I'm curious as to your opinions on the warmind retcons. I may have understood D1 wrong but at the time it seemed like rasputin was one of many warminds in the system (also D2 supports this a bit with the Io warmind vaults having a prefix different than ras-) and honestly, having it be just rasputin was so disapointing for me. I wanted to find a venusian warmind or a greek one on mars that just wanted to destroy everything(ares). Anywho, I'm curious if you like the changes or not.
The âthere was only one Warmindâ retcon in the Warmind DLC has been a sticking point in the lore community, and for good reason - it just doesnât make sense. Personally I suspect it was a miscommunication rather than an intentional retcon since much of Warmind was done by Vicarious Visions and not Bungie itself. The book Last Days of Kraken Mare released two years later clearly refers to âWarmindsâ plural and I would not be surprised if Season of the Worthy includes a clear-cut statement confirming the original lore of multiple Warminds (in fact I suspect thatâs the bunkers weâll be reactivating).
My working theory is that there were seven Warminds, one for each area of settled space (Mercury, Venus, Earth, the Moon, Mars, the Belt, then Jupiter & beyond), but since the decision to locate one Warmind on each planet was made after Rasputin had become, well, Rasputin, he had major facilities located on Mars where he was originally designed and built instead of on Earth where he was supposed to be. The Cosmodrome facility was therefore built to replace Rasputinâs Hellas Basin complex, but the hardware transfer wasnât completed before the Darkness hit, resulting in the oddly-split âRasputinâ fragment that lives there. Then when said Darkness carved its path of destruction through our solar system it killed the six other Warminds along the way, with Rasputin picking up their remaining resources after each was destroyed (hence his reference to âreclaimed CHLM assets.â) Rasputin has often mentioned âbrothers and sistersâ pre-Collapse that were killed during said Collapse, so itâs not a stretch to imagine other Warminds among the dead.
