There are 50 Calcified Fragments to be found in Destiny: The Taken King.

This can only be obtained during the Raid King's Fall: Golgoroth Challenge

Fragment XLIV[edit]

Golgoroth in King's Fall

There are a number of different strategies that can be used to complete this challenge. The pre-requiste for the challenge itself is that each time Golgoroth cast his gaze, each member of the 6 person fireteam must hold the Gaze for a short period of time.

If someone dies before they have held the gaze, the team will need to wipe and restart the challenge. If a player dies after they have held the gaze, then revive them cautiously as normal for the fight with its 6 death limit.

Completing this challenge takes a lot of coordination because every member of the Fireteam needs to hold the Gaze. There are a number of strategies that can be used. Each person should be given a number (1-6). This is the order in which the gaze will be captured. Using this method, those less comfortable holding the gaze should be clear about it so the gaze can quickly shift. This will limit.

Start the fight as usual. Drop the orb which holds Golgoroth and have the team split in half. 3 members of the fireteam are going to be on the platform and 3 will want to head into the pit when it is time.

The first 3 people will announce 10 and 5 second counts on the Gaze. Below 5 seconds, the next person in the cycle needs to fire on Golgoroth's second weak point (his back) to capture the gaze.

Drop an orb and stand in the Pool of Reclaimed Light. Begin firing on his weak point (belly) and be ready for when the third person capture's Golgorth's gaze. When the third Gaze Holder captures the Gaze, the fireteam in the pit will immediately want to get out.

There are a few ways to manage the final 3 members of the fireteam. Most suggest that you simply cycle throughout each of the player's in turn.

The final 2 to hold the gaze have the option of passing the Gaze between each other. This will make it a bit easier for the rest of the team to stay in the Pit in keep doing damage to Golgoroth after they have captured his gaze.

Book of Sadness Entry[edit]

“I have a gift for you,” says Oryx.

Savathûn, Witch-Queen, looks at him with dry wariness. “Is it the sword logic I need to go into the Deep, and take your power for myself?”

Their echoes move among the war-moons, walking together on the hull of a two-thousand-year-old warship. Savathûn’s fleet has assembled here, in preparation for an assault on the Gift Mast. The Deep is headed that way, on the trail of its prey, and the Hive will be its vanguard.

“It’s a Vex I captured. Quria, Blade Transform. It made an attempt to puncture my throne. I thought you might enjoy studying it.” Oryx pauses, digesting — through the bond of lineage he can feel Crota killing, worlds and worlds away, and it tastes like sweet fat. “Quria contains a Vex attempt to simulate me. It might generate others — you, perhaps, or Xivu Arath. I’ve left it some will of its own, so it can surprise you.”

“I suppose it’ll blow up and kill me,” Savathûn grouses. “Or let the machines into my throne, where they’ll start turning everything into clocks and glass.”

“If it kills you, then you deserve to die.” Oryx says it with a quiet thrill, a happy thrill, because it is good to say the truth.

“I don’t have a strict proof yet, you know.” Savathûn strokes the void with one long claw and space-time groans beneath her touch. “This thing we believe — that we’re liberating the universe by devouring it, that we’re cutting out the rot, that we’re on course to join the final shape — I haven’t found a strict, eternal proof. We might yet be wrong.”

Oryx looks at her and for a moment, just a moment, he is nostalgic, he is sentimental. He thinks, imagine the years behind us, the things we’ve done. And yet being old doesn’t feel like a scar, does it? It hasn’t left me dull. I feel alive, alive with you, and every time I step back into this world from my throne I feel like I’m two years old again, at the bottom of the universe, looking up.

But he says, “Sister, it’s us. We’re the proof, we the Hive: if we last forever, we prove it, and if something more ruthless conquers us, then the proof is sealed.”

She looks back at him with eyes like hot needles. “I like that,” she says. “That’s elegant.” Although of course she has had this thought before.