Destiny: Lore

Chapter 11: the Dark Below

Crota's forces have begun the invasion of Earth and so our first directive was to kill the Fist of Crota, one of his commanders in the major theater of war that had erupted across Earth's Cosmodrome. Killing him, the Hive were left leaderless and unorganized. But this soon changed when a new leader quickly emerged in the form of Omnigul, the Will of Crota, the mother of his spawn. She took over, and then decided that a new target had to be set. She attempted to take over, or at very least defeat the defenses of Rasputin. His eternal Warmind bunker was not defended by the same nuclear weapons of Armageddon that he held. This required us to enter his bunker, the Seraphim Vault and pushed back the forces of Omnigul. By doing this, we banished not only the power of the Will of Crota for a time, but also destroyed Crota's might. Following up after this we hunted down his Eyes and his Heart and all those other appendages of him that reached into our reality and finally the hunt for Omnigul began, she who had escaped would finally be found and thwarted as she attempted to breed a new brood under the Skywatch's Jovian Complex, and with her death, the Hive would learn a new fear. Finally, we headed to the Moon to find the Soul of Crota himself. Within the Chamber of Night, we will discover this terrifying beast. We would destroy the crystal containing his soul and thus prevent him from taking on a corporeal form within our reality. But Eris requested one last thing of us. We had yet another task.

Crota had only been killed in a corporeal form. The crystal was not his end. To kill him truly, we had to venture into his netherworld. All ascendant Hive have a form of pocket universe that their souls retreat into when badly wounded. It is within these netherverses that they can express their true power. They are their most dangerous here, but also if one is killed within their own realm, they are dead forever. And so, Eris requested that we hunt down Crota's true form by entering his Ascendant realm, seeking out his true form. We challenged Crota in the sword logic. The Hive rules of unending slaughter in the universe. Using the combined might of our Fireteam and one of Crotas own blades, we sunder to the god-prince of the Hive from existence once and for all. But, in his last dying scream he let out across the night, he called out and the night would answer.

It would take sometime for that retribution to reach our shores, and since then, there had been other smaller political movements that had cropped up. Skolas of the House of Wolves had been previously been kept by the Queen of the Reef in the icy containment of a Stasis Pod in the Prison of Elders. She had since bargained him away to the Nine so that they might return some of her Crows that had ventured into the Cauldron of Raya. Skolas had been freed by the Nine, and was given a Ketch, one of the Fallen's greatest ships in their navy. He then used this newfound authority, took in sight rebellion amongst the Fallen House of Wolves, forcing them to betray the Queen of the Reef, and then set out to unite all the Fallen houses under his one banner. Led by Skolas, the self-appointed Kell of Kells.