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[[File:Grimoire Books of Sorrow.jpg|thumb|250px|Cover of the Books of Sorrow Grimoire. <br><br> The emblem of the Darkness is superimposed over a Calcified Fragment; in the background can be seen the faint outline of a pillar inside the Dreadnaught.]]

{{Article quote|I will prepare a book, which is a map to a weapon. And my vanquisher will read that book ''[...]'' and then they will take up my weapon, and they will use it, ''[...]'' and armed thus with my past, and my future, and my present ''[...]'' they will become me ''[...].'' Thus I will live forever.}}

==Summary==

# ([[Books_of_Sorrow#Calcified_Fragments:_Curiosity|Curiosity]] - [[Books_of_Sorrow#XIX:_Crusaders|XIX]]) Twenty of the Verses detail the lives of the proto-Hive sisters Xi Ro, Aurash, and Sathona on Fundament, their meeting with the Leviathan and the Worm Gods, eventual dominion over the Jovian world and destruction of the Ammonites. They emerge as Xivu Arath, Auryx, and Savathûn. In the process they discover the Ascendant plane and begin the hunt for the Traveler.

==Named entities==

===Characters===

*[[Crota, Son of Oryx]]

*[[Helium King]]

*[[Ir Halak, Deathsinger]]

*[[Leviathan (Fundament)|Leviathan]]

*[[Osmium King]]

*[[Quria, Blade Transform]]

*[[Tai Emperor Raven]] {{C|Perfect Raven}}

===Organizations===

*[[Dakaua]]

*Harmony species

*[[Qugu]]

*[[Stormjoy]]

*Deathsong {{C|[[Deathsinger]]}}

*[[Dreadnaught]]

*[[Oversoul]]

*[[Taken]]

===XXXIX: open your eye : go into it===

Quria summoned warrior Vex and set them against Oryx's horde, killing thousands of his Thralls and Acolytes, while securing their portal into the High War. Quickly, they were able to establish themselves as a considerable power in the throne world while avoiding Crota. His sisters, however, created an Annihilator Totem with their fellow Wizards and started destroying Vex, ordering Crota to fix the hole he made before they discovered it was fortified.

===XL: An Emperor For All Outcomes===

   

Crota fought and did win. Over time his legend grew, leaving tales of his might behind him as he made his way through the ages. While initially furious with Oryx (complaining about him to those who survived his rampages), he eventually understood his father better and built temples and monuments on his crusade, spreading the Hive further.  

===XLIII: End of Failed Timeline===

    

    

The simulation screams at her older self as to the fate of their sisters and people. Oryx only answers by Taking Quria. A description of the Taking process from the victim's view is described, as black fire and starlight enfolding its sight.

The Hive begin their assault of the Gift Mast.  

   

Meanwhile, as the main battles raged, Oryx grew broods in hidden areas of the accretion disc, safe from detection. Aiding his sisters, and to advance his own forces, he sent meteors raining down on the Harmony worlds in distraction, Hive seeders among them. At this point war has become routine and efficient. It is also mentioned that this is the center of the "fifth" Book of Sorrow.

===XLVIII: aiat, aiat, aiat, aiat, aiat===

   

His thoughts move to his sisters. He wondered what new strength they might have found in their time apart, and questioned if he might have to kill them permanently if they have grown too powerful. He believed the only real relationship that matters is the attempt to destroy, and commended it. Oryx then thinks of his Taken. Against Savathûn's unspoken accusations, Oryx believed Taking brought his victims closer to the Deep, and that it is the will of the Deep to have strong life free of restraints: existence and uniqueness is the only right, and that nonexistence and sameness is the only wrong, in the end.   

   

Oryx chose to write the Books of Sorrow to guide his killer, to teach them of who he was and where he came from, so they could better understand him. It would also teach them how to craft a weapon, one that will take all it can and is bound in malice, a symbol of all Oryx is, was, and will ever be. And when his killer uses that weapon, they will mantle Oryx (harkening back to [[Books_of_Sorrow#XXXVII:_shapes_:_points|Verse XXXVII [37]]], where Ir Anûk is said to have done this by imitating her father), carrying on his will and allowing Oryx to live forever as a guiding principle along the path to the final shape.

==Trivia==

*The Books of Sorrow were authored by {{Plain|[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Seth_Dickinson Seth Dickinson]}}, who has written ''{{Plain|[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Traitor_Baru_Cormorant The Traitor Baru Cormorant]}}'', and is also active in /r/DestinyTheGame and /r/DestinyLore.

*Verse XXXVIII (38) details the discovery and creation of the [[Oversoul]], the description of which is similar in concept to a {{Plain|[https://www.pottermore.com/explore-the-story/the-horcruxes Horcrux]}} from ''{{Plain|[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Harry_Potter Harry Potter]}}'' or a lich's {{Plain|[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Lich_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)#/Ecology phylactery]}} from {{Plain|[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Dungeons_%26_Dragons Dungeons and Dragons]}}.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXXVIII:_The_partition_of_death|XXXVIII: The partition of death]]''{{Quote|We propose a method by which Ascendant souls can be detached and integrated into a tautological and autonomous thanatosphere, which we tentatively term an oversoul. Oversouls can be stored in a throne world as a mechanism of enhanced death resilience. As a side effect, new refinements to our Deathsong may be achieved, moving us closer to a generally effective paracausal death impulse.<br> [...] <br> "If we can separate our deaths from ourselves, and hide them, we will be hard to kill.|[[Ir Anûk, Deathsinger|Ir Anûk]] and [[Ir Halak, Deathsinger|Ir Halak]]}}</ref>

*Oryx's definition of life as "cellular automata" may be a reference to {{Plain|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life Conway's Game of Life]}}. This is repeated by the Grimoire Card for [[Echo of Oryx]] where he makes reference to ''"shapes and gliders, automata all"''<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Exalted_Hive#Echo_of_Oryx|Echo of Oryx]]''</ref>. The Game of Life is a cellular automaton, and "gliders" are a category of pattern frequently generated by it.

*#"''Paracausal''" is a term created for the Books of Sorrow. ''Para-'' is a prefix meaning "beside; adjacent to", while ''causal'' refers to the physics of cause and effect. Paracausal is not the same as ''acausal'', which is the opposite of causality with the Greek prefix ''a-'' ("not, without"). ''Paracausal'' thus means the Light and the Darkness obey physics which ignore or sidestep conventional cause-and-effect systems.  

*#"''Ontopathogensis''" is a compound of three separate Greek words. The prefix ''Onto-'', meaning "a being, individual; being; existence". The prefix ''Patho'' comes from ''Pathos'', a Greek word meaning "suffering; diseases". ''Genesis'', meaning "beginning" or "creation". ''Pathogenesis'' refers to the process that leads to disease in an organism. ''Ontopathogenesis'' therefore literally means "existence disease". This is consistent with the {{Plain|[http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Ontopathogenesis Superpower Wiki]}} description of the same term, "infect[ing] the very nature of the subject's existence", not unlike the Ecumene's description of "physically illegal abilities".

*#"''Thanatos''" is the Greek god of death, derived from the Greek prefix ''thanat-'', which means death.

*#The verb "''Aiat''" (or ''āiat'') is the "third-person singular present active subjunctive" of ''āiō'', which is Latin for "to say". This phrase is used by Oryx when speaking law or defining a new reality.

==List of appearances==

*''[[Destiny 2]]'' {{Mo}}

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

**''[[The Witch Queen]]'' {{Mo}}

**''[[Lightfall]]'' {{Mo}}

**''[[Season of the Witch]]'' {{Mo}}

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