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Myrrah is the Queen of the Locust Horde and the primary antagonist of the Gears of War franchise. Throughout the franchise, she leads the Locust in a campaign of extermination against the Humans of Sera, both out of a sense of compassion for the Locust and resentment towards the inherently violent, destructive nature of Humanity. The irony, of course, is that Myrrah herself is Human, though she has severed all ties to her race and considers herself Locust.

History[]

Early Life[]

Myrrah was born in a small township on the continent of Tyrus to an unknown mother and a father who worked as an Imulsion miner. During the early years of the Pendulum Wars, most of the townspeople were stricken by Rustlung, a disease brought on by continuous exposure to Imulsion. In order to study the disease and the other potential effects of Imulsion, a group of COG scientists had the afflicted townspeople relocated to the New Hope Research Facility in secret.

Young myrrah

While the other test subjects showed all the common respiratory symptoms of Rustlung, the young Myrrah displayed total immunity to the disease. The New Hope scientists treated the young girl with special care whilst studying her, hoping to replicate her immunity and transfer it to the other test subjects. As part of these experiments, Myrrah was injected with concentrated Imulsion - being told that it was medicine - to study the effects. She appeared to benefit from the injections as her immune system was bolstered to fight off most other diseases and her ageing process slowed to about 50% the rate of the average human female. However, the scientists were unable to replicate her immunity and Myrrah was classified as a medical anomaly.

New Hope's research would later progress to the point where they began introducing genetic material from the indigenous life-forms of the Hollow into the test subjects. It was suspected that Imulsion originated from the Hollow also, that organisms such as the Riftworms and Brumaks were genetically immune due to residing close to it and evolving to adapt to it. The subjects of these experiments underwent extreme mutation, becoming feral, mindless creatures that the New Hope staff would refer to as "Sires". Following these experiments, chief researcher Niles Samson considered redirecting New Hope's efforts away from curing Rustlung and towards utilizing the mutants for military purposes. Myrrah caught wind of this plan and was appalled, considering the mutated subjects as her friends.

Due to the bestial nature of the Sires and the unethical direction that their research was taking, many New Hope researchers resigned and leaked information of their work to the media. Once Coalition leadership learned of the nature of the experiments, New Hope was officially shut down. However, a COG fringe group had considered the military potential of Dr. Samson's research and had him, his remaining staff and their remaining test subjects relocated to a new facility located in the caverns beneath Mount Kadar. Meanwhile, the Sires were placed in cryogenic stasis and left behind.

At the Mount Kadar facility, Dr. Samson was allowed to work with impunity and he groomed Myrrah into acting as his collaborator and colleague. When Myrrah reached adolescence, Samson attempted to create a new hybrid species by combining her embryonic stem cells with the DNA of the Sires. The experiment proved to be a success and Samson managed to create an entirely new breed of creature which he would dub "Matriarch". From the Matriarch, the first Locust Drones would be born, thus the Locust Horde was created. With the genesis of this new species, it was discovered that Myrrah shared a telepathic bond with the Locust. Dr. Torres then developed a containment module for the Matriarch, as he believed that by suspending her in cryptochromic fluid, the pyschomagnetic bond she and Myrrah shared could be amplified. When Myrrah was inserted into a brain-computer interface connected to the Matriarch, her telepathic abilities over the Locust increased significantly.

As the years went on and research on the Locust continued, a romantic relationship developed between Dr. Torres and Myrrah. This led to the pair copulating, despite Dr. Samson's warnings, and the two would ultimately conceive a daughter. Myrrah's daughter - Reyna - would inherit her mother's immunity to Imulsion and resistance to disease and ageing. She also inherited Myrrah's telepathic link to the Locust hivemind, which Dr. Samson took great interest in and began focusing his research on her. Refusing to condone experimentation on his own child, Dr. Torres took Reyna and fled from the facility. Samson was unable to prevent their escape and he lied to Myrrah, telling her that her daughter had died in the attempt.

Distraught over her lost daughter, Myrrah grew contemptuous of Dr. Samson and of humanity overall. She empathized strongly with the Locust who, like her, were born into a life of confinement and torturous experimentation. She continued to test her telepathic abilities, sharing among the Locust her plans to escape from Mount Kadar. Through the hivemind, Myrrah compelled the Locust into fighting back against the scientists that had been keeping them confined for so long. With their resilience and brute strength, the Locust were able to overpower the soldiers assigned to protect the scientists, using broken pipes and discarded weapons taken from slain soldiers as they started killing everyone within the facility. Fatally wounded, Dr. Niles Samson activated the cryogenic lockdown and froze over the entire facility, killing the remaining scientists in an attempt to seal the facility's secrets. Myrrah, assuming her role as Queen of the Locust Horde, led the surviving Locust out of the facility and deeper into the caverns of Mount Kadar. She chose her title over the Locust as Queen in order to feel more embedded in Sera's history in an attempt to make herself more "Seran" than the humans who long since discarded their monarchies.

Building the Horde[]

Queen Myrrah led her people into a large cavern under Mount Kadar to create Nexus, the fortress that would become the Locust capital. The main palace was built from a stalactite that hung over an Imulsion lake. A city was built on the cliff surrounding the palace. Because the Hollow tunnels and ecosystems were created by the Riftworm, a religion was based to worship it, known as the Trinity of Worms, thus a theocratic culture was based on the iconography of worms. To build a strong military and science division, Queen Myrrah had her people find scraps of human technology to re-purpose as their own. The Locust Council was then created, attended by the highest ranks of the Locust to inform Queen Myrrah of social, political, scientific, and military affairs. Ukkon, who shared the same knowledge of genetic engineering with her and Dr. Samson, became the Locust Horde's resident scientist. Sraak, one of the first Drones ever created, was placed as the High General, or Uzil, of the Locust Army. One of the first Kantus, Droak, was appointed the High Priest, or Ketor, of the Trinity of Worms.

To build their Horde even stronger, Queen Myrrah reverted back to the use of genetic engineering. Indigenous creatures of the Hollow were genetically enhanced and designed by Ukkon to become weapons, vehicles, and machines for the Locust Horde. Locust Drones were able to breed with Berserkers, but another process to create more Drones was to capture humans from the surface and use Samson's genetic research to transform them into Locust Drones. Captured humans who were not used for experiments were either enslaved to be labour workers for the Horde or used to feed the Locust beasts. Sometime later, Ketor Droak the First died and his apprentice, Vrol, was appointed as Ketor. Uzil Sraak continued to grow his army, training the young Drones from birth to kill and torture their enemies. While Queen Myrrah had contempt for humans for making them live underground, she accepted that the Hollows were the Locust's by birthright.

Locust Civil War[]

Almost a decade before Emergence Day, the Locust Horde became engaged in a bitter civil war. Many Locust had begun mutating after entering more advanced stages of Lambency and as the mutations increased their numbers expanded. At first, Myrrah regarded the Lambent as a mere nuisance, but it soon became clear that these violent, self-destructive abominations posed a serious threat to the Locust's survival. If her people were to survive the Lambent infection, they would need to relocate to the surface and then bury the Lambent within the Hollow before they spread any further. The problem was that Sera's surface was already densely populated by Humans, so it became apparent that the Locust would have to take the surface world by force. Lacking any sympathy for Humanity and concerned solely for the survival of the Locust, Myrrah made plans for the Horde to invade and conquer the surface.

Roughly five years before E-Day, Myrrah made contact with COG scientist Adam Fenix who was investigating reports of undiscovered life-forms supposedly dwelling within the Outer Hollows. When Fenix and Myrrah met, they discussed the threat of the Lambent and the possibility of destroying the infection. As the foremost scientific mind in the Coalition of Ordered Governments, Adam was the most likely to devise a solution to the Lambent problem and so Myrrah gave him whatever scraps of Lambent tissue could be recovered for analysis.

Professor Fenix was pressed for time. While the Locust were struggling to hold back the spread of the Lambent, the Pendulum Wars were still raging on the surface of Sera, leaving Adam torn between his duties to the COG as its chief weapons developer and finding a solution to the Lambent situation. Myrrah warned Fenix that the Locust were preparing to invade the surface and that he had to develop a cure for Lambency or have to carry the weight of his species' extinction on his shoulders.

Locust-Human War[]

UE Myrrah

Merely six weeks after the Pendulum Wars drew to a close, the Locust began their invasion of Sera's surface. They emerged within every major city on the planet and began systematically slaughtering every man, woman and child, wiping out almost half the Human population of Sera on the first day. Myrrah, having long since cast off any sympathy for Humanity, held no regret or remorse as her Horde exterminated her race of origin. As far as she was concerned, they had brought this war upon themselves, and her disdain for them was only justified when the COG resorted to deploying the Hammer of Dawn orbital defense network to burn most of the surface world just to deny the Locust control.

For over fifteen years, Myrrah's armies clashed with the remaining forces of the COG for control of what was left of Sera, and all the while Adam Fenix was hidden away at the secret COG research facility on the island of Azura, continuing his research on developing a cure for Lambency. Neither the Locust nor most of the COG knew that Fenix was still alive and equally as few knew that he had been in contact with the Locust before E-Day.

Hollow Storm[]

Throughout most of the Locust War, Humanity was unaware of the structure of Locust leadership. That would change when the COG launched a massive counter-offensive against Locust forces in the Hollow in response to several cities being sunk by the colossal Riftworm. Marcus Fenix, son of Adam Fenix and leader of the Delta-One Gears squad, led his team into the bowels of the Hollow where they discovered the Locust capital of Nexus, and after infiltrating the palace within the centre of the citadel, they encountered Myrrah herself.

Myrrah revealed that she knew Marcus' father, though she remained ambiguous as to the exact nature of their relationship. She soon tired of the Human presence within her sanctum and summoned her high priest Skorge to kill Delta Squad while she made her escape. She would not ever return to Nexus as soon after she left, the COG initiated a last-ditch plan to sink their own city of Jacinto in order to flood the Hollow, wiping out a large amount of the Locust population.

Lambent Pandemic[]

In the two years following the sinking of Jacinto, Myrrah and the surviving Locust had gone into hiding in order to regroup. Many Locust became displaced during this exodus, resulting in the formation of a number of small tribes of Savage Locust. Meanwhile, the COG had relocated to the island of Vectes where the Locust could not reach them. However, there was something that could: the Lambent.

The flooding of the Hollow had caused Imulsion levels to rise rapidly until it reached the soil and oceans, infecting numerous life-forms and accelerating the spread of Lambency across the planet. Lambent life-forms began to appear all over Sera and relentlessly attacked any and all other life-forms, killing or infecting them. As the Lambent spread, the remaining COG forces abandoned Vectes and attempted to survive out at sea, but the menace could even reach them out there.

Former COG Chairman Richard Prescott was forced to reveal to his former charges the truth behind the disappearance of the COG's scientific elite prior to E-Day and how he was made aware of the Lambent threat early on by Adam Fenix. After hearing that his father was still alive, Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad organized an excursion to Azura to find him, hoping that he had discovered a solution to the Lambent Pandemic. Queen Myrrah was also made aware of Adam's status and had her force carry out a siege of Azura, bypassing the Maelstrom barrier that hid and protected the island and capturing anyone who may have been of use.

By the time the Locust and COG had made it to Azura, Professor Fenix had finally managed to devise a solution to the Lambent. What he had created, however, wasn't so much a cure as it was a weapon; the vaccine could be installed within Azura's Maelstrom device and distributed into Sera's atmosphere, but it would not only wipe out the Lambent but also the Locust. Adam hoped that he could find a way to save both Locust and Humans, but as always time was against him.

Physical death[]

As Humans, Locust and Lambent converged on Azura, a ferocious battle raged for control of the Maelstrom. Marcus Fenix fought to protect the Maelstrom while his father prepared the vaccine for global distribution while Myrrah personally led the Locust charge on the facility from atop her personal war-mount, the Tempest. She attacked the weapon itself, demanding that Adam stand down and remarking about the similarities between humanity and the Locust: both were genocidal, hateful races that considered each other monsters.

After the Tempest and Myrrah were brought down by multiple blasts from the Hammer of Dawn, Adam managed to activate his anti-Lambent weapon, resulting in the annihilation of the Lambent and the Locust. Myrrah somehow survived the Hammer barrage on her Tempest, extracting herself from its carcass and gloating about Adam's own death, stating how everything he had created was used only for destruction. An enraged Marcus then took a commando knife and stabbed Myrrah in the heart, letting her die in a pool of her own blood.

Lingering consciousness[]

Despite their apparent annihilation during the Battle of Azura, the Locust were not killed by Adam Fenix's Imulsion countermeasure. Instead, they were forced into a state of suspended animation, their bodies becoming encased in impenetrable cocoons. Myrrah's consciousness also remained within the Locust hivemind, lying dormant until the Locust - believed to be dead by the Humans - completed their metamorphosis and were ready to rise once again and finish what they had started.

25 years after the Battle of Azura, the newly-evolved Locust - which Humanity would come to label as the Swarm - would hatch and emerge from their burial sites, converting them into vast hives. Though Myrrah was without a body, her voice endured as an echo within the hivemind, compelling the Swarm to increase its numbers by capturing Humans and converting them into new Swarm Drones.

Personality[]

Queen myrrah

Myrrah holds cynical and xenophobic views, which drive her ruthless war tactics. She sees the human race as savages that only destroy, and that no matter how hard they may try, they will always be destined to destroy. Believing that, she ordered the genocidal assault on the surface of Sera beginning on Emergence Day after the Lambent threat arose in the Hollow, rather than seeking diplomacy, and saw the human's penchant for destruction fulfilled when the humans countered the Locust's near victory with the Hammer of Dawn counterattack. During Operation: Hollow Storm, she was willing to sacrifice the Hollows so her race could colonize the surface. Much can be learned of her nature during her exchange with Marcus Fenix during the Second Battle of Azura. Here, she repeatedly lambasts the human race for seeing the Locust as beneath them, despite the fact she views humanity in exactly the same way.

Queen Myrrah's view on the Lambent is that of an infection. Her hatred for the Lambent is described as an "infection" that afflicts the Locust Horde. On a propaganda broadcast to her troops, she explains, "We cannot allow the Lambent to pollute the surface. We must bury their infection here."

She refuses to surrender either to the humans or the Lambent and wishes for the Locust Horde to reign not only supreme over the others, but to exterminate all other threats to the Horde as well.

Abilities[]

Myrrah does not possess the same level of fighting fitness as her Locust Drones, but in Gears of War 3 she demonstrates that she is able and willing to fight alongside her warriors for the survival of their race. The only inhuman ability she has demonstrated throughout the games is an apparent telepathic link to her forces, as seen in the RAAM's Shadow DLC when she mentally communicates with General RAAM during the Locust invasion of Ephyra.

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