User blog comment:Inept Wiki User/Cosmos in the Lostbelt: Post-Prologue, Pre-Anastasia Information & Speculation/@comment-4802891-20180315180142/@comment-4802891-20180316080947

Maybe (Kirei is) Rasputin is the Foreigner around here, and Viy is just a "curse" he put on Anastasia to keep her in check ? Any reasons to have Kirei made playable is fine by me.

So yes: Let him be Rasputin xD