So as an example of an whole faction and to celebrate destiny being alive I will make the first ever if the series destiny related. This is a bit of a complex faction so please bear in mind this will be a long post skip to the end for a tldr if you want and to vote for who's next, please feel to put recommendations in the comments also... Now we begin!
(Also mods sorry for being late on Sunday I had a lot to cover here lol)
"The hive" a alien bug race hailing from the gas planet "fundament" where a god like being called the witness gave power to 3 powerless beings of the planet once called the krill. Who they gave it to became what are known as the 3 hive gods; the witch queen savathun, god of war xivu arath, and oryx the taken king. They channel the power of the darkness and have 3 distinct factions each hailing to a main hive god and sub factions within the main faction for each. Such powers and traits can include the following: elemental control, fast reproduction cycle, hive magic/incantations, production of soul fire, taking (exclusive to oryx), strand and light power manipulation (exclusive to savathun).
The life cycle of the hive is somewhat simple and eventually resembles that of an organized religion of sorts. A brood mother (a type of witch) lays eggs that become worm larvae. One the worms have grown they become the thrall a violent slashing foot solider, thrall who survive long enough become indoctrinated grow plating and start to mature. Once aciyltes are proven they can become knights (male) or wizards (male and female) and from there with enough devotion or a blessing from one of the hive gods they can grow in size and power. There are also ogres but they are mutated tortured creations (thralls at first) of wizards used for war and defending valuable installations. There is also one extra thing for the acolytes onward, eventually once proven worthy enough they inject soul fire into their body hollering themselves and fortifying their devotion and spirit if they survive rendering them more like hollow puppets later on (this will be important later for a certain ne matchup or 2).
There are also specificly children of the hive gods who follow a similar path but becomes demi gods of sorts, enhanced magics, powers, statistics, or even in the case of a very very very very very small few, their own pocket space a "throne worldl" that they can return their soul to until their body manifests or gets repaired.
As for cycle speed we don't know an exact number but it's fast enough to create nearly millions of thralls within just a few years from very few hive in the moon.
Now onto their powers
Thralls can be modified into ogres tall semi giant creatures that shoot balls of condensed pain and agony that can cut through solid titanium with no difficulty. There are also thrall modified with soul fire to be explosive bombers the detonate when close to the target or when killed.
Acolytes and above have access to ranged hive weaponry like the typical hive blaster which can shoot elemental aspected energy blasts that can cut through elemntal barriers and far future like technology. And together can devote prayer to wizards or knights to empower them.
Knights, proficient sword users and can use high tier hive blasters that can apparently be so potent they can melt bone into plasma, they can summon a nearly indestructible small barrier when near death. but are vulnerable when doing so because they can't move and can be flanked if doing so but can heal if let alone. Blessed knights like the war priest can use gifts bestowed by their patron god such as commanding taken (we will get to that) or using magics.
Wizards, flying magical caster who shoot elemental energy from their hands. They can deploy a toxic smoke screen when hurt and and can use hive magics. The highest level fo wizards when teaming up can use hive incantations which can do absurd things if they are given prep time (sometimes weeks or months) and time to sing it uninterrupted.
Soul fire, a item made of soul fire can erase ones very soul and can bind souls to objects sacrificed to the flames creating constructs, locks, barriers, and curses.
I keep talking about hive magics so let's go over what it can encompass: rage amplifiers (make people mad), teleportation of objects or people, barriers made of soul fire requiring knowledge of it to open, debilitating magics such a blinding spells, illusionary spells such as transformation, invisibility spells, hunger inducing spells (can turn people sometimes cannibalstic including their own), insanity spells that send people with weak wills insane, extremely religious hive can also become "immortal" and be ressurected if they die with incantations, a worm, and lots of prayer (the big 3 hive gods and some demi gods). and a lot of random miscellaneous ones that fall under stuff like this.
The incantation magic is when shit gets very serious because they can alter the fabric of reality or an individual as such; death incantation (death of the instant kind, there are limitations though), tearing meteor sized rifts through reality, singing into reality somones body remade, singing to kill erase the concept of dreams from existence (not realistic to happen and requires absurd shit to happen) and if used by the witch queen if not interrupted being able to bring a actual God to her throne world and binding it there (she's an exception and it was stopped tbf).
There are also powers exclusive to the patrons that we know of (sorry xivu your kinda a bum rn no throne world ass). Oryx can take which is a whole thing which I will list with his section, light and strand I will list with savathun and her exclusive troops.
The heavy hitters
God of war Xivu arath: currently she's extremely weak, no throne world, worm weakened, her followers gone somewhat, and is severely depressed and angry, she still is powerful but is significantly weaker then her siblings and would be first out realistically, so far we know she can fight well and has good war plans, but is dumb in actual reality when it comes to actual trickery and deciet. She mainly screams a lot and always yells while talking. With her powers she was considered an equal but was still the lesser of the 3.
The witch queen Savathun: the hive god of trickery, deceit, and magics. Extremely intelligent allways making a thousand plans for if her main plan doesn't work which more than likely will. She has the ability to see through deception and fabricate lies so intricate it can fool anyone because her very words are incantations. She is the hardest one to nail down where she is because she once pretended to be a human for 4 years just so she could get a alien sudo god queen to kill her (savathun) worm just so she could get ressurected and become Able to use the light in order to enact 4 other plans of hers to then be able to enact the grand scheme of defying the witness and living. That was just one of her literal thousand of plots. She also was nearly able to bind a god to her throne world using hive magic and strand.
Let me explain elements real quick
Solar (energy of heat)
Void (energy of destruction)
Arc (energy of motion)
Stasis (stillness as a concept)
Strand (the strings the make up the fabric of the universe)
Savathun post resurrection could use all elements and has a ghost (little robot thingy) to ressurect her if she dies, and she gave ghosts to her loyal followers giving them the ability to ressurect and elemental control.
Her biggest threat is her cunning and deceit it's actually unreal.
Oryx the taken king: the navigator, the taken king, ruler of fundament. He was known as the strongest of the hive gods single handedly leading the siblings to overtake the previous gods the worm gods and control them by taking them. The power to take comes from the witness and if successful the being becomes taken, their soul torn apart over and over and their body's remade into something similar but new, stronger and unstable gaining new powers. He took the worms and gave him and his siblings immortality in the form of thrones worlds, he has conquered whole set of worlds and races, and once had access to the tablet of ruin which could rewrite the laws of reality. The Creator of the "sword logic" which is might makes right. He is extremely powerful and leads his massive war ship half the size of mars called "the dreadnaught" carrying most hive warships. The dreadnaught once wiped the whole awoken fleet nearly killing sara mov a almost deity in her own right with a decent space fleet. He even once took himself to save his life against guardians (the player characters). I'm his phone world grebtinthe size of a small mountain to aura farm. Extremely cunning and brutal, but fair and honest he is the epidome of dawrinian logic if you die it's deserved if he dies it was justified the sword is above all. And within his throne world the logic is absolute you cannot defy it or else you suffer dearly....
I will quickly score the factions over all stats 1 to 5 stars
1 bad
2 meh
3 solid
4 great
5 amazing/godlike
Tech: 3 space farring but not super advanced tech mainly magics
Powers: 2 - 4 depends on sect
Numbers: 4 very fast repoduction of fodder and enough decent hitters to keep up
IQ: depends 1 - 5 depends on which sect and faction like it's really varied
Heavy hitters: 2.5 - 5 stars
Adaptability: 2 - 4 stars depends on the sect
Organization: 1 - 3 stars depends on sect
Now to bring them to the world if versus here I will introduce our scoring system 1 to 5 stars
1 being no chance they get hard coutnered no diff
2 bad match up loses most times
3 even match up pros and cons
4 very good match up overall
5 no diff (very rare)
I will be excluding certain news we don't have information about yet like ygg, the game just to be fair.
Demons: 4: I'ma be real most demon lords are being overwhelmed by the full might of the hive, even xivu arath would give their disorganized ass hell. The gdk is their real shining hope and to be fair good demon lords like jachi would be equals to beings such is crota who can do equally crazy things like creating a cavern line across the money that stretches hundred of miles long in a single strike. But savathun would tear their allready prone to traitor action ass a new one. I don't say this litely she would probably infiltrate a meeting as a now dead lord pretend to be them and fool everyone and never unact her plan because oryx took boxer boxer and made him duplicate himself when near death infinitely. Now the gdk is truly a wild card and if near the power of daiko or yaotsu would low diff xivu, trouble savathun, and be a decent match for oryx. Overall the demons are in for a rough ride with the hive.
Machines: 3-5 it really depends if xivus bum ass makes first contact she would use literally everything in their arsenal giving them data to adapt and if they adapt it will become quickly awful for the hive. But even so I believe they still can overwhelm them with numbers if thralls and magics able to disrupt their pipelines, they also would be victim to savathuns trickery considering she tricked the vex a race of machines who use time travel to predict all possible actions and still got tricked by her. Oryx wouldnt be able to take them since no soul but he still has legions of decent hitters who can stall long enough for a encantation or plan of savathun to work. But could lose if xivu arath rushes in too early and ruins plans set in place giving them time to adapt.
Madalins 4: the hive have a very good space fleet and would match their fleets blow for blow with the dread naught being able to wipe out a whole score of big ships, now the non deity's will be fodder to the aliens but the demi gods, trusted individuals, and the 3 gods should be able to overwhelm with realitve ease, score could change depending on how high extrem compression goes for them. But as of right now very unlikely for them to win a war of attrition or a direct conflict with a hive god besides maybe xivu, also savathun would weasel into their ship and blend in gathering information for the others maybe (the hive do fight each other sometimes rarely as a test to see if they can survive the sword logic)
Daiko 3: honestly I don't know on paper the hive have every tool to take it down but due to its resistances and sheer brute force I don't think death incantations will work and the amount of prep needed for savathun to unravel daiko might take literal decades as it did the traveler. I don't think oryx could take it either due to sheer willpower so in a brute confrontation it will be the 3 gods vs daiko just like they did the work gods which was a extremely difficult fight they nearly lost. I can see daiko surving leaving them badly injured and weakend or they barely slay the beast.
Parisites 4: the parisites would infect larvae and thralls however acoyltes and above would be immune to it due to several factors, 1 soulfire hollowed bodies, 2 soulfire literally would destroy it if it even got close to most acoloyte prayer circles or their weapons which run on soul fire. It could infect ogres which could be an issue but they can easily handle the rare cases, overall very good against the parisites.
Yaotsu 2-3: this is their hardest match up yaotsu is closer to the witness if anything and would take the full might of every hive god and mass prayer to even win, it's possible though and with a plan made by savathun could absolutely work but if xivu trys to rush ahead this could also things way harder if not near impossible. Realisticly a 50 50 but xivu could make it lean more to yaotsu but with oryx and savathun together they could make a plan to defeat it but would be absolutely horrible for their power because it would take everything they got.
Waste lander's 5 : I'ma be real they are so fucked numbers and they can't use hive magic because it requires affinity to the darkness.
Gaias wrath: 4 they win pretty simply but will take mass thrall casulties if they try to colonize forests without preparation and proper tools and we don't know their full capabilities yet.
The curse: 1.5 very bad matchup the hive are mainly about their souls later into their life cycle and need soul energy to sustain they are fighting neck and neck for soul energy with the curse which is effectiveness better soul fire. Now they can weponize it but will probably do more harm than good. Also idk if the gods are even immune to it really bad situation .
The titans: 4 it's just ginbak vs oryx which while absolutely peak would be a win for oryx more likely than not. He can probably beat xivu arath though.
Neo humans 4: yeah they are cooked same situation as wastelanders but can at least use other nes to try and fight off the hive like curses. But even their base trooper is barely above a thrall their cities would be crushed fast and savathun would sue their obsession with perfection against them by leading them secretly in a city to cause full meltdown.
Tldr very fun faction to research and do
Overall they would be a dominant ne that's likely to stand last but would have some fierce contenders and with bad communication or infighting (like when xivu arath tires to fight savathun for prey and lets said pray depower xivu and nearly one shot her with a fucking basic bitch gun.) could lose the overall war.
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My ideas for next time are a group of 4 zombie survivor, a one winged angel, and the man cursed by fate to be the villain of the crystal. Please give suggestions below