Names nonetheless reluctantly began preparations to complete the task. Based on reconnaissance conducted by some of the Exo survivors, Sylph-7 and the Hunter of Many Names determined the best target to be the nearby Tusk Rat frigate *Vindicta Rega*. The warship was functioning as the upper component of a two-part field base, and reports indicated the majority of its forces occupied the ground-side firebase.

Due to the extreme cold, non-Exos like the Hunter of Many Names would only have a small window of time to complete the mission before succumbing to an icy death. However, it was determined that the mission was only feasible with everyone's participation in the field, putting a close on any discussions about staying behind in the heated bunker.

Within the span of fifteen minutes, the assembled Guardians were able to rush the firebase and board the frigate, suffering casualties in the double digits. The Hunter of Many Names suffered a bullet wound to the leg as she reached the warship, requiring Lorelei to carry her the rest of the way to the bridge. From there, Patchwork, Puck, Echo, and some of the other Ghosts spent the next ten minutes attempting to pilot the warship while the Guardians held off a Tusk Rat counteroffensive.

The firefight concluded after the team successfully hijacked the vessel and subsequently vented most of the remaining Cabal out through the ship's airlocks. While Sylph helmed and Lorelei took a team to eliminate any surviving Cabal still aboard the frigate, the Hunter of Many Names took some time to rest and recover from her injury.

The group assembled to capture the *Vindicta Rega* would later indentify themselves as Sylph's Stardogs and continue serving aboard the vessel, although many members including the Hunter of Many Names would rotate in and out of the group to perform other operations for the Vanguard. The capture of the vessel was later determined to technically be the largest singular acquisition by Lady Vagrant.

#### Fireteam Phantom

After the Red War, the Vanguard identified increased Vex activity on Io around the Cradle. The Hunter of Many Names was dispatched to investigate alongside the New Light Warlock Elysia. For the duration of the mission, the two of them were collectively designated Fireteam Phantom.

Prior to the operation, Elysia commented on the Hunter of Many Names's curious nature, electing to refer to her as a "Curio" throughout their mission.

Throughout the operation, Phantom encountered numerous Vex and shifting corridors beneath the Cradle. After numerous rooms of shifting platforms and blocked pathways, the mission culminated in the defeat of an Axis Mind by the fireteam: a Hydra known as Kharon which was tasked with studying the Cradle on behalf of the Sol Collective.

Following the mission, the Hunter of Many Names extended Elysia an invitation to join Sylph's Stardogs, but the Warlock declined the offer stating she would rather continue her studies on her own. She kept open the possibility of working with the Hunter of Many Names again in the future.

#### Forsaken and Temporary Retirement

Lorelei and the Hunter of Many Names paid off their debts to the Silverbroker by relinquishing their possession of the *Vindicta Rega* to her. As a result, the Stardogs ceased their operations and officially disbanded, content with accomplishments and pleased to have aided two of their members with their plight as a final victory.

The Stardogs' celebrations were a much needed source of camaraderie and joy for Names during a time of otherwise great loss following the death of the Hunter Vanguard. However, despite the group's best efforts to end their journey on a high-note, the Hunter of Many Names lost the drive to fight for some time. She spent the following few months retired to the streets of the Last City in general solitude.

#### Lightfall

The Hunter of Many Names took part in rescue operations against the Shadow Legion. At least one of these operations was conducted alongside Wayland Wright and Virathal, the latter of which she had attempted to assassinate years prior.

## Trivia

* The Hunter of Many Names is depicted as wearing the Nemean Casque, Nemean Grips, Vallhund, Unyielding Favor Strides, Luxe Cloak, and Mercury Prophetic Shader.

### Nicknames

Below is a list of nicknames the Hunter of Many Names has been referred to by:

* **Artemis**
* **Astra**
* **Blue**: Bestowed to her by Amanda Holliday.
* **Chirp**
* **Curio**: Bestowed to her by Elysia.
* **Emma**
* **Flick**
* **Giggle**
* **Girl**
* **Glitter**
* **Guardian**: General title used ambiguously prior to adopting a unique name.
* **Gutter Rat**
* **Headache**
* **Hunter**: General title used ambiguously prior to adopting a unique name.
* **Huntress**
* **Iona**: Her name prior to her resurrection.
* **Jelly**
* **Jewels**
* **Kate**: Bestowed to her by Sylph-7 and later used by most of the Stardogs of the *Vindicta Rega*.
* **Lady Vagrant**: A title she was referred to by prior to her resurrection. Still occasionally used by Lord Shaxx.
* **Lightbearer**: General title used ambiguously prior to adopting a unique name.
* **Lightshow**
* **Lilly**
* **Little**
* **Liv**
* **Mango**
* **Moonstone**
* **N**
* **Nameless**
* **Nameless Hunter**
* **Names**: Bestowed to her by Cayde-6. Used by the Vanguard officially, and acts as a default nickname for the Hunter.
* **Nickname**
* **Noodle**
* **Original**: Bestowed to her by Alex-5, when asked to think of "something original."
* **Peculiar**
* **Possum**
* **Quirk**
* **Quirky**
* **Risks**: Bestowed to her by Patchwork and also used by Lorelei.
* **Rose**
* **Sarah**
* **Shade**
* **Siren**
* **Sleuth**
* **Smile**
* **Smirk**
* **Snowball**
* **Songbird**: Bestowed to her by Finn-2.
* **Starlight**
* **Talkback**
* **Twitch**: Bestowed to her by Ercan.
* **Uncatchable One**: A title she was referred to by prior to her resurrection.
* **Val**
* **Wishbone**

## Appearances

* *Destiny 2*
	+ False Light (Mentioned only)
		- Escort Detail

 Guardians(Ghosts)
 Warlocks
 Non-Lightbearer Humanity