Come together! (For Great Justice)

Drake is pretty straight forward with his motivation. The Speaker and Eris point him in a direction, and he'll likely follow. But when he also hears word of Artitha being captured, by a corrupted Titan no less, his motivation will sky rocket.

His primary objective, if nothing else, will be to destroy that of which would shame the Titan codex and help his fellow Guardians get Artitha to safety. That, and he has a standing vendetta against the Hive, so that would also factor in.

Mm in order for this story to work, Eris can't be in the tower yet. When she shows up, Omnigul strikes. The Hive would rush to aid her in the return of Crota and Eris' drive to destroy him boarders on obsession. That aside, the various Warlock Orders would get involved in the possible making of another Shrine and anything of the coming of Oryx of interesting as Osiris predicted it some time ago.

Also, it should be known Ikora's Hidden is not a Warlock-Exclusive thing in case anyone else wants to jump on that.

I'll concpet my guy later.

The House of Buzzards will have brown and red house colors.

Their Prime Servitor is Tipiks Prime. It is decorated with bird bones, human skulls, and feathers. Its Archon is Roxsor, who almost never leaves the side of his Servitor. You fight one, you fight the other.

Their Kell is a brutal, clever fallen named Tolas. He's fairly lazy, allowing his loyal Barons and Captains to enforce his will, but he's by no means a dullard. If you piss him off, he'll find a way to bring you to him so he can eliminate you on his own terms.

Another Buzzard of note is a Baron named Pexies, who Jojo knows personally. He wears a stolen Hunter cloak around his waist, and has a long standing feud with Jojo, due to the Hunter's unusual and ill advised propensity to wander far into enemy territory. At one point, during one of their more fierce "debates" in Eastern Europe, Jojo shot and stabbed one of the Baron's lower arms, messily tearing it off. The Tolas, the Kell of his house, was rather unimpressed by the total loss, AND the brutal shaming of losing an arm to a Guardian and failing to avenge himself. Thus, Pexies was painfully demoted, denied his usual rations of Ether, and forced to work as a Captain and grow the arm back in shame. 

Peixes hated that, but eventually he worked his way back up through backstabbing and his innate skill. In turn, Peixes was the first opponent to kill Jojo in battle, pinning him down with his lower arms and strangling the Hunter to death with his upper arms. Fortunately, an arriving fireteam kept Jordan's ghost out of harm's way and revived him.

Feel free to make up other Fallen antagonists, or fill in details regarding those three.

I never understood what all the prefixes mean, like "Reaver". At least not in the context of Fallen hierarchy. Can someone clarify for me, pl0x?

To be honest, I feel like Bungie really slipped up on the story telling side of things with Destiny.

Reaver basically means stronger and crazier, according to Vale. I imagine, in story, they're twitchy, grimy, and hit way harder. That's the connotation I get from the word, anyway.

So difference in rank?

What about the other titles, like Baron?

Well, the Baron is an important part of the Fallen (edit: accidentally wrote hive) hierarchy. Lemme Break it down.

Dregs are the shamed privates. Two arms.

Vandals are the average joes.

Captains are a step above Vandals. They lead groups of Dregs and Vandals in ground combat.

Barons, the malefactors in question, lead entire crews. They pilot small ships and Captains act as their lieutenants.

Then there's the Kell. The highest on the chain of command. They're the biggest and strongest, and lead EVERYONE.

Then, there's Archon Priests. They manage the Servitor, and act as a sort of heirophant and Second in Command to the Kell, usually being second strongest.

Reaver is just a word. It's not important so don't worry over it. Lol.

Bad John wrote:Reaver basically means stronger and crazier, according to Vale. I imagine, in story, they're twitchy, grimy, and hit way harder. That's the connotation I get from the word, anyway.

If you remember in Halo Reach, you had the Brute Kill Teams, or the Elite HeadHunters as options in Firefight?

I like to think of the Reaver class enemies as special subclasses of enemies that are sent specifically for Guardian engagement. Perhaps they are Vandals/Dregs/Servitors that have survived a Guardian engagement and as a result are given a slight boost in Ether. Not enough to offer a promotion, but enough to make them more resilient.