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{{Boss infobox | {{Boss infobox | ||
|name= The Undying Mind | |name= The Undying Mind | ||
|image= [[File:UndyingMindGrimoireCard.jpg|300px]] | |image= [[File:UndyingMindGrimoireCard.jpg|300px]] | ||
|species= [[Vex]] | |species= [[Vex]] | ||
|faction= [[Sol Divisive]] <br> [[Weavers]] <ref | |faction= [[Sol Divisive]] <br> [[Weavers]] <ref>'''Bungie (2020-05-08)''', ''[[Destiny]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard,[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/the-undying-mind The Undying Mind]''</ref> | ||
|rank= | |rank= [[Ultra]] | ||
|class= [[Hydra]] | |class= [[Hydra]] | ||
|mission= [[The Undying Mind (strike)|The Undying Mind]]<br>[[Vex Offensive|Vex Offensive: Final Assault]] | |mission= [[The Undying Mind (strike)|The Undying Mind]]<br>[[Vex Offensive|Vex Offensive: Final Assault]] | ||
| | |gender= | ||
|ability= | |height= | ||
|mass= | |||
|weapon= [[Aeon Maul]] | |||
|ability= Three Shields <br> Midair Levitation <br> High Durability <br> Detonation Melee <br> Summon Blockage <br> Blinding Confluxes <br> Death Blast <br> Summon Vex | |||
}} | }} | ||
{{Quote|When the Undying Mind is threatened, its [[Precursors|ancient creators]] step through time portals to defend it, ensuring that it will continue to thrive, until the Vex once again control the [[Black Garden]].|In game description}} | {{Quote|When the Undying Mind is threatened, its [[Precursors|ancient creators]] step through time portals to defend it, ensuring that it will continue to thrive, until the Vex once again control the [[Black Garden]].|In game description}} | ||
'''The Undying Mind''' is an ancient [[ | '''The Undying Mind''' is an ancient [[Axis Mind]] of the [[Sol Divisive]] [[Vex]], serving as the final boss of its own [[The Undying Mind (strike)|aforementioned]] strike and later the main antagonist in ''[[Season of the Undying]]''. | ||
Its purpose is to protect the [[Black Garden]] from intrusion by sealing it out of space and time and restoring the [[Black Heart]]. | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
===Early | ===Early History=== | ||
{{Quote|We are starting to believe that time is home to the Vex, and somewhere in those unmappable voids dwell their undying minds.|Maya Sundaresh.}}<ref name="Grimoire">'''Bungie (2014/12/09)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Dark Below]]'', ''Grimoire: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex Axis Minds#The Undying Mind|The Undying Mind]]''</ref> | {{Quote|We are starting to believe that time is home to the Vex, and somewhere in those unmappable voids dwell their undying minds.|Maya Sundaresh.}}<ref name="Grimoire">'''Bungie (2014/12/09)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Dark Below]]'', ''Playstation 4'', ''Activision Blizzard'', ''Grimoire: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex Axis Minds#The Undying Mind|The Undying Mind]]''</ref> | ||
Long feared by the Vex, the Undying Mind was created by the [[Precursors]] eons ago and has laid dormant in the channels of the Black Garden since.<ref name="Promo">'''Bungie (2014/12/09)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Dark Below]]'', ''[https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/shacknews/assets/editorial/2014/12/Undying_Mind_strike.jpg Strike Promotional image]''</ref> The ancient Hydra gets its title from its immortal Vex programming, making it seemingly impossible to destroy permanently. Its existence had even became documented by [[Maya Sundaresh]] and the [[Ishtar Collective]].<ref name="Grimoire"/> | Long feared by the Vex, the Undying Mind was created by the [[Precursors]] eons ago and has laid dormant in the channels of the Black Garden since.<ref name="Promo">'''Bungie (2014/12/09)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Dark Below]]'', ''Playstation 4'', ''Activision Blizzard'', ''[https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/shacknews/assets/editorial/2014/12/Undying_Mind_strike.jpg Strike Promotional image]''</ref> The ancient Hydra gets its title from its immortal Vex programming, making it seemingly impossible to destroy permanently. Its existence had even became documented by [[Maya Sundaresh]] and the [[Ishtar Collective]].<ref name="Grimoire"/> | ||
===Sealing The Garden=== | ===Sealing The Garden=== | ||
{{Quote|The Black Garden may not stay among us for long. Something has begun to repair the schism torn by its destruction. Vex now flood the Garden channels to protect it. We must stop the weavers before they seal the Garden and begin to summon back its heart.|Ikora Rey}} | {{Quote|The Black Garden may not stay among us for long. Something has begun to repair the schism torn by its destruction. Vex now flood the Garden channels to protect it. We must stop the weavers before they seal the Garden and begin to summon back its heart.|Ikora Rey}} | ||
Several months after a [[The Guardian|Guardian]] found entry into the Black Garden and destroyed its [[Black Heart|heart]], the Undying Mind awakens to seal the Garden away | Several months after a [[The Guardian|Guardian]] found entry into the Black Garden and destroyed its [[Black Heart|heart]], the Undying Mind awakens to seal the Garden away from the [[Guardian]]s once more. Its secondary directives are also to restore its birthplace by summoning back the Black Heart; an act that would result in the destruction of the [[Traveler]].<ref name="Vex Invasion 1">'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]]'', ''Transcript:[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/vex-invasion-the-first-of-many The First of Many]''</ref> Deep within the garden, the ancient Vex Mind weaves the fabric of space-time around the realm while the Vex gather from across the gate network to protect it.<ref name="Promo/> | ||
Deep scans of the growing surge of Vex activity | Deep scans of the growing surge of Vex activity reaches the [[The Hidden|Hidden]] lead by the [[Warlock]] Vanguard [[Ikora Rey]]. With its readings matching no temporal functions, Ikora uncovers the ancient Mind responsible for sealing the Garden and resolves to deal with it accordingly. She begins mapping out its pathways with fragmented data from the [[Ishtar Academy]]'s archive and successfully pinpoints its hidden channels, with the aid of [[Cayde-6]] and [[Zavala]].<ref name="Grimoire"/> | ||
A fireteam of [[ | A fireteam of [[Guardians]] is dispatched to the Black Garden at Ikora's behest to face the Undying Mind, while dealing with a growing number of Sol Divisive Vex protecting it. With the ancient Mind under threat by the Light-bearing intruders, swarms of Precursors are summoned to defend it with a massive [[Divisive Oculator]] barring the way. The Guardians kills the [[Cyclops]] and its Precursor army as they proceed to an open Vex gateway and disrupt the nearby [[Conflux|Confluxes]]. The Undying Mind is successfully drawn out of the gateway along with armies of Precursors to defend it, but it is destroyed nonetheless. | ||
True to its name, the Undying Mind would not stay dead for long. It would | True to its name, the Undying Mind would not stay dead for long. It would came back from its destruction to seal the Garden yet again, forcing fireteams of Guardians to confront the immortal Vex mind for no end until the events of the [[Red War]]. The arrival of the [[Red Legion]] would push the [[Cabal]] to retake the [[Meridian Bay]] and destroy the only gate to the Black Garden, sealing it off once more and completing the Undying Mind's objective for it.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]'', ''Activision Blizzard'', [[Ghost Scans]]: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/ghost-scan-the-cistern-nessus-3 The Cistern, Nessus, 3]''</ref> | ||
===Season of the Undying=== | ===Season of the Undying=== | ||
{{Quote|When Guardians last faced the Undying Mind, the Vex were trying to seal the Garden to resurrect the Black Heart. The object of their worship. Darkness incarnate. I wonder if that's still the case… or if the Pyramid forced a change of priority.|Ghost}} | {{Quote|When Guardians last faced the Undying Mind, the Vex were trying to seal the Garden to resurrect the Black Heart. The object of their worship. Darkness incarnate. I wonder if that's still the case… or if the Pyramid forced a change of priority.|Ghost}} | ||
An undetermined amount of time | An undetermined amount of time passes within the Garden as it and the Vex within lies patiently in wait for the [[Darkness]] to return power to them both. During then, the inactive Undying Mind became buried in a barrow of flora growing around it. During the events of "''[[Shadowkeep Campaign|Shadowkeep]]''", however, Darkness returns to the realm in the form of the [[Pyramids]], which have sent a distant pulse throughout the Black Garden empowering it yet again. The Undying Mind likewise wakes from its barrow in response as well. With their faith rewarded, Vex [[Goblin]]s write more circuits to weld to the Mind, building it up to take advantage of its newfound power.<ref name="Realis">'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]]'', ''[[Lore]]: [[Lore:Aspect|Aspect]] - [[Lore:Aspect#Realis|Realis]]''</ref><ref name="Irrealis">'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]]'', ''[[Lore]]: [[Lore:Aspect|Aspect]] - [[Lore:Aspect#Irrealis|Irrealis]]''</ref> | ||
The Mind | The Undying Mind re-establishes itself after a group of Guardians launched an [[Garden of Salvation|excursion]] through a [[Embrace|gateway]] found on [[Luna]] and destroyed the [[Consecrated Mind, Sol Inherent|Sol]] [[Sanctified Mind, Sol Inherent|Inherent]] Minds. With the Black Garden lying open yet again, the ancient Mind directs the [[Sol Divisive]]’s activity in an ongoing [[Vex Offensive|effort]] to claim the Moon for the Vex; drawn to the [[Pyramid (Luna)|Pyramid]] buried beneath its surface.<ref name="Eyes On The Moon">'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]]'', ''Transcript: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/vex-invasion-eyes-on-the-moon Eyes on the Moon, Vex Invasion]''</ref> In addition, it began hiding in multiple co-occurrent timelines, making copies of itself in hundreds upon thousands of different realities.<ref name="Patternbreaking">'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]]'', ''Transcript: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/vex-invasion-patternbreaking Patternbreaking, Vex Invasion]''</ref> | ||
The Mind was considered unreachable until [[Ikora Rey]] began constructing a modified Vex gate built from Vex chasis components. This allow the Guardians to draw the ancient Hydra out of the timelines it established and destroy it once again. However, as multiple copies of the Undying Mind existed in the timeways, the Guardians had to pull every single copy one at a time until all were destroyed. With the destruction of every copy, the Guardians have changed history from the Vex future to a future of annihilation<ref>[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/a-disturbance-on-mercury?highlight=Undying a disturbance on mercury]</ref>, the Vex's [[Corridors of Time|timeways]] eventually became unstable, prompting the [[Cabal]] [[Red Legion]] to hijack [[Osiris]]' [[The Sundial|Sundial]] and attempt to change history. | |||
==Gameplay== | ==Gameplay== | ||
{{quote|Interesting, undying, huh? What do you suppose they meant by that." <br> "I'll alert the Speaker. Let's find out.|[[Cayde-6]] and [[Zavala]]}} | {{quote|Interesting, undying, huh? What do you suppose they meant by that." <br> "I'll alert the Speaker. Let's find out.|[[Cayde-6]] and [[Zavala]]}} | ||
The Undying Mind is a unique Hydra in that it has three shields instead of one. When it first spawns, the passage which the player came from will be blocked, ensuring that there is no escape. It also | The Undying Mind is a unique Hydra in that it has three shields instead of one. When it first spawns, the passage which the player came from will be blocked, ensuring that there is no escape. It also has the ability to "detonate" when a Guardian gets too close, instantly killing them, and can summon endless waves of reinforcements, and while doing so, two vertical confluxes will send out blinding waves of energy to disorient [[Guardians]]. It is otherwise functionally identical to Hydras in that it is capable of blasting through a Guardian's shield very quickly with its [[Aeon Maul]]. | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
< | <GALLERY> | ||
File:Undyingmind.jpg|The Undying Mind in Destiny 1. | File:Undyingmind.jpg|The Undying Mind in Destiny 1. | ||
File:Undying Mind D2.jpg|The Undying Mind in Destiny 2. | File:Undying Mind D2.jpg|The Undying Mind in Destiny 2. | ||
File:Undying Mind D2 Model.jpg|Destiny 2 Model. | File:Undying Mind D2 Model.jpg|Destiny 2 Model. | ||
</ | </GALLERY> | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*While the Undying Mind's [[Aeon Maul]] blasts are orange-colored ([[Solar]]) the killcam clearly shows they are the same as ordinary [[Torch Hammer]]s or [[Aeon Maul]]s ([[Void]]). This may be a developer oversight. | *While the Undying Mind's [[Aeon Maul]] blasts are orange-colored ([[Solar]]) the killcam clearly shows they are the same as ordinary [[Torch Hammer]]s or [[Aeon Maul]]s ([[Void]]). This may be a developer oversight. | ||
*The Undying Mind is the third Axis Mind to return. [[Sekrion, Nexus Mind]] and [[Dendron, Root Mind]] being first and second respectively. | *The Undying Mind is the third Axis Mind to return. [[Sekrion, Nexus Mind]] and [[Dendron, Root Mind]] being first and second respectively. | ||
*The Undying Mind's appearance in Destiny 2 has been slightly altered, bearing a resemblance to [[The Templar]]. | *The Undying Mind's appearance in Destiny 2 has been slightly altered, bearing a resemblance to [[The Templar]] in D1. | ||
*Despite the Undying Mind being part of the Sol Divisive, [[Precursors]] are seen protecting it in [[Destiny|Destiny 1]]. This may show the desperation of the Vex to keep the Undying Mind active as to bring forth models from other times to protect it. | *Despite the Undying Mind being part of the Sol Divisive, [[Precursors]] are seen protecting it in [[Destiny|Destiny 1]]. This may show the desperation of the Vex to keep the Undying Mind active as to bring forth models from other times to protect it. | ||
*The Undying Mind is one of the few characters in Destiny that the player canonically kills multiple times. | *The Undying Mind is one of the few characters in Destiny that the player canonically kills multiple times. | ||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||
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*''[[Destiny]]'' | |||
**''[[The Dark Below]]'' {{1st}} | |||
**''[[Rise of Iron]]'' | **''[[Rise of Iron]]'' | ||
*''[[Destiny 2 | {{Col-2}} | ||
**''[[Season of | *''[[Destiny 2]]'' | ||
**''[[Season of the Undying]]'' | |||
**''[[Season of Arrivals]]'' {{Mo}} | **''[[Season of Arrivals]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Enemies]] | [[Category:Enemies]] | ||
[[Category:Vex]] | [[Category:Vex]] | ||
[[Category:Characters]] | [[Category:Characters]] | ||
