Guardians have requested that I make a master thread for leaders of The IX Gatekeepers. Here is the complete collection of information on each Gatekeeper. - Terra Ossik ========================================================================================= Origins of ... The First (I) I do not know how we came to be...to speculate, a frivolous waste of time. We are The IX Gatekeepers. We are what The Nine require of us. The Jovians ... our wards. The Nine ... our will. We have always defended the Jovians, that much I understand. We have protected the Jovians from all ... The Light, The Darkness and that which has no intent. Before The Darkness came ... or only after? Did we fail in our duties.... Perhaps.... It does not do, to dwell on what cannot change... I am of Europa ... a moon of more than sixty, that surround Jupiter and of the Northern Crown. I command The IX Gatekeepers. The Nine command me. I bore witness to the meeting of Osiris. I built the coalition of The Reef, and observed Mara Sov, as her family was crippled by The House of Wolves, and the return of Skolas. I recognized her sacrifice in the breaking of Oryx, The Taken King. The Nine; I believe, as I cannot know, send my compatriots to your Earth, to your Broken God ... And now I bear witness to The Guardians ... "It was the Nine who gave us purpose, and it is the Nine who keep us whole." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Additional Information Provided By Terra Ossik Name: Terra Ossik Position: Leader of the Gatekeepers Race: Jovian Sex: Male Preferred Class: Titan Preferred Subclass: Defender Home Planet: Europa Job Description: The Nine could know ... Hates: What The Nine require ... Loves: What The Nine choose ... Interests: The passing of knowledge to all Guardians who will carry our banner and champion our cause. ========================================================================================= Origins of ... The Second (II) My memories before Europa are ... fractured. I recall my birth ... my ghost's destruction at the hands of the ... Eliksni. Torture ... my torture ... time ... my trial of survival ... on Mercury. A dagger of Dreg bone and a twisted metal spear shattering Vex ... Fire ... surrounding me .... becoming me ... I held fire in my fists ... I killed so many... Memories ... so ... difficult to align ... Bother Ossik found me ... I recall that Death followed him ... and a ... nexus ... of tranquil destruction cascades from his hands. Europa; my sanctuary. The Jovians; my children. The Gatekeepers; my family. The Nine ... Instruct me ... Command me ... The Nine have shown me power ... and structure. I am the second of the Gatekeepers. The Ram of The Nine. I charge ... rend ... obliterate through my Inferno. The first into the fray and the last to retreat. I witnessed the fall of the Old Iron Lords and commend Lord Saladin for bearing the weight of his Brothers and Sisters ... now I observe the new Iron Lords with my brothers. A kind of ... kinship forms ... between Eris and I. Two survivors ... bearing scars that alienate us ... I witness and train the guardians ... those who listen. Your Traveller has survived his ordeal ... though broken ... he is yours. I will lead the charge into The Darkness, a torrent of fire to guide you. I am Walker Dang. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Additional Information Provided By Terra Ossik Name: Walker Dang Position: Ram of the Gatekeepers Race: Exo Sex: Male Preferred Class: Titan Preferred Subclass: Sunbreaker Home Planet: Mercury Job Description: Training and Rallying the Little Lights that wish to emerge from their Traveller's Light. Hates: The Fallen and The Vex. Loves: Fire, The Jovians, The Gatekeepers, and Eris Morn. Interests: Wilderness survival, barehanded fighting, Rasputin. ========================================================================================= Origins of ... The Third (III) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Information Provided By Terra Ossik Name: Teréz Sebők Position: Scribe of the Gatekeepers Race: Jovian Sex: Male Preferred Class: Warlock Preferred Subclass: Sunsinger and Stormcaller Home Planet: Europa Job Description: Holder of all knowledge acquired by The Gatekeepers Hates: The Vex and Godzimir Kokotović (VIII) Loves: The Vex Interests: Unraveling the mysteries of the universe and time itself. Teréz is our Scribe. Our skillsmaster. He teaches those of us who have never utilized the Light. And cautions those of us against the embodiments of the Darkness. He has lived longer then myself ... how much longer ... unknowable. He taught Walker how to wield his fire ... Death how to hide in barren landscapes ... and The Shattered ... He catalogs our exploits ... trials and charting ventures. He also keeps tabs on the mysteries we encounter ... The Warlock, Osiris ... Toland, The Shattered ... the history of your Traveler. The Vex ... they have caught Teréz' attention. A ... fearful concept ... receiving the scrutiny of such a intense being. He ... pushes his limits ... and those of his loyal assistant, Kojima. I ...placed a watcher on him. Answerable only to me. He ... obsesses. This is why he is so good at his job ... and also why I am ... wary of him. He refused to input this data himself ... he claims it is a waste of his time ... perhaps after a few more decades ... my watcher will be able to add more information to this text ... though this is improbable. ========================================================================================= Origins of ... The Fourth (IV) My name is Alexander. I am Awoken. I am a Hunter. My ghost ... found me in a golden age ship on the border of The Reef. I was found by Petra Venj ... well ... more like I found her. I was ... confused ... wild. Before my ghost could warn me ... or perhaps warn her ... I had taken her by surprise ... smashed her head into a control panel ... caving in her helmet and severely damaged her left eye before one of Uldren's Crows immobilized me. I was brought before the queen herself. Uldren ... he wanted me dead for attacking a "true Awoken" ... I wanted him dead for wanting me dead. The queen seemed ... amused ... but immobile when it came to a punishment. She placed Venj on a desk job, and made me a crow under Uldren. I spent many years learning the Darkness and the 'cloak and dagger' operations of the Crows. I was personally trained by Uldren ... at least until I became too good for him. I absorbed everything war. Everything Death. When Terra came to the Queen ... to arrange the truce between The Nine and The Reef after her success against The House Of Wolves ... he looked right at me ... and said ... "this one ... is not yours." The queen was not happy ... but Uldren ... sly bastard that he is ... he made a suggestion. The queen handed Skolas to The Nine ... and me to Terra. Now my only piece of my past I hold is the Techeun Bangle that the queen handed me ... and the sigil that she branded on my right shoulder blade with Void manipulation, when she called me to her Throne Room after the negotiations. Now I am the right hand of Terra. I stalk and I kill ... not always in that order. Death ... is my alias ... to make my enemies feel safe. For Death ... is safer then if you discover Alexander Kourakis is coming for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Additional Information Provided By Terra Ossik Name: Alexander Kourakis Position: Shadow of the Gatekeepers Race: Awoken Sex: Male Preferred Class: Hunter Preferred Subclass: Shadowshot and Bladedancer Home Planet: The Reef Job Description: Spy and Assassin Hates: Uldren Sov and his Crows, Variks the Loyal Loves: Mara Sov (Grows fond of Kira Kojima) Interests: The Fallen and The Silent Fang