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Based on their remains, the Ahamkara were believed to be avian or draconic in appearance, possessing scales, feathers and sharp beaks.<ref name="Activision"/> Various armor pieces adorned with supposed Ahamkara bones suggest that they had skulls with fanged jaws, with the lower jawbone being split down the middle, not unlike a pair of arthropod mandibles. Notable differences in bone structure can be observed between the skulls of young and Dire Ahamkara, suggesting significant developmental changes throughout their lifecycle. [[Lord Shaxx]] has a gigantic skull hanging above his station in the Tower following the Red War, which has the split jaw and reptilian characteristics associated with other Ahamkara skulls, but otherwise looks quite different again. | Based on their remains, the Ahamkara were believed to be avian or draconic in appearance, possessing scales, feathers and sharp beaks.<ref name="Activision"/> Various armor pieces adorned with supposed Ahamkara bones suggest that they had skulls with fanged jaws, with the lower jawbone being split down the middle, not unlike a pair of arthropod mandibles. Notable differences in bone structure can be observed between the skulls of young and Dire Ahamkara, suggesting significant developmental changes throughout their lifecycle. [[Lord Shaxx]] has a gigantic skull hanging above his station in the Tower following the Red War, which has the split jaw and reptilian characteristics associated with other Ahamkara skulls, but otherwise looks quite different again. | ||
According to documents recovered from the Reef, Ahamkara are in fact shape-shifters, perhaps explaining the wide variety of shapes observed in their skeletal remains. During most encounters with Guardians, they preferred dragon-like forms; [[Riven]], an Ahamkara who was befriended by Mara Sov, also typically resembled a dragon, adopting the shapes of a winged and crested beast, a "needle-nosed basilisk," or an antlered creature with tiger's paws. | According to documents recovered from the Reef, Ahamkara are in fact shape-shifters, perhaps explaining the wide variety of shapes observed in their skeletal remains. During most encounters with Guardians, they preferred dragon-like forms; [[Riven]], an Ahamkara who was befriended by Mara Sov, also typically resembled a dragon, adopting the shapes of a winged and crested beast, a "needle-nosed basilisk," or an antlered creature with tiger's paws. After her [[Taken|Taking]] and corruption of the Dreaming City, Riven manifested to the Guardian as an enormous serpentine, clawed and tentacled creature, with a fanged head covered in numerous eyes and protected by folding bone plates. | ||
Ahamkara were studied on [[Venus]] by the [[Ishtar Academy]] because of their unique genome, which contained unknown new proteins.<ref name = "Cayde Book" /> They were apparently parasitic in some sense, one of several pieces of evidence which may indicate some relationship to the [[Worms]]. <ref name = "Cayde Book" /> | Ahamkara were studied on [[Venus]] by the [[Ishtar Academy]] because of their unique genome, which contained unknown new proteins.<ref name = "Cayde Book" /> They were apparently parasitic in some sense, one of several pieces of evidence which may indicate some relationship to the [[Worms]]. <ref name = "Cayde Book" /> | ||