Dominus Ghaul

> "*You Guardians think you are brave. You're not brave. You have merely forgotten what it feels like to fear death. Allow me to reacquaint you!*"
> ― Dominus Ghaul to The Guardian[source]
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**Dominus Ghaul** was a Cabal warlord and emperror. He is the main antagonist of *Destiny 2*.

## Biography

Ghaul was raised as a child in the corrupt Cabal empire of Emperror Callus, to believe that he and his species would be the rightful users of the Light, and that The Traveller has made a mistake when chosing mankind as his Guardians, also believing he and his people would be much more powerful with the Light's blessing.

Eventually still younger Ghaul crawled in the Cabal hierarchy to usurp Callus and become the emperror, with his old friend Lamon Grox as his Consul and second-in-command. Ghaul also decided to foundate his own Cabal sub-group, the Red Legion, conquer countless Systems by destroying their stars. His quest for The Traveller has led him to the Solar System.

### Attack In the Last City

The Red Legion stormed the Last City in the hopes of securing The Traveller from it and then extinguishing mankind once and for all. Although the Guardians initially repelled the attack, the Cabals would use the machine known as Grandmaster to gain control over The Traveller, resulting in the loss of the Light to all Guardians, and to most of them, death as well. Ghaul executed himself a Guardian that managed to get in a Cabal dropship to disable it from the inside. Enweakened by the Light's loss, the poor Guardian was unable to defend himself from Ghaul, who pushed him off the edge of the ship to his death.

Amusing his victory over The Traveller and his Guardians, Ghaul kept The Cityspeaker alive only to interrogate him, so he could finally know how to master the power he sought.

### The Vanguard's Counter

Unfortunately to Ghaul not only the Guardian that he pushed off a ship has survived, but he has also reconnected to the Light, built-up his forces and united with the Vanguard. Together, they stormed the Last City's Tower and were able to reclaim it, in the process also saving The Cityspeaker and murdering Ghaul's Consul. For the first time, Ghaul was backed into a corner, almost out of resources.

### Denied by the Light

> "*Devotion brings bravery. With bravery, comes the need to sacrifice... and sacrifice leads to death. So, feel free to kill yourself.*"
> ― The Cityspeaker to Dominus Ghaul[source]
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In a last attempt to victory, Ghaul returned to the Grandmaster to try taking the Light by force off The Traveller, thinking he was the chosen one to bear it. The Guardian followed him there and, much to Ghaul's surprise and dismay, he came to see that The Guardian was, in fact, the chosen one - not him. Ghaul fought-off against an overpowered Guardian, resulting in him being pushed off the Grandmaster's edge just like he did to The Guardian before. Unlike The Guardian, however, Ghaul fell to his death in the European Dead Zone.

### Legacy

With Ghaul dead, the Guardians now prosperated and reclaimed control of The Traveller. Ghaul's corpse can still be seen in his crash-landed area, in the European Dead Zone. The Cabal empire eventually survived, still threatening mankind, but with their plan foiled and without a leader - even though they tried to nominate Thumos, he was killed in showdown with The Guardian - they eventually were directionless.

## Behavior

### *Destiny 2*

#### The Chosen One

Ghaul will walk slowly around the arena, sometimes agressively attacking the player with anEmperror Punch or Meteor Impact. On more rare occasions, Ghaul will start a Rhino Run and perform it about three times before tiring out, which gives the player a chance to counter-attack. Sometimes, after having half of his Health depleted, Ghaul will Hover  and launch Missiles in the player, causing a Burn Effect for 5 seconds. Over the fight, sometimes if the player gets too close to Ghaul, Ghaul will grab him and the player must perform a brief prompt by pressing repeatedly a specific button so he can escape. If he does not, Ghaul will take off half the player's Health.

When the player uses his Overdrive, Ghaul will have a basic set of melee attacks - the Emperror Punch, the Emperror Bash, or the Meteor Impact. In brief pauses between the player's strikes, he will use a Jetpack Defensive Dash to retreat, and a few seconds later use the Jetpack Offensive Dash to attack him.

## Quotes

> "*You Guardians think you are brave. You're not brave. You have merely forgotten what it feels like to fear death. Allow me to reacquaint you!*"
> ― Dominus Ghaul to The Guardian[source]
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> "*Tell me, Traveller... tell me your secrets. Allow me to access your Light... allow us to be your true, rightful Guardians!*"
> ― Dominus Ghaul contemplating the Grandmaster over The Traveller[source]
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> "*I was not always as you see... I have arisen from the deepest alleys of the dustiest ships in Callus's fleet. I have managed to crawl in hierarchy of my people... founded the Red Legion, the ones I praise as the true Guardians... The Traveller will notice me. He will have me be his chosen one, and I will guard him in exchange of limitless power and immortaility.*"
> ― Dominus Ghaul to The Cityspeaker[source]
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> "*He was the best I could have ever had. A resemblance of what my empire truly is... not a race of violent conquerors, but yes what could have been peacekeepers, blessed by him! But in midst of that, these petty, primitive species have been in our way for decades. The only thing between me and The Traveller. We will terminate them for their interference with our destiny - prepare the Almighty for supernova!*"
> ― Dominus Ghaul on The Consul's death[source]
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> "*The Almighty has been destroyed... what thousands of generations of our most ruthless tyrants have kept as their very legacy, gone to Lightless Guardians! Me? Retreating in defeat? How can this be?! We have one last think that can stop everything I built from falling apart. Call what is left of our fleet to the Moon... so we can be transported to the Grandmaster, where our prize lies.*"
> ― Dominus Ghaul after his failures[source]
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