Atheon, Time's Conflux

Atheon, Time's Conflux
Biographical information
Species:	Vex
Faction:	Vex
Rank:	Axis Mind
Class:	Minotaur
Combat information
Mission:	Vault of Glass
Weapon(s):	Torch Hammer
Abilities:	Time Travel

Atheon, Time's Conflux is a massive Vex Minotaur and the final boss of the Vault of Glass. It is difficult to decipher what exactly Atheon is, whether it is the creator of the vault or its creation. What is clear is that Atheon has powerful control over time, able to send Guardians into the distant past or future at will. It is the center of the Vex Conflux network, which extends across space and time, as part of a larger project to try and give the Vex control over reality itself. Atheon is suggested to be the key to unlocking the Vex.

Gameplay

Once a player reaches the Vault of Glass and defeats the gatekeepers, the mighty Glass Throne will awaken and spawn Atheon. Atheon will immediatly move towards the center of its platform, firing its Torch Hammer at all Guardians in sight. After a minute or so after Atheon's awakening, it will send three random Guardians into the Timestream, and they will be plunged into either the past or future. Atheon will then go into a statue-like state, sending armies of Supplicants at the remaining players on the outside. At low health, Atheon's Torch Hammer will fire much faster and have a much larger blast radius. Atheon's weak spot is the ball of light underneath its chest.

Trivia

• The name Atheon is derived from Atheos, which roughly means "atheist". This appears to be in conflict with the Vex's apparently religious nature.
• An alternative hypothesis argues that the name of Atheon is actually a combination of the latin word Atheos, in addition to the word Eon, which measures the duration of 1,000,000,000 years. When paired together, this then creates the name of Atheon, in effect, translating as either that which does not believe in time, or that which is capable of removing itself from time altogether. This latest definition appears to pair well with Atheon's ability to transport guardians throughout the Vault of Glass, a region of space-time that has somehow been secured against the progress and the decay of normal space-time. It also works well as an internal exposition about the overall magnitude of Vex powers, reinforcing the games existing narrative that the Vex can transport themselves to any place in the known universe, can simulate encounters in regular space-time with near perfect accuracy, and somehow have learned how to take pieces and parts of perceptual reality and grant them their own dark zones where time no longer effects the radioactive decay of that matter.

List of appearances

• Destiny (First appearance)