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Postby Sarah » 01/06/2016 8:16 PM

Üzeti waited calmly as the tear in reality grew. He could see light filtering into his limbo, but it was not yet big enough to fit through. The words of his master echoed in his mind. A cacophony of sounds that drowned out any other thought he could have. Taking the knife he vowed to carve his master's will into the world. Anything to stop the relentless throb of sound in his brain.

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Postby Sarah » 01/06/2016 8:17 PM

Ütezi… The name he was given by the vanguard. His name meant taken in some lost language, pre-golden age. The cryptarchs had been tickled pink when they found that little relic of the past. They had probably gone wild when the vanguard used what they suggested. Ütezi wasn’t supposed to exist. His light was supposed to protect him from Oryx’s will. The will of a god had consumed him and he was left raw while the same god kept him in the limbo world.
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The limbo world had been something of a mystery when Ütezi had been a guardian. The only thing anyone had known for certain was that the creatures taken suffered always. When he had been plucked from the ground and taken Ütezi learned true suffering. Physical suffering was a constant as his atoms slowly reshaped themselves into the god’s vision. It was that suffering that distracted him from the mental changes that were being inflicted. Ütezi couldn’t remember when the voice of Oryx came into his mind, but once it was there it drowned out any thoughts he might have had. The worm god ate away at his individuality until there was nothing left but an empty puppet.
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Postby Sarah » 01/06/2016 8:18 PM

The grimoire cards read differently. The voice that played in the minds of the aliens, the voice playing in his own mind, acted like a kindness. Oryx, and his worm, thought of this place and this transformation as caring as a mother’s touch. Such a thought did not cross the minds of the taken, and Ütezi wished he could make sure the guardians remembered that the taken were tortured.
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Postby Sarah » 01/06/2016 8:18 PM

The vanguard, and all other high ranking members of the tower agreed not to let word spread of a guardian being taken. No guardian was too weak to lose their will. The traveler’s light wasn’t too weak to lose its will. If the traveler failed then the guardians would no longer have any reason to stick around the last city. Guardians would no longer have a reason to put their faith in the speaker or his underlings. The utmost trust was put into every leader to keep things under wraps, but as all humans have faults it wasn’t long until word got out. The queen was the first to get the news, and it was enough to put her into action, for whatever that was worth when in the end she perished.
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Postby Sarah » 01/06/2016 8:18 PM

Ütezi had been one of the first creatures to be taken. Oryx made sure he had a sample of everything in the sol system before he began his true onslaught. When the queen vanished it was harder to keep his story under wraps, and guardians began to fear their own light being taken although they never knew the full story as to why they should fear. Fear was good. It would be the only thing keeping them alive as they faced the onslaught of Oryx’s hoard. Fear was something guardians were trained to let go of.
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Postby Sarah » 01/06/2016 8:19 PM

The gap in realities widened and Ütezi could almost make it out. A little of his own thought interrupted Oryx and Ütezi was shocked by his own voice. He'd forgotten what he sounded like. Fearing attention Ütezi gripped the pounding voice of a God and forced himself through the tear. He landed on the other side and was met with silence. Foreign soil churned under him in the aftermath of the tear.
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Postby Sarah » 01/06/2016 8:21 PM

Ütezi had expected something different. Not necessarily worse, but definitely different. Instead of coming face to face with a guardian, or being surrounded by other taken as he expected would happen, Ütezi was standing in a forest facing a pathway, and surrounded by unfamiliar foliage. Ütezi heard himself again, the individuality of his voice and thoughts terrified him. As much as he hated to admit it Oryx had made him reliant. The silence that replaced the all-consuming voice was too much too soon.
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The forest moved around him and Ütezi remembered that he had once been a guardian. The man at the forefront of dead zones collecting intelligence for the tower. He felt like he would know if he had been dropped somewhere in the solar system. Ütezi called upon the power of the void something he had not done since he was taken, but something that Oryx had not taken from him. Oryx knew using a guardian against other guardians would be futile if his taken were not well equipped. He could feel the creeping power of the void fill him and he felt a little more human. Ütezi had not been equipped with a gun, but an ethereal void bow found its place in his hand.
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Postby Sarah » 01/06/2016 8:21 PM

The bow felt good in his hands. Felt familiar and calming. The void was something he couldn't explain, of all elements at his disposal it was void that he liked best. The way it contradicted itself was enthralling, and so few could grasp the void and be successful. Void magic had always provided exactly what he needed and was reliable in a way that the other elements were not. Ikora could have explained it, but he was a simple huntsman. Ütezi took what worked for him and didn't dig deeper than he needed to.
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Postby Sarah » 01/06/2016 8:22 PM

Hunters relied on the warlocks for information, just as the warlocks relied on the hunters to scout planets for intelligence on relics they cannot get their hands on. Warlocks were not unfamiliar with field work as often times a fireteam would be made up of a warlock and a band of hunters. Ütezi knew a lot more about foliage and ancient civilizations than he did on elemental magics because he was only ever assigned those missions. He never felt bad about it, and after a time he became very interested in the subject, but he did wish he knew more about the powers that saved him time and time again.
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Postby Sarah » 01/06/2016 8:23 PM

Ütezi forgot the forest around him as he lost himself in the silence of his mind. He was trying to figure out if he had ever worked in the field with a Titan. The brutes were too dull for his tastes. Their minds always seemed too straightforward and their humor based in proving who was the strongest. Somewhere in that godforsaken tower there had to be a Titan that didn't man the wall or patrol the city. One that took their punches to other planets, and their shattering elemental damage to the face of some boss monster. If there had been, Ütezi never worked with them.
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Postby Sarah » 01/06/2016 8:23 PM

Ütezi couldn’t calculate how long he had been in Oryx’s control. As he stood in the forest, gaping dumbly at his the silence of his mind, he began remembering more of his life before. His allegiance with the vanguard, and his distance from the last city put him in a different position than most. The amount of people he’d lost, seen become lost, was too devastating to measure. The lack of emotion when sending reports or reading reports. Finding happiness in the small things because nothing big was ever good.
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Postby Sarah » 01/06/2016 8:23 PM

There was one moment that stood out to him. He had been in South America helping a new guardian get to the tower. His team gave her their last ship knowing full well that it was probably the last human ship they would ever see, but they had given up on the vanguard ever sending them anything. That night falled skiffs swarmed the sky. Apparently the fallen knew Ütezi had sent away the last shpo and weren't going to pass up the opportunity to remove a guardian blight from their map. Fallen didn;;t look like much around the last city, but in the dead zones guardians were easy prey. His crew was slaughtered and he had been taken.
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Postby Sarah » 01/06/2016 8:24 PM

Ütezi wondered why Oryx only took one. Obviously he wanted to keep the guardian a secret, but why not take the lot of them? Would the guardians not lose their will in a group? Did Ütezi just have the weakest will of them all? Perhaps Oryx wanted to start with one as an experiment, but surely a god would know the repercussions of taking a guardian. Once Oryx took a guardian all other guardians had the sense to keep their will strong. Oryx chose incorrectly, Ütezi was a failed experiment.
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