@@xRIPx86 I can see the situation now. Anna will transmat into the tower with Rasputin to meet with Zavala. Zavala would inquire about the new Exo with Anna. The Exo will yell in angry Russian at Zavala. Zavala would ask if that's Rasputin. Saladin will overhear the name Rasputin and immediately get angry and come full tilt at him. And Zavala will do his trademark sigh as he'll have to keep those two separate.
@@strongfish92 Zavala: Saladin, what do you think you're doing? Saladin: I just want to talk to him. Zavala: Saladin, no. Saladin: I just want to talk to him. Zavala: Saladin, what happened is in the past. You must move forward. - Saladin materializes his Axe - Saladin: I just want to swing at him. Zavala: Saladin, you CANNOT attack the Warmind! Saladin: I just want to talk to him.
Ideal seasonal story: All greatest minds (Ana, Rasputin, Osiris, Clovis, etc.) coming together to upgrade Warmind weapons network to deal damage to Pyramids via Vex tech integration. Might even quire Asher later in season. Theme of season could be reconciliation between Bray family and Rasputin and Ana's paths Expected story: Spend entire 3 months reviving Rasputin to be personal Nav bot to Neomuna
@@axelkusanagi4139 I say combine. Ideal season is compatible with expected season. We can upgrade the weapons system AND have Rasputin as a nav bot. just hoping Bungie dont waste a lore lord.
Bringing Rasputin back better be the main focus next season. The past two years have been about the gathering of allies and the build up of our enemies, such as Calus and Eramis. With Rasputin back, it would be just in time for Lightfall; the beginning of the end. The beginning of the final conflict. All out war.
My theory is xivu arath is either going to be after Osiris to get his memories of savathun or she’s going to be recruited by the witness to stop us from reviving Rasputin, that’s the only way I see her getting involved in the story and it being a hive season instead of a vex season on Europa, it’ll be cool to see the hive on Europa too, it’ll be reminiscent of Mars
@@guybester9372 yea but as far as we know she isn’t a disciple, she doesn’t use darkness powers outside of hive magic and doesn’t have a pyramid ship as far as we know
If we're sticking Raspuitins consciousness back into an exo frame - makes sense to return to the factories of Europa where peoples consciousnesses were uploaded into Exo frames
Hearing about Xivu Arath and Rasputin has me HYPED. europa is an icy planet, and Xivu Arath leads a hive brood. That can only mean one thing: ICE HIVE! They had such a cool aesthetic and it was a shame that "Warmind" didn't do too well, so I'd love to see them make a comeback in this season, especially to make it easier to tell the hive broods apart (if we do face both Lucent and Xivu's broods).
Yeah! Ice Hive would be awesome! I remember how cool they looked, especially the knights with their shields and swords! And the unique enemies like those massive bosses in escalation, the explosive thralls.....oh god, the explosive thralls! That slowing affect! THAT ANNOYING SLOWING AFFECT!!......but anyway, would be a cool to have ice Hive back. Although there will be some complaining about "reused content", which my reply would be that they are on a ice planet, they already had the designs from a past dlc, of course they would use those designs again instead of creating new ones!
You don't simply get the frozen Hive by having Xivu Arath's forces invade Europa (or any icy planet for that matter) all of a sudden. Otherwise, they had to have been dormant beneath the ice sheets for a long period of time. However, I could see Bungie bringing back an updated version of Escalation Protocol as that mode fits perfectly with the potential scenario of defending Rasputin from Xivu's horde.
Xivu Arath's biggest enemy being an artificial mind that does not have intent of murder only defending the last traces of humanity would be a big counter to her power bolstering upon being fed bloodlust and rage on the battlefield. It's probably why the Hive have not conquered the Vex, and why Oryx and Crota had a difficult time when they could have summond Xivu Arath had they really needed, but couldn't
Xur's selling the Seventh Seraph armor set this final weekend too. My current hope, as small as it may be, is that this season brings as fine a finale as Season of the Lost did. Having a whole season to set up for the coming expansion -can- be amazing. And of course, anything with the Warmind is usually a whole ton of fun. Bring back da best AI Then, let us get a body for Failsafe... and Failsafe
This video made me remember that we were introduced to the idea of Rasputin being in an Exo body all the way back in Destiny 1 in the Ghost Fragment: Rasputin lore tab. It opens up with Cayde talking about how Andal Brask was convinced that Cayde was actually Rasputin with memory loss.
An interesting idea is how exo Rasputin is portrayed. Is he going to be Rasputin as we knew him before, or is he going to be more like a Felwinter 2.0? I kinda hope for the second because of all the interesting things that could happen with him and Saladin
I also thought this! Anna was only able to grab parts of big red in that one lore book after the witness turned him off, what if they boot him up into an exo and it’s felwinter. It’s entirely possible as he is a part of rasputin and he can still interact with all the tech
@TH3Darksider It'd be a pretty good twist if the only part of himself that he backed up was Felwinter. We think we're getting Big Red, but we get an Iron Lord with the warmind's memories.
Immaru is currently in command of the lucent brood, and he certainly won’t ally with Savathun’s sister who’s serving the witness. I only wonder if we’re gonna fight Xivu Ararth in a story mission or if they’ll save her for a raid boss
I sure hope it's a Rasputin Season. I've been hoping the next season will Warmind themed since Witch Queen launched. This is the last season before Lightfall, so hopefully they finally deliver. I crave Warmind themed gear and I hope they release the shader used by the Archangel Ghost/Sparrow/Ship. If they could bring back Black Armory weapons with a Warmind twist, that would be great as well.
Definitely looking forward to your take/consolidation of the background threads from this season. It's been hard for me to find them, and it'll be good to be reminded that they haven't just given us a boring old lore less season after all!
If we do get a Rasputin (lover of the Russian queen) season, I really hope we get more Felwinter lore as well, especially since technically Felwinter is his son, but his exo body was originally supposed to be Rasputins.
I could see certain elements of the design of Rasputin’s Exo body being inspired by Fellwinter, as a way to honor his son. Clovis and Rasputin may be bad father’s, but at least Rasputin (at this point) understands regret and humility. The Witness no doubt humbled him.
Plot twist your character dies but rasputin's engram revives your brain and starts killing you slowly which sends you on a quest to save your life and destroy clovis bray. All while Rasputin comments on all your actions and shouts one liners, and he's played by Keanu Reeves.
I know its a bit of a silly stretch but the fact there music archive channel added Rise of Iron music recently also feels like a tease for next season being Rasputin focused.
I still feel like Rasputin was more of a threat to the darkness than we are lead to believe. It's been shown that the ships essentially trap anything thrown at them in a pocket so it's not like Rasputin could have seriously threatened them. The fact the Witness took the time to disable Rasputin before landing shows it didn't want him in the way.
Well their big ships are certainly immune, but given we killed Rhulk with pea shooters and potato guns by comparison to Rasputin's firepower, it's pretty safe to say that the guys outside the ships are probably a tad more squishy and susceptible to being flattened by falling warsats and nukes.
My guess this whole expansion is that Rasputin would come back before Lightfall. Then the twab came out and apparently the Seraph Rounds perk will drop on new weapons. Now I'm no conspiracy theorist...
They also mentioned that Reconstruction was gonna drop on new weapons as well, which is a RAID EXCLUSIVE perk. Now, while DSC is gonna have craftables and origin traits, I imagine the seasonal weapons might be based off the DSC/Warmind again, since the Warmind weapons were Bray-created. Imagine Warmind weapons with DSC-exclusive traits.
I am always fascinated by the hyper-technological aesthetic of the warmind environments. Hope to see more seraph bunkers or warmind complexes next season.
@@jafarbassim2878 My (admittedly far-fetched) Theory for next season is that we will return to the Warmind Complex in Hellas Basin and use the temporal anomalies to gather portions of rasputins code to reconstruct him, with the seasonal activity being Escalation Protocol 2.0 to draw Xivu's hive away from the temporal anomalies and the seasonal story missions centering around entering these anomalies and gathering the code.
@@thomasw7908 That would be a cool way to explore the Golden Age, it’s connection to Rasputin and where we are (in the war now). It would also explain how our collapse relates similarly to our current situation with the Witness, and how we can make things different. It would be a great way to access secrets from the Golden Age, maybe get some more interaction between the Bray sisters and Rasputin.
@@garrettviewegh677 yeah, like maybe after each story mission we could get some dialogue or lore about some protocol or golden age weapon/technology that was part of rasputin. I also read in another comment that (Assuming Neomuna is Nefele Stronghold) the time anomalies could explain how the witness found out about it, by going back in time to before Rasputin purged the data from his records, and that could be how we also find out about it.
Bruh I hope too god for story and plot possibilities that Clovis is involved been waiting for this season for too damn long probably gonna be my fav season this year if they do the story and lore right
I think one thing slipped unnoticed here. In TWAB they mentioned both Seraph Rounds and perks found on DSC weapons; we know we'll be getting a dungeon this season, so could it be related to DSC somehow? Like retrieving data about Neomuna somewhere from DSC before Xivu gets to it or something.
Have you noticed that the Witness has direct counters to our allies, or more specifically to its enemies besides Gaurdians unless you want to consider the Scorn and Sol Divisive Vex as the only counter to us, as Calus and his Royalists are the counter to Caiatl and her Ascendancy, Mithrax and the House of Light are countered by Eramais and the remainder of House Salvation + the Pirate Crews, then Xivu’s Brood counter the Lucent Brood, granted the Lucent Brood isn’t allied with us either, we just have a common enemy
Definitely holding onto the idea that the Traveler will be infected next season. Maybe by Xivu Arath or Osiris (accidentally.) The fact that the Vox Obscura prophecy has been accurate is telling. However, the Traveler being infected could be something that happens at the end of Lightfall and being a part of the Raid in Lightfall
Calling it now: the game with the gardener and the winower is literal, and the white and black tiles are Travelers and Pyramids. The Traveler is surrounded by Pyramids, and what happens when a tile is surrounded by the opposite color? It flips. The Traveler won't just be "infected" by the Darkness. It'll transform into a Pyramid.
@@zelious9464 I was thinking fighting in the last city right below it, and going up into it. So it's SotP 2.0 because it's a raid that starts within the actual city part of the last city.
I think (or hope) that next season we are going to start fighting Xivu on Mars or maybe Europa over resources linked to Rasputin. Were probably going to be fighting over glorified hard drives and hoping that it has more information on Nephelli Stronghold. I hope that we start to lose and kind of badly so as a last ditch effort we start discussions with Savathuns ghost and eventually come to an agreement to work together. The enemy of my enemy is my friend etc. And revive Savathun and fight off Xivu's forces and gather information on Rasputin and the Witness from eachother. Then whats most likely going to happen is Savathun will betray us, steal something extremely important (hopefully not a oversized golfball) and we go and get it back through violent measures. Then we either keep her body again, or she surrenders last minute and joins us in fighting the Witness. I just hope that she isnt left out as a character for the next year and 1/2 before being chucked in as a throwaway enemy in season 22 or something
Lucent brood is definitely back bc they are giving us the Lucent finisher artifact mod. There was also a post on twitter showcases a sparrow and the atmosphere of europa was red. It's definitely europa, rasputin, and hive.
The ikelos weapons and the armor you got from escalation protocol, with the angular carbon fiber, prototype device kinda look is my favorite thematic look in the game. Getting new ikelos weapons, or getting the old ones as craftable ones (i have a feeling we are gonna get that) would be really cool.
Something I wanted to point out about the "Lucent Hive" theory with the whole Xivu Arath hint...the TWAB yesterday showed that we're getting the mod Lucent Finisher back, which grants heavy ammo when finishing a Hive champion OR Guardian. Hard to imagine they'd include that mod if the Lucent Hive weren't part of the season.
My guess. We're wiping Clovis Bray's A.I from the collosal Exo frame on Europa. Storing Rasputin in the core assuming it's strong enough to house him, constructing the Exo limb by limb like a giant bionicle throughout the season.
I'm of the opinion that somehow, we'll see the Warmind bunker in the Cosmodrome come into play here. Unlike in the Dark timeline, Ana has a frame to work from, and doesn't seem to be relying upon the Deep Stone Crypt quite so heavily. Knowing Bungie though, I doubt they'll go down that route.
Even if Spider somehow got that Rasputin engram, sure it would be valuable, but how exactly are you going to pawn that off? and to who? House Salvation, or really, any other fallen house (who want you dead)? The Awoken (who also want you dead)? The Hive (who want you dead for standard hive reasons rather than anything specific)? Trying to ransom it back to the City, or worse, directly to Ana? A very fast way to lose the last, tiniest, slightest shred of generosity they're currently granting you by not collecting on any of the myriad of bounties on your head. You could threaten to destroy it, but if you actually follow through, you also destroy the single reason Ana hasn't vaporized you with a golden gun yet. On top of all that, it's basically useless if you don't have a way to get him out, and if you do, it's not like he'd offer you any help. He's much more liable to just ruin all your systems. I just don't think Spider thought that idea through all the way. When he said it was priceless, in this case that probably means 0$
I was sort of hoping for a Vex themed season. we've had a season themed around every enemy this year except for the vex, and it could explain why they're at Neomuna
7:20 technically didn't say there would be new Seraph weapons, just more weapons with seraph rounds. Seraph guns don't have Seraph rounds currently, and we know from the Witch Queen promo that they were always planning to make Seraph guns craftable, they could just be giving those guns the perk
I hope we get a Vex season at some point because they’re the only faction that doesn’t have a defined side in the conflict (I really want the Vex to side with us they’re such an awesome faction especially since they aren’t paracasual).
Great video! I love to speculate on the clues bungie drops. Great job joining all the dots so eloquently for us. You've got to be close to the truth if not bang on. Sounds like a cool story driven season to lead us into lightfall!
Rasputin is cool and all, but honestly, I am most excited by your prospect of a Hive Civil War. Would bring back memories of Halo 2 for sure, and it'd be super interesting seeing how Bungie would code two separate factions if hive interacting, cause right now they're all the exact same.
I wouldn't rule out Clovis mucking things up thinking bout the line he said during Beyond light "and Frankly I'd do it all again, who knows maybe I'll get the chance one day"
I like to think the speaker is the traveler. Inside it is him, and the traveler is essentially a giant living ship he pilots to spread his power/influence; Kind-of the opposite of the witness with his pyramid ships
Since Rasputin is back maybe we can get a fellspring ghost shell maybe a fellwinter sparrow or fellwinter armor set to go with fellwinters lie, helm and his ship please
Something that caught my eye was during the final cutscene, Osiris said that Savathun knew about an ancient power on Neptune. What if that's Strand? I know in the reveal stream they said that no one discovered Strand before but what if Savathun knew about it somehow?
It sounded like Mithrax was beginning to tap into strand as well, seeing as he saw "threads connecting everything" which is pretty kuch strand's entire description
I didn't realize there was a strong inclination out there to regard dark future as predictive. It seemed on it's face to be a recitation of events from other resets Elsie has experienced and which she has continued to push things (us most of all) to make different moves in order to change things from. It is straight up alternate timeline we already deviated from. Vaguely instructive of potential mechanisms, but not predictive of specific events. Like studying the rhymes of history. Just with unprecedented history and a convenient time-travel-esque/reality shifting capability, the rhymes come from alternative timelines.
*Guardian and Warmind heavy frames overwelmed by Xivu's forces* *Lucent hive appears and immediatelly pops their supers* Immaru in comms: The enemy of my enemy. . . Our ghost: . . . is my friend boom, lucent hive reinforcements like spider did
To be honest, I'd love to have Mithrax or Eido along with us if it's a rasputain season. Mithrax mostly because of his history as a Splicer. (Yes, I know not that same splicers from RoI, but still he could be a great help)
Apparently Bungie uploaded a small clip on their Twitter (maybe discord one of the two) where they were showing off a sparrow coming in next season. But if you look at the background of where the guardian was driving, it was Europa with its sky looking very different. I can see us returning to Europe and Mars anytime soon
I don’t know how you do it, man. You’re out here making a commentary about a perk being resurrected back, a couple of robots added, and a plot line from a full year ago. The community is so thirsty for meaningful story beats, but Bungie keeps taking the core player base for granted. Good on you for sticking in there. This last week has really opened my eyes to how Bungie sees its players.
I feel like the the NEPHILE Stronghold is going to just like the Deep Stone Crypt, Neptune's own Raid or even Season 19's Dungeon where we will enter a Seraph station orbiting near Neptune to triangulate the stronghold.
What if, during Arrivals, it wasn't the Witness that took out Rasputin and left a tiny part of him to download into an engram. It was us, pulling most of Rasputin through time at the exact moment of the attack?
I think we will see Xivu in S19, I think or rather hope that we bring back Savathun in an exchange of doing so she helps drive back Xivu which would bring the events of Neomuna. We could see a Raid in Lightfall much akin to how spire of stars was, Each season we unlock more. But the first raid would be the most important, Xivu final boss in epic battle with the light of Savy Some how Savy's Ghost dies Which creates a cascading effect that breaks the link between us and the light.
I’m hoping that there is some mention of Felwinter. Like the exo body that houses Rasputin is a back up copy of his previous exo body that eventually became Felwinter. Imagine for Saladin and Shaxx if someone came back wearing your dead friends face.
i saw a leak back in the day about rasputin where eramis was gonna kill rasputin after he came back into an exo but he was gonna be rezed by a ghost at the end of the season
I've been playing destiny since beta for D1 and have only skipped 2 seasons the season before rise of iron cause my daughter was born and this season cause it never felt more stale. Thanks for the info and hope next season is at least interesting
My theory is that Rasputin takes control of the HELM and takes it to Neomuna himself. Or to the Nephele Stronghold, which becomes the HELM next season after Lightfall releases. Europa and the Deep Stone Crypt have clarity, which could in theory be used to help Rasputin gain access to some sort of Deepsight capabilities. Then he could slowly rebuild himself by recovering old databases of locations where he used to be present throughout the system. Using Deepsight to access Golden Age versions of his bunkers all over the Sol.
There's also something else to note as well. The Seraph Vaults. Usually, when seasons are over or there's a new expansion, all content and anything related to that content is either took out of the game (like season of the Hunts crytoclyths in the Dreaming City) or is locked away from players view (like the forges). The Seraphs in the EDZ and the Moon can still be seen now, even after multiple seasons and two expansions. Now, why are they still there? They could easily cover them with rocks or earth, they could get destroyed by Fallen or Hive. Heck, even the Seraph towers and satalite building stations are all gone. So why are they still there? Because of a significant story point in Season of the Worthy's story. Yes, there was actually a story in that season! Specifically around Fellwinter's Lie. The EDZ Seraph vault is just a normal Seraph Vault, nothing unusual about it. The Moon Seraph Vault however, is different. That was where the infamous Door boss was AKA Fellwinter's lie quest ending. We find out that Fellwinter was Rasputin son, which was a big secret for Rasputin, and even saw where Fellwinter's grave was, in a older part of the Vault. Behind the grave however is where things get interesting. If you watch a clip or have played that event, you'll remember that there was this giant white machine with the Warmind Sign on it. If you scanned it, ghost would tell you that it was a satalite that scanned for I believe was threats on Earth or something. Ana then says about Rasputin keeping a small part of his life or something. Which lines up with past lore that Rasputin was a satalite AI before he got upgraded into the Warmind. Now here comes my theory: Rasputin saved a backup copy or something in his old home satalite to help him either recover or find out the location of Neo Moona. Which lines up with why those two Seraph vaults have not been took out of the game. Sorry if this was a bit of a ramble, just wanted to get that potentially important information out there.
Meanwhile I'm over here scratching my head trying to remember where EITHER of those 2 Seraph Bunker entrances were. I can only remember where the IO one was
@@Burnie1601 The EDZ is at the sludge (top right corner of the map, should be able to transmit there. Once you land, its just to the right of you. Can't miss it.) The moon is at Archer Line. Go from the Sanctuary and keep to the left of Archers Line. Eventually, the road dips to a split, one heads further down and one heading to the big building. The Vault is at that split between the building and the way down. It is covered in moon dust, just keep an eye out for a unusual flat square and some metal handles. Actually just recently had a look. Still there.
For the Dark Future Part, sure there are things that are different, but there is one thing left that ties out timeline to that of the dark future, with Eris vowing to seal the Vex within time, there are two similarities between there, but to what end, anyone’s guess, i hope that next season focuses on the Vex, that would be a good lead into Lightfall since there is a Vex presence on Neomuna.
War Mind vs War God? Going to be cool to see what the next season is going to be, I'm wondering if Xivu wants to claim Rasputins weapons for herself, or maybe the Witness is sending her to get more information. Would be cool to get lore from her point of view or even see her.
Just like the cabal and fallen fighting together i would love to see the hive and cabal fighting together against us would be really cool to see especially on mars
I certainly think that we will see a lot more of the Wrathborn Cabal. My reasoning for this is that Xivu Arath claimed a large number of Cabal as Wrathborn during the Season of the Hunt thanks to her Cryptoliths, however we did not see them alongside the Wrathborn Fallen. This makes me think they have been kept back as a reserve force, one that is more disciplined, well equipped and organised than her own Hive, Taken and Scorn forces. Add into this the fact that she conquered Torabatl, this means she could have potentially increased the number of Cabal that she has claimed as Wrathborn.
With the combined knowledge and technology of the Coalition, and maybe later the intervention of Neomuna’s nanotechnology, Rasputin could become as strong, or stronger than Fellwinter. Considering Rasputin would be a Warmind/Exo hybrid like his son, but without paracausality. Though the combined knowledge and technology of the Coalition, Neomuna, and different ages of Sol (Golden Age, City Age, Dark Age, and Neomuna’s advanced tech) could make up for that.
i think the seasonal story might be similar to the original destiny storyline, where we work with osiris and the bray sisters to bring rasputin back. i’d assume it’ll be on either europa or mars if they decided to bring it back like they did with the leviathan.
I feel Rasputin is going to use quicksilver nanotech to save Caital's fleet when she has a grandscale space fight with Xivu (the same fight her Psion tutor prophesied)
They have been dropping hint since season of the lost when eververse got a warmind themed equipment set i knew this was coming just wasn't sure exactly when
Being that Rasputin is BrayTech it would make more sense if Ana transported the engram to Europa labs to integrate him in those systems or at least include the Clovis A:I for analysis along with Elsie working together to rebuild Rasputin? That would be something!!
I have a sneaking suspicion we may spend all season reviving Rasputin, much like we collected nezcafe. I'd much rather we started with Ana's long-awaited breakthrough with Rasputin, jump starting us into dealing with the threat of Xivu Arath with the assistance of our own grand strategist, the Warmind. Would be less predictable and a nice for a change of pace.
I think Felwinter will be referenced, but I don't think any of this Rasputin/Felwinter Hybrid stuff holds water. But I do see a damaged and incomplete Rasputin having the same type of body as Felwinter and keeping it in his honor... which will piss Saladin off to no end. I also don't think the Endgame of the season will be getting Rasputin back in one piece entirely. I think it'll probably be something more like... we're helping him build or Do something. Dunno.
I have caught the theory bug. As for the underwhelming Eliksni quarter improvements. It makes sense from the perspective of, why waste a lot of time coding assets/improvements for an area that might not be around much longer. Byf, has speculated himself we may lose the Last City. And, the Eliksni Quarter is in the Last City. So, the underwhelming improvements make more sense from that angle.
Rasputin finally got his internet connection back, see this is why you don’t use Comcast
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I just want Rasputin and Saladin to have a "friendly heart to heart" conversation.
Lol I'm sure that will go well
@@xRIPx86
I can see the situation now.
Anna will transmat into the tower with Rasputin to meet with Zavala.
Zavala would inquire about the new Exo with Anna.
The Exo will yell in angry Russian at Zavala.
Zavala would ask if that's Rasputin.
Saladin will overhear the name Rasputin and immediately get angry and come full tilt at him.
And Zavala will do his trademark sigh as he'll have to keep those two separate.
I’m sure Saladin would at that point be a calm and reasonable person /j
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Zavala: Saladin, what do you think you're doing?
Saladin: I just want to talk to him.
Zavala: Saladin, no.
Saladin: I just want to talk to him.
Zavala: Saladin, what happened is in the past. You must move forward.
- Saladin materializes his Axe -
Saladin: I just want to swing at him.
Zavala: Saladin, you CANNOT attack the Warmind!
Saladin: I just want to talk to him.
I for one think that Saladin is a calm and reasonable person
Ideal seasonal story: All greatest minds (Ana, Rasputin, Osiris, Clovis, etc.) coming together to upgrade Warmind weapons network to deal damage to Pyramids via Vex tech integration. Might even quire Asher later in season. Theme of season could be reconciliation between Bray family and Rasputin and Ana's paths
Expected story: Spend entire 3 months reviving Rasputin to be personal Nav bot to Neomuna
Bleh. That second one is just bleak but somewhere in-between is more likely
@@axelkusanagi4139 I say combine. Ideal season is compatible with expected season. We can upgrade the weapons system AND have Rasputin as a nav bot. just hoping Bungie dont waste a lore lord.
As bleak as the second prediction is I think thats where we will be. Bungie has great storues, but they drag it out way too long.
Mix both ideas, and you get what I feel is likely.
Where do you think Xivu will fit in?
Bringing Rasputin back better be the main focus next season. The past two years have been about the gathering of allies and the build up of our enemies, such as Calus and Eramis. With Rasputin back, it would be just in time for Lightfall; the beginning of the end. The beginning of the final conflict. All out war.
Lmao its literally infinity war
@@bigfella6719 In-freaking-deed.
@@beninmalgaard9836 Bungie once again proving they can't be original.
My theory is xivu arath is either going to be after Osiris to get his memories of savathun or she’s going to be recruited by the witness to stop us from reviving Rasputin, that’s the only way I see her getting involved in the story and it being a hive season instead of a vex season on Europa, it’ll be cool to see the hive on Europa too, it’ll be reminiscent of Mars
If that's case, i can see Xivu being more aggressive than in Season of the Lost.
She been recruited
@@JM1992 I mean as a official disciple of the witness, sure she works for the witness but I don’t think she’s an actual disciple yet like calus
Xivu has been a recruitment of the Witness for Eons already
@@guybester9372 yea but as far as we know she isn’t a disciple, she doesn’t use darkness powers outside of hive magic and doesn’t have a pyramid ship as far as we know
If we're sticking Raspuitins consciousness back into an exo frame - makes sense to return to the factories of Europa where peoples consciousnesses were uploaded into Exo frames
Hearing about Xivu Arath and Rasputin has me HYPED. europa is an icy planet, and Xivu Arath leads a hive brood. That can only mean one thing: ICE HIVE! They had such a cool aesthetic and it was a shame that "Warmind" didn't do too well, so I'd love to see them make a comeback in this season, especially to make it easier to tell the hive broods apart (if we do face both Lucent and Xivu's broods).
Yeah! Ice Hive would be awesome! I remember how cool they looked, especially the knights with their shields and swords! And the unique enemies like those massive bosses in escalation, the explosive thralls.....oh god, the explosive thralls! That slowing affect! THAT ANNOYING SLOWING AFFECT!!......but anyway, would be a cool to have ice Hive back. Although there will be some complaining about "reused content", which my reply would be that they are on a ice planet, they already had the designs from a past dlc, of course they would use those designs again instead of creating new ones!
@@dustydan4961 Not to mention, people didn't really complain that much when the loyalist cabal came back.
@@Ian_StoryhammerForge True.
so you think we may get a small part 2 to the warmind dlc? i like your thinking and id like to see that too ngl
You don't simply get the frozen Hive by having Xivu Arath's forces invade Europa (or any icy planet for that matter) all of a sudden. Otherwise, they had to have been dormant beneath the ice sheets for a long period of time.
However, I could see Bungie bringing back an updated version of Escalation Protocol as that mode fits perfectly with the potential scenario of defending Rasputin from Xivu's horde.
Xivu Arath's biggest enemy being an artificial mind that does not have intent of murder only defending the last traces of humanity would be a big counter to her power bolstering upon being fed bloodlust and rage on the battlefield. It's probably why the Hive have not conquered the Vex, and why Oryx and Crota had a difficult time when they could have summond Xivu Arath had they really needed, but couldn't
Xur's selling the Seventh Seraph armor set this final weekend too.
My current hope, as small as it may be, is that this season brings as fine a finale as Season of the Lost did. Having a whole season to set up for the coming expansion -can- be amazing. And of course, anything with the Warmind is usually a whole ton of fun. Bring back da best AI
Then, let us get a body for Failsafe... and Failsafe
Put failsafe into a gun and make the gun talk when you're holding it. Please
@@tenacity25 No, give the best robot waifu a body. She can be linked to a gun, but body definitely preferred
If fail safe gets a body, I Want her to switch between two different heads depending on the personality that active.
Failsafe as an exo. My dreams for best ai girls
@@ADAM2ME moving horn pieces and different colour eyes. Blue for failsafe and red for the more depressed one. Please bungie give us this
This video made me remember that we were introduced to the idea of Rasputin being in an Exo body all the way back in Destiny 1 in the Ghost Fragment: Rasputin lore tab. It opens up with Cayde talking about how Andal Brask was convinced that Cayde was actually Rasputin with memory loss.
An interesting idea is how exo Rasputin is portrayed. Is he going to be Rasputin as we knew him before, or is he going to be more like a Felwinter 2.0? I kinda hope for the second because of all the interesting things that could happen with him and Saladin
It would be interesting for the son to be reborn with through the memories of the father.
Rasputin...the lightbearer? Maybe that's the last ingredient to truly revive the tyrant.
I also thought this! Anna was only able to grab parts of big red in that one lore book after the witness turned him off, what if they boot him up into an exo and it’s felwinter. It’s entirely possible as he is a part of rasputin and he can still interact with all the tech
@TH3Darksider It'd be a pretty good twist if the only part of himself that he backed up was Felwinter. We think we're getting Big Red, but we get an Iron Lord with the warmind's memories.
Immaru is currently in command of the lucent brood, and he certainly won’t ally with Savathun’s sister who’s serving the witness. I only wonder if we’re gonna fight Xivu Ararth in a story mission or if they’ll save her for a raid boss
I sure hope it's a Rasputin Season. I've been hoping the next season will Warmind themed since Witch Queen launched. This is the last season before Lightfall, so hopefully they finally deliver. I crave Warmind themed gear and I hope they release the shader used by the Archangel Ghost/Sparrow/Ship. If they could bring back Black Armory weapons with a Warmind twist, that would be great as well.
Seems like everyone wants Warmind themed gear, myself included. Bungie should give us more stuff of this design.
Shoutout to the Season of Worthy veterans. I too got PTSD reading that Seraph rounds were coming back...
Definitely looking forward to your take/consolidation of the background threads from this season. It's been hard for me to find them, and it'll be good to be reminded that they haven't just given us a boring old lore less season after all!
If we do get a Rasputin (lover of the Russian queen) season, I really hope we get more Felwinter lore as well, especially since technically Felwinter is his son, but his exo body was originally supposed to be Rasputins.
Yuuup
I could see certain elements of the design of Rasputin’s Exo body being inspired by Fellwinter, as a way to honor his son. Clovis and Rasputin may be bad father’s, but at least Rasputin (at this point) understands regret and humility. The Witness no doubt humbled him.
@@garrettviewegh677 I want to see Saladin give Rasputin Fellwinter's helm, a reconciliation for them and their actions, symbol of a better future.
Plot twist your character dies but rasputin's engram revives your brain and starts killing you slowly which sends you on a quest to save your life and destroy clovis bray. All while Rasputin comments on all your actions and shouts one liners, and he's played by Keanu Reeves.
I know its a bit of a silly stretch but the fact there music archive channel added Rise of Iron music recently also feels like a tease for next season being Rasputin focused.
Curious if Rasputin as an Exo will speak Russian or English. Also the awkward discussion with Saladin. Rasputin did kill his son, Ana’s “grandson.”
whos "her"?
@@thomasw7908 Ana.
I could imagine him and Saint having a conversation in Russian, then switching to english.
I still feel like Rasputin was more of a threat to the darkness than we are lead to believe. It's been shown that the ships essentially trap anything thrown at them in a pocket so it's not like Rasputin could have seriously threatened them. The fact the Witness took the time to disable Rasputin before landing shows it didn't want him in the way.
Well their big ships are certainly immune, but given we killed Rhulk with pea shooters and potato guns by comparison to Rasputin's firepower, it's pretty safe to say that the guys outside the ships are probably a tad more squishy and susceptible to being flattened by falling warsats and nukes.
My guess this whole expansion is that Rasputin would come back before Lightfall. Then the twab came out and apparently the Seraph Rounds perk will drop on new weapons. Now I'm no conspiracy theorist...
I should really finish the video before commenting. 😂
They also mentioned that Reconstruction was gonna drop on new weapons as well, which is a RAID EXCLUSIVE perk. Now, while DSC is gonna have craftables and origin traits, I imagine the seasonal weapons might be based off the DSC/Warmind again, since the Warmind weapons were Bray-created. Imagine Warmind weapons with DSC-exclusive traits.
@@twelved4983 wait fr? I kinda liked how it was a raid-exclusive perk
@@clayless8701 went back and checked. Seems like it’s not Reconstruction but rather Redirection. However that’s still a DSC-exclusive perk
@@twelved4983 ah ok. I don’t really mind that lol
I am always fascinated by the hyper-technological aesthetic of the warmind environments. Hope to see more seraph bunkers or warmind complexes next season.
I’m looking forward to creating my ideal versions of IKELOS, SERAPH and DSP weapons.
@@garrettviewegh677 How about escalation protocol 2.0?
@@jafarbassim2878 My (admittedly far-fetched) Theory for next season is that we will return to the Warmind Complex in Hellas Basin and use the temporal anomalies to gather portions of rasputins code to reconstruct him, with the seasonal activity being Escalation Protocol 2.0 to draw Xivu's hive away from the temporal anomalies and the seasonal story missions centering around entering these anomalies and gathering the code.
@@thomasw7908 That would be a cool way to explore the Golden Age, it’s connection to Rasputin and where we are (in the war now). It would also explain how our collapse relates similarly to our current situation with the Witness, and how we can make things different. It would be a great way to access secrets from the Golden Age, maybe get some more interaction between the Bray sisters and Rasputin.
@@garrettviewegh677 yeah, like maybe after each story mission we could get some dialogue or lore about some protocol or golden age weapon/technology that was part of rasputin. I also read in another comment that (Assuming Neomuna is Nefele Stronghold) the time anomalies could explain how the witness found out about it, by going back in time to before Rasputin purged the data from his records, and that could be how we also find out about it.
Bungie: We are bringing back the Escalation Protocol as season activity
I'd be OK with that Escalation Protocol was fun as hell
Bruh I hope too god for story and plot possibilities that Clovis is involved been waiting for this season for too damn long probably gonna be my fav season this year if they do the story and lore right
There'd better be a Slav Squat or Cossack Dance emote this time around.
I think one thing slipped unnoticed here. In TWAB they mentioned both Seraph Rounds and perks found on DSC weapons; we know we'll be getting a dungeon this season, so could it be related to DSC somehow? Like retrieving data about Neomuna somewhere from DSC before Xivu gets to it or something.
Have you noticed that the Witness has direct counters to our allies, or more specifically to its enemies besides Gaurdians unless you want to consider the Scorn and Sol Divisive Vex as the only counter to us, as Calus and his Royalists are the counter to Caiatl and her Ascendancy, Mithrax and the House of Light are countered by Eramais and the remainder of House Salvation + the Pirate Crews, then Xivu’s Brood counter the Lucent Brood, granted the Lucent Brood isn’t allied with us either, we just have a common enemy
Definitely holding onto the idea that the Traveler will be infected next season. Maybe by Xivu Arath or Osiris (accidentally.)
The fact that the Vox Obscura prophecy has been accurate is telling. However, the Traveler being infected could be something that happens at the end of Lightfall and being a part of the Raid in Lightfall
Scourge of the Past 2.0?
@@tenacity25 SotP 2.0 inside the Traveller???
Calling it now: the game with the gardener and the winower is literal, and the white and black tiles are Travelers and Pyramids. The Traveler is surrounded by Pyramids, and what happens when a tile is surrounded by the opposite color? It flips.
The Traveler won't just be "infected" by the Darkness. It'll transform into a Pyramid.
@@zelious9464 I was thinking fighting in the last city right below it, and going up into it. So it's SotP 2.0 because it's a raid that starts within the actual city part of the last city.
I think (or hope) that next season we are going to start fighting Xivu on Mars or maybe Europa over resources linked to Rasputin. Were probably going to be fighting over glorified hard drives and hoping that it has more information on Nephelli Stronghold. I hope that we start to lose and kind of badly so as a last ditch effort we start discussions with Savathuns ghost and eventually come to an agreement to work together. The enemy of my enemy is my friend etc. And revive Savathun and fight off Xivu's forces and gather information on Rasputin and the Witness from eachother. Then whats most likely going to happen is Savathun will betray us, steal something extremely important (hopefully not a oversized golfball) and we go and get it back through violent measures. Then we either keep her body again, or she surrenders last minute and joins us in fighting the Witness. I just hope that she isnt left out as a character for the next year and 1/2 before being chucked in as a throwaway enemy in season 22 or something
Lucent brood is definitely back bc they are giving us the Lucent finisher artifact mod. There was also a post on twitter showcases a sparrow and the atmosphere of europa was red. It's definitely europa, rasputin, and hive.
The ikelos weapons and the armor you got from escalation protocol, with the angular carbon fiber, prototype device kinda look is my favorite thematic look in the game.
Getting new ikelos weapons, or getting the old ones as craftable ones (i have a feeling we are gonna get that) would be really cool.
I think we're getting both.
Something I wanted to point out about the "Lucent Hive" theory with the whole Xivu Arath hint...the TWAB yesterday showed that we're getting the mod Lucent Finisher back, which grants heavy ammo when finishing a Hive champion OR Guardian. Hard to imagine they'd include that mod if the Lucent Hive weren't part of the season.
Byf you've been a big part of my enjoyment through the years - thank you brother ❤
My guess. We're wiping Clovis Bray's A.I from the collosal Exo frame on Europa. Storing Rasputin in the core assuming it's strong enough to house him, constructing the Exo limb by limb like a giant bionicle throughout the season.
I'm of the opinion that somehow, we'll see the Warmind bunker in the Cosmodrome come into play here. Unlike in the Dark timeline, Ana has a frame to work from, and doesn't seem to be relying upon the Deep Stone Crypt quite so heavily. Knowing Bungie though, I doubt they'll go down that route.
Can't wait to see Rasputin and Saint listening to hard bass and squatting in the tower hanger
So Rasputin's Exo frame will be called the "WarFrame"? lol
Even if Spider somehow got that Rasputin engram, sure it would be valuable, but how exactly are you going to pawn that off? and to who? House Salvation, or really, any other fallen house (who want you dead)? The Awoken (who also want you dead)? The Hive (who want you dead for standard hive reasons rather than anything specific)? Trying to ransom it back to the City, or worse, directly to Ana? A very fast way to lose the last, tiniest, slightest shred of generosity they're currently granting you by not collecting on any of the myriad of bounties on your head. You could threaten to destroy it, but if you actually follow through, you also destroy the single reason Ana hasn't vaporized you with a golden gun yet.
On top of all that, it's basically useless if you don't have a way to get him out, and if you do, it's not like he'd offer you any help. He's much more liable to just ruin all your systems.
I just don't think Spider thought that idea through all the way. When he said it was priceless, in this case that probably means 0$
Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed the sweeper frames
I was sort of hoping for a Vex themed season. we've had a season themed around every enemy this year except for the vex, and it could explain why they're at Neomuna
7:20 technically didn't say there would be new Seraph weapons, just more weapons with seraph rounds. Seraph guns don't have Seraph rounds currently, and we know from the Witch Queen promo that they were always planning to make Seraph guns craftable, they could just be giving those guns the perk
I hope we get a Vex season at some point because they’re the only faction that doesn’t have a defined side in the conflict (I really want the Vex to side with us they’re such an awesome faction especially since they aren’t paracasual).
The Hezen Lords allied with the forces of the Darkness, so it's reasonable to think a faction of Vex could ally with the Light.
The Vex are interesting because they're incredibly strong, but causal. Everything they do can be explained by Physics or math
@@NitroNinja324 Hezen Lords were the Vault of Glass subtype. You're thinking the Sol Inherent run by the Sanctified Mind.
@@BlitzStorm You're right, my mistake.
you are such a great commentator and story teller...great broadcast voice...appreciate your dedication to the lore of destiny....be well brother.
Great video! I love to speculate on the clues bungie drops. Great job joining all the dots so eloquently for us. You've got to be close to the truth if not bang on. Sounds like a cool story driven season to lead us into lightfall!
Rasputin is cool and all, but honestly, I am most excited by your prospect of a Hive Civil War.
Would bring back memories of Halo 2 for sure, and it'd be super interesting seeing how Bungie would code two separate factions if hive interacting, cause right now they're all the exact same.
I wouldn't rule out Clovis mucking things up thinking bout the line he said during Beyond light "and Frankly I'd do it all again, who knows maybe I'll get the chance one day"
I like to think the speaker is the traveler. Inside it is him, and the traveler is essentially a giant living ship he pilots to spread his power/influence; Kind-of the opposite of the witness with his pyramid ships
I'm imagining Rasputin linking to the nanites from his exo frame, and being able to "summon" himself like the nanite Transformers from the Bayverse.
Since Rasputin is back maybe we can get a fellspring ghost shell maybe a fellwinter sparrow or fellwinter armor set to go with fellwinters lie, helm and his ship please
Something that caught my eye was during the final cutscene, Osiris said that Savathun knew about an ancient power on Neptune. What if that's Strand? I know in the reveal stream they said that no one discovered Strand before but what if Savathun knew about it somehow?
It sounded like Mithrax was beginning to tap into strand as well, seeing as he saw "threads connecting everything" which is pretty kuch strand's entire description
I didn't realize there was a strong inclination out there to regard dark future as predictive. It seemed on it's face to be a recitation of events from other resets Elsie has experienced and which she has continued to push things (us most of all) to make different moves in order to change things from. It is straight up alternate timeline we already deviated from. Vaguely instructive of potential mechanisms, but not predictive of specific events. Like studying the rhymes of history. Just with unprecedented history and a convenient time-travel-esque/reality shifting capability, the rhymes come from alternative timelines.
I've been anticipating another Rasputin for ages and I can't wait
*Guardian and Warmind heavy frames overwelmed by Xivu's forces*
*Lucent hive appears and immediatelly pops their supers*
Immaru in comms: The enemy of my enemy. . .
Our ghost: . . . is my friend
boom, lucent hive reinforcements like spider did
Warmind seasons always get the community hyped up, last time we were tracking the black fleets arrival
To be honest, I'd love to have Mithrax or Eido along with us if it's a rasputain season. Mithrax mostly because of his history as a Splicer. (Yes, I know not that same splicers from RoI, but still he could be a great help)
Could….. could savathun’s end goal be just stacking different versions of immortality on top of each other?
Ascended risen exo hive queen
Hangs out with a certain undying Fallen boss 😜
@@Audiotrocious I swear I need a story thread with these two and maybe Gaul as a fire team just reviving each other when one of them dies
Apparently Bungie uploaded a small clip on their Twitter (maybe discord one of the two) where they were showing off a sparrow coming in next season. But if you look at the background of where the guardian was driving, it was Europa with its sky looking very different. I can see us returning to Europe and Mars anytime soon
I don’t know how you do it, man. You’re out here making a commentary about a perk being resurrected back, a couple of robots added, and a plot line from a full year ago. The community is so thirsty for meaningful story beats, but Bungie keeps taking the core player base for granted. Good on you for sticking in there. This last week has really opened my eyes to how Bungie sees its players.
Bungie owes Byf a good amount of money. He does setting, lore, story and especially hype better than the whole company.
I feel like the the NEPHILE Stronghold is going to just like the Deep Stone Crypt, Neptune's own Raid or even Season 19's Dungeon where we will enter a Seraph station orbiting near Neptune to triangulate the stronghold.
I could be wrong as I haven't gone to check, but I think even Xur might be selling some Warmind related armor sets this week.
Byf hit the nail on the head with this video. The only thing he missed was Clovis Bray being involved
What if, during Arrivals, it wasn't the Witness that took out Rasputin and left a tiny part of him to download into an engram. It was us, pulling most of Rasputin through time at the exact moment of the attack?
I think we will see Xivu in S19, I think or rather hope that we bring back Savathun in an exchange of doing so she helps drive back Xivu which would bring the events of Neomuna. We could see a Raid in Lightfall much akin to how spire of stars was, Each season we unlock more. But the first raid would be the most important, Xivu final boss in epic battle with the light of Savy Some how Savy's Ghost dies Which creates a cascading effect that breaks the link between us and the light.
I’m hoping that there is some mention of Felwinter. Like the exo body that houses Rasputin is a back up copy of his previous exo body that eventually became Felwinter. Imagine for Saladin and Shaxx if someone came back wearing your dead friends face.
Warmind as an expansion was... an expansion. But damn, hearing the old tracks again gave me some good nostalgia
i saw a leak back in the day about rasputin where eramis was gonna kill rasputin after he came back into an exo but he was gonna be rezed by a ghost at the end of the season
That engram better be getting hooked into the only Exo I know that could've held him...
I've been playing destiny since beta for D1 and have only skipped 2 seasons the season before rise of iron cause my daughter was born and this season cause it never felt more stale. Thanks for the info and hope next season is at least interesting
My theory is that Rasputin takes control of the HELM and takes it to Neomuna himself. Or to the Nephele Stronghold, which becomes the HELM next season after Lightfall releases.
Europa and the Deep Stone Crypt have clarity, which could in theory be used to help Rasputin gain access to some sort of Deepsight capabilities. Then he could slowly rebuild himself by recovering old databases of locations where he used to be present throughout the system. Using Deepsight to access Golden Age versions of his bunkers all over the Sol.
There's also something else to note as well. The Seraph Vaults. Usually, when seasons are over or there's a new expansion, all content and anything related to that content is either took out of the game (like season of the Hunts crytoclyths in the Dreaming City) or is locked away from players view (like the forges). The Seraphs in the EDZ and the Moon can still be seen now, even after multiple seasons and two expansions. Now, why are they still there? They could easily cover them with rocks or earth, they could get destroyed by Fallen or Hive. Heck, even the Seraph towers and satalite building stations are all gone. So why are they still there? Because of a significant story point in Season of the Worthy's story. Yes, there was actually a story in that season! Specifically around Fellwinter's Lie.
The EDZ Seraph vault is just a normal Seraph Vault, nothing unusual about it. The Moon Seraph Vault however, is different. That was where the infamous Door boss was AKA Fellwinter's lie quest ending. We find out that Fellwinter was Rasputin son, which was a big secret for Rasputin, and even saw where Fellwinter's grave was, in a older part of the Vault. Behind the grave however is where things get interesting. If you watch a clip or have played that event, you'll remember that there was this giant white machine with the Warmind Sign on it. If you scanned it, ghost would tell you that it was a satalite that scanned for I believe was threats on Earth or something. Ana then says about Rasputin keeping a small part of his life or something. Which lines up with past lore that Rasputin was a satalite AI before he got upgraded into the Warmind. Now here comes my theory:
Rasputin saved a backup copy or something in his old home satalite to help him either recover or find out the location of Neo Moona. Which lines up with why those two Seraph vaults have not been took out of the game. Sorry if this was a bit of a ramble, just wanted to get that potentially important information out there.
Meanwhile I'm over here scratching my head trying to remember where EITHER of those 2 Seraph Bunker entrances were.
I can only remember where the IO one was
@@Burnie1601 The EDZ is at the sludge (top right corner of the map, should be able to transmit there. Once you land, its just to the right of you. Can't miss it.) The moon is at Archer Line. Go from the Sanctuary and keep to the left of Archers Line. Eventually, the road dips to a split, one heads further down and one heading to the big building. The Vault is at that split between the building and the way down. It is covered in moon dust, just keep an eye out for a unusual flat square and some metal handles. Actually just recently had a look. Still there.
Looking forward to Rasputin being in the mix again.
Amazing video!
For the Dark Future Part, sure there are things that are different, but there is one thing left that ties out timeline to that of the dark future, with Eris vowing to seal the Vex within time, there are two similarities between there, but to what end, anyone’s guess, i hope that next season focuses on the Vex, that would be a good lead into Lightfall since there is a Vex presence on Neomuna.
I wish we could access the seraph bunkers again. Maybe create one in Europa if that could serve a purpose..
It would be cool to see like Rasputins eyes turn red as a exo and he drops like warsats down on his enemies or something
War Mind vs War God? Going to be cool to see what the next season is going to be, I'm wondering if Xivu wants to claim Rasputins weapons for herself, or maybe the Witness is sending her to get more information. Would be cool to get lore from her point of view or even see her.
What i really want us to see is us recreating rasputin in the DSC, fighting against Xivu Arath's forces
I was wondering if this season Rasputin gets a body and tell the Tower what’s about to happen (my money is on SIVA production has started again)
Just like the cabal and fallen fighting together i would love to see the hive and cabal fighting together against us would be really cool to see especially on mars
Exo Rasputin vs Xivu in a mental game of chess with the Guardians being the pawns. Warmind vs War God
Think we are going to get some Usage out of Brey head again maybe even some new interaction that occurred between the two warmind
I certainly think that we will see a lot more of the Wrathborn Cabal. My reasoning for this is that Xivu Arath claimed a large number of Cabal as Wrathborn during the Season of the Hunt thanks to her Cryptoliths, however we did not see them alongside the Wrathborn Fallen. This makes me think they have been kept back as a reserve force, one that is more disciplined, well equipped and organised than her own Hive, Taken and Scorn forces. Add into this the fact that she conquered Torabatl, this means she could have potentially increased the number of Cabal that she has claimed as Wrathborn.
With the combined knowledge and technology of the Coalition, and maybe later the intervention of Neomuna’s nanotechnology, Rasputin could become as strong, or stronger than Fellwinter. Considering Rasputin would be a Warmind/Exo hybrid like his son, but without paracausality. Though the combined knowledge and technology of the Coalition, Neomuna, and different ages of Sol (Golden Age, City Age, Dark Age, and Neomuna’s advanced tech) could make up for that.
I would love if we have to collect all the technologies that Rasputin has control to kinda of reconstruct him ( Siva included)
i think the seasonal story might be similar to the original destiny storyline, where we work with osiris and the bray sisters to bring rasputin back. i’d assume it’ll be on either europa or mars if they decided to bring it back like they did with the leviathan.
Just a wild idea i got. What if rasputin diverged from itself and developed the nanite tech as a failsafe?
i'm all down for the warmind shit, i love the "warmind, siva, iron lord" side of the story
I feel Rasputin is going to use quicksilver nanotech to save Caital's fleet when she has a grandscale space fight with Xivu (the same fight her Psion tutor prophesied)
They have been dropping hint since season of the lost when eververse got a warmind themed equipment set i knew this was coming just wasn't sure exactly when
Being that Rasputin is BrayTech it would make more sense if Ana transported the engram to Europa labs to integrate him in those systems or at least include the Clovis A:I for analysis along with Elsie working together to rebuild Rasputin? That would be something!!
I wanna see Elsie and Clovis take spotlight in Europa, along with Ana and Rasputin. One big happy dysfunctional family reunion 😅
I do wonder if the Exo body is what has been referred to as the Kalki Golem.
Anyone notice just how similar the Rasputin heavy frames and the new Tormentors look?
Thanks for keeping me hyped for destiny 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Would be really cool if we got to hear a new voice for Rasputin when he’s in his new body.
It'd be kinda cool if he stayed as that untranslated thing he was doing before.
I have a sneaking suspicion we may spend all season reviving Rasputin, much like we collected nezcafe. I'd much rather we started with Ana's long-awaited breakthrough with Rasputin, jump starting us into dealing with the threat of Xivu Arath with the assistance of our own grand strategist, the Warmind. Would be less predictable and a nice for a change of pace.
Rasputin may already have a viable body from felwinter, we found it in his hidden bunker, along with the revised Felwinter's lie.
I think Felwinter will be referenced, but I don't think any of this Rasputin/Felwinter Hybrid stuff holds water. But I do see a damaged and incomplete Rasputin having the same type of body as Felwinter and keeping it in his honor... which will piss Saladin off to no end.
I also don't think the Endgame of the season will be getting Rasputin back in one piece entirely. I think it'll probably be something more like... we're helping him build or Do something. Dunno.
@MynameisByford_via_Nicegram Bullshit.
I have caught the theory bug.
As for the underwhelming Eliksni quarter improvements. It makes sense from the perspective of, why waste a lot of time coding assets/improvements for an area that might not be around much longer.
Byf, has speculated himself we may lose the Last City.
And, the Eliksni Quarter is in the Last City.
So, the underwhelming improvements make more sense from that angle.
Can’t wait for the Ikelos and Seventh Seraph weapon returns.