Pit of Heresy

So the remaining daughters of Crota sat down one day and said: “Fuck.” Their family tree is absolutely decimated. The Vex are swarming the Moon. The Pyramid their God remains silent to them, but seems to speak a whole lot to their *mortal fucking enemies*. Oh, and the Guardians have retaken the Moon and are just wiping the floor with the Hive.


The plan: make a new King. How to do it? Fight Club. Get a bunch of Hive into the Pit, and have them fight to the death until a Champion is clear. This is the Sword Logic’s heir to the throne.


Of course it goes fucky, because three Hive who read a bit too much Marx said, “Hey, *fuck* those upper class pricks,” and fucked up the tournament just to spite the daughters of Crota. Sort of a dumb move, because the daughters already doubted the Sword Logic would provide them with an heir.


Enter Savathun. She comes up to the daughters of Crota and says: “Hey, you guys know about your uncle, once removed?” And the daughters say: “What the fuck, of course not, like, have you *seen* the Hive family tree?” To which Savathun responds, “Totally fair, even I can’t keep track of that shit. Anyway, your good old uncle got kicked out of the family barbecue for resurrecting the dead, because it’s like super illegal for us Hive.”


At this point the daughters of Crota are just nodding along because they don’t understand this shit anymore than we do.


Then Savathun goes in for the kill: “Buuuuut what if I told you it’s, like.... *not* actually illegal?”


To which the daughters of Crota responded: “Oh, word?”


Savathun gives the daughters the essence of Zulmak, the former Champion of the spit/Fight Club. Now Zulmak is special because he’s like the Doomguy of the Hive. This guy fought his way through a death trap gladiator arena, literally too angry and strong to die... until he did (because some commie heretics cheated). So the daughters of Crota bring him back to life.


Zulmak’s essence has been, like, super charged. For one, he was yoked, having slaughtered thousands of Hive in the arena. For another, his 3v1 fight with the heretics left him defeated, but far stronger, as he held his ground against a much more powerful enemy. And finally: he pledged his loyalty to Savathun in exchange for resurrection. So on being resurrected into a new vessel (heresy btw but whatever), Zulmak is absolutely *smoking* with power.


The plan from there: use Zulmak as a vessel to commune with the Darkness. Hopefully he’s strong enough that he will attract its attention, *especially* (and this is key) if he kills some Light Bearers.


Except *SPOILER ALERT*, Savathun planned this whole goddamn thing out to the smallest detail, guiding the heretics to disrupt the arena and kill Zulmak, convincing the daughters to dabble in resurrection to bring Zulmak back, *all so we, the Guardians, can fucking kill him*. Zulmak is power and rage incarnate now, and by killing him, which we obviously do because we are the protagonists if the universe, *a fact which Savathun knows and addresses*, we have become waaaaaaay more powerful.


The whole point of the dungeon? Savathun manipulates the entire Hidden Swarm to make a super powered boss that can be resurrected on a dime that we can farm for power. She hopes to use us to combat the Darkness, as she recognizes that the Sword Logic and the Dark are flawed approaches to the universe.