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*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. | *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)]], the sound track is the correct Russian equivalent to Bray's English translation, but played backwards (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]. | *When Rasputin speaks "in person" at the end of [[Warmind (expansion)|Warmind]], the sound track is the correct Russian equivalent to Bray's English translation, but played backwards (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]. | ||
**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. | **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. | **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. | ||