Taken Straight From The Book Of Sorrow A 50 part Grimoire Entry [spoiler]Predators and Menaces — Carved to endure by Xi Ro — Third surviving sister of the Osmium King’s last brood — A STORMJOY. A stormjoy is a living cloud. When it passes over our continent, it lowers its feeding tentacles. On each tentacle are the BAIT STARS. Although light makes you happy, you must avoid it. You will be eaten. A stormjoy is a good way for an old person to choose death. Also, a daring knight can cut the bait stars from the tentacles. I have six! FALLING. If you fall off the edge of the continent, you will die in the ocean! This is a special hazard when our father the Osmium King uses the engines. HELIUM DRINKERS. The currents of the Fundament Ocean bring us near other continents. The Helium Court is near us now. They are of our species, but they are our enemies. Their knights raid us every day. Helium Drinkers have two legs, two arms, and three eyes, just like us. But they are bright/evil. I want to be a knight and fight them! The Helium Drinker ambassador ate ten of my sisters as tribute. This is normal. However, I resent it. MOTHERS. Mothers can fly! They live much longer than ten years. Mothers are extremely smart, and they guard their spawn. If you try to tamper with the eggs, they will eat you. Sathona wants to eat the jelly and become a mother when she turns four. STORMS. The rain is often poisonous. Sometimes it dissolves flesh. When lightning misses the lightning farm, it can vaporize a person. This entire world is deadly to us. MYSTERIES. The Fundament is very large. We are the smallest things in it. If you don’t understand something, it will probably kill you. My teacher Taox says this is why we have such short lives. So we can breed and adapt quickly. MOON WAVES. My sister Aurash is afraid of moon waves. When she gets back from her expedition to the Tungsten Monoliths, I will ask her why.[/spoiler] Our Story Starts with 3 sisters. These sisters belong to a race of [i]"krill-like"[/i] beings. These beings have a lifespan of 10 years. Their father the king of their planet is nearing the end of his lifespan. Sick and dying he fears for the future of his people. [spoiler]For the consideration of the Helium Court, Written in desperation, This sealed secret, I am Taox, sterile mother, teacher to the children of the Osmium Throne. As a mother, I live long. As a neuter, I can rise above the small battles of court politics. I alone see the patterns of survival. Alone I designed the great engines that move the Osmium Court. Now — Alone I must act to save my kingdom. Senility has claimed my lord the Osmium King. He is ten, and mad. The study of ancient text consumes him. Today he raves about moons above the storm. Tomorrow he will wander the halls, speaking to his familiar, a dead white worm from the deep sea. He keeps it in glass, and he tends to it, and he neglects the duties of a king. The Osmium King has three surviving heirs, each two years old: Xi Ro, the youngest and bravest, who wants to be a knight. Sathona, most clever, who wants to be a mother. Aurash, navigator child, who dreams of the infinite ocean. Tomorrow she will return from the Tungsten Monoliths. None of these are suitable heirs. None of them will protect the Osmium Court from the howling Fundament. Xi Ro can fight, but not lead. Sathona can think, but not fight. Aurash’s curiosity will draw her away from duty. I fear for all future children. Soon the Osmium King will lock himself into the Royal Orrery to study the moons. Gather your knights, o Helium Drinkers, and invade our continent. Kill the three heirs. I will rule the Osmium Court as your regent, and build engines for you. And if I fail, let the Leviathan in the deep eat me. Written in grief, This hateful request, Taox, Osmium-mother, neutered to watch[/spoiler] The caretaker of the three heirs to the throne plans assassinate the Osmium King, and possibly usurp the throne. [spoiler]The Syzygy — Carved to endure by Aurash — The high vengeance — Only Xi Ro’s bait stars let us escape. Only Sathona’s tricks let us reach the coast. But now that we have my ship, I must lead the way. I am the navigator. We may never see our homes again. Xi Ro seethes with hate and fury for Taox. But this is my deepest fear — Our civilization drifts on the Fundament. At the Tungsten Monoliths I learned that thousands of other species drift with us, coexisting on a vast world sea. And the tides of the Fundament move us all. The Timid Truth says that we are the smallest, most fragile things alive. The natural prey of the universe. Taox would have us believe that our ancestors came to the Fundament to hide from the hungry void. My father died afraid. Not of vile Taox or the Helium Drinkers, but of his orrery. He screamed to me — “Aurash, my first daughter! The moons are different! The laws are bent!” And he made the sign of a syzygy. Imagine the fifty-two moons of Fundament lining up in the sky. (It wouldn’t take all fifty-two, of course: just a few massive moons. But this is my deepest fear.) Imagine their gravity pulling on the Fundament sea, lifting it into a swollen bulge... Imagine that bulge collapsing as the syzygy passed. A wave big enough to swallow civilizations. A God-Wave. I have to find a way to stop it. Before the God-Wave annihilates my species. If I could only get back into my father’s orrery, I could learn exactly when! We are weeks of travel and many continents away from home. When I’m paralyzed by fear, Xi Ro sits in the cabin with me and comforts me with soft, brave words. But more and more we have come to rely on Sathona’s wit. She will go off to be alone (she insists she must be alone) and return with some mad idea — steer into the storm, throw down a net, eat that strange beast, explore that menacing wreck. Somehow Sathona seems to manufacture good luck by sheer will.[/spoiler] Their home (planet?) is ravaged by something called "The God Wave". Xi Ro, Aurash, and Sathona use a salvaged ship to escape. Vowing to seek vengeance on Toax they take the ship and delve into core of the planet where they meet a parasitic worm named Yul. [spoiler]My secrets — Carved in my code by Sathona — The right eye vengeance — 1. This year of wild voyaging, these lightning nights and golden days, these forays into ancient wrecks and windblown flights from monsters: these are the happiest times of my life. 2. I want to be a mother not because I want to spawn but because I want a long life. Long enough to make a difference. We have been at sea a year and I am afraid, afraid we will die out here. 3. I know where to find secrets. I know where vast slow things with long memories live. 4. The needle ship... The needle ship — Carved in my code by Sathona — A liar — 1. We salvaged the needle from the Shvubi Maelstrom. I knew it would be there. 2. The needle is a gray ship, as long and slender as hope, as unbreakable as time, and old. Older than death. It tumbled through the maelstrom before our ancestors crashed into the Fundament. This is not a sea-ship, like Aurash’s. It is an artifact of high technology. 3. I know its purpose. I know what happened to the crew. 4. Xi Ro wants to sell the ship at Kaharn Atoll, where species gather. At auction, it would earn us enough wealth to hire mercenaries. We could retake our Osmium Court and send the baby-eating Helium Drinkers screaming into the ocean — 5. — but I told Xi Ro the ship was worthless. 6. Aurash wants to open the ship and see if we can take command of it. I know this is the right thing to do. I know because I asked the worm... The worm — Carved in my code by Sathona — Who should be afraid — 1. It was my father’s familiar. I ripped it from him as we fled. It is a dead white thing, segmented, washed up from the deep sea. 2. It’s dead, but it still speaks to me. It says: listen closely, oh vengeance mine...[/spoiler] The worm makes a pact with the three, and imbues them with a parasite that grants them the ability to outlive their original lifespan of only ten years. The worm had given this power on the condition that they wage war and conquer far and wide, committing genocide and destroying whole planets. The Worm also changes their names. Aurash becomes Auryx, Xi Ro becomes Xivu Arath, and Sathona becomes Savathûn. They also gain the ability to absorb the "sword logic " of all they kill and soon become demi-gods. The worms inside them feed off of the killings and war, and the more they are fed, the more they need to eat. They were gaining power but with every bit of power they gained, they lost a little bit more of themselves. Eventually, the three become so powerful that they created 3 separate kingdoms. These three kingdoms conquered and killed over a span of 20,000 years, devouring the "sword logic" of many planets. Their worm's hunger at this point was insatiable, and they feared for their existence. These 3 demigods waged war on each other. Auryx, Xivu Arath, and Savathûn killed each other over and over again. Never really dying because they weren't killed in the "sword world". Oryx the taken King is a product of Aurash killing both Xi Ro and Sathona. Apparently they offered themselves as fodder, so that Aurash could gain their sword logic. Aurash then used his new power to kill the worm named Akka. Now with the ability to create life and take life away, Aurash (Auryx) changes his name to Oryx, The Taken King.