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Nice condensed version. Might want to add that one of the three daughters is Oryx.
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I considered that, but I also wanted people to search out the fragments and maybe even tell their own version of the story. Most of this is just my point of view, and I would love to hear what others have to say!
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....what?
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Edited by Patriot121: 11/22/2015 12:51:32 AMIt's likely not meant literally. Likely gender is just more fluid for the Hive. They have 3 possible "morphs" if you will upon reaching a certain level of power/age. Until that point they are more or less gender-less and are referred to as a "she." They start as a thrall, and should they live and kill enough they become an acolyte. The acolyte, once they kill and age long enough, can either choose the female Wizard morph, or the male Knight morph. Now the proto-Hive that Oryx was before the pact with the worms have a different but similar and faster progression (on account of living only 10 years without the worm symbiosis). When he was young he and his 2 "sisters" we're mostly likely just gender-less but referee to as "she" or "her" as a default. It wasn't until his one sister took on the Mother morph and became a Wizard that she actually became female. Same for Oryx and his other sibling. It wasn't until they took on the King and Knight morphs respectively that they became male.
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Yep Oryx is a -blam!-ing transgender
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Edited by Patient3591: 11/19/2015 2:10:04 PMNot really. Transgender is when someone's gender doesn't match the one they were assigned. In our society, that assignment is based on anatomy. In Hive society, it's based on social caste. When Aurash grew to an adult and took the name Auryx, along with her claim to the throne, her social caste changed, therefore her gender (by Hive definition) changed. We don't know if he agrees with this assignment or not, so we can't know if he is trans. All we know is that Hive don't view gender the same way we do, and probably don't have the same sexual organs we do either.
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I still think of him as a transgender (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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One of the three daughters that found the worms. In hive culture, gender is based on social caste, rather than anatomy (and we don't even know if their anatomy works anything like ours or not). If a hive is a ruler or the heir to a ruler, they're considered male. Otherwise, they're considered female. Oryx was born Aurash, one of the three daughters of the King (so called because they were too young to inherit their father's throne when he died) who ventured into the core of Fundament and found the worm gods. When they returned, Aurash claimed her birthright, thereby becoming male by their society's standards, and took the name Auryx, which in their language means "long thought". Oryx is an alternate (probably inaccurate) spelling.
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Edited by K1tty Head: 11/19/2015 12:36:36 PMClose, but not on the oryx part. Auryx killed her two sisters in his throne room to prove his might and cunning, then he went to the worm God Akka and killed him. From this point, he communed directly with what the Deep, which is what we call the darkness. He underwent a God Morph and became Oryx, the Taken King. His argument (his existence) is that the darkness gives nothing, and only takes. His will is stronger than everything, so he may take others and bend them to his will. He made the dreadnaught out of Akka and some tools from his sisters. Edit: Misspelled something
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Nice you and the author need to do a collaboration together, make some really great posts