#lore questions

This is an interesting question that I am going to give a semi-cop-out answer to. So all of the dragon kings are siblings who were given their positions by the dragon god Drathor. Until Aeternestros (Tempurion's father) died, everyone thought the dragon kings were completely immortal, so they actually have no sucession procedures.

Q&A Time: Project Mundus.

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I need to yap about my daughter or else I am going insane, I don't receive questions about my OCs typically in the Tumblr (my ask box interaction is really low) so I hope today I get a few! :'3

Anyways, ask anything about PM or "I Have No Soul Yet I Am At Peace" in general! I'll awnser everything about the lore, and so far, what I had developed :)

(Remember I am still developing the story so, I might not give full awnsers to everything).

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FT this disappointed PM Chibi made by my bro ( @milanvenuss ) bc I found Disapponted Mom PM super funny XD

Does anyone remember that post that explained the difference between contractions and the clans shortened words like Batchall? And if you do could you link it to me? I need it for Clan defense purposes.

To be fair, most of the server have never set foot into the end and therefore don't know how ender dragons or end crystals work. It fact, very few even knew Ender dragon hybrids existed before Dream. The Manhunt crew & Phil would be the most knowledgeable

As for if it would heal. Short answer, no. Long answer, not quite. End crystals heal the Dragon to her baseline level of health, and probably would be able to reverse already healed damage. Not only are the Dreams hybrids, and therefore don't receive the same benefits due to being mostly human. Because the wounds have already healed, there's no going back. If you amputated the limb, qt best it would grow back as it was right before — broken — or at worst, they'd heal just like that and not come back at all. Ultimately, not something worth trying in Dream's eyes.

They're scars. We can see them especially clearly in Gambit openings that focus on his face.

As far as I know (and I have searched pretty extensively through the Ishtar Collective and the Destiny Lore Vault) there is no current in-game explanation for the Drifter's facial scars.

We do have some interesting tidbits, though. One is from Cayde in his post-death message to the Drifter.

He says "back when you were still handsome." Implying the Drifter is less-so now. I'm going to put aside the obvious inaccurate concept that scars make someone less beautiful but use this as an example that the Drifter may have been different, physically, in the past.

(There is a strong counter-argument here, that Cayde's definition of 'handsome' may not be entirely physical. It's highly congruent with the Drifter's character for him to alter his appearance and behavioural patterns to make himself less appealing when he wants to be left alone. And Cayde could also just be being a little shit. All of these are possible and potentially simultaneously true.)

The Drifter also has a pretty antagonistic relationship with his ghost and has refused its help in the past so it would not be out of character for him to not allow it to heal him and instead want to heal any wounds he's sustained 'naturally.'

So there's basically three main possiblities: Either he was risen with the scars, has somehow chosen to keep them between resurrections (I'm unsure if this is even possible in D2 lore, but it's a popular fan theory), or he hasn't died since he got them (and refuses to allow his ghost to heal them with Light).

While your theory of a Dredgen/blood ritual is possible, to me it seems far more likely the scars are so symmetrical because they're from an explosion near his face. Such as in the concept art below:

He's also got several voice lines in his Gambit preamble, and elsewhere discussing his many adventures in kit-bashing and engineering which have involved considerable personal danger to himself. The Drifter has never been one for OSHA compliance.

This is in addition to his brutal past detailed in A Man With No Name and elsewhere, which involved quite a lot of shrapnel, explosions, buildings collapsing, fire, and other unpleasantness.

It's also plausible that, rather than shrapnel, they're tooth or claw marks from the creatures he encountered in the Ancient Apocalypse armour lore where he, once again, murdered his entire crew to survive, as shown in this concept art:

One of the (many, many, many) things I love about the Drifter is that he is just so full of stories. The scars on his face are just yet more stories. The details of his physical portrayal all speak to so many different narrative tidbits. Everything about him is story-rich.

He's a fascinating creature, filled with contradictions and sorrow.

I went combing through D2 concept art for this post and it took me so long to answer specifically because I was trying to find an image that I remember seeing where the Drifter is pulling off some eye protection after an explosion and the scars on his face are where the eye-protection wasn't covering. It stuck in my memory because the Drifter actually using eye protection at all seemed very noteworthy to me at the time. However, I haven't been able to find this image anywhere and this makes me think perhaps it was fan art and not concept art. I asked a bunch of people about this, but no one I've talked with knows wtf I'm talking about. It is also possible I may have imagined it. At this point, I have, sadly, given up on ever locating it again (if it ever existed in the first place).

On the off-chance anyone does know what image I'm talking about, though, here is my desperate plea for a link to it.