Destiny 2’s conversations are incomplete without the raids. While raids have been a staple of MMOs for decades now, Destiny’s take on these ultra-difficult combat scenarios has always had a flair for grandeur. King’s Fall is considered one of the greatest raids in the Destiny franchise, and with good cause.
Delivered by The Taken King expansion, King’s Fall served as a storied end to a villainous character that quite literally transcended death, saving the game from financial disaster. Now with the biggest expansion in Destiny 2’s history on the horizon, whispers of a dead monarch and his raid returning are getting stronger.
To discuss King’s Fall and Oryx, we have to delve into some philosophical and metaphysical quandaries that Destiny’s universe deals with regularly for storytelling (heavy, I know). In true Bungie fashion, the Destiny universe deals with divinity, power, and evolution, just like Bungie’s other masterpiece, Halo.
In Destiny, beings ascend the totem pole of power through various means and fight in cosmic battles that define the literal shape of reality.
One such force was Oryx, The Taken King. Once a princess of a frail race, Aurash would struggle with her sisters Sathona and Xi Ro for survival. Through paracausal curiosity, deceit, and warfare, the three sisters would become Auryx, Savathûn, and Xivu Arath, the three gods of the Hive.
The emergence of the Hive put the galaxy on borrowed time as they encountered sentient life and put them to the sword. Such was the brutality of their ways that the three would often kill each other to become the sharpest edge in the universe.
This quest to become the final shape was the intrinsic religion of the Hive. Called the Sword-logic, this doctrine of constant warfare
Read more on sportskeeda.com