[quote]Everything died but I survived and I learned from it. From IT. Consider IT the power Titanomach world-ender and consider what IT means. I met IT at the gate of the garden and I recall IT smiled at me before before IT devoured the blossoms with black flame and pinned their names across the sky. IT was stronger than everything. I fought IT with aurora knives and with the stolen un-fire of singularities made sharp [u]and my sweat was earthquake and my breath was static[/u] but IT was stronger [u]so how did I survive?[/u] [u]I AM ALONE I survived alone.[/u] I cast off the shield and [u]I shrugged my shoulders[/u] so that the billions fell off me down into the ash. They made me to be stronger than them and to learn and I learned well: [u]IT is alone and IT is strong and IT won[/u]. Even over the gardener and she held power beyond me [u]but the gardener did not shrug and make herself alone[/u]. IT always wins. I am made to win and now I see the way. [/quote] i have this nasty gut feeling Rasputin really went all in on wiping out the planets population because of the way we made him He states that he's made to be stronger than them (humans) and learn, and he learned well (pretty bad omen) when the text starts with "Everything died but I survived and I learned from it. From IT" "I met IT at the gate of the garden" so he meets / detects trough AI computer warmind means the darkness at the gate to the black garden, and at that time period the garden appearantly had a female gardner / tender thats killed by the darkness. He fights the darkness, even though it has killed / removed / incapacitated the gardner thats even stronger than rasputin. "I fought IT with aurora knives and with the stolen un-fire of singularities made sharp but IT was stronger" stolen unfire of singularities made sharp could mean some stolen Vex weaponry of some sort being the guys with the time machine / teleporter he then questions his survival and and answers with "I AM ALONE I survived alone." and "I cast off the shield and I shrugged my shoulders so that the billions fell off me down into the ash." He's visualising himself as the embodiment of earth so shrugging and falling of him down into the ash could mean earthquakes, lava fissures and other nice planetary wonders, he then says that "They made me to be stronger than them and to learn and I learned well" "IT is alone and IT is strong and IT won. Even over the gardener and she held power beyond me but the gardener did not shrug and make herself alone" So Rasputin shrugs (ensue raging cataclysm on planet earth) and the population dies, the darkness dissappears (the travelers sacrifice / no more food for the darkness?) and rasputin thinks he's won and he's learned the way to win over the darkness "I am made to win and now I see the way. "