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While Calus and his Loyalist Cabal were engaged in pompous revelry, Ghaul launched his coup in the dead of night. With the Red Legion storming into Calus' palace, seizing and/or killing political supporters,<ref name="MC"/><ref name="CBShayotet"/> the emperor immediately ran to his throne to retrieve the Imperial Trinket meant to save him from this fate. Caiatl, however, was waiting for him sitting upon it with the Ahamkara bone in hand. Despite his pleas for help, his daughter crushed the bone in her hand and declared she would not be weak.<ref name="CBCaiatl">'''[[Cabal Booklet]]''', "[[Cabal Booklet#My Daughter: Caiatl, the Princess-Imperial|My Daughter: Caiatl, the Princess-Imperial]]"</ref> Ghaul was prepared to execute the deposed emperor with his own [[Cabal Severus|blade]], only to be stayed by Caiatl's hand.<ref name="Duality"/> With the Emperor being too popular to simply execute, Ghaul, his Red Legion, and the Consul arrested Calus and an unknown number of supporters in his own court and exiled them aboard the Leviathan, imprisoned within the [[Menagerie]] and taken far from the Empire along a pre-programmed course, far into the cosmos.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/6/3)''', ''[[Weblore:Season of Opulence]] - [[Weblore:Season of Opulence#Menagerie|Menagerie]]''</ref><ref name="MC">'''Bungie (2017/9/8)''', ''[[Destiny 2]] - Item Description: [[Midnight Coup#Lore|Midnight Coup]]''</ref>
While Calus and his Loyalist Cabal were engaged in pompous revelry, Ghaul launched his coup in the dead of night. With the Red Legion storming into Calus' palace, seizing and/or killing political supporters,<ref name="MC"/><ref name="CBShayotet"/> the emperor immediately ran to his throne to retrieve the Imperial Trinket meant to save him from this fate. Caiatl, however, was waiting for him sitting upon it with the Ahamkara bone in hand. Despite his pleas for help, his daughter crushed the bone in her hand and declared she would not be weak.<ref name="CBCaiatl">'''[[Cabal Booklet]]''', "[[Cabal Booklet#My Daughter: Caiatl, the Princess-Imperial|My Daughter: Caiatl, the Princess-Imperial]]"</ref> Ghaul was prepared to execute the deposed emperor with his own [[Cabal Severus|blade]], only to be stayed by Caiatl's hand.<ref name="Duality"/> With the Emperor being too popular to simply execute, Ghaul, his Red Legion, and the Consul arrested Calus and an unknown number of supporters in his own court and exiled them aboard the Leviathan, imprisoned within the [[Menagerie]] and taken far from the Empire along a pre-programmed course, far into the cosmos.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/6/3)''', ''[[Weblore:Season of Opulence]] - [[Weblore:Season of Opulence#Menagerie|Menagerie]]''</ref><ref name="MC">'''Bungie (2017/9/8)''', ''[[Destiny 2]] - Item Description: [[Midnight Coup#Lore|Midnight Coup]]''</ref>
[[File:Grimoire V5.6 2.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Calus's alleged communion with the Witness as recorded within the [[Lore:The Chronicon|Chronicon.]]]]


On the Leviathan, Calus wallowed in despair for an unknown amount of time until a strange event shook him out of his stupor. The Leviathan had come up against what seemed to be an expanse of utter nothingness and was seized by an [[The Witness|unknown force]] that shorted out the navigation systems and the course the conspirators had set. Against the recommendations of his advisors, Calus donned a pressure suit and went outside the Leviathan to behold the void.<ref name="DLXXVIII">'''Bungie (2019/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Opulence]] - [[Lore:The Chronicon|The Chronicon]]: [[Lore:The Chronicon#DLXXVIII.|DLXXVIII.]]''</ref> Staring out into the nothingness, he heard whispers in an unknown language and witnessed the nothingness disperse to reveal an [[Black Fleet|armada of ships]]. He then experienced a vision of the [[Final Shape|impending destruction of many worlds and beings]], including himself, and was told by the whispering voice that he had been chosen as the herald of the coming end.<ref name="DLXXIX"/> Awed by this revelation, Calus resolved that he would watch this force consume the light of the universe and that all among the last of the living would know his greatness.<ref>'''Bungie (2017/9/8)''', ''[[Destiny 2]] - [[Calus' letter]]''</ref> After twelve hours outside the Leviathan, Calus returned to his Loyalists, who had feared him dead.<ref name="DLXXIX">'''Bungie (2019/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Opulence]] - [[Lore:The Chronicon|The Chronicon]]: [[Lore:The Chronicon#DLXXIX.|DLXXIX.]]''</ref><ref name="DLXXVIII"/>
On the Leviathan, Calus wallowed in despair for an unknown amount of time until a strange event shook him out of his stupor. The Leviathan had come up against what seemed to be an expanse of utter nothingness and was seized by an [[The Witness|unknown force]] that shorted out the navigation systems and the course the conspirators had set. Against the recommendations of his advisors, Calus donned a pressure suit and went outside the Leviathan to behold the void.<ref name="DLXXVIII">'''Bungie (2019/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Opulence]] - [[Lore:The Chronicon|The Chronicon]]: [[Lore:The Chronicon#DLXXVIII.|DLXXVIII.]]''</ref> Staring out into the nothingness, he heard whispers in an unknown language and witnessed the nothingness disperse to reveal an [[Black Fleet|armada of ships]]. He then experienced a vision of the [[Final Shape|impending destruction of many worlds and beings]], including himself, and was told by the whispering voice that he had been chosen as the herald of the coming end.<ref name="DLXXIX"/> Awed by this revelation, Calus resolved that he would watch this force consume the light of the universe and that all among the last of the living would know his greatness.<ref>'''Bungie (2017/9/8)''', ''[[Destiny 2]] - [[Calus' letter]]''</ref> After twelve hours outside the Leviathan, Calus returned to his Loyalists, who had feared him dead.<ref name="DLXXIX">'''Bungie (2019/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Opulence]] - [[Lore:The Chronicon|The Chronicon]]: [[Lore:The Chronicon#DLXXIX.|DLXXIX.]]''</ref><ref name="DLXXVIII"/>

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