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[[File:CryptolithSoO.jpg|thumb|300px|Shrine of Oryx Cryptolith]]
[[File:CryptolithSoO.jpg|thumb|300px|Shrine of Oryx Cryptolith]]
{{Quote|There's a... new strange presence here. It grows as an organic technology, like a small tower. There were Cabal gathered around it, enraptured by something I could not perceive. Perhaps their own desperation — or madness.|Osiris's report upon discovering a Cryptolith}}
{{Quote|There's a... new strange presence here. It grows as an organic technology, like a small tower. There were Cabal gathered around it, enraptured by something I could not perceive. Perhaps their own desperation — or madness.|Osiris's report upon discovering a Cryptolith}}


'''Cryptoliths''' are [[Hive]] structures created and utilized by [[Xivu Arath, God of War|Xivu Arath]], the Hive God of War, in order to corrupt the enemies of the Last City and turn them into mindless and enraged champions for her army known as the [[Wrathborn]]. They were first encountered on the [[Moon]], [[Tangled Shore]], and deep within the [[Dreaming City]], but are now spreading across the solar system wherever Xivu Arath's influence is found.
'''Cryptoliths''' are [[Hive]] structures created and utilized by [[Xivu Arath, God of War|Xivu Arath]], the Hive God of War, in order to corrupt the enemies of the Last City and turn them into mindless and enraged champions for her army known as the [[Wrathborn]]. They are present on the [[Moon]], [[Tangled Shore]], and deep within the [[Dreaming City]].
 
==Overview==
==Overview==
Like most Hive architecture, Cryptoliths are partially biological, growing like plants wherever they are seeded, with gristly living tissue as lubrication for its metal internals.<ref name="RETURN">'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]]'', ''[[Lore]]: [[Lore:Call_of_the_Cryptolith|Call of the Cryptolith]] - [[Lore:Call_of_the_Cryptolith#IV. RETURN|IV. RETURN]]''</ref> When dormant, they lie still and are mostly hidden below ground; when activated, they rise up and begin glowing, and various pieces of their outer shell begins to move. They are considered hard to remove, such as with a Cryptolith at the Reef that attempting to do so would destroy the Tangled Shore. Cryptoliths each also possess the ability to open up and reveal a portal to the [[Ascendant Realm]], presumably even [[Xivu Arath, God of War|Xivu Arath's]] throne world.<ref name="UNMADE">'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]]'', ''[[Lore]]: [[Lore:Call_of_the_Cryptolith|Call of the Cryptolith]] - [[Lore:Call_of_the_Cryptolith#VIII. UNMADE|VIII. UNMADE]]''</ref>
Like most Hive architecture, Cryptoliths are partially biological, growing like plants wherever they are seeded. When dormant, they lie still and are mostly hidden below ground; when activated, they rise up and begin glowing, and various pieces of their outer shell begins to move. They are considered hard to remove, such as with a Cryptolith at the Reef that attempting to do so would destroy the Tangled Shore. Cryptoliths each also possess the ability to open up and reveal a portal to the [[Ascendant Realm]], presumably even [[Xivu Arath, God of War|Xivu Arath's]] throne world.<ref name="UNMADE">'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]]'', ''[[Lore]]: [[Lore:Call_of_the_Cryptolith|Call of the Cryptolith]] - [[Lore:Call_of_the_Cryptolith#VIII. UNMADE|VIII. UNMADE]]''</ref>
 
According to [[Osiris]] and [[Ana Bray]], Cryptoliths are able to incite conflict in both mind and mechanism, able to cause technology and computer protocols to turn on each other to try and cannibalise the other, and cause even the sturdiest of blades to bend to Xivu Arath's will.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/12/06)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Seraph]] - Mission - Hierarchy</ref> According to [[Clovis Bray I]], files corrupted by Xivu Arath contain traces of a virus that contain code patterns reminiscent of biological encoding structures.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/12/06)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Seraph]] - Heist Battleground: Europa</ref>


According to [[Osiris]] and [[Ana Bray]], Cryptoliths are able to incite conflict in both mind and mechanism, able to cause technology and computer protocols to turn on each other and try and cannibalise the other, and make even the sturdiest of blades to bend at Xivu Arath's will.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/12/06)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Seraph]] - Mission - Hierarchy</ref>
==History==
==History==
===Fall of Torobatl===
===Fall of Torobatl===
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===Rise of the Wrathborn===
===Rise of the Wrathborn===
In [[Season of the Hunt]], Cryptoliths began appearing across the Tangled Shore, the Dreaming City and Luna, heralding the arrival of Xivu Arath's forces. The appearance of these structures was much to the annoyance of [[Spider]], who began to find his criminal elements being turned toward worship of the Hive War God upon their encounters with the Cryptoliths. Conferring with [[Osiris]], Spider provides information on the Cryptoliths, which leads Osiris to Earth's moon in his investigations. There, he encountered the [[High Celebrant of Xivu Arath|High Celebrant]], the herald of Xivu Arath. Osiris narrowly survived this encounter, losing his Light, and was possessed by [[Savathûn]]. Savathûn, guising as Osiris, was then saved from a Wrathborn by [[Crow]].
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Crow, an amnesiac Uldren Sov, had been taken in by Spider, and was used as an enforcer to deal with the Cryptoliths through hunts of Wrathborn associated with them. Working with the Guardian, Crow developed lures to bring out Wrathborn at Cryptoliths, harming them enough to make them run, and then following their trail back to their lair where they could be executed. In doing so, experience was gathered and a plan formulated to lure out the High Celebrant in the same fashion, eventually leading to its own execution in the Dreaming City. This ended the current push of Xivu Arath, and the pernicious influence and spread of the Cryptoliths.
 
===Attacks on the Subminds===
With the advent of [[Season of the Seraph]], Cryptoliths have begun spreading across the system once more, appearing in new and familiar places. As discovered by Osiris, Clovis Bray and Ana Bray, Cryptoliths can not only infect organic minds and turn them towards working for Xivu Arath, but also inorganic minds such as computers. The presence of Cryptoliths is intended to infect the Rasputin network, so it can be used to annihilate humanity once control is taken by Xivu Arath. The Vanguard must work to prevent the free movement and operation of the Hive to avert losing the Warmind and its network of weaponry across the system.


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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ActiveKeresCryptolith.jpg|An active Cryptolith at the Spine of Keres
ActiveKeresCryptolith.jpg|An active Cryptolith at the Spine of Keres
ActiveGardenCryptolith.jpg|An active Cryptolith at the Garden of Esilia
ActiveGardenCryptolith.jpg|An active Cryptolith at the Garden of Esilia
ActiveHarbingerCryptolith.jpg|An active Cryptolth in the Harbinger's Seclude
ActiveHallCryptolith.jpg|An active Cryptolth in the Hall of Wisdom
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==List of appearances==
==List of appearances==
*''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Hunt]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Destiny 2]]''
**''[[Season of the Hunt]]'' {{1st}}
**''[[Season of the Chosen]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[Season of the Chosen]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[Season of the Seraph]]''
**''[[Season of the Seraph]]''
**''[[Season of the Witch]]''


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:Hive]]
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[[Category:Hive artifacts]]
[[Category:Wrathborn]]
[[Category:Wrathborn]]

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