Gears of war who is the queen

She led the Locust during the Lambent War , in which they fought against their own kind who had been infected by the Imulsion and turned them into the Lambent. Desperate, she led the Locust to war against humanity in order to colonize the surface.

After fourteen years into the Locust War, Queen Myrrah planned to sink Jacinto City in order to flood the Hollow to drown the Lambent and deny the humans the last safe place on Sera.

Humanity discovered her plans, however, and sank Jacinto before all of her people could evacuate. Queen Myrrah and her people survived, but their civilization was lost. Those closest to her formed the Queen's Guard , but those who lost Queen Myrrah's influence regressed to the Savage Locust.

After the sinking of Jacinto, the Lambent Pandemic began. She then discovered that her former collaborator during the Lambent War, Professor Adam Fenix , was still alive and developed the Imulsion Countermeasure Weapon to destroy the Lambent.

However, the targeted-radiation device aimed at killing Imulsion cells would affect the Locust too due to their genetic history. Queen Myrrah captured Professor Fenix and ordered him to retune the device to only kill the Lambent but to also kill the humans as well. Professor Fenix was successful in activating the Imulsion Countermeasure.

The Lambent were vaporized and the Locust collapsed into a chrysalis state. Queen Myrrah was then stabbed in the chest by Sgt. Marcus Fenix. Unknown to the humans, both the Locust Horde and Queen Myrrah survived.

The Locust Horde had simply shed the Imulsion from their genetics to form an impenetrable Imulsion crystal shell acting as a cocoon for metamorphosis, which was the beginning of their evolution. Niles Samson had genetically designed them to withstand generational conflict by engineering the trait for them to hibernate and evolve against an extinction-level event.

Kait had also inherited her genetic connection to the Hivemind and the abilities to control it. After twenty-five years of evolution, the Locust Horde emerged in 42 A. Queen Myrrah was able to somewhat lead them, but the Scions were in need of an army and a physical Queen to guide them. They then developed the Swarm , a bio-organism connected to the Hivemind that allows for the transformation of any lifeform to be converted into a member of the Hivemind.

The Scions began capturing humans with Snatchers , placing them into pods, and transforming them into Juvies , later into Drones in the Swarm army. A former Locust War veteran, the Speaker , was appointed the leader of the Swarm until their Queen could be found.

By kidnapping Myrrah's biological daughter, Reyna Diaz , they connected her to the Hive and transformed her into their new queen, allowing them to develop new weapons, armor, and strategic attacks. Gears of War Wiki Explore. Gears Tactics Gears Pop! The Universe. Explore Wikis Community Central.

Register Don't have an account? Because Dr. Niles Samson was unable to prevent the escape, he lied to Myrrah her daughter had died in the escape attempt.

This lie was to prevent Myrrah from leaving the facility in pursuit of her daughter. However, Myrrah became distraught and developed a hatred for Niles and the other scientists, as well as all humans in general - blaming them for the death of her daughter and imprisoning her in such a facility to endure torturous experiments.

Myrrah empathized with her Locust children, who longed for independence and felt imprisoned and tortured by the human scientists. Myrrah became obsessed with the her Locust, believing to be one of them and no longer associated with the humans.

In her sketchbook, Myrrah began to draw her Locust with precision - writing in the lexigram runes taught to the Locust and drafting her plans to kill the human scientists. Wanting to set her Locust free, Myrrah began testing her abilities to control the Locust through the Matriarch.

Niles Samson and the other scientists began to notice her influence over the Locust increasing, and thus attempted to separate the two - with Dr. Samson concerned for their safety and fearing a violent outcome.

Myrrah had already discovered the extent of her power, however, and compelled the Locust to escape from their cages and stasis tanks to fight back. Using pipes and discarded weapons from the soldiers they killed, the Locust slaughtered the scientists and freed the other imprisoned Locust. Fatally wounded, Dr. Niles Samson activated the cryogenic lock-down 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 as Queen in order to feel more embedded in Sera's history and to make herself more "Seran" than the humans who long since discarded their monarchies. Queen Myrrah led her people into a large cavern under Mount Kadar to the create Nexus , 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. Niles Samson, became the Locust Horde's resident scientist.

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 Niles Samson's genetic research to transform them into Locust Drones.

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, until the Lambent epidemic began. Due to being exposed to Imulsion for so many years, the Locust and creatures of the Hollow began turning Lambent. After an overexposure of Imulsion, the parasite colonizes the host's cells until the body becomes under its possession.

Able to mutate at will, the Lambent will only exist to infect other organisms and kill any threat. At the end of their life, the Lambent would self-detonate to release the Imulsion in order to spread the plague through the fumes, likened to spores. The Lambent then began to attack the Locust. However, as the Lambent War went on, the Locust were either killed or became infected, adding more to the Lambent Army.

In the years before Emergence Day, Queen Myrrah considered contacting the humans to help aide her people in the war against the Lambent, but she believed that humans only knew dominance and would not understand or accept the Locust, nor would they allow the existence of their involvement with New Hope be made public. Queen Myrrah instead planned an invasion in order to exterminate the humans and occupy the surface. Before she could reveal her findings to the public, Queen Myrrah had Elain executed.

Four years later, Elain's husband, Professor Adam Fenix , traced her journals to the Hollow where he too would discover Queen Myrrah and her people.

Queen Myrrah saw his potential and revealed to him how her people were suffering from an epidemic and civil war, and that if the Lambency could not be resolved, they would be forced to emerge and invade the surface. This would also involve killing all of humanity in order to colonize the surface. Professor Fenix feared her radical designs, and with the scientific knowledge and resources at disposal made a pact with Queen Myrrah to resolve the Lambent infection, as long as Queen Myrrah postponed her invasion of the surface.

She returned to fighting the Lambent until Professor Fenix could find a cure. However, Professor Fenix's work on curing Lambency was often postponed, as on the surface the Pendulum Wars were nearing the end. The Coalition called upon Professor Fenix to build weapons of mass destruction for the COG, namely the Hammer of Dawn , to help end the war and establish dominance as a military and political superpower. When Professor Fenix had time to research Lambency, his work constantly failed.

Biological measures and cures were no match for the Lambent's evolutionary rate, and physical measures such as radiation would kill the Lambent and Locust. Queen Myrrah, fearing for the well-being of the Locust, decided to prepare for an invasion of the surface to protect the Locust from the Lambent. At the end of the seventh cycle of the Lambent War, Vold RAAM shared his concerns with Queen Myrrah about losing the front to the Lambent - with their people continually dying or becoming infected.

Vold RAAM, against the orders of Uzil Sraak, informed Myrrah of his desired plan to emerge and colonize the surface, leaving the Lambent in the Hollows and destroying the human race in the process. In order to convince the Queen, Vold RAAM, with the help of Kantus Skorge and Vold Karn, devised a plan that allowed the Lambent to advance in the Hollows by purposefully withdrawing from the front lines - making Queen Myrrah understand the futility of fighting the Lambent.

Myrrah then revealed that she too had been surveying the surface and planning an invasion. Queen Myrrah, after years of planning, awaited until the end of the Pendulum Wars to strike at the humans.

After delivering a final speech to her troops - Queen Myrrah unleashed her horde six weeks after the end of the Pendulum Wars. Every major city on Sera was attacked except for key cities located on the Jacinto Plateau due to is granite bedrock. Other cities located on island chains such as the South Islands and Lesser Islands Chain were also spared due to oceanic trenches. Otherwise, Queen Myrrah was successful in the surprise invasion on Sera's surface.

The Locust then continued to emerge in Seran cities, occupy and butcher all humans, and scrap the city for resources before doing the same to another city. In the following year of emergence, the Queen's army conquered most of the surface for colonization and captured new Seran technology.

Queen Myrrah was aware that among the last safe places on Sera were the cities located on the Jacinto Plateau. Queen Myrrah believed that could reach Ephyra by conquering cities on the Jacinto Plateau by surrounding the city - allowing for her soldiers to dig deeper into the plateau.

Though Halvo Bay would ultimately fall, the Locust lost one of their top generals, as well as thousands of troops to the Lightmass Missile , utilized by Kilo Squad , and the staging ground of the Museum of Military Glory. Knowing that the COG was the main human force, Queen Myrrah went forward to attack Tyrus and attempted to conquer Ephyra in order to destroy the rest of humanity. As most of the Locust Army was underground, the Locust did not suffer many casualties.

Their only major loss was the occupation of land and technology. The humans suffered more in comparison, as millions were killed by their own and the Hammer Strikes caused irreversible environmental damage to the surface.

In that time, the Locust then inhabited the Deadlands and charred remains of Sera. Queen Myrrah pushed on her Locust as the Lambent continued to advance in the Hollows.

Her campaign of occupying the remains of Sera was led by Chief Scientist Ukkon. During his campaign, he managed to discover Dr. Torres and Myrrah's long lost daughter, Reyna, hiding in a laboratory in Zenic , Vasgar. Ukkon killed Dr. Torres and imprisoned Reyna, reclaiming Queen Myrrah's old amulet. However, Reyna was rescued by a convoy of Gears led by Sgt. Gabriel Diaz. The convoy then attacked Ukkon's laboratory and Reyna killed Ukkon.

Reyna later married Gabriel and remained as a Stranded , while Queen Myrrah lost her best scientist and as well as the lead on her estranged daughter. While still engaging on the front lines, the Locust Horde needed to resupply themselves for the great push towards Ephyra. For the next nine years, Queen Myrrah's targets would be cities on the Jacinto Plateau that would gradually lead the Locust to Ephyra and Jacinto City.

The Locust re-emerged in 5 A. The citizens were evacuated to Jacinto as Landown was occupied by the Locust. Cities on the Jacinto Plateau, like Landown, were targets for Locust occupation in order to use as staging grounds to reach Ephyra. This practice was used for stepping stones to Ephyra until 10 A.

She planned on using the city as a stepping stone to an attack on the COG capital of Ephyra , which she hoped would end the war. As RAAM entered the city, Myrrah communicated with him telepathically, ordering him to destroy all humans and to escort a Tremor to various points in the city so it could summon Seeders and continue the process of inking up the sky, allowing the Kryll to advance on the city faster.

Myrrah monitored his progress as RAAM went from one emergence point to the next, congratulating him on his work, and offering him warnings when the COG brought out various heavy weapons and vehicles to try and stop him. Once the last Seeder needed for the area was summoned, Myrrah ordered RAAM to move on to the next zone, and eagerly anticipated the cities fall.

Minh Young Kim. Uzil Raam was successful in killing Pvt. Alicia Valera and inking the skies enough for the Locust and Kryll to occupy Ilima, but was wounded in action and unable to destroy the last convoy evacuating from Ilima. With Ilima under their control, they were one more step from Ephyra and continued on with their campaign to destroy the capitol city. After a decade of the Locust War, Queen Myrrah had succeeded in her campaign of conquering major cities of Tyrus as major staging grounds in order to attack and conquer Ephyra.

They would soon conquer the last major human capital, leaving the COG with nowhere else but Jacinto, and also she would capture Professor Adam Fenix to further continue his responsibility to cure the Lambent. During which, Professor Adam Fenix delivered a message to Myrrah personally expressing that he could help, but only if she were to call for peace and both the COG and Locust could solve the Lambency harmoniously.

Myrrah returned the message declaring that they would capture him, and any resistance will be met with his son's capture and death. Adam responded that killing him won't bring him to save Sera, but agreed to surrender peacefully.

Professor Fenix sent a final message of goodbye to his son, Marcus Fenix , and that the Locust had broken through East Barricade Academy to his house. Marcus Fenix perceived this as a distress call, and then responded by defying his orders to destroy the Chancery Bridge and brought Cpl.

Dominic Santiago , Cpl. Jace Stratton , and Cpl. Tai Kaliso back at the house with the Hammer of Dawn. The Locust then attacked the house as Sgt. Fenix fought them off while the Professor gathered his research. After the Professor had gathered his research, the King Raven began to land for evac.

It was hit by enemy forces, however, driving it into side of the house, burying Professor Fenix in the rubble, appearing that he had been crushed to death. Fenix retreated as the Onyx Guard searched the rubble of the house and had discovered that Professor Fenix survived.

Chairman Richard Prescott then ordered he be kidnapped and taken to Azura. Myrrah then ordered the Locust to take the house and the rest of Ephyra, making Queen Myrrah mostly successful, pushing the humans back to their last city, Jacinto. This involved the Coalition invading the Hollow with the Sonic Resonator in order to produce a three-dimensional map data of the Locust tunnels.

The data would then find the heart of the network and direct the Lightmass Bomb to destroy it, thereby destroying the Locust stronghold and ending the war. There, the Locust trapped and ambushed Alpha Squad carrying the Resonator. They managed to separate Alpha into two remnants in the House of Sovereigns and Tomb of the Unknowns.

Minh Young Kim , to which pleased Queen Myrrah. Delta Squad managed to survive their loss and still continued to plant the Resonator at the Lethia Imulsion Facility , but it failed. However, Cpl. Damon Baird had found a Geobot that contained more tunnel data than the Resonator. Marcus Fenix. In a failed attempt to do so, Queen Myrrah realized the bomb was being placed on a train, and sent her forces to hijack the train. Meanwhile, Queen Myrrah sent forces to separate Delta from the Tyro Pillar in Timgad by removing power from the Timgad Bridge , infesting the area with Seeders and Nemacysts to isolate Delta, and sent in a Brumak to hunt them down.

Delta managed to remove all threats and resupply power to the bridge. Queen Myrrah witnessed this event above the surface, aboard her Tempest mount, and pledged that the Locust Horde would only grow stronger and that they will not stop fighting until they reached the surface and kill all their enemies or die trying.

With Nexus also damaged, the Horde seem to recede. Within the first month after the bomb, however, Queen Myrrah discovered the Lightmass Bomb had awoken the Riftworm , a gargantuan worm that was perceived to the Locust as one of their gods. With the information at hand that Jacinto sinking would flood the Hollow and could kill all underground, she sought a plan to use the Riftworm to sink key cities and bases around Jacinto to sink it itself. With the Lambency spreading in the Hollow, Locust forces were more desperate than ever to colonize the surface, rebuilding Queen Myrrah and Uzil Skorge's new army.

Within six months, Uzil Skorge was successful in leading the Riftworm to the sinking of Tollen and Montevado , two major Seran cities, weakening Jacinto's foundation. With the Riftworm sinking human cities around Jacinto City , Queen Myrrah's desperate plans involved pushing her troops deeper into Jacinto.

The COG managed to repel these attacks, but the recent attacks as well as the sinking of Tollen and Montevado confirmed their fears that the Locust survived the Lightmass Bombing and were sinking cities, with Jacinto possibly being the next target. With humanity's back pushed against the wall, the COG prepared a massive counter assault to invade the Inner Hollow, destroy the Locust stronghold, and to stop the Locust Horde once and for all in Operation Hollow Storm.

The Coalition launched the Operation on the 2nd Frost, 14 A. Queen Myrrah sent troops to defend the captured Landown with an army deployed in the Stromson Forest and Landown Highway to prevent the Coalition from digging in. Although managing to destroy a large number of troops and their Assault Derricks, the Locust failed to stop the oncoming stream of Gears. Once the Coaliton had found a dig zone in Landown, Queen Myrrah sent a Blight of Locust and Keter Skorge personally to the dig zone, destroying and capturing many soldiers for Processing.

With the Coaliton's presence in the Inner Hollows, Queen Myrrah alerted forward bases, the temples, and Ketor Skorge about their incoming attack. Queen Myrrah ordered Ketor Skorge to sink the city of Ilima, but the sinking of the city lead to the Coaltion's discovery of the Riftworm and ultimately its death at the hand of Delta Squad. Her plan was set back, but Jacinto was sitting on its final pillars.

With knowledge of the Coalition headed towards the New Hope Research Facility in order to discover the location of the true Locust stronghold, Queen Myrrah sent troops to the facility prevent the humans from locating their capital. Locust troops barricaded Mount Kadar after the humans managed to learn their location. With a team force infiltrating the Locust work camps, Highway, and Nexus itself, the humans launched the Beacon and commanded troops to Nexus.

Ketor Skorge attended to the command center after one of the soldiers taunted her over the speaker system. Marcus Fenix, was in the control room and discovered Adam Fenix's plans to sink Jacinto to flood the Hollow.

The information led the Coalition to decide to sink Jacinto before the Locust could evacuate. Queen Myrrah awaited Delta Squad and Sgt. Marcus Fenix in person. Queen Myrrah was determined that the Locust would sink Jacinto first and kill both the humans and Lambent due to the full invasion of Jacinto was underway.

Queen Myrrah then taunted Sgt. Marcus Fenix with her relationship with his father, Professor Adam Fenix. Damon Baird and Pvt. Augustus Cole attempted to follow her, but Queen Myrrah escaped on a Reaver and left the Hollow before the humans could sink Jacinto and flood the Hollow themselves, eradicating the majority of the Locust Horde forces.

Queen Myrrah failed to evacuate most of the Locust Horde on time and did not sink Jacinto City before the humans could. The humans successfully flooded the Hollow, destroyed Nexus, and killed nearly all Locust forces underground. Queen Myrrah reflected on the life she and the Locust knew will never be the same, but they had to carry on like they always have.

After the sinking of Jacinto, Queen Myrrah's armies either scattered or were completely lost in the flooding of the Hollow. Most of the Horde went savage without her, relocating to the Deadlands to try and recreate their lost homes. Queen Myrrah took what was left of her loyal soldiers and reorganized them into the Queen's Guard.

Queen Myrrah spent the following three years settled in Endeavor attempting to rebuild her army. However, the seawater that flooded the Hollow following the sinking of Jacinto City raised the Imulsion into the soil of Sera - initiating the Lambent Pandemic. Fruiting bodies of Imulsion known as stalks began to emerge on the surface and unleashed polyps to spread the infection.

Many more members of the Locust Horde fell to the Lambent pathogen. By 17 A. Unknown to Queen Myrrah and most of the surviving humans of Sera, there was indeed one last bastion of hope: Azura. The island held the last of the human scientists and politicians who were attempting to cure Lambency before the entire planet became infected.

On Azura, Chairman Richard Prescott sent several forces back to the mainland on a recon mission to study Lambent samples for Adam's research in the Imulsion Countermeasure Weapon. However, as they flew to the mainland, Raven KR Zero-Four spotted Queen Myrrah's army in Endeavor and had occupied the shipyard, organizing it as their main base of operations.

The Locust opened fire on the Raven and sent out Reavers to chase them down. Queen Myrrah ordered her Reavers to find the origin of the Raven since not all the humans were nomadic tribes, and if the humans had a sanctuary from the Lambent, then the Locust could use it as well.

One month after the recon mission, a Beast Rider found an artificial hurricane around Azura but was unable to bypass it. Queen Myrrah ordered a ship to recon the artificial storm. Queen Myrrah then arrived by boat at Azura to observe how it operated. When a King Raven nearby was returning to Azura, the hurricane dissipated, revealing a beam that generated the hurricane, the Adaptive Atmospheric Manipulation System. Queen Myrrah ordered a group of Drones to dive under the maelstrom and attack the power source at night.

A group of at least six Drones swam past the underwater mines and were able to land on the island and attack the generator room. They were able to kill an Onyx Guard stationed there, but a female scientist managed to set off the alarm. While the drones were able to disable the generator, they had lost the element of surprise. With the whole island on high alert, the Onyx Guard mobilized for the upcoming battle.

Soon, Queen Myrrah sent all of her available forces including herself on the Tempest. Her forces came in from both sides, spreading the COG forces thin. While her forces even managed to land a Brumak, the civilians ran to the air raid shelters, and the Onyx Guard soldiers requested more air support while Queen Myrrah surveyed the battlefield from atop her Tempest. The Locust invaded the interior of the island and began massacring everyone inside. Myrrah soon ordered the Locust not to harm any human in a lab coat, as she knew the COG were planning something on the island.

Queen Myrrah was able to listen in on their conversation. Discovering that Adam Fenix was still alive after seven years, she sent her forces to Pinnacle Tower to secure Adam as she personally ventured there too.

With Adam refusing to leave and sending Prescott off to find Hoffman and Marcus to drive the Locust off, Adam waited in his office. Queen Myrrah finally reached his suite and was greeted by Adam on how long it has been. After Myrrah discovered that he had been working on the Imulsion Countermeasure that will kill both the Lambent and Locust, Myrrah took over the island and had all the civilians executed except for Adam Fenix, who was locked in his room.

Chairman Prescott was able to escape and returned to the CNV Sovereign so he could use reinforcements to take back the island.

Myrrah returned to the Seran Deadlands a short time later, possibly to gain more troops. Myrrah was alerted of Gears nearby and wished to find them. On her Tempest, being escorted by two Reavers near the Locust airport, Myrrah spotted Marcus Fenix and his allies while they fought through a Savage Locust outpost in the Deadlands.

Knowing Marcus was aware of his father's status and location, she ordered that every outpost between there and Azura be alerted to Marcus's presence to protect her plan from human intervention. With Delta crash-landing near a human fortress, Myrrah sent a battalion of her forces to kill the squad and everyone in the fort.

Realizing the path the Humans would take, Queen Myrrah set up forces and roadblocks to prevent the humans from going on any further. When the humans pushed through and managed to drive into Mercy, Myrrah sent her remaining forces after them. After Delta retrieved the fuel, they were cornered by the Queen's forces and the incoming Lambent, forcing Dominic Santiago to destroy the tanks and kill the Locust, Lambent, and himself to save the others.

While retrieving the fuel for them and Aaron Griffin, Queen Myrrah personally attacked Griffin Tower , and left, while leaving her Palace Guards to sweep up any remaining survivors.

Myrrah went ahead of Delta towards Endeavor and saw them coming towards the base. While she noted that Marcus was similar to his father in persistence and predictability, she sent her forces devote troops to stopping Delta Squad from reaching Azura, ordering three Armored Kantus to stop them in the Endeavour Naval Shipyard. The Armored Kantus failed to stop Delta Squad from using a submarine to reach Azura by travelling under the Maelstrom.

With Marcus now inside the hotel and moving closer to Adam's location and the sudden appearance of the Lambent, Myrrah decided to personally stop Marcus. She burst through the hotel wall atop her Tempest , using its heat breath against Delta Squad and ranting about having given Adam twenty years to stop the Lambent.

Delta Squad dropped an enormous counterweight on her Tempest, sending her to the ground floor and leaving her for dead. Only slightly inconvenienced by being hit with a multi-ton weight, Myrrah and her Tempest followed them to the roof to try and stop Adam's weapon. When her Tempest took enough damage, it fell to the roof, where the humans deployed the Hammer of Dawn against her. 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.

Marcus kills Myrrah by stabbing her with Dom's Commando Knife. After multiple Hammer blasts, the Tempest finally died and Professor Adam Fenix's Imulsion countermeasure was activated.