Savathûn, the Witch Queen
Savathûn, the Witch Queen is an extraterrestrial video game character who features in Destiny.
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Biography
Sathona was a female Krill who was the daughter of the Osmium King and a member of a species that resided on the gas giant Fundament where her people lived a harsh existence amidst floating continents that were shards of their shattered homeworld. In that time, she was the daughter of her continents ruler alongside her sisters Xi Ro and Aurash where they lived at the Osmium Court. They came to be the final brood of their father as he came to reach the old age of 10 years old when he suffered from senility madness. He came to fear an event called the Syzygy which was when Fundament's 52 moons would align where it would create a massive tidal wave that would destroy all civilisations on the planet. During this time, a sterile mother named Taox came to serve as a teacher to the King's daughters but she feared that the royal heirs would prove too weak to succeed the Osmium King. She came to secretly entreat the Helium Drinkers where she planned for the rival kingdom of the Helium Court to invade the land. This would see the royal family being killed and Taox being appointed as regent of the Osmium Court. At the appointed time, the Helium Drinkers staged their attack where they came to kill the Osmium King but Auras and her sisters who were all 2 years old at the time managed to escape on a ship where they vowed a blood oath to return to get their revenge. Sathona had managed to steal her father's Worm during the escape where she promised to herself that she would become a mother and raise her spawn on the corpses of the Helium Drinkers. Over the next year, the three sisters sailed the oceans of Fundament where in this time Sathona began to hear her father's worm speak to her. It came to guide her to acts that would save the sisters over the year. In time, the three sisters came to find a ship they named 'the needle' that was built of high technology but whose crew had died obscenely after hatching an egg from a creature that they could not recognize. Xi Ro insisted that they should sell the ship at the Kaharn Atoll where the species of Fundament gathered where she believed that an auction could raise them enough money to hire mercenaries to fight the Helium Drinkers. However, Sathona told Xi Ro that the ship was worthless and Aurash instead suggested that they repair the vessel. With prompting from the Worm, Sathona agreed with Aurash and convinced Xi Ro to repair the ship. It took over two year for the sisters to repair the ship whereby this point the siblings were not 5 years old. By this point, Sathona came to fear that she would be too old to eat mother-jelly thus preventing her from becoming a mother and also felt that tey would be unable to fulfil their oath. It was Aurash then who suggested that they dive deep within the oceans of Fundament in order to travel to the planet's core. X Ro warned though that this was how the last crew of 'the needle' had died but Sathona came to agree with Aurash following prompting from the Worm. Diving into the depths, they came to reach a point where they decided to use their ships sensors and to their horror they came to believe that the fated Syzygy was real. This event was a cataclysmic disaster that would occur when Fundament's moon came into alignment and was said to be capable of wiping all life from their world. At that point, they encountered the Leviathan that was spoken off in Krill myth who warned the sisters to turn back or they would unleash disaster on the cosmos. The Leviathan would tell the siblings that they were at a crossroads where they could be offered the Light of civilisation or fall into Darkness that promised only violence. However, the entity offered no hope of escaping the Syzygy with Sathona then revealing the Worm to her sisters and that it was aiding them. It came to urge them to travel further into the depths and to reject the Leviathan thus leading to them taking their craft deep into the planet's core.
Reaching the very center of Fundament, the three sisters found the Worm Gods: Akka, the Worm of Secrets, Eir, the Keeper of Order, Ur, the Ever-Hunger, Xol, Will of the Thousands, and Yul, the Honest Worm. The Worm Gods offered the three sisters a chance for the proto-Hive to escape Fundament as well as achieve immortality. All they had to do was take the Worms larvae into them as symbiotes and spread them among the proto-Hive. The Worms posed the caveat that the sisters must never cease their natures: Xi Ro must always test her strength, Sathona must always be cunning, and Aurash must always try to understand. The sisters accepted the pact and became the first Hive: Xi Ro took the Knight morph and became Xivu Arath, Sathona took the Mother morph and became Savathûn, and Aurash took the King morph, transforming into a male and became Auryx, the King of the Hive. As Auryx and his sisters forced an ultimatum on the remaining proto-Hive to accept the worms or perish, Auryx turned his attention to Fundament's moons, and the Ammonites there who had allied with the Traveler and gave asylum to Taox. Initially, he was willing to negotiate with the Ammonites, but his sister Savathûn, under pressure from the Worms, killed Auryx as punishment. Rather than dying, Auryx's soul instead passed to his Ascendant Realm, or throne world, where his soul resided until he returned to the mortal realm. Rebuked, Auryx purged what sympathy and goodwill he had left, becoming a merciless tyrant. He and his sisters warred with and killed one another on a regular basis after the defeat of the Ammonites, as part of their worship of the Sword-Logic and their attempt to become the sharpest blades in the universe, heading to their Ascendant realms when defeated. Their war of revenge against Taox had transformed into a campaign of genocide when they slew the Ammonites and other interstellar civilizations to feed their worms. When Oryx established the Court of Oryx to study the sword logic, Savathûn was inspired to establish a court of her own, known as the High Coven. During the war with the Ecumene, Auryx came to realize that the Worm Gods had deceived him and his sisters. Their worms' appetites were growing past their ability to feed with death. Meeting with his sisters in his ascendant realm, surrounded by their servants (some of which despised them for showing weakness) they despaired over their dilemma. When his sisters offered their power to help Auryx find a way to save them, Auryx killed them, then used that power to confront his patron god Akka, the Worm of Secrets. He killed Akka so that he could steal its ability to call upon the Deep and created the Tablets of Ruin, which gave him the power to Take. His transformation complete, Auryx was now Oryx, the Taken King. During the subsequent war with the Ecumene, Oryx revived Xivu Arath in an act of war and revived Savathûn in an act of cunning. He then decreed the tithe system: each Hive would kill their enemies, take some to feed their own worm and tithe the rest to their superior. Thralls would tithe to Acolytes, Acolytes would tithe to Knights or Wizards, the Knights and Wizards would tithe to the Ascendant Hive, those who commanded legions of warriors and earned the right to enter the Hive gods' Ascendant realms. All of this violence would eventually reach Oryx, Savathûn, and Xivu Arath, allowing their worms to feed on violence while continuing to invoke their inner natures.
Following a ritual, Savathûn came to be critically injured after her worm was exorcised where she departed the Dreaming City and travelled to an outcrop high above the Last City. Whilst there, she spoke to the silent Traveler hanging over the city where she noted that she had chased this foe over many years. First, as a enemy, then as a collector and now as a collector where her wounds came to be fatal as she died at that moment. It was then that she was approached by a Ghost who came to revive her with the Light using its power of resurrection. Her companion was named Immaru where the Witch Queen decided to use help convince other Ghosts to revive members of the Hive as Lightbearers. She then created the Lucent Hive to serve her where she began enacting her own schemes that were separate of those from the Black Fleet in the Solar System.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Upon adopting the mother-morph form, she came to take a new name for herself where she came to be known as Savathûn. She came to be known by a number of titles including the Witch Queen, Sister of Shapes, Deepest in the High Coven and so on.
She came to be driven to understand the deepest secrets of the universe and gains power from the deception and confusion of those who seek to understand her unfathomable schemes.
It was said that she had a gift for paying attention to the wants and desires of those around her. This gave her the openings she needed in order to assume control over her enemies.
As the Hive God of lies, cunning and trickery, Savathûn thrives on deceiving and outsmarting both her opponents and supposed allies. Nearly every word she speaks is calculated to misdirect and manipulate, and her true motivations at any given moment are shrouded by the web of rumors and false leads she spins about herself.
According to her, everything she and her siblings had done was for each other. Savathûn had said that one would do anything for your family, chosen or otherwise and would go to any lengths to avenge them.
Powers and abilities
Savathûn was born of the krill that were a race that came to be transformed into the Hive. After maturing, she adopted a mother-morph and came to be known as Savathûn in this state.
After making a pact with the Worm Gods, she came to be implanted with on of their larvae. The Worm larvae that resided within her body provided her with paracausal abilities.
She was able to produce a viral language called the Song of Savathûn that was capable of infecting the minds of her enemies.
Later on, she came to be revived as a Lightbearer after being chosen by the Ghost Immaru. This allowed her to be resurrected by him so long as he remained functional and had access to her remains.
She came to be inspired by her brother Oryx and his court leading to her creating her own version known as the High Coven that was based at the Court of Savathûn.
Her ties to the Darkness allowed her to create her own throne world that existed within the Ascendant Realm which was an extradimensional plane of existence. The Witch Queen was able to achieve through the power of her Worm symbiote and her own force of will. It served as a refuge for her soul should she ever be killed in battle and helped connect her Hive on the physical plane. She was able to conduct rituals capable of pulling the likes of the Traveler into her throne world.
Notes
- Savathûn was created by Bungie Studios where she was voiced by actress Debra Wilson and featured in the setting of the Destiny universe.
Appearances
- Destiny:
- Destiny 2:
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