Editing The Undying Mind

|faction= [[Sol Divisive]] <br> [[Weavers]] <ref name="UM">'''Bungie (2014/12/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Dark Below]] - [[The Undying Mind (strike)#Transcript|The Undying Mind]]''</ref>

|rank= [[Vex Mind]] <br> [[Ultra]]

|weapon= {{icon|Solar}} /{{icon|Void}} [[Aeon Maul]]

|ability= Rotating Shields <br> Midair Levitation <br> High Durability <br> {{icon|Kinetic}} Detonation Melee <br> Summon Blockage <br> Blinding Confluxes <br> {{icon|Solar}} Death Blast <br> Summon [[Vex]] <br> Summon [[Gate Technician]]s {{C|D2}} <br> Repair Gate Network {{C|D2}} <br> Immunity Shield {{C|D2}}

 

'''The Undying Mind''' is an ancient [[Vex Mind]] of the [[Sol Divisive]] [[Vex]], serving as the final boss of the [[The Undying Mind (strike)|eponymous]] [[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 to restore the [[Black Heart]].  

===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:Enemies/Vex Axis Minds|Vex Axis Minds]]: [[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"/>

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 in [[Darkness]] once more. Its secondary directives are also to restore its birthplace by summoning back the Black Heart; an act believed would destroy the [[Traveler]].<ref name="Vex Invasion 1">'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]] - [[Ikora Rey]]: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/vex-invasion-the-first-of-many "The Vex have resurrected an ancient Hydra that we call "The Undying Mind." The name says it all, really. We've fought it many times before. Its primary directive is to take control of the Black Garden. Its secondary directives could result in the destruction of the Traveler."]''</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 would reach 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 [[Guardian]]s 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 kill 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.<ref name="UM"/>

True to its name, the Undying Mind would not stay dead for long. It would come 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]].<ref name="UM"/> 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]] - [[Ghost Scans]]: [[Ghost_scan#Arcadian_Valley.2C_Nessus|NE-CST-4]]''</ref>

An undetermined amount of time would pass outside the timeless Garden as the Sol Divisive Vex lie patiently in wait for the [[Witness]] to return power to them. During this time, the inactive Undying Mind became buried in a barrow of flora growing around it. Their prayers would be answered as Darkness returned to their realm in the form of a distant pulse sent across space-time by the [[The Lunar Pyramid|Lunar Pyramid]]'s awakening, empowering the Vex within the Garden yet again and causing the Mind to stir once more. With their faith rewarded, Vex [[Goblin]]s write more circuits to weld to the Mind, building it up to take advantage of their newfound power.<ref name="Realis">'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]] - [[Lore:Aspect|Aspect]]: [[Lore:Aspect#Realis|Realis]]''</ref><ref name="Irrealis">'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]] - [[Lore:Aspect|Aspect]]: [[Lore:Aspect#Irrealis|Irrealis]]''</ref>

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.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]] - [[Garden of Salvation]]''</ref> With the Black Garden lying open yet again, the ancient Mind directs the [[Sol Divisive]]'s activity in an ongoing [[Vex Invasion|invasion]] to claim the Moon for the Vex; drawn to the [[The Lunar Pyramid|Pyramid]] buried beneath its surface.<ref name="Eyes On The Moon">'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]] - [[Eyes on the Moon]]''</ref> In addition, it began hiding in multiple co-occurrent timelines, making copies of itself in hundreds upon thousands of different realities to evade the Guardians.<ref name="Patternbreaking">'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]] - [[Ikora Rey]]: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/vex-invasion-patternbreaking "If we could kill it now, we would secure Luna from the Vex. But the Mind is moving between timelines, making copies of itself in hundreds upon thousands of different realities."]''</ref>

The Mind was considered unreachable until [[Ikora Rey]] constructed a modified Vex gate built from Vex components, which she and Zavala had tested by killing two dozen of its copies.<ref name="To Destroy a Mind">'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]] - [[Ikora Rey]]: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/to-destroy-a-mind The portal works. Zavala and I tested it ourselves - two dozen times. That's two dozen timelines where the Undying Mind will never return. Still. Hundreds, thousands more timelines remain.]''</ref> 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 summon every single copy one at a time until all were destroyed in a matter of weeks.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/09)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]] - [[Vex Offensive]]''</ref>

 

Following the destruction of the Undying Mind, however, [[Osiris]] discovered that the Guardians had irrevocably changed the Vex's projected futures in the [[Infinite Forest]], with all simulated futures ending with the Sol System being plunged into a near-lightless void, the Traveler having vanished, and the Last City having been replaced by an obsidian monolith.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/12/4)''', ''[[Weblore:Season of Dawn]] - [[Weblore:Season of Dawn#Actions of Mutual Friends|Actions of Mutual Friends]]''</ref>

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 can "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  [[Guardian]]s. 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]].

 

*The Undying Mind's appearance in Destiny 2 has been slightly altered, bearing a resemblance to [[The Templar]].

*''[[Destiny]]: [[The Dark Below]]'' {{1st}}

**''[[Rise of Iron]]''

*''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]]''

**''[[Season of Dawn]]'' {{Mo}}

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