Worm (Earth-2338)

"Take into your bodies our children, our newborn larvae. From them you shall obtain eternal life. From them you shall gain power over your own fragile flesh: the power to make of it as you will. And should you find an imperfection in the world, an injustice or an inconvenience — you will have the power to repair it. Let no mere law bind you."

- - Yul the Honest

The Worms, also known as the Worm Gods, are a race of ancient and parasitic worm-like beings native from the depths of the gas giant Fundament. They are worshiped and revered as the highest deities for the yautja, even beyond Oryx, the Taken King and his sisters Savathûn and Xivu Arath, with all yautja being infected with a larvae from the worms, driving them to constant destruction and lust for dominance.

History
The Worms were trapped beneath Fundament billions of years in the past, being watched and guarded by the Leviathan. However, one of their dead larvae was able to escape the ocean to the shores of a city where it was found by a pre-yautja Osmium King. After his death at the hands of the Helium Drinkers, the King's youngest daughter Sathona took the larvae for herself while she, Aurash and Xi Ro observed, manipulating the sisters into doing their will.

The infant worm guided them to the lair of the Worm Gods, who tempted the sisters with their power of immortality in exchange for being incubates for their parasites. Misguided, they accepted, adopting the names of Auryx, Savathûn, and Xivu Arath. They took thousands of infant worms to Fundament's surface, offering them to their citizens, who became the modern yautja, while those who refused were slain.