Before even becoming a god, Auryx's will alone could warp laws), Acausality (Paracausality), Death Manipulation, Negation of Regeneration and Resurrection (Knows how to sing deathsongs, the type of death manipulation used by his daughters), Summoning, Duplication, Astral Projection, Absorption, Power Nullification (Stopped the PC's Ghost from transmatting the Guardian out of Crota's throne world, also via King's Decree), Matter Manipulation (Macro-Quantum with willbreaker, unknown otherwise. Oryx can also use each of these abilities excluding conceptual manipulation, body puppetry, and possession independently from one another in his material form for a variety of different applications, although law manipulation in the material realm is limited otherwise. Here Oryx's ability to take is referred to as an "ontological weapon", likening it to the Vex Gorgons that can retroactively erase things from time across multiple timelnes. Superhuman Physical Characters, Sword Logic ,Magic, Soul Manipulation, Necromancy, Immortality (Types 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 via Touch of Malice, and the Sword Logic, 7, 8, based on his oversoul and the concepts of curiosity and understanding, 9), Regeneration (at least Low Godly as he can reform himself from his Oversoul), Law Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation, Reality Warping, Existence Erasure, Mind Manipulation, Body Puppetry and Possession via his ability to Take (The ability to Take passively erases existence in the area around them, which destroys foes and resurrects them as taken subservient to the will of Oryx, Oryx notably is able to Take beings such as the Vex, who are acausal and exist simultaneously at every point in time. Gender: Male, formally Female (Which changed due to Oryx taking someone's gender, which happened to be male)Ĭlassification: The First Navigator, The Great Navigator, The Demon King, King of Shapes, Harrowed God, King of the Deep Name: Oryx, The Taken King, formerly Auryx and Aurash Tiering: 4-B | At least 4-B, likely Low 2-C, will eventually become 2-A Enraged at the death of Crota, Oryx traveled to the Solar System aboard his Dreadnaught seeking revenge but was defeated twice, first in the material world and later in the Ascendant Realm, the second one being permanent. Oryx is also the father of the dreaded Crota, a deadly Hive Prince who slew thousands of Guardians during the Great Disaster, and Nokris, his estranged second-born and herald of the Worm God Xol. Of all the Hive gods, he alone holds the power to bend other races to his will.
Reborn from the Darkness itself through a wicked pact, Oryx is the founder of the Hive race, alongside his sisters and fellow deities, Savathun, the Witch-Queen and Xivu Arath, God of War, and the source of their terrible power.
Oryx, the Taken King, born Aurash and formerly known as Auryx (meaning "Long Thought"), is the sovereign of the Osmium Throne, the God-King of the Hive, and master of the Taken.