Rahool

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"Crypto-archeologists decode the past and our enemies, seeking new discoveries in matter engrams and artifacts returned by Guardians."
— In-game description
Rahool
Rahool.jpg
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.[1] With payment, Rahool will decrypt Engrams into usable items.[2] 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.[1]

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."[3]

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

References