Editing Xivu Arath's Horde

{{Hive Brood infobox

|purpose= Serve [[Xivu Arath, God of War]]

|champion(s)= [[High Celebrant of Xivu Arath]] <br> [[Kelgorath, Risen from Bones]] <br> [[Leviathan-Eater, Bane of the Ammonites]]  

|realm= [[Black Terrace]] <br> [[Dreaming City]] <br> [[Tangled Shore]] <br> [[Ascendant Realm]] <br> [[Moon]] <br> [[Europa]] <br> [[Earth]] <br> [[Titan (moon)|Titan]] <br> [[The Pale Heart]]

|war= [[Vanguard]] <br> [[The Reef]] <br> [[House of Dusk]] <br> [[Scorn]] {{C|Dreaming City}} <br> [[Imperial Cabal]] <br> [[Lucent Brood]] <br> [[Rasputin]]

|ally= [[The Witness]] <br> [[Taken]] <br> [[Wrathborn]] <br> [[Hidden Swarm]] <br> [[Scorn]] <br> [[House of Salvation]] <br> [[The Dread]]

|encountered= [[Hunt for the Scorn]] <br> [[Hunt for the Wrathborn]] <br> [[Hunt for the Lost]]

<br> [[Battle of the War Gods]] <br> [[Skirmish of Titan]] <br> [[Clash of the Hive Gods]] <br> [[Hunt for Riven's Clutch]]<br>[[Operation Ahamkara]]

'''Xivu Arath's Horde''' or '''Xivu's Brood''', is a [[Hive]] brood which serves [[Xivu Arath, God of War]]. They appear similar to the members of [[Savathûn's Brood]] with more muscular and organic morphs compared to other Hive.

Two years following the death of her brother [[Oryx, the Taken King|Oryx]] and sometime after the [[Red War]], Xivu Arath began committing her forces to the Solar System, possibly in aid of her sister Savathûn or for her own schemes. An Ogre, [[Megor, Spawn of Xivu]], was imprisoned in the [[Prison of Elders]] had seemingly been leading a Hive cult with [[Ir Yun, Cult of Megor]] and would later break free from containment during the [[Scorn]]'s [[Hunt for the Scorn|jailbreak]].<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Mission]]: [[Last Call]]''</ref>

After the breakout, a substantial force of Hive and Taken had begun to pillage [[Awoken]] artifacts for unknown purposes. It would later be revealed that members of Xivu's own brood, [[Sugroth, Shield of Xivu Arath|Sugroth]], [[Hasaak, Venom of Xivu Arath|Hasaak]] and [[Tulkor, Ferocity of Xivu Arath|Tulkor]] were sent to both steal the artifacts and keep them out of the Guardian's reach. As the Guardians would cut through Xivu's forces, they would find out that some Taken champions, [[Crorok, Will of Xivu Arath|Crorok]] and [[Xaras, Greed of Xivu Arath|Xaras]] were apparently obedient to the war goddess with the latter being the commanding force of the Taken and Hive's pillaging schemes.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Mission]]: [[Broken Courier]]''</ref>  

After the blunder of their artifact theft, members of Xivu's own lineage, [[An Ragaar, Son of Xivu Arath|An Ragaar]],  [[Tir Balok, Daughter of Xivu Arath|Tir Balok]] and [[Xavan, Daughter of Xivu Arath|Xavan]], while aided by [[Ruithe, Sworn to Xivu Arath|Ruithe]], utilized [[Blight]]s to block communications with the Oracle Engine from both forces of the Scorn and Guardian alike. However, the Guardians would take relics dropped by Xivu's slain forces to destroy the Blights and gain entry towards the [[Spine of Keres]].<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Mission]]: [[The Oracle Engine]]''</ref>

===Lunar Nightmares===

While the Horde itself does not make an appearance during the [[Haunting of the Moon]], the [[Nightmare]] of one of her champions, [[Nightmare of Jaxx, Claw of Xivu Arath|Jaxx, Claw of Xivu Arath]], would manifest on the [[Moon]], among the many other Nightmares to be confronted by the [[Guardian]]s.

===Rise of the Wrathborn===

In a ploy to seize power in the wake of many of the celestial bodies of the system vanishing, Xivu Arath's influence in the form of her Wrathborn and the [[High Celebrant of Xivu Arath]] would appear. The High Celebrant was sent to Luna to wrest free the [[Hidden Swarm]] from [[Savathûn, the Witch Queen|The Witch Queen's]] plans and instead reform Luna in Xivu's image, a warring world where all tithes were tribute to her. The High Celebrant would have their plans thwarted by [[Osiris]], who slew the near entirety of the Scarlet Court. However, Osiris would fall and strain against the sheer will of Xivu Arath's projection, allowing the High Celebrant to mark runes around him and prepare him for his death. Osiris was saved by the sacrifice of his [[Ghost]] [[Sagira]], who self destructed to stun and halt the Hive. Osiris was greeted with little respite though, for the High Celebrant immediately sought off to hunt him, only to be thwarted again by [[The Guardian]] and the [[Uldren Sov|Crow]], forcing the Celebrant to retreat to the [[Ascendant Plane]].<ref>'''Bungie (2020/11/16)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Hunt]] - [[Mission]]: [[Trail of the Hunted]]''</ref>

[[File:HighCelebrant2.jpg|300px|thumb|Guardians battling the High Celebrant]]

With Osiris reunited with the forces of [[Light]], though mourning, the extent of the Horde's invasion was unveiled. Xivu Arath's first operation consisted in deploying [[Cryptolith]]s, organic Hive structures that borrow into the Material Plane and root themselves, calling out to nearby beings, drawing them closer to transform them into [[Wrathborn]]. These Cryptoliths started corrupting Eliksni, but quickly spread to Hive and Cabal. Commanded and aided in their spread by the High Celebrant of Xivu Arath, the Wrathborn would become Xivu Arath's vanguard in the system. To combat this threat, the Guardians agree to a partnership with [[The Spider|the Spider]], also the master of the Crow, who is, in reality, Uldren Sov revived as a Guardian. In the ensuing weeks, Xivu Arath's Horde would fight alongside the Wrathborn born of [[House of Spider]], [[House of Dusk]], and even other Hive, attempting to establish a foothold while the Guardians hunted the most powerful of them. As for the corrupted Red Legion, none were encountered, which has concerned Crow. After several weeks of tracking and eliminations, the Guardians managed to corner the High Celebrant, and with their death, the first foray of the Horde into the Solar System would be momentarily halted.<ref name="CDG">'''Bungie (2020/11/16)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Hunt]] - [[Mission]]: [[Coup de Grâce]]''</ref>

Sometime following the Hunt for the Wrathborn, Savathûn sought to undermine the Cabal homeworld of [[Torobatl]] by guising as her sister by corrupting Evocate-General [[Umun'arath]] into becoming a worshipper of Xivu Arath. Driven by obsession over war, Umun'arath undertook a Hive ritual in the capital city to summon the God of War to their planet, which was accidentally completed when [[Empress Caiatl|Caiatl, the Princess-Imperial]] slew Umun'arath, providing the blood and sacrifice needed to open a portal for Xivu Arath to cross through with her armada of [[War moon]]s and her armies of Hive.<ref>'''Bungie (2021/2/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Chosen]] - [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Empress#CHAPTER_5:_NEW_GODS|Empress CHAPTER 5: NEW GODS]]''</ref> As she [[Fall of Torobatl|invaded Torobatl]], Xivu Arath declared that the Cabal had been worshipping her for as long as they venerated war and that she had finally come to claim her "overdue" tribute.<ref>'''Bungie (2021/2/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Chosen]] - [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Empress#CHAPTER_6:_BATTLE_SONG|Empress CHAPTER 6: BATTLE SONG]]''</ref> Her never-ending forces overwhelmed the Cabal's defenses and drove Empress Caiatl to evacuate the remaining population to the remnants of her fleet and retreat to the Sol System.<ref>'''Bungie (2021/2/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Chosen]] - [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Empress#CHAPTER_7:_CORONATION|Empress CHAPTER 7: CORONATION]]''</ref>

===Corrupting the Warmind===

 

 

 

Reasoning that they can't restore Rasputin and let him use his arsenal yet at the same time, they can't allow Eramis to access the Network, the Vanguard Coalition agreed that they restore Rasputin as planned but refrain from using his Warsats. Thus, they would create a stalemate with Xivu Arath, denying her the requirements she needs for her ritual. Unfortunately, Eramis and her Splicers would manage to gain access to Rasputin's ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE protocol, the order that Rasputin created which would direct the Warsats to target the Traveler in the event it ever began to leave Earth. The Guardians raced to the control hub of the network, the orbital station, Seraph Station, to prevent this but were impeded by Eramis' forces and that of Xivu Arath's Horde, led by [[Ir Garza, Scourge of Earth]]. Despite their efforts, Rasputin destroyed the Warsat Network by sacrificing himself to activate his AURORA SACRIFICE protocol, robing Xivu Arath's requirements for her ritual.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

===Ascendant Regrouping===

During the [[Operation Ahamkara|operation]] to stop the Witness and prevent them from completing the [[Final Shape]], the Guardian would help [[Micah-10]] to do what they could to heal the [[The Traveler|Traveler]] and helping to locate several lost [[Ghost]]s. One of these [[Dark Monastery#Lost Ghosts: The Ascendant|missions]] involved finding and saving Akasha, a Ghost that had been systemically scanning Awoken territory for years and whose last known location was the Dreaming City. Together with Crow and Glint, the Guardian would traverse the portion of the Ascendant Realm where [[Priest of Incaru|Priests of Incaru]] communed in the realm and finally locate Akasha, thus recovering her data. Mara Sov, Micah and Crow would deduce from the movements across the Ley Lines, that, as Xivu Arath didn't join the Witness in its invasion of [[the Pale Heart]], she was playing to turn the forces of the Black Fleet and the Coalition against each other to gain an advantage. Xivu Arath would continue to move the Hive forces from her brood through the Ascendant Plane en masse, while Mara was focused on holding back the Final Shape and couldn't keep an eye on her city's Ley Lines, cutting her losses from her previous master and gathering her strength for the war that would follow the [[War against the Witness]]<ref name="ascendant">'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[Dark Monastery#Lost Ghosts: The Ascendant|The Ascendant]]''</ref>.

 

Another of these [[Heist Battleground: Mars#Lost Ghosts: The Past|missions]] involved finding and saving Citrine, a Ghost obsessed with Warmind hardware and whose last known location was Mars. Here the Guardian and Micah would traverse the unpredictable, ghostly time rifts that cursed the planet and sometimes would snap into focus and present a moment out of time as real as any other, despite not allowing the Guardian from actually affecting the past through time. Exploring further, Mara would have alerted them that as the Final Shape was pressed into reality the already fragile time rifts were tearing apart Mars, bringing portions of the Warmind facility from the past and making them operate in and out of their time. Micah would also detect Xivu Arath's Hive forces sent back to the planet to investigate the time anomalies and the team would confront and kill [[Kelgorath, Risen from Bones]], manifested from when he was trying to conquer the location, to prevent Xivu Arath from retrieving any functional Warmind tech while Mara would dispatch her Techeuns to seal the rift even if temporarily<ref name="past">'''Bungie (2024/6/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Final Shape]] - [[Heist Battleground: Mars#Lost Ghosts: The Past|The Past]]''</ref>.

===Hive Pantheon===

*'''[[Xivu Arath, God of War]]'''

*[[Val Ca'uor|Val Ca'uor, Bladebound to Xivu Arath]]

*[[Uorgotha, Scourge of the Deep]]

;[[Thrall]] variants

*[[D-Block Cult Thrall]]

*[[Revenant Thrall]]

;[[Cursed Thrall]] variants

*[[D-Block Cursed Thrall]]

*[[Revenant Cursed Thrall]]

;[[Acolyte]] variants

*[[Blistered Acolyte]]

*[[D-Block Cult Acolyte]]

*[[Deathtongue Chorister]]

*[[Ravagers of Xivu Arath]]

*[[Revenant Acolyte]]

*[[Unhallowed Acolyte]]

;[[Knight]] variants

*[[Apocalyptic Blade]]

*[[Arc-Charged Knight]]

*[[Barrier Knight]]

*[[Blistered Knight]]

*[[Claw of the Witness]]

*[[D-Block Cult Knight]]

*[[Eater of Light and Darkness]]

*[[Pillager of Xivu Arath|Knight Pillager of Xivu Arath]]

*[[Ravagers of Xivu Arath]]

*[[Resonant Warder]]

*[[Revenant Knight]]

*[[Shieldweaver Knight]]

*[[Splintered Curator]]

*[[Warden of Xivu Arath]]

*[[Warmonger]]

*[[Wrathborn Overseer]]

*[[Wrathful Predator]]

;[[Wizard]] variants

*[[Arc Votarist]]

*[[Crystalsinger Wizard]]

*[[Devoted Acolyte]]

*[[Festering Anchor]]

*[[Festering Brute]]

*[[Ravagers of Xivu Arath]]

*[[Revenant Wizard]]

*[[Ritualist of Xivu Arath]]

*[[Scream of Xivu Arath]]

*[[Soulfire Exarch]]

*[[Wizard of Xivu Arath]]

*[[Pillager of Xivu Arath|Wizard Pillager of Xivu Arath]]

;[[Ogre]] variants

*[[Blistered Ogre]]

*[[Claw of the Witness]]

*[[Ogre of Xivu Arath]]

*[[Pillager of Xivu Arath|Ogre Pillager of Xivu Arath]]

*[[Pressurized Saboteur]]

*[[Ravagers of Xivu Arath]]

*[[Revenant Ogre]]

*[[Unstoppable Ogre]]

*[[Warden of Xivu Arath]]

;[[Shrieker]] variants

*[[Claw of the Witness]]

*[[Revenant Shrieker]]

*[[Warden of Xivu Arath]]

 

*[[Ravenous Taken Thrall]]

;[[Taken Acolyte]] variants

*[[Hoarfrost Executioner]]

*[[Ravagers of Xivu Arath]]

*[[Ravenous Taken Acolyte]]

;[[Taken Knight]] variants

*[[Blade of the Deep]]

*[[Lost Knight]]

*[[Ravagers of Xivu Arath]]

*[[Ravenous Taken Knight]]

*[[Coral Devourer]]

;[[Taken Wizard]] variants

*[[Ravenous Taken Wizard]]

*[[Taken Shield Weaver]]

*[[Servile Wizard]]

;[[Taken Ogre]] variants

*[[Devoured Ogre]]

*[[Lost Ogre]]

*[[Hallowed Ogre]]

*[[Ravenous Taken Vandal]]

*[[Servile Vandal]]

;[[Taken Captain]] variants

*[[Eye of Xivu Arath]]

*[[Festering Brute]]

*[[Ravagers of Xivu Arath]]

*[[Ravenous Taken Captain]]

*[[Servile Captain]]

*[[Warmonger]]

*[[Ravenous Taken Psion]]

;[[Taken Phalanx]] variants

*[[Festering Anchor]]

*[[Ravenous Taken Phalanx]]

*[[Servile Phalanx]]

*[[Unstoppable Taken Phalanx]]

*[[Wrathful Interloper]]

;[[Taken Centurion]] variants

*[[Ravenous Taken Centurion]]

*[[Ravenous Taken Goblin]]

*[[Servile Goblin]]

;[[Taken Hobgoblin]] variants

*[[Overload Taken Hobgoblin]]

*[[Ravenous Taken Hobgoblin]]

*[[Servile Hobgoblin]]

*[[Wrathful Predator]]

;[[Taken Minotaur]] variants

*[[Honed Minotaur]]

 

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