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|othernames=Sathona<br>God of Cunning and Lies<br>Archentrope<br>Queen of All Encrypts<br/>The Black Needle<br>The Deceitful Sister<br>The Scheme-Mother<br>The Witch, Insidious<br>Emancipator of Worms<br>Deepest in the High Coven <br> Deepest in the Hive Coven <br> The Missing Piece of All Puzzles <br> The Whisper Queen <br> Sister of Shapes <br> Subjugant to None <br> Sword-Breaker <br> Queen to the Taken Throne<br>The Taken Queen {{c|[[Nokris]]}}<br>Queen of Lies<br>Krill Hag {{c|[[Eris Morn]]}}<br>VIP#7282<br>Goddess of Whispers<br>WQS-030<br>She Who Hides Truth in Deception<br>God of the False and Polluted
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|gender=Female
|height=21ft <ref>'''Destiny the Game Twitter:''' ''[https://twitter.com/DestinyTheGame/status/1429923363737112593 We have limited details on this embodiment of the Witch Queen Savathûn, but her stature suggests a height of 21 feet.]''</ref>
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|rank= Witch Queen
|class= [[Wizard]]
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|notable=Hive God of Cunning and Lies <br>One of three founding members of the Hive race alongside Oryx and Xivu Arath.<br>Betrayed the [[The Witness|Witness]] by killing [[Nezarec, Final God of Pain|Nezarec]] and hiding away the [[The Veil|Veil]] on [[Neptune]].<br>Orchestrated the curse of the [[Dreaming City]] alongside [[Riven]].<br>Fled from the Witness after the [[Arrival of the Black Fleet]].<br> Impersonated [[Osiris]] for about a year within the [[Last City]]<br>Reborn as a [[Lightbearer]] after being exorcised of [[Savathûn's Worm|her]] [[Worm]]<br>Founded the Lucent Brood to protect the Traveler from the Witness <br> Formed a tentative neutrality with the [[Guardian]]s to pursue the Witness
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|name= Savathûn, the Witch Queen
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|othernames=The Witch, Radiant<br>Scheme-Mother-Reborn <br>Sky Mother {{c|[[Luzaku]]}}
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|species= [[Hive]]
|gender= Female
|faction= [[Lucent Brood]] 
|rank= Witch Queen <br> [[Ultra]]
|class= [[Lightbearer Wizard]]
|mission = [[The Arrival]] <br> [[The Ritual]] <br> [[Queens, Part I]] <br> [[Excision]] {{c|Ally}}
|ability = {{icon|Solar}} [[Blade Barrage]] <br> High Durability <br> {{icon|Void}} [[Nova Bomb]] <br> {{icon|Void}} [[Nova Warp]] <br> {{icon|Arc}} Vicious Light <br> Rapid Movement <br> Summon Hive <br> Summon Projections <br> {{icon|Arc}} [[Stormtrance]] <br> {{icon|Void}} [[Ward of Dawn]]
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{{Quote|Savathûn, mother morph of Sathona, we delight in your sharp mind. ''[...]'' We are pleased with your use of our larvae to create mighty knights and plentiful warriors. Taox's retreat to the Hydrogen Fountain proves your superior strength. But you must know that reclaiming your home is not enough.|[[Worms|Worm Gods]]}}

'''Savathûn, the Witch Queen''', formerly known as '''Sathona''', is a [[Hive]] god and sister to [[Xivu Arath, God of War]] and [[Oryx, the Taken King]]. Together with her two siblings, she was a progenitor of the contemporary Hive species and one of its chief gods, having made a pact with the [[Worm]]s of [[Fundament]]. She is driven to understand the deepest secrets of the universe and gains power from the deception and confusion of those who seek to understand her unfathomable schemes. 

However, her true goals were revealed to undermine [[the Witness]] and its goals of realizing the [[Final Shape]], working her own secretive agenda from the inside to prevent [[humanity]]'s extinction during the [[Collapse]] and to protect and preserve the [[Traveler]] at all costs. She had also schemed to free her kind from the Worms' pact she originally made back on Fundament; pursuing other means to acquire sustenance beyond the [[Sword Logic]]. For her actions she would become reborn as the first [[Hive]] [[Lightbearer]] with [[Immaru]] partnered as her [[Ghost]], with the two together created the [[Lucent Brood]] as her own army of [[Light]]-wielding Hive.