You heard me right. You didn't kill Oryx. Let's start off with a short and quick explanation of the sword logic. It's the way things become more powerful. Think of everyone as a blade, and if you were to kill someone, you become the shaper blade. With each kill you become a little more powerful. The more powerful the thing you kill, the more power you obtain from that kill. It's kinda like XP in a way. Now that that's out of the way, back when Oryx first fell, and people gained an understanding the sword logic they couldn't help but wonder, "why did we not become gods. Oryx had such sword logic and we should have gain it from killing him. Why didn't we?" The answer is simple and sweet. You shot the wrong guy. When you "killed" Oryx in the physical world, you sent him back to his throne world. You then moved to kill him in his throne world to put and end to him once and for all. When you're fighting him he lets loose some of his sustaining food-light in a gamble. (We know these as the light-eater ogres that drop the blights.) If we die, the gamble pays off. If we don't die and detonate the blights then he takes damage. Once we detonate roughly 16 blights Oryx moves to the center for one final and desperate stand. He opens his chest to reveal his worm, so that the worm might directly eat you. In this moment the whole team unloads and then Oryx dies and float off towards Saturn. Right? Well, almost, but not quite. As I mentioned, some people wondered why we didn't (apparently) gain Oryx's sword logic and become gods. I believe the reason why this didn't happen is because we didn't kill Oryx. [i]"But we shot at him and he died!"[/i] Not wrong, but also not true. Lads and lasses, you shot at his worm. When you killed Oryx, you didn't really kill him directly. In killing his worm you killed the very thing that made him so powerful. In those moments when he starts crystallising and lights up, I believe that's him having his very life essence being ripped away from him as he can't sustain his powerful state without his worm. So to sum up, you killed his worm, not him. And because you did not kill the taken king directly, you did not obtain his sword logic. Thank you for your time and I hope you enjoyed. Let me know what you think. Edit: [b]to clarify, Oryx is still dead. We killed him indirectly and that's why we didn't become gods in that instant.[/b] Edit: put the first edit in bold. Edit: If you have a question I suggest you look down below because I've more than likely answered it or actively discussing it. [quote]back to master thread: [url]https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/205238605/0/0[/url][/quote] Cheers :D