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{{Quote|Skolas tried to unite the Fallen Houses but failed. Who would have thought that sheer desperation would succeed where he failed.|[[The Ghost|Ghost]]}}<ref name="Desperate">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]] - [[Ghost scan]]s: [[Ghost scan#New Pacific Arcology, Titan|TM-RIG-2]]''</ref>

After [[Dominus Ghaul]] occupied the Last City, a seemingly new faction of Fallen resurfaced within the Sol System, the [[House of Dusk]]. From Ghost scans of artifacts and tactics, the House of Dusk seemed to be a merger of all the other Houses as a result of their many losses and the deaths of so many leaders forcing the Fallen to unite out of sheer desperation.<ref name="Desperate"/><ref>'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]] - [[Ghost scan]]s: [[Ghost scan#European Dead Zone, Earth|EDZ-SM-1]]''</ref>

While the Guardians wouldn't know it, the House of Dusk seemed to be secretly being controlled by the House of Kings and Uldren Sov. Dusk communications using variants of encryptions from the House of Kings and headed by Awoken symbology hinted at this.<ref>'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]] - [[Ghost scan]]s: [[Ghost scan#New Pacific Archology, Titan|TM-SW-1]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]] - [[Ghost scan]]s: [[Ghost scan#European Dead Zone, Earth|EDZ-SJC-2]]''</ref>

The emergent House of Dusk found themselves in a war with the invading [[Red Legion]] forces, later engaging in dogfights with Red Legion fleets in a dispute over the Shard of the Traveler. In addition, House of Dusk troops are battling a guerrilla war with the surviving Guardians in the [[European Dead Zone]], battling for supplies, while also battling the Vex on [[Nessus]]. They also follow the Vanguard's surviving fleet to Titan, hoping to scavenge from the fleet and the lost Golden Age facilities on the moon. Upon arriving, however, not only are they forced to fight the Vanguard's forces but also a newly discovered Hive brood that has infested the [[New Pacific Arcology]]. A three-way battle began between the Guardians, Fallen, and Hive for control of the facilities.<ref>'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]''</ref>

 

Despite the Guardians being preoccupied with the Red Legion and liberating the Last City, they didn't turn a blind eye to the Fallen's activities. After defeating Ghaul and driving the Red Legion from the City, Guardian forces began missions that started disrupting Fallen operations, leading to the deaths of numerous Servitors, Captains, Mining Crews, Fallen Walkers, valuable Ether supplies and even an Archon Priest.<ref>'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]] - [[Experimental Treatment ]]''</ref> Even so, the Vanguard still don't know who truly led the new House.

Capitalising on the lack of leadership in the post-Taken War Reef, a group of Dregs who collectively titled themselves the "Scorned Barons" banded together after they were cast out from the House of Exile.<ref name=GIBarons>[https://web.archive.org/web/20230309143734/https://www.gameinformer.com/2018/07/05/these-are-the-eight-barons-who-helped-kill-cayde-6-in-destiny-2-forsaken '''Game Informer''': ''These Are The Eight Barons Who Helped Kill Cayde-6 In Destiny 2: Forsaken'']</ref> They waged a civil war against the Fallen Houses for practising the old Eliksni ways and the terror they unleashed had grown as powerful as any Kell, even having driven the House of Wolves to extinction through the destruction of all their Servitors by the hands of [[Reksis Vahn, the Hangman]].<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Lore:Most Loyal|Most Loyal]]: [[Lore:Most Loyal#Roll Call|Roll Call]]''</ref> <ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Lore:The Lawless Frontier|The Lawless Frontier]]: [[Lore:The Lawless Frontier#Anguish, Ten-Fold|Anguish, Ten-Fold]]''</ref> They even successfully allied with a local Hive brood when [[Hiraks, the Mindbender|Hiraks]] took [[In Anânh, Brood Queen|In Anânh]] as his consort.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Broodhold]]''</ref>

A short while after the [[Red War]], [[Cayde-6]] gathered a small group of his most trusted Guardians and, with the assistance of acting-Regent-Commander [[Petra Venj]], hunted down the Scorned Barons. At a final standoff, the Barons were defeated and those not killed were thrown deep within the Prison of Elders. Only one at the scene, their Archon, [[Fikrul, the Fanatic|Fikrul]], who was shot in the chest by Cayde's [[Golden Gun]].<ref>'''[[Destiny: Cayde's Six]]'''</ref>

At some point following the Taken War, Prince Uldren, who had been corrupted by Darkness and working with the House of Kings, discovered the mortally wounded Fikrul, who was once a well-regarded Archon Priest of [[Kaliks Prime]] within the House of Wolves, but was cast out after speaking against the Great Machine and lamenting his species' dependence on Servitors for survival. Wishing to save him, [[Riven]] granted Uldren's wish and part of Uldren's Darkness transferred into Fikrul's Ether, raising him as the first of the Scorn.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Lore:The Forsaken Prince|The Forsaken Prince]]: [[Lore:The Forsaken Prince#Fanatic_.7C_Part_II|Fanatic | Part II]]''</ref>

Both Fikrul and Uldren found each other as kindred spirits, usurped Craask, and immediately took over the House of Kings. Fikrul then docked and demoted the former Kell to Dreg status before slaughtering the House in a grand betrayal as Uldren decided that the Kings were too bothersome for his ambitions. With the use of [[Dark Ether]], Fikrul began to hammer the Fallen society and raised the deceased Kings as a new undead army named the [[Scorn]].<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Lore:The Forsaken Prince|The Forsaken Prince]] [[Lore:The Forsaken Prince#Docking|Docking]]''</ref>

During the opening of the Red War, Variks watched from the Prison of Elders as the Red Legion cut a swath into the Solar System. He tried to send a warning to the Last City under the name of ''Greenraven'' but was unable to do so as the Red Legion knocked out the City's communication capabilities. He also sent a warning to the Fallen Houses, including the Kell of Kings, to convince them to help him unify and save what was left of the Eliksni. Variks watched in horror as his sensors showed the Traveler getting trapped within the [[Traveler Cage]], and the Guardians fall<ref>'''Bungie (2018/8/28)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Lore:Most Loyal|Most Loyal]]: [[Lore:Most Loyal#Splinter of Bone|Splinter of Bone]] ''</ref>.  

After the Red War, Variks was tasked with integrating a mysterious group of Fallen in the Prison of Elders. To his shock, he learned that his former friend, Fikrul, was the leader of the so-called Scorn and was allegedly responsible for killing Craask.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Lore:Most Loyal|Most Loyal]]: [[Lore:Most Loyal#Some Kind of Luck|Some Kind Of Luck]]''</ref><ref name="JU">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Lore:Most Loyal|Most Loyal]]: [[Lore:Most Loyal#Job Undone|Job Undone]]''</ref> With the last of the Kells assumed dead, Varik's hope of a united Eliksni crumbled as he locked all of the Barons into cryopod cells.

Variks asked his old friend about the whereabouts of Kaliks Prime, whom both made a pact to hide away, and if he had betrayed the last Prime to the Taken and if that was the source of his corrupted ether. Fikrul replied that Kaliks had abandoned the Eliksni altogether.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]] - [[Lore:Most Loyal|Most Loyal]]: [[Lore:Most Loyal#Revolution|Revolution]]''</ref> All the while, Uldren attempted to test Varik's loyalty with his Kell, Queen Mara Sov. However, Variks found himself thinking about the old [[House of Rain]] proverb of the ''Kell of Kells''.<ref name="WLL"/>

After much thought, Variks decided that he would become the Kell of House Judgement to unify his race. To do so, he figured that he would need to cause a prison riot so that he could abandon his service to the Awoken without being noticed. He prepared by running simulations on the prison security systems, making adjustments to them based on the simulation results and had a final talk with his [[Warden|High Servitor]], deeming it the last Warden of the Prison. He then had a final talk with Fikrul and Uldren on the day of the prison break, informing Uldren that he had more service to do. The [[Warden|Mad Warden]], acting as Variks, then sent a message through the speakers announcing a malfunction in the security system and had commenced a shutdown and reboot, which resulted in all the prison cells and cryopods opening.<ref name="WLL"/>

As the cells opened, Variks made his way through the secret passageway that Petra and Cayde used to smuggle Fikrul and Uldren into the Prison and recorded two messages to be sent through the prison's relay. The first message he recorded was with his synth voice device turned off to talk in High Speak, to give commands to those Eliksni who would answer the call of House Judgement. The second message he recorded was spoken with his synth device about the whispers he hears from all those around him of his insulting titles, and how he will become the Kell of the House of Judgement, an envoy for the Eliksni. He boarded a ship full of the prison's ether supply and was saluted by a Vandal bearing the colors of the [[House of Wolves]].<ref name="WLL">'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Most Loyal#Where Loyalty Lies|Where Loyalty Lies]]''</ref>