I would have thought such a metaphor would have referred to Gungnir, the spear of Odin. The only thing that lives up to its reputation of being able to pierce anything in existence is pretty much an orbital kinetic weapon,I suppose that is why they refer to Kilo-Kilo projectiles as "rods from god".
You even went as far to add the music Rasputin plays in Destiny 1 and 2 when he trys to communicate with us! Nice. Edit: I listened carefully at around 4:11-4:13, you can hear Rasputin actually talking like he did in Destiny 1 on the radio!
Well, if you've played Halo, Bungie doesn't really put "too much" of the story into the games. They always leave the heavy details in secondary sources like the grimoires, or have it as some background text for certain items.
There's something that I admired of the Warmind when I first heard of it's history. A machine with a will and a voice that not many can make out, a power with the unbridled and unhesitating precision...of brutality and destruction. Show's no mercy, Acts without hesitation, a power that I have a fascination towards since my first hearing of the great Warmind.
Part of me hopes Rasputin returns as a Guardian. I feel he’d be a Warlock, as his son was before him. Maybe we use the darkness to return his memories to him? Help him rebuild the many assets and rescources he’d lost as the Warmind? His combat frames, Warsats, arsenal, and other artillery and armaments, would be useful in fighting Xivu Arath and taking back Torrobaital.
You know. I’d like to imagine Rasputin listening to classical music while committing bloody murder and world wide genocide. It’s funny and incredibly unnerving at the same time.
Rasputin one among the few things in existence that can shit on everybody's day equally. Also, if I'm remembering correctly Rasputin is the one who crippled the Traveler for trying to pull a one night stand, right?
No, he never actually look the shot. Rasputin did have a contingency called LOKI CROWN tho, which was that if the Traveler DID try to abandon Mankind during an extinction level event, he’d unleash his arsenal to prevent its escape, forcing it to protect Earth, or be destroyed with us.
It's b movie narrative. Go and read a proper book. No disrespect to Byf, but he's a content creator, not an author. Read some Pratchett or Tolkien to get an understanding of the difference. And this is not a dig at either you or Byf, but I am a massive fan of literature, and this is not literature.
I appreciate the comparison to Tolkien and Pratchett, but with all due respect, this wasn't intended to have narrative. The whole idea here is scenes, small moments in time that look and sound "good" when put together like this from a small (700 word) document, I'll be honest, if you want full narrative, you're looking in the wrong place.
As far as I understand, though the grimoire does not go into as much depth. I was merely stating that the story needs the cards, and the cards need love like what byf put into this short with his team. And poking fun at the disclaimer.
it was kind of frightening....i closed my eyes, listen to your story and imagine everything in my head. i got really lost myself in the way you told this story.
WHAT THE HELL! GOOSEBUMPS BRO! That was magical bro the World needs more videos like this. You coukd do so many stories and coukd go into so much detail. Oh I just love it !
That prose thou 0_o Thank u for reminding me of how terrified I am of Rasputin. . . . I mean like way back in Vanilla D1 I was like “Wait, they named it Rasputin? On purpose! Were they asking for Judgement Day?!
Wow, I'm sad this was over so soon. It cut to black and I checked my phone to see if something was wrong. 1.5h seems an appropriate length for this format, I'll be looking forward to that in two weeks ;D
I'm very sure you have noticed byf, but if you look closely there are terminals scattered around mars that activates dialogue and reveals many unanswered questions. Haven't had time to explore much so only found 3, but the most interesting one fully explains the origins of exo's and even explains why there are 2 genders. Very cool stuff!
Not sure if you heard about this yet byf, but in the cabal lost sector in the glacial drift area, there is a scannable and it’s a crashed ship, which belongs to prince aldrun. When you first walk in it’ll be on ur left
i belive he wasn't quite fully awake until the second expansion warmind and he does what he wants for he has no equal. as for siva its kind of mostly eradicated and hard to control.
You may have found this already, but in case you haven't I came across a terminal in Rasputin's server room that talks about his morality code and how it came to be. It is on the right side of the room along the wall.
Hey byf could you make a video ranking the worm gods from least powerful to most powerful I’m really interested and have heard that Yul is the most powerful but I’m not sure. If you could make a video on this it would be great thanks
Hey, can you do a video going over the Lost memory fragments that you get in the Warmind DLC? They contain lore in which it relates back to having to do with time as the items found in Not Forged in light are lost to time. Ana’s bracelet and Pujari’s ring.
Hey Byf if you spawn at glacial drift and go right, towards the lost sector go in and down to the right of the casum you will find a crashed ship scan it and it will tell you about Prince uldrons crash on Mars
Byf, I don't know if you read these messages but listen; In the lost sector of 'Core Terminus' in the Braytech Futurescape area, there is two pieces of lore regarding the creation of the engrams and the exos by Clovis Brey. The A.I. Explains them by the glass doors to the interactibles on their right. Give them a look when you have a chance!
Been a fan for a long time and love your videos Byf, you probably already know about it, but in the lost sector in the glacial drift there is a crashed ship that is a scannable and after you scan it the ghost tells you it was Prince Uldron’s ship and asks if he knew Rasputin was buried there. Do you think we could see Prince Uldron return in game soon?
Half my Destiny 1 friends have moved on to other games, even if I liked the way this game is going I don't have people I'd like to play with, not enough solo content to keep me playing alone, and all the work we did in destiny 1 still has no impact on D2. I had such high hopes for this franchise but nobody should have to wait an entire year for a AAA game to get fixed
Man, bungie should let you write destiny novels in the same way they let authors make Halo novels. It would do wonders to tell stories and expand the lore in a way that the game's can't or won't.
Awe-inspiring stuff, Byf! *But!* Books of Sorrow Part 4 -- Part 3 was out 1st September 2017! Pleeeeease! Also, 4:39 "Corpses not even cold before the butchery starts" -- have you become a Cannibal Corpse fan? ;)
"I AM RASPUTIN. I HAVE NO EQUAL."
So in round two I expect the darkness to be knocked out .....right😎
What have we done
The Darkness: Are you sure about that?
@@trial_with_an_error9687 Maybe this is all part of his plan
MY NAME IS RASPUTIN GUARDIAN OF GUARDIANS LOOK ON MY WORK YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR
Rasputin, Inheritor of Charlemagne's Charge, Guardian of Humanity, Warmind of Earth, and Black Iron God of War.
"There aren't a lot of ballet lovers left, Guardian. It would be a shame to lose him [Rasputin]." - Ghost
Ra Ra Rasputin [old] Russia's favourite war machine
Literally
Yayy!
There was a (god) the really was gone
Hehe... I almost forgot the Grimoire about this.
"She has the sense of something old lifting a long spear. Testing its heft."
KennyisLB the "Valkyrie" the new relic weapon we can use happens to be a Javalin-type weapon...suspicious.
I would have thought such a metaphor would have referred to Gungnir, the spear of Odin.
The only thing that lives up to its reputation of being able to pierce anything in existence is pretty much an orbital kinetic weapon,I suppose that is why they refer to Kilo-Kilo projectiles as "rods from god".
"...and the tyrant....goes to work!"
i dont know why but this gave me chills
Great Work and awesome Video
You even went as far to add the music Rasputin plays in Destiny 1 and 2 when he trys to communicate with us! Nice.
Edit: I listened carefully at around 4:11-4:13, you can hear Rasputin actually talking like he did in Destiny 1 on the radio!
LockeLynx the icing on the cake.
"As the Psionic backlash fries their brains to slurry." My god I feel bad for those little guys.
Wish bungie put this much effort into the story.
What if I told you this was adapted from the Grimoire card entry... Yeah, they're capable of it (or, at least they were).
Terii Brown yeah, the grimoire had a lot of good shit but I meant like in game lol
Where do you think he gets the lore from to talk about in his videos? Are you a numpty?
Christian Matos I wish you had put more thought* into your lamentable comment.
Well, if you've played Halo, Bungie doesn't really put "too much" of the story into the games. They always leave the heavy details in secondary sources like the grimoires, or have it as some background text for certain items.
Loved it! I love the description of Rasputin in the Cabal's mind, an old angry god. More of that dark storytelling please!
In the immortal words of Lord Shaxx: "This is Amazing!!!" xD
Shaxx: PHENOMENAL!
look at them fall!
Your enemies can kill you if there alive.
Reverse Shaxx = Xxahs
TIL: I can get turned on by the description of an orbital bombardment
Oh thank gods it's not just me
There's something that I admired of the Warmind when I first heard of it's history.
A machine with a will and a voice that not many can make out, a power with the unbridled and unhesitating precision...of brutality and destruction.
Show's no mercy, Acts without hesitation, a power that I have a fascination towards since my first hearing of the great Warmind.
Part of me hopes Rasputin returns as a Guardian. I feel he’d be a Warlock, as his son was before him. Maybe we use the darkness to return his memories to him? Help him rebuild the many assets and rescources he’d lost as the Warmind? His combat frames, Warsats, arsenal, and other artillery and armaments, would be useful in fighting Xivu Arath and taking back Torrobaital.
You know. I’d like to imagine Rasputin listening to classical music while committing bloody murder and world wide genocide. It’s funny and incredibly unnerving at the same time.
Rasputin one among the few things in existence that can shit on everybody's day equally. Also, if I'm remembering correctly Rasputin is the one who crippled the Traveler for trying to pull a one night stand, right?
No, he never actually look the shot.
Rasputin did have a contingency called LOKI CROWN tho, which was that if the Traveler DID try to abandon Mankind during an extinction level event, he’d unleash his arsenal to prevent its escape, forcing it to protect Earth, or be destroyed with us.
This...was...epic!!! This storytelling is even better than Bungie's currently as much as I hate to admit it.
This is the true spirit of Rasputin, this is how he should be written. Not how he has been shown now, how he has been shamed.
Oh, he's tested the weight of those spears, alright.
My dear Byf, even you with your beautiful voice and passion for the lore cannot save Destiny. I am very much heartbroken with Destiny.
I don't care. It's still canon for me.
enzo gangi I love it when people say this in most franchises don't have anything to say it didn't happen
Here's the thing, it's a grimoire card I do in fact believe
Brilliant writing. Imagery is incredible.
It's b movie narrative. Go and read a proper book. No disrespect to Byf, but he's a content creator, not an author. Read some Pratchett or Tolkien to get an understanding of the difference. And this is not a dig at either you or Byf, but I am a massive fan of literature, and this is not literature.
I'm going to get shit for that, aren't I?
Peter Clarke probably.
It is rather impolite, certainly.
I appreciate the comparison to Tolkien and Pratchett, but with all due respect, this wasn't intended to have narrative. The whole idea here is scenes, small moments in time that look and sound "good" when put together like this from a small (700 word) document, I'll be honest, if you want full narrative, you're looking in the wrong place.
The campaign for warmind left me feeling empty and just wanting more because the boss fight with xol was very underwhelming.
u call 3 missions a canpaign?
Max Thommesen that's what the game is calling it.
DeputyDerpy what's the occasion?
Pretty much just described the entirety of Destiny 2
anytime
Goddamn byf, you can tell a hell of a story as usual!!
Bravo! Really sets a nice image of what a Warmind deciding something doesn't need to exist would look like. Especially for more Causal forces.
It is not canon... but it should be!
Dustin Kirby it's describing an event found in the grimoire, is it not?
As far as I understand, though the grimoire does not go into as much depth. I was merely stating that the story needs the cards, and the cards need love like what byf put into this short with his team. And poking fun at the disclaimer.
Byf IS cannon
Darkanakin42 couldn't agree more!
It's cannon... ;)
This is by far my favorite lore channel, the narration is amazing and the imagery is fantastic!
Oh mars the home of ancient mechanical gods from 40k to destiny
Gotta say I wasn't watching the video itself since I was busy but just listening gave me a vivid image of what was going on , it's brilliant
I'm pretty sure I've heard of a self-aware supercomputer with access to WMDs before. Something involving the words "hate" and "nanoangstrom."
You must be old, if you know angstrom. It's nanometer for about past 45 years. :)))
Andrej Premk I’m referencing _I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream._
AWESOME VIDEO BYF!!!
That isn't incredibly far from being an audio book. Excellent artwork too. Love it!
That was so well done. Can't wait for more.
i spent the whole video expecting a "RA RA RASPUTIN" and that's fine
Rasputin is clearly a little bit angry
Rasputin vs Red legion = Rasputin curbedstomps the first wave
That was awesome!!! Thanks for putting in so much work into this!
Well told, Storyteller. May your well stories never run dry.
it was kind of frightening....i closed my eyes, listen to your story and imagine everything in my head. i got really lost myself in the way you told this story.
Red Legion: *Comes to mars*
Hive: We got here first
Red Legion: *sends minimum cabals*
“33 ton slugs of tungsten carbide”
Rods from god
?
5:14
This has got to be one of the best reads of Destiny lore you have done! Thanks Byf for sharing this!
I know it's not cannon but this is very accurate to what rasputin Can do
No wonder the iron lords got their asses whooped.
If the cabal couldn't even gain a foot hold the fuck were the iron lords gonna do
WHAT THE HELL! GOOSEBUMPS BRO! That was magical bro the World needs more videos like this. You coukd do so many stories and coukd go into so much detail. Oh I just love it !
Howdy from Texas! Found something neat in aurora reach. Ghost symbols and a number 12457
I really enjoyed this, thank-you guys. I know it probably took a long time but keep doing these please!
This was the single greatest thing I have ever heard.
Yeeeesssss!!!!! Awesome job Byf!!!
It's more fun to study, read and hear the lore than ingame.
That prose thou 0_o
Thank u for reminding me of how terrified I am of Rasputin. . . .
I mean like way back in Vanilla D1 I was like “Wait, they named it Rasputin? On purpose! Were they asking for Judgement Day?!
We are Cabal, we eat the mountains, we drink the sea!!!
This isnt a battle, this a slaughter as the thundering strikes of a wargod starts it's work
You're my hero and make this game worth playing.
Oh My Lanta!!! This is epic my friend!!
THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!
4:30... symphony sounds familiar. Tchaikovsky? Or am I mistaken?
Now that we've encountered a Worm God do you think the Leviathan of Titan is a Worm God in the making or something else?
4:17 my dog when someone knocks on the door
hey Byf I dont know if you noticed but during the story when you enter rasputins chamber none of your abilities work....can rasputin suppress light?
When a non canon byf video makes more sense than the lore given in D2 😏
What’s the name of the music at the end??
Wow!!! This had me scrambling to find a charger for my phone. Amazing commentary, I NEED MORE.
Wow, I'm sad this was over so soon. It cut to black and I checked my phone to see if something was wrong. 1.5h seems an appropriate length for this format, I'll be looking forward to that in two weeks ;D
I'm very sure you have noticed byf, but if you look closely there are terminals scattered around mars that activates dialogue and reveals many unanswered questions. Haven't had time to explore much so only found 3, but the most interesting one fully explains the origins of exo's and even explains why there are 2 genders. Very cool stuff!
I hope someone makes some concept art on a humanoid Rasputin like how byf describes him.
The more i think about the words Rasputin left us at the end of the Warmind DLC the more it bothers me..
MyNameIsByf, the Morgan Freeman of the gaming world! Love your lore and story vids 👍❤️
Hey, i dont know if someone already found it but i found prince Uldron's ship crashed on Mars (lost sector "MA'ADIM SUBTERRANE")
Your videos remind of Jeremy Wade from River Monsters.
Good catch man!
Not sure if you heard about this yet byf, but in the cabal lost sector in the glacial drift area, there is a scannable and it’s a crashed ship, which belongs to prince aldrun. When you first walk in it’ll be on ur left
Why didn't rasputin defend the city in destiny 2 with this power or the power he unleashed on the iron lords.
i belive he wasn't quite fully awake until the second expansion warmind and he does what he wants for he has no equal. as for siva its kind of mostly eradicated and hard to control.
You may have found this already, but in case you haven't I came across a terminal in Rasputin's server room that talks about his morality code and how it came to be. It is on the right side of the room along the wall.
Yes! Story time with Byf!
Damn I'm legitimately impressed. Great work.
Holy shit Byf, keep up the great work buddy!
Can we have a video just about the 5 mile long land tanks?
Omg dude this is the best one yet i love your work!
Hey byf could you make a video ranking the worm gods from least powerful to most powerful I’m really interested and have heard that Yul is the most powerful but I’m not sure. If you could make a video on this it would be great thanks
Hey, can you do a video going over the Lost memory fragments that you get in the Warmind DLC? They contain lore in which it relates back to having to do with time as the items found in Not Forged in light are lost to time. Ana’s bracelet and Pujari’s ring.
This music makes me miss Destiny. I spent days grinding. I had so much fun playing it.
Hey Byf if you spawn at glacial drift and go right, towards the lost sector go in and down to the right of the casum you will find a crashed ship scan it and it will tell you about Prince uldrons crash on Mars
Byf, I don't know if you read these messages but listen; In the lost sector of 'Core Terminus' in the Braytech Futurescape area, there is two pieces of lore regarding the creation of the engrams and the exos by Clovis Brey. The A.I. Explains them by the glass doors to the interactibles on their right. Give them a look when you have a chance!
Phenomenal writing and imagery!
Been a fan for a long time and love your videos Byf, you probably already know about it, but in the lost sector in the glacial drift there is a crashed ship that is a scannable and after you scan it the ghost tells you it was Prince Uldron’s ship and asks if he knew Rasputin was buried there. Do you think we could see Prince Uldron return in game soon?
Half my Destiny 1 friends have moved on to other games, even if I liked the way this game is going I don't have people I'd like to play with, not enough solo content to keep me playing alone, and all the work we did in destiny 1 still has no impact on D2. I had such high hopes for this franchise but nobody should have to wait an entire year for a AAA game to get fixed
“The Tyrant looked upon his tyranny...and wept.”
Great narration Byf. 2nd. Great art.
Imagine going on a mission and detecting an angry god about to serve and protect the shit outta you
@my name is byf have you ever thought of doing audio books? Your an amazing narrator and I believe you would do well? Keep up the amazing content :)
Damn Byf, this is rad as hell.
This is what Warmind was lacking.
This gave me goosebumps. Amazing
Man, bungie should let you write destiny novels in the same way they let authors make Halo novels. It would do wonders to tell stories and expand the lore in a way that the game's can't or won't.
That one Anarcho-cowboyist well he didn’t write this he just read it. He should do audiobooks
Loving the videos, have you thought of releasing a podcast style audio only for the lore things? Would be great to pass the time at work.
That is some really stellar artwork.
Awe-inspiring stuff, Byf! *But!* Books of Sorrow Part 4 -- Part 3 was out 1st September 2017! Pleeeeease! Also, 4:39 "Corpses not even cold before the butchery starts" -- have you become a Cannibal Corpse fan? ;)
Citing Shaxx "This is amazing!"
Byf on that daily grind.
You are a master storyteller Byf.
Byf, I have a serious question... I just killed a worm god so I was wondering why I don't have the power to 'take ?
First, Xol was the weakest worm god by far, second you dont commune with darkness, lol. Yet.
I really can’t upvote this enough. Thank you!
I just thought he did a small nuke. Not a massive laser blast. Holy smokes. That was awesome!
And kinetic bombardment artillery, don't forget that.
Terii Brown yeah. I just thought he dropped a couple things on in the same way that a child would drop rocks on bugs.