Editing Awoken

{{Race infobox
|name=Awoken
|othernames=
|image=[[File:Grimoire Awoken.jpg|300px]]
|variant=Awoken
|homeworld= [[Distributary]]
|focalworld= [[Earth]]
|goals=
|war= [[Cabal]] <br> [[Fallen]] <br> [[Hive]] <br> [[Taken]] <br> [[Vex]]
|height=
|weight=
|distinctions=Pale blue skin <br> Glowing eyes
|lifespan=Immortal in the [[Distributary]] <br>Long-lived<ref group="note">''"Many Awoken still alive in the present fought in the Reef Wars, which took place over 126 years ago, as the Wars were fought before the founding of the Crucible, and according to [[Grimoire:Allies/Legends & Mysteries#Ghost Fragment: Cayde-6|Ghost Fragment: Cayde-6]] the Crucible was active 126 years ago."''</ref>
|notable-group=[[Guardian]]s <br/> [[Royal Awoken Guard]] <br> [[Techeun]] Coven
|notable-person=[[Mara Sov]] <br/> [[Uldren Sov]] <br/> [[Petra Venj]] <br/> [[Commander Zavala]] <br/> [[Tyra Karn]] <br/> [[Asher Mir]] <br/> [[The Emissary]]
}}
{{quote|The others sing this song of Light and Dark. We, together, have transcended such unimaginative limitations.|Grimoire card blurb}}<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Guardian/Races#Awoken|Awoken]]''</ref>
The '''Awoken''' are a humanoid race sharing common ancestry with Earth [[humanity|humans]]. They descend from the crew and passengers of the [[Yang Liwei]], a colony ship that disappeared in a spacetime anomaly during the [[Collapse]]. Time in the [[Distributary]], the homeworld of the Awoken, flows differently, and Awoken society has had thousands upon thousands of years to flourish and build. At some point in their history, a massive expedition fleet led by [[Mara Sov]] and her brother [[Uldren Sov]] left the anomaly and returned to the Solar system. Thousands of Awoken abandoned the expedition and found their way to [[the Last City]] to reunite with humanity and give rise to new Earthborn Awoken, while Mara Sov carved out a recluse kingdom in the [[Reef]] and reigned over Reefborn Awoken and subjugated [[Fallen]]. This Awoken kingdom was plunged into disarray by consecutive disasters of the [[House of Wolves|Wolf]] rebellion, the [[Taken War]], and the [[Scorn]] insurrection, eventually relying on the [[Vanguard]]'s help to survive.

==Overview==
{{Quote|The Awoken did not have a choice. We did.|[[Xur, Agent of the Nine]]<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Xûr, Agent of the Nine]]: [[Xûr, Agent of the Nine#Quotes|Quotes]]''</ref>}}
Awoken are standoffish<ref>[http://gamelynch.com/previews/destiny-preview/ Gamelynch: ''Destiny Preview'']</ref> and resemble baseline [[human]]s, with the notable exception of having pale blue, purple, green, or gray skin. They also have luminescent eyes with glowing irises.<ref>'''Bungie (2014-6-12)''', ''Destiny: Alpha PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard.''</ref>

Beyond physical appearances, the Awoken seem to possess powers and abilities beyond their human ancestors. The [[Techeun]]s are a particularly notable example, though ordinary Awoken can also experience visions in the form of dreams.<ref>'''Bungie (2015-9-19)''', ''Destiny: House of Wolves, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies#Skolas: Defeated|Skolas: Defeated]]''</ref> This is a side effect of them being within Earth's universe-within the [[Distributary]], the Awoken do not have paracausal abilities, but are so intertwined with the fabric of its existence that they do not age past a certain point.

==History==
===Origins===

{{Quote|How did the Awoken survive?"<br>"No one knows...|The Guardian and Ghost}}

It is said the Awoken were born in the [[Collapse]], descended from those humans who tried to flee its wrath. Something happened to them out on the edge of the deep Black, and they were forever changed. After their race was formed, they took up residence in the [[Asteroid Belt]], constructing cities and habitats like the [[Dreaming City (destination)|Dreaming City]]. Today many Awoken live in [[the Reef]], aloof and mysterious, but others returned to [[Earth]], where their descendants now fight for the [[City]]. Earthborn Awoken sometimes venture out to the Reef, hoping to learn its secrets—but find no special welcome from the reclusive [[Queen of the Reef|Queen]].<ref>'''Bungie (2014-6-12)''', ''Destiny: Alpha PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Guardian#Awoken|Awoken]]''</ref>

In ''Forsaken'', it is revealed the Awoken are the descendants of the crew and passengers of the [[Yang Liwei]], codenamed Exodus Green, a generation ship that left Earth shortly before the Collapse in an attempt to find a way to live without the Traveler. The ship refused to take a side when the [[Darkness]] attacked the Traveler<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Cosmogyre I|Cosmogyre I]]''</ref>. During the initial sparring between the two acausal entities, the ship was at the centerpiece of a kugelblitz, a black hole-like anomaly in space time that sucked it and all its inhabitants into a newborn pocket universe<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Cosmogyre IV|Cosmogyre IV]]''</ref>. The Yang Liwei's 891 crewmembers and 40,000 passengers were annihilated and lost their physical forms, becoming beings of pure potential. [[Mara Sov]], a low-ranking crewmember, was the first person to enter the kugelblitz just before the ship. She reassembled her own disembodied conscience, manipulate the Distributary's physical laws to shape it into an earthly paradise of a planet and create a new body for herself<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Ecstasiate II|Ecstasiate II]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Nigh II|Nigh II]]''</ref>. Together with the ship's captain [[Alis Li]], who awakened the same way, Mara Sov induced other disembodied humans from the Yang Liwei to awaken as well and reincarnate into new blue-skinned, star-eyed bodies, having only vague memories about their past.

=== The Distributary years ===

{{Quote|A paradise world: twin-ringed, impossible beauty, and a sky milk-bright with stars. She makes it real with a thought, and in that thought she falls herself, undoes her transient divinity, binds herself and all those after her into the law. The omniscient cannot explore. The omnipotent cannot struggle. She refuses that God-trap.|[[Lore:Marasenna|Marasenna]], [[Lore:Marasenna#Ecstasiate I|Ecstasiate I]]}}

The first generation of the Awoken consisted of reborn humans from Yang Liwei, including 30,111 women, 10,295 men, and 485 other. The Distributary Awoken were immortal: they did not age, though could die from trauma. Initially, they lived a simple life, eating of the fruit of the forest and hunting animals with [[Combat Bow|bows]]. Time in the Distributary moves faster that in the Solar System; while centuries passed on Earth, it was thousands of years for the Distributary<ref name="katabasis">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Katabasis|Katabasis]]''</ref>. 

It was initally assumed that [[Alis Li]], the ship's captain, was the first to awaken, to shape the world and to awake the others; Mara Sov kept her primogeniture in secret even from Alis Li, while manipulating the Awoken politics from behind. The nine verdicts established by a grand council defined the new's civilization identity, ethics and politics; captain Alis Li was elected the first Queen. The verdicts allowed the Awoken to procreate and bear new children, as immortal as they were, and encouraged the research and development of "good technology" salvaged from the ''Yang Liwei'', crashed as a spire planted into the bedrock of the Distributary<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Ecstasiate III|Ecstasiate III]]''</ref>. 

Philosophical disputes gave rise to two major movements, forest-dwelling [[Eccaleists]] and city-dwelling [[Sanguine]]; while the Eccaleist believed that Awoken owed a debt to the cosmos and have to resolve the primordial conflict that created their world, the Sanguine said they their immortality is a reward from cosmic powers and they do not owe anything to anybody. An Eccaleist preacher [[Diasyrm]] instigated the Theodicy War by accusing the Queen Alis Li of deicide, or the killing of gods; she explained that the Queen could have made the Awoken truly immortal, free of want or suffering, but betrayed her people by creating them mortal<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Fideicide I|Fideicide I]]''</ref>. Many Awoken perished over years of bloodshed; in the end, the peace was signed on Mara Sov's terms. Diasyrm mysteriously vanished and some time later Queen Alis Li abdicated, surrending her powers. Queen Alis' successors embraced the Eccaleist philosophy, supporing the massive space exploration program orchestrated by Mara Sov. The succession of these Queens included [[Nguya Pin]] and [[Devna Tel]]<ref name="imponent-v">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Imponent V|Imponent V]]''</ref>.

At some time, a scholarly order of [[Gensym Scribes]] rose to power; they conspired to support [[Sjur Eido]], a Paladin and hero of the Theodicy War, in her intent to kill Mara Sov for alleged murder of [[Diasyrm]]<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Marasenna#Imponent I|Imponent I]]''</ref>. Sjur Eido lost a duel to Mara Sov's brother [[Uldren Sov]] and became Mara Sov's fervent supporter, while Mara Sov used the failed conspiracy to subjugate the Gensym Scribes and accelerate the space program<ref name="imponent-v"/>. Eventually, Mara Sov completed her long-running game by leading an exodus of tens of thousands of Eccaleist Awoken into space, leaving the Distributary behind<ref name="katabasis"/>.

===Reef Wars===
{{Main|Reef Wars}}
{{Quote|We gathered to fight against our twilight, King and Devil, and Winter, all of us but us, the Wolves. Why? What kept us from the Gap? The Reef. The Queen. The slavers who played us against each other and docked us into subservience. These sly sterile un-people, these mirages with cold minds twinned to their own, these Carybdis butchers, they set us against each other. She played us. She made herself our Kell.|Skolas, Kell of Kells<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen#Ghost Fragment: Fallen 3|Ghost Fragment: Fallen 3]]''</ref>}}
[[File:Crow and queen of the Reef.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Queen Mara and Uldren with the House of Wolves under her command]]
The flotilla arrived at the Reef during the early [[City Age]]. After some initial encounters with the [[Fallen]] and upon receiving reconnaisance date about [[Earth]], the [[Traveler]] and the sorry state of [[humanity]], about a third of the expedition members voted to go to Earth and join [[the Last City]], despite Mara Sov's prohibition<ref name="revanche-2">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Awoken of the Reef#Revanche II|Revanche II]]''</ref>. Some of them even used salvaged Human spacecraft to flee the flotilla<ref name="revanche-3">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Awoken of the Reef#Revanche III|Revanche III]]''</ref>. Failing to keep order, Mara Sov agreed for thousands of rebels to leave and reunite with humanity on Earth; thus the next generations of the Awoken people were split into Reefborn and Earthborn. Mara Sov was proclaimed Queen of the Reef on [[4 Vesta]]; at the same time, some [[Fallen]] [[Baron]] detected ships moving towards Earth and traced their paths back to Vesta<ref name="revanche-5">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Awoken of the Reef#Revanche V|Revanche V]]''</ref>. This first major assault was repealed, but the Awoken of the Reef had to militarize and finding superior weapons to fight back. At the Queen's order, her brother [[Uldren Sov]] scoured the Solar System for "a power unknown to all the other powers of this world" and discovered a young [[Ahamkara]] called [[Riven]]; Mara Sov's covenant with this creature laid a foundation for the Reef's prosperity<ref name="tetic-2">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Awoken of the Reef#Tetic II|Tetic II]]''</ref>. 

Noticing the Fallen massing to destroy the Last City in an effort to steal back the [[Traveler|Great Machine]], the Queen chose to intervene and keep the oblivious out system [[House of Wolves]] from [[Twilight Gap|joining their brethren]] on [[Earth]]. While the House of Wolves had hundreds of thousands and probably millions of fighters, the Awoken used cunning and advanced weaponry. Striking suddenly, the Awoken fleet destroyed [[Ceres]] with a single salvo of the [[Harbinger]]s, taking down half of the Wolves' fleet stationed here and the [[Kell]] [[Virixas]] himself<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen_Hunted#Wanted: Skolas, Kell of Kells|Wanted: Skolas, Kell of Kells]]''</ref>. The remaining Wolves were scattered across the Reef and found themselves in a civil war between three [[Baron]]s [[Irxis]], [[Parixas]] and [[Skolas]], each wanting to claim the Kellship for themselves. The Reef Awoken launched a several-year-long campaign that whittled the Fallen's numbers and nobility to insignificance. This war involved a long siege of the asteroid [[Pallas]] by [[Pirsis]] and his fleet, with neither side willing to use their firepower in fear of hitting their own troops. Eventually, Awoken commander [[Hallam Fen]] managed to break the stalemate by creating an enormous visual illusion of another salvo of Harbingers, thus scaring Pirsis's ships off without a single actual shot being fired<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen_Hunted#Wanted: Pirsis, Pallas-Bane|Wanted: Pirsis, Pallas-Bane]]''</ref>. Another major engagement was in the Hildian Asteroids where the Awoken used the Charybdis, a gravity weapon strong enough to catch an asteroid Tinette and hurl it at another asteroid Fortuna which served as the Fallen fleet base<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen_Hunted#Wanted: Kaliks-12|Wanted: Kaliks-12]]''</ref>. Even though [[Skolas]] defeated his contenders and proclaimed himself the Kell of Wolves, [[Variks]], a Wolf scribe disillusioned with Skolas, defected over to the Queen's side. Thanks to this betrayal the remaining Wolves were defeated in the decisive battle of Cybele and Skolas was taken prisoner<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen_Hunted#Wanted: Kaliks-12|Wanted: Kaliks-12]]''</ref>.

In the aftermath of the Reef wars, Skolas and most of the Wolf nobility were incarcerated in the [[Prison of Elders]], and [[Variks]] declared Mara Sov the new Kell of Wolves. A large number of Wolf prisoners sworn fealty to her, thus joining the Reefborn Awoken under Mara Sov's rule; some of these Fallen even became part of the [[Royal Awoken Guard]]<ref>'''Bungie (2014/5/19)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[House of Wolves (expansion)|House of Wolves]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen_Hunted#WANTED:_Saviks.2C_Queenbreaker|WANTED: Saviks, Queenbreaker]]''</ref>. The Queen gifted Skolas to her allies, the [[Nine]], for their role in defeating the Fallen but they released the Wolf Kell, beginning the [[Wolf Rebellion]] and forced the Reef to open itself to [[Guardian]] access<ref name="The Queen">'''Bungie (2014/5/19)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[House of Wolves (expansion)|House of Wolves]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/The_Queen#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Queen|Ghost Fragment: The Queen]]''</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPg3jWn6Nn0 '''YouTube''' - ''Official Destiny Expansion II: House of Wolves Prologue'']</ref>.

=== Dreaming City and Eleusinia ===
{{Main|Dreaming City|Eleusinia}}
{{Quote|Your [[Traveler]] terraformed your planets. But the Awoken terraformed the [[Dreaming City]]. It is our creation. It is a reflection of our people - not a false gift from a skittish god.|Shuro Chi, Pilgrimage: Garden of Esila, View}}
[[File:DreamingCity1.png|thumb|300px|right|The Dreaming City]]
The Dreaming City is a [[Reef]] structure of an immense scale, built on an flat disc and hidden by a massive cloaking device. A special stabilizing ring below the disc maintains the City's atmosphere, catching any escaping water and returning it back.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard'', Pilgrimage: Harbinger’s Seclude, Cliffs</ref> The Dreaming City was built by Mara Sov and Techneun [[Illyn]], the Coven Mother; this artifical world was nothing but bare rocks when they started.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard'', Pilgrimage: Garden of Esila, View</ref>. 

In the aftermath of the Wolf Rebellion, Mara Sov forged a secret alliance with the [[human]] Hunter [[Eris Morn]], [[Earth]]'s most knowledgeable expert on the [[Hive]]. The immediate reason for this alliance was the threat of [[Oryx, the Taken King]], known as the Great Navigator, and his armies of Hive.<ref name="gf-queen">'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''Destiny: House of Wolves, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/The_Queen#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Queen_2|Ghost Fragment: The Queen 2]]''</ref> To rally the Awoken against this inescapable invasion, Eris Morn agreed to deploy her vast expertise of the [[Hive]] technology and magic she learned on the [[Moon]], including the knowledge of the [[Sword Logic]], the [[Ascendant realm]] and the art of creating throne worlds. 

The Awoken built the [[Blind Well]], an energy borehole in the fabric of space and time; it was drilled by Riven, taking the form of a "needle-nosed basilisk" and aided by Techeuns [[Lissyl]] and [[Sedia]] in a great cathedral on the eastern shore of the Dreaming City. The gate in the bottom of the Blind Well was built by [[Kalli]] and [[Shuro Chi]] inside in a hall they named "The Confluence". The Techeun [[Illyn]], the Coven Mother, used copious amounts of [[Tincture of Queensfoil]] to reach the Ascendant realm and began the construction from the other side, sorting the threads of reality on a vast metaphysical loom. Thus, Mara, Riven and the Techeuns built an isolated pocket universe and named it Eleusinia; it was Mara's third throne after the Distributary and Vesta. In the ascendant halls of Eleusinia, Mara carved a statue for [[Sjur Eido]]. The Blind Well, essentially a cross-world tunnel between the Solar System and Eleusinia, required a continuous multi-week charge of paracausal energies for operation.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard'', [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Dreaming City#Throne|Throne]]</ref>

Some time after the construction of Eleusinia, Mara Sov was contacted by the [[Ancients]], a group of mysterious entities describing themselves as "the nothing-space fabric". They possessed three Techeuns, including [[Kelda Wadj]], the Allteacher, to use them as mouthpieces to converse with Mara. Mara Sov agreed to the deal proposed by the Ancients; Kelda Wadj's body was destroyed and turned into a singularity the Awoken used to construct the [[Oracle Engine]], a sophisticated machine used for communication and transportation between planes of reality.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard'', [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Dreaming City#Oracle|Oracle]]</ref>

===The Taken War===
[[File:Battle on Saturn.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The Awoken fleet engaging the [[Dreadnaught]]]]

{{Main|The Taken War}}
{{Quote|The Awoken died for us. They gave their lives to save the system, to stop Oryx's fleet at the outer planets. We must honor their sacrifice. We must face the Taken King without fear. Queen Mara has given us a gift. We must not waste it.|[[Eris Morn]]<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Activities/The_Taken_King#The Coming War|The Coming War]]''</ref>}}
The Awoken were among the first to respond to Oryx's invasion. Attacking his fleet out around [[Saturn]], the Queen and her Witches sacrificed themselves to fire the [[Harbinger]]s, mysterious weapons or entities of incredible power, at the [[Hive]] [[Dreadnaught]]. Despite destroying a good portion of Oryx's fleet there were no marks made upon the flagship, and shortly thereafter Oryx ended the battle with a single blow from his cannon.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[The Coming War]]'' </ref>

Despite a significant loss of Reef leadership, including the Queen and a missing Prince, the Reef aided the City and its Guardians in destroying Oryx's [[Taken]]. Setting bounties upon several lieutenants the Reef oversaw their extermination and eventual rooting out of the Taken [[Blight]]s in conjunction with the [[Vanguard]]. During this conflict Petra Venj, Acting Regent-Commander, continued to search for the missing Queen and preventing a resurging House of Wolves from regrouping on Mars. With the aid of Variks and the Guardians the nascent Wolf house was scattered again.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Prime's Path]]'' </ref>

===Betrayal of a Prince===
[[File:ScornRise.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Uldren escaping the Prison of the Elders with the [[Scorn|Scorned Barons]]]]

Following the resurgence of [[Uldren Sov]], he led a rogue [[Fallen]] house known as the [[Scorn]] against [[The Reef]], betraying his own people, and driving the Reef-borne Awoken into complete chaos and disarray. [[Cayde-6]] was murdered in the Scorn's escape from the [[Prison of Elders]], and Reef agents were forced to work with [[Guardian]] forces to prevent the total collapse of their society.

Though the Guardian managed to topple the Scorn's chaotic reign over the Reef and brought Uldren to justice for his crimes, the Awoken's home remains a dangerous place as remnants of the Scorn's forces continue to prowl over the Reef. Petra, the remaining Paladins and Techeuns barely maintain what's left of the Awoken's Reef civilizations, even as the Scorn and a newly resurgent Taken force plague the Dreaming City, the mysterious homeland of the Awoken.

===Riven's Scheme===

===A Thousand Voices===
{{Quote|The Guardians killed Riven and ripped out her heart. But Ahamkara transcend death. They can transform desire into reality… even when they are nothing but bone and dust. I should have known that Riven would grant one last wish… one last curse. Now, the Dreaming City has been Taken. I opened the gates. I ordered the attack. I… should have known.|[[Petra Venj]].}}
[[File:Riven Raid.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Taken Ahamkara Riven]]

As the Guardians and the Awoken worked together in maintaining the remaining Scorn within the Reef, the Dreaming City's opening and the darkness spreading from it was grim news for the Awoken. Knowing the danger the threat poses to the Solar System, Petra Venj was forced to reveal one to the Awoken's deepest secrets that lay within the City: [[Riven of a Thousand Voices]], the last living Ahamkara. It was soon discovered that Riven had been Taken when Oryx invaded the Reef during the Taken War and partially brought the Dreaming City into the Ascendant Realm. However, after Oryx's death, Riven was aimless but soon gained a new master, [[Savathûn]], the Witch-Queen of the Hive, and together, they sought to corrupt the homeland of the Awoken and eventually breach into the Distributary.

To accomplish her goals, Riven orchestrated the Scorn's rise to power and used Uldren as her puppet, corrupting the prince while posing as his sister. Though the Scorn failed against the Guardians, Uldren succeeded in his purpose of opening the way into the Dreaming City, giving Riven a chance to break free.

After confirming that Mara Sov is in fact alive, Petra and the Awoken were able to gain the Vanguard's support after the revelation of the Taken's return spurred them into action. Gathering a Raid team strong enough to kill Riven, the Guardians assaulted the Dreaming City. While proceeding through the City, the Guardians managed to free some of the Techeuns from Taken corruption and eventually confronted Riven herself in her true gigantic, draconic form.

Despite her vast Taken powers, Riven's physical form was destroyed and her blighted heart brought before the Techeuns to be cleansed. Unfortunately, before that could happen, Riven's scheme came full circle as she performed one last wish for her master: to curse the Dreaming City with a Taken plague.

===The Cycle===
[[File:Queenscourt.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Queens Court]]
Though Riven was silenced once and for all, her plan succeeded as Taken forces began to heavily corrupt the Dreaming City. Worse, the Hive and Taken managed to capture [[Eleusinia]], Mara Sov's Throne World, as a staging ground. Savathûn then began the next stage of her plan by having her daughter, [[Dûl Incaru, the Eternal Return]], find a way to invade the Distributary.

Wanting to prevent the birthplace of the Awoken from being invaded and defiled, Mara Sov tasks the Guardians to destroy the Hive and Taken infesting her Throne World. After a perilous struggle through the ruins of Eleusina, the Guardians managed to destroy Dûl Incaru and seemingly reverse the Taken corruption in the Dreaming City.

Unfortunately, this victory was short-lived, as the Taken corruption soon returned as it appeared the City was caught in a time-loop created by Quria, Blade Transform. This forces the Guardians to partake in the same battle over and over again.

==Organizations==
* [[Corsair]]s
* [[Techeun]]s
* [[Royal Awoken Guard]]
* [[Master Ives|Reef Cryptarchy]]

==Known Awoken==
*[[Earth]]
**[[Arach Jalaal]], Dead Orbit representative
**[[Commander Zavala]], Titan Vanguard
**[[Master Rahool]], Tower Cryptarch
**[[Tess Everis]], Special Orders vendor
**[[Tyra Karn]], Iron Temple Cryptarch
*[[The Reef]]
**[[Abra Zire]], Paladin of the Royal Armada {{c|deceased}}
**[[Devi Cassl]], Paladin of the Royal Army
**[[Hallam Fen]], Paladin of the Royal Armada
**[[Illyn]]—[[Techeun]] Coven Mother
**[[Imogen Rife]], Paladin of the Royal Armada {{c|deceased}}
**[[Jolyon Till]], Crow
**[[Kalli]], Techeun
**[[Kamala Rior]], Paladin of the Royal Armada
**[[Leona Bryl]], Paladin of the Royal Armada
**[[Lissyl]]
**[[Mara Sov]], Queen of the Reef {{c|alive in unknown location}}
**[[Master Ives]], Reef Cryptarch {{c|deceased}}
**[[Nascia]]
**[[Pavel Nolg]], Paladin of the Royal Army {{c|deceased}}
**[[Petra Venj]], Acting Regent-Commander
**[[Pinar Venj]], Amethyst Techuen Coven leader {{c|deceased}}
**[[Portia]]
**[[Sedia]], Techeun
**[[Shuro Chi]], Techeun
**[[Sjur Eido]], First Queen's Wrath {{c|deceased}}
**[[Uldren Sov]], Prince of the Reef and Master of Crows {{c|deceased}} {{c|revived as a Lightbearer}}
**[[Yasmin Eld]], Paladin of the Royal Awoken Guard {{c|deceased}}
*[[Io]]
**[[Asher Mir]], [[Vex]] Researcher
*[[Unknown Space]]
**[[The Emissary]], Representative of the [[Nine]]

==Technology==
*[[Crow (device)|Crows]]
*[[Martian Navcore]]
*[[Queensfoil]]
*[[Oracle Engine]]
*[[Maltech]]—a weaponized material that is known for leaving almost no remains, potentially sourced from the [[Golden Age]]. 
*Phaeton backscatter scanner—a device invented by the Queen to see the [[Nine]] when the Awoken began losing ships near [[Rhea]]
*Fieldcom device—a communicator used by Corsairs
*Ships
**[[Ceres Galliot]]
**[[Pallas Galloit]]
**[[Hildian Seeker]]—used by [[Namqi Sen]]
**[[Chasing Infinity]]
**Various salvaged Frigates involved in the Scatter
*Distributary Weaponry
**Matter laser—a Maltech weapon that fired coherent bosons
*Reef Weaponry
**[[Vestian Dynasty]]—sidearm
**[[The Supremacy]]—sniper rifle
**[[Techeun Force]]—fusion rifle
**[[Vesta Noblese]]—scout rifle
**[[Hygiea Noblesse]]—scout rifle
**[[Her Right Hand]]—auto rifle
**[[Payment VI]]—pulse rifle
**[[Her Courtesy]]—shotgun
**[[Dreamwalker]]—rocket launcher
**[[Wolves' Bane]]—machine gun
**[[Merciless (hand cannon)]]—hand cannon
**[[Lethe Noblese]]—scout rifle
**[[Final Duty]]—pulse rifle
**[[Bane of the Taken]]—machine gun
*Dreaming City Weaponry
**[[Waking Vigil]]—hand cannon
**[[Tigerspite]]—auto rifle
**[[Vouchsafe]]—scout rifle
**[[Twilight Oath]]—sniper rifle
**[[Retold Tale]]—shotgun
**[[Sleepless]]—rocket launcher
**[[Abide the Return]]—sword
**[[Age-Old Bond]]—auto rifle
**[[Transfiguration]]—scout rifle
**[[Nation of Beasts]]—hand cannon
**[[Tyranny of Heaven]]—bow
**[[Chattering Bone]]—pulse rifle
**[[Apex Predator]]—rocket launcher
*Appropriated weaponry
**[[Gahlran's Right Hand]]—auto rifle
**[[Calusea Noblesse]]—scout rifle
**[[Emperor's Courtesy]]—shotgun
**[[Bane of Sorrow]]—machine gun

==Notes==
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==Trivia==
*Joe Staten and Christopher Barrett described the Awoken as being beautiful, exotic, and mysterious.  They mentioned the team looked at elves, vampires, ghosts, and angels to "capture that exotic, sort of ethereal feel".<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfqFiyIhrb4 '''YouTube''', ''Destiny - News GDC Panel'']</ref> They have been described as being of "otherworldly origins."<ref>[http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/28/destiny-hands-on-bungie-xbox-playstationshared-world-shooter '''The Guardian''': ''How the Makers of Halo Plan to Change the Future of Shooters'']</ref>
*The Awoken once ruled [[Mars]],<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Long_Tomorrow_9G#Chest|Long Tomorrow 9G Chest]]''</ref> explaining the reasoning behind [[Valus Trau'ug]]'s unsanctioned attack.

==Gallery==
<Gallery>
File:Awoken2.jpg|Concept art of an Awoken.
File:Grimoire Awoken.jpg|Grimoire card of an Awoken.
File:Awoken hunter.jpg|Concept art of an Awoken female [[Hunter]].
File:E3 awoken.jpg|[[Commander Zavala]], Awoken [[Titan (class)|Titan]] [[Vanguard]].
File:Grimoire The Queen.jpg|[[Mara Sov]], Queen of the Reef
File:Destiny-PetraVenj-Closeup-crop.jpg|[[Petra Venj]], member of the [[Royal Awoken Guard]]
File:awokenforest.jpeg|Early concept art from ''Destiny's'' development as a fantasy game.
File:Awokengame.png | [[Prince Uldren Sov]], brother to [[Mara Sov]]
File:Awoken Avatar.jpg|The Queen's Emissary.
</Gallery>

==List of appearances==
*''[[Destiny]]'' {{1st}}
**''[[The Dark Below]]''
**''[[House of Wolves]]
**''[[The Taken King]]''
**''[[Rise of Iron]]''
*''[[Destiny 2]]''
**''[[Curse of Osiris]]''
**''[[Warmind (expansion)|Warmind]]''
**''[[Forsaken]]''
**''[[Shadowkeep]]''

==References==
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