Oradan of OLD nailed it.
Oryx made the Dreadnaught with Akka’s corpse and Taken are beings that Oryx turned into puppets.
This is all explained it the Books of Sorrow and Taken grimoires
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I meant before TTK was even a concept.
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Maybe in Early concept the Taken were the Darkness, but they changed it, glad they did, as I would have been disappointed if the Taken were the Darkness.