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Whats the reason that the Praxic Order uses Pyramid structures as temples?

Mainly to build over them and cleanse them of Darkness. Praxics were always about just destroying the Darkness and not really into understanding it, so claiming Darkness structures and converting them can serve as a way to take over, remove the Darkness and keep it at bay by turning these structures into temples dedicated to the Light. These structures were also places where they could keep relics of Darkness away from the City and in a place where they could easily be contained and not a danger to anyone. From the start of the Fire and Ice exotic mission:

Aunor: The Praxic Order maintains vaults throughout the system, to purify or lock away dangerous artifacts of Darkness. Only Praxics who’ve earned a Cormorant Seal are allowed entry.

There is a bit of hypocrisy in this that's mentioned in-game, by Eris, at the end of the exotic mission:

Aunor: Superb bladework, Guardian. You’ve taken your first steps towards Praxic dogma… For whatever the hell that’s worth. It seems the Order… that we created Bael in the first place. Eris: You methods armed Bael. Help us finish him. Aunor: Of course I will! I just didn’t think— Eris: That your zealous Order could make a mistake? That hoarding what you claim to denounce would cost humanity? Aunor: We were doing what we thought we had to. To protect the City. Eris: So were all of us, utilizing the Darkness against the enemies of humanity — while you excoriated us for it. Aunor: I… need to meditate on this. Guardian, there is no Dredgen your blade can’t cut. It’s a reflection of you. Today, I’m not proud of myself or my Order. Perhaps you can help us change.

This is one of the moments when Aunor begins to realise that she may have to change her mindset and her Order, something that continues to happen as we go through the temple in the Equilibrium dungeon, especially at the end when she wonders if the Praxic relics will accepts a mix of Light and Darkness and it does.

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One thing i don't fully understand - Did the praxic order always have the praxic blades / lightsabers, and we've just never seen them before? Or are they canonically a recent invention?

It's not entirely clear, but I'm assuming we're meant to believe they've always had them. But I think it's also supposed to be a sort of a secret of the Order. So if you weren't initiated/worthy, you wouldn't know about it.

Obviously outside of the game, they're very clearly new additions, but the setup for the Temples and the Praxic blade seems to imply that we're meant to just accept that this always existed, we just didn't know about it because the Order is secretive.

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So this is probably a question with an obvious answer but. What exactly is the Praxic Order?

At first i thought it was the people who liked to get themselves killed in every possible way because they think it'll give them visions. But then we travel to some kind of Vault where they store paracausal materials, giving me the vibes as an scp-foundation equivalent for dangerous paracausal artifacts

But then they also just seem to have always had lightsabers. Or Praxic Blades rather, made of Light

The order you were thinking of are the Thanatonauts! They're the ones killing themselves for visions and insight into death. Warlocks are normal.

The Praxic Order are an order dedicated to the Light and are fiercely opposed to Darkness. They would hunt down and fight any Guardians straying to the Darkness, as well as keeping any relics of Darkness and Darkness powers contained and out of people's hands. Their main idea is that we don't need to know what the Darkness is or understand it, we just have to fight it and get rid of it.

The Acataleptic Clause claims that we are intrinsically unable to understand the Darkness. In many respects this belief parallels the Praxic Creed, which suggests that we should stop worrying about the nature of the Darkness and focus on resisting and defeating it.

This might give context to some of Aunor's struggles with stuff happening in the campaign and especially in the dungeon, with how we treat and use Darkness, and how the Praxic temple accepted Darkness as part of the Praxic blade. It also helps with the context of why she's afraid to bring this up more with her fellow members; she got her mind changed, but the rest of them... Well.

They're a fairly fanatical bunch, though it depends on the member. We've known a couple of them over the course of the game; for example, Eriana-3 was a Praxic Warlock, and so was Taeko-3, and Shayura. And Aunor obviously. They also have a single Titan, Siegfried, who is literally the most fanatical of them; first introduced all the way back in Season of the Hunt (first season of Beyond Light) - his lore on the Titan armour set (starting with gloves). He was also featured a little in Haunted. He's still active.

Praxics will try to capture and use different methods to help any corrupted Guardian, and they refrain from straight up killing them. A good example is one of the early corrupted Guardians that would lead us into Beyond Light from this lore tab. Aunor kills the corrupted Guardian and disables the Ghost from resurrecting because the Ghost appeared to be corrupted as well. I have a write-up on this whole plot from a couple of years ago here.

However, they're also not entirely opposed to just going in guns blazing. I definitely recommend checking out Aunor's lore book from back in Season of the Drifter. And it needs to be said that it's been a long time since, both for us as players and in-game. Many things have changed, and the Praxic Order faced a lot of challenges with our acceptance of Darkness and continue to face them, as evidenced by Aunor during the entirety of Renegades and especially in the exotic mission and the dungeon and its quest.

Their Praxic temples and the Praxic blade are obviously new additions, but I think they fit in fairly well overall and I especially like the way Praxic temples are set inside Pyramid architecture. A very common practice of a new or conquering faith to take over places previously owned by some other ideology to show power over them. So Praxics taking over Pyramid temples and building over them is such a neat little detail and I really enjoy it as a new addition. It's Praxics exerting their ideology of Light over the Darkness in physical space by claiming those "tainted" places and changing them as proof of victory.

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everyone look at my formerly lore-only shitty lady (affectionate) Aunor Mahal

we know it's her because devs confirmed this is a Praxic agent in the Renegades vidoc and there's leadup lore of notes from a member of the Praxic Order with the initials A.M. all over the new Ash & Iron datapads. including the hilarious Praxic Observation 32 that consists entirely of Aunor watching new indie vex being gay.

(yes i'm glad to see her and yes i'm mad they whitewashed and yassified her to hell and back. she's filipino her name Mahal is tagalog her ghost's name Bahaghari is tagalog for 'rainbow' and she canon-to-lore has brown skin and a crooked nose)