Editing House of Salvation

Founded by [[Eramis, Kell of Darkness]], a former [[Baron]]ess of the [[House of Devils]] who originally sought to reform her old House, but later abandoned them to form a new Fallen empire comprised of former Devils, [[House of Winter|Winter]], [[House of Dusk|Dusk]], [[House of Wolves|Wolves]] and [[Kell's Scourge]] members; all unified to rebuild their Eliksni civilization.<ref name="Out">'''Bungie (2019/03/05)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Drifter]]'', ''[[Lore:Stolen Intelligence|Stolen Intelligence]]: [[Lore:Stolen Intelligence#Outliers|Outliers]]''</ref><ref name="Rim">'''Bungie (2020/06/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]]'', ''[[Rimed Shell]]''</ref>

A year after the [[Red War]] and prompted by [[The Nine]] and [[Uldren Sov]]<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Lore:Most Loyal|Most Loyal]]: [[Lore:Most Loyal#Unknown Space|Unknown Space]]''</ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Lore:Most Loyal|Most Loyal]]: [[Lore:Most Loyal#Where Loyalty Lies|Where Loyalty Lies]]'', [[Variks, The Loyal]] began a massive [[Last Call|prison break]]. The chaos led to the release of notable Fallen such as [[Fikrul, the Fanatic|Fikrul]], [[Siviks, Lost to None|Siviks]] and the [[Silent Fang]]. Eramis, the Shipstealer, one of the last surviving Barons of the old Devils captured during the [[Wolf Rebellion]] and who lead the Fallen charge at the [[Battle of the Twilight Gap]], had also managed to escape the [[Prison of Elders]]. Upon learning of the demise of the Devils' nobility, Eramis rallied former Devil traditionalists, saboteurs, and loyalists to join her cause in rebuilding the House of Devils.<ref name="Out"/> Eramis even sought to harness SIVA to enhance the Devils after learning the conducts of the [[Devil Splicers]].<ref name="Zero Hour">'''Bungie (2019/05/15)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Drifter]], [[Zero Hour]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2019/3/5)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Drifter]] - [[Outbreak Prime#Lore|Outbreak Perfected]]''</ref>

{{Quote|Field reports indicate that Eramis is rallying violent dissidents to reconstruct House Devils from the ground up.|[[Lore:Stolen Intelligence#Outliers|Outliers]].}}<ref name="Out"/>

Months after her escape, Eramis orchestrated a heist into the [[Tower|destroyed Tower]] to steal the [[Outbreak Perfected]] [[Pulse Rifle]], which was previously quarantined due to it containing [[SIVA]] in its frame. Led by [[Siriks, Loyal to Eramis]], they broke into the crumbling building and pillaged anything they could find in order to get to the SIVA-powered weapon. This caught the attention of [[Mithrax, the Forsaken]], the [[Kell]] of the [[Fallen]] [[House of Light]]. Mithrax proceeded to drop [[Fallen Transponder|clues]] so the Guardians could join him in his attempt to stop the incursion. Meeting in secret with the [[The Guardian]] in the basement of the barn at [[The Farm]], they rushed to the ruins of the [[Tower|destroyed Tower]] to stop Eramis' militants from retrieving the weapon. Together, [[Mithrax, the Forsaken| Mithrax]] and the Guardians stopped the raiding party, killing Siriks and [[Mimiks-0, Devil's Scion|his]] [[Mimiks-1, Devil's Scion|allies]].<ref name="Zero Hour"/>

The failure to steal the SIVA weapon ultimately humiliated Eramis and her attempt at reigniting the fires of the House of Devils. Since then, she decided to abandon the Devils' banner entirely and remake themselves into a new House entirely of her own accord.<ref name="The Visionary">'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]]'', ''[[Lore:The Once-Shipstealer|The Once-Shipstealer]] - [[Lore:The Once-Shipstealer#IV. The Visionary|IV. The Visionary]]''</ref>

Following the prison break, the first Barons to join Eramis' crew were her old comrades-in-arms from the House of Devils: [[Phylaks, the Warrior]] and [[Kridis, Dark Priestess|Kridis, the Priestess]]. The three of them used to be working as a team on the [[Cosmodrome]] and fought together against Guardians in the [[Battle of the Twilight Gap]].<ref name="The Nightmare">'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]]'', ''[[Lore:The Once-Shipstealer|The Once-Shipstealer]] - [[Lore:The Once-Shipstealer#V. The Nightmare|V. The Nightmare]]''</ref> Another addition to the Council, [[Praksis, the Technocrat]], was a former member of the House of Wolves who had been confined in a cell next to that of Eramis in the Prison of Elders. They used to have long nighttime talks that influenced Praksis' way of thinking.<ref name="The Wolf">'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]], [[Lore:The Once-Shipstealer|The Once-Shipstealer]] - [[Lore:The Once-Shipstealer#II. The Wolf|II. The Wolf]]''</ref> Another was [[Atraks-1, Fallen Exo|Atraks, the Wildcard]], who was meant to represent the younger generation of the Fallen were born after the [[Whirlwind]] and never knew any other home but the Solar System.<ref name="The Wildcard">'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]], [[Lore:The Once-Shipstealer|The Once-Shipstealer]] - [[Lore:The Once-Shipstealer#XIII. The Wildcard|XIII. The Wildcard]]''</ref> The last member of the Council was the last scribe of House Judgment, Variks. While other members of the Dark Council despised Variks for being a traitor, Eramis accepted him as a way to draw more [[Reef]] Fallen to her own house<ref name="The Council">'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]], [[Lore:The Once-Shipstealer|The Once-Shipstealer]] - [[Lore:The Once-Shipstealer#VIII. The Council|VIII. The Council]]''</ref>.

After her failed heist, Eramis became plagued by visions of her past from [[The Lunar Pyramid|the Pyramid]] hidden beneath the [[Moon]]. She visits the Moon herself, fighting her way through the Hive to commune with "the black arrow", which would respond by whispering promises of power to the Baroness.<ref name="The Herald">'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]]'', ''[[Lore:The Once-Shipstealer|The Once-Shipstealer]] - [[Lore:The Once-Shipstealer#VI. The Herald|VI. The Herald]]''</ref> Armed with a vision of their intended destination, Eramis and her crew rallied together a new House of Fallen from the remnants of Devils, Wolves, Dusk, and [[Kell's Scourge]] to Europa, also referred as "Niflheim" to the [[Reef]].<ref name="Rim"/> There, they built a new home for the Eliksni since the fall of their old [[Riis|homeworld]], dismantling multiple Fallen hideouts across the Solar System and using the ruins of the human Europan colony of [[Eventide]] as the foundation for their [[Riis-Reborn|city]].<ref name="The Scribe">'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]]'', ''[[Lore:The Once-Shipstealer|The Once-Shipstealer]] - [[Lore:The Once-Shipstealer#VII. The Scribe|VII. The Scribe]]''</ref>

When the [[Black Fleet]] finally [[Return of the Black Fleet|revealed]] their presence in the Sol System, Eramis and her council had prepared their House for [[The Europan Pyramid|one]] to arrive at Europa, which offered them power in the form of [[Splinter of Darkness|Splinters of Darkness]]. Armed with their newfound power of Stasis, Eramis would subsequently proclaim herself as "Kell of Darkness" and vows to destroy the Traveler with her Fallen empire fully equipped with Stasis abilities.<ref name="The Kell of Darkness">'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]]'', ''[[Lore:The Once-Shipstealer|The Once-Shipstealer]] - [[Lore:The Once-Shipstealer#IX. The Kell of Darkness|IX. The Kell of Darkness]]''</ref>

After a time, the Exo Stranger would contact the Guardian, informing them that a large number of Salvation have been amassing, leading her to conclude that they had found the [[Deep Stone Crypt]], the mysterious birthplace of the Exos. Wanting to prevent any knowledge of Clovis Bray from falling into the Fallen's hands, the Guardians formed a Raid team to clear out the crypt and secure it. As they traverse the science facilities, the Guardians discovered that the last member of Eramis's inner circle, Atraks, the Wildcard had used the radiolaria from the Vex gate Eramis had activated earlier into activating the Exo conversion machines, turning herself into a Fallen Exo. Now dubbed [[Atraks-1]], the Fallen Exo would also revive [[Taniks, the Scarred]], now Reborn, from a Fallen Cryopod within the Crypt. The Guardians battled both throughout the facility, taking them as far as the [[Morning Star]] space station in Europa's orbit. Using the facilities' securities against Atraks, the Guardians succeeded in slaying the Fallen Exo. However, their battle forced the station AI into activating its Nuclear Descent protocol, which would force the station into crashing into Europa, as per Clovis Bray I's wishes to prevent his research from falling into the "wrong hands". However, the nuclear crash would likely destroy Europa itself, forcing the Guardians to disarm the nuclear cores while holding off Taniks. As the station plummeted towards Europa, the Guardians succeeded in disarming the nuclear cores but were unable to prevent the station from crashing. Taniks pursued the Guardians to the only secure location to survive but was locked out at the last second as the station crashed into Europa.<ref name="DSC"/>

Though heavily crippled since the loss of Eramis and her council, the House of Salvation would remain active though mostly conducting pirate operations along trade routes. However, following the Guardian's [[The Lucent War|adventures within a Hive God's Throneworld]], forging an alliance with [[Empress Caiatl|Caiatl]]'s [[Imperial Cabal|Cabal]] and containing a [[Nightmare]] [[Severing of the Nightmares|outbreak]] aboard the [[Leviathan (ship)|Leviathan]], the House of Salvation's fortunes would soon turn towards their favour. After being spoken to by the [[Witness]], the leader of the Black Fleet, Eramis finally broke free from her Stasis prison, bitter and enraged at the poor state of her house and learning of Mithrax and his House of Light siding with the Guardians and the Last City. Nonetheless, to fulfil a "payment" for her release, the Shipstealer rallied her remaining followers and that of the Old Crews of Fallen pirates to search for a special artifact of the Dark Ages.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/8/23)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Plunder]] - [[Lore:Between Stolen Stars|Between Stolen Stars]]: [[Lore:Between Stolen Stars#I. Thaw|I. Thaw]]''</ref>  

Ultimately, despite the Shipstealer's and the Old Crews' efforts, the Guardian and Mithrax were successful in collecting all the relics, which were revealed to be pieces of the dead Disciple of the Witness, Nezarec. With the Relics out of their reach, Eramis could do nothing but flee as the Guardian and the Light Kell used their acquired riches to improve the livelihood of the Eliksni Quarter.

With the failure of reclaiming the relics of Nezarec, and Eramis going into hiding again with her whereabouts being unknown but still continued to serve the Witness, Xivu Arath, the Hive God of War, would re-emerge once more. This time attempting to take control of the [[Warsat]] network as [[Rasputin]] was incapacitated. Furthermore, she led an assault onto Europa to subjugate the AI [[Clovis Bray I]] under her control. House Salvation would seemingly assist Xivu's [[Xivu Arath's Horde|Horde]] in looting [[Clovis Bray (corporation)|Clovis Bray]] sites, but due to their leader's failure and absence, Xivu would punish Salvation for it by converting several of them into Wrathborn while resurrecting some of them into [[Scorn]]; using them to assist her army in occupying the remaining [[Seraph Bunker]]s and [[Warmind#Known_Subminds|Submind]] vaults to further her goals.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/12/6)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Seraph]] - [[Hierarchy]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2022/12/6)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Seraph]] - [[Heist Battleground: Moon]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2022/12/6)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Seraph]] - [[Heist Battleground: Europa]]''</ref>

As the Witness succeeded in finding [[The Veil]] and using it to establish a connection with the Traveler, thereby opening a portal into its [[Pale Heart]], its various servants would be brought along with it as The Witness began to enact the Final Shape. The House of Salvation would be part of that force but Eramis herself would not be present, having saved [[Mithrax]] from a trap left by the [[Shadow Legion]]<ref>'''Bungie (2023/2/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Defiance]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvcoYWxosKA&t=206s Countdown]''</ref> before leaving the [[Sol System]] in search for the one [[Athrys|person]] she still cares for.<ref>'''Bungie (2022/11/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Wish]] - [[Sparrow|Sparrow lore]]: [[Nostos]]''</ref> Nonetheless, the Salvation Fallen would continue to do The Witness's bidding and even invade the [[Last City]] alongside [[Xivu Arath's Horde]] to keep the Guardians contained. Nonetheless, their efforts would be crushed as the Guardians and their allies made headway in reaching the Pale Heart and pursuing the Witness.<ref>'''Bungie (2024/4/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Into the Light]] - [[Onslaught]]''</ref>

Before the final battle, the Guardians made endeavors to heal the Traveler and in thwarting the Witness's servants from gaining strength. The House of Salvation, for instance, began an operation to harvest the Traveler's Light directly from the Pale Heart. Ikora and Mithrax noticed the Salvation Fallen's movements and engaged to prevent them from succeeding. Most importantly to Mithrax, the operation was being led by [[Korha, the Hollow]], a former member of the House of Winter who had rising to be Eramis's Right Hand during the conflict on Seraph Station and killed Mithrax's mother, [[Inaaks]], when he was still young. Furious at the sight of his mother's killer, Mithrax joins the Guardian in disrupting Korha's operations by destroying the harvesting rigs before following Korha to Europa. Despite engaging Korha directly, the former Winter Fallen seemed incapable of saying anything to Mithrax, leading Ikora to believe that Korha's consciousness had been consumed by the Witness like many of its other servants. Nonetheless, the Guardian and Mithrax were able to defeat Korha before he was crushed by a House of Light Brig. Though slightly disappointed that he couldn't exchange some last words with Korha, Mithrax was nonetheless pleased that they disrupted his operations within the Traveler and had avenged Inaaks.<ref>'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[The Hollow, Part I]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[The Hollow, Part II]]''</ref>