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A Fallen resurgence occurred in the form of the House of Wolves whose Kell had returned, possibly aided by the [[Nine]], and led the Wolf Fallen in a rebellion against the Awoken. In retaliation, Mara Sov placed bounties on the Wolves' nobility while enlisting Guardians to hunt down Skolas. While investigating, the Guardians tracked the Wolf Kell to Venus who sought to gain the allegiance of the leaderless House of Winter. The Guardians found Skolas rallying the Winter after calling himself the "Kell of Kells", a prophesied warrior who would unite the Fallen and reclaim the Traveler. While the Guardians failed in their chance to capture Skolas, they began to disrupt his operations in preventing him from gaining the allegiance of the other Houses, hunted down his followers, and thwarted his attempts to gain dangerous weapons from the [[Vex]] [[Vault of Glass (location)|Vault of Glass]].  

Cornered and deprived of allies, Skolas set up a last stand at the top of the Vex Citadel with the Queen's [[Crow]]s awaiting to capture the Kell. Challenging the mad Kell, the Guardians faced off against Skolas who began using Vex Warp Gates to bring his House from across time. Despite his efforts, Skolas was defeated into submission and sent back to the Prison of Elders. There Skolas' sentence of execution was carried out by the Guardians, leaving the House of Wolves leaderless, homeless and humiliated while most of the other Houses were also weakened.

Hoping to take advantage of the Guardian's distraction that [[Oryx, the Taken King|Oryx]] and his forces have placed, two houses, in particular, sought to use the war to give themselves an advantage. The House of Devils used an upgraded Shank, [[S.A.B.E.R.-2]], to breach the [[Warmind]] [[Rasputin]]'s firewalls and gain access to his weapons. However, Rasputin sent a distress signal to the Guardians which they answered. They fought into one of Rasputin's bunkers and destroyed S.A.B.E.R.-2, securing Rasputin's defenses.

The House of Wolves, under the leadership of a renegade Archon, [[Keldar, Archon Priest|Keldar]], and a reconstructed Prime Servitor, [[Orbiks Prime]], were able to seize control of some of the underground bunkers of the Cabal on [[Mars]], taking advantage of their losses from the war. Seeking to prevent the Wolves from becoming a threat again, [[Variks, the Loyal]] enlisted the aid of the Guardians to find the Archon and the Prime Servitor and destroy them. The Guardians were successful in driving Keldar out of his hideout and locating Orbiks Prime, killing them both. The death of the Prime Servitor and the Archon left the Wolves completely leaderless and broken.

The House of Winter also took advantage of the war to successfully breach the Prison of Elders again and find a new leader. However, while they were able to liberate another Archon Priest, the Taken intercepted them and claimed the priest, turning him into [[Nixis, Hunger of Oryx]], scattering the Winters horribly. The Guardians responded to their efforts and succeeded in killing Nixis and defeating the Taken.

One year after the Taken War, a new Fallen resurgence occurred greater than ever before in the form of the House of Devils. Under the command of a new Archon, Aksis, and his followers, the Devils pillaged every Golden Age vault and lab within the Cosmodrome they could find and in their efforts, they unearthed [[SIVA]], a dangerous self-replicating nano-technology from the Golden Age produced by [[Clovis Bray (corporation)|Clovis Bray]]. The technology was then studied by the [[Devil Splicers]] who utilized the technology to augment their weapons and themselves to become more powerful than ever. Aksis was among those who infused themselves with SIVA but at a much greater level, almost becoming completely machine, and named himself [[Aksis, Archon Prime]]. In addition, the [[Splicers]] resurrected their Prime Servitor using SIVA, which became [[Sepiks Perfected]], as a means to prove the technology's worth to the rest of their House.

Hoping to learn more about the ancient technology, the Devils under the command of Sepiks Perfected attacked the [[Iron Temple]], the former stronghold of the old [[Iron Lords]] that sealed SIVA away. However, Lord Saladin, enlisting the aid of the Guardians, prevented the Devils from breaching the Temple and drove Sepiks into hiding. The Guardians were then sent to the Cosmodrome where most of it lay in ruins and the Hive driven out of their holds, thanks to the Devil Splicers. In addition, the Devil Splicers breached the wall blocking off the [[Plaguelands]] where the SIVA replication chamber, [[Site 6]], was located. After destroying the Devils' defenses and gaining vital information from a [[Clovis Bray]] database on Mars, the Guardians launched the mission to destroy the replication chamber and finish what the Iron Lords started. After fighting through the Fallen into the chamber, the Guardians initiated the self-destruct sequence but faced off against the SIVA-corrupted remnants of the Iron Lords. After a grueling battle with the corrupted remnants, putting the Iron Lords to rest, the self-destruct began and the Guardians escaped in time. With Site 6 destroyed, the Devils lost the means to produce more SIVA but their leadership remained a significant threat.

Lord Saladin and [[Shiro-4]], then tasked the newly named Iron Lords to dismantle the Devils' leadership. Their first target was the resurrected Prime Servitor, Sepiks Perfected, who remained in hiding in its former lair. Gathering a team, the Guardians breached Sepiks' defenses and battled with the Servitor once more. Despite its shielding and SIVA upgrades, the Guardians destroyed the resurrected Prime as they did two years ago, this time for good.<ref>'''Bungie (2016/9/20)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]] - [[The Devils' Lair (strike)|Sepiks Perfected]]''</ref>