
They are not the embodiment of true darkness. To him, the Hive, are just pretenders, hypocrites. This, according to Calus is the declaration of war between him and the mysterious trickster Savathun the Hive Goddess, the sister of Oryx, the Taken King. Instead, Galrhan, the designated Loyalist set to command the Hive, was the one taken over. The Crown of Sorrow, according to the Shadow's Greaves lore item claims it potentially has powers similar to The Taken King. And a particular witch decided to mess with him. The answer to that is that he attempted to add the hive to his massive army.

You may be wondering why Calus even has Hive on his ship in the first place. This time, one of his loyalists, has been corrupted by a Hive artifact that he managed to obtain and we need to do something about it. The Crown of Sorrow Raid has Calus call on his favorite Guardian(s) (us) to solve yet another problem aboard his Leviathan. Let's start off the discussion with Season's 8 Raid. Would siding with Calus be to our, and by extension, the universe's benefit? Regardless, if we ever did we decide on becoming his "Shadows of Earth," it's probably best to find out what that would entail, exactly. And its safe to say that with post Beyond Light's launch, this opportunity may very well be before us once again.

Back then, the question of whether or not we would turn to him arose before us. And the Season of Opulence was his attempt of recruiting us for this "opportunity." I stick by with what I said before, that with the way things are going, Calus remains to be a mysterious anomaly, three years in. These assassins were considered to be the best of the best, each of them a part of a race that Calus ran into during his exile. Besides, we know that Calus had an elite task force of assassins under him, known as Shadows. And even though most of the community has written all of this off as glorified fanfiction, I'm a hopeful skeptic who thinks that some of these lore bits hint at upcoming content in some form or another. For those keeping up with the lore, thanks to those like My Name Is Byf you may have heard of the Shadow of Earth.
