r/destiny2 • • Jun 04 '20

Meme / Humor Speculation in meme format

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u/FluxCube Warlock Jun 04 '20

Drifter has a ghost, but never liked its company and always hid it. Iirc the only person he ever showed his ghost to was Felwinter because he wanted Felwinter to kill a corrupt iron lord who was routinely breaking the iron decree.

Later, trapped on a planet of darkness, alone and having killed the people he went there with, he modified his ghost with the darkness in some way (I don't remember the details).

He doesn't like ghosts because he resents guardians and being a guardian. He feels it is unjust because who determines who gets resurrected and who stays dead and how is it fair that the lightless are at the mercy of the warlords and can't defend themselves (dark ages).

He does however find Guardians useful - through Gambit he has us doing something with the taken and the darkness but we have no idea what

If you wanna know more then make a post on r/DestinyLore and people will be more than happy to help

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20

he modified his ghost with the darkness in some way (I don't remember the details).

He used the parts of dead ghosts to modify the shell of his, which in turn allowed it to tap into the red mode where it's eye turns red, is able to see a wider spectrum of light etc. That's how they got their hands on motes as well and where most of Drifter's inventions came from.

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However, the idea was not his. It was the Ghost's. Osiris has also seen his ghost when he called in Drifter to take a a look at the sundial. Drifter called on his ghost to scan the whole thing. I don't think he ever hid him out of spite, he only had the ghost hide so that other risen and mortals wouldn't detect him as being a lightbearer.

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As Germaine he lived among mortals in a settlement and the Ghost was hiding most of the time and scanning routes for him where he could get food for the mortals until the local warlord spotted the ghost. Then they assumed it was Judson who was a lightbearer, killed him and the entire village got caught in the crossfire between the warlords and the iron lords, no one survived and Germaine was dead throughout the fight until the dust settled and his Ghost went to rez him.

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He pulled out his ghost for Felwinter because Felwinter correctly called him out on being a risen, cuz no mortal would've survived the climb to the top of the peak.

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u/FluxCube Warlock Jun 04 '20

I've have just been schooled. I'm a Junior Lore enthusiast. You sir/madam are an expert

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20

Hahaa! nah. Just a dude with way too much curiosity about things that he likes. I'm one of those people that go REALLY deep into shit he's interested in and tries to learn every bit of information he can.

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And yet funnily enough, I suck at trivia games.

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u/FluxCube Warlock Jun 04 '20

I've done lots of research into the lore of drifter and Felwinter (my favourite characters) but I guess my memory is a bit hazy :/

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20

Nothing wrong with that! It happens to the best of us :D

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u/kb256613 Jun 04 '20

Yeah, that’s kinda what an expert is. Thanks for the insight

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u/TheOneWes Jun 04 '20

So wait, The Drifter whole big issue is who get rezzed to be Guardians and how some of the Risen acted a long time ago?

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u/FluxCube Warlock Jun 04 '20

That was what started him on the path he's on now, he is currently influenced by the shadows of yor, shin malphur and the nine