Mi'kraa Kruhxis

> "*After the Collapse, we Fallen spreaded ourselves in various dinasties, hierarchies, and even monarchies. Let us just say... we Scorpions prefer a more... diplomatic approach over raiding the unsupecting. The Arisen, on the other hand, aren't as forgivable.*"
> ― M'kraa Kruhxis to Petra Venj and the Guardian[source]
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**M'kraa Kruhxis** is the Fallen leader of the House of Scorpions. He serves as the vendor for the Tangled Shore in *Destiny 2*'s Forsaken expansion campaign.

## Biography

### Before the Collapse

M'kraa Kruhxis was born in the Remorath homeworld of Centuria Prime, outside of the Solar System but still in the Milky Way galaxy. He was among the ones who experienced the arrival of the Traveler in their planet. However, when the corrupt Remorath rulers sought to take the Traveler's power by force, they were abandoned by him and left for dead when the Darkness arrived and the Collapse was wreaked in the Solar System.

### After the Collapse

#### Foundation of the House of Scorpions

When the Remorath population became the race of beings known as the Fallen, M'kraa took command of one of the most prestiged and resourceful Fallen houses, the House of Scorpions, and moved to the Tangled Shore, in the surrounds of the Solar System's outer rim. The House of Scorpions would strive to be more "diplomatic" and "reasonable" than other Fallen houses, taking various other houses under their care in a single hierarchy of peaceful Fallen. This angered the House of Devils, an extremely violent house of killers, considered criminals even at the vision of other Fallen.

#### War with the House of Devils

For years battle was waged between the House of Scorpions and the House of Devils for control of the Tangled Shore. When the House of Devils was finally defeated by the superior technology of the Scorpions, the Devils were exiled to the Elderworld Penitentiary, somewhere else in the Asteroid Belt. The Awoken realm known as the Reef would take custody of these prisoners and leave them there for several decades. After the Reef prince Uldren Sov raised to the throne and the behest of queen Mara Sov's death, he sought revenge in the Guardians, who bestowed the wrath of Oryx, the Taken King upon them, causing the defiance of his sister at the hands of the Taken. Sov entered the Enderworld Penitentiary to unleash the wrath of the Devils and use it to his own gains. Sov would conquer the allegiance of the Devils by imbuing them with Corrupted Aether, an altered formula of the standard Aether that Fallen use to feed and survive, they would be reborn from the dead and transformed into enhanced violent, resiliant, and brutal killers.

#### Alliance with Petra Venj and the Guardian

To defeat the House of Devils, now reborn as the Arisen, M'kraa joined forces with Petra Venj and the Guardian, who wanted his help to bring Uldren Sov and his Arisen Barons to justice after they brutally wounded the Hunter Vanguard Cayde-6, a close friend of them, when they were trying to contain the outbreak in the Elderworld Penitentiary. Kruhxis used his contact with other Fallen houses under his own's care to inspect and eventually discover where Uldren Sov and his Barons were based.