Editing Reef

[[File:Grimoire The Reef.jpg|thumb|275px|Grimoire image.]]

{{Article quote|Dare to strike a bargain with the ruthless Queen.}}

 

The '''Reef''' is a debris field in orbit within the [[wikipedia:Asteroid_Belt|Asteroid belt]] in the [[Sol System]]<ref name="Destiny PlayStation 4 Official Announcement">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kJkiwDeWqQ '''Destiny''' - ''PlayStation 4 Official Announcement'']</ref><ref name= "Pathways out of Darkness">[http://www.bungie.net/7_Pathways-Out-Of-Darkness/en-us/News/News?aid=10241 '''Bungie.net''' ''Pathways out of Darkness'']</ref> and the domain of an expansive [[Awoken]] nation under Queen [[Mara Sov]]. It is considered by the [[Last City]] to straddle the boundary between the far edge of [[the Traveler]]'s influence and the unabated darkness beyond the Inner System.<ref name="Destiny">'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''Destiny''</ref>

The massive hulks of dead [[Golden Age]] ships that make up the Reef mark the furthest point that people fleeing [[Earth]] and the Inner System during the [[Collapse]] were able to reach; the [[Darkness]] ensured they made it no further.<ref name="Destiny"/>

 

A group of Awoken colonized the Reef at some point in the [[Dark Age]] after emigrating from the [[Distributary]] under the leadership of [[Mara Sov]], and established a society completely independent from the [[Last City]].<ref name="Destiny PlayStation 4 Official Announcement"/><ref name= "Pathways out of Darkness"/> Outsiders, including Earth-born Awoken, were long considered trespassers and if necessary met with lethal force.<ref name="Destiny"/> This changed after the rebellion of the [[House of Wolves]], as Guardians were welcomed into the Reef to combat the Fallen menace.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''[[Destiny]]: House of Wolves''</ref>

 

 

 

 

The arrival of the [[Red Legion]] caused even more devastation in the Reef, facilitated by the supposedly traitorous [[Broken Legion]] (in actuality a Trojan horse) from the Prison of Elders. Raids led by the [[House of Kings]] led to further destabilization, forcing Petra to pull back and consolidate the Reef's territory to protect civilian life.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Forsaken Prince#Fanatic .7C Part I|Fanatic | Part I]]''</ref>

Years after Mara Sov disappeared from the [[Sol System]], the Reef collapsed from the loss of their armada and security; capping at it were the Scorned Barons, a gang of renegade [[Baron]]s terrorizing both Fallen and Awoken alike, and the betrayal of the former Reef prince [[Uldren Sov]], having allied with the House of Kings and united the disjointed Fallen into the [[House of Dusk]]. The Scorned Barons were caught and imprisoned by a [[Guardian]] posse led by Hunter Vanguard [[Cayde-6]] and Petra Venj, leaving only their Archon [[Fikrul]] to escape and met with Uldren at the brink of death; becoming the first of the [[Scorn]].  

A year after the [[Red War]], Petra Venj and Cayde-6 brought Uldren and Fikrul into the Prison. Taking advantage of this, the imprisoned Uldren orchestrated the warden [[Variks, the Loyal|Variks]] into unleashing a massive breakout from the Prison of Elders, releasing the Scorned Barons from their cages and murdering Cayde-6 in the process. The Scorn forces fled into the [[Tangled Shore]] under Uldren and their eight commanding [[Baron]]s. The situation became so dire that the [[Guardian]] were called upon to contain the chaos.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u4oyarcc4I Destiny 2: Forsaken – Official Reveal]</ref>

Reef society is matriarchal and ruled by a single Queen with near-absolute power, essentially an authoritarian monarchy. The current and only known Queen of the Reef is [[Mara Sov]]. Second to the Queen in power was her brother Prince [[Uldren Sov]], Master of Crows, who managed the Reef's intelligence network of "Crows" and served as the Queen's chief adviser.

The Queen commands the military forces of the Reef through seven [[Paladin]]s. The Royal Armada, consisting of the Reef's space fleet in addition to the [[Corsair]]s, who serve as field scouts, and the [[Vestian Guard]], which patrols the Reef's borders, is led by four Paladins. The Royal Army, which encompasses the Reef's soldiers, battle stations, and military installations, is in the charge of two. The seventh Paladin directs the [[Royal Awoken Guard]], which is dedicated to protecting the Queen from both direct threats to her person and indirect threats that endanger the Reef as a whole and therefore the Queen by extension and/or association.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''Destiny: House of Wolves, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#The Royal Awoken Guard|The Royal Awoken Guard]]''</ref>

Other significant institutions include the [[Techeun]]s and the Reef [[Cryptarch]]y. The Techeuns, also known as "tech witches", serve as advisors to the Queen, but following the rebellion of the [[House of Wolves]], two Techeuns now attend her in lieu of Fallen bodyguards.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''Destiny: House of Wolves, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Ghost Fragment: The Reef 2|Ghost Fragment: The Reef 2]]''</ref> The Reef Cryptarchy's function is similar to the Cryptarchy of the Last City, but it follows a different philosophy: where the City's Cryptarchs seek to decrypt [[Engram]]s to uncover secrets of the Golden Age and aid the Guardians in the process, the Reef's Cryptarchs believe their purpose is to encrypt and safeguard civilization's informational infrastructure.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''Destiny: House of Wolves, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Master Ives, Cryptarch|Master Ives, Cryptarch]]''</ref>

*[[Vestian Web|4 Vesta]]

 

*[[Accretion Fields]]

*[[The Origin Libraries]]

*[[Queen's Bay]]

**[[Vestian Outpost]]

**[[Prison of Elders]]

*[[Foundling's Gyre]]

**[[The Drifter (map)|The Drifter]] {{C|[[Crucible]] map}}

*[[Tangled Shore]] {{C|Destination}}

**[[Gambler's Ruin]] {{C|Crucible map}}

**[[Kell's Grave]] {{C|[[Gambit]] map}}

**[[Cathedral of Scars]] {{C|Gambit map}}

**[[The Citadel (map)|The Citadel]] {{C|Crucible map}}

*[[Glykon Volatus]]

===[[Story]] Missions===

===[[Arena]]s===

===[[Crucible]]===

*[[The Drifter (map)|The Drifter]] {{C|''[[The Taken King]]''}}

*[[The Citadel ]] {{C|''[[Forsaken]]''}}

===[[Gambit]]===

===[[Social]]===

*[[Vestian Outpost]] {{C|''[[House of Wolves (expansion)|House of Wolves]]''}}

 

*[[Warden of Nothing]] {{c|''[[Forsaken]]''}}

 

*On Earth, shipwrecks often form [[wikipedia:artificial_reef|artificial reefs]], which then become home to a wide variety of life. A number of videos and pieces of concept art indicate that the same process is occurring within the debris field of the Reef<ref name="Destiny PlayStation 4 Official Announcement"/><ref name= "Pathways out of Darkness"/>.

*The two [[Destination|destinations]] in The Reef contain all enemy races as a whole, meaning that it has more races than any other planet or moon in the series, with multiple enemy factions across each.

File:Crow and queen of the Reef.jpg|The Queen, her brother, and Eliksni guards in the throne room

File:Reef fallen e3.jpg|An Eliksni bodyguard on the Reef

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