Knights also fall into this when using cleavers. The Thralls' overzealous demeanor leads them to attack foes with their bare claws. Close-Range Combatant: The Hive are generally the most close-combat-oriented faction.Church Militant: As much crusading devotees in their Religion of Evil as they are soldiers.Oryx even calls Alak-Hul a "beloved son" because he betrayed and tried to usurp the Taken King's throne. Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Not only does it happen, and not only is it expected, but for the Hive's upper echelons treachery is considered a sign of love.Cannon Fodder: Thralls' Zerg Rush tendencies leave them as little more than Cannon Fodder for the Knights and Wizards.It's acceptable to manipulate one's mortality so that they cannot die, as the Hive Gods do, but to invert the death of something that has truly been killed is the deepest heresy. Reversing death is therefore a blatant slap in the face of the Sword Logic that the Hive follows. If something has died, it is too weak to survive in the face of the strength of something greater than it, and the death of the weaker entity pushes the universe toward greater perfection. Truly reversing a "final" death in the form of resurrection and necromancy is considered abhorrent to the Hive, because it is reversing the "truth" of the Sword Logic.For this gift, the Hive gods love each other. This idea extends all the way up to their gods, who spend eternity killing each other and learning from the attempt. The universe, they believe, will end with all things broken but one, which will exist forever. The Hive philosophers thrive on something called Sword Logic: If something dies, it had no right to exist in the first place.Wizards are always female, and are the only females able to produce offspring. Male seems to be mandatory for the King and Prince morphs, but is apparently optional for the very similar Knight morph. There's not that many Hive who have undergone a gender change after they reach adulthood, Oryx being the most prominent exception. Bizarre Alien Biology: The Hive are actually all born biologically female, but upon puberty, they collectively gain a Gender Bender ability, with those who identify as male quickly taking the opportunity to fit their self-image.That's where it ends though, as the Hive are advanced enough to have religion and recognize the Osmium Pantheon as their masters instead of a local queen. Bee People: Despite their relatively humanoid shape and some identifiable human-like mannerisms, they have an extremely eusocial structure with Wizards breeding thousands of other Hive creatures each.BFS: Cleavers, giant swords of bone and metal used by Knights to carve through enemy lines.Attack! Attack! Attack!: Hive Thralls, the most newborn of the Hive, know few other tactics, being too bestial and zealous to do very much other than Zerg Rush their opponents.Appeal to Force: Their entire philosophy revolves around it.
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