Editing Forum:Sumeragi

|goals= Create a united sovereign <br> Conquer the [[Last City]]

|war= [[Vanguard]]

|notable-person= [[Forum:Nova, Herrscher of Sumeragi|Nova, Herrscher of Sumeragi]] <br> [[Forum:Skalos, Kell of Shadow|Skalos, Kell of Shadows]]&dagger; <br> [[Forum:Nikros, God of Darkness|Nikros, God of Darkness]] <br> [[Forum:Aivu Arth, War-Queen of Darkness|Aivu Arth, War-Queen of Darkness]] <br> [[Forum:Atlas, Chaos Mind|Atlas, Chaos Mind]] <br> [[Forum:Xa'Lus, Dominus of Black|Xa'Lus, Dominus of Black]] <br> [[Forum:Consul, Slave of Corruption|Consul, Slave of Corruption]] <br> [[Forum:Uldren Sov, Vanguard|Uldren Sov, Vanguard]]

An alliance of [[Fallen]], [[Hive]], [[Vex]], [[Cabal]], [[Taken]], and former [[Guardians]] created by the mysterious leader of this alliance who called himself [[Forum:Nova, Herrscher of Sumeragi|Nova]], '''Sumeragi''' believed the [[Traveler]] is the biggest threat in the universe and the [[Darkness]] was created to destroy it.  

Created from the Fallen House of Shadow, Hive Cult of the Darkness, Vex Chaos Collective, Cabal Black Legion, The Corrupted Taken, Shadow Guardian and Adeptroid, a race that made up of Nova's personal forces.

*Black Legion

|nobility=Skalos, Kell of Shadows&dagger; <br> Sakodis, Heir to the Shadows <br> Nikis, Shadows Archon <br> Axiki, Shadows Priest <br> Nakos, Prince of Shadow

|servitors= Shimi, Prime Servitor <br> Shadda-1, Sub-Prime

|lair=Unknown

|encountered=[[Taken War]] <br> [[SIVA Crisis]] <br> [[Red War]] <br> [[Hunt for the Scorn]] <br> [[Nightmare Hunt]]

In the aftermath of the SIVA Crisis, the Fallen Houses started to come together following the damage they received throughout the years. However, some members of those Houses knew that the newly formed House of Dusk would fail to defeat the Guardians. So they banded together to form their own House, one so complex that it will be impossible to take down unless they are thorough with its extermination. The House of Shadow was formed when the Red War started, where they quickly hid but monitored the war from the shadows, taking only what they can while everyone was distracted. They were contacted by Sumeragi for the chance for of an alliance with them. Skalos, the current Kell, reluctantly accepted the offer but asked if they were be slaves to Sumeragi. Surprisingly, Nova told them they were be whatever they wanted to be but never slaves. He even granted Skalos the position of being the leader of the Fallen branch of Sumeragi.  

All throughout the Red War, the House, in an alliance with the Sumeragi, continued to lay a low profile but kept stealing supplies from all factions. They would learn about the crew of the Almighty securing Mercury with the intent to research more about Vex technology. Informing Sumeragi about this development, Nova requested that they take any information on the Vex themselves and any information on the Red Legion themselves. They would eventually learn that the Vex Sol Collective are trying to shape reality to fit their future, one in which the Vex reign supreme. They also encountered the Chaos Collective, who briefly engaged them in combat but Nova intervened and swiftly ended the conflict. The Collective leaders came to Nova to join Sumeragi for their own future. Nova accepted it but warns that he will watch them for a while until he knows that they wont betray him, his family, and his alliance.

Following the Infinite Forest incident, the House, Sumeragi and Collective gathered intel on a Red Legion dig operation on Mars, where the remnants of the Legion were pursuing energy cells. This prompted the three groups to investigate this mysterious operation and, possibly, steal any information of it. However, they, instead, would discover the hidden Hive faction, the Grasp of Nokris and the Worm God, Xol. They would also encountered the Cult of Darkness and the Black Legion. The Cult informed them that Xol is planning to take control of Mars but the Guardian is handling it, while the Black Legion informed them that Val Ca'uor has seized control of the Red Legion since Ghaul's death. They would also discover Ca'uor's plan to assault and capture Calus' ship. Following this revelation, Sumeragi deployed agents to infiltrate the ship to distract and take down as many Red Legion possible, while a Guardian Raid Team take down Ca'uor.

A few months later, a message was intercepted from Reef informing that a prison riot was happening in the Prison of Elders. Piquing the interest of Nova, he send a task force of Fallen, Cabal and Adeptroid to investigate this riot. They learn that the Hunter Vanguard Cayde-6 was killed by the hands of the Scorn Barons. Needless to say, this enraged Nova, forcing him to pursue vengeance, sending the Shades to assassinate the Barons. However, he would learn that the Guardian who accompanied Cayde during the riot was personally pursuing vengeance themselves. So the Shades, instead, made sure that no enemies protecting the Barons would interrupt the Guardian in their crusade for vengeance. They eventually followed the Guardian to the last Baron, and Uldren Sov, where they learned that he was mind-controlled by Riven since the Taken War. The Shades then witnessed Uldren Sov get devoured by a Taken Chimera, before being freed and killed. They reported back to Sumeragi and told everyone what has happened. After hearing of the events that transpired in the Tangled Shore, Nova ordered all Shadow troops to keep an eye out for the Awoken City to report any developments. Scouts would eventually find out that an Ahamkara named Riven was Taken in the Taken War and began spreading Blight throughout the Dreaming City. Following her death, they would also discover that Quria has placed a curse on the city to be time-looped over the course of three weeks thanks to the Ahamkara's dying wish.

A few months later, a group of Shades located a Black Armory forge in Egypt and informed Sumeragi of it. A Shadow Priest, Axiki, would investigate the forge and discovered that it can create powerful weapons for the House and, by extension, Sumeragi itself. He and his soldiers took the forge to his personal Ketch and brought it to one of their research bases, where Weapon forgers managed to create their own version of the forge. Afterwards, they gave it to the Black Legion, along with their notes of the forge itself. Weeks later, they encountered the Shadow Guardians with Uldren Sov as a representative for the group, void of his memories. They joined Sumeragi, but warns that Uldren will kill Nova if he betrayed them. Meanwhile, Skalos would deploy several Shade troops to the House of Dusk after learning the younger members of the house have begun isolating themselves from traditional Eliksni beliefs. The Shades would recruit many members of the Dusk. Meanwhile, they learned that a crime syndicate called the Kell's Scourge was attempting to locate the other forges and have them create weapons for them, even as far as dispatching a Prime Servitor, armed with a giant mech armed with Black Armory weaponry and tech designed for said prime, to the ruins of the Last City in a attempt to locate an vault containing these weapons and advanced tech. Skalos sent Shades troops to observe the battle between the syndicate and Guardians. Following the showdown between a Fireteam of Guardians and the Prime Servitor, one of the Shades suggested that the House would retrieve the mech and repurposed it for their own usage.

Skalos learned that Eramis has escaped the Prison of Elders during the riot and informed Nova of the revelation, while sending multiple Shades to look for any information on her. The Shades reported that the Vanguard has learned that Variks caused the riot so he could escape the Awoken and become Kell of Kells. They also reported that Eramis has brought multiple Devil Loyalists to her cell, thus creating a fifth Fallen faction with the weakened and splintered House of Dusks, House of Judgement, The Spider's Syndicate, and the Scorn.

Months later, the Cult of Darkness reported mysterious Hive activities on the Moon. Catching the interest of Nova, he would send a strike force consisting of Shadows troops and Cult troops. The leaders of the strike force, Nakos, Shadow Prince and Ko Mal, Blade of Shira, would discover that Crota had daughters and were attempting to revive Oryx since, technically, the Guardians never took Oryx's power. They also found a pyramid-shaped ship within the depths of the Scarlet Keep. They both informed all members of the Sumeragi leadership of this discovery, even showing a photo of the ship. Following this discovery, Nova dispatched Vex and Cabal troops to recon the site of the ship. However, the task force would learn that the pyramid created spectral beings called Nightmares and the Hive's allegiance and minimal control of these entities. They would also learn about a fleet of Pyramid ships on the edge of the solar system.

The Shades in the strike force would also discover that the Vex of the Sol Divisive have started invading the moon. A Shade Captain informed the Chaos Collective of this development, in which the defiant collective discovered that the Undying Mind has been reactivated. The Shades also discovered that Ikora had begun developing a device to fight the Axis Mind. They would replicate the work and would use the machine to kidnap a copy of the Mind while the Guardians faced off against the Sol Divisive's army. They gave the mind to the Collective as a gift, as well as reassurance to their alliance.

Sometime after the events on the moon, a group of Black Legion Cabal would reveal that a sizable army of Red Legion Cabal was regrouping on Mercury. They contacted the closest group of Sumeragi troops, which were the Shades, who then informed of this discovery and dispatched them to discover what they were planning. The Shades and Black Legion troops devised a plan for reconnaissance, as well as a way to keep Sumeragi informed without picking up attention from an active Cabal force. The Black Legion would disguise themselves as Red Legion soldiers and would infiltrate the group and learn who is leading them, while the Shades, save for one, observes the situation while one informant would reveal the details of the Red Legion operation to the leaders of Sumeragi about this development. The disguised members of the Black Legion discovered that a triune of Psion Flayers were leading the Red Legion splinter factions. Luckily, the Guardian and their allies managed to put an end to the plans the Psions thanks to Osiris and a device called the Sundial maintaining the victorious outcome of the Red War, as well as saving the legendary Exo Titan, Saint-14.

 

Skalos and his house would then learn that the Red Legion remnants, led by the final sister of the triune, Amtec, planned and attempted to crash the Almighty to the Last City. They informed Nova of this, leading him to command all Sumeragi forces to find a way to stop the Almighty. Merak, a member of the Adeptroid, informed everyone that Rasputin has awoken all of his defenses, and that they have an opportunity to acquire some of its technology. House Shadow, the Darkness Cult and the Black Legion agreed and had deployed some detachments and salvager groups to several locations where Rasputin was active while the Guardians began plans to destroy the Almighty. They managed to acquire several caches of Warmind tech, including the Seven Seraphs weapons.

Suddenly, following the destruction of the Almighty, all branches of Sumeragi reported the arrival of the Pyramid ships on Titan, Io, Mercury and Mars, causing Nova, Skalos, Nikros, Atlas, and Xa'lus to order all troops from those locations to bring back all supplies and equipment and return to Pluto and Neptune where they watched as the Pyramids reversed what the Traveler did. The House of Shadow managed to relocate all their supplies from Mercury and Titan, leaving behind token bases on those locations. Most of the special projects that were either mostly done or halfway completed, which were sent away to secure locations, while the projects that were started or about halfway done were scrapped while the notes, research and innovations for them were sent to Shadow Lair.

====House of Salvation====

Skalos and his House would finally find Eramis, and would discover that she has made the House of Salvation, a megahouse created from the remnants of Wolves and Devils along with deserters of Dusk. They also discover the Splinters of Darkness that gave them Stasis, as well as the tech that controls the powers, as well as their Brig assault platforms, mirrored after the work of the Kell's Scourge, intriguing them. They would discuss their discoveries to Sumeragi, which Nova quickly orders them to acquire Splinters of Darkness to enhance all Sumeragi members except for the Adeptroid. The House immediately set out for Europa to get these Splinters and acquire the newly created Brig war mech. They managed to acquire many Splinters and Brigs for the House and Sumeragi. Giving the Splinters to the Cult of Darkness, Chaos Collective and the Black Legion, all divisions managed to adeptly wield the dark powers. As for the House, they gained new Stasis powers, which make then made a new, powerful branch of the House: the Ice Wraiths. They also stole the Technocrat's technology, including bulky, yet resilient drones that projected immunity shields. Following the [[Guardian]]'s raid on the [[Deep Stone Crypt]] and the destruction of [[Taniks, the Scarred|Taniks, the Abomination]], former Splicer Priestess Mryziss would gather some of her most loyal followers and uploaded all of their consciousnesses into modified and enhanced [[Exo]] bodies mirrored after [[Atraks-1, Fallen Exo|Atraks]]'s work, creating the powerful and widely feared Exo Wrath division. They would also locate Taniks, who managed to survive the engagement but was severely wounded and damaged. Thanks to Mryziss' genius and technological insight, they managed to repair him, transforming him into Taniks-1.

 

Weeks into the Vanguard's war with Eramis's [[House of Salvation]], the factions of Sumeragi would report mysterious energy spikes around the Solar System. Curious about the new developments, House of Shadow leadership would send scouts to investigate these disturbances. Of these scouts were brother and sister Talnak and Althyks, who would be the first of Sumeragi to discover an inert [[Cryptolith]]. Following this discovery, Nova would order his armies to research more into these devices. However, when the Darkness Cult would finally uncover their purpose, they all activated, seizing the minds of those around them, turning those who succumbed to the Cryptoliths into mindless, bloodthirsty peons of the Hive God of War and other sister of Oryx, [[Xivu Arath]]. Among them was Talnak, whose sister narrowly escaped corruption, as well as other members of the Sumeragi. Forced into a new war, as well as realizing the threat of discovery by these Wrathborn, Nova, as well as members of the Sumeragi inner council, would order their factions into a covert war. While the House of Shadow continued to contend with their puppeted allies, Althyks, in grief from the corruption of her brother, turned to the Cult of Darkness in search for a potential cure, where she would find an alliance with Magister Kur'nal, a disgraced priest. However, instead of a cure, they would, instead, find a means to steal control of the Wrathborn from Xivu Arath, where they first tested this newfound power on Althyks's waylaid brother. Following this exploit, Skalos and Nikros would commend the two unlikely allies and would make them heads of a new branch of Sumeragi, the Rageblooded.

After the event of Beyond Light, Sumeragi finally decided to reveal themselves and strike. Quickly taking sections of the House of Salvation's territory, they began their assault on the Guardians all over the Solar System. Using all of their weapons, resources and abilities at their disposal, the House of Shadow would conquer a section of the European Dead Zone, half of old China, and a quarter of Russia. Skalos and his children quickly turned an old military base into his main base of operations. The Archons and their Priests and Priestesses turns a number of large churches into either research bases or major ether supply bases. And the Prime Servitor made their home in the massive factories. The Guardians initially launched an assault on them but was quickly pushed back. However, they themselves were starting to be pushed back by strike forces attacking isolated sections of their forces. Eventually, Skalos was forced to fight the Guardians, eventually falling to them due to the help of the House of Light. Luckily, before his battle, Skalos order his forces to retreat the battlefield and return back to their dens and bases, as well as the Sumeragi Headquarters to regroup and evolve. His son, Sakodis took over the House as ordered by his father to do so.

 

====Trials of the Empress====

 

====Rise of the Dreaming Mind====

While the thought of attacking the Last City while the [[Endless Night]] menaced it was tempting, the House of Shadow couldn't risk fighting the [[House of Light]] and the mysteriously aggressive Vex sustaining the City's false night. Worse still for the House, now that the House of Light has a place to call home under the Traveler, many troops would desert in search of asylum. However, the House of Shadow would utilize this chance to sneak agents into the traitor House in search of new weapons and intel on their operations, where they would scout out the Guardian's Override operations and repurpose [[Mithrax, Kell of Light|Mithrax's]] [[Splicer Gauntlet]] for their arsenal. With the repurposing of the Splicer Gauntlet, the House of Shadow, in tandem with the non-malfunctioning Chaos Collective, would begin expeditions into Vex Domain in search of the source, where they would come across [[Quria, the Dreaming Mind|Quria's]] presence within. While the two forces began to enact plans of capturing and manipulating it to their benefit, however, they would soon discover it's destruction at the hands of the Guardian. Some Shadow Fallen attempted to maintain the portal during the breach in the Last City, but their attempts to keep it open for as long as they can would be in vain as the Guardians would eventually force the rift shut with it's Subjugated Mind's destruction. Despite the tactical failure of their operations, they now have spies within the ranks of the House of Light and, subsequently, the Last City, and their Splicer technology.

 

While most of the House's forces remained adamant in the return of [[Mara Sov]], some of the [[House of Wolves|ex-Wolves]] within the House began to panic, thus forcing the consolidation of their forces deeper and deeper back into their covert dens, attempting to hide themselves from the Awoken Queen's potential wrath. With the opening of ley lines within the different realities, with the exception of the Cult of the Darkness, most of Sumeragi's forces had little influence in the Awoken and Guardians's actions agains Xivu Arath, and as a result of the War God's focus on punishing her treacherous sister, they faced little issue from her forces.

 

Long after the events of [[Season of the Lost]], [[Savathûn]], whom disappeared following her exorcism of her [[Savathûn's Worm|worm]], would re-emerged, boarded on her ship, [[The Lure]], which landed on the suddenly reappeared Mars. Although, while the House did not interfere in the Vanguard's [[Hidden]] investigations in [[Savathûn's Throne World]], the House did however began sending few of their own to operate near [[Lucent Brood]] forces that were converging on Earth, hoping to gain any knowledge the Hive may hold on their fascinating discovery of Hive Lightbearers for Nova. With ships surveying near Lucent hunting parties in [[The Dark Forest]] in the [[EDZ]] and sending few scouts disguised as House of Dusk to get information of Hive filtering stolen Light for their own purposes. Relying this towards Nova, the Sumeragi leader would instruct the Shadows to continue their investigations on the Hive's operations while avoiding the Guardians hunting down the Lucent Lightbearers. Soon the Shadows would get word of the Lucent Brood moving towards the [[Moon]] to take back control over the [[Scarlet Keep]] to move the High Coven into the material plain. The Shadows would once again avoid any confrontation from the Lucent Hive or the Guardians whom were clashing out to capture the Commander behind the operations of the Lucent Hive on Earth. Nonetheless the Fallen would relay this towards the rest of the Sumeragi leadership on the Lucent Brood and their Hive Lightbearers.

 

Following the arrival of the Lucent Brood on Earth, [[Calus]] would return from hiding on the [[Leviathan]], now twisted and infected by [[Egregore]] fungi, placing his ship near the Moon to gain control over [[The Lunar Pyramid]] in the name of [[The Witness]]. The House of Shadow, under the instructions of Nova, would operate alongside, but secretly with the Black Legion to gain information on this event. With few Shadows scouts infiltrating the derelict ship to get samples off of the egregore, however, those who entered would never returning from their findings, raising concern from both the Shadow leadership and Sumeragi itself as well.

====Pirate's Plunder====

Seeing heightened activity among the fabled old crews, naturally, the House of Shadow would take great interest in their operations and would begin the active crews or would disguise themselves as participating pirates, in tandem with Black Legion forces. Distressingly, they would discover that Eramis has returned after years of being trapped in Stasis and was in search of mysterious reliquaries empowered by [[Darkness]]. Curious about the importance of the relics and in an effort to deny their enemies control over them for whatever they plan, the undercover "pirates" of the joint coalition between the House of Shadow and Black Legion attempted to wrest control over these artifacts under the pretense that they were attempting to collect a greater bounty in an effort to study them. Despite their numerous attempts to seize control over them, the only one they managed to get their hands on, from [[Val'aug, the Brute]] after being convinced by Black Legion forces through obligation to borrow it, was claimed by the Guardians in an attack on their lairs. Nevertheless, Sumeragi researchers, as well as intelligence from spies in the House of Light, would discover that the relics belonged to [[Nezarec, Final God of Pain|Nezarec]], a long dead disciple of the Witness. Though the spies would confirm that the reliquaries were turned into a remedial formula for a now lightless Osiris, Nova would become unsettled as to how Eramis mysteriously returned and the mysterious objective of recovering these ancient reliquaries. Regardless, the House of Shadows would lose a considerable amount of their infiltration forces during the numerous [[Ketchcrash]] operations.

 

After the numerous losses taken during the events of the [[Season of Plunder]], the House of Shadow would go to ground and attempt to stay hidden, even with the tempting chance at pursuing Warmind technologies left behind by both [[Wrathborn]] and Guardian operations. However, in the final weeks of the conflict, as Eramis attempted to destroy the Traveler with the restored WarSat network, jumping at the opportunity to fulfill their master's objective, House of Shadow infiltrators would attempt to sabotage the coalition's attempt to protect the Traveler only to be denied as Rasputin's sacrifice would fracture it entirely.

 

After years of anticipation, the Witness and its forces would finally bring war to the Traveler and begin committed operations against the Vanguard. While the Black Legion were preoccupied with deciphering what has happened with [[The Veil]] and what has happened to the Traveler following its scarring by the Witness, the House of Shadow would begin coopting Pyramid tech into their arsenal, granting their forces shield generators and suppression devices to further reinforce their dark arsenal. Nevertheless, the House of Shadow would remain underground and avoid much of the conflict, instead keeping a prying eye on [[Shadow Legion]] operations from their covert dens and begin experimenting with their new equipment, already creating a new division within the House of Shadows, the Tenebrous Claws. Despite the common goal of the destruction of the Traveler and the Light, Nova would insist that the Sumeragi would remain independent from the Witness' forces, distrustful of its intents and how it seeks to bring forth the Final Shape.

*Sakodis

Unlike most Houses, the House of Shadow command structures is designed to be versatile in many areas. Some units has been Spliced but only one type due to the amount of SIVA tech the Splicer can produce. However, with the powers of Stasis being added to the House of Shadow, the group created a new branch, the Ice Wraith. Also following the discovery of the [[Deep Stone Crypt]], a new division would be created from prestigious Fallen troops who took it upon themselves to upload their consciousnesses into enhanced Exo bodies, the Exo Wrath. In addition, after experimenting with [[Shadow Legion]] techs, they have made an new division called Tenebrous Claws.

**[[Kell's Guard]] (Dregs) - Along with the [[Wretch]] Kell's Guard, they act as the first level of defense for their [[Kell]]. They wield [[Scorch Cannon]]s, [[Shock Pistol]]s, [[Shock Rifle]]s and/or [[Shock Dagger]]s.

**Ice Wraith Dreg - a new type of Dreg that have Stasis powers. This type have the powers to make and toss Stasis grenades.

***Ice Wraith Kamikaze - A variant of the Ice Wraith Dreg that instead of exploding of shock energy, they explode in crystallized Stasis.

**Tenebrous Claw Dreg - Dregs armed with reverse-engineered Pyramid tech stolen from the Shadow Legion. Some can be found equipped with [[Tech Pack]]s.

*Wretch - Wretches are two-armed, spear-wielding Fallen who serve under the House of Shadow. These Fallen warriors will charge their enemies with Arc Spears, attempting to both slice and electrocute them.

**Guardsman - Wretches who guards important locations and high-ranking fallen such as Barons and High Servitors. They are equipped with an Arc Spear and Shock Shield similar to a Scorn Lurker's shield with an added Shock ability.

**Kell's Guard (Wretch) - Like the Dreg variant of the Kell's Guard, they act as the first level of defense for their Kell. They are equipped with Arc Spear, Shock Shield, and/or Shock Lance.

**Splicer Wretch - Wretches who are apart of the House of Shadows Splicer branch. Upgraded with SIVA Tech, they're more faster than their normal counterpart and, using their upgraded Arc Spear, can paralyze their foes for 5 seconds.

***Ice Wraith Lancer - a variant of the normal Lancer that can summon shards of ice with Stasis. Upon gaining the Diamond Lance aspect, they can now kills enemies to create Stasis Lance.

****Ice Wraith Cavalier - a variant of the normal Cavalier that can enhanced their shield with Stasis, giving it more durability.

***Penumbral Defender - Elite Wretches specially trained to utilize reverse engineered Pyramid tech. Armed with heavily modified glaives tipped with Black Fleet material that deals greater melee damage and allows the specialist Wretch to engage opponents at a distance. Attacks with these weapons can even suppress Guardian abilities for a time much like a Tormentor scythe. Some can be found equipped with [[Tech Packs]].

**Kell's Guard (Vandal) - Along with the Marauder variant of the Kell's Guard, they act as the second level of defense for their Kell. They are equipped with Shock Pistols, Wire Rifles, or Shock Launchers.

**Ice Wraith Vandal - a new type of Vandal that was given the power of Stasis, this types summoned Stasis sickles to throw and create a blizzard.

***Ice Wraith Grenadier - a variant of the normal Grenadier that shoot Stasis Grenades from his improved Shock Launcher. They can also summon Stasis grenades to throw at enemies. Upon gaining the Touch of Winter aspect, their grenades have gain enhanced functionality.

**Tenebrous Claw Vandal - Vandals armed with reverse-engineered Pyramid tech stolen from the Shadow Legion. Some can be found equipped with [[Tech Pack]]s.

**Kell's Guard (Marauder) - Along with the Vandal Kell's Guard, they form the second line of defense for their Kell. They are equipped with Shock Blades or the Shrapnel Launcher.

**Ice Wraith Marauder - a new type of Marauders that gain the power of Stasis. This type can summon a staff that send a volley of ice shards to enemies.

***Ice Wraith Bladesman - this variant has longer blades that send ice shards to enemies.

**Tenebrous Claw Marauder - Marauders armed with reverse-engineered Pyramid tech stolen from the Shadow Legion. Some can be found equipped with [[Tech Pack]]s.

**Kell's Guard Captain - Captains who act as the final defense of the Kell as well as serve as the leaders of the Kell's Guard. Equipped with a Shrapnel Launcher, Shock Rifle, Shock Blades, or a Scorch Cannon.

**Disciple - former members of the House of Salvation that joins the House of Shadow. They teach the younger members of House the religion and history of the Fallen race thanks to their teachings of Kridis. They acts as buffer to increase their forces morale.

**Ice Wraith Captain - a new type of Captain that gain the power of Stasis. This type can summon ice gauntlet to smash foes.

*Brig - a large automatic war mech stolen from the House of Salvation.

{{Hive Brood infobox

A few months later, an message was intercepted from Reef informing that a prison riot while happening in the Prison of Elder. The Cult weren't interested until they learned that Riven was Taken during the Taken War, and Savathun's Hive has control of the Dreaming City. They immediately send dozen of squads of Cult troops to secure a breach head for the rest of the Sumeragi troops. They discover that Quria have trapped the Dreaming City in a three week time-loop.

The Cult and the Black Legion accidentally discover an plot of Savathun to attack Calus in his ship. Informing Sumeragi of this, they headed inside of Calus' ship once more to discover how. As it turns out, Savathun created a Hive artifact that controls anyone who wears it. They watched at a distance while the Guardians took a mind-controlled Cabal named Gahlran.

The Cult discover a massive structure on the Moon, within the same location in Hellmouth, The World's Grave, the Temple of Crota and the Shrine of Onyx. They also discover the Pyramid ship inside the the structure, informing Nikros, who in turn immediately informed Nova of this. The Cult also learned that the daughters of Crota has created phantasm apparitions using the Pyramid powers, these creatures being past enemies of the Guardians. Luckily, these only forms around the facilities of the Pyramid. The Cult took many textures of how the Hidden Swarm managed to create these nightmares. They also learned that the Pyramids ships is on their way.

Nikros noticed that Xivu Arath was up to something so he had his Cult keep track of Xivu's brood.

 

Merely a week into the Vanguard's war with the House of Salvation, members of Sumeragi would all begin detecting strange energy spikes around their bases of operation. Eventually, members of the House of Shadow would discover mysterious, Hive designed structures emanating a strange aura from them. Curious about these strange devices, the Cult would immediately set out to discover what they truly are and what they could be connected to. However, the Cult would discover that these Cryptoliths were beacons for a signal that overrides the minds of those who succumb to it, making them servants of Xivu Arath, as well as her High Celebrant. Before they could get their warning out, however, the devices activated, corrupting any Sumeragi who were too close to these devices. Forced into war, the Cult engaged what was once their allies. However, before the fall of the High Celebrant, an esteemed Fallen scavenger would meet with disgraced Hive Priest Kur'nal, who would ask the disavowed Mage for a cure. However, instead of a cure, the duo would find a means to hijack the signal emanated from the Cryptoliths, turning their once mindless allies back into their friends, however, still bereft of thought. Following this redemption made by the priest, he would be welcomed back into the brood by Nikros himself and would be made the head of a new branch of the Sumeragi, the Rageblooded.

After the events of Beyond Light, Sumeragi decided to reveal themselves. The Cult, using all of their weapons, resources and abilities at their disposal, took over the Scarlet Keep on the Moon and it's surrounding area along with a section of Hive territory on the Tangled Shore, and develop an breach head in the European Dead Zone in the territory of the Red Legion. They located an hidden moon base a few dozen miles west of the Scarlet Keep. The Moon base was turn into the personal keep of Nikros while the Council of Nikros turns the Scarlet Keep into their headquarters. After Skalos was killed, the Cult attacked, hitting the Guardians station at the moon. However, his council was killed each one by a time, but thanks to the lessons from Nokris from observing them, they were revived fully. But Nikros was severely wounded by the Guardians and was force into a coma, forcing his Queen to take over while his Consort cared for him.

 

====Trials of the Empress====

 

====A Dubious Gambit====

With the discovery of the [[Endless Night]] within the Last City, the Cult of Darkness immediately suspected Savathûn's handiwork and rightfully so. Through extensive rituals, their suspicions would be confirmed with the help of the Chaos Collective as they would intercept a Taken directive to the center of the Vex domain. While they had no numerical influence on Sumeragi's expeditions within the Vex Domain, it would be the Cult who would suggest the counter-subjugation of Quria in the hopes of afflicting the Last City personally in revenge for Nikros. However, their plan would be thwarted by the Guardian whose actions would see to the destruction of the Dreaming Mind before the Sumeragi had a chance to plan on its capture.

 

====Balance in Disarray====

As the forces of Mara Sov and Xivu Arath clashed, many of the Cults members, enraged by and impatient with inaction by their leadership, would desert to Xivu Arath's forces in the hopes of being ascended by the War God. Not only did the Cult infiltrate Xivu Arath's forces, but they also would enter the Ley Lines in which they inhabit, where they attempted to secretly modify their arsenal and magics in the hope of empowering them against their mutual enemies, but to disable them whenever war came to them. In collaboration with the Chaos Collective, the group would begin exploring the Ley Lines in search of potential nesting grounds and attack points, but would be reversed with the disappearance of one of their allies's Vex Minds. Following this mysterious vanishing, the Cult continued their investigation where they would finally come across an outcropping bearing the likeness of Europa, where they would finally nest and plot their attack on the icy surface of the dark moon.

 

Following the Exorcism, the Cult, despite their severed ties with the original Hive progeny, would feel the death of [[Savathûn, the Witch Queen|Savathûn]]. However, to many members of the cults surprise, they would, instead, find the god of trickery alive and now, along with the bulk of her forces, empowered by the Light. Despite their best efforts, many of the Cult was incapable of infiltrating the [[Lucent Brood]]'s ranks and, therefore, could not uncover any of their tactics and weaponry. While the promise of power in the Light was tempting, much of the Cult's forces remained loyal in the face of Nova's philosophy. Throughout the conflict, the Cult mainly attempted to survey it by proxy through many of the Lucent Brood's operations across the system, from Earth to the Moon. Eventually, they would discover the Hive plot to invade Earth using a portal by the [[Scarlet Keep]] through scrying rituals and would use the chaos of the final confrontation to steal some of the Brood's personal tactics and rituals with the Light in the hopes of reverse engineering it and developing more effective Light-combative magics. Ultimately, however, the Lucent Brood's newfound loyalty to the Light kept the Cult from being more involved with the war, but were still able to glean some new tactics from it.

 

When word came in from the Black Legion that [[Emperor Calus|Calus's]] personal flagship, [[Leviathan (ship)|the Leviathan]], has returned and was making its way to the Earth's Moon, many within the Moon's numerous enclaves feared the ship was coming for the satellite itself, and so fled through their Ascendant plane pockets. However, instead, they found the ship merely parked outside the world's atmosphere and soon uncovered that the ship was actually drawing power from the submerged Lunar Pyramid below. While the House of Shadow and the Black Legion were engaged in covert research operations aboard the ship itself, the Cult surveyed the connection between the Pyramid and Leviathan, eventually learning of Calus's "ascendance" with the help of the Witness. Despite the intelligence the cult gleaned through the connection with the assistance of Hidden Swarm technologies, however, the Cult would mostly remain uninvolved with the incident.

**Krota, Warpriest (Leader of the Cult's military)

**Mrugor, Monster of Nikros (Nikros' personal Ogre bodyguard)

**Cursed Thrall - kamikaze unit.

**Acolyte Ascendent - Thrall that are midway into ascending to Acolyte.

**Rageblooded Thrall - Thralls empowered by hijacked and repurposed Cryptoliths. Coated in occult power, these units will wield such powers to blend the light around them, making them invisible. They also have the ability to warp out of any sort of danger. Damage dealt returns health and adds an additional health bar.

**Ice Wizard - a new variant of the Wizard that have the powers of Stasis. With it, they can summon a staff that create ice wall to protect their allies.

***Ice Mage - a variant of the Mage with the power of Stasis. With it, they can covered their allies in Stasis armor.

**Rageblooded Wizard - Wizards empowered by hijacked and repurposed Cryptoliths. On occasion, these units will sacrifice their absorption shield and provide all allies within the vicinity with an equally absorbent shields. Each ally affected by this ability will also "bleed" potent and toxic energies.

**Ice Knight - a new variant of the Knight that have the power of Stasis. With it, they can covered their sword with Stasis and trapped foes in ice.

***Ice Vanquisher - a variant of the Vanquisher that have Stasis shield.

***Ice Darkblade - a variant of the Darkblade that have Stasis Axe.

**Rageblooded Knight - Knights empowered by hijacked and repurposed Cryptoliths. Upon engagement, these Knights will infect any nearby Hive allies with the Hive energy that radiates from them. If the add is killed, the Knight becomes enraged and acquires petty health regeneration. However, if the Knight is killed, the unit then becomes possessed by the spirit of the Knight and becomes more resilient and powerful than what the Knight once was.

**Ritualist Guardian - Ogres who protect Ogre Ritualists during Ogre-creation rituals.

|minds= Atlas, Chaos Mind<br>Zeus, Thunder Mind<br>Hades, Hell Mind<br>Poseidon, Ocean Mind

====Calus's Vex====

After the event of Shadowkeep, the Sol Divisive have started invading the moon, which a Shade Captain informed the Collective and Sumeragi. They gifted the Collective an copy of the Undying Mind, which they accepted. They torture the Mind for information as to how it made copies of itself in several timelines, of which it forced itself to tell the secret as to how. Using the information, Atlas created an program that make an copy of itself should it be at death's door. It gave this program to its Grand Minds and Axis Minds so they wouldn't died as well.

They saw the Almighty felling to the Last City. However, they and Sumeragi learned that Rasputin have activated the defense system of the Seraph Bunker that will destroy the Almighty. Merak informed them that they have an opportunity to acquire Warmind and Golden Age techs to improve themselves. The Collective decided to go to the ones in Io and improve their weapons but didn't do much.

After the mentioned planets above disappear, the Collective discover that the Wyvern model was being used on Europa, forcing them to inform Sumeragi of this development. Nova interested of this, ask if they have it as well. They told them that do, but didn't think that other Vex would release them. They quickly showcased the Wyvern and its potential. Sumeragi, impressed, told them to have them out. The Collective quickly make use of the Wyvern and made other versions of them, such as Drake and Dragons. Meanwhile, Chaos Vex on Europa reported large number of Fallen grouping together, and they have discovered Eramis. After the Shadow Fallen collected enough Splinters of Darkness for, they upgraded some of their troops for maximum firepower.

After the event of Beyond Light, Sumeragi decided to attack. The Chaos Collective took over Nesses and took territory of the House of Salvation. Altas took position in Europa while his Grand Mind took position of Nesses territory. After Nikros was defeated, they attacked next. They initially defeated the Guardians's a few times, and ensure they took an fighting chance. However, they started feeling blows from strikes after strikes. The Grand Minds die but thanks to the data collected from the Undying Mind, they created a copy of themselves. Altas came out of hiding but fell from the Guardian powers, but managed to create a copy of itself. The Collective retreated back to Sumeragi Headquarters to recover from their losses.

 

**Seraphim - the highest level among the aerial troops. Only 6 of them can exist at a time, else the whole time-space continuum will collapse due to their power. This power makes them equal to Atheon, Time's Conflux.

|commander(s)= Xa'Lus, Dominus of Black <br> Me'tron, Primus of Dark <br> Sta'tra, Primus of Black

|keep(s)= Firebase Ares <br> Firebase Athena <br> Firebase Neptune

Formed from the remnants of the Red Legion and Loyalists deserters, those that left the solar system return to the Cabal Homeworld and report the failure of their mission and the death of the Red Legion leaderships. Seeing the threat, the Cabal council summoned Xa'Lus to lead the remnants. Forming the Black Legion, they have greater tech from the Guardian, Vex and Fallen. They returned to the solar system to learn about the Guardians to see how to defeat them. Sumeragi contacted the Black Legion for an alliance, as well as the chance to beat the Guardians. They reluctantly agreed but ask to leave if Sumeragi fails to beat the Guardians. They are seen in black, and grey armor with an hit of red linings in their armor with spiked shoulders pad.

*Xa'lus, Dominus of Black (deceased)

 

*Susansoo, Standard's Tribune

 

**Skewer Hound - Tusked War Beasts with a thick, scaly plate covering their heads. Capable of charging it's opponents to gore them with their razor-sharp tusks.

**Pulsar - sniper specialist that attack high-value targets.

**Venator - cloaked Psion units that act as assassins and infiltration troops.

**Interceptor Psion - Psions that pilots Interceptors as cavalry infantry.

***Shadow Hand Vilicus - Vilici armed with reverse-engineered Pyramid technologies stolen from the Shadow Legion. All abilities have overhauls: Psionic Entropy can hit multiple targets similar to Nezarec, Arc Storms leave behind areas of denial and Solar Seekers are replaced with Resonant Suns similar to Caretaker (also includes Pervading Darkness effect). Some can be found equipped with [[Tech Packs]].

*Barrier-shield

|othername=Nikros' Taken

|notable-person= Consul, Slave of Corruption<br>Thumos, the Broken<br>Atheon, Time's Broken

**Oryx, the Corrupted King (Hive)

|domain(s)=Earth<br>Pluto<br>Neptune

|type=Human

|functions=Elite Commander and Warrior

|conflicts=Red War<br>Hunt for the Scorn<br>Nightmare Hunt

|leadership=Uldren Sov, Vanguard<br>Claudius, Titan Commander<br>Alicia, Warlock Commander<br>Drago, Hunter Commander

|notable=Unknown

|domain(s)=Earth<br>Neptune<br>Mars<br>Io<br>Saturn

|type= Human with abilities not related to Light or Darkness.

|functions=Elite Special Force

|conflicts=Taken War<br>SIVA Crisis<br>Red War<br>Rise of the Scorn

|leadership= Nova, Herrscher of Sumeragi<br>Zonda, Mirage of Sumeragi<br>Demerzel, Demon of Sumeragi

|notable=Have armor color similar to rainbow