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| |notable=Mother of the Worm Gods<br>Powers the [[The Upended|Upended]] | | |notable=Mother of the Worm Gods |
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| {{Quote|[In the Deep, my children pay a price in servitude, for survival. In ascendance, the Hive pay a price in servitude, for power. And in the dark, I pay a price in servitude, so that others may be nurtured.]<br> <br>[It must not be in vain.]|Xita, the Nurturing Worm}} | | {{Quote|Worm Mother... though you sleep eternal, your role grand symphony persists. Legacy will be carried best I can.|[[Savathûn's Worm]].}} |
| '''Xita, the Nurturing Worm''' is the mother of the five [[Worm Gods]] worshipped by the [[Hive]]. She and her children were imprisoned within the core of [[Fundament]] by the [[Leviathan (Fundament)|Leviathan]] for eons until the [[Disciples of the Witness|Disciple]] [[Rhulk, Disciple of the Witness|Rhulk]] sought her out on behalf of [[The Witness|the Witness]], after which Rhulk used her as a source of Worm larvae to support the Hive. She was formerly used to power the [[The Upended|Upended]] aboard the [[Sunken Pyramid]], and is currently either deceased or catatonic following Rhulk's defeat. | | '''Xita, the Nurturing Worm''' is the mother of the [[Worm Gods]]. She was captured and imprisoned by the [[Disciple]] [[Rhulk, Disciple of the Witness|Rhulk]], and is currently either deceased or catatonic aboard the [[Sunken Pyramid]] following his defeat. |
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| ==Biography== | | ==Biography== |
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| ===Origins===
| | As with the other Worm Gods, Xita's origins are unknown. At some point, she and her five offspring - [[Eir]], [[Ur]], [[Xol]], [[Yul]] and [[Akka]] - were imprisoned deep within the ocean of the gas giant [[Fundament]], where they remained for millenia. There they slowly starved, cut off from any hosts from which to siphon power through the [[Anthem Anatheme]]. Eventually [[Rhulk, Disciple of the Witness]] visited them to offer a bargain: enter the service of the [[Witness]] in exchange for access to plentiful hosts in the form of the nascent [[Hive]] on the surface of the planet. Xita agreed, surrendering herself to Rhulk so that her body could be used to breed a strain of miniature Worms - so-called "larvae" - that could be implanted into hosts. Leaving her children behind in the depths of Fundament, she resided thereafter aboard Rhulk's Pyramid, where she siphoned energy from the [[Upended]] while providing a constant stream of larvae to be distributed to the Hive by Rhulk. |
| According to [[Ahsa]], Xita and the other Worms originated from a "proto-Worm" species that once lived peacefully on Fundament, before they became corrupted by the philosophy of the [[the Witness|Witness]] and began slaughtering one another in order to achieve [[paracausality|paracausal]] supremacy through the [[Sword Logic]]; Xita was presumably either one of these original Worms or one of their descendants. At some point, Xita and her five offspring - [[Eir]], [[Ur]], [[Xol]], [[Yul]] and [[Akka]] - were imprisoned within the depths of [[Fundament]], where they remained for millennia. There they slowly starved, cut off from any hosts from which to siphon power through the [[Anthem Anatheme]].
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| ===Subjugation===
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| Eventually, the Disciple of the Witness known as [[Rhulk, Disciple of the Witness|Rhulk]] visited the imprisoned Worms to offer a bargain: serve the [[The Witness|Witness]] in exchange for access to plentiful hosts for her kin in the form of the nascent [[Hive|Krill]] on the surface of the planet. Xita agreed, surrendering herself to Rhulk and leaving her children behind in the depths of Fundament. She resided thereafter aboard Rhulk's Pyramid<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Titan)#Resonant Fury Mark|Resonant Fury Mark]]''</ref>.
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| Some time after being brought aboard Rhulk's Pyramid, Xita overheard a conversation between Rhulk and the Witness, in which they discussed the Witness' plan to whisper a lie to [[Savathûn, the Witch Queen|Sathona]], one of the three daughters of the [[Osmium King]], in order to lead her and her sisters to seek out Xita's children in the planet's depths<ref>'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Armor|Armor lore]]: [[Resonant Fury Suit (Titan)#Resonant Fury Plate|Resonant Fury Plate]]''</ref>. Around this time, Rhulk used pieces of Xita's body to breed a strain of parasitic "larvae" which could be implanted within a host, and set them adrift on the Fundament ocean so that they would wash up on the shores of the Osmium Court.
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| Later, after the daughters of the Osmium King made their pact with Xita's children and became the Hive Gods [[Oryx, the Taken King|Oryx]], [[Savathûn, the Witch Queen|Savathûn]], and [[Xivu Arath, God of War|Xivu Arath]], Rhulk was tasked with keeping watch over Savathûn, and moved his Pyramid into Savathûn's Throne World. During this time, Xita was used as a source of Worm larvae to support Savathûn's Hive, and also as a source of energy for the Upended, which Rhulk planned to use to destroy Savathûn's Throne World in the event she stepped out of line.
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| ===Fate===
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| {{Quote|Worm Mother... though you sleep eternal, your role in grand symphony persists. Legacy will be carried best I can.|[[Savathûn's Worm]]}}
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| After Rhulk's defeat at the hands of the [[Guardian]]s, Xita has shown no signs of life, and is presumably either deceased or in a coma-like state. As has been seen with the other Worm Gods, however, her physical death likely means very little for her continued existence and influence on the material world. | | After Rhulk's defeat at the hands of the [[Guardian]]s, Xita has shown no signs of life, and is presumably either deceased or in a coma-like state. As has been seen with the other Worm Gods, however, her physical death likely means very little for her continued existence and influence on the material world. |
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| [[File:Xita large.jpg|thumb|360px|Xita's coiled body as seen from the [[Collection]].]]
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| ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
| *Xita is the largest Worm seen in Destiny so far, easily outclassing [[Xol, Will of the Thousands]] in size. Though he has not yet been seen, one of Xita's deceased children, [[Akka, the Worm of Secrets]] is said to had been far larger than her, as a segment of his corpse was used by [[Oryx, the Taken King]] to craft his [[Dreadnaught]]. | | *Xita is the largest Worm seen in Destiny so far, easily outclassing [[Xol, Will of the Thousands]] in size. Though he has not yet been seen, [[Akka, the Worm of Secrets]] may be yet larger, as a segment of his body was used by [[Oryx, the Taken King]] to craft his [[Dreadnaught]]. |
| *Xita is so far the only confirmed female worm. | | *Xita is so far the only confirmed female worm. |
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| | [[File:Xita large.jpg|thumb|360px|left|Xita's coiled body as seen from the [[Collection]].]] |
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| ==List of appearances== | | ==List of appearances== |
| *''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]]'' {{1st}} | | *''[[Destiny 2]]:'' ''[[The Witch Queen]]'' {{1st}} |
| **''[[Season of the Witch]]'' {{Mo}}
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
