So forsaken brought up some interesting lore points. Mithrax, Variks, Mara Sov, Uldren Sov, the spider, Craask; these are all characters associated with high positions among the Eliksni/Fallen: Mithrax - a Captain (in a fireteam, with an unnamed warlock and an unnamed hunter), looking to become the kell of a new house. [quote]The captain turns, “Wolves rebel. Now, Wolves extinct. This where - live mine - things scatter must end. I will kell the mind-open Eliksni. No spider-tricks. No loyal lies. Variisis truths, we fight for Great Machine together.”[/quote] He intends to unite the eliksni or at least some of them, under be traveler and create an alliance with us. Variks - Judgement’s scribe, now looking to unite the houses. Mara Sov - in the dreaming city fighting off the corruption of hive, taken and scorn forces. Uldren Sov - dead at our’s/ Petra’s hand. The spider - mob boss of the tangled shore. Leads his gang. Hates house dusk and the scorn. Craask - old kell of house kings. Dead thanks to Uldren and Fikrul. So you’re now wondering: how does this refers to the kell of kells? Well, I want to see who could be in the running for the title, using (what I believe is) the house of rain’s, Kell of kells prophecy. So what is the prophecy and how did you get it. Well if you take the flavour texts from the D1 missions “gone to ground”, “the kell of kells” and “the hunt for Skolas” you get the following texts: [quote]Before him, foes will flee or fall. But he will heal the houses, make them whole [/quote] [quote]the great machine will marvel, moved by might, and come to crown him kell of kells[/quote] [quote]what whirlwind whisked away will be rewrought, and every kell and ketch will kneel before the kell of kells. [/quote] Then you order them “the kell of kells”, “gone to ground”, and then “the hunt for Skolas”, and then combine them you get the prophecy: [quote]”The Great Machine will marvel, moves by might, and come to crown him kell of kells, Before him, foes will flee or fall. But he will heal the houses, make them whole, what whirlwind whisked away will be rewrought, and every kell and ketch will kneel before the kell of kells.”[/quote] Looking at the prophecy, we can determine that the “kell of kells must unite the houses under his rule and please the traveler with a show of might. I don’t “entirely” believe this is necessary to fulfill the prophecy. So all one has to do is unite the houses under their rule, to claim the title. Similar to what Skolas attempted. So now that’s out the way, who is in the running to be Kell of kells from our list? Well: Uldren and Craask are dead, so they’re out. The spider shows no interest in the prophecy at all, or the fallen for that matter. I doubt Mara Sov does either. Her loyalty is to her people and the reef. Whilst she’s had Fallen bow to her before, it was because she defeated Virixas, kell of Wolves and this became the heir to the kellship, and the wolves had a choice, bow or be thrown in the prison of elders So that leaves three people in the running. Yes three people. Variks, Mithrax and us. Yes I believe we have a shot. So let’s analyse each one: [b]Variks:[/b] the book “where Loyalty lies” shows Variks declare himself “Variks, the kell” of house Judgement. He then goes onto say [quote]”Eliksni must rise...yes?”[/quote] furthermore in the book, “Job Undone” we learn Variks is one of the last remaining eliksni clinging to the culture with significant stature. So with both of these pieces of info, it’s safe to assume he’s off to try unite the fallen. Now I believe he is the least likely to become kell of kells (of the fallen at the least). House Dusk use the Judgement sigil as a warning sign throughout the EDZ. Chances are, the fallen will not kneel through diplomacy and thus, he’ll have to take control by force. [b]Mithrax:[/b] I believe stands the more of a chance of taking the title than Variks. Mithrax wants to be the kell of a house aligned with the traveler and the city. He clearly respects guardians, as shown by his fireteam, his actions on Titan, and the flavour text of the “Tangled Web plate/robes/vest”:[quote]”let them have the great machine. They deserve it.” - Mithrax, transl from Eliksni[/quote]. Now in terms of uniting the fallen, I believe he could do this either way. Through force, or diplomacy. He could offer the traveler’s presence to the fallen. They’d be able to be within it’s light after so long. Or he could take advantage of the use of his fireteam and force his way to the top, having the fallen bow down in compliance and swear loyalty, or fall to his fireteam. Also given Mithrax rank, he will probably perform better in combat than our last contestant. [spoiler]sorry Shadow. [/spoiler] [b]Us:[/b] If you look at it from a specific view, we could’ve forced our way to the top of three of the four main D1 houses. House devils, Winter and kings (and wolves if you forget their “loyalty” to Mara). We’ve slain Sepiks prime and Riksis the devils archon, conquering house devils (given they had no kell). (We also dealt with the devils splicers, but due to their culture they’re less likely to kneel). We slew Draksis, the winter kell and Aksor the winter archon conquering house winter (also leading them leaderless without a prime servitor). We also slew Uldren and Fikrul, who slew Craask, taking over the house kings leadership. Granted we never took advantage of their ways, thus we never took advantage over the houses, leading to the fear we installed in them, forcing Craask to get Uldren to unify them. Wait... does that make Uldren kell of kells.... no he hates the fallen and I would assume the creation of the scorn would turn them against him...phew. It’s also worth mentioning [b]WE[/b] have moved the traveler with our might. In the slaying of Ghaul, we proved our might, going two for two on the prophecy, we just never United the houses. So yeah. That’s my take on it. [spoiler]chances are there is some plot holes in my thinking, it’s late here irl. [/spoiler]