A Small Aside (/-/ Rampant Speculation /-/)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Thursday, July 16, 2015, 19:13 (3200 days ago) @ Earendil

In that cool discussion of Rasputin there was a side tangent on where the Hive got their power. The best known example detailing where Hive Wizards got their power says:

Their strength is not their own. They draw from another force, something that corrupts, that distorts, that eats and will not be satisfied.

That's got to be Oryx, right? The Hive had a shrine to Oryx which was communing with some power outside our system. Oryx pulls creatures out of our universe, uses The Darkness to corrupt them, then sends them back as Taken. Even DestinyTheGame.com says:

A dark shadow has fallen over our worlds. Oryx, The Taken King, is hell-bent on vengeance and is raising an army of corrupted “Taken” forces by manipulating the Darkness itself.

Ikora also once remarked about The Darkness that we defeated in The Black Garden:

We must assume the abomination was part of something greater. And we cannot flinch from the terrible, obvious comparison: just as the Traveler acts through us, this power was able to act through its own servants.

So, ultimately the Hive (or perhaps just Crota's group of Hive?) drew power from Oryx who ultimately gets his power directly from The Darkness?