Destiny 2 Lore - Ahsa's Origins, The truth about the Worm Gods & The Witness's "Curse."

Something I'm picking up from this is that the original leviathan/proto-worm species also formed bonds with other lifeforms, but the sword logic turned what was once a beneficial relationship into a one-sided parasitic one. Makes me wonder what the original nature of these partnerships was, and if we'll eventually find out via Sloane.

Glad to see some of the community’s theories on what Ahsa was still have some merit. If Ahsa really is a proto worm god it will be interesting to see what “gifts” she will be able to lend us.

Everyone is asking who is Ahsa, but not how is Ahsa 😢

Well, the Leviathan and Ahsa could be the same species. It's possible the Leviathan and the worm gods are the same species, but the darkness warped the worms. If so, that would lend itself to the idea that the side opposed to the Witness did indeed win the war. The Leviathan, as a general or leader, then guarded the corrupt worms until the siblings showed up.

I actually remember during vanilla destiny 2, everyone saw this massive fish swimming in the methane on titan and thought it was oryx's worm that how somehow ended up here. Man. Hard to believe we got THIS close.

It would actually make sense in context why the Leviathan of Fundament was guarding the Worm Gods. As well as why The Witness sent Rhulk to retrieve and subjugate the remaining Worm Gods.
They were the last members of their species still remaining on Fundament. The rest rendered each other to extinction, save Ahsa who fled via the Ascendant Realm to a far away and safe locale.
At one point, Fundament must've been bustling with a great deal of Leviathans who seemed to possess incredible paracasual powers (such as accessing the Ascendant Realm). At some point however, The Witness must have reached out through the Ascendant Realm through the Darkness...and whispering to some of the species to embrace the Sword Logic. They underwent their own transformation similar to the Kril and Hive. In fact, it's almost a mirror of the two species.
This may also explain how when the Osmium siblings ingested the Worm God larva and became gods they were able to create Throne Worlds. Because the Worms/Leviathans had a deep connection to the Ascendant Realm to begin with.
Which also explains why when Oryx slew Akka, created the tablets of Ruin (and the Dreadnought), he could effectively communicate with The Witness more clearly and learn to take.

Great, now I need to know the full connection between Ahamkara, the Worms, Ahsa(proto-Worms), and the Leviathan.

I think Ahsa can make Hive worm type pacts, but instead of giving a hive power and draining it of life overtime, Ahsa's is the opposite. She wants love and to be known in exchange for giving their bonded person life

Ahsa imples that her species were the first "victims" of the Witness. I think it is clear that the Worm Gods killed all of Asha's species, as they 'survived' (and thus the strongest, according to the Sword Logic) But not strong enough to leave Fundament, as one, more powerful than they kept them there, (the Leviathan) until the three siblings of the Osmium Dynasty arrived and made their bargain in turn.

In the garden before time there were dragonflies (ahamkara) and worms (leviathans) that buzzed and dug around the tree of silver wings. I hope we get the full connection to all this soon, especially with the tree.

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I don't believe the worm gods "Evolve" pre say, it's more likely that they were transformed by darkness like Calus or Rulk.

I think Asha, the Worm Gods and Ahamkara shared a common ancestor before evolving into what they are now.
Asha is a positive symbiotic relationship with the one she bonded with, in the case of Sloane.
The Worm Gods was parasitic in nature, demanding violence in exchange for immortality and power or be eaten from the inside.
Ahamkara in their relationships with [hosts] feed on desire wishes that they grant…but not without it possibly becoming a monkey’s paw in the process.
They all have in common is the need of another being as a host or partner in some way to sustain their lives. Anyone else have anything to add in speculative stuff?

Now I wanna see a leviathan flying through space so badly. Can't imagine how awesome an image that would be

Honestly, it seems like Ahsa has some connection to taken energy. She might even be the species who controlled said taken energy before the Witness found the energy to take to pass it to the Taken King. If Ahsa does use taken energy for her own purposes all be it good purposes, does that mean the ability to take is something that stems from the deep itself and these species are the origin of the taken energy. It seems to be heading in this direction I think. Just like Light and Darkness, Stasis, Strand so on they can all be used for good and bad. I think this is also true for the taken energy. I also think the source of the taken energy is something their species held and the "Calcified version" of this energy is impure taken energy that can bend people's will, hence the statues. It would make sense. I don't think Slone is inherently in danger of being taken. I think it's just a way to access the ascendant plane for para-causal beings. Ahsa might be para-causal herself. She may have knowledge of the universe.
Hell with this line of thinking it could now give more context to what actually happened to the exodus black. It makes no sense that that event was the witnesses doing. I ultimately think now after seeing this, it was Ahsa. That was the connection before the collapse she is talking about. The connection to queen mara sov before she became the awoken queen. This could make sense. Especially the connection to the ascendant plane that the awoken have.
Stay with me here, I think to pass through the gate, we will have to make use of the taken energy. Think about it. If what Ahsa uses is taken energy then it would make sense for the witness to use something similar. Maybe the Veil is the origin of all para-causal power in the universe. Whatever energy/power the Witness possesses is not what the taken energy is supposed to be. Maybe now that energy is so corrupted it bends the laws of time and space itself connecting past to future. It's the echos of the never where. The final shape.

If the Disciple of Fear (Nezarec, almost certainly) attacked Ahsa during the collapse, that means Eramis is the only (known) Disciple of the Witness to never have interacted with any sort of Leviathan.

I’ve always wondered why “Oh (noun) mine.” Came across as affectionate from such cruel creatures. Given Ahsa’s emphasis on love and family it was probably meant as a sort of bonding ritual.

Unfortunately Irish has about four or five "correct" pronunciations given accents and regional dialects, but I'd pronounce Síocháin along the lines of She-ock-awn. The í and á are longer vowel sounds than the regular vowel, and ch is the equivalent of a k as it's one of those letters we don't have in the Irish alphabet. Pretty good attempt though 👍

I love Byf’s tone when reading lore tabs. It’s an amazing way to keep someone interested, and there’s a clear sense of professionalism in how it’s narrated

Ahsa is to the worm gods, just as the krill are to the Hive. No wonder she looked so similar in her silhouette. She looks like a giant version of a larval worm

Just want to say I love the extra little commentary throughout the readings. I often listen to these while doing other things and it’s easy to get lost in some of the lore excerpts. The little clarifications when things are being presented a bit indirectly are super helpful.

Her being a proto-worm god is clear IMO, she is referred as "worm" in the story many times and she certainly can bestow gifts, as we see in the deep dive missions. Her kind also seemed to know the "magics" that were forbidden before being changed by The Witness

I'm really starting to feel like that Ahsa's race were once one. But because of the Witnesses and the war they evolved into different species. Ahsa is what the species once was. Some of them became worm gods bound to the Witness and the darkness and the rest became the Ahamkara cursed with the O mine paracausal trap. If Asha states that she is the last of her species she could be talking about the original species. There are still hive god worm left and the Ahamkara are now extinct with he death of Riven.

I'm loving the lore this season I really hope that Ahsa's species is related to the leviathan perhaps the Leviathan was their mother or their Alpha of sorts this would be really interesting as a parellell the Leviathan fought till the very end meanwhile Xita was quick to become subservient to the witness

Tbh I think the Leviathan is what you get if you give a member of Ahsa's species the Light, just as Worm Gods are what happens if they embrace the Darkness. Ahsa in my opinion is a member of the base species that never received the blessings of either the Light or the Darkness.

Now this brings new meaning to the levithan giving Oryx and her sisters a warning meant.
He was what ever Ahsa is, and saw what the curse of the deep could do.

BYF!! Bro, major congrats on a million, thx for always piecing the story's together for the community and delivering it in such a complete and captivating fashion.

Hey Byf
Call it a footnote of 14:06
In one of the seasonal armour lore tabs (for Warlock at least) there’s an entry where Sloane is having a vision of a golden age scientist. He is the one who formed that original bond with Ahsa. Siochain then confirms it’s not a vision but a temporal anomaly because the space at which she’s seeing this golden age ‘vision’ occur in has the same atmospheric conditions of golden age Titan.

I always wondered why Saladin referred to Ahsa as an 'outcast worm' during Deep Dives. That kind of came out of nowhere, since it's not said or mentioned in any cutscene or line of dialogue previous to it, and I only got the Ghost shell recently.

I love the additional lore in item descriptions, but I always forget to read them. Your videos are phenomenal Byf!

Honestly, i think the Leviathan species is what Ahsa is. It might have been that she was a young one and chose to flee instead of fighting family. Perhapse her dads friend was the one who survived and beat the Hive Worms of the Deep down and locked them away for their betrayal. If so, not only is she the most ancient being we know of in Sol but also the lone survivor of the Witness, the only being we have access to that might know the Witness' weakness or have the power to overcome the witness/what we need to traverse the triangle portal....

Was the conflict between those who accepted the Witness' logic and those who did not? I interpreted it as only Ahsa rejected the logic and the rest killed eachother to prove themselves by the sword, if Xita and possibly the Leviathen were the only survivors then that makes more sense. Either way, I'm glad to see more worm god lore at last, who knows, maybe we'll even see Yul or one of the other worm gods go after Ahsa. Or perhapse some of the worm gods may even turn on The Witness as well, family does seem to be fairly important to them and they may still be upset that Rhulk turned their mother into a weapon. Then again, we did that to their brother, and Oryx did something sort of related to their sister, and Mara did it to one of their children... is it just the fate of all worm gods to be turned into weapons?

Has it been retconned or is there still a sandworm on the Cabal Homeworld called the Leviathan that Calus’ ship is based off of? Also, love how Sloan’s Ghost is ready to cut-a-bitch 🤣

I was really hoping after what they did in Light Fall that carrying The Whisper of the Worm sniper would have had us hearing Xol during some of the story, seeing as the gun has his soul. No dice though.

That makes her millions of years old. I never thought that the Leviathan and Worms could even have been the same species which makes perfect sense now I think about it. Why would it be guarding the worms from discovery if it didn't have history with them? So many mysterious to be solved it's insane

I think Ahsa is a uncorrupted worm if I remember correctly in my first deep dive after doing the two pressure challenges I think Drifter or Zavala said something "Can you believe an outcast worm" I think she is one and I want to protect her even more after hearing her story now

I’m surprised you didn’t speculate on the “bond” Ahsa made during the Collapse. My notion is that Ahsa and Savathun bonded…Savathun helped Ahsa escape Fundament via the Veil.

Sky: Leviathans
Neutral: Ahamkara
Deep: Worms
What if they’re all the same species but are changed based on their alignment? It would explain why the Vanguard purged the Ahamkara, as each is a potential enemy if claimed by the Deep and the Vanguard was probably unaware of Leviathans at the time.

I nearly drowned in the deep when she swam into view in the dungeon yelling “you’re breathtaking!”
She is definitely a new mystery but a welcome one to us lore whores 😅

At the start of the season I had the theory, that maybe Ahsa, was the mysteriously unknown other disciple from the RON lorebooks. Where they were questioning the final shape, maybe that's why Ahsa left and it would explain why Ahsa knows so much about the witness. But I like this video.

This season is what Destiny is really all about, mystery for the community to think and converse about the story as it goes forward...I'm hoping Ahsa knows something about the Va~ joking but maybe she may know something. It would be cool if Bungie gives us more story to compliment the events in Lightfall and justify what we think were shortcomings, hopefully it makes us appreciate the campaign later.

I was under the impression that Ahsa and the Leviathan were the same. That Rhulk is the disciple of fear and Nezarec of pain, and the rib bone in Rhulks ship was Ahsa's from perhaps around the time she fled Fundament.

Thank you Byf,every season I look forward to the lore and theory that you bring.

Reckon it's not just worm gods that came from her species. I bet the wish dragon are also a off shot as well, they chased the traveller instead. Asha is the original and neutral in a sense.

The "disciple of fear" is likely in reference to Rhulk. As the first disciple of the Witness, he was there when the Witness came for Ahsa's race and Fundament. He also struck a leviathan in the deep, likely in reference to Ahsa herself, who was wounded by Rhulk and then fled.

I wonder if the Leviathan may have also been of the original Worm God species, but couldn't bring itself to kill the Worm Gods (maybe they were family?) and so it contained them in the depths of Fundament instead.

This subplot is becoming so incredibly interesting. The one thing that doesn’t add up for me is Ahsa describes she was struck by “the disciple of fear”, which to me also suggests Nezarec. But the Vow of Disciple lore tells us it was Rhulk who wounded the Leviathan (assumably Ahsa) in the depths of Fundament and displayed one of its ribs in his pyramid ship.
I suppose it could have been another leviathan, and not Ahsa, that Rhulk assailed. But if nothing more this passage suggests that both Nezarec and Rhulk visited Fundament and made contact with the Worm Gods and Leviathan, and this is absolutely tantalizing storytelling as you put it, Mr. Byf. I want MORE.

What if the Traveler empowered The Leviathan so it could contain the worm gods and it was the same species as Ahsa.
This also makes me wonder of Ahsa, the Worm Gods, and Ahamkara are all related

In the new trial ship, you can see one of shayuras fireteam, reed-7, was one of the casualties in the one cutscene where the witness cuts all the ships into pieces

Now I'm wondering why Rhulk would have had to fight the Leviathan, and remove one of its ribs, in order to reach and conscript the Worm Gods if they were proto-Worms that had already been corrupted by the Witness in the first place.

I wonder if Ahsa could potentially give new powers to those eho bond with her like the worm gods gave to the osmium sisters..
Because that in conjunction with having Savathun's body at hand could lead to interesting situations..

Ahsa has given me weapon buffs and ammo multiple times.
Ahsa is my new favorite character.

Nezarec also has some dialouge about Ahsa and her species in Root of Nightmares. Its not much but he clearly knows about her and the Worm God origins

A wyrm battle between Ahsa and one of the worm gods as a climax would be insane

She's not the same Levi Rhulk injured on Fundament, that's for sure. Her mentioning the Disciple of Fear striking is during the Collapse so it sounds like it's Nezarec

Could the Leviathan have been the mother/father of the proto worms? They rejected the witness but couldnt fight their sons and daughters when the conflict broke out. When the worms that won turned into the worm gods that we know, they vowed to contain them on fundament. The worm gods had to then, essentially create the hive to leave and continue the witness' design?

something I’ve noticed but haven’t heard discussed, is how ahsas’ eye shimmers and contracts/expands when she’s speaking through the deputy commander, it even mentions this happening a few other times(i think) in lore from this season talking about how ahsa helped her survive all this time. Isn’t this yet another similarity between the worm gods, or *proto-worm gods, and the ahamkara? ahamkaras’ shimmering eye is what would betray their wish magic when it was in play, if I remember correctly. damn forsaken was a long time ago lol. anyways, is this making sense to anyone?

My theory is this. The Leviathan was the guardian of the sword logic. The worms were once like Ahsa. When Rhaulk travelled to Fundament, it infected the already turning creatures that were Ahsa's family. Thus making it that the worm gods were once like Ahsa and the Leviathan but when infected with darkness, they morphed. Just like how the Hive morphed into what they are today.

I believe we hear Sloane pronounce her Ghosts name, "Show-Khan" in the recent story mission.

I truly believe after the final shape there’s going to be a whole new story/saga and I truly believe that Taox the hive sister’s mother will eventually come into play, yes the krill don’t live super long except for the females but after all this time taox would definitely be dead by now but I think she found a way to keep living cuz she has to come back around eventually in real time tho not millions of years ago in the lore of destiny.

If Ahsa is a proto worm god then I wonder if they have chosen Sloan like how the worm gods chose the siblings. Also if there are more like Ahsa out there and they became our allies like Ahsa has then who would they choose, and what would the status of that person be especially if that person was part of the vanguard. Imagine if Ahsa or one like Ahsa bonded with a restored Savathun who the vanguard allowed to be restored just so an alliance against the witness and their forces could be made with the hive that follow Savathun. Would be interesting though Savathun and Ahsa versus Xivu and their worm god with some assistance from us. Additionally will Ahsa or one like her bond with the guardian, and will Ahsa be the key to learning of the existence or even unlocking a new darkness subclass. Wondering that because if we get a third darkness subclass would we learn it before or during final shape. If before then Ahsa could be the key yo finding it or the source for unlocking it. If we get a third darkness subclass and we get it during final shape instead of before final shape then at what point during final shape would we get it because that could affect who we get it or the information regarding it from. Also how do groups like the nine view Ahsa, and how would Zavala and Mara treat Ahsa if they knew it was a proto worm god.

If Ahsa truly is a proto worm, maybe there’s a similarity in name. The same way the hive siblings donned new names after accepting the deep, maybe so too did the worm gods. The mother of all worms was named Akka, the benevolent worm. The phonetic changes from soft ‘S’ sounds to the hard ‘K’ certainly seems like a feature of being linked to the deep.

Could the big waves that scared the 3 hive gods have been caused by that fighting? Kinda like how a fruit fly experiences life differently than us, could a few skirmishes have caused that for the proto hive?

This guy is one of the few reasons I still play this game

The Worm Gods need to appear in this season, it makes sense.

This all makes me wonder... What if the witness wins the battle for Sol and the Traveller leaves to find a new species it thinks has a chance. Who would be the last light bearer that would follow the Traveller to the new place?

I think savathun was the one who hid the planets because each of the returning ones and the discovery of neo muna were all places where there was a potential ally or weapon against the witness. Savathun is not a friend by any definition but I think she really was trying to keep the traveler out of the hands of the witness so that whats happened with the veil may never have happened. In the same regard I think she hid ahsa who warned the krill against the deep in the first place.

My theory is that Ahsa might be the child of the Leviathan that kept the Worm Gods trapped deep within Fundaments ocean, before they made Savathun, Oryx and Xivu.

Nezarec striking Ahsa seems very familiar to Rhulk attacking the Leviathan

My guess is some of the leviathan started using darkness as wish magic and became the aramkara. The witness noticed them using darkness and didn't like it so it subjugated them by making them the worm gods.
Ahsa would be one of the leviathan that didn't use wish magic to become an aramkara but maybe knows about her siblings that did.

I believe they are the same species, with Ahsa being a young adult, the Leviathan being an older adult in their natural course, and the worm-gods and their mother being the same but corrupted by the dark.

We know that Traveller was in fact near Fundament, and was in contact with Hive(at least Savathun), maybe he was in contact with Ahsa's species aswell and maybe Leviathan is what came of it. Traveller gave him power to contain Worm Gods and well, guard them. So even without the ghost Leviathan probably was akin to Guardians, transformed by light and guarding what remained of their species. Maybe he hoped Traveller can reverse what has been done to them, but for the moment being he was jsut guarding them. They obviously could not overpower him(not without help they got from Hive later), so he could kill them if he really wanted, but he refrained from it. The main reason for this might be hope that they can be cured, drive to save his species. So he stayed to guard them, Ahsa fled to ascendant plane, but other defectors? Maybe they left with traveler, followed him around, and eventually transformed into Ahamkara. Bonds and pacts are very tied to this species nature, and even Ahsa who is not transformed talks about bond as something of utter importance to her.
P.S. Words about "garden" "nomads" "travelers" "planting seeds of hope". Can we entertain a thought that Traveller might be not one of his kind? My head canon for a long time is that in fact Traveller is not uniqe, but he might be the last. Even wilder thought: Pyramid ships are Travellers that were hunted down by Witness and transformed by his will, can be something tied to Taking.

For us not to take down the last three worm gods, Yul, Eir, and Ur, would be a massive disappointment. We already killed the weakest but that wasn’t satisfying since it was just a mission/strike. They should be raid bosses with the most powerful, Yul, being the final boss

Having accidently seen some of the leaks and knowing the answers about whats to come but not being able to talk about it after watching some of these videos is agonizing lol. But i wont spoil it like others did for me. Just have faith guys there is some GREAT lore stuff coming in the future.

I’ve been saying for years that all these paracausal worms and dragons and such are the same thing but morphed by the surrounding energies. Glad we’re finally getting around to that.

I reckon if Ahsa is a proto worm god, she may be the one to give us our 3rd darkness subclass.
And that might be a pre witness version of hive magic.
I can see something happening with our skills and abilities in that subclass getting stronger in different ways for killing enemies in certain ways for a set period of time (emulating the sword logic).
For instance: if you kill 3 or more enemies with a single ability, you gain one temporary charge for that ability. Once the extra charge is used, it goes away, and this skill is put on a short cooldown.
Could be a very fun idea to play with.

I think by the end of the season Sloane will become fully taken but Ahsa will fully merge with her to protect Sloane's mind

Asha, I think, is indeed a proto worm god. And I think Sloane has taken the mantle of Taken King without fully realizing it

Does this mean Savathûn’s worm in the Parasite gun is somehow related to Ahsa’s species or does he turn into a thrall? I don’t remember the difference. An interaction between them would be funny though.

I belive it is one of the pieces of seasonal armour reveals ahsa's first bond, it's with a marine biologist. During the golden age, she tried to warn him and others about the witness.

What if Ahsa IS the Leviathan? She said the Disciple of Fear struck her. What if that was Rhulk and the striking her part was when he took the rib bone from the Leviathan. The brothers and sisters she fought might have been the worm gods we know and after Rhulk, she left Fundament and came to Titan.

What if the Proto-worm gods were the larval forms of Wish Dragons, and the Witness twisted them so they never grew/evolved beyond their worm forms?

I think Ahsa is the same species as the worm gods just not corrupted. Also to me it sounds like Ahsas species was tempted by the witness originally on fundament, which caused a them to fight with one another. It also sounds like Ahsa was the only one to escape (to titan before Golden age) while the others fought. Alsoooo what if Leviathan was a name or title for this creature, and it was the *possibly the strongest & oldest of their species, and it had decided stay on fundament to guard the remaining corrupted of their species. That is until the witness came again but this time corrupted Savathun n her sisters to release these ancient corrupted "worm gods". Thus dooming their species to the darkness and killing the leviathan that stayed on the lights side.

Well if the disciple of fear was Rhulk, then that could mean Ahsa was the very same Leviathan that tried to warn the three hive sisters away from the deep and that would be her rib in Rhulk's pyramid.

Crazy idea. What if Sloane isn't bonding Asha? What if that is a bate and switch? What if we are actually helping her bond The Taken Kings Worm? Both Asha and Sloane knowing we'd never help do that are tricking us. We know that suddenly Sloane is partially Taken. Maybe with Asha's help Sloane and her are helping rehabilitate the Worm? If the species needs two Worms to breed you suddenly have a mating pair.

Hi, so I noticed the spelling of Sloane’s ghost was very similar to the origins of my surname, which is written Siodhacháin. (I’ve seen other sources state that Siocháin is the origin but I digress.)
I’ve heard it pronounced “sho-han” or “sheo-han” while I’ve grown up with my name pronounced “she-yun” with the last h silent. Hope this helps!

He’s an idea. What if yes Ahsa is part of a “proto worm god” species. The Witness came to them and offered something, some excepted and some didn’t, and so these creatures battled, Ahsa escapes, but maybe Xita is the only survivor of the traitors, and she flees or is trapped in the core of Fundament, now transformed with dark power age gives birth to the 5 Worm Gods, abd would be interesting if the Leviathan of a Fundament was either the last survive good worm aside from Ahsa, or at least the only one that remained on Fundament guarding the Worm Gods.

This latest set of lore from this expansion has been amazing

Ahsa backwards is Asha, which can mean happy, wish, desire, life. It's also a concept meaning truth. Ahsa being backwards, maybe it means the reverse of that. Sorrow, death, deception.
Or maybe, it's just a name

Ahsa is firmly in the running for "Destiny Character Who Has Suffered the Most". I hope she finds happiness and love again. Aiat.

Has anyone seen any special interactions with the parasite exotic weapon while interacting with Asha? I mean we have Sathona’s worm in our vault, he may be salty about where he is but what about taking him to see family?

Hey Byf! This is probably in your docket of videos to make already, but… When are we gonna talk about how Reed-7 was the Titan that got sliced up by the Witness in the beginning of Lightfall? And how the new Trials lore either confirms or alludes to the fact that Shayura, Aisha and Reed-7 are the “OG Fireteam” that was show in the ending Seraph cutscene and from all the way back in Vanilla D1???

I think there's a reason Saladin mentioned the Ahamkara hunts to Sloane.

is it possible that Ahsa is proto-krill/proto-hive? maybe theres an even earlier divergence between the Krill and the proto-worm gods where one became the Krill which further became the Hive, and one became Ahsa's race which some of further became the Worm Gods?

Disciple of fear, while it’s probably nezarec I would like mention an old call back to season of splicer, Skira. The evil that haunted the elksni before the traveler but was defeated when the elksni stopped being afraid because skira fed on fear.

Hey byf, what if the bond ahsa had before the collapse was with Sloane's past life? I know it's pretty up in the air, but this is destiny improbable is not impossible

Given how Rhulk has had interactions with the Leviathan on Fundament previously? I'd say The Disciple that's mentioned is Rhulk rather than Nezarec.
EDIT: Theres a definite link between Ahsa's Gifts and the Ahamkara's Wish Magic. Could it be the Worm Gods are purely Darkness, the Leviathan are purely Light and the Ahamkara are a blend of both?

Fun fact: if you emote around Ahsa, she will react to your emotes. Figured that out day 1 of this season

Don't you think there was a connection between ahsa and savathun? Perhaps ahsa influenced savathun to rebel against the witness.

This is a crazy theory but i think ahsa and the leviathan might be one and the same. The "disciple of fear" that struck ahsa might have been rhulk who we know took the leviathans rib which is now on display in his pyramid ship.
What if that giant rib bone is actually from ahsa herself and maybe she was trying to warn the at the time krill daughters of the mad king about the worm gods who'd accepted the witnesses curse