I know this post is about dead, but I'd really like to know what you can get together from the books of sorrow. I've had an odd obsession with the story since I found out about it, and would like a lore expert's view on it.
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I'm not a lore expert but I've read the books of sorrow and heard a lot of people say that the beings in the "Deep" (which I think is the void) the ones that possessed the Aurash (oryx) and her/his sisters are the akarmhara, which then in turn possessed their entire species which became known as the hive. Oryx killed one of the alpha akarmhara and gain the power of possessing living creatures this is how he 'takes' things. Glorious, glorious lore.