Rahool

"Crypto-archeologists decode the past and our enemies, seeking new discoveries in matter engrams and artifacts returned by Guardians."

— In-game description

Rahool
Biographical information
Species:	Awoken
Gender:	Male
Hair color:	Unknown
Eye color:	Yellow
Political and military information
Affiliation:	The City
Rank:	Cryptarch

Master Rahool is an Awoken Cryptarch, found within the Tower's main plaza. With payment, Rahool will decrypt Engrams into usable items. He also has a number of Encoded Engrams for sale that will generate a specific armor piece, weapon or item. He also has Encrypted Engrams which he will sell to Guardians that have accumulated 1 or more ranks of reputation with him.

Besides being a Cryptarch, Master Rahool is also an historian and linguist. He makes mention of various artifacts from the Golden Age and beyond, particularly various religious texts.

Quotes

• "Too noisy? You can't hide in the quiet of the archives all your life."
• "Vex encryption. Unbreakable? Ha, so they say."
• "See here, this carving? Lion faced, Archon. Thousands of years pre-collapse."
• "Found at the foot of the Great Pyramid. 755 feet to a side, 36,506 inches, less than a tenth of a degree from True North. Is that location significant? Ha! Everything's significant."
• "What does the manifest say. Late pre-collapse North American it looks like?"
• "These are forgeries. Someone is wasting our time!"
• "Oh the headache again. I swear it's these symbols, I see them in my dreams!"
• "(Firefax?), from an ancient handheld communications device of the day the Traveler arrived! What a find!"
• "Drifting out there, deep beneath dead oceans signaling all the while. And we, the first to crack it."
• "Oryx-Dead-King. Oryx Dead King, 3 words, 9 word bursts over and over. Osiris?"
• "Brazilian from the morning of the Golden Age. What a hopeful text."
• "What does it mean? Signaling 400 years in orbit. No language known in the archives."
• "Why a garden? Eden? Hesperides? Hesperides from Hesperus, Venus on Venus? No, no!"
• "Urd, Verdandi, Skuld. Old names for Earth, Mars, and Venus in the pre-collapse holy text."
• "House Winter, from the ruins of Caracas. Were they there at the Collapse?!"
• "A Wind Age, a Wolf Age; a presentiment of the Collapse?"
• "I've never seen anything like this. 13 parables, handwritten on the page."
• "Russian, from the evening of the Golden Age. Religious text I think."
• "Rasputin's fingerprints are all over this data. He doesn't even care if we know."
• "Civilization once stretched from the southern tip of this continent, to the frozen North."
• "From the North American Empire just before the Collapse. You can tell by the eagles."
• "Guardian, I don't suppose you speak Pre-Golden Age German? No, no one does."

Trivia

• Urd, Verandi, and Skuld are Old Norse for "fate", "present" and "future". They are three figures roughly analogous to the Greek Fates from a poem in the Poetic Edda, which is possibly the religious text in question.
• "A Wind Age, a Wolf Age" is also a possible reference to the Poetic Edda, specifically in a poem about Ragnorak's aftermath. The terms were also used in Bungie's Myth series.
• The Hesperides were nymphs who tended to a blissful garden. They were daughters of Hesperus the Evening Star, also known as the planet Venus.

List of appearances

• Destiny (First appearance)