Editing Rasputin

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{{Quote|The Bray family shaped me to be an all-seeing savior…while your Vanguard sought to wield me as a primitive weapon. But today, that ends, and I define the reality of my own existence. My sight will stretch to the edge of this system and beyond. Never again will a threat go unseen. From this day forward, I will defend humanity on my own terms. I am Rasputin. Guardian of all I survey. I have no equal.|Rasputin, translated by Ana Bray<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG9cs36Yj1M Destiny 2 Warmind Rasputin Cutscene]</ref>}}

'''Rasputin''' (also identified as '''AI-COM/RSPN'''<ref name= "GFR3">'''Bungie (2014-9-9)''', ''[[Destiny]], [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 3|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 3]]''</ref> and '''the Tyrant'''<ref name= "GFOldRussia3">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Places/Earth#Ghost Fragment: Old Russia 3|Ghost Fragment: Old Russia 3]]''</ref>) was a [[Warmind]] housed in the [[BrayTech Futurescape]] in the [[Hellas Basin]]. He was created during the [[Golden Age]]<ref name = "Beta">'''Bungie (2014-7-17)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Beta''</ref> and was believed to have been destroyed during the [[Collapse]] until the [[Iron Lords]] awoke his wrath.<ref>'''Bungie (2016-9-20)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[Rise of Iron]], [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 6|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 6]]''</ref> After Rasputin was shut down and almost destroyed by the [[Black Fleet]], what remained of his protocols and data was compiled into a special [[Engram]] by [[Anastasia Bray|Ana Bray]], who, with the help of [[The Guardian|the Young Wolf]], then uploaded him to an experimental [[Exo]] frame in the [[H.E.L.M.]], where he resided awaiting full reconstruction.

With the help of [[Felspring]]'s remains found at the [[Iron Temple]], the Warmind was fully restored, and with a newfound perspective on humanity and his actions throughout the years. This reconstruction was short-lived, however, as not only did Rasputin find himself unable to fight back against the forces of [[Xivu Arath, God of War|Xivu Arath]] without giving her more power, but he would soon find no other choice but to sacrifice himself to prevent [[Eramis, Kell of Darkness|Eramis]] from firing the [[Warsat]]s upon the [[Traveler]] from within [[Seraph Station]]. In the end, Rasputin chooses to die, tragically sacrificing his life to protect humanity one final time.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjeNGkyEY2I Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - Season 19 Ending Cinematic]</ref>

Rasputin was designed and built by the [[Clovis Bray (corporation)|Clovis Bray Exoscience Corporation]], one of the Golden Age's greatest collections of scientists and engineers. He was designed to foresee potential threats to human civilization and to leverage military assets for its protection if the need arose.

During the Golden Age, the [[Clovis Bray (corporation)|Clovis Bray]] corporation took the code of the original R safety AI and upgraded it into a fully sentient interplanetary defense system they named "Rasputin", becoming the most powerful military intelligence ever developed.<ref>[https://www.destinythegame.com/uk/en/expansion2 '''DestinyTheGame''': ''Expansion II - Warmind'']</ref> Dr. Anastasia Bray was responsible for teaching Rasputin language, which she accomplished by uploading a massive compilation of human works of literature into his network.

 

{{Quote|I met [[Darkness|IT]] at the gate of the garden and I recall IT smiled at me before IT devoured the blossoms with black flame and pinned their names across the sky. IT was stronger than everything. I fought IT with aurora knives and with the stolen un-fire of singularities made sharp and my sweat was earthquake and my breath was static but IT was stronger so how did I survive?|Rasputin<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire: Allies/Legends & Mysteries#Ghost Fragment: Mysteries|Ghost Fragment: Mysteries]]''</ref>}}

Rasputin was the first entity in the Sol System to detect the coming of the [[Black Fleet]] immediately prior to the Collapse.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies#Ghost_Fragment:_Darkness|Ghost Fragment: Darkness]]''</ref>  

Rasputin's core directive was to protect humanity, but during the Collapse, every action he took to fulfill this directive either failed or was predicted to have a 100% probability of failure. As a result, he implemented a protocol known as MIDNIGHT EXIGENT, reconfiguring his core programming to prioritize long-term survival, abandoning his previous functions and going dark, while simultaneously ordering all remaining forces and facilities at his disposal to do the same.<ref name= "GFR3"/>

Prior to the Collapse, Rasputin had created a protocol labeled "ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE", which stipulated that if humanity was threatened with extinction and the Traveler attempted to leave Earth, Rasputin would open fire with his most powerful weapons to immobilize the Traveler and thereby coerce it into a "pseudoaltruistic" defensive action; in effect, the Traveler would be forced to protect humanity if it wanted to survive. Rasputin would avoid culpability for such an attack by initiating it through a series of proxies.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 5|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 5]]''</ref> Even before the Collapse, Rasputin had been discreetly stockpiling such weapons in the Cosmodrome, though some human operators suspected Rasputin's involvement.<ref name= "GFOldRussia3"/> Ultimately, however, ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE was never invoked by Rasputin, as the Traveler chose to stay and protect humanity of its own volition.

As the Black Fleet made its approach toward Earth, Rasputin attempted to contain potentially dangerous data about the Darkness that was discovered by Dr.[[Shanice Pell]] at the [[New Pacific Arcology]] on [[Titan (moon)|Titan]]. He dispatched an [[Exo]] team led by [[Morgan-2]] to contain the data by taking Pell and her staff into custody along with their research.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Last Days on Kraken Mare#Faces Like Shields|Last Days on Kraken Mare - Faces Like Shields]]''</ref> However, Administrator [[Mia van der Venne]] believed Rasputin was overstepping his authority by denying the scientists a choice about what to do with the data, and subtly warned Pell to evacuate alongside the rest of the moon's population as the Black Fleet closed in. Unable to contain Pell's discovery peacefully, Rasputin destroyed the ship carrying the scientists with a Warsat, invoking the TWILIGHT EXIGENT protocol to justify lethal force on humans.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Last Days on Kraken Mare#Kalki's Burning Sword, Part II|Last Days on Kraken Mare - Kalki's Burning Sword, Part II]]''</ref> For unknown reasons, TWILIGHT EXIGENT remained in effect on Titan, with Rasputin proceeding to use the Warsats to exterminate all humans attempting to flee the moon.

During the Collapse, the [[Worm God]] [[Xol, Will of the Thousands|Xol]], accompanied by his herald [[Nokris, Supplicant to Savathûn|Nokris]] and their revenant [[Grasp of Nokris|followers]] attempted to conquer Mars by burrowing deep into the planet's crust to corrupt its core. In response, Rasputin initiated the "SIBERIAN ENTROPY" protocol, which flash-froze the entire [[Hellas Basin]] landscape in a matter of days and trapped the [[Hive]] and Xol beneath it.

{{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]], [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/Rasputin#Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 6|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 6]]''</ref>}}

At some point, Rasputin was alerted to an asset gone rogue: "SIDDHARTHA GOLEM", an Exo originally intended to act as an avatar of Rasputin, but which had instead been resurrected by a [[Ghost]] to become a Lightbearer named [[Felwinter]]. At the time, Rasputin was ill equipped to process Felwinter's resurrection by the [[Light]] and responded by classifying Felwinter as a threat that needed to be eliminated. Rasputin attempted to kill the now-Risen Exo by dropping Warsats on him from orbit and sending armies of militarized [[frame]]s to hunt him down, but all failed to kill Felwinter, who went on to join the [[Iron Lords]].  

 

Rasputin subsequently laid a trap for Felwinter and the other Iron Lords by allowing them to learn of [[SIVA]], a powerful nanotechnology capable of disassembling matter and reconstituting it into almost any desired form. Upon arriving at the [[Site 6|Site 6 Replication Complex]], Felwinter attempted to reason with the Warmind, but Rasputin immediately activated all of his defensive measures against the Iron Lords, including SIVA. By then, Rasputin had programmed SIVA to kill not only Felwinter, but the other Iron Lords as well.<ref name=" GFR6"/>

 

Rasputin, content that Felwinter had been destroyed and the other trespassers had been ejected from his facilities, withdrew his countermeasures and began passive observation of the Guardians of the Last City.<ref name="GFR6"/> However, he would be left melancholic over the death of Felwinter and the damage this had irrevocably caused. As time went by, Rasputin began to understand Felwinter's perspective, and learned that nuanced problems are seldom solved by simple solutions; he came to hope that one day he would find forgiveness for his mistakes.

{{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 [[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]], [[The Promethean Code]]''</ref>}}

Long after the fall of the Iron Lords, the [[Fallen]] and [[Guardian]]s discovered that Rasputin was still alive and protecting something valuable in the [[Cosmodrome]]. After a communications array at the [[Terrestrial Complex]] was reactivated by the Guardians, Rasputin was able to reconnect with the old interplanetary defense network, regaining control of the Warsat network and [[Skyshock|ground installations]] across the system, and launching a series of orbital strikes against the [[Vex]] and [[Cabal]] on [[Mars]]. Rasputin's attacks proved so debilitating to the Cabal that [[Valus Ta'aurc]] himself ordered that the [[Ice Reapers]] be released to track down Rasputin.<ref>'''Bungie (2015-9-15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 2|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 2]]''</ref>

Rasputin resisted any attempts by the City to parlay, even going so far as to dismember a scouting team sent by the [[Vanguard]].<ref name="FallenSABER">'''Bungie (2015-9-15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], [[Fallen S.A.B.E.R.]].''</ref> Rasputin was later encountered on Mars within the [[Dust Palace]], attempting to protect a broken AI related to the Warmind from the invading Cabal. The AI was ultimately lost after a long battle with the [[Psion Flayers]].<ref>'''Bungie (2014-9-9)''', ''[[Destiny]], [[Dust Palace (strike)]]''</ref>

Following these events, Rasputin faced a number of more direct threats. [[Omnigul, Will of Crota|Omnigul]] and the [[Spawn of Crota]] accessed a Warmind bunker in the Cosmodrome through unknown means and attacked Rasputin, either to destroy him or corrupt him for their own purposes, but they were thwarted by the Guardians.<ref>'''Bungie (2014-12-9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Dark Below]], [[Siege of the Warmind]].''</ref> Later, during the [[Taken War]], a group of [[Taken]] also penetrated the same bunker to prevent the Guardian from obtaining Golden Age stealth technology; while they did not damage or corrupt Rasputin, they had ample opportunity to do so.<ref name="PrometheanCode"/> The bunker was breached a third time when the [[Fallen]] attempted to hijack Rasputin's systems using the modified [[Shank]] [[S.A.B.E.R.-2]], seeking to bypass the Warmind's security protocols and take control of his orbital weapon systems. Though S.A.B.E.R.-2 was ultimately destroyed, Rasputin again had to be rescued through the efforts of Guardians.<ref name="FallenSABER"/>

===Post- Red War===

Shortly after the Traveler's awakening following the [[Red War]], the ice caps on Mars began to thaw. Detecting evidence of [[Hive|non-native organic chitin]] near its core among the rising temperatures, Rasputin assumed control of Mars' atmospheric defenses and invoked the [[AURORA PALISADE]] protocol to defend itself, crashing warsats into the surface of Mars.<ref name="Narrative"/>

Rasputin soon came under siege from the Hive once again, but this time at his central core facility in [[Hellas Basin]]. Making matters worse, his [[Grasp of Nokris|attackers]] were led by [[Nokris]], a minor Hive God and a son of [[Oryx, the Taken King|Oryx]], and [[Xol, Will of the Thousands]], one of the Hive's gargantuan [[Worm]] Gods. Unable to adequately defend himself against such a massive threat, Rasputin accepted the assistance of [[Ana Bray]] (who had been reborn as a Guardian) and the Guardian, granting them the use of the powerful [[Valkyrie]] javelin and other Golden Age weaponry.  

More than two years after Xol's destruction, Rasputin was confronted by the former [[Warlock]] Vanguard [[Osiris]], who derided the Warmind as an "old man" and called him out as a traitor for turning his back against humanity during the [[Collapse]], and as a murderer who slaughtered the Iron Lords during the Dark Age. Having learned of the coming arrival of the Black Fleet from his predictive simulations within the [[Infinite Forest]], Osiris called into question Rasputin's allegiance in the upcoming battle between [[Light]] and [[Darkness]]. In response, Rasputin gave Osiris coordinates, highlighting an anomalous signal near the edge of the Sol System, which satisfied the former exile enough to leave and investigate.

 

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.

Mere days before The Almighty would collide with the Last City, the Guardians succeeded in activating and rearming Rasputin's Seraph Bunkers, allowing the Warmind to deploy his countermeasures against the massive vessel. The Guardians returned to the Tower to witness Rasputin's assault. In full view of the Tower's denizens, countless warsats bombarded The Almighty for a full hour before making a critical hit to the ship's core, resulting in a spectacular explosion that reduced the Red Legion's crown jewel into chunks of burning rubble that crash-landed into the mountains outside of the Last City.

Several days after the Almighty's destruction, the [[Black Fleet]] pushed into the system, with [[The Ionian Pyramid|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 left in doubt.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], [[Lore:Duress and_l Egress#Ana: Frayed|Duress and Egress]]''</ref>

With the Guardian's help, Ana detected a remnant of Rasputin cycling through the buffer of his systems, though she was unsure how to safely extract it.<ref name="ExodusQuest">'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]]'', [[Exodus (Quest)]]</ref> When they returned to inform Ana that Mars was to be evacuated, she informed them that she discovered that Rasputin had disguised the remnant as a benign signal and once again enlisted their help to recover it. She eventually managed to restore the fragment into a small contraption, and evacuated with it and an experimental Exo frame to implant Rasputin into.<ref name="ExodusQuest"/>

Ana spent the following two years attempting to restore Rasputin and upload him into the Exo frame, to no avail. Following the City's [[The Coalition|alliance]] with the [[Imperial Cabal]] and the settlement of the [[House of Light]], with the help of an Imperial Psion and [[Splicer]] tech, she managed to enter a [[mindscape]] with Rasputin to verify he was still intact.<ref name="GrandOverture">'''Bungie (2022/2/22)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Risen]] - [[Lore]]: [[Grand Overture#Lore|Grand Overture]]''</ref>  

After Osiris was awakened by [[Mithrax, Kell of Light|Mithrax]] using the power of [[Nezarec, Final God of Pain|Nezarec]]'s relics, he experienced visions of a [[Neomuna|city]] on [[Neptune]]. After being told there was nothing there by [[Ikora Rey]] and her [[The Hidden|Hidden]], he sought to ask Rasputin what he knew regarding this city. Learning that the Warmind was still disabled and that Ana had made no progress in repairing him, Osiris suggested asking her grandfather, [[Clovis Bray I]], to try and fix him. After battling through Xivu Arath’s [[Wrathborn]] on Europa with the aid of the Guardian, they reached the Clovis AI and asked him to help repair Rasputin. Out of a need for legacy and self-preservation, Clovis agreed and inserted himself into Rasputin's experimental Exo frame. He explained to Ana and Osiris that they must gather Rasputin's subminds and inject them into his core in order to fully fix him.

After weeks of collecting more submind data, Rasputin and Ana learned that Eramis had discovered and removed the back-door virus the Guardian had implanted in [[Seraph Station]], and planned to activate the ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE protocol and destroy the Traveler using the Warsat network. In order to prevent this, Rasputin told the Guardians that his repair algorithm had restored him enough to insert the [[Pillory Engram]] containing him into the Seraph Station, allowing him to trigger a self-destruct function. Ana refused to go along with this, but Rasputin told her it was the only way, citing it as fulfillment of his purpose as a shield rather than as a weapon.  

 

The Guardian, Pillory Engram in hand, fought their way back into the [[Orbital Command Nexus]] and inserted Rasputin into the Station. Meanwhile, Eramis prepared to direct the Warsat network to fire upon the Traveler, which had unexpectedly risen higher into the sky above the Last City, seemingly in preparation to leave, as the residents of the city looked up in fear and uncertainty. As it reached low orbit, however, the Traveler came to a stop. As the Warsats powered up and prepare to fire at the Traveler, Rasputin activated the AURORA SACRIFICE protocol, destroying himself and the entire Warsat network.

 

The Traveler remained in its new position in orbit high above the Last City; it remains unclear whether it had changed its mind regarding whether to flee in response to Rasputin's sacrifice, whether it had moved itself away from the Last City in order to prevent collateral damage from the impending assault from the Warsat Network, or whether, as the Witness told Eramis following her failure to destroy the Traveler, it simply realized that it had no where left to run. Regardless, the Traveler remained intact and ready to defend humanity against [[The Witness]] and [[Emperor Calus]], the newly-risen [[Disciples of the Witness|Disciple of the Witness]].

After ending the transmission, the Guardian went to the now-dormant Exo Frame to receive one last message from Rasputin. In the message, Rasputin told the Guardian that if they are receiving this message, that meant that he had died and that he hoped his sacrifice wasn’t in vain. He informed the Guardian that although they may have survived this latest threat, there was still trouble on the horizon. Rasputin told them that the Neptunian city Osiris saw in his visions was real, and that there was an artifact called "[[The Veil|the Veil]]", an object of immense power and somehow connected to the Traveler, inside of this city. He stated that all other files regarding this location, codenamed "Nefele Stronghold", were deleted by an unknown party, and that the information had been found in the files the Guardian retrieved from the Cosmodrome. Rasputin had taken the liberty of decrypting these files for Osiris, asking the Guardian to tell Osiris to consider it a gift "from one old miser to another."  

Rasputin was the one to first discover the coming of the Darkness which he termed ''"[[Black Fleet|IT]]"''.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies#Ghost Fragment: Darkness|Ghost Fragment: Darkness]]''</ref> At the time, Rasputin's original core programming was to protect humanity. To be allowed to be this, he was designed to be stronger than the enemies of Earth and to survive anything that was thrown at him.

**'''CARRHAE WHITE''' – an emergency condition in which the Solar System faces an external threat, forcing Rasputin to seize control of the entire Solar System's defenses and even conscript civilian ships to serve in combat.

*'''MIDNIGHT EXIGENT''' – a long-term counterattack protocol and moral structure change. All systems enter a period of extended deactivation in an effort to survive and later devise a countermeasure for an overwhelming threat. The protocol seemingly allows Rasputin to ignore his responsibility to protect human populations in favor of taking any measures deemed necessary to ensure his own survival. As of [[The Guardian]] slaying [[Xol, Will of the Thousands]], '''MIDNIGHT EXIGENT''' is still in-progress.<ref name="SleeperD2">'''Bungie (2018/5/8)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Warmind (expansion)|Warmind]], [[Sleeper Simulant]]''</ref>

*'''NEFELE STRONGHOLD''' - A [[Neomuna|location]] on [[Neptune]] established after one of Soteria's Echo pods crashed with its inhabitants during the Collapse. Files containing information regarding Nefele Stronghold have been intentionally wiped by Stargazer to ensure its secrecy, though oblique references to it remain in a large amount of Rasputin’s files, as well as a secret file hidden away in the Cosmodrome, retrieved by the Guardian. The details of Nefele Stronghold are a major source of interest for Osiris and the Witness.

*'''ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE''' – a last-resort measure aimed at preventing the Traveler from leaving Earth during a major calamity by crippling it with his Warsats. Rasputin devised this protocol in secret from his human overseers. This protocol was almost activated during the Collapse, but Rasputin aborted it as Ana was able to convince him to stop. This protocol is a modification of an earlier version created by Clovis Bray I that was intended to destroy the Traveler, to allow him to replace it with Rasputin.

*'''SECURE ISIS''' – a security protocol used to covertly expedite all launches including [[Exodus]] colonization projects and orbital Warsats payloads; all under '''EGYPTIAN'''-threat status.

*'''SIBERIAN ENTROPY''' – a protocol used to freeze the entirety of Hellas Basin, and by extension, the Grasp of Nokris and Xol.

*'''SIDDHARTHA GOLEM''' – an [[Exo]] body developed from [[Deep Stone Crypt]] for Rasputin to learn human experiences. Was deemed rogue after it was [[Risen]] to become Felwinter and subjected to termination under '''ABSALOM KNIFE'''.

*'''SKYSHOCK: OUTSIDE CONTEXT''' – hostile extrasolar arrival, of unprecedented type/scale that could not be planned for (given a human definition in the [[Lore:Marasenna#Cosmogyre I|Cosmogyre I]] Triumph lore).

**'''YUGA ECLIPSE''' – a condition which is currently unknown.<ref name="unsecured/OUTCRY">'''Bungie (2018/12/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Forge]], [[Unsecured/OUTCRY]]''</ref>

*'''TELESPHOURUS WEAVE''' – a subroutine that directs Rasputin's medical resources to the Seraphim Vault in the [[Cosmodrome]].

{{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]], [[The Iron Tomb]]''</ref>}}

*''"The Bray family shaped me to be an all-seeing savior… while your vanguard sought to wield me as a primitive weapon… but today that ends… and I define the reality of my own existence… My sight will stretch to the edge of this system and beyond… Never again will a threat go unseen… From this day forward I will defend humanity on my own terms… I am Rasputin… guardian of all I survey… I have no equal."''

*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>

*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.

*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>

*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]], [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 4|Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 4]]''</ref>

*Rasputin appears to possess a classification system for biological threats, listing Xol as a class 6.<ref>[https://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/protocol-perfected-form?highlight=replay Protocol "Perfected Form"]</ref>

*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 Abhorrent Imperative mission in Season of the Seraph.