It's his shader, without a shader he looks like a normal member of the Hive, but that's boring to young Crota, who wants to carve out his own place in the galaxy away from his controlling father.

That was his soul not his body, some say Eris and her team manage to destroy his body while others say he was like that all along

[quote]What is the lore behind him being green and skeletal. His father and all other exalted hive are just bigger versions maybe with a bit of flame or taken about them. Why is Crota different? Is it because we took his power away because we also took Oryx manifestations away too and he didn't change appearance.[/quote] It could be just the way the Bungie team made it. Let's just say theres more to it. I have a theory. Lets first look at the beginning of his grimoire card [i]He hides in the dark below: the monster of Luna, the titanic god-Knight [b][i][u]who walked the regolith beneath a sky of green fire[/u][/i][/b] and butchered the greatest army of Guardians ever assembled. We abandoned the Moon rather than face him.[/i] Ikora speaks as if his living physical presence, brought forth a weigh of Darkness represented by a green sky. (Crotas Presence Modifier anyone?). So his firey form, maybe a representation of how he was on the moon. Yet, it appears weaker and frail. I believe it is because he was "forced" back to his throne relam by Oryx. Here is a piece from the grimoire, "Oryx Rebuked" [i][b]When Crota’s victory over our little blue world seemed certain (a moment of silence, now, for Wei Ning, whose directness I admired) it was Oryx who called His Child back into the nether world to plan final victory. It was to Oryx that the violence of His spawn was tithed[/b][/i] So his zombie appearance, may be because he was forced, instead of "retreating", after death, on his own terms. This could also bring up a theory that he grew tired of the constant rebuking by his father. So he decided to be "reborn" on Earth. We could discuss that later, but for now my theory is because he didn't have a chance to choose his form on his own terms. Honestly I believe his whole throne world was set up for him by Oryx. This again is all in theory "Thanks dad...thanks a lot"- Crota

It represents the poor. Theyre green with envy and are starving. And once they start rising up, we "the elites" (i can back this up with Gjallarhorn showing wealth and how people "earned" it.) went in there and shut their party down. Its sad really.

That's not really Croat it's his over soul. It's kinda like how the echo of oryx is blue.

[spoiler]spooky scary skeletons Send shivers down your spine...[/spoiler]

Why are you a green panda ? Illuminati confirmed Green has 4 letters Panda is a song by desiigner Desiigner has two I's 4+2=6 666=illuminati Green panda and Crota are illuminati. Crota is OG spooky scary Skelton

Because it looks cool

Part of having a worm inside of you is the ability to change your flesh according to your own will. Crota just wants to look like that.

"Looking at some of the comments on this thread makes me wonder if anyone actually reads the grimoire.

His spooky level is over 9,000.

Why does his father have tiny ass feet. Why does being ascendant make Oryx gigantic, but somehow less active in a fight than his smaller form. Why did we hear all this shit talk about how badass Crota was and you stand on a ledge and spam rockets to kill him before running into a room in his realm that he can't get to. No one knows.