Destiny 2 Lore - Rasputin's Truth, Felwinter, Clovis's Lies & his evil intentions for the Warmind! 

Let's be real for a second here, we all probably knew Clovis would betray us at some point sooner or later. Better to have gotten rid of him now before he did anything really damaging.

I really like that Rasputin's first words when he boots up is "Go to Ana, she needs support". That in itself is already proof he's better than Clovis when it comes to people.

Watching Elsie cross her arms while Clovis begged her for help was too damn funny. I'll bet she was thoroughly enjoying the whole thing

Spoilers in this comment. Just in case. As an 8 year Destiny veteran, this week's story felt amazing. Felwinter and Felspring, the revelation of Clovis' true intentions, Osiris' dialogue about training with the Iron Lords, Rasputin speaking English to us, and everything. Solid story telling this week. Makes we wonder what Clovis will do next now that Rasputin exposed him?

Seriously- I finished up the story for this week and my immediate first thought was "So much for My name is Byf's holiday break..."

Byf: This should be a good enough time to take a break, there's no way the fourth week of the seasonal story is going to be any sort of huge bombshell. Bungie: *_I'm about to end this man's whole vacation._*

I'm sure this has been brought up, but I really love how much this entire year of Destiny has been about memories. From Deepsight and Savathun's past, the survivors of the Whirlwind, the Nightmares, and now Rasputin's revelations it's been an interesting ride to be certain.

I bet at the end of the season when Neomuna is revealed Osiris is gonna have a big “I TOLD YOU SO” moment, he is breaking down just from not being able to confirm it's existence

Let's appreciate for a second just HOW not evil Rasputin actually is. He gets put in this new body and what is the first thing he does? He says that you should make sure Ana's okay. Not the actions of an evil machine, at all.

This weeks story absolutely *SLAPPED*. As someone who has played since the beta, this was hugely satisfying. I was literally whooping and saying "Hell Yeah" while watching what went down in the H.E.L.M. Very much looking forward to the our new season vendor speaking a lot more and being a character. What we've got so far is definitely promising.

Hearing the warmind theme as Rasputin was speaking to us was the cherry on top for me. I’m very grateful for this season and it’s ramping up hype for lightfall.

It was a nice little detail to see Osiris refer to Rasputin as Fellwinter's murderer., though I am surprised that Saladin was not resistant towards handing over his friends shell to Ana. Plus it seems that seeing himself through his Son's Ghost's eye made Rasputin lose that god complex and strive to become more humble.

It's always just funny how us/the guardian is just vibing watching whatever shenanigans happens in the story.

In some of the other voice lines he seems so happy to finally be able to express his gratitude to Ana and Elsie. It also looks like he is quickly becoming a friend of Mara.

I now REALLY want to see a conversation between Rasputin and either Caital or Mithrax. Mithrax foaming at the mouth at how high-tech Rasputin is, or Caital running simulations with him

Really glad they gave us a silhouette of Clovis in that cutscene, because now I will only ever picture Clovis in my head as the Medic from TF2

It's still crazy to me that felwinter was arguably the most powerful guardian because he had the power of the light and the force of Rasputin

I remember when we first got a look at the giant diamond-shaped mindlab back in the Warmind expansion and I thought, “it really feels like someone was trying to build their own Traveller here.” It’s fun to see I was pretty much right.

Ana knew Clovis would betray us, but this goes far beyond what she expected. And I love that he called out to Elsie, who hated and distrusted him more than anyone else, for help. Side note; if Felwinter was an inorganic life form, never human himself, could any inorganic be a Lightbearer? What if a Ghost was resurrected by a Ghost?

I was speechless after watching Rasputin's cutscene last night. I had been expecting a revelation like this for eight years. It was absolutely brilliant. Te quiero mucho Bungie.

We need the lore about the plot twist your vacation had when this week’s story came out.

I can't say that this revelation came as a surprise. It was more like a heavy, foreboding weight that had been waiting to drop and finally did. We've long known of Clovis' ambitions to be LUCA, his megalomania and his complete lack of scruples. We've also known that there was a command created to have Rasputin attack the Traveler. That was excused by the defense of it being merely a contingency, but there was definitely a destructive/malevolent edge to that command. We now know that the malevolence and destructive goals are Clovis' alone, and that Rasputin's character and goals are far removed from all that. Seeing a creation overpower one malevolent creator (Clovis) to stand alongside a much more positive leader (Ana) was more than satisfying.

i love how much effort they put into this they recorded 3/4 weeks worth of Clovis talking and all the interactions with other characters only to completely remove it with Rasputin with new lines and new interactions meaning we'll likely not hear the original clovis lines again. i love the effort they put into this season

I like how they handled this reveal, bungie knew that we knew Clovis would betray us, they knew we knew if given the chance Clovis would overthrow the traveller as "humanities saviour", but bungie still somehow managed a twist in the purpose of Rasputin, they still masterfully managed to make a twist that made sense and greatly recontextualises some of the old lore, honestly just a writers chef's kiss

I don’t know if this has been said before but what struck me the most was how our Ana’s struggle with Clovis parallels her struggle with the darkness in one of Exo-Strangers alternate dark timelines, except our Ana didn’t fail…

So Rasputin, for certain, never did fire on the Traveler but did have the contingency leftover from Clovis' megalomaniac with a God complex. Just another Tuesday lol this was an awesome week.

Welcome back Red, we missed ya.

I'm a little concerned with the possibility that Clovis is still somehow embedded in Rasputin's code, remember; there was a brief moment when they were both in the Exo frame. Totally assuming the worst case scenario on my part, but I really don't think Clovis just went off to Europa without leaving some piece of himself to keep tabs on us, even if we did force him out

I’m just finally glad we have a real chance at cracking a Pyramid after all this time. My biggest issue ever since the arrival of the Black Fleet was our lack of progress in fighting these things. If we can’t so much as destroy one, we can’t handle so much as an armada. We finally have a real stepping stone with the Warsats. If we can avoid a repeat of Rasputin’s first attempt, we have made meaningful progress in getting an edge over the Black Fleet and that’s just part of the battle.

I feel when Clovis dropped that decripted message. "They know" is a serious red flag for me. Could very well be possible he's been working with the witness at the start and was planning to assist on destroying the traveler. In Clovis mind he looks for all viable solutions and he CLEARLY has some deep sated jealousy over the traveler. So he wants what's best for humanity and that is embracing darkness

I’m genuinely surprised that Rasputin, in his godlike power capable of destroying even the Traveler, couldn’t pull up google translate to speak with us.

NOW WE NEED A RAID WITH A GIANT CLOVIS EXO BOSS!!!

I'm so glad we have Red back, is a for-sure ally, and that we can actually speak to and understand him. I'm a little worried that big-head Clovis knows we know his plan, but I'm sure that won't be an issue or anything, right? 😅

After Osiris said that he studied under Felwinter, it made so much sense as to why he calls us "Young Wolf"

I love that when you do the Europa battleground after this Clovis comes onto comms with "ahh good you've changed your mind and come to help me". Also, since Clovis likely had access to vanguard files and archives from the helm, what are the chances that "they know" isn't about us knowing his plan but some information that Xivu was after, such as the location of Savathun's body?

Clovis: "What has the Traveler ever done for us?" He says this to his daughter who was resurrected by creations of the Traveler.

Sorry your break got interrupted lol. Really cool lore this week nonetheless. You think there’s any lore on the Exo Dog?

I also theorized that when Rasputin shot the traveler it was most likely a remnant of Clovis's original plan

Praise the traveler. I was just looking for a new video while working and saw this pop up

Bro. when the Warmind theme started playing when you interact with Rasputin for the first time is just *fire*

Some spoilery stuff ahead for those who haven't done the weekly story. As a newcomer to all this, both leading up to and after the big confrontation scene in the HELM, I was waiting for a trick, some hidden ploy that Clovis used to remain in the EXO frame or that he was pretending to speak as Rasputin... and then I was asked to go talk with Ana and make sure she was okay. I remember the relief flooding in, knowing Clovis was no longer at our proverbial backs.

Sorry for the audio on this video being a little different from normal. With all the other stuff that was going on I wasn't able to perfectly emulate what you'd get out of Martin's volume and edits. Hope that's ok.

Wow what a week for lore…Rasputin is alive! And Byf was right, Clovis was an evil bastard from the start. People were saying “we’re gonna team up now” no…I’m glad Bungie didn’t choose the cheesy way out, some villains stay as villains. I’m just touched Rasputin is willing to help us now, Ana gave him the personality to will. That’s just awesome man. Maybe through his experience with The Witness in the past, will he give us hints to defeating it for good this time. Other than using our weapons and space magic to do it. If you want to compare lore, this season was the best we had in many years to be honest

Theres something so eerie about seeing Ana so alive, filled with love and compassion, teaching and learning herself. Then a flash and she's just a skeleton, forever sitting at her desk.

I really hope we get to see a lore tab or an in game example of the Drifter being a bad influence on Rasputin. Just imagine a game of gambit. Rasputin hanging back, cuz he only has the one body, his team is carrying him through thinking he's useless, until a warsat just smears the primeval as soon as it's vulnerable.

Your viewership is quite enough for me… always appreciate a new video byf. Cheers. Hope you found respite in your time off.

I'd like Rasputin to explain his message in D1 " never ask for anything, never anything especially from those stronger than you, they will make the demands and ask themself " I feel his tyrant phase was still lingering

Something to note, this is not the first time Osiris's relationship with Felwinter was brought up. All the way back in Curse Of Osiris in the garden progeny 1 scout rifle's lore tab it mentions that Osiris studied with Felwinter & Nirwen.

Clovis Bray was split into 2 personalities correct? Banshee and AI on Europa? If his better side of Banshee and evil side embraced each other maybe we could get a character that saw the error of his ways like how Rasputin and Felwinter combined this week.

Alright , but you have to admit he had a good point about the traveler. It has proven that its only goal is to secure its existence. It would abbadon us (actually it did in other timelines)

Very rarely does a video game actually bring me to tears, but that moment of Rasputin telling us to go check on Ana genuinely brought a tear to my eye and a smile to my face. Red is back baby, and in a very round about way, Felwinter is too Supplementary edit: I find it strange that Ana comments that Rasputin basically couldn’t speak when in warmind he seems perfectly capable of speaking in backwards Russian

I love that Rasputin's first words are essentially "Danger Will Robinson"

Always love your content byf

I love your dedication to giving us videos and still letting your editor have the Christmas break. We gotta get you to 1m before newyears

Honestly thrilled to see that there are players who love this season. I posted on the forums that I liked it, and got a lot of hate for it. I felt like the minority. Glad to know that’s not the case, judging by the comments here Excited to listen to this video!

thanks for coming off your well deserved break to cover this byf, we all really apprciate it!!!!!!!!!!!

This week honestly made this season one of my favorite seasons

On the topic of Clovis, whose to say he wasn't playing us this entire time. He is "in the sights of the witness" he already works for him. He was given whispers by the Witness to create the exos. The "They know." Is a curious message, why would he send that to himself? For an all powerful AI, I highly doubt he wouldn't have the ability to keep an eye on Europa as he is in the Helm. He sent that message for someone else. Someone only linked in through Europa. Now that Clovis' access through the H.E.L.M. is cut off, he might be trying to reacquire his assets in the Heists. Since the Hive have taken over Bray Exoscience and Cryptoliths are sprouting out in the system further then before, specifically on the planets where these warmind bunkers are, it might be a little more obvious as to who that message is for. It is interesting as well, we essentially have foils for every faction in the game with the exception of the Scorn and Taken. Humanity: Vanguard/Rasputin Vs. Clovis Bray (my prediction) Cabal: Caiatl Vs. Calus Eliksni: Miisraaks Vs. Eramis Hive: Savathun (my prediction) Vs. Xivu Arath Vex: Asher Mir (my prediction) Vs. Sol Divisive I can't help but notice the similarities in all this. Savathun is most certainly going to be revived, and as an ally of necessity, we work with to take down Xivu or weaken her defenses, and Asher most definitely will be coming back in some capacity, given in Season of the Splicer we had multiple instances of him being mentioned, through lore tabs and the friendly Harpy in the Last City Override saying "Assistant" in Morse Code. Everything is coming together, we just need to fill in those final pieces

This week's story feels wild in a lot of ways, but most of all we got the thing that seemed like it was going to happen at the end before the midway point. Big expectation reset for the whole season. And boy does it obliterate the activating Rasputin as the trap from xivu thing seeing as, well, no portal with xivu walking through. To what extent does this mean we got a totally unexpected Felwinter resurrection? Because some of the things new Rasputin says feel a lot like a Felwinter resurrection. There is a huge piece here that both ties into some other topics that have been coming up, and suddenly is in play in a big way now. Abhorrent Imperative having not happened creates a giant question of "why didn't the traveler abandon the sol system and instead stand and fight this time?" That ties in with the eliksni alliance and politics and philosophy and awoken origins and aims and lucent hive everything and Elsie Bray timeloops in a huge way. It also points more questions at savathun and nezarec potentially.

Enjoy the rest of your break! Thanks for coming back for this though! 😁

Your genuine giggle near the end was awesome lol

After so many years, it at long last has come back to Rasputin having a body. But that’s not all…Russia’s greatest love machine now speaks English.

Holy crap I was expecting another drawn out week of bits a pieces of the seasonal story but man what a lore drop!

Thank you Byf for taking the time to do this. You're the real MVP!

These revelations tie in very neatly with the warning Eramis left on Mars, which is a nice touch.

The story line for this season was light years better than I expected with it being the final season of the expansion

I love that Heist dialogue also changes post this week's events.

Me playing the latest missions: “Oh Byf is going to have a field day with this!”

Thanks for cutting out some time from your well deserved break to drop the vid. I wouldn’t be able to keep track of this story w/o you

Does Rasputin remind anyone of Vigil from the first Mass Effect? Man, that Vigil sequence was the best dialog from any video game, with a brilliant music theme to boot.

Byf release both videos! We love any content we can get!!

Byf sitting on a beach in the middle of the pacific ocean relaxing Bungie: "Make the traveler talk this week."

Glad to hear you were taking a well-earned break! Sorry all hell broke loose in the meantime...

Cool little detail from seeing Ana's death in the collapse, she still has her keycard on her, which she gets resurrected with, leading her to discover who she was in her past life.

Byf be like: I'm going to take a break. What could go wrong? Bungie: I am going to ruin this man's whole holiday.

Only an earth shattering revelation would bring Lore Daddy back from his rest, and, well, here we are. Ana is the true hero in this for teaching Red WHY he should save humanity.

Thanks for taking the time Byf!

I would love to hear rasputin talk like he does in his lore tabs like ghost fragment: mystery or the new lore book for the season

I just love the way The Warmind theme starts playing when we start talking to Rasputin in the frame. It's the little things ❤️

This week really convinced me that the witness attempted to create a disciple out of clovis. Everything with him mirrors Rhulk so well

Byf, thanks for taking time out of your holiday to make this video for us!

Last time I was this early Lubrae's Ruin was still Rheliksward.

let me stop here for a moment to say: that voice actor that does Clovis/Rasputin, mad respect for those skills, I know there's some (a lot) of audio retouch there but that was hella good

Clovis's betrayal and ascension via Rasputin seemed obvious when he first got involved. What I'm wondering now is how much data he sent himself before being caught, and if there's any possibility of him being twisted into a new disciple somehow

"Elisabeth, do something!" Elisabeth folds her arms. That was cooooold... 😆 I'm just happy our character can now actually have a conversation with Rasputin...

We've known Rasputin would get an exo body for a while, it's so exciting seeing it finally happen!

This makes me think about the Apotheosis bit in the flavor text for some of the Ikelos weapons. This is a pretty big point and it's an interesting think-piece to consider for their future.

Thank you for interrupting your break for us! Please go back to relaxing and enjoy the rest of your break 😊

I definitely like how they portray him when he was still human. An evil scientist with round glasses. It definitely fits the narrative and Periscope of some of the things he done to the people of Europa. For old school anime fans there's some serious Alexander Anderson vibes coming from that manifestation of Clovis Bray

I had the thought last night about maybe seeing Clovis somehow become involved with the Vex we know to be soon facing in Lightfall's story.

Rasputin has come a long way from “I have no equal”

I miss Rasputin’s old voice. I loved how he spoke in his domineering broken Russian. He just seems less threatening now. :(

Thanks for taking the time to make this video man. Enjoy the break, Happy New Year and see you starside.

From my understanding, Felwinter wasn't *a* Siddharta Golem, but *the* Siddharta Golem. Because in the wake of the Siva crisis, when Rasputin was re-evaluating his actions, apparently at one point he was also considering refining and rerunning the protocol. There's a single mention in one lore tab of another protocol: The Kalki Golem. That's been at the back of my mind ever since I learned of it, and I knew at one point, Rasputin would return as an Exo. When he went dark during the Dark Fleet's attack, I initially assumed he had dumped his entire AI into a hidden Kalki Golem somewhere, but when this season hit, I did expect this outcome. Also, I think Rasputin is genuinely trying his best to regain Osiris' trust. After one of the heists (I think Malahayati's?), he mentions that he can confirm the existence of Nefele Stronghold to Osiris, and that he flagged 38,611 files for reviewing. When Osiris sputters that he doesn't have that kind of time, Rasputin immediately starts drawing up summaries. It's kind of adorable.

Byf!!!!!! I want you to know, however the video is edited it dosnt matter to this loyal subscriber. I listen to you at work all day and you chill in my pocket while I stock shelves. Great content. Per usual !!!!

I'm sorry about your break, but man was this a cool lore drop! :)

Gotta say that thumbnail goes hard

rasputin is jarvis to clovis as ultron, except a little bit of drama occurred before the split this time

"ELIZABETH DO SOMETHING" *crosses arms* That was hilarious. Also letting Rasputin take over the frame was a pretty smart thing to do, especially for someone Clovis labeled "overly emotional". If they didn't need the exo frame I would've loved to see Ana use her legendary golden gun. I imagine Clovis 1 turned up security measures specifically against Ana in the lab on Europa.

Byf: I'm going to take a break for awhile due to burn out. Bungie: I'm gonna start dropping bangers.