The Fortnite lore world is massive and often hard to grasp, though the last year of the game has shown us a developer in Epic Games suddenly more interested in putting Fortnite story in the spotlight. Still, you'd be forgiven for losing track of who's who, who's alive, who's dead--or even what dead means in a world where characters are perpetually looping through spacetime. In his latest, teaser-filled video, Epic chief creative officer and de facto Fortnite lore bible author, Donald Mustard, has confirmed at least one piece of a much larger puzzle: Midas isn't dead.

Midas is the once (and future?) leader of GHOST, an apparent espionage branch of the Imagined Order. When we last saw the man with the golden touch, he wasn't gilding all he came in contact with, but rather turning the entire Fortnite world quite soggy. His "Device" at the end of Chapter 2, Season 2 was meant to be an unauthorized attempt to break through the Storm that surrounds the Fortnite island of Apollo.

But the plan was washed away after its momentary success gave way to a tidal wave of failures. The island was flooded for weeks in the subsequent season, and Midas has yet to be seen again to this very day. Did he drown in his own sea of chaos?