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*[[wikipedia: Rasputin|Rasputin]] was a Russian priest and mystic closely associated with the [[wikipedia: Romanov|Romanov]] family, the last Tsars of Imperial Russia. He is most commonly associated with having several assassination attacks carried out on him, surviving each one until he was shot in the head, wrapped in a blanket and dumped in an icy river by his attackers until they were certain that he was finally deceased. This is most likely a source of inspiration for the Rasputin of the Destiny universe, as it survives The Collapse and many other attempts to destroy or control it.

*In [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost_Fragment_Rasputin_6|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 6]], there is a quote from {{Plain|[https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Anna_Karenina#/Part_8 Anna Karenina]}}, written by Leo Tolstoy.<ref>[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/708084-without-knowing-what-i-am-and-why-i-am-here '''Goodreads''' - ''Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life's impossible; and that I can't know, and so I can't live," Levin said to himself."  ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina'']</ref>

*In the original storyline of ''Destiny'', Rasputin was the focus of the game's plot, as he was kidnapped by the [[Hive]] and taken to the [[Dreadnaught]]. The focus of the game was to rescue him. In this version, he was an [[Exo]], though would be revealed to be controlled by the warmind (rather than actually ''being'' the warmind) in a future DLC.<ref name = "Messy">[http://kotaku.com/the-messy-true-story-behind-the-making-of-destiny-1737556731 '''Kotaku''' - ''The Messy, True Story Behind The Making Of Destiny'']</ref>

*At the Tower, [[Xander 99-40]] may occasionally say "Suspended bounty, Rasputin, no claimants." This implies that Rasputin is attempting to sponsor bounties for Guardians, or as a humorous aside suggesting that someone placed a bounty on Rasputin himself but no one stepped forward to carry it out.

*The [[Grimoire: Allies#Ghost_Fragment:_Mysteries|Ghost Fragment: Mysteries]] appears to be written from the perspective of Rasputin. Though heavily laden with metaphor, it appears to be a fractured chronicle of his encounter with the [[Darkness]], his fruitless attempts to overcome (or even resist) it, and his fateful decision to abandon his primary function in favor of survival (a tactic which he claims to have learned from his enemy). The colorful descriptions seem to indicate that he has descended into insanity since the [[Collapse]], either as a result of his encounter with the Darkness, or due to drastically rewriting his core protocols, or perhaps both.

*When Rasputin speaks "in person" at the end of [[Warmind (expansion)|Warmind]], the soundtrack is the correct Russian equivalent to Bray's English translation, but played backward (small bits, such as "Ja Rasputin" - "I am Rasputin", are not thus inverted) and overlaid with a range of voice distortion effects, as well as some "glitching" reminiscent of what is heard when computer audio "hangs". A re-inverted version of the recording, cleaned up to provide essentially intelligible Russian speech, can be heard [https://clyp.it/zhkq5rod here]<ref>Version without random robot lady's sounds can be found [https://youtu.be/6L634xAgUIY here]</ref>.

**This implies that in-universe, Rasputin is likely supposed to be speaking some kind of "Warmind language", as there seems to be no logical in-universe reason for it to speak in inverted Russian.

**Given its overall intellect and capabilities, logically, Rasputin should be perfectly capable of speaking standard English. The fact that it does not do so might instead reflect its unwillingness to make concessions to humans or acknowledge them as its "masters" any longer.

*Rasputin's protocols contain a number of references to history, mythology, and philosophy.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyLore/comments/6ddaqx/allusions_in_rasputins_protocols/ Reddit''' - ''Allusions in Rasputin's Protocols'']</ref>

*#Carrhae was an ancient battle fought in 54 B.C. when the Roman army invaded Parthia. Despite being superior in numbers the Roman legions were routed by the Parthian cavalry, one of their most crushing defeats.

*:#'' Dvapara Yuga''—the third age where people turn upon one another, corrupted by evil.

*:#'' Kali Yuga''—the final age, called the Age of Destruction. According to modern Hindu mythology, humanity is currently living in this age.

*The descriptor of the protocol SKYSHOCK as being 'Inside Context' or 'Outside Context' is likely a reference to Iain M. Banks's Culture Novel ''Excession'', in which an extra-universal anomaly is referred to by the AI Minds in the story as an 'Outside Context Problem', defined as the kind of problem for which there is no precedence, and that 'most civilizations would encounter just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.'

*It is implied in the Grimoire that Rasputin and the [[Exo Stranger]] may have met at some point.<ref>'''Bungie (2015-9-15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Ghost_Fragment:_Rasputin_4|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 4]]''</ref>

**This is further supported in Beyond Light as the Exo Stranger was revealed to be Elsie Bray.

*During the adventure Arecibo on Io, the ghost asks Asher if he is picking up anything on channel J-1869. Grigori Rasputin was born in January 1869.

*Rasputin builds his own Frames which appeared in [[Season of the Worthy]] and a modified version called Heavy Frames which were present during the Seraph Tower public event. These frames show up again the the Abhorrent Imperative mission in Season of the Seraph.

*After the death of Rasputin in Season of the Seraph, in one of the Heist Battlegrounds missions, Ana states that a piece of Rasputin lives on in the dog that the Guardian retrieved from Seraph Station.