So, supposedly every hive starts as a thrall right? Does that mean that at one point there was a thrall named Crota? Cause I find it suspicious that out of the 154,363 thrall that have died, the two sons of the king just happened to not only survive, but also become nearly as powerful as their father. Or did Oryx just have like 5000 kids or something?
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I don’t have a definite answer but I can make an educated guess. I would assume this is true for all but ascendant Hive. I’m the BoS Oryx talks about how successful his daughters were in such little time, which makes me think they were always wizards. And as they were twins by having a worm cut in half, I doubt two identical thrall would rise on the same path and reach the same outcome. It also specifically lists all of Oryx’s children in the BoS, excluding Nokris, so it makes a big deal that he didn’t have a bunch of children. Essentially it’s statistically unlikely like you said, so I think they had some special advantage from “birth”