Talk:Janus/@comment-176.221.160.65-20160622174106/@comment-92.195.237.246-20160913175145

There's quite a few things that hint at Volkard Rand being Janus.

A - Both Janus and Rand, rather major story figures both I'd say, never appeared in the original games.

B - They wear the same suit. (compare the TV conversation suit of Janus with Rand's, they're identical)

C - All of Janus' "faces", the ones he displays on the TV screens when you talk to him, have either very short or no hair. Volkard Rand, too, is bald.

D - The shifty ending cutscene look

E - The Prima Games guide book used Volkard Rand's face concept art for Janus

F - Both Janus and Rand had no first-hand knowledge of the attack in London (Rand was kept out of the loop, as the final cutscene makes very clear). Janus, too, who seems to know-it-all-all-the-time had no information on the planned attack prior to Jensen finding out about it.

and finally, G - if you do not manage to save Brown, the Human Restoration Act passes. Vega finds out about this from Janus, who informed her that the vote had passed, but wasn't officially revealed yet. It would make a lot of sense for Janus to have this undoubtably first-hand information if he's actually Volkard Rand.

Also, de Beers already, as someone else stated above, suspects that someone within the Illuminati, most likely on the Council of Five themselves, either is an associate of or is Janus him/herself.

It's not confirmed yet, but the game definitely dropped a ton of hints in that direction and it would be the most logical choice seeing as how Jensen's story with Janus has to come to a close BEFORE the original games so exposing and removing Rand and Janus from the story by exposing them to be one and the same seems like the most logical course of action than to come up with a Morpheus/ELIZA byproduct AI or another Bob Page ploy.