Unrelated Oryx Lore and Musings (Destiny)

by someotherguy, Hertfordshire, England, Tuesday, September 22, 2015, 14:54 (3446 days ago) @ Cody Miller

• A lot of Oryx's power comes/came from his son and lieutenants. If it weren't for killing Crota and the champions at the Court of Oryx we might never have beaten him. I imagine this is why he's so angry that we killed his son - it's not sentimentality, we literally made him weaker by doing it.

I think he is drawing his power from somewhere else. His doomsday attack in the raid is labeled as 'Doxology' if it kills you. I looked it up:

"A liturgical formula of praise to God."

So it seems when he is charging his attack, he is drawing that power from a God. A Taken God? A god of the Darkness? Who knows. But it's not his underlings :-)

I guess I explained poorly. I don't mean power as in his strength, but the power that keeps him alive. The worm feeding on him demands more sacrifice than he can give it on his own, so he receives sacrifice from his Underlings to help him keep it at bay. With his underlings dead he is receiving less sacrifice, so the worm must be taking more from him.

My initial thought was that it didn't diminish his ability to kill us, but made him less resilient to death. But thinking about it we don't really know if that's how the worm works.

If nothing else, killing his underlings (particularly Crota) must have made him very aware of the fact that if he didn't deal with us his Worm might claim him. Certainly a good reason to be angry.