We come and go from the planet all the time. He could have been marroned on that rock then fixed up his ship and had made it back by the time the battle happened. The rest from here is just me ranting: sorry. Besides if your immortal, time would begin lose it's weight and meaning, inevitably giving way to insanity. The oldest Lightbearers should be highly eccentric or be kinda crazy. Imagine the way an immortal measures their time, we are finite so hours, days are important but to some one who doesn't need to worry about how long they have they'd lose their grip on it. Not to mention we don't know if the powers of Light also effect cognitive ability, the human mind is finite if it was possible to live long enough you would forget a lot of things. It would be difficult just to recall the Last 50 years of existing if it where possible. And the longer you existed in a life in which you can't die but still experience pain and hunger, even starving to death and being resurrected hungry, that would futher screw with your cognitive processes. I believe he's a liar and a survivalist, but I think he's been alive so long and experienced so much suffering that his lies are a coping mechanism, he's so old and been through so much that he can't recall the truth any more, all he has is a will to live, his whit, and instincts. The Drifter is my favorite character for all those reasons, he's not a perfect chivalrous knight like Zavala, he's just a dude with a ghost.

[quote]We come and go from the planet all the time. He could have been marroned on that rock then fixed up his ship and had made it back by the time the battle happened.[/quote] Sorry, I'm not sure about the rock thing you're talking about so I'm confused =/ If you mean the Icy planet where he found the Light-suppressing creatures, this happened some times before the Red War. If you mean something else, I'm sorry, I didn't catch it =/ [quote]The rest from here is just me ranting: sorry.[/quote] No problem, really. Go for it 👍 [quote]Besides if your immortal, time would begin lose it's weight and meaning, inevitably giving way to insanity. The oldest Lightbearers should be highly eccentric or be kinda crazy. Imagine the way an immortal measures their time, we are finite so hours, days are important but to some one who doesn't need to worry about how long they have they'd lose their grip on it. Not to mention we don't know if the powers of Light also effect cognitive ability, the human mind is finite if it was possible to live long enough you would forget a lot of things. It would be difficult just to recall the Last 50 years of existing if it where possible. And the longer you existed in a life in which you can't die but still experience pain and hunger, even starving to death and being resurrected hungry, that would futher screw with your cognitive processes. I believe he's a liar and a survivalist, but I think he's been alive so long and experienced so much suffering that his lies are a coping mechanism, he's so old and been through so much that he can't recall the truth any more, all he has is a will to live, his whit, and instincts. The Drifter is my favorite character for all those reasons, he's not a perfect chivalrous knight like Zavala, he's just a dude with a ghost.[/quote] I see your point and it makes absolutely sense. However, the Drifter has been a liar since his first years as Lightbearer. For example, the very fact that he hid his Light when he reached that old village during the Dark Age, lying about his small miracles, the fact that he always lied about his name ecc. He probably uses lies as a sort of defence mechanism, but this doesn't mean that he is not a liar simply by nature. For the rest about him, I agree with you: he is a very interesting character and I hope that Bungie is not going to screw him up.