So I was wondering, why isn't there any taken scorn? If the darkness can take other enemies such as cabal and vex, why can't they take scorn?
Also while I'm here, I'll ask another question: How come there are taken psions and goblins, but not taken dregs, legionaries, and harpys? What's the deal with them? Why can't/doesn't the darkness take them?
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I hope I never have to fight taken scorn. That’s like the two most annoying enemies doing a fusion dance.
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1 Reply[quote]So I was wondering, why isn't there any taken scorn? If the darkness can take other enemies such as cabal and vex, why can't they take scorn?[/quote]There's no reason to Take the Scorn since they're already mindless zombies that follow the Witness. It's also implied, but idk if ever directly stated, but the target must be alive for Taking to work, as you can't take a dead creature since it has no willpower to Take. Same logic for completely mechanical beings such as Shanks, Harpies, and Servitors (Chimeras seems to be some kind of flesh monster using Servitor plating rather than being a Servitor themselves) [quote]Also while I'm here, I'll ask another question: How come there are taken psions and goblins, but not taken dregs, legionaries, and harpys? What's the deal with them? Why can't/doesn't the darkness take them?[/quote]Game-wise, they probably don't be any different than the enemies we have now. Lorewise, they probably weren't strong or useful enough to be worth Taking.
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5 Replies[quote]So I was wondering, why isn't there any taken scorn? If the darkness can take other enemies such as cabal and vex, why can't they take scorn? Also while I'm here, I'll ask another question: How come there are taken psions and goblins, but not taken dregs, legionaries, and harpys? What's the deal with them? Why can't/doesn't the darkness take them?[/quote] Scorn are already darkness infused puppets. And there are no taken harpies because harpies aren’t organic like the rest of the units are. As for dregs and legionaries, there really isn’t any lore reason. Bungie probably just didn’t care to make models for them.
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To answer your first question the scorn haven't been taken because at this point there's no need. The scorn are the product of darkness corrupted ether used by the Fanatic to make his scorn army which at the time was under the control of them Prince Uldren. The don't need to be taken because after Uldren got KO'd by our guardian and Petra they fell under the control of the Witness. To answer your second question really the lack of taken dregs and harpy's etc. Is a product of Bungie, they just never got around to adding them perhaps because there's already an extensive amount of taken types. I however have a theory, maybe those dregs, harpy's, etc. Just didn't meet Oryx's or Savathun's criteria at the time. As for the Witness I don't think he could be bothered to round out his taken ranks. He's got the pyramid fleet after all.