#also spicy ramen is the common link holding iur alliances together

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I'd imagine there would be some concern when a group of hive start milling around just outside the last city. Especially when they start to pile up corpses. Mostly other hive, a few remnants of the rust devils, that sort of thing. But they're not attacking any of humanity, or visibly acting violent, so the vanguard calls in its hive expert, Eris Morn.

Complete head canon-y conjecture here, but I'd say these hive believe Eris to have overpowered the sword logic. Her ascension to the most powerful hive got of all time, by decieving and striking down the hive god of deception herself, and then taking that power and willfully abandoning it was sacrilegious, true. But these hive believe it shows that Eris was too powerful to need the sword logic - a sort of cognitively dissonant view that applies sword logic to her actions - if she was able to refuse and abandon that power, then clearly she was more powerful without it!

I can't imagine Eris would be too happy about having some confused hive trying to work for her. But I can't imagine she would have any issues putting their (potentially) misguided new devotion to use. Maybe over time these hive get further deprogrammed from the sword logic and their brutal pasts. And I also can't even start to imagine how humanity, Caital, and the house of light would react to these new 'allies' if Eris' work resulted in them becoming sociable.

Misraax would maybe be the most welcoming. After all, he knows what it is like to see a horrific monster become a close friend, and would likely be the first to extend any kind of olive branch. I could maybe see Drifter being supportive of them quickly too, either because he likes outcasts and gambles, or because of his closer connection/trust to Eris. The rest of the vanguard would be incredibly difficult to sway, I think, it would take these hive laying down their lives or otherwise sacrificing in a huge way to even start to gain any of humanities trust. That said, I'd argue that our very successful partnerships with the Cabal and the Eliksni might smoothen that transition a little bit. As long as the hive like spicy ramen.

Caital would definitely be the least approving of this. The hive destroyed her people's homeworld, inflicting upon it horrors that i don't think humanity have even seen yet. That said, Caital doesn't seem to be one to look past valuable war assets, and while she may not like the hive, and would likely refuse to work with them, I don't think she could fully ignore their use as meat for the grinder of war.

could you imagine if some of the hive actually started worshipping eris morn and that was how we'd get actual hive allies instead of the situationship we have with savathûn.

could you imagi-

OR

instead of allies they just throw themselves at the last city's gates in relentless supplication to eris and meanwhile she's ardently refusing to associate with them