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The definition of Kuva from a Duviri tablet is "Fluid with Void-derived capacity to conduct consciousness." How did the Orokin get Kuva before the Zariman incident?

17 Comments
2024/11/05
07:21 UTC

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So the corpus elite don't live in luxury

From what i've seen despite Corpus executives making possibly billions of credits They Only ever seem to spend those credits on furthering their business Instead of any kind of luxury nef anyo, Alid v, Granum and every other shadow investor we've seen We've never seen them lazing around What other people do all the work around them So is the corpus entirely focused around efficiency?Like it's not even just trying to send money to the executives for the shake of luxury like businesses irl

15 Comments
2024/11/04
04:38 UTC

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A question about the Man in the Wall.

So i played the Man in the Wall quest today and i gotta ask.

Are there 2 of them now?

I am a bit Confused what this quest was about. Why did they need to do that Kalymos sequence?

Whats the Goal of the Man in the Wall?

21 Comments
2024/11/03
17:17 UTC

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Void tongue

Is there a master list of void tongue words? Ones that are known and have been figured out? I really like the man in the walls language and want to study more about him.

15 Comments
2024/11/03
04:50 UTC

158

One of my favourite Tagfer quotes

"Whatever Papa touched, the Indifference, the Murmur, I think it's lonely. It wants to be a part of what we've got going on. Only, it doesn't know that. And it does its best to join in, but it's clumsy. Ignorant. So everything about it is... skewed. Half-assed. You follow?"

I love this Tagfer quote. It made me think more about Wally's point of view in all of this.

Imagine being an eternal and infinite being forever trapped in your own lonely universe. You are the only thing that exists and you are everything that exists. Until one day, something new, something alive appears. You have never seen anything like that. You had never seen anything at all before. So you try to interact with it in but you dont know how. So you copy it, you try to look exactly like it, to try to understand it. You try to play games, unknowingly making it and everyone around it feel nightmares. But you are just trying to understand this new and infinitely complex world you now have access to.

Something so vast and eternal like the void would never understand the grief the lifeforms in our universe have. And it cant figure it out even after copying us. So it lashes out and gets frustrated, because we dont understand it, and it cant understand us.

It's in a way the opposite of eldrich horror, the horror we would feel when exposed to merely the normal existance of a higher being. All of that information so different and impossible to understand wouldnt fit in our brain. But this is the opposite because it is how an omnipotent being would not understand regular insignificant lifeforms such as us, our grief, happiness and suffering. So it tries to play with us and hurts us with its infinite strength, it tries to understand us and scares us by looking exactly like us, it tries to make us understand it and gives us existential grief by making us way smarter that we were made to be (like the cavia).

It is impossibly big for us to understand and we are impossibly small for it to understand.

Of course we can fix all of this with infinitley big damage numbers.

15 Comments
2024/11/02
17:57 UTC

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Why didn’t Ballas use continuity to transfer to a new body after gaining control of the Origin system during the New War?

The Orokin were incredibly vain and obsessed with their appearance being as close as possible to the Orokin version of the ideal perfect body. I know the deformed part sentient, part Orokin body was necessary for deceiving Natah and the operator into believing Ballas was Erra’s slave, but why didn’t he utilize continuity when the deception was no longer necessary? Especially since his goal was to be worshiped and loved as a god?

The Orokin seemed to despises anything that looked ugly or hideous, and it’s not like the Kuva required for continuity was in short supply either.

32 Comments
2024/11/01
12:34 UTC

82

Why is Ballas and most other orokin characters are blue?

Why are they blue? Why is Albrecht is the usual human colour? Is Loid an orokin too?

40 Comments
2024/10/31
07:06 UTC

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A question about tmitw

So, did he really exist befre the stuff that happens with him and Albert Entrati or is it that the void really have its own consciousness that it made tmitw as soon as Albert opend that portal to give Albert a goal? Like my question here is did tmitw exist before the events that happened with Albert or was he created due to Albert's doing's?

11 Comments
2024/10/31
00:00 UTC

57

Who/What is Clem?

I just see Clem everywhere on the dev streams and in comment sections but don’t understand the inside joke.

33 Comments
2024/10/30
13:26 UTC

61

Kalymos sequence.

So the Kalymos sequence was an attempt to save Albrecht Entrati's legacy and lab from The Indifference by contacting the Tenno? And is Albrecht Entrati the reason the reason Wally exists? And what is 1999? And another thing, wouldn't it have been better if we just let Rell keep us safe from Wally?

39 Comments
2024/10/30
04:30 UTC

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Could someone explain the 3 Duviri missions from the lore perspective?

The whole Duviri world, and its existence - I understand. Eternalism, one version of the kid made the deal, the other didn't, realities split - operator story, drifter story. (Although, i cannot ignore the question of - if the realities split at that point, do we have a timeline where Orokin did not manage to get the Zariman back, or did this split only happen inside the void, and the multiverse is only possible inside the void?)

But that's beside the point - the main questions I have are;

  • Are all missions that are happening in Duviri supposed to be before the drifter appears in TNW? That would kinda make sense as to how the drifter can control frames so good, since they've had infinite amount of time to train.
  • The Zariman that we do missions in, got "created" when the kid took the deal with Wally? Because the oroking got the ship with the operator back, but this ship exists, supporting my multiversus, but only inside void theory.
  • The Circuit, The Lone Story and TDE. What exactly is the lore reasoning for the drifter to go back to duviri and do stuff there? Why is it never acknowledged in any dialogs between operator and drifter? Is it just because it's their "home", so they go around helping people and doing shit? It would make sense for all of the duviri content to be happening before TNW, as I've said before, and them boom they somehow end up in our reality.
  • The Circuit. What the hell even is the undecroft, how are there corrupted grenier and corpus, why are all the missions as they are? If it was all simulated by teshin to prepare the drifter for tnw, it'd make sense, but it's not. It's void's creation... but why? Why does it exist?
14 Comments
2024/10/30
01:16 UTC

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Chroma and his pelt.

Chroma is one of my favourite frames, but irrelevant. Is it still canon that Chroma killed a Sentient and wore it's skin? If so, fairly impressive. I do wish they'd come out with a Leverian entry for him, as I feel that a warframe that shows trophy taking tendancies could have some interesting lore behind them. I mean...did he just kill the thing and then go, "hmm. I like your skin. It's mine now." Of course, unless there are dragon themed Sentients, it seems his 'pelt' was stylized to give him a 'draconic/ dragon knight' appearance.

18 Comments
2024/10/29
22:53 UTC

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Timeline

So i asked myself alot in the last few days, How long has passed from the Old war to the time we awake again?

How long did the Old war last?

And how, how are some Characters more than some centiries old?.

10 Comments
2024/10/29
20:22 UTC

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Just sine random stuff about the new war

The character you meet on Uranus called hunhow you find out is the father of the lotus and erra , I did some research because I was curious and I wanted to know some sentient lore, I searched some stuff about hunhow which the word 'hunhow' is a japanese word meaning lotus root. Am I the only ine who noticed this?

11 Comments
2024/10/29
20:20 UTC

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Full ARG-Documentation

Over the past few ARG's the ARGrakata Discord always was on the frontlines of solving the ARG (since thats it's only specific purpose)

So this time we'll do a Google-doc again
so everyone can compare, follow and reenact what happened so far!

Just wanted to drop that in here, since a whole post series like when Fortuna dropped is too early and to much work to Markdown on Reddit

Hope it helps <3

2 Comments
2024/10/28
22:08 UTC

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What is Ordis’s interest in Jade?

Throughout the quest and ascension he seemed to have a personal interest. I’m not familiar with his backstory, so I’m wondering if anyone could fill in the details on why he seems to care so much.

22 Comments
2024/10/27
23:28 UTC

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Lore in order

Hi. So I’m just getting back into Warframe after a few year break. Probably like three years. There is definitely more lore and things in the game. Can I get explanations or helpful hints? Restarting entirely because I forgot my account. Started off with Mag.

Also. Going from Xbox to PC now and learning the controls so I’m pretty slow at it atm.

7 Comments
2024/10/27
17:10 UTC

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What hint of lore bits would you love to see in the next update(s)?

Just being curious about what hypes people the most! Especially when it comes to environments & Easter eggs. I love when games do that!

Curious to see how that extends on a game that has 15 years of lore behind. (New player here ahah)

10 Comments
2024/10/25
21:51 UTC

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What is koumeis lore right now?

So all I really know about koumei is that she was a seer for the ostrons and is associated with the waves. Any other lore right now?

13 Comments
2024/10/25
17:56 UTC

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Calling it right now - Warframe 1999 will utilize the void axiom "the palimpsest of spacetime"

The Zariman Tablet lore fragment in Duviri outlines another temporal axiom (like eternalism, conceptual Embodiment, etc) called "the palimpsest of spacetime"

It's the idea that the while past can be overwritten, fragments of the original timeline will still persist.

Entrati is messing with the past, so maybe this will implicitly come into play.

or it's going to be like Umbra and be forgotten about...

23 Comments
2024/10/24
20:33 UTC

77

How would warframes fare against Space Marines?

Are Warframes as strong as a space marine? Could they take bolter shots? Would they be vulnerable to Psykers?

65 Comments
2024/10/24
01:29 UTC

57

Which Warframes are sentient, which are operator controled, and which are both?

Jade, Stalker, Umbra - definitely sentient

Jade and Umbra - definitely sentient with operators

1st generation warframes - afaik, sentient, no operators - Kullervo, Excalibur, Mirage, Limbo, Sevagoth, Protea, Lavos?, Dante

Stories where it's ambiguous if it's an operator or a Warframe acting by itself - Yareli, Gara, Citrine, Gauss + Grendel, Voruna, Ivara

Stories where it pretty much has to be a modern, unthinking, lobotomized Warframe? - Styanax?, Xaku

Would love a chart to categorize all the frames - summarize what we know.

31 Comments
2024/10/24
01:07 UTC

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Koumei lore based questions

I have a phew questions about koumei and thoughts about her, was she created by ballas, is she self conscious like other Warframes, (for example, Dante, jade, and umbra.) and was she controlled by an operator or was she sentient, and why did she suddenly appear out of nowhere, was more than the infested itself, will she have more purpose in the wf lore with the man in the wall and might help us change our fate and defeating it?

4 Comments
2024/10/23
11:52 UTC

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Could someone explain the power that the duviri was created with?

So as far as I gathered from other posts, it was created by the drifter and they based it on a children’s book but I would like to know the specifics of how exactly it was made? I think I saw people talking about how it was created using the void as the void can manifest memories or thoughts into reality? (I may have misinterpreted that). I’m not really interested in the duviris creation itself more so what was used in its creation. And has anything else in lore been created using this power as well? Thank you.

7 Comments
2024/10/23
11:18 UTC

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Where does warframe powers come from?

So, before I played the umbra quest i though they come from operator channeling their power through the warframe. But Excalibur Umbra is running around using his powers without anybody controlling him.

Im not sure about other warframes without operators but i heard they existed (something about Dante and Jade?)

7 Comments
2024/10/23
05:58 UTC

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Are Warframes independent from their Tenno?

I've only started to read the Lore of Warframe (i know it's a hard road ahead) and I was confused by some of the wording. Apologies for very starter question.

For example, I've read thing how Gara and Chroma did some things story wise. But it read as though the Warframes (the suits the Tenni wear) are their own thing. I thought the warframes were like "he plays for Sport Team" and not actual independent names.

Am i missing something?

37 Comments
2024/10/22
17:08 UTC

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Why does the entrati family is infested?

I've completed the heart of deimos ages ago, so I forgot a lot of the stuff. Every time I go to deimos, I wonder why each member of the entrati family lives in their own bud like infested thing?

27 Comments
2024/10/22
12:39 UTC

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Lore questions

What I'm confused about is Albrecht Entrati and the importance of finding him first in 1999?

When we find him in Whispers in the Wall, why does he say we're late, and what exactly is happening with the black stuff that appears after clocks strikes at 12?

How come that event didn't effect our present timeline? How come none of Entrati's shenanigans in past are affecting the present?

Why is Wallie trying to chase Entrati?

Also is their Wallie's as seen in the Whispers in the Wall ending?

5 Comments
2024/10/21
05:45 UTC

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Warframe survivors

Besides Kullervo Which technicaly he's just trapped in duviri, is there any known frame that actually is still alive? i heard about ivara but We don't know much informations after her battle with myrmidon (also did the orokin created a group of Warframe slayers, like stalker or something?)

41 Comments
2024/10/20
21:02 UTC

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Orbiter have two parts?

First part of Orbiter on which we going on mision

Second part which contains foundry, helminth and other

today I found out that the orbiter consists of two parts and we are going on a mission with only one part, what happens to the other part? it just hangs in the orbit of the planet on which mission do we have? Screenshots​ from drifter camp

27 Comments
2024/10/20
16:23 UTC

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