Rasputin: Difference between revisions

===Golden Age===

{{quote|I am Rasputin<br>The all-seeing savior of Humanity. A chivalric blade held pointed at ravenous throats.<br>My worth is painted upon the wreckage of my enemies.<br>Tremble.|Rasputin<ref name= "PersonaIdentity"/>}}

===Dark Age===

{{quote|YUGA SUNDOWN canceled by unauthorized access at Console 62815. Reactivation protocols in effect. Moral structures maintain MIDNIGHT EXIGENT. Multiple lifeforms detected in Sector 17. [O] energy detected. Query: [O] status. Query: [O] activity. Query: Civilization status. Query: SKYSHOCK event rank.|Rasputin<ref name="GFR6">'''Bungie (2016-9-20)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost_Fragment:_Rasputin_6|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 6]]''</ref>}}

===City Age===

{{quote|Rasputin isn't an ally. You hear me, blood? You find yourself thinking that, you shut it down. He may not be against us, but he doesn't care if you live, if the [[The Last City|City]] lives, if the [[Traveler]] lives. Trust me. He told me himself.|[[Tevis Larsen]]<ref name="PrometheanCode">'''Bungie (2015-9-15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[The Promethean Code]]''</ref>}}

===Post Red War===

{{Quote|What is buried beneath that ice is too dangerous to allow back into our world. It doesn't think as we do. It weighs and judges our existence in its ruthless calculations, and we don't even know what the goal is. Once, long ago, it might have been created as a tool to save Humanity. It is far more than a mere machine now. And it is broken.|[[Zavala]]<ref>"Narrative"</ref>}}

===Choosing Sides===

{{Quote|A line has been drawn in this system. Light on one side. Dark on the other. Where do you stand?|Osiris questioning Rasputin's allegiance<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqnVt0wLyr4</ref>}}

===Stopping The Almighty===

After the events at the [[Sundial]], the [[Red Legion]], led by [[Amtec]], who escaped the fate of her fellow Psion Flayer sisters, disabled the engines of [[The Almighty]] and sent it on a collision course towards the [[Last City]]. The [[Guardian]]s, with little choice, then sought help from the ancient [[Warmind]], and were tasked with reactivating Rasputin's arsenal to find a way to stop the Almighty from careening into the Last City.

As the Guardians worked to activate the Seraph Bunker on Io and connect it to Rasputin's mainframe, Rasputin had a confrontation with the Vanguard Commander. Zavala questions the ancient machine in his sincerity of understanding the stakes, which Rasputin answered by showing Zavala how close the Darkness is to the Solar System and of his past, having survived the Collapse. Finally coming to an understanding with Zavala, the Titan Vanguard vows that once ''The Almighty'' has been broken, he will agree to work with Rasputin, granting the Warmind whatever resources the Last City has in battling the coming Darkness. In addition, Rasputin begun to send his combat frames on missions to secure "valuable assets" in the form of sleeper nodes.

In later weeks, Rasputin sent a Guardian up to Felwinter Peak. There, they and Ana Bray discover secrets of Rasputin's activities during the Dark Age. They learn Rasputin deployed a battalion of frames to attack Felwinter when he was still the mountain's sole occupant, and that he programmed SIVA to act as bait for the Iron Lords. These activities were apparently in response to a breach of his systems in Old Russia. After having the Guardian acquire more data for him, he summons them to the Seraph Bunker on the Moon. Once there, he tells them the story of a tyrant and his son, an allusion to the story of his connection to Felwinter.

===The Arrival of the Dark===

Several days after the Almighty's destruction, the fleet of mysterious [[Pyramids|Pyramid Ships]] pushed into the system, with one ship breaking off to go to [[Io]]. With Ana's assistance, Rasputin used his Warsat Network around the moon of Jupiter to try shooting the vessel down. Sadly, his countermeasures had no effect, and the Pyramid responded by completely disabling the Warmind and his systems, leaving the Guardians to fend off the fleet themselves. Ana managed to transfer Rasputin into an [[Engram]] with the help of her Ghost, [[Jinju]], though the Warmind's integrity was in doubt.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore:Duress_and_Egress#Ana:_Frayed|Duress and Egress]]''</ref>

After weeks of collecting more submind data, Rasputin and Ana learn that [[Eramis, Kell of Darkness|Eramis]] has discovered the back door virus the Guardian implanted in Seraph Station, removed it, and is now planning to activate "ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE" to destroy the Traveler with the Warsats. In order to prevent this, Rasputin tells the Guardians that his repair algorithm has restored him enough to insert the Pillory Engram containing him into Seraph Station and trigger the self-destruct. Ana refuses to do this, but Rasputin tells her it’s the only way, citing it as his purpose as a shield rather than as a weapon.  

The Guardian, Pillory Engram in hand, fights their way back into the Orbital Command Nexus and inserts Rasputin into the Station. As this is happening, Eramis is preparing to fire the Warsats at the Traveler, who then appears to leave the Last City as its residents look up in fear and uncertainty. As it reaches low orbit, it seems to come to a stop. As the Warsats power up and begin to fire at the Traveler, Rasputin activates the AURORA SACRIFICE protocol, destroying himself and the Warsats. As Eramis looks on in hate, she wonders why the Traveler refused to abandon Humanity. At this point, a vision of [[The Witness]] shows up behind her and tells her that it’s because it has nowhere left to run, as an army of pyramid ships is shown to be crossing Jupiter's path, along with another ship containing Calus.  

==Rasputin Sol System==

* '''Cолнце''' – [[Sun]]

==Rasputin Protocols==

The following protocols are used by Rasputin:

==Quotes==

{{Quote|The [[Vanguard]] still believes Rasputin to be a simple Warmind. He hasn't been that for a very long time.|Lord [[Saladin Forge]]<ref>'''Bungie (2016-9-20)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[The Iron Tomb]]''</ref>}}

The following are quotes from the missions [[The Warmind]],<ref>'''reddit''', ''[http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2b3lkm/new_lore_in_destiny_beta_rasputins_lines/ Rasputin's Lines Translated]''</ref> [[The Buried City]], and Strike [[Fallen S.A.B.E.R.]]<ref>'''reddit''', ''[https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/3lgkyf/rasputins_dialogue_lines_in_fallen_saber/ Rasputin's Dialogue Lines in "Fallen S.A.B.E.R." Translated]''</ref><ref>'''YouTube''', ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnHW-g3go3w&app=desktop Destiny | Rasputin's Dialog in "Fallen S.A.B.E.R."]''</ref>; Russian dialogue is overheard when doing certain actions. The dialogue in The Buried City appears at the mission's conclusion.

==Trivia==

*[[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>