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Comment by danslo

4 hours ago

I could be wrong, but I believe the name is in reference to the Divine Rapier, an item in Dota 2, which is very popular among Russian speakers.

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archargelod  4 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapira

> 1982

Pay08  4 hours ago

Rapira appears to be a direct latinisation of the name of the language.

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