The Drifter

Every in-game-dialogue transcript that mentions The Drifter, in release order.

Category: Lightbearers • Aliases tracked: Drifter, The Drifter • 167 transcripts

2014-09-09 — Destiny (D1 base)

• The Stasis Prototype (speaker, 66 mentions)
• Into the Depths (speaker, 59 mentions)
• Darkness in the Light (speaker, 58 mentions)
• The Draw (speaker, 53 mentions)
• Beneath the Waves (speaker, 9 mentions)
• Growth (12 mentions)
• Born in Darkness Part 3 (2 mentions)
• Born in Darkness Part 4 (2 mentions)

2017-09-06 — Destiny 2 (Red War)

• Last Wish (speaker, 13 mentions)

2018-09-04 — Forsaken

• Warden of Nothing (speaker, 14 mentions)
• Quest: The Corrupted, Darkness in the Light (speaker, 9 mentions)
• Cayde’s Death (speaker, 4 mentions)
• Dredgen Title (speaker, 4 mentions)
• Quest: City of Secrets, Darkness in the Light (speaker, 4 mentions)
• Quest: Dark Weapon Core, Darkness in the Light (speaker, 2 mentions)
• Quest: Depleted Weapon Core, Darkness in the Light (speaker, 1 mention)
• Ace in the Hole (2 mentions)
• Quest: Ace in the Hole (2 mentions)

2018-12-04 — Season of the Forge

• Quest: A Darker Path, The Draw (speaker, 4 mentions)

2019-03-05 — Season of the Drifter

• Invitations of the Nine (speaker, 63 mentions)
• Quest: Hidden Messages, Honor Among Thieves (speaker, 33 mentions)
• Quest: The Survival Guide, The Investigation (speaker, 33 mentions)
• Invitation of the Nine - Mystery and Potential (Visit 1) (speaker, 27 mentions)
• Invitation of the Nine - Mystery and Potential (Visit 9) (speaker, 17 mentions)
• Quest: Dead Drop, Honor Among Thieves (speaker, 12 mentions)
• Decision Point - Stand with the Drifter (speaker, 9 mentions)
• Invitation of the Nine - Mystery and Potential (Visit 7) (speaker, 9 mentions)
• Invitation of the Nine - Mystery and Potential (Visit 8) (speaker, 9 mentions)
• Invitation of the Nine - Mystery and Potential (Visit 6) (speaker, 7 mentions)
• Quest: Drifter’s Hideaway, Honor Among Thieves (speaker, 6 mentions)
• Decision Point - Stand with the Vanguard (speaker, 5 mentions)
• Quest: Bomb Threat, The Investigation (speaker, 5 mentions)
• The Bigger Game (speaker, 4 mentions)
• The Rumor Mill (speaker, 4 mentions)
• He Doth Protest Too Much (speaker, 3 mentions)
• Quest: Cold Feet, Honor Among Thieves (speaker, 3 mentions)
• The Reckoner (speaker, 3 mentions)
• Word of Warning (speaker, 3 mentions)
• Quest: Hard Truths, The Investigation (speaker, 2 mentions)
• Quest: Synthesis, Gambit, In Its Prime (speaker, 2 mentions)
• Quest: We’re In This Together Now, Honor Among Thieves (speaker, 2 mentions)
• Quest: Who Are You?, Gambit, In Its Prime (speaker, 2 mentions)
• Invitation of the Nine - Mystery and Potential (Visit 4) (2 mentions)

2019-12-10 — Season of Dawn

• Quest: Parts Long Lost, A Moment In Time (2 mentions)

2020-06-09 — Season of Arrivals

• Contact (speaker, 95 mentions)
• Mysterious Disturbance - Prophecy Dungeon Introduction (speaker, 8 mentions)
• Quest: Speak with the Drifter, In the Face of Darkness (speaker, 6 mentions)
• Quest: Umbral Engram, In the Face of Darkness (speaker, 5 mentions)
• Contact - Io (speaker, 2 mentions)
• Contact - Titan (speaker, 2 mentions)
• Prophecy (speaker, 2 mentions)

2020-11-10 — Beyond Light + Season of the Hunt

• Quest: Rendezvous with Drifter, The Stasis Prototype (speaker, 4 mentions)
• Salvation, Beckoned: First Attunement (speaker, 4 mentions)
• Quest: Collect Intel, The Stasis Prototype (speaker, 3 mentions)
• Quest: Speak with the Drifter, The Stasis Prototype (speaker, 3 mentions)
• Stealing Stasis (19 mentions)
• Rising Resistance (3 mentions)
• Aspect of Control (2 mentions)
• Stranger in a Strange Land (Visit 1) (2 mentions)

2021-02-09 — Season of the Chosen

• Presage (First Visit) (1 mention)
• Presage (1 mention)

2022-08-23 — Season of Plunder

• Salvage and Salvation (speaker, 36 mentions)
• Secure the Cargo (speaker, 36 mentions)
• Semaphore Signals III: Drifter and Eris (speaker, 11 mentions)
• Pirate Hideout: The Beast Tamer (speaker, 7 mentions)
• Pirate Hideout: The Sharpshooter (speaker, 6 mentions)
• Pirate Hideout: The Scrapworker (speaker, 4 mentions)
• Sails of the Shipstealer III: Visit the Holoprojector (speaker, 2 mentions)
• Sails of the Shipstealer VII: Visit the Star Chart (speaker, 2 mentions)
• Sails of the Shipstealer II: Visit the Holoprojector (speaker, 1 mention)
• Sails of the Shipstealer VI: Visit the Star Chart (speaker, 1 mention)
• Sails of the Shipstealer VIII: Visit the Holoprojector (speaker, 1 mention)
• Ahoy and Aweigh: Speak with Spider (1 mention)
• Sails of the Shipstealer IV: Visit the Holoprojector (1 mention)

2023-05-23 — Season of the Deep

• Salvage (activity) (speaker, 54 mentions)
• Deep Dive (speaker, 33 mentions)
• The Descent (mission) (speaker, 25 mentions)
• Into the Depths III: Operation Fulgurite (speaker, 14 mentions)
• Operation Fulgurite (Abyss) (speaker, 14 mentions)
• Beneath the Waves: Distress signal on Titan (speaker, 10 mentions)
• Barotrauma (speaker, 9 mentions)
• Into the Depths VI: Barotrauma (speaker, 9 mentions)
• Into the Depths III: Return to the H.E.L.M. (speaker, 8 mentions)
• Depth Reception III: Drifter and Saladin (speaker, 6 mentions)
• Depth Reception V: Zavala and Drifter (speaker, 6 mentions)
• Depth Reception I: Zavala and Drifter (speaker, 5 mentions)
• Into the Depths IV: Return to the H.E.L.M. (speaker, 5 mentions)
• Into the Depths IV: Speak with Drifter (speaker, 3 mentions)
• Beneath the Waves: Reunite with Sloane (speaker, 2 mentions)
• Into the Depths I: Speak with Drifter (speaker, 2 mentions)
• Gone Fishin' (4 mentions)
• Beneath the Waves: Reconvene at the H.E.L.M. (2 mentions)
• Into the Depths I: Operation Thunderbolt (2 mentions)
• Operation Thunderbolt (Twilight) (2 mentions)
• Into the Depths I: Speak with Sloane (1 mention)
• Into the Depths II: Speak with Sloane (1 mention)
• Into the Depths II: Speak with Zavala (1 mention)

2023-08-22 — Season of the Witch

• The Bladed Path (speaker, 11 mentions)

2023-11-28 — Season of the Wish

• Riven's Wishes VI (2 mentions)

2024-06-04 — The Final Shape

• Excision (2 mentions)

2024-06-11 — Episode: Echoes

• Battleground: Core (3 mentions)
• Battleground: Delve (1 mention)
• Specimen ID: NES001 (1 mention)

2024-10-08 — Episode: Revenant

• Packed Lunch (10 mentions)
• Nightmare Lunch (8 mentions)
• A Dubious Bento (5 mentions)
• Nightmare Kills (3 mentions)
• Dredgens of Yore (2 mentions)
• Martial Mementos (2 mentions)
• The Stuff of Legends (2 mentions)
• Episode: Revenant Act I: Eliksni Rescue (1 mention)
• Kell's Fall (1 mention)
• Snakebite (1 mention)
• Tomb of Elders (1 mention)

2025-02-04 — Episode: Heresy

• The Nether (speaker, 40 mentions)
• Act I: Echoed Warnings (speaker, 30 mentions)
• Recce (speaker, 29 mentions)
• The Nether - Heresy (speaker, 21 mentions)
• Renascence (speaker, 17 mentions)
• Rites of the Deep | Renascence (speaker, 16 mentions)
• Echoed Warnings | Espial (speaker, 15 mentions)
• Espial (speaker, 15 mentions)
• Echoed Warnings | Anchored Thrones (speaker, 12 mentions)
• Echoed Warnings | Recce (speaker, 12 mentions)
• Act II: Rites of the Deep (speaker, 9 mentions)
• Resile (speaker, 8 mentions)
• Echoed Warnings | Drifter’s Private Call (speaker, 4 mentions)
• Rites of the Deep | Speak to Drifter (speaker, 3 mentions)
• Echoed Warnings | Eris Morn's Final Message (speaker, 2 mentions)
• Rites of the Deep | Willbreaker Shard: Champions (speaker, 2 mentions)
• Rites of the Deep | Willbreaker Shard: Prophecy (speaker, 2 mentions)
• Echoed Warnings | Blight From Beyond (speaker, 1 mention)
• Echoed Warnings | Hive Hacking (speaker, 1 mention)
• Rites of the Deep | Intel on Savathun (speaker, 1 mention)
• Shattered Shards: Lost in Prophecy (4 mentions)
• Act III: Crossed Blades (2 mentions)
• Echoed Warnings | Sloane’s message to Drifter (2 mentions)
• Echoed Warnings | Discuss the Echo with Sloane (1 mention)
• Echoed Warnings | The Eversion Anchors (1 mention)
• Echoed Warnings | Tome of Want (1 mention)
• Rites of the Deep | Writ: Path of Ambition (1 mention)
• Writ: Path of Ambition (1 mention)

2025-07-15 — The Edge of Fate

• The Sieve (speaker, 43 mentions)
• The Edge of Fate (quest) (speaker, 41 mentions)
• The Message (speaker, 13 mentions)
• criticality (speaker, 12 mentions)
• saturnism (speaker, 12 mentions)
• Sacred Emergence (speaker, 10 mentions)
• transient (speaker, 10 mentions)
• The Exile's Accord Strangelet (speaker, 9 mentions)
• the-invitation (speaker, 9 mentions)
• Gouge (speaker, 8 mentions)
• The Paper Crane (speaker, 5 mentions)
• Correspondence (speaker, 3 mentions)
• Charge (7 mentions)
• Skylines (2 mentions)
• The Gorge Strangelet (1 mention)
• The Man Out of Time (1 mention)

2025-12-02 — Renegades

• Imperium (speaker, 89 mentions)
• Renegades (quest) (speaker, 88 mentions)
• Lawless Frontier (speaker, 42 mentions)
• Glory Beyond (speaker, 41 mentions)
• The Long Con (speaker, 38 mentions)
• Tapes (Renegades Collectibles) (speaker, 17 mentions)
• Fearsome Retainer (speaker, 3 mentions)
• Welcome to the Frontier (6 mentions)
• Out in the Cold (2 mentions)