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It describes many nearby known continents as fragments of an ancient world where they once had lived, how the sea they float on and the atmosphere above them are two layers of the same gas giant. It begins with the narrator writing to their sisters, telling them that after two years of their short life they have found the truth of their species' origins: they, and perhaps all of the races living on the gas giant Fundament, are immigrants. This Verse isn't in the Books proper, and may be considered as a prologue. The Hive siblings' transformed names are used to lessen reader confusion. This list is not exhaustive, as many are mentioned only once, but is formed from importance to the story. The following is an alphabetical list of the characters, organizations, and species which appear in the Books of Sorrow. He makes plans for his eventual defeat, knowing that his work will be completed regardless if he lives or dies.

( XLIV - Insight) Eight Verses records the destruction of the Harmony, the separation of the Hive siblings and Oryx's private thoughts on his journey and conquests.Oryx's son, Crota, is thrown out to prove himself because of his causation of the Vex invasion.

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( XXX - XLIII) Fourteen Verses recount the Hive's destruction of the Taishibethi, Oryx's communion with the Darkness itself following, his sisters' plots against him, and his children plus the Hive's encounters with the Vex (which include the Vex discovering the Sword Logic), and creation of the Dreadnaught.

The tribute system and Hive hierarchy is developed. At this point he becomes Oryx, the Taken King. At first the war goes well for the Hive but they soon crumble as the Ecumene unleashes their mastery over nature against them Auryx finds the secret to Taking wills, and turns the tide of the war, resurrecting his sisters, and exterminating the Ecumene.

( XXV - XXIX) Five Verses detail their war against the Ecumene, a monolithic galactic civilization comprised of hundreds of species.

( XX - XXIV) Five Verses afterward describes the Hive's maturation into the feared conquerors they became later known as, destroying the Qugu species, developing the Sword Logic and their 'throne worlds', little pockets of reality carved into the Ascendant plane and Auryx, the Hive King, realizing the consequences of their bargain.

In the process they discover the Ascendant plane and begin the hunt for the Traveler. They emerge as Xivu Arath, Auryx, and SavathГ»n.

( Curiosity - XIX) Twenty of the Verses detail the lives of the proto-Hive sisters Xi Ro, Aurash, and Sathona on Fundament, their meeting with the Leviathan and the Worm Gods, eventual dominion over the Jovian world and destruction of the Ammonites.

If the different individual books are to be determined, the following synopsis has attempted to divide them based on subject matter, with bracket links to each subject:

It is mentioned in Verse XLVI (46) that there are five Books of Sorrow, with XLVI being the center.

3.49 XLVIII: aiat, aiat, aiat, aiat, aiat.

3.34 XXXIII: When do monsters have dreams.

For the first and last Verses, see the Enemies/Darkness Grimoire page.

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For the full record of the Books of Sorrow, please visit the Books of Sorrow Grimoire page. The Books of Sorrow are a compendium of the Hive's history, written by Oryx, the Taken King, stretching back before the dawn of humanity when the Founders of the Hive lived as mortals on Fundament, a gas giant similar to Jupiter, before they rose up and became gods of war.Д®xcerpts of the Books can be recovered by discovering Calcified Fragments aboard the Dreadnaught. And my vanquisher will read that book and then they will take up my weapon, and they will use it, and armed thus with my past, and my future, and my present they will become me. I will prepare a book, which is a map to a weapon. The emblem of the Darkness is superimposed over a Calcified Fragment in the background can be seen the faint outline of a pillar inside the Dreadnaught.