Destiny: Lore

Chapter 12: The House of Wolves

For this treachery of the Fallen Wolves, and the sudden re-emergence of her great enemy, Skolas the Rabbid, Queen Mara Sov of the Awoken Reef-born, promised to repay the debt of blood with as much suffering as she could offer Skolas. With this, she opened up the borders of the Reef to the Guardians of the Last City and told them all that if they wished great bounty, they should do no more than look to the Reef and it would be provided. We were summoned to the Reef by Queen Mara Sov of the Awoken to repay the debt we owed them for aiding us in our Infiltration of the Black Garden, and in order to repay her, we would need to aid her in the capture of Skolas, the newly appointed Kell of Kells.

Firstly, we hunted him to the Ishtar Sink of Venus, where he escaped before we could capture him. He was, however, uniting both his House and the leaderless House of Winter in the process, and with them rallied to his banner, he had grown stronger. Next, we had to stop him from uniting any other house, and so we headed to the Cosmodrome, attempting to stop Skolas' elite Silent Fang assassins from assimilating the House of Devil's into their newly formed Kell ship. These Devils might have followed well enough, if their leadership hadn't been spared by our action that day. We confronted the deadly assassins and one, killing a fine commander in the process. Next, we hunted the Command Servitors of the Wolves through the Cosmodrome, destroying them before cutting down the House of Kings Barons Paskin and Vekis, and the Wolf Baron Javik, who were potentially breeding an alliance between the Fallen House of Wolves and House of Kings.

To this day, it is to be noted that the Kell of the House of Kings has been found. He is merely staying in the shadows, ruling like one of the Machiavellis of old. With no other Fallen Houses in the system that might bend the knee to him, Skolas was quickly running out of options. And so we found him next in the most unusual of places, in the weakened Vault of Glass that we had previously assaulted. We stopped him from tampering with Vex technology, and bringing the systems of the Vault to his knees in the form of Oracles that might erase us from existence. But, most importantly, we realized that Skolas had gathered valuable information about Vex technology. And finally, we tracked him to the heights of the Vex Citadel where he had scaled to the top. There we would find the Fallen Wolf's forces had been empowered by Vex technology. Skolas could now pull them through time to aid him, and so we battled through them. Finally, engaging the Kell of Kells in personal combat, and after he was subdued, the Fallen was no longer at our mercy, but at the mercy of the Queen. Mara Sov captured him and returned him to the Reef, so that he might languish once more within the Prison of Elders. She promised us great rewards when we returned. And we collected our rewards with the Queen's Guard, Petra.

When captured, Skolas mentioned to the Queen and to Variks the Loyal, who still stood at the Queen's right hand that he was afraid. Skolas was partly creating his new House as a way of more effectively shoring up the Fallen in general, for he had seen something. A coming shadow on the horizon, that he feared. This was an effective small hint for the Queen. And Queen Mara gifted Skolas to Variks as a result. Variks returned him to the Prison of Elders but the Queen left to ponder this matter more and what it might mean. The Prison of Elders was the Fallen arena of combat that Variks had created. Those that wished to tried would be tried by combat. And so we faced Skolas one last time in the Trial of the Wolf Kell, and defeated him once and for all.