That's not what happened though.
Mara Sov wasn't helping us.
She was using the attack on her people as a distraction.
You want to read about it?
I'd recommend reading all of it... but if you want to skip ahead:
[url=https://www.destinypedia.com/Lore:The_Awoken_of_the_Reef#Tyrannocide_I]Tyrannocide I[/url]
Which is the "death of a Tyrant".
If you want to know why Petra took lead in temporary absentia?
It was because she was loyal. The Awoken are supposed to be a meritocracy, Petra ensured there would be no dispute, protest, or contest to Mara retaking the Throne again.
What makes it clear, same book a little further in:
[url=https://www.destinypedia.com/Lore:The_Awoken_of_the_Reef#Refusal]Refusal[/url]
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I'm not claiming she was helping bc I really don't know. Just saying Preta used the chaos to her advantage.
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Edited by jhermannITJ: 2/4/2026 4:22:57 AMHow? By being a loyal placeholder? Mara NEVER died. Obviously. And Petra says she could feel her... not like Mara's psionic connection with Uldren... but she always knew Mara would return. Because she could feel her. Look at how angry she got at Zavala. Zavala was right. That's why she chose Petra. Indoctrinated at that time.
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Placeholder or usurper.
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Edited by jhermannITJ: 2/4/2026 5:08:14 AMUsurp what? Are you newer or is this a name change, lol. Feels like a name change, sounds familiar. Who's in charge? Let's go with it. I think Mara is in charge... right now. When her heresy is exposed might not be, is that what you're hedging for? You're hedging with any possibility to give Mara cover. 1st. Eris is Savathun's daughter. That wasn't confusion at all. 2. If Mara loses control of the Awoken... it must because of Petra whom would probably lead the resistance aside Sedia & Joylon Till. 😉 Your logic is flawed though... I can find a way to technically make Mara and Eris siblings... and they probably are. Step siblings having the same dad. Eris is most likely Alis Li's daughter. Not Savathun's daughter... Eris just got a Throne World... and as far as I know, can't have 2. However suspiciously... coincidently... 😋, Elesunia is The Shattered Throne. And the rumored name of the next expansion is [spoiler]A "Shattered" Cycle. [/spoiler] In this instance Petra is a Usurper because she saved Mara's place while Mara's people were massacred because she signaled the enemy with the Oracle whilst the Dreaming City was the most vulnerable? Petra knew that? Is that what you're saying. Rhetorical. She didn't. And she still gave the seat back... She's not a usurper in the past, Petra is not a usurper yet. 👀 Maybe soon though, hopefully, lol. Keep hedging. I got the truth of all Mara's secrets now... or we will see how close I am. She's a jaded daughter/stepdaughter whose parents split up... and a sociopath.
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Are you sure you are referring to my post, bc I never made any claims for/against Moyra. She might be bad, like I said in my prior response "I really don't know". Basically, I am not taking any sort of stance where Moyra is concerned.
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Edited by jhermannITJ: 2/4/2026 6:27:47 AMLol. Is it a name change, you didn't answer the question. Moyra... 😅 Exactly my point. I added some additional context to the previous response before this one. Up to this topic, you refused to speak of Moyra at all, lol. It's Mara. You know that. That's Osana's daughter. Mara cursed Osana... she's an analog for one of Zues's wives (Leto... look it up, twin children... cursed by a worm, by her rival Hera) in mythology. They changed it a little bit. In their version Artemis goes nuts over her father's infidelity; curses her mom Leto & stepmom Hera. Uses her brother Apollo & Hera's daughter (guess what her name is... Eris 🙃) as a puppet and takes Olympus. Although... Apollo still removes the curse in our version too. She's the Witchqueen. She's Mara's mother. And neither is aware. Mara cursed Alis Li... that's Eris's mother and Mara's stepmom. Turned her into a big slug. Ahsa, I think. You trying to reassert a previous interpretation of "Is it you"... is hedging for Mara Sov. You... trying to set up a reality where Petra is the instigator when Mara's actions are fully exposed... When the Awoken turn on Mara Sov. That's why she needed all those keys. For her new army. Why did she curse her mother? Because Uldren was to lead, not her. The Sovs and the Awoken. He was to be the 1st Awoken King. Still going to be, I think. Bungie, Luke Smith, Jason Jones, Alison Luhrs... & the brilliant narrative teams over the years did retconn something, lol. Greek Mythology. Cronus. Leto. Edgar Allan Poe, but his physics work. PhilipKDick Mary Shelley All that... Dostoevsky, the writers at Bungie have great taste, literally... and literally, lol... some of my favorite stuff. I studied literature scholastically for decades beginning in college, in addition to gaming... one of my hobbies and passions. I know all about Chicago. I wager that was the center of Luke Smith's universe for at least 4 yrs. I spent a lot of time there too, in my own studies... at probably the same private library downtown. Curated and managed by the University of Chicago. One of the largest collections of classical literature in the world. Including Edgar Allan Poe's "Eureka"!... where writing as a physicist he successfully debunks "paracausality"... we call it "Special Relativity". General Relativity is "causal". Poe arguing for Einstein against another who claimed he proved we lived in an instance of special relativity. That's the synopsis of "Eureka"! Poe was mocking the pseudo-science with his title. A first edition of that paper is at that library in Chicago. [url=https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/spaces/joseph-regenstein-library/]Called the "Reg"[/url]