I was reading a post here earlier (https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/241677685?showBanned=0&path=0) about the return of Oryx and started writing an answer... that eventually turned into this post of considerations of what could happen in the future. First things first: will Oryx return? No. We killed him in TTK and he's gone once and for all (even if there is one single possibility of making him return, I will discuss that later). Anyway he's in absolutely no case able to return on his own or by being simulated by the Vex (because Vex can't simulate para-causal weapons/powers and Oryx weilded plenty of both. Again, the exception would be already recorded effects of such weapons/powers but in that case the simulation wouldn't come back in full power and wouldn't really be Oryx). BUT But there's a copy Oryx created of himself and upoladed in a Vex Mind, Quira Blade Transform (http://www.ishtar-collective.net/cards/xlii-#books-of-sorrow), and that Vex Mind we know for sure is still around since we know that he gifted such simulation to Savathun. (http://www.ishtar-collective.net/cards/xliv-strict-proof-eternal) It is an imperfect copy of Aurash (the name of Oryx before he became Oryx... but I suppose you already know) and it seems that, despite being probably Taken, this new creatre resents what Oryx has done and become (Oryx left him/her/it some measure of free will) and might hold that grudge also against the sisters Savathun and Xivu Arath. That's what we know from the grimoire cards of Destiny 1. Let's move on to what we can discover in Destiny 2. First of all we now know that Savathun is planning to fill the void of power left by Oryx among the Hive. There are multiple (and rather obvious) references to her all across Titan and Titan's activities. Second we know that there's a Taken Knight on Io that bears the name "Ir Arok, Tongue of Quria" (that "Ir" thing seems to be some sort of title among Hive, probably Quira is building its own power structure) and a Taken Minotaur named "Elatiox, Beloved of Quria". That's very interesting because it gives us two informations: Quira is not only still active, but it seems that it has also learned the power to take (titles in Taken names probably represent the one who took them, but I have no solid proof of it). So both Savathun and Quira seem to be still around and active in the Solar System. What next? From this point on I'm completely speculating about what *could* be happening right now and in the future. This far I wasn't able to find any solid links between Savathun and Quira in the present with possibly the exception of an orb of taken blight that, if scanned, seemed to whisper "Savathun" over and over that can be found on Io(?), the planet where the creatures taken by Quira show up. There's another thing that bugs me: both Quira and Savathun seem to have the power of taking. We know Oryx guarded the secret of taking closely, so why would Savathun share that power with Quira? It would even be against the Sword Logic to gift such great power in that way, which means that either Quira has stolen the secret of that power from Savathun or Savathun stole that secret from Quira. Two facts that induce me to come to my conclusion: - the apparent resentment of Quira/Aurash for what it had become (ad for what Oryx and his sisters became and did to the Hive) - if this Quira/Aurash entity obeys the laws of Sword Logic it should do all in its power to kill Savathun (http://www.ishtar-collective.net/cards/xxxv-this-love-is-war?) So it is my opinion that what is going on in the background (for now) is that we're assisting at the preparations both Savathun and Quira are making to bring their war to our solar system and that at some point in the future we will play our part in that war. ...and what about the return of the true Oryx? Well... http://www.ishtar-collective.net/cards/xxix-carved-in-ruin ...probably if someone (or something) did something worth of Oryx he might even return from death.