Xivu Arath has long been teased in Destiny 2’s lore. She has been an ever-present, threatening, and tormenting shadow in the minds of the Guardians. The last of the Hive Gods, she has been making her presence known more and more. So in order to defeat this enemy, the Guardians must know about her. Here’s what we know about Destiny 2’s God of War.
Xivu Arath – Destiny 2 Story
Basis
Xivu Arath is the hive god of war. She is the youngest of the three Hive Gods, the oldest being Savathun, the Witch Queen, and Oryx, the Taken King. As the Avatar of War, she is responsible for leading the armies of the Hive and increasing her powers through the central brutality that is Sword Logic.
Xivu Arath began life on the Fundamental, a gas giant, with her sisters Aurash and Sathona. She was the youngest daughter of King Osmium and originally known as Xi Ro. The main objective of this young krill was to become a warrior and a knight in the service of her father. To this end, she captured six of Stormjoys’ bait stars. These bait stars were actually the tips of tentacles attached to stormjoys, which were predatory creatures that resembled living clouds and hovered over land masses, luring their prey to their deaths.
Unfortunately, life would take a turn for young Xi Ro and her sisters. Her father had gone mad and obsessed with the end of her world, the Syzygy. Betrayed by her adviser, Taox, and killed by rival helium drinkers, the three sisters escaped their home using the bait stars captured by Xi Ro.
The three sisters swore a blood oath to avenge their father and murder Taox. Specifically, Xi Ro cursed over her left eye. Using an ancient high-tech ship, the sisters dove deep into the Fundamental oceans at the behest of their father’s worm. Of the three, Xi Ro hesitated the most, but was finally persuaded by her sisters.
During their journey into the depths, they encountered the Leviathan, a legendary Krill creature. He told them that they would have to choose between Light and Dark, but he couldn’t offer them a way to reverse the Syzygy, which he had already started. Despite Leviathan’s advice to go to the Light, the sisters listened to their father’s worm and headed into the Dark.
At the core of the Foundation, the three sisters met the five Worm Gods. These gods offered the sisters and the Krill a way to escape Fundament and achieve immortality. The price was that the Krill would have to embrace the larvae as symbiotes and the sisters would always have to follow their nature. For Xi Ro, this meant that she must always test her power. Thus, the Krill were reborn as the Hive.
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Xivu Arath emerges
Reborn as Xivu Arath, the younger sister joined her brothers in their war against the Ammonites who had allied with the Traveler and given sanctuary to Taox. In a war of genocide, Sword Logic fed the sisters and their worms. Eventually, the brothers began killing each other, each coming back stronger and stronger.
Rather than establish a court like his brothers, Xivu Arath declared that his court would be wherever war was found. This ultimately proved to be the undoing of the Cabal’s homeworld of Torobatl. Savathun, through his cunning, corrupted the Evoked-General, Umun’arath, and turned them into worshipers of Xivu Arath. Umun’arath began a hive ritual that Caiatl unknowingly completed when he slew the traitor. This act opened a portal that allowed Xivu Arath to invade the planet and claim tribute from him “overdue”. The Cabal were forced to flee their home world and venture into the solar system in search of refuge.
This prompted Xivu Arath to spawn cryptoliths throughout the system and galaxy, corrupting all beings within its reach. These cryptolites made many wrathborn subjects, beholden to the whims of the Avatar of War.
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Xivu Arath’s war against Savathun
Despite this act of generosity from Savathun, Xivu Arath began to persecute his sister. To escape her pursuer, Savathun possessed the ancient sorcerer, Osiris. There, she hid in the Last City before being discovered by Vanguard and Mara Sov. The Awakened Queen had just prevented an attempt on her life, resulting in the capture of Mara’s coven of Techeuns on the Ascendant Plane.
The Guardian, with the help of others, was finally able to rescue the Tech Witches from Xivu Arath and restore the Ley Lines in the Ascendant Realm. This would be necessary to complete a deal between Mara Sov and Savathun. The Witch Queen would release Osiris if the Awakened Queen removed the worm within Savathun. Xivu Arath, now aware of what was taking place, sent his champions to stop the ritual, but they were defeated by the Guardians.
Now, with Savathun dead and unable to be resurrected by his Ghost, Xivu Arath is the last of the Hive Gods. Her attacks have only become more aggressive as she tries to get hold of Rasputin’s arsenal. It is up to the Guardian, the Bray family, and Mara Sov to find a way to restore the AI ​​Warmind so that it can fight against the forces of Xivu Arath. And this brings us to the present, where Season of the Seraph unfolds on a weekly basis, drip-feeding the story to players around the world.
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