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|rank= Heavy Infantry | |rank= Heavy Infantry | ||
|class= [[Knight]] | |class= [[Knight]] | ||
|weapon= {{icon|Void}} Taken [[Boomer]] (common) <br> {{icon|Arc}} Taken [[Shredder]] (rare) <br> {{icon|Kinetic}} Taken [[Cleaver]] (specific variants) <br> {{icon|Stasis}} [[ | |weapon= {{icon|Void}} Taken [[Boomer]] (common) <br> {{icon|Arc}} Taken [[Shredder]] (rare) <br> {{icon|Kinetic}} Taken [[Cleaver]] (specific variants) <br> {{icon|Stasis}} [[Stasis Boomer]] (rare) | ||
|ability= {{icon|Solar}} Taken Burn <br> {{icon|Solar}} [[Absorption Shield]] {{C|high difficulty}} <br> High Durability <br> Rapid Movement <br> Teleportation <br> {{icon|Kinetic}} Hive Melee | |ability= {{icon|Solar}} Taken Burn <br> {{icon|Solar}} [[Absorption Shield]] {{C|high difficulty}} <br> High Durability <br> Rapid Movement <br> Teleportation <br> {{icon|Kinetic}} Hive Melee | ||
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{{Quote|You are a Knight. Ancient warrior elite. Dreadful backbone of the Hive. You have scarred entire worlds. ''[ | {{Quote|You are a Knight. Ancient warrior elite. Dreadful backbone of the Hive. You have scarred entire worlds. ''[...]'' You fear death. Even as you visit nothingness on your foes, even as you gather tribute from your acolytes, you know that one day your strength will be outmatched. And your centuries of slaughter will end. ''[...]'' You betray the sword logic. You compromise the totality of your violence. Why protect your ground when you could take the enemy's? You need to make your guard into a weapon. There is a knife for you. It is shaped like ''[no more fear]''. Take up the knife. Hide no more. Take your new shape.|[[Grimoire]] description}} | ||
The '''Taken Knight''' is a type of [[Taken]] [[Hive]]. | The '''Taken Knight''' is a type of [[Taken]] [[Hive]]. | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*Unusually, they are not armed with [[Cleaver]]s, modified or otherwise, like their non-Taken counterparts or Grimoire card (which features an "un-Taken" Cleaver). This could be a stylistic choice or for gameplay reasons. Lorewise, this ties into with the [[Ascendant Sword]] Grimoire card, which reads: | *Unusually, they are not armed with [[Cleaver]]s, modified or otherwise, like their non-Taken counterparts or Grimoire card (which features an "un-Taken" Cleaver). This could be a stylistic choice or for gameplay reasons. Lorewise, this ties into with the [[Ascendant Sword]] Grimoire card, which reads: | ||
**"''A Shredder or a Boomer is a powerful weapon, but it kills acyclically. You see? It sends out harm and it takes nothing back. The bolt passes away into nothing. A sword, though, a sword is like a bridge, a crossing-point. The sword binds wielder to victim. It binds life to death. And when the binding is done—the sword remembers. When the Boomer's fire has burnt away into axion and neutrino scatter, the sword goes on, hungrier and sharper.''"<ref>'''Bungie (2014/12/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Dark Below]], [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Activities/Raids# | **"''A Shredder or a Boomer is a powerful weapon, but it kills acyclically. You see? It sends out harm and it takes nothing back. The bolt passes away into nothing. A sword, though, a sword is like a bridge, a crossing-point. The sword binds wielder to victim. It binds life to death. And when the binding is done—the sword remembers. When the Boomer's fire has burnt away into axion and neutrino scatter, the sword goes on, hungrier and sharper.''"<ref>'''Bungie (2014/12/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Dark Below]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Activities/Raids#Ascendant_Sword|Ascendant Sword]]''</ref> | ||
*** As of Forsaken and Season of Arrivals, there are now Taken Knights seen with Cleavers. | *** As of Forsaken and Season of Arrivals, there are now Taken Knights seen with Cleavers. | ||
*According to | *According to [[The Sword Logic]] (also known as "The Killing Logic") the one who kills proves their right to survive over their defeated enemy, and gains power from that act. Upon being Taken the Knight loses the ability to feed their worm and grow that power; instead, all of that goes to the Taker, [[Oryx]], who receives it directly instead of through the hierarchy of ''Thrall > Acolyte > Knight/Wizard > Ascendant Hive > Hive God''. | ||
**This is both a punishment and an honor,<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], Item Description, [http://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/take-the-wanted-6 Take the Wanted]''</ref> as the Knight is forced to serve against his will, unable to think or act idependently from Oryx's will; on the other hand, it is a sort of apotheosis, the perfection of the Hive way of life: the perfect warrior, the Final True Shape. | **This is both a punishment and an honor,<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Item Description, [http://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/take-the-wanted-6 Take the Wanted]''</ref> as the Knight is forced to serve against his will, unable to think or act idependently from Oryx's will; on the other hand, it is a sort of apotheosis, the perfection of the Hive way of life: the perfect warrior, the Final True Shape. | ||
*Taken Knights were formerly named Ripper during production of The Taken King. | *Taken Knights were formerly named Ripper during production of The Taken King. | ||