This is a recap/information on everything that happened to Eris and her group. In case you didn't know about it all. The following is what we know about Eris and her ill-fated fireteam, what we can assume and what questions that remain to be answered. I've cited the Grimoire cards or item descriptions where possible. The Taking of the Moon Eriana-3, a Warlock, survived the great disaster. She was among the thousands that set out to retake the moon from the Hive, though this ended in their defeat and humanity abandoning the moon entirely. Crota, a seemingly invincible Hive champion, defeated them. Eriana-3 joined with Eris Morn (who had survived the Battle of the Twilight Gap) and together they tried to discover the source of Crota’s power, but they were unable to do so. Finally they sought out Toland the Shattered, a Warlock exiled for his exploration of Hive lore and considered mad by most. Eriana-3 asked three other Guardians to join them, Omar Agah (a hunter), Sai Mota (also a Hunter), and Vell Tarlowe (a Titan). Grimoire Card: Crota's End My name is Eriana-3, disciple of the Praxic Warlocks, marked by the Cormorant Seal. Survivor of the great disaster: the day we set out to retake our moon, united in a host of thousands, and found ourselves outmatched by one Hive champion of unspeakable power. The monster's name is Crota. He killed my friends face to face, one by one, and he relished it. In the name of all those lost I devote myself to his utter destruction. This is my confession. If I transgress in your eyes I ask for your forgiveness. In our world Crota seemed invincible. Together Eris Morn and I worked the problem, but found no hope. So we sought forbidden knowledge—the exiled master of Hive arcana. We found Toland. Toland tells us that Crota's presence in our world is a shadow. That its true power resides in a netherworld forged by his will. We must pass through a keyhole between realities, navigate the seething midnight of Crota's world-mind, and overthrow the ascendant champions that gather to his throne. Toland speaks—he hardly seems mad, at times—of the terrible things that await us. A secret song he hungers to learn, and the issue of that song, an ashen burning star-husk that looms above, the utter antithesis of life. He talks of it with a curious ambition I do not want to understand. Tomorrow I will ask Agah, Mota and Tarlowe if they will go with us. If we fail, I leave this record for Guardians to come. Remember us. Eris Morn Dialogue I faced the Fallen at the city's gates. I had no fear, until I stood before Crota. Crota and His World Toland told them that Crota does not reside in our material world, but instead his ‘home’ is a universe either created or remade by his own power. Some theorize that many such netherworlds exist, that Crota is simply the youngest member of a Hive pantheon made up of ancient, powerful beings and that his world is the most easily accessible. Toland claimed that he had deciphered how the Hive called to Crota and that he could gain them access. Grimoire Card: Crota, Son of Oryx (Told by Ikora Rey) Whispered lore and fragmentary theories suggest that Crota represents a distinct class of Hive entities, not resident in our material world. My latest synthesis of this scattered esoterica suggests that Crota's 'home' is a universe created or remade by his power and occupied by Hive organisms of immense age. Any Guardian formidable enough to return with information on this dark reality might help us understand the Hive's goals for our own world—and, more pressingly, such an expedition might provide the key to Crota's defeat. The epithet Son of Oryx is an ambiguous translation, often disputed. At this time, no direct action by Hive entities of more expansive power has ever been observed. Those who trade in Hive lore bicker over the exact positioning of Crota—is his world the apex of Hive power, or is it the youngest and most accessible of a string of netherworlds, each host to a more terrible Hive archentity? Grimoire Card: Rise of Crota (Told by Eris Morn) The shattered one once referred to Crota as the god holding domain in a threshold between our world and theirs. He said he deciphered the means by which the Hive call to him. From all that I've seen, I now know he was right. The Fall of Vell Tarlowe The fireteam gathered in the colony base in Anchor of Light, then struck out for the Temple of Crota. At the doors the Titan, Vell Tarlowe, fell. Verock, a witch, along with her thrall overwhelmed him. Eris: Record this. The Heart of Crota. It is her blood that feeds their fury. I thought Omar dead until I heard his screams. I followed them down, to the darkest night of the caverns below. What I saw—I witnessed all we fear—the villainy of the Hive on full display. Among a sea of cocoons, and surrounded by thousands more freshly spawned hordes, the Heart held Omar’s broken body in a vice of bone and pain. She was peeling the Light from his body. How? I can’t imagine, and I have tried. Tendrils of luminance tore away like flesh. With every strand Omar’s scream cut the dark and was met with a chittering chorus from the unborn. I can’t say if they were feeding off the Light itself, or the pain, but my guess is both—somehow, both. The Heart, though I can’t believe she actually has one, seemed to be conducting some nightmare orchestra, nurturing Crota’s children, with the echoes of Agah’s Light. The Hive must end for all they had done, and some day, by my hand or another’s, the Heart will meet with an end fitting of the pain she, herself, has dealt.* The Dark Below (Story Mission) (Spoken by Eris Morn) We hid in the old moon base up ahead, waiting for the right time to strike. We were brave, but we were not ready. Few of us made it beyond the canyon. The rocks cracked apart, Hive waiting in ambush. It was worse for the ones that made it inside. Mark of the Duskborn (Titan arm armor) "We called her Verok; it was her and her Thrall that finally overwhelmed him." - Eris Grimoire Card: Hive 2 (Spoken by the fallen Titan's Ghost) At the doors to the Temple he fell for the last time. He fell, and I could not reach him. In the story mission The Dark Beyond you find the remains of a Titan before the doors to the Temple of Crota. When you go into the temple to rescue his ghost you find a witch named "Vurok, Eir Spawn". There are two possibilities here: Bungie spelled the name wrong in the text of Mark of the Duskborn (Verok is supposed to be Vurok), or the Titan you find is a different Titan killed by a different witch at a different time. According to Eris she spent years among the Hive, so there is a large enough gap in time that this is possible, but due to the similarity in names I find it unlikely. Eris Morn Dialogue In the end I spent more years with the Hive than the guardians I fought beside. The Fall of Sai Mota Less is known of the death of the Hunter Sai Mota. The item description below could indicate that she died trying to escape and was killed by Omnigul, that she died trying to kill Omnigul, or just that she died and killing Omnigul honors her memory. Acolyte Rung (Hunter arm armor) "Mota was so close -- clawing her way out with bones torn from the Acolytes. Her fall -- Omnigul. You honor her." - Eris The Fate of Omar Agah I assume that Omar died in the battle outside the Temple of Crota, simply because Eris states "few of us made it beyond the canyon" and he is not mentioned in dialogue except prior to this fight. The Fate of Eriana-3 Eris states that the other members of her team all died, but the exact nature of Eriana-3's death is not stated. She lived long enough to see other members of the team die because she swore to avenge them. If you assume that the text of Heart of the Praxic Fire refers to her, then she may have gone out in one final blaze of glory. Alternately Eriana-3 may be the speaker in this text and she may be referring to someone she lost in the first battle where Crota defeated the Guardians. This would explain her intense thirst for revenge and it may be hinted at in another Grimoire card. Curse of the Hidden (Warlock bond) "I vowed to avenge them all, and this curse I will carry to my final death." - Eriana-3 Song of Dusk (Warlock bond) “I’ll be the last Light they ever see" — Eriana-3 The Heart of the Praxic Fire In that last moment she seemed as wholly luminescent as the Sun, and I wished to be so brave. Grimoire Card: Blades of Crota Eris: I have a feeling Light won’t be enough. Eriana-3: Then we’ll take their swords from their ashes, and cut them down one-by-one, Blade-by-Blade. Eris: You would wield a weapon of the night? Eriana-3: For her—them? I will butcher any who stand in my way with even the darkest blade. The Fate of Toland, the Shattered Toland had his own reasons for seeking entry into Crota's domain. He sought Ir Yût, the Deathsinger, and knowledge of her song. If he found her, perhaps this is how he died. As to how he made it that far, he most likely used the same method that the taught Eris and which allowed her to survive among the Hive. 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