Tablets of Ruin

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The Tablet of Ruin from the Lightblade Strike

"Auryx the First Navigator set upon his god with his sword and his words, and cut Akka to pieces, and took from those pieces the secret of calling upon the Deep. He wrote this secret on a set of tablets, which he called the Tablets of Ruin. And he wore them about his waist.."
— Books of Sorrow #XXVIII — King of Shapes — Verse 3:8

The Tablets of Ruin are a series of Hive artifacts created by Oryx, the Taken King as a means to commune with the Witness in order to learn how to take.[1][2] The Tablets were sought after by many Hive, including the likes of Savathûn and Xivu Arath[3], even at one point, Oryx had placed one of the Tablets with Golgoroth to keep it away from his own son.[4] At an unknown point following the demise of the Taken King, Savathûn would find one of the Tablets and place it within her throne world and kept it under guard by Alak-Hul, the Lightblade following their resurrections.[5]

Trivia

  • So far two Tablets of Ruin have been acquired by the Guardians and kept under lock and key by the Hidden, the first being the one held inside of Golgoroth and the other having been acquired from Savathûn's Throne World.[6][5]

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