We discovered some kind of alien monolith, a facility left by the inhabitants of that
planet long gone by then.
But trapped inside was a creature.
In a cage of some sort, frozen in ice.
An exhibit?
Was it some kind of zoo?
Still not sure to this day.
We should've brought a scientist.
All we had were… well, guys who thought we looked tough in dark colors.
Welcome back guardians.
Today I wanted to discuss the Drifter from the new hybrid mode Destiny 2 Forsaken, Gambit.
Many of you have likely heard the Drifter's lines during Gambit, or wondered why he has
access to the Taken or how he summons a Primeval or what his ship is pulling, you know that
giant asteroid thing his ship is pulling or why he is called a rogue lightbearer…
AND consequently you may have thought, is this guy a good guy or bad guy?
Well, you will be pleased to know that all, and mean all, of these questions are answered
within the lore.
The snake symbol of Gambit, why it is called Gambit, why he has Taken, everything is answered.
This video is packed with a tonne of lore.
If that wasn't enough, the Drifter also has a deep and complex story that is intertwined,
with Dredgen Yor, Thorn, The Shadows of Yor, Shin Malphur and the new exotic Malfeasance.
When this video goes live, I will also be live over on twitch if you want to say hi.
Link in the description.
As usual, the artwork at the beginning of this video was provided by Gammatrap, all
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This is myelin games, and I hope you enjoy this latest destiny 2 lore episode.
[INTRO] There are three main sources of Lore for the
Drifter, the first is the book within your Triumphs, called, a Drifter's Gambit, the
second and the third source of lore is the Gambit weapon and armour lore tabs.
In relative chronological order, the Drifter is revived as a Guardian, or as they were
referred to in the early days of the Collapse, the Risen.
Soon after being revived, the Drifter leaves Earth.
This is told to us in the Artifacts and Old Friends chapter of the book a Drifter's
Gambit.
It reads, "He told me he left the system as soon as
he was risen.
Not immediately, sure.
Had to get his bearings, find a ship—get it fit, get it flying.
But soon as, he was good as gone.
'Drawn to the outer,' he says.
I can appreciate."
The Ancient Apocalypse Hood lore tab expands further and explains how the Drifter left
the system at the Dawn of the City Age with his crew, and that they were in search of
something greater than the light.
The lore tab reads, Anyway, my crew, or a little subset of it,
we leave the system together.
Dawn of the City Age at the time.
We were looking for somethin' greater than Light.
'Cuz we had seen that Light can be the cause of… so much strife.
The Drifter doesn't specifically describe what he saw that made him somewhat against
the light, however other lore tabs describe how the Drifter lived through the Dark Age.
For those not familiar with Destiny's history, we had a golden age when the Traveler arrived,
with great technology and prosperity, however following the Collapse was the Dark Age, when
many humans turned against each other.
In addition, the first guardians, were not necessarily good, and some become warlords.
The Drifter speaks about how he had kept all his weapons from the Dark Age, so it likely
that he witnessed Warlord Guardians, and hence this encouraged his search for something more
powerful than the light.
The Warlords were eventually defeated by the Iron Lords and the Drifter likely witnessed
guardians fighting guardians.
The Ancient Apocalypse Greaves reads, No one made Dark Age guns anymore.
Drifter had looked far and wide.
The one source of Dark Age weaponry in this system was him.
Gambit.
Dark Age weapons had been forged at a time when Light fought Light.
Everything was just a little more efficient back then.
And lethal.
In Drifter's opinion, of course.
From what I have read, it seems that the Drifter's experience during the Dark Age, and seeing
light vs light, is what triggered him to leave the system and pursue something more than
the light.
It does not outright say in these lore tabs, however, you could suspect The Drifter as
a member of the Shadows of Yor, Guardians who pursued the Darkness like Dredgen Yor.
However, in my opinion, the Drifter is a true Drifter, he fits in with any group in order
to ensure his survival.
Regardless, the Drifter left our system in search of something greater than the light,
and what did he and his crew find?
Well, they found a planet with energy that suppressed and consumed the Light.
The Drifter compares it to the abilities of Thorn, as Thorn can consume the light of Guardians,
permanently defeating them.
Have a listen to the Ancient Apocalypse Hood.
We searched far and wide.
Must've been… hundreds of years.
We found a planet beyond the system bristlin' with an energy that repulsed Light.
Naturally, we were curious.
We landed.
Intended to settle and conduct the research necessary to make this energy portable.
A weapon outta legend called Thorn had similar, Light-repressing capabilities.
I am not too sure what this energy is yet, is it the Darkness, is it Taken energy?
The Drifter would not have encountered the Taken yet because he would have already left
Earth by the time Oryx attacked.
IN addition to this energy, the crew found creatures caged upon the planet, and the creatures
seem to have absorbed some of these light-repressing capabilities.
The Ancient Apocalypse Robes reads, We discovered some kind of alien monolith,
a facility left by the inhabitants of that planet long gone by then.
But trapped inside was a creature.
In a cage of some sort, frozen in ice.
An exhibit?
Was it some kind of zoo?
Still not sure to this day.
We should've brought a scientist.
All we had were… well, guys who thought we looked tough in dark colors.
During our long stay on that planet, we found many of those monoliths, each with their own
captured creature.
Anyway, this thing—the creature—looked like it shared common bioenergetics with the
Hive, but there were no records then or since that I've ever seen of humanity's encounters
with them.
And the creature had a property the Hive did not have.
It produced a field that repressed Light—like a Darkness Zone but contained to a gooey,
vacuous form with no head.
So, whatever lived on this planet, had captured these creatures, these hive like creatures,
and either experimented on them, or after the planet was abandoned, the creatures somehow
absorbed this dark energy.
The Drifter and his crew discovered that the creations frozen in the cages were also roaming
the planet and one of the crew members is killed in his sleep.
Have a listen to the Ancient Apocalypse Gloves, it reads,
Plenty of 'em roaming around out in the wild, where it was cold, but less cold than the
frozen cages that contained the ones in the monoliths.
How'd we find out?
Well, one of us died in our sleep.
Not that uncommon or tragic, actually.
Happened a lot.
Damn cold out there.
Except this time that fella's Ghost couldn't resurrect him.
Turns out one'a those creatures just slithered by, and close proximity to it from inside
our shelter just… silenced that poor bastard's Light.
It was unfortunate, but it also lit a fire under us.
The next morning we realized we had a potential weapon on our hands that could change everything
in battles of Light versus Light.
Slithered by… like a snake, is this why the symbol for Gambit is a snake!
The Drifter encountered these creatures.
Whatever, this creature is, it just drained the light from a Guardian, who then just died
in his sleep from the cold of the Planet.
Realising that the creatures could be used as a weapon during light vs light battles,
the Drifted and his crew plan to capture and extract the creatures abilities.
The crew had spent a year on the planet with no success of catching or taming the creatures…
and then the events of the Red War occurred, back in our system, Ghaul invaded and contained
the Traveler's light.
The Drifter and his crew despite their distance from the Traveler, lost their light.
When the Drifter and his crew lost their light, they panicked and turned their weapons upon
each other thinking they had been betrayed.
Now as mortals, the Drifter was the only one to leave.
Have a listen to the Ancient Apocalypse Bond, it reads,
We were at our wit's end.
A year on the planet, and we had been completely unable to capture or tame the creatures that
had become our sole objective…
Our ship had long been rendered useless by the extreme cold.
We had all died a hundred thousand times over to the cold…
One day, when we had settled in for the night in another monolith, something swept over
the planet.
I later learned it swept across the system.
All'a you hearing this felt it.
You were there at the source.
All four of us lost our Light.
And we knew it.
We looked over at the monolith-creature in its frozen cage.
It seemed to stare right back.
I think I mentioned we're all raving psychos at this point.
Well, we did what all measured raving psychos would do.
We thought we each had been betrayed by the others.
We drew on each other.
To this day, I'm not sure how many of those guys drew intending to kill.
But I'll tell you this.
I was the only one who walked out.
The creature in that monolith watched it all.
When it was over, I stuck a finger straight up at it.
It was just me now.
How'd I get from there to here?
Maybe I'll get to tell that story someday.
So, we don't know how the Drifter escaped this planet, we don't know if he did eventually
tame this creature, we don't know if the creature seeing this act of murder encouraged
it to team up with the Drifter.
BUT what we do know, is the Drifter escaped and following this, he had some very impressive
technology, Malfeasance and his ship towing a mysterious artefact.
Have a listen to the lore tab of Malfeasance.
It'll be a lot safer with you wearin' one of these.
It's the culmination of a lot of things.
Long time ago I set out to find a replacement for a weapon called Thorn.
This will never be that, but to me, it's better.
We built it together.
This weapon, sounds like a weapon that was born from that time on the icy planet with
the creatures that suppressed the Light.
He mentioned that he was trying to find a Thorn replacement whilst on the planet, and
I believe Malfesance is that weapon.
At this stage, the Drifter seems like a villain, however, you have to acknowledge that even
though he has made a weapon that is similar to thorn, a guardian killer, he did this because
of what he witnessed during the Dark Age, light vs light.
Now here, is where it gets even more interesting.
How does the Drifter summon the Taken, well that is explained, and even though we only
see Motes of Light in the Gambit mode, the Drifter appears to have Motes of Dark.
The Book, the Drifter's Gambit follows an investigation conducted by Shin Malphur.
Well, we assume it is Shin Malphur because the notes are written by a Renegade Hunter
and Shin Malphur was known as a Renegade Hunter, in addition there are a number of other clues
that indicate the book is narrated by Shin Malphur.
For those who don't know, Shin Malfur was a Hunter who used a Golden Gun to kill Dredgen
Yor.
Shin Malphur was mentored by Jaren Ward, and would eventually inherit Jaren's Ghost.
Dredgen Yor was a Guardian who was corrupted by the Hive and created Thorn, a weapon capable
of draining the light of Guardian.
Following the death of Dredgen Yor, a cult spawned, known as the Shadows of Yor, these
were guardians who wanted to walk in the footsteps of Dredgen Yor, and believed that Dredgen
Yor was right in his corruption and pursuit of the Darkness.
The Shadows of Yor would go on to replicate Thorn.
You can see how there is overlap between the Shadows of Yor and what the Drifter wanted
to achieve, and this is how the two storylines intersect.
Shin Malphur is tracking down the Shadows of Yor to defeat them, and at some point after
escaping the icy planet, The Drifter is associated with the Shadows of Yor.
He is described as running with their crew.
This is how Shin Malphur first came across the Drifter.
While, the Drifter shared similar goals to the Shadows of Yor, i.e. pursing something
more powerful than the light, I don't think the Drifter is a Shadow Of Yor, he was just
associated with them.
Shin is not entirely sure if the Drifter can be trusted, but rather than killing him, Shin
continues to observe the Drifter, believing he could be used as bait to draw out the Shadows
Of Yor.
By chance, the Drifter and Shin cross paths, and meet, and in fact talk.
The Drifter tells tales of journeys across the system and discovery of powerful relics
and artefacts, Unsure, if this is all a big lie, Shin starts to ask many more questions,
and the Drifter changes subjects by asking if he ever knew a man called Callum.
Of course, Shin knew a man named Callum, as Callum is revealed as a Shadow of Yor and
on Shin's hit list.
How the Drifter knew this, how the Drifter knew that Shin was interested in hunting Callum,
we don't know, did he accidently reveal Callum's identity to Shin, or did the Drifter
know exactly who Shin was, and who he was hunting.
It is important to note, that Shin believes his identity is hidden from the Drifter, Shin
believes the Drifter does not know that he is the infamous golden gun hunter who defeated
dredgen yor.
The fact that the Drifter knew to change the topic to Callum, suggests otherwise.
The Drifter gives Shin Malphur the hideout of Callum, a Shadow of Yor, and Shin is successful
in tracking down Callum and defeating him.
The scene is brutal, Callum actually has a fight with his ghost, Callum kills his ghost
with a literally thorn, a bullet from the gun thorn, draining the light from his ghost
only to be momentarily killed by Shin.
Following Shin's successful assassination of Callum, Shin and the Drifter have a further
conversation, and the Drifter reveals what his ship is towing.
He has created a pocket Ascendant Plane, a prison for a Taken Army, and this is where
the Drifter gets the Taken from, for the mode Gambit.
Have a listen.
"He's kit-bashed Vex tech with Fallen components, married it to Hive magic, and scavenged Golden
Age science with a sprinkling of who knows what, and he's…
"He's secured a pocket of the Ascendant plane.
Not a throne world, nothing that grand, but a big enough chunk to matter—and he's gone
and caged an army.
A Taken army.
Leftovers from Oryx's reign?
Something new?
Something old?
Something…
Hers?
Can't say.
Don't know.
But he has 'em there.
He says it's to hold 'em, study 'em—but the best bet says his intentions aren't so
clean.
What….
What?
This is so crazy, yet cool.
So this is how they justify the mode Gambit, the Drifter is helping us prepare fighting
the Taken, and that is why he is allowed to run this mode with Guardians.
However, Shin Malphur also has another plan, Shin wants to run Gambit in order to lure
out any more Shadows of Yor, Shin believes that Guardians who participate in Gambit and
witness the Taken may reveal themselves as Shadows.
Have a listen.
"We watch the action.
We watch him.
We watch who plays and who doesn't.
On top of that, we watch their aggression—who's diving too deep, too fast, who's less keen
to grow their knowledge, their strength.
And who's simply lookin' to unleash themselves.
"The true promise of this Gambit is what you and I can learn.
About our enemies.
Maybe even about ourselves.
That has to be first and foremost.
After that, we assess Gambit's value and its risks.
If the danger escalates, we shut it down.
If any Guardians go too far, we shut it down—and them, if need be.
Shin is trying to work which guardians are likely to fall to the darkness and the Shadows
of Yor.
The Drifter gets approval to run Gambit, however Shin still does not trust him.
And it is not long until Shin's gut feeling is proven right, the Drifter did not tell
the Tower about the Primevals, these Taken that had never been seen before, ever.
Shin doesn't even know how the Drfiter got them, or maybe even made them.
Have a listen.
What concerns me is… he'd never mentioned the word "Primeval" before.
Not once.
And that's a problem for obvious reasons.
"Tearing soldiers of the Deep from another realm is crossin' a bridge too far as is.
But those beasts?
Those weren't normal Taken possessed and set to rage.
They were born of that shadow realm and they were… angry.
Worse.
They were hungry for the Light.
You could feel it.
Even a ways off.
Their aura and their rage weighed on me—cast a shadow I could feel in my core.
Regardless, Gambit is continued, Shin believes that the nature of Gambit will draw out the
Shadows of Yor and allow them to defeat the Shadows.
Now, here is another thing that is NOT revealed to Shin, the Drifter can control the Primevals
with a Mote of Dark, not a Mote of Light, a Mote of Dark.
Whilst scavenging, the Drifter encounters some Cabal and used a Mote of Dark to summon
a Primeval and destroy the Cabal.
Have a listen to the Ancient Apocalypse vest, it reads,
Drifter licked his finger and slid it behind a hidden panel on the bank's outer shell to
crack the thing open.
It unfolded, ejecting a single, compressed Mote.
A Mote of Dark, he called it.
He could see it glow despite the shining sun overhead.
It was chill to the touch, an effect of the bank.
This particular haul was worth a hundred and two singular Motes of Dark.
A one-sided slaughter.
The Ancient Apocalypse Grips and Strides continues the story.
Have a listen.
He eyed the approaching squad of soldiers bristling with armor and weapons.
The Mote of Dark was cold to the touch in his hand.
Drifter stuck a single finger in the air at them.
He imagined the Cabal narrowing their eyes at him under the helmets.
[Why does your kind always insist on fighting even when you are so hopelessly outgunned?]
Drifter shook his head.
"I won't fight.
I like to watch," he says, and keyed the Mote of Dark in his hand.
An unearthly howl filled his ears and he cursed.
He never quite got used to it.
The sky turned a shade of fiery green and split in half.
Nine creatures that Guardians would know as Primevals stepped onto the sand of the Emerald
Coast, out of place, impossible, massive, and wrong.
What!?! he calls the Primeval with a Mote of Dark.
He gets this mote of Dark from a Bank on his ship, and I have to wonder, when we bank motes
of light, is the Drifter doing something with it, is he converting them to Motes of Dark
to control the Taken.
This is why Gambit, is called Gambit, the definition of the word Gambit is an act or
remark that is calculated to gain an advantage, especially at the outset of a situation.
We have taking a risk allowing the Drifter into the City, the Gambit is, that we can
use the Drifter to lure the Shadows of Yor, but the risk is, we cannot trust the Drifter.
That concludes this latest destiny 2 lore episode.
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