Why does queen myrrah look human

It was carefully and very cleverly planned by Gears developer Epic from the very start that the Locust Queen's story would remain untold throughout the trilogy. I only came up with this theory because the Locust Queen's name - Myrrah - reminds me of the word 'mirror'. So logically that led me to surmise that she has shifted her shape to reflect the image of a human being. Like a mirror.

I also suspect that in a previous life I was a cunning detective. Admittedly this idea is pretty out there, but just imagine this scenario for a minute. When designing the Locust Queen, Epic ran through a whole bunch of concepts and eventually decided that the human-looking Locust Queen was the one that looked the best. The easiest on the eye. A bit sexy even. What was the alternative - a Berserker with a crown and sceptre? No big mystery. Just a design decision. Pure and simple.

The following is an extract of a conversation that might of happened in the Epic office during the Locust Queen design meeting:.

So that's what I've got. Anyone care to offer any other possible explanations as to why the leader of the big ugly living underground Locust looks like a pretty sexy human woman?

Please stuff the section below with your thoughts and comments. Get the best gaming deals, reviews, product advice, competitions, unmissable gaming news and more! Matt Cundy. See comments. Gaming deals, prizes and latest news. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands. Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors. 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. Imulsion and all Lambent lifeforms across Sera disintegrated, while the majority of the Locust Horde and Hollow beasts collapsed into a comatose state and formed a Imulsion crystalline shell over their bodies.

Professor Adam Fenix was also killed by the Imulsion countermeasure as he had high levels of Imulsion in his body due to experimenting on himself first. Myrrah survived the Hammer blasts and collapse of the Tempest. Marcus then stabbed Myrrah with Dominic Santiago's commando knife to avenge Dom and the billions of humans that were killed by her in the Locust War.

Queen Myrrah died in a pool of her own blood while her Horde was neutralized from the Imulsion countermeasure. Unknown to the rest of humanity, the Locust did not die, nor did the consciousness of Myrrah. Niles Samson was successful in creating the Locust as an evolutionary species. They were designed to adapt and survive generational conflict.

The Locust Hivemind also remained intact, with the consciousness of Myrrah still alive within. After twenty-five years of peace on Sera, in 42 A. In order to rebuild their army, the Scions created the Swarm. The Swarm consisted of creatures that could capture humans and transform them into soldiers for the Swarm.

What the Swarm lacked, however, was a Queen. While the Scions were intelligent enough to lead the Swarm, they were in need of a physical Queen for them to be able to learn and grow. Myrrah's consciousness was able to minimally guide them through the Hivemind, but was unable to fully act as their Queen without a body.

However, through Hivemind, she discovered that her daughter, Reyna , had survived the escape attempt. Reyna had inherited her mother's connection to the Locust Hivemind as well. In order to lead the Swarm, Myrrah was in need of connecting her daughter to the Swarm in order to possess her body and become the Queen of the Swarm.

At the time of the Swarm emergence, Reyna was leading an Outsider village and had a daughter, named Kait Diaz , who also inherited a connection to the Locust Hivemind. Myrrah guided the Scion, the Speaker , to attack the village and capture Reyna. While her people were transported to the Hive below Fort Reval to be transformed into Juvies , Reyna was then taken to the Tollen Dam where she was connected to the heart of the Hive, and was bound so that separation would be fatal.

Kait Diaz then launched a rescue mission for her mother, uncle, and the rest of their people. Accompanying her were Sgt. There, he saw Reyna being transfigured into their queen at the Tollen Dam. Once released, Marcus then directed the rescue mission towards the dam. However, unknown to the rest, Marcus knew that Reyna was being mutated beyond repair. Arriving with reinforcements at the Tollen Dam, the Speaker confronted Kait Diaz and claimed that Reyna did not need to be rescued but instead left to be with the Swarm as their new Queen.

Kait Diaz then killed the Speaker and continued into the Hive. Just as the connection began to mutate and possess Reyna, her daughter came to her rescue. Reyna then begged Kait for release and death, which Kait reluctantly obliged.

Reyna's body was left in the heart of the Hive, as Kait was left with Reyna's amulet of the Locust Horde, that once belonged to Myrrah. While Myrrah initially failed to possess Reyna, Reyna's body and consciousness was still within the Hive. Her attention, however, was now towards Kait, the next in line. Using Kait's connection to the Hivemind, she began to haunt Kait with visions, premonitions, hallucinations, and nightmares. They were meant as messages and were attempting to cause Kait paranoia and distrust among her friends.

Four months after Reyna's separation, Myrrah led an attack on Riftworm Village , where a Snatcher was able to capture Kait and officially connect her to the Swarm. Myrrah delighted in Kait's connection and forced her to command the soldiers within the Swarm to lead the attack, resulting in the death of her uncle.

However, Sgt. Marcus Fenix and Cpt. James Fenix were able to free Kait from the Snatcher. Kait then revealed her visions and the Locust emblem to her friends. Due to her connection to the Locust, she and friend Lt. After for traveling hours on the Skiff , Cpl. Diaz and Lt. Entering through a hole created by the Swarm, Cpl. Diaz experienced a vision in which Myrrah, posed as JD, exploited Cpl. Diaz's fear of JD not trusting her and betraying her friends.

Myrrah, sowing doubt and paranoia in her granddaughter, asked Kait who could trust her now. Walker then arrived at the New Hope Research Facility. After traversing the lab, she discovered Myrrah's personalized cell and Dr. Samson's analysis file on Myrrah - detailing her boosted immune system and decelerated aging when exposed to doses of concentrated Imulsion.

Walker then reactivated the A. JACK , entering the system, recovered corrupted files mentioning Kadar - the nearby mountain where the last of the New Hope scientists fled before the facility closed. The Flock then entered the facility and hacked the mainframe, causing the facility to self-destruct.

Walker managed to escape the facility. As Kait continued on her journey to the Mount Kadar laboratory, Myrrah increased the frequency and intensity of her visions. After Cpl. Diaz entered the first communications tower, Myrrah posed as JD Fenix and Del Walker in a vision - recreating their conversation that Kait observed before leaving the Riftworm Village. However, Myrrah continued to sow paranoia and mistrust as she displayed the two believing Cpl. Diaz to be the enemy and to take her out.

At the second communications tower, Myrrah induced another vision posing as Oscar Diaz, reinforcing Kait's guilt in his death by declaring that she killed him.

After triangulating the signal from the two towers, Cpl. Walker found the lab to be under a frozen lake. Unable to get through, Lt. Walker suggested an explosive that could be found in an abandoned Nethercutt mine.

Upon entering the mines, Myrrah once again created another vision in which she replicated Reyna's last moments - asking Kait to cut her lose. Despite this, Cpl. Diaz recovered the explosive and deployed it on the frozen lake - gaining access to the lab below.

Diaz to join the Swarm as their new Queen, but Kait resisted. Myrrah physically appeared to Kait in one of the visions, but Kait ordered Myrrah to get out of her head and stabbed the vision with her Combat Knife , causing Myrrah to vanish. Kait and Lt. Niles also revealed that Myrrah conceived a human child with Dr.

Torres and mothered Reyna , making Myrrah Kait's grandmother. Kait then learned that her grandfather fled with Reyna, and Myrrah's grief caused her to lead a rebellion to slaughter the scientists and declared independence. However, Myrrah's stem-cells were what created the Hivemind that connected her with the Locust Horde, and that Reyna and Kait had inherited that very connection.

Kait threatened Niles to sever her link to Myrrah and the Locust before she could be made Queen of the Swarm, causing them to evolve and become more intelligent and dangerous.

Severing the link involved damaging the temporal lobe as that part is connected to the Hivemind. In order to so, Niles had to induce anesthesia in the imaging machine and transport Kait's consciousness into the Hivemind. Niles then used Kait to physically awaken Reyna, who now she learned had survived. Myrrah was then able to be resurrected through Reyna and became the Queen once again.

Myrrah used Kait's residual link to the Hivemind through the Matriarch in an attempt to distract her by projecting her voice into Kait's mind and distorting her vision, particularly as the Matriarch got weaker.

However, Kait was able to kill the Matriarch despite Myrrah's attempts at distraction, severing her link to the Locust once and for all. True to Niles Samson's word, after Reyna was resurrected by Myrrah and made Queen of the Swarm - the Swarm immediately grew and became more intelligent. The Drones began fighting more aggressively and tactically, with more precision and self-preservation. In the weeks after Reyna became their Queen, the Swarm was in the process of constructing armor and building their own weapons, such as the Claw Light Machine Gun , in similar fashion to how the Locust Horde built their army.

The Swarm were also able to intercept the humans plans and gain intelligence, as Queen Reyna was aware that the humans were attempting to reactivate the Hammer of Dawn, but the only available remnants resided in OZP of Vasgar. The survivors in Vasgar, known as Nomads and led by Garron Paduk , began to notice the advancement in Swarm intelligence and technology - as well as better coordination in attacks, such as cutting off their water supply and convoys.

Several weeks after being reawakened, Queen Reyna traveled to the red desert of Vasgar to stop the Mission to OZP , in which the Coalition were attempting to launch the Union of Independent Republic's Hammer of Dawn satellites to prepare using against the Swarm.

Queen Reyna attempted to stop them by attacking them with her army and the gargantuan Kraken , an indigenous creature native to the Vasgar Hollow, but ultimately failed. Queen Reyna then personally witnessed the satellites being launched into space.

Realizing that the humans revived the Hammer of Dawn and were in the process of fortifying New Ephyra , Reyna led an assault in the ruins of Old Ephyra in order to destroy the Hammer of Dawn targeting beacons and render New Ephyra defenseless. Shortly after activating the satellites, the humans still needed to place the targeting beacons around the city. After planting the targeting beacons in the Tomb of the Unknowns and East Barricade Academy , Queen Reyna led her army and the Kraken to destroy the beacons.

After destroying the beacon at the Tomb of the Unknowns, Queen Reyna finally confronted Kait Diaz and attacked her and her friends, Cpt. James Dominic Fenix and Lt. Delmont Walker. She expressed disappointment in Kait for failing to chose to side with her legacy and attempted to kill her and her friends.

However, Kait was able to save herself and either one of them, prompting Queen Reyna to murder the other friend. Kait and her surviving friend escaped and reunited with the Coalition while Queen Reyna led the Swarm to New Ephyra's gates. Queen Reyna and the Swarm receded, and Sgt. Marcus Fenix warned Kait Diaz that she would return.

Kait acknowledged this fact, but instead wished to hunt her down first before Kait discarded Myrrah's amulet. The most defining trait of Myrrah is her maternal nature. As a child, she exhibited traits of selflessness, nurturing, and sacrifice. Aware that she was immune to Imulsion's ill-effects, she was eager to help the scientists find a cure for the other sick children with Rustlung.

As the children mutated into Sires from Dr. Samson's grotesque experiments, Myrrah still held fondness for them, despite their appearance and nature. After her embryonic stem-cells were used to create the Locust Horde, she adamantly protected them and acted on their behalf. Her maternal instincts were finally realized with the birth of her human daughter, Reyna.

Her connection with Reyna was so strong, that when Reyna was taken and Myrrah believed her to be killed by the scientists, she developed a hatred for the entire human race and vowed to destroy them all out of revenge. She led her Locust children, as their Queen, to independence, and continued to grow their civilization. Her main objective was the preservation of her children - which led Myrrah to develop desperate tactics and tendencies.

Myrrah is also best known for her cynical and xenophobic views. Despite being human, she viewed herself and her Locust as more "Seran" than the human race.

She saw the Locust as an evolved, connected, and immortal people that was more deserving of Sera than the humans. Because the Locust came from her genetics, she also viewed herself as a Locust - and thus saw the human race as inferior, not deserving of Sera or life itself. Despite this, she admitted some pity for them - but realized that the human race only knew dominance, arrogance, ignorance, and ultimately destruction.

These views were caused by the Pendulum Wars and the scientists of the New Hope Research Facility - who had kidnapped her, performed torturous experiments on her and other children, robbed her of her childhood, and supposedly killing the last pure thing Myrrah had - which was Reyna. She feared that the humans would never accept them, even if they came to them peacefully.

She believed they would either be oppressed, imprisoned, or even eradicated if the human race learned of their existence. This was a deciding factor in Myrrah leading a genocidal war against the humans. Myrrah expressed inferiority with the Lambent, as well. She viewed the Lambent Locust as inferior creatures - an infection that corrupts and pollutes her people. The Lambent and humans were, in her opinion, both deserving of extinction. Gears of War Wiki Explore. Gears Tactics Gears Pop! The Universe.

She is the leader and queen of the Locust Horde. Kait was the daughter of former war-hero, Sgt. The Kantus were one of the three primary races of the Locust Horde. Taller and leaner than Drones, Kantus were actually Locust priests and fulfilled a support capacity on the battlefield, reinvigorating injured Locust with their characteristic chanting.

Kait is just a mix of someone from Hispanic decent and caucasian decent. Kait became involved in the Swarm War after they ambushed her village and kidnapped her mother. Collectible card games. Why does the Locust Queen look human?