Editing Emperor Calus

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|name= Emperor Calus

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|species= [[Cabal]]

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{{Article quote|If you seek the means to live to your potential, I can guide you to it. There is power in the universe beyond your feeble [[Light]]. I leave you with those words, and these parting gifts. Take them, and grow fat from strength. Emperor Calus has spoken.}}

==Biography==

===Early Life===

===Reign===

{{quote|For centuries, I led the revels of my empire, and the stars themselves burnt sweet and clear. But in time the jealous and the tight-fisted rose up and sent me into exile.|Emperor Calus}}

For an unknown period of time, Calus has been using the Leviathan to consume planets and grind their soil into dust to mix with spores from the flowers in the Pleasure Gardens to create "[[Royal Wine]]", which he would then consume to give himself vast psionic powers.

===Return to Power===

[[File:CalusRobots.jpg|thumb|300px|The many robots of Calus]]

===Season of Opulence===

{{Quote|Ah. Finally found you. You're a busy little light. Do you recognize me? It's your beloved Emperor Calus. I've been watching you. And all your good work. I believe you're ready. It's time you and I met more intimately. I've sent a gift to Nessus for you. I'll see you soon - o champion mine.|Emperor Calus}}

===Arrival of the Pyramids===

With the appearance of the [[Black Fleet]] and the disappearance of planets in the [[Sol System]], Calus and his Loyalists had gone into hiding along with the Leviathan having left Nessus' orbit. Soon after Caiatl began rallying the Cabal remnants across the system to her side, calling for the capture of her father.

===After the Arrivals===

Calus had the ''Glykon'' anchor off of [[Phobos]], at the edge of the Anomaly left by the disappearance of Mars. Calus then made the Scorn wear the Crown, stitching their minds together through the use of [[Egregore]], and then have his Councilors channel his will through it and speak to the Darkness. Although the communions initially failed, eventually they succeeded, and the ''Glykon'' plunged into the Anomaly, then became overrun by Scorn and Egregore, while Calus disappeared.

Calus would ultimately succeed in his plan to become a Herald of the Witness and enter the Lunar Pyramid after manipulating his daughter, Caiatl, into brazenly challenging the Nightmare of Dominus Ghaul, leading to the severance ritual's failure, which gave him the time he needed to merge with the Pyramid. However, as the transformation had not fully taken effect, Eris gathers the Guardian, Crow, Zavala and Caiatl to conduct one last large-scale severance ritual to stop Calus from fully taking control of the Lunar Pyramid. Though Zavala and Crow would be attacked by Calus's Loyalists, the Guardian and Caiatl would find themselves within the Lunar Pyramid itself, meeting at the [[Chantry of the Darkest Hour]]. There Caiatl angrily demanded her father show himself, in which her father did so by revealing his true psionic form. The father stated his disappointment in his daughter's failures, doubts and of her decision to not stand by his side. Unleashing Fading Nightmares of those the Guardian had battled against along with a horde of Scorn and Loyalists, the Guardians were able to wound Calus by striking down the Fading Nightmares and having the [[Nightmare Harvester]] absorb them. After the last Nightmare had been defeated, Calus had been pushed back, disappearing in a psionic blast. Caiatl would confirm to Zavala that her father is gone, having given himself over to the Witness.

===Arrival of the Witness===

===Race to the Veil===

==Personality and traits==

[[File:Calus.png|thumb|300px|]]

Altogether, Calus is a figure of contradictions. He is an emperor enthroned by and supporting populism; he is capable of genuine altruism immediately following ruthless conquest; he is self-centered but dotes on his subjects; he is sure of the end of all things and his own death, but he is spurred to action and preserving what he can.

His interest in the Guardians continues to grow, as he hopes they will become his Shadows and even saved them from being destroyed by the Leviathan, as they both defeated Ghaul and proved themselves to him that there was more to them than just the powers they possess. Calus laments the brutal, militaristic nature of the Cabal Empire as it is now, and desires Guardians to lead efforts to restore it to its former glory.

In ''Season of the Haunted'', the true scope of Calus's schemes and depravity would be revealed. Seeing the end coming, Calus sought to become the latest Disciple of the Witness in order to become its harbinger. He would continue to taunt the Guardians with flattery and vague threats as they sought to undo his plans, unconcerned with their efforts, finding them to be pointless. Eris Morn would speculate that perhaps Calus's initial "generosity" when he first revealed himself to the Guardians, showering them with gifts, was in fact a ruse for him to get close enough to understanding the Darkness without their interference. He was willing to use his daughter to complete his goals, at the same time showing disappointment in her not choosing to stand by his side. However, as shown when the Guardian's delved into the former Emperor's mind, they found that beneath his mountainous narcissism and hedonism, lay doubts and regrets over the choices he made in his life and what his relationship with Caiatl had become. Despite these deep-seated insecurities, the Emperor's said narcissism refused to let these regrets and doubts surface.

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[[File:CalusIDLE.gif|thumb|300px|Calus sitting idly on his opulent throne.]]

There will be three Psionic charges that will teleport three players back to the throne room, while the remaining three are stuck inside. Those who remain inside will be inflicted with the Mind's Eye debuff, to show that they are being sucked in. If they are sucked in too far, then the Guardians will die. Those who remain in the throne room will have to kill more enemies, and the Psions from earlier will appear with the symbols appearing above them. In the mindscape, Calus' projection will show a symbol on his forehead. Each of the three players will each see a different symbol. Whichever symbol has not been seen is the symbol whose Psion in the throne room needs to be killed. This will repeat a total of four times for each symbol that does not appear. Those being sucked in, meanwhile, with have to kill two different kinds of Psions: regular Psions and their projections. The regular Psions must be killed so that their ruptures cannot send players into the air, and the Psion projections must be killed so that Calus doesn't use his Mental Collapse attack. As soon as they are all killed, Calus' projection will unleash a Psionic Overload, where he will spew purple skulls from his mouth. This is a sign that Calus is charging up an Imperial Nova attack that can wipe the entire team. He will be shielded while doing so. Destroy the shield to stop the attack, while the people inside will shoot down the skulls. Killing or damaging a skull grants a stack of the "Force of Will" buff, and these stacks are shared by the whole team. The more stacks the team carries, the more damage they can deal to Calus. After a while, Calus' projection will stop spewing Psionic Overload skulls, and three Psionic charges will appear that will teleport each player back into the throne room.

'''Prestige Mode Changes''': During the mindscape phase, whoever kills the Psion whose symbol was not called out will be teleported to the mindscape, and one person will be teleported into the throne room to replace them.

===Desperate Measures===

While the most common strategy to attack an enemy with a high health pool is through camping in one spot and slowly picking away at them, allowing one's infinite primary ammo and health regeneration to win a war of attrition, Calus has a counter for this, in the way of [[Rhulk, Disciple of the Witness]]' Suns of [[Lubrae]] attack. This is fired in a vertical column, rather than a horizontal one. If Calus feels that a player is staying in one sector of the battlefield too long, he'll cast Suns of Lubrae on that entire section, dealing high damage and applying stacks of Pervasive Darkness, which will automatically kill if it reaches ten, and almost guaranteeing a death on Legendary mode if one does not react fast enough.

At each health gate, Calus will also summon in a new wave of Shadow Legion and a [[Tormentor]]. The Shadow Legion Cabal troops will lock down the ground level corners of the map, keep several Psions in the middle to assist Calus, and pick away at the Guardian's health while also dampening regeneration. The [[Legionary|Legionaries]] and [[Incendior]]s also have increased range in this encounter, being able to fire their [[Cabal Frag Detonator]]s and [[Cabal Magma Launcher]] flames much farther than normal, even being able to reach the upper platforms, ensuring pressure is always present, even when Calus' shots cannot reach the Guardian.

==Trivia==

*Calus is the third Cabal character to speak English fluently. The first being Ghaul and the second, the Consul.

*Calus inadvertently foresaw The Consul's death, as he wanted the Consul to die by his own weapons. Ghaul was The Consul's weapon in overthrowing Calus and when he killed the Consul during the Red War, Ghaul unknowingly fulfilled that vision.

*Calus is the second person from an enemy race to side with the Guardians and the first of the [[Cabal]]. The first ally was [[Variks, the Loyal|Variks]].

*Calus greatly resembles several Roman emperors/rulers. Like Julius Caesar he overthrew a republic and much like Caligula he insists on being treated like a god and has gone mostly mad after a major life event. An interesting dynamic is that Calus massacred the Cabal senate upon coming to power while the opposite happened to Julius Caesar; in the end, both were betrayed, however, by those they held dear (Brutus and Ghaul) in a major conspiracy.

*After the events of [[Presage]], the fate of Calus was unknown. However, during an interview with Games Radar, Nardin of the development team said "Calus is out there waiting, doing something, we're not really sure, but we're really excited to do things with him."

*During the single day game outage to prepare for the launch of Lightfall, Calus told players on Twitter to go touch grass.<ref>[https://twitter.com/Destiny2Team/status/1630368284993548288 '''@Destiny2Team:''' ''"Lightfall is arriving in less than 24 hours, Guardians. Consider this your reminder to watch out for any spoilers, mute any sensitive terms, and stay vigilant in the trenches of social media. Calus says so 😤"'']</ref>

*Calus's dying words were "Cemaili". The significance of this word is unknown, though, it can be an affectionate nickname which Calus used on her daughter, Caiatl, or this word is actually the name of Calus's missing lover, Caiatl's mother.

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==List of Appearances==

*''[[Destiny 2]]'' {{1st}}

**''[[Curse of Osiris]]''

***''[[Season of Arrivals]]'' {{Mo}}

**''[[Beyond Light]]'' {{Mo}}

***''[[Season of the Chosen]]'' {{Mo}}

***''[[Season of the Splicer]]'' {{Mo}}

**''[[Lightfall]]''

***''[[Season of Defiance]]'' {{Mo}}

==References==

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