Mataiodoxía

Mataiodoxía

Specifications
Type:	Chest Armor
Rarity:	Exotic
Class:	Warlock

"The moment when wings and limbs are held on tenterhooks, and the pin enters the thorax."

— Armor flavor text

Mataiodoxía is an Exotic Warlock armor introduced in The Final Shape.

Perk

Stylostixis: Targets damaged by Arcane Needle emit a suspending detonation when defeated, and landing multiple Arcane Needles on the same target immediately triggers a larger, more powerful detonation. Defeating suspended targets grants melee energy. Your Arcane Needles are strong against Barrier Champions.

Lore

The moment when wings and limbs are held on tenterhooks, and the pin enters the thorax.

The Witness has made an old friend of Darkness. It knows intimately the language of warp and weft, how to weave a spider-silk notion or slip a needle of intrusive thought into the fabric of another's mind. In its hands, the Light should be alien and inelegant, the hammer and chisel so unlike its customary tools.

But though the Witness has never wielded the Light like this before, parts of it recall a time when they made the Gardener's tools their own. But now that power is not freely given; now every stroke of the chisel is accompanied by a distant wail. A minor annoyance, at most.

The raw material is mediocre, but a true artist can paint on any canvas. The Witness has far more vision than the feckless sphere it has superseded.

-|A paean to our final work.|-

It works in broad strokes first. Cuts away the excess. Peels back the integument and lays bare the shivering, raw meat of it. In it, the Witness sees a glimpse of the sculpture trapped inside, waiting to be freed by its hand. One assistant places the pins; another wipes away the effluvia.

-|A form to teach our enemy fear. A shadow they will dread.|-

The rough grows restless. It thrashes, threatening to upset the delicate work done so far. The Witness spares it a sharp, quelling look, and it stills. Nothing may distract the auteur from its work.

Onward. It refines the form, tearing wings of muscle away from bone, carving down, down, until exposed marrow steams in the cold air. Its tempo increases, its motions grow sharper, until it is slashing wildly at its canvas. Its assistants tremble. They do not see that its expression is frozen in absolute serenity. It is as calm and clear-eyed as it has ever been, discarding yards of still-living tripe to reveal…

-|Perfection.|-

Appearance

Destiny 2: The Final Shape (First appearance)

References

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Exotic armor

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Destiny

v • d • e Helmets

Hunter	Achlyophage Symbiote • ATS/8 ARACHNID^(TDB) • Celestial Nighthawk^(HOW) • Graviton Forfeit^(TTK) • Knucklehead Radar • Mask of the Third Man • Skyburners Annex^(TTK)

Titan	An Insurmountable Skullfort • Empyrean Bellicose^(TTK) • Eternal Warrior^(HOW) • Helm of Inmost Light • Helm of Saint-14 • The Glasshouse^(TDB) • The Taikonaut^(TTK)

Warlock	Apotheosis Veil • Astrocyte Verse^(ROI) • Light Beyond Nemesis • Obsidian Mind^(TDB) • Skull of Dire Ahamkara • The Ram^(HOW) • THE STAG^(TTK)

v • d • e Gauntlets

Hunter	Don't Touch Me^(TDB) • Khepri's Sting^(HOW) • Sealed Ahamkara Grasps^(TTK) • Shinobu's Vow^(ROI) • Young Ahamkara's Spine

Titan	ACD/0 Feedback Fence^(HOW) • Immolation Fists^(TTK) • No Backup Plans • Ruin Wings^(TDB) • Thagomizers^(ROI)

Warlock	Claws of Ahamkara^(TDB) • Nothing Manacles^(HOW) • Ophidian Aspect^(ROI) • Sunbreakers • The Impossible Machines^(TTK)

v • d • e Chests

Hunter	ATS/8 Tarantella^(TTK) • Crest of Alpha Lupi (Hunter) • Lucky Raspberry

Titan	Crest of Alpha Lupi (Titan) • The Armamentarium • Twilight Garrison^(TTK)

Warlock	Alchemist's Raiment^(TTK) • Heart of the Praxic Fire • Purifier Robes^(HOW) • Starfire Protocol^(TDB) • Voidfang Vestments

v • d • e Boots

Hunter	Bones of Eao^(HOW) • Fr0st-EE5^(ROI) • Radiant Dance Machines^(TDB)

Titan	Dunemarchers^(ROI) • Mk. 44 Stand Asides^(TDB) • Peregrine Greaves^(HOW)

Warlock	Transversive Steps^(ROI)

v • d • e Class items

Hunter	Chaos Cloak^(TTK) • Cloak of Oblivion^(TTK) • Cloak of the Rising^(TTK) • Nightstalker Cloak^(TTK)

Titan	Mark of Oblivion^(TTK) • Mark of the Circle^(TTK) • Mark of the Executor^(TTK) • Mark of the Sunforged^(TTK)

Warlock	Circle of War^(TTK) • Light Beyond^(TTK) • Stormcaller Bond^(TTK) • The Age to Come^(TTK)

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Destiny 2

v • d • e Helmets

Hunter	Assassin's Cowl^(SK) • Blight Ranger^(TWQ) • Celestial Nighthawk • Cyrtarachne's Facade^(LF) • Foetracer • Graviton Forfeit^(CoO) • Knucklehead Radar • Mask of Bakris^(BL) • Mask of Fealty^(REV) • Wormhusk Crown^(WM)

Titan	An Insurmountable Skullfort • Cadmus Ridge Lancecap^(LF) • Eternal Warrior^(WM) • Helm of Saint-14^(CoO) • Khepri's Horn^(CoO) • Loreley Splendor Helm^(TWQ) • Mask of the Quiet One • One-Eyed Mask^(FSK) • Precious Scars^(BL)

Warlock	Apotheosis Veil^(WM) • Astrocyte Verse^(OPU) • Cenotaph Mask^(SotD) • Crown of Tempests • Dawn Chorus^(BL) • Eye of Another World • Fallen Sunstar^(SoP) • Felwinter's Helm^(SoW) • Nezarec's Sin • Skull of Dire Ahamkara • Speaker's Sight^(TFS) • The Stag^(CoO) • Verity's Brow^(WM)

v • d • e Gauntlets

Hunter	Aeon Swift^(CoO) • Athrys's Embrace^(BL) • Caliban's Hand^(HAU) • Khepri's Sting^(SoO) • Liar's Handshake^(JW) • Mechaneer's Tricksleeves • Mothkeeper's Wraps^(SotW) • Oathkeeper^(FSK) • Renewal Grasps^(TWQ) • Sealed Ahamkara Grasps^(WM) • Shards of Galanor^(FSK) • Shinobu's Vow^(CoO) • Triton Vice^(SotD) • Young Ahamkara's Spine

Titan	ACD/0 Feedback Fence • Aeon Safe^(CoO) • Ashen Wake^(WM) • Citan's Ramparts^(SoW) • Doom Fang Pauldrons • Icefall Mantle^(BL) • No Backup Plans^(SotL) • Point-Contact Cannon Brace^(SoP) • Pyrogale Gauntlets^(SotW) • Second Chance^(HAU) • Stronghold^(JW) • Synthoceps • Ursa Furiosa^(FSK) • Wishful Ignorance^(TFS) • Wormgod Caress^(WM)

Warlock	Aeon Soul^(CoO) • Ballidorse Wrathweavers^(LF) • Briarbinds^(SotW) • Claws of Ahamkara^(WM) • Contraverse Hold^(FSK) • Getaway Artist^(JW) • Karnstein Armlets • Necrotic Grip^(BL) • Nothing Manacles^(SotL) • Ophidian Aspect^(CoO) • Osmiomancy Gloves^(TWQ) • Sunbracers • Winter's Guile

v • d • e Chest Armor

Hunter	Gifted Conviction^(TFS) • Gwisin Vest^(FSK) • Gyrfalcon's Hauberk^(SoP) • Lucky Raspberry • Omnioculus^(SotC) • Ophidia Spathe^(WM) • Raiden Flux • Raiju's Harness^(SoW) • The Dragon's Shadow • The Sixth Coyote^(FSK)

Titan	Actium War Rig • Arbor Warden^(SotD) • Crest of Alpha Lupi • Cuirass of the Falling Star^(SotC) • Hallowfire Heart • Hazardous Propulsion^(TFS) • Heart of Inmost Light^(FSK) • Hoarfrost-Z^(TWQ) • Severance Enclosure^(SoD) • The Armamentarium^(WM)

Warlock	Chromatic Fire^(FSK) • Mantle of Battle Harmony^(SotC) • Mataiodoxía^(TFS) • Phoenix Protocol^(FSK) • Rime-coat Raiment^(REV) •Sanguine Alchemy^(WM) • Starfire Protocol • Stormdancer's Brace^(SK) • Vesper of Radius^(CoO) • Wings of Sacred Dawn

v • d • e Leg Armor

Hunter	Fr0st-EE5^(WM) • Gemini Jester^(CoO) • Lucky Pants • Orpheus Rig • Radiant Dance Machines^(SotL) • Speedloader Slacks^(LF) • St0mp-EE5 • Star-Eater Scales^(SotS) • The Bombardiers^(SoD)

Titan	Abeyant Leap^(LF) • Antaeus Wards^(FSK) • Blastwave Striders^(REV) • Dunemarchers • Lion Rampant • Mk. 44 Stand Asides^(CoO) • Peacekeepers • Peregrine Greaves^(OPU) • Phoenix Cradle^(SK) • The Path of Burning Steps^(SotS)

Warlock	Boots of the Assembler^(SotS) • Geomag Stabilizers^(FSK) • Lunafaction Boots • Promethium Spur^(SoD) • Rain of Fire^(HAU) • Secant Filaments^(TWQ) • Swarmers^(LF) • Transversive Steps

v • d • e Class Items

Hunter	Relativism^(TFS)

Titan	Stoicism^(TFS)

Warlock	Solipsism^(TFS)

Mataiodoxía

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