Warframe Lore 101: Councilor Vay Hek

[@pandoraarts7748]

"WhY aRe ThEsE FoOlS sTiLl bReAtHiNg My AiR!!!!!!!!"

[@izanagi4108]

YOUR KOUMEI IS NOTHING MORE THAN A PIECE OF ROCK AND DELUSION My favorite way to refer to anime figures

[@corgthemighty]

@@izanagi4108 Honestly, he's got some great lines. I bet the writing team has a ball with him.

[@samhescott348]

Honestly his VA constantly has rent due

[@insertedgynamehere___969]

*_"ThIS iS unAcEPtaBlE"_*

[@Nick-rs5if]

@@izanagi4108 😂

[@ulfrick759]

Honestly he is one of the most funniest characters I have ever seen in a video game his suit of armor is essentially a giant turkey

[@corgthemighty]

Apparently people also call him a legless parrot lol

[@undeadgamer7949]

Dude IMAGINE pissing off every single warframe in the solar system so much that they collectively hunt you down for 3 years non stop

[@corgthemighty]

I'd have a panic attack if I only pissed one of them off lol. Who do you think would be the most terrifying to get hunted by.

[@ilikeredhairs4583]

chroma :)

[@corgthemighty]

@@ilikeredhairs4583 Honestly, I'd just want to pet his dragon.

[@0uttaS1TE]

​@corgthemighty I would say "Whichever one brings the slowest, most painful death" but considering how little that narrows it down, I'll just say Saryn and call it a day.

[@eliasxhyliateam2575]

​@@0uttaS1TE getting my life sipped out by Trinity. 👁👁

[@shade6001]

The Lotus was in throwing distance of the sun during the New War. The Lotus was close enough to be thrown into the sun, and Vay Hek wasn't there. You have to understand, if he ever finds out about this, he is going to scream Even more than he already does

[@corgthemighty]

My god you utter genius. Imagine if he showed up at the very end, tried to throw the Lotus into the sun, but accidentally threw Ballas in and saved us all.

[@itsmegoodbye9227]

​@@corgthemighty He'd probably get even angrier

[@corgthemighty]

@@itsmegoodbye9227 He just pops a blood vessel and keels over lol. Problem solved

[@kancelas]

Raids were removed because in every update they got buggier. It was a huge time drain for developers. There's still rumors around that "next year" raids will be brought back. Most of the time, it's Steve Sinclair, CEO of DE, former creative director, that "leaks" that stuff. He always doing stuff like that, a few months before the release of Jade, he "asked" Rebecca Ford, current creative director of Warframe if warframe can get pregnant.

[@omgwtfhaxfan1221003]

Turns out, stalker made it happen.

[@AlasKenn1]

... Oh... Okay... Bit weird, but that quest was neat.

[@Bunnymonster2-loreling]

Of course I’m a maggot, I’m just FLY like that *cricket chirps* Edit: thanks for the likes!

[@samhescott348]

Vay’hek’s voice actor says his lines like they have rent due

[@-_-0Stepfano0-_-..]

GUYS WAKE UP THE LOREMASTER HAS POSTED

[@corgthemighty]

But I wanna nap! lol

[@-_-0Stepfano0-_-..]

@ You will not nap..NEVER!!

[@corgthemighty]

@@-_-0Stepfano0-_-.. I DO WHAT I WANT!!! 😴

[@-_-0Stepfano0-_-..]

@@corgthemighty fine..you win..(epic episode ending insues..) ((it’s a cliffhanger))

[@lexar4035]

This literally could not have come out at a better time, there's a fomorian threat event right now and I had no idea what or why it existed

[@corgthemighty]

I broke into DE's servers to find out when the next Fomorian would be just to time it for you guys ♥

[@lexar4035]

​@@corgthemighty stealth 100

[@DragonxFlutter]

Fun fact! You can still, technically, play the final mission of The Cicero Crisis! Earth’s sabotage node is still the unique version made for the event! The Antitoxin blueprints are (I think) still available in the Market, and using them in the mission will give you increased rewards based on which one you use.

[@covid19sama]

Unfortunately the antitoxins don’t give increased rewards anymore (I don’t remember when they removed it) but it does still give unique dialogue

[@DragonxFlutter]

@@covid19sama It still gives bonus Affinity. At least according to the Wiki.

[@Havok91]

Let's not forget, the Tenno looked at that one W, said "bet" and kicked SARGAS'S ass as we rebuilt the Strata relay.

[@nathanielbartoli1408]

Wait what?

[@aria5614]

We can rebuild them?!

[@corgthemighty]

(Says I want a small lore topic) (ends up making a 20 min video lol)

[@nocturnal7474]

Yea vay kek being one of the more prominent characters in the game will do that

[@CaptainBoxtrot]

​​@@nocturnal7474the only alive person to ever suceed in destroyin a relay (that we know of) pretty cool?

[@F0rger513]

I know the longform videos can take a lot out of creators but I wanted to say that you did great work on this. I came over from Destiny 2 so I'm used to my lore masters being like Byf, but I found you after switching to WF and giving up on Destiny and I have LOVED your videos. You still make the story compelling when you tell it but you are also reacting to it, as kind of a hybrid narrator/audience member. And you're damn funny. Very happy to have stumbled upon this channel.

[@corgthemighty]

@@nocturnal7474 I honestly didn't even realize just how prominent he was cause a lot of his bigger stuff happened before I really got into the game. I knew his Cetus stuff, and I knew he was a big name in the Grineer, but it was really fascinating to get a look back to see just how much of an impact this guy had. Like up till now, I had no idea why those relays were destroyed, and I just yelled "THAT'S WHY?!" while I was researching.

[@corgthemighty]

@@F0rger513 Love to hear that! And your descriptor of a "hybrid narrator/audience member" is very interesting to me, I can see it. I definitely wish to convey the necessary information about a topic, but also showcase my reaction to said topic as I often don't know all of the information about it going in. Like the Grineer Queens for example, I hardly had any idea about their lore, but I decided to take a stab at it, figure out what they were about, and report my findings. It's like we're all are discovering it together, like were all in one huge archeological dig drumming up the stories of lost civilizations, and I'm like "Woah guys come look at this thing I found in the dirt!" (that's how I picture it at least lol)

[@LogaMC]

16:26 tbf, players (mostly veteran) at that time were curious and collectively decided to actually let Vay Hek destroy one of the relays (Larunda relay), at which some of the players were against choosing that relay (at that time new player's quest begin at Mercury so the relay is actually a relay where new players come in looking for help). All this is was to check is DE really gonna let players destroy stuff or is this gonna be some health decay stuff, but unexpectedly DE did deliver and Vay Hek destroyed the relay. Only after seeing it destroyed, the players decided to actually lock in and destroy all Fomorians (still they were some relays destroyed because players were too late to destroy the ships). All the videos you find online abt the relay destruction is all from the mentioned plan, players were waiting inside the targetted relay waiting for the countdown to end and to see what actually happens when the count reaches 0.

[@patrickrocheleau8185]

Reminds me of the adventure quest worlds event where the little goblin guys(sneevils i think but its been a while) were attacking the main town, the players had completed other similar events before but failed this one, tho the consequenses for this were minor as the goblin guys only seek containers not the treasure inside them or vengence for the fallen, so the devs went and removed any box, chest, crate and i think jar from the town

[@thefunborgpl]

players: you won't DE: you sure?

[@DragonxFlutter]

Is that what happened to the Relays around Venus, Europa, and Eris?

[@GrandGoblin]

And then they made us build Strata to make up for the one we lost

[@Raze394]

"Like all parents, I want a future for my children, as long as that future includes: DEAD. TENNO. MAGGOTS!"

[@JaxMerrick]

Ok, I was not expecting to get flashbanged by Badger in a lore video today. But here we are.

[@corgthemighty]

No one ever expects the Badger inquisition.

[@resdifer7744]

the reason why they dont use the bolt is because it costs too much endo to upgrade a reversed primed bane faction mod. 😂 and they dont have maroo to convert those ayatan sculptures and stars.

[@corgthemighty]

I about had a stroke from the amount of pure nerdiness packed into this one comment. And this is coming from a person who just made a twenty minute video on this game lol. You have earned my respect.

[@Kaimariification]

Main reason why I think the G3 and bolt issue was not used more (especially on the players) is due in part to how bad it was for some new players back in the day. For many vets that remember, Warframe has come lightyears from when it was released and some of those things had to be changed for the better of the players. Things such as: - Each frame had four lives that only regenerated daily. If you lost all your lives, you couldn't play that frame unless you coughed up the platinum for extra lives. - The main damage mods we had access to were (from what I heard) random all over the sol system at first, then they changed them where they mostly dropped on the later planets like Pluto, Saturn and the like. Well before the broken mods they added for new players. - Newbies started on Mercury instead of Earth and worked our way outward, which isn't that big of a deal until newbies hit the Interception node that literally gated off the rest of the system. -Some of the resources required to build the bolt remover was only available on planets after Earth. So factor in all those things, a Newbie player could potentially run a public group and run into the G3 in any of the Grineer controlled maps, get bolted, and would be crap out of luck if they are not able to either put down money to buy the resources or if other players don't help them farm / taxi them to the planets with the resources due to Interception-gate on Earth. I still remember when I got jumped the first time from the G3. Was a MR1 Mag, still with the basic gear and jumped into a public mission on Mercury. G3 showed up and I didn't know what was happening, other than some mob spawned on top of me and breathed on me and I dropped. Later on had the issue of getting bolted because I had ran the invasion missions for stuff and they happened to jump me when I was solo farming. Oh and for anyone wondering what the Interception-gate thing is I keep bringing up, best way to describe it is to take Interception, make spawn number and rates of enemies dependent on the Host's PC, and then make the levels of the mobs be at least +10 for the basic while elites would be +20 and spawn in packs. Some might see this as a good thing, till you realize that having a beefy rig (or playing solo) and being a newbie player without access to gear, mods, and frames that can handle such amounts were far beyond newbie reach without money or player intervention. We had some vets taxing players to far out nodes so they can farm while working their way back to the center, gifting newbies Prime weapons and frames they could use while taxing them to the planets where they can get the resources to farm, or setting up Interception runs where the host had potato PCs while another vet brought their nuke everything setup and would snatch up newbies to run the mission and exit after the first round. Only reason any of this ever got fixed was because DE finally took the challenge players set forth where they would run Interception with a newbie account instead of their Dev account. They got wrecked so bad they finally understood what most people were talking about, which led to all Interceptions being moved to optional nodes on the map and the wonderful revamp they released.

[@omgwtfhaxfan1221003]

based devs trying and standing corrected.

[@nuclearmonster8084]

Babe wake up, best lore master just posted

[@FeeshOfTGMC]

Vay Hek was also getting bullied in Koumei mission constantly.

[@Amogusrath]

Me shredding the Oni with Valkyr’s Hysteria for the hundreth time: “WHaaaAAaT?!?? HoW ArE ThEY DoInG tHaT?!?!”

[@darealmephiles]

I loooove how depending how many years each player/founders have been playing we are APART of the lore just listening to the many event n operations we was apart of ❤ I love warframe

[@vaporwavetv1044]

Welcome back, loremaster!

[@jackgadtke8735]

short idea both limbo and Dante both kind of died in that same way both died in the pursuit of knowledge. limbo miscalculated by 1 and Dante red wall-e's tumbler fanfic

[@raddude1328]

Tbh watching videos like these make me think DE could just make these events standalone missions that contribute the overall story for new players. Sure the rewards are gone but they could be filler missions with additional context as to why players are fighting. Thanks for the video

[@corgthemighty]

I totally agree. The Archwing mission especially feels like it lacks context without the other Operations and events. Like if someone isn't aware of things like Tethra's Doom and Eyes of Blight, the significance of the events in The Archwing is kind of diluted.

[@Aquageo555]

The fact he pissed off the tenno for 3 years and seemingly survived this is impressive.

[@Lolxlol21_]

Vay Hek = 90% 'WHY ARE THESE FOOLS STILL BREATHING MY AIR' and 20% Bird sounds and laughter.

[@discountdisco2273]

"WHY ARE THESE FOOL STILL NOT SUBSCRIBED TO CORGTHEMIGHTY!!!" - Vay Hek, probably

[@corgthemighty]

My favorite quote of his lol

[@sheepersouls9898]

Other grineer: family like bond Vay hek: "WHY ARE THESE FOOOOOOOOOS BREATHING MYYYYY AAAAAAAAAAAAAIE"

[@The_man_in_the_waIl]

“Look brothers!”

[@liathedoll]

18:29 The idea of being hunted by warframes gives me nightmares. Thanks. Won’t sleep tonight 💀

[@105thBattalion]

I’m imagining that scene in JoJo’s where Abbachio, Narancia, and Mista beat some poor dude who trash talked them in Venice

[@corgthemighty]

Welcome! ;)

[@MMVessel]

Oh beautiful Oh how beautiful to see another video

[@corgthemighty]

And how beautiful to see my Lorelings again! ♥

[@Bandit74100]

If i remember correctly Strata was destroyed in that event but later rebuilt into the red veil themed one we have now. I eventually want all the relays back in working order but if i recall, DE won't rebuild them anymore

[@changsiah2]

I guess history reasons or something like that

[@SergioNunez-ih2zh]

It's been a long time since we had the Loremaster, and we'll relish upon his knowledge. Welcome back

[@corgthemighty]

Hallo, promise not to go away for so long next time. My lorelings need knowledge.

[@Optimusj1975]

Vay Hek is just Ilpalazzo-sama now. Conquering Earth one Cetus at a time.

[@AnAbsoluteUnit]

Tengus really seems to really love making things worse... first is the revival of the Infestation and now dropping the pedal saying "FLAMING RAGING BATSHIT INSANITY" on Vay-Hek's newly awakened savagery and bat shit gamer rage

[@corgthemighty]

Crazy how I don't think we've ever had a voice line from him right?

[@AnAbsoluteUnit]

@corgthemighty I bet we gonna get a reveal that he is SOMEHOW in 1999 and is working for the Man in the Wall while also giving Tengus "cures" to the clone rot

[@corgthemighty]

@@AnAbsoluteUnit God I'd love that. I'm a sucker for bringing back characters we haven't seen in a while.

[@Boss-vq3cb]

YAAAAAAY another lore drop from the mighty corgy

[@mavuyuu]

"always 2 steps ahead" Laughed at the lotus moment

[@Rubixfoxrecords1999]

Another video, yes! I really love your video's. I finally started to understand the story after a year of playing. I really love the lore, so your video's help a lot. Thanks!

[@zero_karma0496]

Yayyyy, another warframe lore video dropped

[@hydropotato6937]

Just as I was about to counter that Vay Hek appears in the Saya's Vision mission... Yeah you got it. What a fun fella.

[@corgthemighty]

Gotta let me cook lol

[@50_foot_punch99]

The grustrag three is a lot like holding a grenade and pointing it at someone acting like its a gun. Venkra and Sprag is more like a claymore hug.

[@LivingNihilism]

The Voice Actor for Vay Hek is DEs greatest asset.

[@corgthemighty]

Him and Entrati get stuff done. (Tbf, Warframe voice acting is typically really good. I mean just listen to the conviction in Clem's voice.)

[@LeoSean96]

Now we finish this business. ONCE AND FOR ALL!!

[@Xspy70]

I've been waiting long for a new Warframe lore video from you mate! Keep it up you're really entertaining! :D

[@GaussTheWarframe]

10:59 HE GOT SHREDDED DAYUMN

[@aria5614]

There's so much lore I missed out on by joining in late.

[@Tetralix26]

The loremaster returneth (also, butter bean)

[@corgthemighty]

Hallo! Great bean choice.

[@meirthecreator9677]

The badger meme is so perfectly used

[@covid19sama]

I don’t know if it’s been commented yet, but the reason Strata Relay looks different from the others is because it was actually rebuilt after the Relay destruction. Since the event happened before crossplay was added, each platform had different destroyed Relays and a different rebuilt one, so when they all merged, DE decided to make Strata the one that canonically got rebuilt

[@FlutterSwag]

Vay Hek made me love warframe so much this bio mecha goober commander

[@chancemathiot9987]

HE'S RETURNED OUR GREAT LOREMASTER

[@Gendor64]

time to watch 20 minutes of lore about gods most obnoxious pile of rotting flesh while praying that 20 aya are enough for the prime dohickeys i want at 5 am. this is real sleep deprevation maxxing hours.

[@corgthemighty]

I hope you eventually get some good sleep but enjoy the video in the meantime!

[@Gendor64]

@corgthemighty I'm sure i will, once i get that rare component. I mean, how long could it take? (i say, 2 hours and 22 aya later. Having completely diminished my aya and void trace supply)

[@corgthemighty]

@@Gendor64 Oh no! I mean, hey, there's always tomorrow (after a good nights sleep specifically wink wink)

[@idenongoncalves4398]

Dripmaster blessing us with more lore

[@corgthemighty]

Never have I been called Dripmaster lmao. I'mma put this on my resume

[@Aphrodite-Asui]

I remember when vesper relay was still up, and laundra was gone.

[@voidaspects9173]

Yknow, when i first played the game all those years back, and saw his icon on the side of the screen, i thought those little things on the side of his head were arms, like Modok. To this day i cant unsee that. In my brain vay hek is still just a little guy.

[@corgthemighty]

Lol and now I can't unsee it!

[@voidaspects9173]

@corgthemighty happy to help :P

[@DynoSkrimisher]

He ain't so scary without his flashing lights and armor.

[@SairouIX]

The ironic thing about the relays getting destroyed. Supposedly the only reason he was able to do so, was because the playerbase let it happen, thinking DE wouldn't actually destroy any of the relays lol

[@Edanite]

Small and calm are not what you'd say about anything related to Veh Hek, especially when you realise he comes in two parts.

[@starryfae]

lmaooo i was waiting for the koumei mention at the end

[@corgthemighty]

And now the full video's out!

[@starryfae]

@ i won’t even lie this was the perfect way to let me know of this, more loreframe let’s go

[@rafins7961]

We missed you! Me and my boyfriend

[@corgthemighty]

I love to hear that! Hope you guys have been well!

[@kingaxolotl262]

3:49 missed oppotuynity for a fnaf joke there

[@corgthemighty]

He always comes back lol

[@theDevourerOfChaos]

WHY ARE THIS MAGGOTS BREATHING MY AIR -Vay Hek

[@ajna1401]

I been waiting for angry mr potato head to get his lore Grendel: mhm deep fried vey hek

[@backintheblues4590]

[Begin Dr. Robotnik's Theme]

[@AlasKenn1]

Ya'know, while we're doing time travel with 1999, can we go back and snatch Vay Hek's wig? It would serve on my Grendel.

[@corgthemighty]

We need the cosmetic now DE!!!

[@MeanderingBeing]

GLISTENING MAGNIFICENCE

[@OG_ZacHt]

Just wake up and seeing this video already made my day

[@CrystaI-Cascade]

Ok, two things: 1: the Formorians do in fact still destroy relays, we just usually destroy them too fast for that to happen. 2: 19:48 that, my dear friend, is an Orphix. I cannot for the life of me remember what its purpose is but I know its name

[@HWR_Slime]

Love the long form vids♥

[@_JAKD]

"Its...beautiful...its so beautiful...KILL IT!"

[@dylogic06]

Holly hell, the Loremaster is back!

[@corgthemighty]

Great profile pic for this video lol

[@b3n9y74]

11:00 Bro absolutely cooked him omg 💀🤣

[@New-pz5sg]

The loremaster awakens once more

[@zerasth3numb3r88]

Came here as quick as i noticed you uploaded a video.

[@YumLemmingKebabs]

I mean, the Trial missions were removed because they were really buggy and unpopular and weren't completely different gameplay like Conclave, but just more complicated versions of stuff we already had, so the devs decided they were too much of a drain on dev resources and removed them. I think it's basically been retconned lorewise, cause part of the dialog in it no longer applies to the way the game is set up. The Grineer Settlement tileset used to be on Phobos, so the dialog said he fled to there, but that tileset was eventually moved to be located on Mars to coincide with Inaros and Baro Ki Teer's stories... and also to fit better with the looks of the area. They never rerecorded the Lotus' dialog about Phobos in Law of Retribution though, and eventually removed the trials entirely.

[@Nogayara]

pov: you pass the mouse on earth

[@ehsanshahriyari603]

Great job buddy. Keep going hard!

[@Metaretru]

Anyone remember when uncle Vay Hek just want to hug us? Peperidge farm remembers

[@shauntempley9757]

Oh, I made him say that when I took Oberon into a Formorian core theft mission. He went from arrogantly boasting about his Grineer killing me, to panicking and threatening to kill his Grineer, to offering me a ceasefire agreement between the Corpus and Grineer, to overthrowing the Queens, to offering a hug. All because he had soo many troops firing at me and the core, that Oberon's Renewal kept restoring the core as it got hit, so it was always at 100% health. I was laughing with tears by the end of the mission listening to his chatter.

[@tristansouth4219]

Can't wait for Mr. "TENNO THE TUUUUUUBEMEN"

[@hartantoanggoro]

I called him a roasted turkey.

[@gramfero]

TENNO, ARE YOU READY TO MAKE SACRIFICES?

[@bionic_pyro7220]

Welcome back vestman

[@Foxfisher159]

In a dream Saya had, regular Infested come crawling out of the waters of Cetus and start tearing the place up. Vay Hek is also in the dream but he doesn't really do much. Just says "GO INFESTED THINGS! KILL THEM!" probably while attempting to besiege the city. As it's a dream, it doesn't really happen but I think it's something that should be pointed out.

[@corgthemighty]

@@Foxfisher159 21:17 Aware of that, was planning on covering it in the next video

[@Foxfisher159]

@@corgthemighty I somehow missed that part

[@corgthemighty]

@@Foxfisher159 You're good lol. Just means ya'll get an extra vid!

[@SaintMaxxi]

"Ebola? EBOLA IS A CASE OF DANDRUFF COMPARED TO ME!" where's my cookie? Ill take alternate payments of thousands of platinum every week

[@corgthemighty]

Here go! 🍪

[@mayo6894]

been waiting for this one

[@changsiah2]

Honestly I was kind of expecting then I expected but anyways Him and alad v are pretty much basically sort of the most recurring characters we had to deal with on a regular basis and after the new or we never know what happened to those guys they went MIA after the new war I reminded myself of the twins during my karl missions (does just imagine the players reactions same goes with wolf of Saturn 6) Yeah there's a lot of things I would like to see in the aftermath but for now 1999 is coming and other things

[@stanshatter3875]

Its Mr. Potato head of Warframe.

[@sephylon2499]

From what I've been told, vey hek didn't blow up the relays on his own merits, he managed to blow them up coz the players were playing chicken with the devs to see if they would blow up a relay permanently.

[@corgthemighty]

Yes! That seems to be the case with the first couple that got destroyed, but there were apparently a couple others afterwards that did get taken out even with the players fighting, at least from what I found in old forum threads and videos (which can always be off potentially).

[@DrakesDark]

Oh hey there, Lorekeep. Glad You're back.

[@mattmcie6914]

As of about 2 yrs ago I can say with certainty. The relays can still be destroyed. But. Also. There's a really rare seasonal event. Where you donate to and defend a previously destroyed relay as it's being rebuilt. The relays don't often get destroyed cus enough people participate that it's not a threat anymore. And I think relays only get rebuilt if one gets destroyed

[@goreobsessed2308]

Neat never knew about the tower in cetus

[@_oe_o_e_]

A powdered wig makes a lot of sense for Grineer. Dont ask me why

[@kyled974]

LETS GO NEW CORG VID

[@Death11566]

THEY JUMPING ME THEY JUMPING ME SAVE YA BOIIIII!

[@jozsefzoltanfodor4064]

10:25 ooooh OsmosisJones reference, nice.

[@corgthemighty]

Here go! 🍪

[@13lueBomber]

*@Corg* 💥 This is insane. I looked up your channel a couple days ago to check if you uploaded any Warframe content, and you hadn’t… but here you are. Good stuff buddy! The Grineer, the myth, the legend, Vay Hek! 👨🏻‍🍳🤌🏼

[@corgthemighty]

Perfect timing then! lmao I post when you least expect it.

[@Mozzpaints40k]

Vay hek my beloved

[@guilhermewhite7274]

Great video

[@LeafyFox_]

Speaking of Vay Hek, wonder when Koumei will come into the picture for him :)

[@AtlasArtAnimation]

I LOVE HIS HAIR

[@shirayuzu]

Surprise TheRusssianBadger jumpscare!