Editing Drile

|titles=Undermastrell, Diemfen <small>(formerly)</small>, Mastrell <small>(formerly)</small>

|groups={{tag|Diem}}

|'residence=[[Kezare]]

|first appeared=[[White Sand]]

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'''Drile''' is a [[Lossand]]in [[sand mastery|sand master]] on the Dayside of [[Taldain]].

Drile is a young man about the same age as [[Kenton]]. He has half a head of brown hair, and keeps the other half shaved bald.

WS - Drile.jpg | <small><center>by {{a|Botanicaxu}}</center></small> Portrait

White Sand v2 Cover Art.jpg | <small><center>by [[Julius Gopez]]</center></small> On ''White Sand Volume 2'' cover

White Sand v3 Cover Art.jpg | <small><center>by [[Fritz Casas]]</center></small> On ''White Sand Volume 3'' cover

== Attributes and Abilities ==

=== Sand mastery ===

Drile is an incredibly powerful [[sand mastery|sand master]]. As a child, he impressed the mastrells overseeing his entrance exam into the Diem, displaying power seen only once or twice in a generation.{{book ref|ws|1|review=yes}} He is considered the only man powerful enough to possibly challenge Lord Mastrell [[Praxton]] for leadership.{{book ref|ws|2|review=yes}} Drile can control up to twenty-five ribbons of sand at once.{{book ref|ws|10|review=yes}}

Drile was a powerful sand master from a young age. He impressed [[Taishin#The Lord Mastrell|Lord Mastrell]] [[Praxton]] with his showing during his test to become an acolent. He was viewed as a profitable recruit because of both his ability and his [[Reenst Rile|father's]] prominence.{{book ref|ws|1|review=yes}}

Sometime after being raised to the rank of mastrell, Drile was unadvanced to the rank of diemfen in the wake of reports that he, along with a group of other sand masters following his orders, had made plans to offer up his sand mastery in exchange for payment. Drile was the first sand master in the history of the Diem to have been unadvanced.{{book ref|ws|2|review=yes}}

Shortly before the attack on the [[Diem]], Drile refused to drink from the poisoned{{book ref|ws|18|review=yes}} ceremonial bowl of water that [[Elorin]] gave to all of the sand masters.{{book ref|ws|2|review=yes}} This action, along with his survival, led [[Kenton]] to believe that Drile was somehow behind the attack that left most of the Diem dead.{{book ref|ws|3|review=yes}}

Following the attack, he made his way to [[Kezare]] and tried to petition the [[Taishin]] to be granted the rank of Lord Mastrell, believing himself to be the highest ranking sand master still alive, but instead the Taishin wanted to disband the Diem.{{book ref|ws|4|review=yes}} Kenton arrived, interrupting the meeting. Kenton forced the Taishin to not disband the Diem immediately, was made acting Lord Mastrell, and was given two weeks to secure the Diem's future. Afterwards Drile congratulated him for what he had done.{{book ref|ws|5|review=yes}}

Later, when Kenton arrived back at the Diem he found Drile distributing rooms in the Diem to his most loyal followers. Kenton confronted him, saying that he did not have the right to make a decision like this. Drile snarled that Kenton had no power over him, and used his sand to propel himself up to the mastrells' chambers. Kenton, to the astonishment of the watching crowd of sand masters, used his own sand to follow Drile. Kenton tried to kick Drile out of his father's chambers, Drile refused, and instead accused Kenton of betraying the Diem to the Kerztians.{{book ref|ws|5|review=yes}} Drile pushed Kenton off the ledge, but Kenton used his sand to catch himself and come back up. He then attacked and overpowered Drile. He commanded Drile to stay out of his father's rooms, and to take off the golden mastrell's sash he had been wearing, threatening to report him to the Taishin if he disobeyed.{{book ref|ws|6|review=yes}} The next day, he and a few of his followers returned to the Diem wearing black belts over their sashes.{{book ref|ws|6|review=yes}}

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|What will we do? Where will we go? Who will protect us? I've made plans for us already. I have promises--promises of wealth and protection!

|Drile ranting in front of the Diem.{{book ref|ws|10|review=yes}}

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When Kenton returned to the Diem from his trip to the deep sands, he found Drile ranting in front of the Diem about his plans to take the sand masters elsewhere and profit from their powers. Kenton commanded him to stop spreading his paranoia through the Diem, but Drile refused to obey him. Kenton challenged Drile to a duel in the dueling pit, to take place right after the Taishin make their final vote on the fate of the Diem. Drile accepted his challenge on condition that their fight would take place before the vote and not after, and Kenton agreed. Kenton explained his rationale to [[Aarik]], that even if he dies and Drile becomes Lord Mastrell, at which he would do a horrible job, other better leaders will follow after him, and even Drile will not be able to change the Diem's charter after Kenton changed it to give the Diem a more sustainable future.{{book ref|ws|10|review=yes}}

Drile came to taunt Kenton when he was showing [[Khriss]] the dueling pit where their fight was to take place, but Kenton brushes him off.{{book ref|ws|13|review=yes}} Kenton, while traveling to [[Lraezare]], tried [[overmastery|overmastering]] to increase the power of his mastery in order to increase his chances in his upcoming fight with Drile, and succeeds, becoming able to control five ribbons of sand, not just three.{{book ref|ws|15|review=yes}}

Before the duel began Elorin gave each of them water to drink from different ceremonial bowls, and gave an opening speech. Drile used all twenty-five of his ribbons to fight Kenton's five, and quickly overpowered him. Drile knocked Kenton to the ground and stood over him, taunting him for his failure.{{book ref|ws|17|review=yes}}

Kenton remembered his early career at the Diem and how he never gave up and the memory inspired him to restart the fight. Kenton began fighting with what he knew best and had trained himself for years to become the best at-- fighting with only one ribbon. He used his ribbon with skill interrupting ribbon after ribbon of Drile's. Drile grew frustrated and started fighting more desperately. As a last resort Drile tried doing what Praxton had done that day in the [[Kerla]], produce an explosion of sand to decimate his enemies, or in this case his enemy, Kenton. Drile began gathering power about himself, but then suddenly collapsed in a heap, dehydrated. Kenton, victorious, helped Drile to his feet, spared his life, and had a stretcher haul him away to recover. After the Taishin casted their votes, in the Diem's favor, Kenton went to check on Drile in his sick bed. Drile told him that he felt weak during their fight, the same way he had felt when he was attacked by the Kerztians in the Kerla. Kenton theorized that someone had been trying to ensure that the Diem would be led by a weak ruler, Kenton. Together they realized that someone must have poisoned the water Drile had drank before this fight and the water they had both drank before the fight in the Kerla. They soon realized that it must have been Elorin, and Kenton confronted and killed him.{{book ref|ws|18|review=yes}}

Afterwards Kenton, with Drile at his side, led the Diem in a new direction, different from how it was run in the past.{{book ref|ws|18|review=yes}}

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