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| {{Race infobox
| | '''I am awake now''' |
| |name=Awoken
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| |image=[[File:Grimoire Awoken.jpg|300px]]
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| |variant=Awoken
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| |homeworld= [[The Reef]]
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| |focalworld= [[Earth]]
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| |goals=
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| |war= [[Cabal]] <br> [[Fallen]] <br> [[Hive]] <br> [[Taken]] <br> [[Vex]]
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| |distinctions=Pale blue skin <br> Glowing eyes
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| |lifespan=Immortal in the [[Distributary]] <br>Long-lived<ref group="note">(Immortal in the [[Distributary]])''"Many Awoken still alive in the present fought in the Reef Wars, which took place over 126 years ago, as the Wars were fought before the founding of the Crucible, and according to [[Grimoire:Allies/Legends & Mysteries#Ghost Fragment: Cayde-6|Ghost Fragment: Cayde-6]] the Crucible was active 126 years ago."''</ref>
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| |notable-group=[[Guardian]]s <br/> [[Royal Awoken Guard]] <br> [[Techeun]] Coven
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| |notable-person=[[Mara Sov]] <br/> [[Uldren Sov]] <br/> [[Petra Venj]] <br/> [[Commander Zavala]] <br/> [[Tyra Karn]] <br/> [[Asher Mir]] <br/> [[The Emissary]]
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| }}
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| {{quote|The others sing this song of Light and Dark. We, together, have transcended such unimaginative limitations.|Grimoire card blurb}}<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Guardian/Races#Awoken|Awoken]]''</ref>
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| The '''Awoken''' are a race of humanoids living in the [[City]] <ref>[http://www.bungie.net/en-us/destiny#page=story&panel=story-The-City '''Bungie.net''': ''The City'']</ref> and also [[the Reef]]. Ruled by a [[Mara Sov|Queen]] and her [[Uldren Sov|brother]], they were generally isolated from [[Earth]], long avoiding contact with the [[City]] until the [[House of Wolves|Wolf]] rebellion and later the [[Taken War]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPg3jWn6Nn0 '''YouTube''' - ''Official Destiny Expansion II: House of Wolves Prologue'']</ref>
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| ==Overview==
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| {{Quote|The Awoken did not have a choice. We did.|[[Xur, Agent of the Nine]]<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Xûr, Agent of the Nine]]: [[Xûr, Agent of the Nine#Quotes|Quotes]]''</ref>}}
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| Awoken are standoffish<ref>[http://gamelynch.com/previews/destiny-preview/ Gamelynch: ''Destiny Preview'']</ref> and resemble baseline [[human]]s, with the notable exception of having pale blue, purple, green, or gray skin. They also have luminescent eyes with glowing irises.<ref>'''Bungie (2014-6-12)''', ''Destiny: Alpha PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard.''</ref>
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| Beyond physical appearances, the Awoken seem to possess powers and abilities beyond their human ancestors. The [[Techeun]]s are a particularly notable example, though ordinary Awoken can also experience visions in the form of dreams.<ref>'''Bungie (2015-9-19)''', ''Destiny: House of Wolves, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies#Skolas: Defeated|Skolas: Defeated]]''</ref> This is a side effect of them being within Earth's universe-within the [[Distributary]], the Awoken do not have paracausal abilities, but are so intertwined with the fabric of its existence that they do not age past a certain point.
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| ==History==
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| ===Origins===
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| {{Quote|How did the Awoken survive?"<br>"No one knows...|The Guardian and Ghost}}
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| It is said the Awoken were born in the [[Collapse]], descended from those humans who tried to flee its wrath. Something happened to them out on the edge of the deep Black, and they were forever changed. After their race was formed, they took up residence in in the [[Asteroid Belt]], constructing cities and habitats like the [[Dreaming City (destination)|Dreaming City]]. Today many Awoken live in [[the Reef]], aloof and mysterious, but others returned to [[Earth]], where their descendants now fight for the [[City]]. Earthborn Awoken sometimes venture out to the Reef, hoping to learn its secrets—but find no special welcome from the reclusive [[Queen of the Reef|Queen]].<ref>'''Bungie (2014-6-12)''', ''Destiny: Alpha PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Guardian#Awoken|Awoken]]''</ref>
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| In ''Forsaken'', it is revealed the Awoken are the descendants of the crew and passengers of the Yang Liwei, a generation ship that left Earth shortly before the Collapse in an attempt to find a way to live without the Traveler, and thus refused to take a side when the [[Darkness]] attacked the Traveler. During the initial sparring between the two acausal entities, the ship was at the centerpiece of an anomaly in space time that sucked it and all its inhabitants into a newborn universe, the [[Distributary]], during which they lost their physical forms and reincarnated into their present ones under the direction of their captain and first queen [[Alis Li]]. Unbeknownst to Alis at the time, she was not the first to regain consciousness, but rather [[Mara Sov]] was, and it was Mara who quietly manipulated Alis into giving the Awoken physical forms that could be injured or die, as Mara believed truly omnipotent entities could not evolve or live meaningful lives. Later, Mara would lead some of her people back into Earth's universe and colonize the Reef, though some of them would go farther and emigrate to Earth itself.
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| ===Reef Wars===
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| {{Main|Reef Wars}}
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| {{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>}}
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| The Reef Wars marks the first time the Awoken emerged from their isolation. Noticing the Fallen massing to destroy the Last City in an effort to steal back the [[Great Machine]], the Queen chose to intervene and keep the oblivious outsystem [[House of Wolves]] from [[Twilight Gap|joining their brethren]] on [[Earth]].<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen_Hunted#Wanted: Skolas, Kell of Kells|Wanted: Skolas, Kell of Kells]]''</ref>
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| Striking suddenly, the Awoken fleet destroyed [[Ceres]] and scattered the Wolves across the Reef, beginning a several-year-long campaign that whittled the Fallen's numbers and nobility to insignificance. After [[Variks]], a Wolf scribe defected over to the Queen's side, the remaining Wolves were defeated and [[Skolas]], their leader, imprisoned.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen_Hunted#Wanted: Kaliks-12|Wanted: Kaliks-12]]''</ref>
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| The Queen later gifted Skolas to her allies, the [[Nine]], for their role in defeating the Fallen but they released the Wolf Kell, beginning the [[Wolf Rebellion]] and forced the Reef to open itself to [[Guardian]] access.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPg3jWn6Nn0 '''YouTube''' - ''Official Destiny Expansion II: House of Wolves Prologue'']</ref>
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| ===The Taken War===
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| {{Main|The Taken War}}
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| {{Quote|The Awoken died for us. They gave their lives to save the system, to stop Oryx's fleet at the outer planets. We must honor their sacrifice. We must face the Taken King without fear. Queen Mara has given us a gift. We must not waste it.|[[Eris Morn]]<ref>'''Bungie (2015/1/23)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Activities/The_Taken_King#The Coming War|The Coming War]]''</ref>}}
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| The Awoken were among the first to respond to Oryx's invasion. Attacking his fleet out around [[Saturn]], the Queen and her Witches sacrificed themselves to fire the [[Harbinger]]s, mysterious weapons or entities of incredible power, at the [[Hive]] [[Dreadnaught]]. Despite destroying a good portion of Oryx's fleet there were no marks made upon the flagship, and shortly thereafter Oryx ended the battle with a single blow from his cannon.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[The Coming War]]'' </ref>
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| Despite a significant loss of Reef leadership, including the Queen and a missing Prince, the Reef aided the City and its Guardians in destroying Oryx's [[Taken]]. Setting bounties upon several lieutenants the Reef oversaw their extermination and eventual rooting out of the Taken [[Blight]]s in conjunction with the [[Vanguard]]. During this conflict Petra Venj, Acting Regent-Commander, continued to search for the missing Queen and preventing a resurging House of Wolves from regrouping on Mars. With the aid of Variks and the Guardians the nascent Wolf house was scattered again.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Prime's Path]]'' </ref>
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| ===Betrayal of a Prince===
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| 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.
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| Though the Guardian managed to topple the Scorn's chaotic reign over the Reef and brought Uldren to justice for his crimes, the Awoken's home remains a dangerous place as remnants of the Scorn's forces continue to prowl over the Reef. Petra, the remaining Paladins and Techeuns barely maintain what's left of the Awoken's Reef civilizations, even as the Scorn and a newly resurgent Taken force plague the Dreaming City, the mysterious homeland of the Awoken.
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| ===Riven's Scheme===
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| 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.
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| To accomplish her goals, Riven orchestrated the Scorn's rise to power and used Uldren as her puppet, corrupting the prince while posing as his sister. Though the Scorn failed against the Guardians, Uldren succeeded in his purpose of opening the way into the Dreaming City, giving Riven a chance to break free.
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| After confirming that Mara Sov is in fact alive, Petra and the Awoken were able to gain the Vanguard's support after the revelation of the Taken's return spurred them into action. Gathering a Raid team strong enough to kill Riven, the Guardians assaulted the Dreaming City. While proceeding through the City, the Guardians managed to free some of the Techeuns from Taken corruption and eventually confronted Riven herself in her true gigantic, draconic form.
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| Despite her vast Taken powers, Riven's physical form was destroyed and her blighted heart brought before the Techeuns to be cleansed. Unfortunately, before that could happen, Riven's scheme came full circle as she performed one last wish for her master: to curse the Dreaming City with a Taken plague.
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| ===The Cycle===
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| 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 [[Eleusina]], 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]], to find a way to invade the Distributary.
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| Wanting to prevent the birthplace of the Awoken from being invaded and defiled, Mara Sov tasks the Guardians to destroy the Hive and Taken infesting her Throne World. After a perilous struggle through the ruins of Eleusina, the Guardians managed to destroy Dûl Incaru and seemingly reverse the Taken corruption in the Dreaming City.
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| Unfortunately, this victory was short-lived, as the Taken corruption soon returned as it appeared the City was caught in a time-loop created by Quria, Blade Transform. This forces the Guardians to partake in the same battle over and over again.
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| ==Organizations==
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| * [[Corsair]]s
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| * [[Techeun]]s
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| * [[Royal Awoken Guard]]
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| * [[Master Ives|Reef Cryptarchy]]
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| ==Known Awoken==
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| *[[Earth]]
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| **[[Arach Jalaal]], Dead Orbit representative
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| **[[Commander Zavala]], Titan Vanguard
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| **[[Master Rahool]], Tower Cryptarch
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| **[[Tess Everis]], Special Orders vendor
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| **[[Tyra Karn]], Iron Temple Cryptarch
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| *[[The Reef]]
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| **[[Abra Zire]], Paladin of the Royal Armada {{c|deceased}}
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| **[[Devi Cassl]], Paladin of the Royal Army
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| **[[Hallam Fen]], Paladin of the Royal Armada
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| **[[Illyn]]—[[Techeun]] Coven Mother
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| **[[Imogen Rife]], Paladin of the Royal Armada {{c|deceased}}
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| **[[Jolyon Till]], Crow
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| **[[Kalli]], Techuen
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| **[[Kamala Rior]], Paladin of the Royal Armada
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| **[[Leona Bryl]], Paladin of the Royal Armada
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| **[[Lissyl]]
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| **[[Mara Sov]], Queen of the Reef {{c|alive in unknown location}}
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| **[[Master Ives]], Reef Cryptarch {{c|deceased}}
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| **[[Nascia]]
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| **[[Pavel Nolg]], Paladin of the Royal Army {{c|deceased}}
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| **[[Petra Venj]], Acting Regent-Commander
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| **[[Pinar Venj]], Amethyst Techuen Coven leader {{c|deceased}}
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| **[[Portia]]
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| **[[Sedia]], Techeun
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| **[[Shuro Chi]], Techeun
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| **[[Uldren Sov]], Prince of the Reef and Master of Crows {{c|deceased}} {{c|revived as a Lightbearer}}
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| **[[Yasmin Eld]], Paladin of the Royal Awoken Guard {{c|deceased}}
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| *[[Io]]
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| **[[Asher Mir]], [[Vex]] Researcher
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| *[[Unknown Space]]
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| **[[The Emissary]], Representative of the [[Nine]]
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| ==Technology==
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| *[[Crow (device)|Crows]]
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| *[[Martian Navcore]]
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| ==Notes==
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| <references group="note"/>
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| ==Trivia==
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| *Joe Staten and Christopher Barrett described the Awoken as being beautiful, exotic, and mysterious. They mentioned the team looked at elves, vampires, ghosts, and angels to "capture that exotic, sort of ethereal feel".<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfqFiyIhrb4 '''YouTube''', ''Destiny - News GDC Panel'']</ref> They have been described as being of "otherworldly origins."<ref>[http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/28/destiny-hands-on-bungie-xbox-playstationshared-world-shooter '''The Guardian''': ''How the Makers of Halo Plan to Change the Future of Shooters'']</ref>
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| *The Awoken once ruled [[Mars]],<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Long_Tomorrow_9G#Chest|Long Tomorrow 9G Chest]]''</ref> explaining the reasoning behind [[Valus Trau'ug]]'s unsanctioned attack.
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| ==Gallery==
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| <Gallery>
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| File:Awoken2.jpg
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| File:Grimoire Awoken.jpg|Grimoire card
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| File:Awoken hunter.jpg|Concept art of an Awoken female [[Hunter]].
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| File:E3 awoken.jpg|[[Commander Zavala]], Awoken [[Titan]] [[Vanguard]].
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| File:Grimoire The Queen.jpg|[[Mara Sov]], Queen of the Reef
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| File:Destiny-PetraVenj-Closeup-crop.jpg|[[Petra Venj]], member of the [[Royal Awoken Guard]]
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| File:awokenforest.jpeg|Early concept art from ''Destiny's'' development as a fantasy game.
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| File:Awokengame.png | [[Prince Uldren Sov]], brother to [[Mara Sov]]
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| File:Awoken Avatar.jpg|The Queen's Emissary.
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| </Gallery>
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| ==List of appearances==
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| *''[[Destiny]]'' {{1st}}
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| **''[[The Dark Below]]''
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| **''[[House of Wolves]]
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| **''[[The Taken King]]''
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| **''[[Rise of Iron]]''
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| *''[[Destiny 2]]''
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| **''[[Curse of Osiris]]''
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| **''[[Warmind (expansion)|Warmind]]''
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| **''[[Forsaken]]''
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| **''[[Shadowkeep]]''
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| ==References==
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| <references/>
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| [[Category:Races]]
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