Unrelated Oryx Lore and Musings (Destiny)

by Durandal, Tuesday, September 22, 2015, 17:17 (3446 days ago) @ Cody Miller

What does that make the Black Heart? Are the Vex and Hive worshipping the same thing? Seems weird that the Exo Stranger would refer to the Vex as the greatest of all evils if the Hive seem more in tune with these powers. So is it something else?

It is possible that the only reason the Vex are in the Sol system at all is an attempt to get direct access to the Darkness via the heart, rather then through it's intermediaries in the worms. This could be the result of the data obtained by Quria Blade Transform in the past. The Vex assimilation of Mercury occurs at the outset of the collapse, timed just as the darkness arrives. They are the only race noted to arrive concurrent with the darkness, and this time Oryx is not there to stop them.

Also Atheon is the needle moving through time, and we don't know the shape that comes after the needle. Oryx wanted to be master of shapes, but would presumably have to dethrone the darkness to do so, making the darkness the final shape.

I think both these shapes are the same. The Vex want to be the Darkness, Oryx wants to be the darkness. Both recognize and draw upon that power via worship.