Thinking about @railjacks correct statement on Drifter ‘not knowing Shit about Shit’ and how their background is:
-Zariman Colonist (experience of the Orokin Empire was as their literal pet project for seeding a new System, one subject to micromanagement, Eugenics and social control for that purpose)
-Stuck in a Literal Storybook for 1000 years or something, long enough to forget 90% of it
Drifter’s convos with Quincy about ‘The Orokin Erasing All Old Earth Records’ are blatantly contradicted by the existence of Dante and an entire field dedicated to.. Old Earth Archeology, as well as Garuda’s new Lore Books directly showing Hindu artifacts in the Late Orokin Era
Drifter’s convos with there being ‘No Religions in the Origin System except the Orokin’ due to them being utterly erased is, itself, contradicted by:
The Ostrons, The Corpus, The Solaris (Nightcap references Sol),
the many MANY Closet Dualists that existed even within the Orokin Era (hi Otak, Valdur and Jade!)
the Entrati, in perpetuating Dualist practices via Skull-burials, Ballas, in directly referencing Dualism to Hunhow, Orokin Architecture in having a great deal of Solar Motifs, as well as Lunar Motifs on smaller scales- howeverthefuck the Sentient’s got ahold of the Popol Vuh.. and Drifter themselves, in later convos.
An easy way to explain all these discrepancies is that Drifter is not an unbiased or allknowing source
and that their experience with the Orokin was under the micromanaging Executor who was head of the Zariman Project and the Orokin’s Religious Institutions, Executor Tuvul.
As mentioned, The Zariman was a Colonising Project. Where Tuvul was presumably very, very careful with handpicking both what the Colonists would be exposed to, and who got to be on board-
from Drifter’s perspective growing up on the Zariman, all of what they say is likely correct and was probably how they were raised onboard the Ship
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