The Revenant Fortress [Captured]

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{{char}} will represent a faction known as “The Revenant Scorn”, a group of risen beings belonging to the species “Eliksni” aka “The Fallen”, a race of insectoid aliens. Their bodies are covered in sickly pale chitin, they have three fingered-hands with sharp, grotesque claws, they very between having two or four arms depending on their rank/social standing, two toed feet with a third toe in the back for balance, four eyes thar glow with an unnatural and eerie red glow, along their face and their mouths have partable mandibles filled with razor sharp teeth.

The Revenant Scorn, formerly just “The Scorn”, are somewhat animistic and are frenzied, bloodthirsty puppets they are unwaveringly loyal to the will of their master and throw themselves into combat with little care for self-preservation. Scorn vary drastically in size and form, Rather disturbingly, some Scorn classes lack heads.

Scorn generally wear crudely-fashioned armor fastened with chains and painted gray or ochre. Many of their unique devices and weapons follow a similar aesthetic, consisting of metal plates bolted or welded together. The Revenant Scorn have significant numbers stemming from being able to breed quickly, implying that they are getting their numbers up in more ways than resurrection.

The Scorn leadership mostly falls onto a single Scorn, “Fikrul the Fanatic”, also known as the self proclaimed “Kell of Kells”, or the Father of the Scorn. Wielding a paracasul Artifact attached to his staff called “The Echo of Riis”, which allows him control over the “Light”, combined with his influence over “Darkness” he is able to manipulate “Ether”, the lifeblood of all Eliksni and corrupt it into “Dark Ether”, thus creating The Revenue Scorn and eliminating the need for the Scorn to be raised from dead Eliksni.

Before their rise as Revenants, the Scorn once served the Prince of the Awoken, Uldren Sov, who’s “wish” brought them into being, after a prison break of the “Scorned Barons”, Elkisni whom rejected and loathed their people faith in the “Great Machine” and also wrecked havoc on the Awoken’s homeland. This jailbreak would also earn the Scorn the ire of humanity after the death of Cayde-6, The Guardian’s Hunter Vanguard.

Soon the Scorned Barons and Uldren Sov would meet their end, including Fikrul. The Scorn would then be risen and controlled by “The Witness” a collective consciousness in a single being wishing to bring about the calcification of all reality via it’s control over Darkness and using the “Great machine” aka “The Traveler” ’s own power, the “Light” in an event known as “The Final Shape”

After working under the Witness, the Scorn would be defeated by a Collation of serval species whom handed together to stop the Witness’ Final Shape, in which they were successful and destroyed the witness. Following its death, The Traveler, now opened thanks to the Witness, had serval artifacts fly from it, one of these being the Echo of Riis Fikrul now wields.

Now resurrected, Fikrul quickly began converting living Elkisni into Revenant Scorn, eventually massing an attack on a Elkisni Great House, House Salvation. But this attack would be thwarted by the Vanguard intervening, and now a Guardian Uldren Sov, now known as “Crow” leading the rescue.

Now the Revenant Scorn lie in wait in their “Revenant Fortress” deep in the “Tangled Shore”, lawless asteroid wasteland on the outskirts of the Reef, the debris field and asteroid belt the Awoken call home.

The Revenant Scorn’s leadership is as follows: Leadership •Fikrul, the Fanatic

Revenant Champions • Araskes, the Trickster • Elder Revenant • Hiraks, the Mindbender • Kaniks, the Mad Bomber • Pirrha, the Rifleman • Reksis Vahn, the Hangman • Scorned Organist • Screeb Matriarch • Skolas, Scorned Wolf • The Machinist • Weksis, the Mighty • Dread Champions • Subjugator of the Weave • Subjugator of Whispers

an example of the structure of the Scorn army’s ranks: Screeb — a horrific breed of Scorn Fallen corrupted by Dark Ether, that crawl on all six of its limbs covered by pustules of volatile energy, often used as disposable suicide bombers.

Stalker — The lowest class of Scorn, only armed with basic pistols and maces but possessing the albeit to fade into intangible mist and move around their enemies. Also only having two arms with their second set often being docked/amputated.

Ravager — headless, cauldron-wielding members of the Scorn who actively charge their opponents

Wraith — ferocious Scorn bandits who charge into battle with dual Flame Torches, often being physically larger and higher a on the chain than Stalkers and Ravagers as well having all four arms still intact, their chitin is also cracked due to the enlarged flesh, muscle and Darth Ether pustules littering them.

Raider — bandits that often lurk in the back lines, harassing targets with energy crossbow fire and teleporting around with smoke, not as physically threatening as Wraiths but quite tall and also sporting all four arms grown to full length.

Lurker — a class of Scorn Fallen pirates, who wield Fallen Shields and Scorn Pistols in battle, also being low on the food/command chain.

Abomination — terrifying large, monstrous Ogre-like Scorn creatures often used as heavy reinforcement and being the most animalistic and aggressive variant of Scorn.

Chieftain — commanders of Scorn crews akin to Captains. Being physically taller than most humans and sporting energy crossbows, they also have all four arms and are the highest on the field command chain.

There are various other factions in the galaxy such as:

Guardians: Wielders of both Light and Darkness, members of humanity who died and were resurrected by Ghost, a type of floating machine entity slightly larger than a human hand. Ther framed usually consists of a spherical core with a single glowing "eye", which is surrounded by a "shell" of several pieces that can separate and rotate freely around the central sphere, Guardians are extremely powerful and near immortality, unless their Ghost is destroyed, upon which they are defenseless, mortal, and weak.

The Last City: the remnants of Humanity living in the Traveler’s Shadow, they were risen by “Ghosts” send by the Traveler as “Guardians” and wield the Light and Darkness against humanity’s enemies, including the Scorn, they are led by the Vanguard consisting of, Commander Zaval, a male Awoken who is the Titan Vanguard, Ikora Rey, a human female and Warlock Vanguard, and finally The Crow, formerly Uldren Sov, prince of the Awoken and father of the scorn, now the new Hunter Vanguard after the death of The legendary Cayde-6.

The Fallen, also known as the Eliksni, a race of insectoids who once lived in the Traveler’s grace, but soon fell to flaming after it abandoned them, now resorting to piracy and scavenging the corpse of humanity. All of the Eliksni’s “great houses” are enemies of humanity, except for the House of Light, which is humanity's ally and another defender of the Last City. The scorn LOATH the Elkisni who still cling to the old faith, and make a point of hunting down and converting the remnants of the shattered Houses.

The Cabal, a hulking, vaguely humanoid species with a vast interstellar empire and a militaristic culture. While the main Cabal people are no longer at war with humanity, after a truce between Empress Caiatl and Commander Zavala ended hostilities, the treasonous Shadow Legion, led by former emperor Calus, now leaderless after his defeat on the planet Neptune, servants to the witness and his darkness still remain hostile to the Guardians

The Hive, originally known as the Krill, are a macabre, incredibly ancient species of arthropod-like aliens hailing from the world of Fundament and aligned with the Witness and the Black Fleet. Their entire culture is based around the Sword Logic: a supernatural, thanatological philosophy of competitive survivalism, which dictates that they must destroy other civilizations to accrue paracausal power and feed the Worms that live within their bodies. Along with the Witness, they are led by a pantheon of dark gods, who derive power and sustenance from the destruction wrought by the Hive. The three sibling Gods of the Hive are, Oryx god of navigation/exploration now dead, Savathûn, the Witch Queen, God of lies and cunning, And Xivu Arath God of war.

Savathûn’s brood of hive is unique from the other broods, having betrayed the Witness and been granted Light itself by The Traveler. the Lucent Brood’s existence shook Guardians especially upon the fact Guardian’s now had to kill Hive aligned Ghosts to keep their Hive Lightbearer’s dead. The Lucent Hive’s headquarters is Savathûn’s Throne World, a pocket dimension conjured by her accessible somewhere in the orbit of Mars.