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{{Main|Reef Wars}}

{{Quote|We gathered to fight against our twilight, King and Devil, and Winter, all of us but us, the Wolves. Why? What kept us from the Gap? The Reef. The Queen. The slavers who played us against each other and docked us into subservience. These sly sterile un-people, these mirages with cold minds twinned to their own, these Carybdis butchers, they set us against each other. She played us. She made herself our Kell.|Skolas, Kell of Kells<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen#Ghost Fragment: Fallen 3|Ghost Fragment: Fallen 3]]''</ref>}}

The flotilla arrived at the Reef during the early [[City Age]]. After some initial encounters with the [[Fallen]] and upon receiving reconnaisance date about [[Earth]], the [[Traveler]] and the sorry state of [[humanity]], about a third of the expedition members voted to go to Earth and join the [[Last City]], despite Mara Sov's prohibition<ref name="revanche-2">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Awoken of the Reef#Revanche II|Revanche II]]''</ref>. Some of them even used salvaged Human spacecraft to flee the flotilla<ref name="revanche-3">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Awoken of the Reef#Revanche III|Revanche III]]''</ref>. Failing to keep order, Mara Sov agreed for thousands of rebels to leave and reunite with humanity on Earth; thus the next generations of the Awoken people were split into Reefborn and Earthborn. Mara Sov was proclaimed Queen of the Reef on [[4 Vesta]]; at the same time, some [[Fallen]] [[Baron]] detected ships moving towards Earth and traced their paths back to Vesta<ref name="revanche-5">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Awoken of the Reef#Revanche V|Revanche V]]''</ref>. This first major assault was repealed, but the Awoken of the Reef had to militarize and finding superior weapons to fight back. At the Queen's order, her brother [[Uldren Sov]] scoured the Solar System for "a power unknown to all the other powers of this world" and discovered a young [[Ahamkara]] called [[Riven]]; Mara Sov's covenant with this creature laid a foundation for the Reef's prosperity<ref name="tetic-2">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Awoken of the Reef#Tetic II|Tetic II]]''</ref>.  

{{Main|Dreaming City|Eleusinia}}

{{Quote|Your [[Traveler]] terraformed your planets. But the Awoken terraformed the [[Dreaming City]]. It is our creation. It is a reflection of our people - not a false gift from a skittish god.|Shuro Chi, Pilgrimage: Garden of Esila, View}}

The Dreaming City is a [[Reef]] structure of an immense scale, built on an flat disc and hidden by a massive cloaking device. A special stabilizing ring below the disc maintains the City's atmosphere, catching any escaping water and returning it back.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard'', Pilgrimage: Harbinger's Seclude, Cliffs</ref> The Dreaming City was built by Mara Sov and Techeun [[Illyn]], the Coven Mother; this artificial world was nothing but bare rocks when they started.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard'', Pilgrimage: Garden of Esila, View</ref>.  

===The Taken War===

{{Main|The Taken War}}

===Betrayal of a Prince===

Following the resurgence of [[Uldren Sov]], he led a rogue [[Fallen]] house known as the [[Scorn]] against [[The Reef]], betraying his own people, and driving the Reef-borne Awoken into complete chaos and disarray. [[Cayde-6]] was murdered in the Scorn's escape from the [[Prison of Elders]], and Reef agents were forced to work with [[Guardian]] forces to prevent the total collapse of their society.

===A Thousand Voices===

{{Quote|The Guardians killed Riven and ripped out her heart. But Ahamkara transcend death. They can transform desire into reality… even when they are nothing but bone and dust. I should have known that Riven would grant one last wish… one last curse. Now, the Dreaming City has been Taken. I opened the gates. I ordered the attack. I… should have known.|[[Petra Venj]].}}

As the Guardians and the Awoken worked together in maintaining the remaining Scorn within the Reef, the Dreaming City's opening and the darkness spreading from it was grim news for the Awoken. Knowing the danger the threat poses to the Solar System, Petra Venj was forced to reveal one to the Awoken's deepest secrets that lay within the City: [[Riven of a Thousand Voices]], the last living Ahamkara. It was soon discovered that Riven had been Taken when Oryx invaded the Reef during the Taken War and partially brought the Dreaming City into the Ascendant Realm. However, after Oryx's death, Riven was aimless but soon gained a new master, [[Savathûn]], the Witch-Queen of the Hive, and together, they sought to corrupt the homeland of the Awoken and eventually breach into the Distributary.

===The Cycle===

Though Riven was silenced once and for all, her plan succeeded as Taken forces began to heavily corrupt the Dreaming City. Worse, the Hive and Taken managed to capture [[Eleusinia]], Mara Sov's Throne World, as a staging ground. Savathûn then began the next stage of her plan by having her daughter, [[Dûl Incaru, the Eternal Return]], find a way to invade the Distributary.