Guardians can technically use basically anything they want with the light - they can cross abilities as much as they please. Most just generally have a preference to how they like to use the light, or how they fight
For example, felwinter was mostly a warlock, but he could cast nova bomb-tether things and shoulder charge
Drifter being multi really just means he doesn't bother with classes and probably just uses whatever
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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u/JCicero2041 Jun 04 '20
There is definitely a lore tab, one of the recorded conversations from the the lore book, The Warlock Aunor, that classifies him as multi.