Edit: I think the narrator was actually the Traveler Surprised you didn't elaborate on the Titanomachy, which is Greek mythology. It talks about the battle between three generations of gods [b][I]before humanity entered the fray[/I][/b]: The primordial gods, their children the Titans, and their children, the Olympian gods. Because of that, because the Titanomachy is before humanity's existence, I think this deals with the Traveler, not Rasputin. Of course,it could also mean before we, the Guardians we play as, enter the fray instead. In the same grimiore card that discusses the Titanomachy, it talks about an entity known as "the gardener." I took that to mean a godlike entity that (at least at first) ruled over the Vex, at least until IT defeated the gardener. Given that the gardener was stronger than the narrator of the card, but not strong enough to defeat IT, I theorized that the gardener is a reference to a Titan; specifically, Chronos, the god of Time. Given that time travel is an important feature of the Vex, it seems to fit nicely. I think then that IT/The Darkness is a primordial god in the reference, either Chaos (the Void), or perhaps more fittingly, Erebus (the DARKNESS). Stolen from Wikipedia: [quote]The perceived meaning of Erebus is "darkness"; the first recorded instance of it was "[u]place of darkness between earth and Hades.[/u]"[/quote] Primordial deities in Greek mythology are also "depicted as places or realms" or simply as elements of nature. In another grimiore card (I can dig for it if you like), Toland describes the Darkness as a force of nature; there's no 'reason' to it, it just simply is, it exists because it [b][I]wins[/I][/b]. Whether I'm right or wrong about the narrator being the Traveler, it certainly seems that that Titanomachy is important to consider.