You know how ants maintain a caste society, where each and every member is born to fill a specific role? How they are, from the moment of their birth, forged to fill that role? Warriors are born with razor sharp mandibles, thick chitin armor, and larger size. Workers are small, with mandible specialized to perform the tasks of manipulating and dragging whatever the colony needs. And so on. This sort of specialization occurs in the Hive society as well, in a way. You're born as a Thrall, then shaped by your decisions and abilities (as well as luck in surviving). The more you kill, the greater your strength grows- from Thrall to Acolyte to Knight or Wizard. All non-ascendant (In other words, hive not directly related to a god) can at most become princes (Strong knights, often serving a specific god) or some form of Wizard (This bit is mainly extrapolation, because we don't know what the max rank of a wizard is nor the exact process to become one, beyond it possibly involving magic jelly. Apparently). Specialization often occurs when you reach your 'dead end' and shown aptitude in a specific role. Survive long enough to prove your mastery at a job, and the role is yours. For example, the Lead Asphyxiator likely showed a great ability at strangling victims. This aptitude led to them being given their position. So, there IS training, of a sort- but it's on the individual Hive to survive. It's on the individual Hive to asphyxiate enough enemies to earn the title of Lead Asphyxiator. There are also other ways of achieving specific deviations- for example, Ogres are thrall tormented and subjected to nightmarish rituals to transform them into death engines. Cursed Thrall presumably dropped the maggots into the cauldron to early and got on a Wizards bad side and were given their role (Or they failed in some other way). Specific deviant groups of Hive may also have their own roles and their own ways of assigning ranks- this is just the typical way that it happens. I hope that makes sense and isn't to meandering. Most of this is in the Books of Sorrow and other bits of Hive lore, so look those up if you want more.

Sorry I only know Python.

Microsoft offices in Redmond? You should see the name of the apple offices scattered over San Jose they have the dumbest names of offices I’ve seen

Rotimeyka: Purveyor of fine breads

Vicarious Visions did a good job with naming them in weird ways atleast

SYLOK, THE DEFILED!

I thought the thrall were baby Hive then they grew up, and the ones that shoot are like teenage Hive, and finally adult Hive are the Knights. The big yellow Hive are senior citizen.

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No not really It's more like...uhm...ok an example Oryx is also called the aspect of discovery Xivu Arath is also called the aspect of war Savathun is also called the aspect of cunning Their given titles reflect what their purpose is or what they're good at. Taken King reflects on how Oryx [i]took[/i] the power to Take from his own worm god but also what he does to his enemies and what he is to those taken. Darkblades for example are in their early stages as Knights frowned upon as they wield axes instead of swords as axes are seen as lesser weapons but against all odds they not only surpass other Knights, they eclipse them and are thus deemed worthy as the "bodyguards" or generals of the upper echelon of the Osmium Dynasty (in other words the bodyguards of the really important Hive). Darkblade reflects their closeness to the Darkness and is a title that is used for powerful warriors. ALSO they all do start out as Thrall then are either cursed or after killing enough turn into Acolyte. From that point they can turn into Knights or Wizards at which point they are given control over their own Thrall and Acolyte. So yes kind of like a caste system. Although I have no clue how the ogres fit into all of it as they are said to be uncontrollable

XX: Hive Verse 3:0 — Hive Let us speak of the terrible beauty of becoming ourselves. In the beginning we rode hollow moons from star to star. AURYX said, become as numerous and fertile as seeds in rich flesh, and thus we did become numerous. XIVU ARATH said, become as hungry and defiant as tumors in rich flesh, and thus we became cancerous. SAVATHÛN said, drink of the poisons of the worm, so that you might feed on death, and we did feed. This was preparation for our crusade. Aia! We were thus becoming. A mother Wizard gets fertility from a mate, or from herself. From the Wizard the spawn, from the spawn our Thrall, from the survivors our Acolytes who contend. If they contend well, their worm is fed, and from the well fed worm come Knights and Wizards and Princes. This is us, and our purpose is liberation, our great task is the worship and admiration of freedom, our great hunger is to pursue and eat that which is not free, and to liberate it with devouring. Aiat. This is us, we the Hive.