{Extracted From Lore Book, "The Taken Huntsman" Chapter, "Rise pt.1"}

It all began with Aurash and her will to survive, and to feed her worm in service of the Deep.

The story of the Worm Gods and the likes of Aurash, Sathona, and Xi Ro are told in the Books of Sorrow, and to tell them again would simply be a waste of time, so let us only recall a summary of the story of Aurash, the eldest of the three sisters.

She would eventually become he as Aurash took in a worm born of the Deep and renamed himself to be Auryx. It was only later, in the midst of searching for an answer to their war on Fundament, that his name would become one we recognized. A name that we feared.

For it was later that Auryx would slay the Worm God Akka and carve out the Tablets of Ruin, the incantations on them gathered from what remained of the Worm of Secrets. It was only then that he would become Oryx, the Taken King.

His power to take was given to him by the Deep, inscribed on these tablets, so that he may continue to serve his Gods and feed the worm that gnawed at him like a disease, and it was this power that would ruin the life of the Wolf Tempered in the many centuries to come.

The Wolf Tempered was a man of legend among the ranks of the Risen, the undead soldiers of the Traveler and its city. The slayer of the black heart and the captor of the Fallen Kell, Skolas, were but pebbles in comparison to the mountain of Crota, the Hive prince and son of Oryx.

But alas, Crota would too fall to the might of him and his Risen comrades, his mighty pack.

The fall of the Hive prince spawned much celebration in the hearts of the city the Wolf Tempered watched over, but it would also spawn hubris in the wolf himself. It would be a sense of unending power and invincibility, and it would blind him to the rage of the Taken King.

As such, not even he was prepared when the Taken King arrived in his home.

The Wolf Tempered would once again end up victorious however. With the assistance of Cayde-6, Exturn-1638, Lance Nightshade, and Krillin the Lone, no Dreadnaught was impenetrable for the great wolf and his mighty pack, and the Taken King would soon fall like all did before him.

The king's sword would fall and shatter, but not before Oryx committed one final sin and took his very own essence, casting his form into the Ascendant realm so that he may continue to live and prosper.

Again, the hubris of the Risen and of the Wolf Tempered himself would be their downfall, the bait in the trap of the Taken King, for they entered his Ascendant plain with victory assured in their minds. Their hubris only grew as Oryx's brood was carved through, and it would only stop with the fall of the Taken King himself.

It was all but the Wolf Tempered who fell to Oryx's trick, his "final stand", as none expected it. Only the mighty will of the wolf would keep him standing against the might of Oryx's own, but the fight was over.

Only a miracle of the paracausal could save the fallen Risen as they laid lifeless below the laughing visage of the Taken King and the broken form of the Wolf Tempered. The king knew that, and his own hubris was shown in the form of arrogance, and it was this arrogance that would lead to the true fall of a king.

For it was in the Taken King's hubris, although earned, that he made a grave mistake, a mistake that would echo through the stars themselves, yet remain a mystery to those who could not crack the seal of the Wolf Tempered.

For it was this hubris that led Oryx, the Taken King, to take once more.

But to take a paracausal force such as a being of the Light, it was something that would lead to unforetold destruction, an incurable curse, and the end of hubris for those who heard the story of the Taken Huntsman. It was something that would turn even the starkest of midnight hair to steel, and it was something that would continue to haunt even the brightest of eyes until they were dull and lifeless.

For when the Taken King attempted to take a Guardian in his arrogance, the Deep took interest.