"Shields up! Protect the Queen! Brace for impact! Save the Queen—" —Paladin Yasmin Eld.
Flavor text from the sniper Defiance of Yasmin of the Oryx raid.
The Techeuns? or mages that were near the queen (the ones that helped her form her big energy blasts) more than likely used all their power and sacrificed themselves to save Mara.
As to why the mages appear taken now? Could be tied to Savathun.
During "The Coming War" in D1 when we first experienced the taken ooze, ghost said it was trying to form a symbiosis with the legionary on top of it. Ghost said it required a living host though and the legionary was already dead.
Needing a living host appears to be a limitation of only oryx though. We have seen several instances in D2 of taken enemies that were known to be deceased. The red legion guy from lake of shadows and the three bosses in The Whisper mission.
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The bosses in The Whisper were apparently resurrected by Xol after his "death" (we didn't kill him in the ascendant realm), which he then offered to Savathun for her to take.
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Edited by IceApfel: 8/9/2018 8:09:43 AMI thought at least some Techeuns were confirmed to be alive through the moments of triumph in D1? But it is probably the case that not all techeuns were present during the battle with the Dreadnaught, sooo...?