// OPTIONAL

Eris Morn: Ascend Savathûn's Spire. We shall see what mysteries await us.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: You're only here because Savathûn's letting you in.

Ikora Rey: Guardian, remind Immaru why that is.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Savathûn went through all this trouble just for you. Don't waste it.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora Rey: Empower the Spire and unlock its secrets.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Eris is having the time of her life. She'll never give up being a Hive.

Ikora Rey: Yes she will. The sooner we can get this done, the sooner she can finish this.

Immaru: I wouldn't be so sure. I see that look in her eyes when she gets those tithes... and you see it too.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora Rey: These tithes are reckless.

Eris Morn: Reckless? No. I know the danger, and I will accept the outcome.

Ikora Rey: And if I won't accept it?

Eris Morn: That is what will lead us into recklessness.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Bringing down Savathûn's sister is gonna take more than chanting in a circle.

Ikora Rey: Eris knows what she's doing.

Immaru: Maybe. But from where I'm floatin', you're not exactly a fan of her methods.

Ikora Rey: I trust her judgment. I only wish it hadn't come to this.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora Rey: One of Savathûn's experiments with Arc Light. Interrupt its charge.

// OPTIONAL

Eris Morn: Break the charge of Arc energy to contain its Light.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Disrupt that thing to clear the room of Arc energy.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora: Transfer the Arc charge to each Crystal.

// OPTIONAL

Eris Morn: Conduct the charge of Arc to the inert Crystals.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: You'll need to move that Arc energy to those Crystals.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora: That Solar Light is unstable. Disrupt and control it.

// OPTIONAL

Eris Morn: Unchecked Solar Light. Savathûn's experimentation. Contain its power, Guardian.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: That thing is burning up the place. Get it under control!

// OPTIONAL

Ikora: The Solar crystals must be contained.

// OPTIONAL

Eris Morn: Bear each Solar crystal to its vessel.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Use those Solar crystals to unleash their power.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora: The Void Light will pull you in. Break its hold over you, Guardian.

// OPTIONAL

Eris Morn: Void Light exerts its inexorable pull. Break its tether.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: That Void Light'll keep draggin' you in if you don't contain it.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Shoot the Void crystals to bring 'em down.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora Rey: Break those Void Crystals to release their power.

// OPTIONAL

Eris Morn: Shatter the Void crystals to undo their power.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora Rey: Take the Hive's Light to the ritual circle.

// OPTIONAL

Eris Morn: Transmute your charged Light within the ritual circle.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Bring the Hive's Light to that ritual circle!

// OPTIONAL

Ikora Rey: Destroy them, Guardian.

// OPTIONAL

Eris Morn: Let them know fear.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Go to town.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Savathûn really thinks some half-Hive half-wit can take out her sister. We're all doomed.

Ikora Rey: Say that again. Eris will survive this, but believe me: you won't survive Eris.

Immaru: You're all bluffing. You can't crush me; I'm too important.

Ikora Rey: For now... but your freedom of movement is a privilege... and we have a crate just for you.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora Rey: Hive runes aren't letters. They're logograms. Each one represents a word or idea. Their patterns draw power from their meaning, and their orientation casts a spell. Eris uses them in her rituals... and we can use them now.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: You some kind of expert on Hive runes?

Eris Morn: Yes. Each rune manifest their referent. Death brings death, lies brings lies. We seize them all with our inscriptions, grasping their malign power. We wield them as we wield fear.

Immaru: Yeah, yeah, aiat, aiat. Forget I asked.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora: Those Hive are all that's left in your way. Bring them down, Guardian.

// OPTIONAL

Eris Morn: These are the Spire’s wardens. Remove them and complete our ritual.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: These are some of Savathûn's best. Take 'em down.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora Rey: Clear out the Scorn and take the Spire.

// OPTIONAL

Eris Morn: Guardian! Remove the Scorn and claim the Spire.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: One of Savathûn's experiments. Real mean. Go get 'em!

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Scorn are still all over the Throne World. No matter how many you kill, they keep comin' back. Witness must be churning 'em out. Hey, didn't your precious boy Crow wish them into existence? Great move. Really spiced things up for all of us. Thank him for me.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Savathûn kept these undead dolts in here under lock and key. Studied 'em for a while. She wanted to see if they were anything like Nokris's necromancy. They weren't. They got a special kind of resurrection just for them. No Ghosts, no throne worlds. Just Dark Ether and the Witness. And lucky for us, they just keep comin'.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: It never gets old watching you glowbugs fight the Scorn for us, heh. You even took care of Rhulk! Must be why you're still in Savathûn's good graces. So, keep it up, champ. You're doing great. I know that's what you Guardians like to hear.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora Rey: Eris, I spoke with Elisabeth Bray.

Eris Morn: I can imagine why. She fears phantoms. Futures that have not come to pass. I do not fault her for her concern. Tell her I am not alone.

Ikora Rey: I don't know if she'll understand.

Eris Morn: She has to.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Sword logic is easy. "Survival of the fittest." You don't need to dress it up.

Eris Morn: It is not an evolutionary adaptation, but a philosophical understanding. Active, not passive. You must prove your right to exist, or else you do not deserve existence. It creates a moral imperative to seek out and destroy everything you encounter.

Ikora Rey: You have to keep breaking things until you find something you can't break.

Eris Morn: Well... yes. That is one way of putting it.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora: Eris, you have to take time to rest. These transformations... you know I don't like this. I don't like what you've become.

Eris Morn: I understand your concern, Ikora. But I wonder: If I am subsumed, and remain Hive... would you still be concerned for my wellbeing?

Ikora: Of course I would.

Eris Morn: Let us hope that claim is not tested.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Xivu IS war. And as far as I can see, that's what we're in. So what's your pet Hive's plan?

Ikora: No one is more versed in Hive magic than Eris Morn. She'll find a way. She has to.

// OPTIONAL

Eris Morn: When the Hive gods made their pact with the worms of Fundament, they were bound to fulfill their ambitions, lest the worm devour them. Oryx sought understanding. Savathûn sought lies and trickery. Xivu Arath has fatted her worm on the strength of civilizations. And all that remains of those are the epitaphs etched in the pages of Hive apocrypha.

Immaru: She always like this? Lighten up a little! Yeesh.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: So, what'll be on your civilization's tombstone? “Here lies humanity. We thought we were the center of the universe, right up until a Hive God tore us apart.”

Eris Morn: We will have no such inscription.

Immaru: Yeah. That's right. Because there won't be anything — at all.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: You tear through everything in front of you, huh? Can't help yourself. It's what you do. I'm not gonna say, “we're not so different”, because you'll never believe it. What's the point? But Eris and Xivu… let's just say our God of War is getting exactly what she wants.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: You're going toe-to-toe with Xivu Arath. Wonder what that tusked-up tyrant thinks about that.

Ikora: The empress trusts Eris to get this done. After everything with her father, she's earned some rest.

Immaru: Too tuckered out from her daddy issues to do it herself, huh?

Ikora: I'll pass along your concerns. I'm sure she'll want to thank you in person.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: You think Eris will finally lose her marbles? She seemed short a few when she started. This might be the thing that finally knocks ‘em loose.

Ikora: Enough.

Immaru: What? I hear how your Guardians talk. They ain't exactly discreet.

Ikora: We trust Eris to get this done.

Immaru: Huh. You really think so? Might want to check your comms because that's not what I'm hearing.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Funny. The Witness can bring back any dead Eliksni and turn ‘em into Scorn. Sounds just like our Guardians, doesn't it. It’s good to have an army of useful, undead dummies. Looks like the Vanguard knows that too. So… snap-snap, hop to it. You've got a lot more Scorn to kill.

// OPTIONAL

Eris Morn: Well done, Guardian.

Immaru: “Well done”? We don't even know how to take out Xivu, and you're handing out cookies.

Eris Morn: We are making progress.

Immaru: Yeah? So where's your master plan?

Eris Morn: Xivu Arath breaches the Spire’s secrets. I will not let her breach ours.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: You're done. Now get out before you break anything else.

Eris Morn: We are not your Hive, and you cannot give us orders.

Immaru: Hah, as if you could hold up against my Hive. Where'd your Ghost go again? Oh, right. She's dead.

Eris morn: Speak carefully.

Immaru: Luckless low-Light.

Eris Morn: Cretin.

Ikora: Enough. Both of you.

Eris Morn: Ikora—

Ikora: Enough.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora: Eris, your ritual called on the Hive Worm Gods, and there were some I didn't recognize.

Eris Morn: Not all are Hive. Sel, Ora, Leis… they were Ahsa’s sisters. Dead, or lost. She whispered their names to me, and I invoked them alongside the worm gods both slain and living.

Ikora. I see. Ahsa is one of our greatest allies. I just hope she finds time to rest.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora: Savathûn kept the spire hidden from us for too long. It seems this place is still full of secrets.

Eris Morn: Such is its nature. Throne worlds are cyst universes, created by practitioners of the sword logic and manipulated by their whims. The Spire may be an emanation of Savathûn’s desire to control the Light.

Immaru: Who died made you an expert on throne worlds?

Eris Morn: Crota.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora: Eris, I can't keep ignoring Elsie.

Eris Morn: I have no trouble doing so.

Ikora: Think about this from her perspective. You don't know what she's seen.

Eris Morn: I am familiar with her perspective. I hear the speculation. There are Guardians who believe I will take control of the Hive, go mad, and kill you all. If not that, then they say I have nothing else to live for, and think my death is inevitable. That I will sacrifice myself for the good of all.

Ikora: That won't happen.

Eris Morn: Tell that to Elisabeth. Perhaps she will believe you this time.

// OPTIONAL

Xivu Arath: ERIS MORN. YOU ARE CONJURED WITH VENGEANCE. I AM CONJURED WITH WAR. IN YOUR VENGEANCE, YOU INVOKE YOUR UNDERSTANDING. IN YOUR UNDERSTANDING, YOU INVOKE MY BROTHER.

Eris Morn: Your brother is dead! He failed, and his children failed.

Xivu Arath: YOU ARE THE BLADE HAS HAS APPOINTED. NOW AND FOREVER OUR KING.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Rasputin was the best you got, and he still folded when Xivu came knocking.

Ikora: He was a hammer. The Warmind escalated attacks with the goal of overwhelming his enemies. That was futile against Xivu Arath. Self-sacrifice was his only option.

Immaru: So, what's Eris’ plan? Throw herself on a sword?

Ikora: It won't come to that.

Immaru: Yeah? What makes you so sure?

// OPTIONAL

Xivu Arath: ERIS MORN. YOU MEET ME IN MY COURT AND KNOW ME. YOU FIND ME IN OUR WAR AND SEE THE VIOLENCE OF YOUR BROOD. YOU BRING YOUR BLADE AGAINST MINE, AND IN THEIR CROSSING, I FIND YOUR LOVE. I WILL END YOUR EXISTENCE. AND WHEN YOU RETURN, I WILL KILL YOU AGAIN… AND WHEN YOU RETURN, I WILL KILL YOU AGAIN. AIAT. AIAT.

Ikora: Eris, what does that mean?

Eris Morn: The Hive gods killed one another out of love. Perhaps Xivu Arath seeks to do the same with me, and speaks her scripture to that end. I believe it is all she knows.

// OPTIONAL

Xivu Arath: I AM WAR AND YOU ARE VENGEANCE. THOSE THAT FALL TO YOUR SWORD DESERVE THEIR FINAL DEATH.

Eris Morn: Be silent! Your brood falls at each engagement! We will exterminate them, and you.

Xivu Arath: MY WORM FEASTS ON THIS FINE FLESH. MAY YOUR WORM FEAST UPON YOUR VENGEANCE.

// OPTIONAL

Xivu Arath: CHILDREN OF THE SKY. YOUR FALSE PEACE AND FALSE SMILE WILL BREAK BENEATH MY SWORD. WITH EACH DEATH, I TEST MY TRUTH AGAINST YOU. WE ARE PAIRED TO OUR TRUE SHAPES.

Ikora: Your logic will fail you, Xivu Arath, and the Deep will not save you.

Xivu Arath: WITH OUR WAR, YOU CUT THE ROT AND PROVE MY LOGIC TRUE.

// OPTIONAL

Xivu Arath: HARBINGER. AUGUR. I SEE THE BEAUTY OF YOUR MORPH. WITH OUR LOGIC, YOU WILL STAND BESIDE ME AS MY SISTER.

Eris Morn: I am not one of you!

Xivu Arath: TAKE YOUR PLACE AMONGST OUR KIND. I AWAIT YOUR GLORY. AIAT. AIAT.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Xivu Arath could squish us like bugs. What's her plan? Why is she hiding behind her troops?

Eris Morn: I have considered this. In my transformation, I promised vengeance against the Hive... And we are her brother’s killers.

Ikora: You’re suggesting that if Xivu Arath attacked directly, she would empower you?

Eris Morn: The sword logic precludes revenge. Perhaps she is afraid she will take it.

// OPTIONAL

Xivu Arath: I AM XIVU ARATH. YOUNGEST SISTER OF A DEAD KING. THE TRAVELER LIES TO YOU AS IT LIES TO MY SISTER’S TAINTED BROOD.

Eris Morn: I am Eris Morn, Crota's Bane. I will strike you from the pantheon of gods as I did your siblings.

Xivu Arath: WE ERADICATE WEAKNESS. WE MAKE OURSELVES SHARP. YOU FOLLOW DOWN OUR BLADED PATH SO YOU JOIN THE FINAL SHAPE. AIAT. AIAT.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora: The tithes have finished but we can still take control of the Spire with our magic.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora: There's still a lot to learn from Savathûn’s Spire. Hone your magic, Guardian.

// OPTIONAL

Eris Morn: Venture into the Spire. See what secrets may yet be found.

// OPTIONAL

Eris Morn: The Spire’s machinations lie open to us. Traverse it, and grasp its magic for our own ends.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: The boss is singing your praises. You did everything she asked, and you did it with style. She liked watching you tear through her Lucent Hive. Very sword logic. I guess old habits die hard. I know we're all cozy, but don't think we'll go easy on you after this. We still gotta “make ourselves sharp”, don't we?

// OPTIONAL

Ikora: My Hidden are looking for Xivu Arath, but apart from lingering Wrathborn it seems she's gone to ground.

Eris Morn: That was enough for Savathûn. She used us to continue an age-old game between her and her sister.

Ikora: And we played into her hands.

Eris Morn: Yes. But we have what we need, and Xivu Arath’s position is weakened. That must be enough for us as well.

// OPTIONAL

Savathûn: I built this Spire piece by piece with my will. Everything here serves one purpose: mastery of our Light. You Guardians have tested the Light's boundaries for as long as you've had it. I thought I'd do the same. After so many years finding the limits of Hive magic, it was lovely to stretch my wings.

// OPTIONAL

Savathûn: These Hive crystals contain powerful Light. Do you know where that comes from? I think you do. You've ripped it out of enough of your cousins to know that by now. My Brood did the same on Titan. You've become so good at it. I enjoy watching you work.

// OPTIONAL

Savathûn: Eris Morn. Such a resourceful woman. You know, I'm proud of her. She did exactly as I asked. And now, we know.

Ikora: Know what?

Savathûn: That the Hellmouth was the best thing that ever happened to her.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: You’ve become quite a little spellcaster. Eris and Savathûn taught you so much. Mastering the Spire, fighting like hell in our Oubliette, taking Xivu down a peg. You really did your mommies proud.

// OPTIONAL

Savathûn: Our runes hold power. You're writing yourself a little spell with each path you take. I hope you’re paying attention. Though even when you stumble, you're giving me some delicious tribute.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora: Good job Guardian.

Immaru: Yeah, yeah. Pat yourselves on the back. Savathûn saw all this coming and laid out her plan on a platter for you. All you did was follow it.

Ikora: Savathûn gambles in possibilities, not certainties. Predictions are only as accurate as hindsight makes them. We could have failed. What Savathûn did was an act of faith.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora: Eris, how are you feeling?

Eris Morn: To lose the tithes… [sighs] I was a god, Ikora. I no longer understand myself as I once did. There was something lost, but also dearly gained. But mostly… I am tired. Perhaps I will rest.

Ikora: How?

Eris Morn: With tea. And books.

Ikora: That sounds perfect. I think I'll join you.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Savathûn took these guys apart and put them back together. She knows exactly how they work. They’re a little Ahamkara trick. Wishing someone back alive doesn't mean they'll come back the same. I heard Eris knows all about wishing. Too bad you put Riven in the ground. Sounds like you could use a wish or two.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: So, what's that washed-up worm doing now?

Ikora: If you mean Ahsa, she went back into hibernation. Sloane is monitoring her. There's been no sign of any lingering effects since her pact with Eris concluded… Why? I know you're not concerned for her.

Immaru: Gotta keep tabs on her. Queen's orders.

Ikora: You don't know why, do you?

Immaru: It's need to know! Whatever Savathûn’s planning for Ahsa, it's better than what Xivu wants to do to her. Let’s leave it at that.

// OPTIONAL

Savathûn: So, Eris Morn became the Hive God of Vengeance. We all saw that coming. But oh, how she revelled in it. She's always been so buttoned-up. Formal. Aloof. It must have been good to see her finally cut loose. When you peeked under that bandage, what did you see? I think it was her truth. I love that for her.

// OPTIONAL

Savathûn: That was quite the masterstroke, Eris. I'm impressed. You have the unique honor of murdering me. A long time ago, my siblings and I would have welcomed you into our little family.

Eris Morn: Your resurrection was out of necessity. I slit your throat and took my revenge. I will not be taunted by you now.

Savathûn: Oh you took more than your revenge, honey — and I can't wait to see what you do next.

// OPTIONAL

Savathûn: You did very well in my absence, Immaru.

Immaru: Yeah? Then why'd you leave me with that wannabe Hive? She said she'd lock me away if I “tested the limits of her hospitality.” Then she called me a lout. I said she was a drummed-up dimwit. And she hit me with a book.

Savathûn: Be kind to your host, and keep up appearances with my Lucent Hive. You're a token of good faith. We don't want to give them a reason not to trust us, do we?

// OPTIONAL

Savathûn: My sister feels her worm's hunger, gnawing away at her for running from us. She has to keep testing her strength if she doesn't want to be eaten alive… and she has no one left to love. Now you see: I needed my worm exorcised so I could tell you the truth. And didn't I uphold our bargain? I knew you could do it. You've done so many impossible things… O murderer mine.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora: Eris, I've sent a message to the Techeuns as you requested.

Eris Morn: Thank you, Ikora. Queen Mara will know the way forward. A long time ago, she listened when I warned of Oryx's imminent threat. With this, she constructed a throne world of her own. It saved her life. May she arm herself with our knowledge once again.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Xivu isn't dead, you know. You didn't win.

Eris Morn: Oryx and Savathûn couldn't truly kill their sister. It was a game to them. It was love. If they died, they would simply return to their thrones.

Ikora: And they did that over and over again to make themselves stronger. We cut Xivu Arath’s safety net.

Immaru: So, you took her toys away. Now what?

Ikora: We deal with the Witness. Then, we deal with her.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: You didn't kill Xivu Arath, so what makes her less dangerous now?

Eris Morn: I severed her connection to her throne world. They allow their creators a method of resurrection, but they have limits. Oryx brought his throne world into his Dreadnaught’s embrace. That vanity was his undoing. The Guardians breached it, and destroyed him. So, too, did his sister perish when she welcomed us into her throne world. The Guardians found Savathûn there and ended her life. But Xivu Arath’s undoing will be for lack of a throne. And when that happens, I will smile.

// OPTIONAL

Immaru: Here's what I don't get: all the power of the Hive in your claws, and you gave it up.

Eris Morn: No. I used it to protect humanity, and in doing so, I disproved the premise of the sword logic.

Ikora: She knew that killing Savathûn would be an act of vengeance, and that it would empower herself enough so that she wouldn’t need to fight at all.

Eris Morn: We withstood the violence of the Hive and the primacy of their hunger. I proved our right to exist, and it broke their blade apart. I heard Xivu Arath’s screams. It was not just pain… It was heartbreak.

// OPTIONAL

Savathûn: You know, my sister's violence comes from a place of love. Even when we were young and playing Swords and Lanterns, she wanted to cut apart the universe so that she could survive it. So she cuts you apart until there's nothing left but what can withstand her. She wanted that for me… and she wanted the same for Eris, to stand with her at the final shape. That’s how Xivu Arath shows her love.

// OPTIONAL

Ikora: Eris, you said the Worm Gods derived their power the same way as the Ahamkara.

Eris Morn: That is Queen Mara's prevailing theory. They are thaumaturge to the space between the actual and possible. That power transformed the Hive from a prey species into some of the strongest beings in the universe... and it saved me in the Hellmouth.

Ikora: But the Ahamkara never give you what you want.

Eris Morn: They do... but our wants are tangled and contradictory. Such is the nature of the Ahamkara. Such is the nature of desire.