Warframe is Weird... - Crash Course Lore

[@nova_supreme8390]

Deimos is probably the weirdest part as you essentially function as a therapist for dysfunctional mutant humanoid worm family.

[@marlonese]

With one of the most important items for the entire universe, the heart of Deimos, which apparently nobody cares about

[@universe9113]

and the family is apparently the descendants of this scientists that caused pretty much all of the lore that involves void to happen.

[@glamour3015]

Would you love them if they were worms?

[@wdkpwr6586]

@@glamour3015 Deimos familly is basically every Girlfriends mind

[@Denny_Boi]

The real heart of deimos was the family we fixed along the way (by killing mutants, mining materials and capturing creepy fish).

[@archdrake8899]

"walking warcrime dispensers" has to be my favorite description of warframe, both with accuracy and hilarity.

[@WraithReaper09]

"Walking Warcrimes" or "Walking WMD's" are favourite descriptive names for Warframes.

[@bugsmith9751]

when you have a walking weapon named saryn... and the first 3 you choose from are based on chopping people to bits, electrocuting people, or crushing people into meatballs... i think walking war crime dispenser is as accurate as you can get

[@valerianocosta5976]

It can be summarized in "Future tech USMC in space" imho

[@eldritchcupcakes3195]

imagine being a random grineer soldier and then running into a tenno, no way that it isnt terrifying

[@windowmaker5753]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@eldritchcupcakes3195imagine this. Your some random grindeer soldier, your doing well getting some promotions here and there. Then one night, your on night watch and are the unlucky sun of a gun that walks into a Tenno while their doing a stealth mission.

[@HiiroRocker101]

The "take away its pain" moment is by far my favorite story bit in Warframe. I replay the Umbra quest every so often just to see it again.

[@quantumblur_3145]

​@@EllaKarhuI think it fits the overarching plot just as beautifully

[@eldritchcupcakes3195]

I love how the orokin are like “the mystical Tenno, who somehow could control the war frames with mysterious power…” and the mysterious power is just not being a dick and having empathy

[@hanswurst2923]

​@@eldritchcupcakes3195It's actually saying a lot about how utterly decadent and narcissistic the Orokin became over millenia of absolute rule and power.

[@sithisdawnsend2730]

You can replay quests? Wait, really?

[@Rincewindl]

My favourite part of warframe lore is when the trauma riddled children helped the horrifically disfigured adults feel better about being turned into war machines, staged a revolution and tried their best to actually help people

[@thomasjenkins5727]

The Lotus is space mom largely because the voice actress for her was the community outreach manager for the game, and is now the in charge of the game. She's basically been the face of Digital Extremes to the players, both in game and out.

[@cow2hug483]

Small correction, the sentients where vulnerable to the Void because the orokin had constructed them to die whenever they would try to comeback. This did Not work however as it only stopped them from reproducing. That is why natha adopted the tenno. But otherwise thx for putting the story in a cohesi es timeline, helps allot understanding what happened when

[@xoana4197]

Actually, at first it very much worked. The sentients basically trained themselves to make themselves more resistant to tje void's damage, and in the end they were capable of crossing the void and only suffering from infertility

[@malaki7335]

​@@xoana4197 They traveled through to our system on Praghasa, sacrificing (or very severely injuring) herself to get the rest of the sentients here with minimal damage, besides their ability to reproduce of course.

[@andyh2783]

The sentients did intact have a deadly allergy to void energy given to them by the orokin.... it was through self exposure that they were able to build an immunity so the allergy would not be deadly but only make them barren and unable to reproduce

[@LilFeralGangrel]

yeah they were so adaptable that they ended up adapting to the weakness that the Orokin placed on them which in hindsight just shows how short sighted the Orokin were.

[@atsiaz4624]

​@@LilFeralGangrel they didn't adapt to it, the void will still straight up kill any Sentient caught in it. They only survived the initial trip because Praghasa took the brunt of the damage

[@QUASAR_XIII]

The scene with umbra crying made me tear up. Then it was so heartwarming when we sort of pacify him.

[@Darasilverdragon]

They had found a way to see into an ugly, broken thing... ...and take away its pain

[@StarboyXL9]

The Tenno and the Warframes have both seen horror beyond normal human understanding. The power of true empathy is incredible.

[@SkyEcho751]

You should probably add that you might have killed off/absorbed all the other versions of yourself leaving only the "Operator" and "Drifter" version's of yourself to exist, which also roles into your powers. And if I were to explain the Lotus, I think Natah downloaded the memories or existence of Margulis and essentially merged with her Natah, maybe the Orokin did it thinking they'd have a controlled leader for the Tenno, but instead they created a hybrid entity, holding the hatred of the Orokin from both Margulis and Natah, and since Natah desired children, and Margulis sort of had children in the Tenno, Space Mom was born.

[@YumLemmingKebabs]

Honestly, the Orokin creating Lotus by accident makes so much more sense than them intentionally creating a being that had no loyalty to them but immense love for the child soldier science experiments they considered abominations. Still full of cruelty and hubris, but without absolute blatantly obvious incompetence that would make them completely unrespectable as villains. Personally I kinda like the idea that Ballas was in charge of that particular experiment, considering his connection to the Warframes and transference, and thus tried to use Natah to recreate Margulis, but was too successful for his own good. Margulis loved the Tenno and hated the Orokin, as you said, so all he managed to do in creating the Lotus was create the perfect entity to turn the Tenno into a weapon against the Orokin.

[@SkyEcho751]

@@YumLemmingKebabs Great addition. Though I personally think there is more to Balla's actions, I think he's long wanted to usurp the Orokin 7, becoming the 1 Ruler of everything. To me, what happened was that he wanted to use Natah to not simply recreate Margulis, but make a "Better" Margulis, one who would hate the Tenno and the Orokin, who would use the Tenno and then destroy them. But instead, it failed(kinda). The Lotus encountered the Tenno and they did what they do with the Warframes, fixing that which was broken in Natah/Margulis/Lotus, and this made Balla's subprogram which was meant to make the Lotus hate the Tenno from activating. The only way to activate it was to track down the Lotus and Manually activate it and force only "Natah" to be active, realizing Margulis was too compassionate to do what he wanted. And after getting 'betrayed' twice by the 'woman he loved', he decided to make sure he was at the top, in complete control of everything.

[@YumLemmingKebabs]

@@SkyEcho751 I don't think he ever considered actively trying to brainwash the Lotus to hate the Tenno personally. I think his hubris made him believe that simply having some manner of control over her would be enough to get her to love him again as she (supposedly) once did. Remember how confused he is by his inability to break the Warframes to his will, and the Tenno's ability to sooth them with what I believe is heavily implied to just be void amplified empathy. Also, part of the creation of the Lotus was seemingly meant to be a punishment for Natah, so making her care for the tools of her people's destruction seems pretty on brand for the Orokin in general. The idea that he brought the Natah aspect of her back to the forefront in order to turn her against the Tenno makes a lot of sense though. And ultimately even Natah realized who her real enemy was.

[@chaincat33]

technically I think Wally killed off all other versions of ourselves, but it's one of those deal with the devil, your actions have consequences kinda thing where like, you taking the deal is what killed them? Regardless, the point is that, power has a price. The infinite, eternal realities were reduced down to a simple binary. You either did or did not take the deal. You either became a traumatized void devil who was put in suspended animation, or you became a traumatized normal person who managed to survive in the void via inexplicable luck and stopped aging at like 28

[@themisspultone]

@@SkyEcho751 it all falls into my theory I call "everything is Balass' fault"

[@CaptainRasmot]

Kinda forgot to mention that a lot of the "structures" of Orokin society are technically "grown" for lack of a better word. Honestly there are so many untapped nooks and crannies in Warframe that it gets more wild as you go. The best way to put it is that the entire world of Warframe is a biomechanical horror show in various degrees. But kudos to condensing as much as you can xD;; I mean we can only go so far into generalizing the rabbit hole without having to bring up the idea of "Tower Meat".

[@eddoh2701]

FORMA being an accessible THING that can shape building (Dojo) or living beings (Pets) to ones wishes. Imagine the full might of the FORMA-like technology. Which created the UNUM on Earth

[@bonelesschickennuggets1868]

This is also the how and why the people of Cetus could thrive, they LITERALLY eat the walls of their giant tower! … It probably tastes like dry cheese

[@flaket2869]

The Zariman 10-0 was a colony ship meant to bring people to the Tau system, where the sentients had been for a while, terraforming it. Also, as i understand it, the drifter is a version of the tenno that never accepted the man in the walls offer, thus never gaining void powers. Otherwise great video!

[@bonelesschickennuggets1868]

That’s the gist of it, more accurately the Drifter is the Tenno that DID accepted the offer but had a different result, Wally saved everyone in the Zarimann but the deal was for Drifter to stay behind. And while being further exposed to the void, The Drifter literally imagined Duviri into existence bringing to life the story books meant to teach children to control their emotions, since void exposure gets worse if you get overwhelmed by them… Which ironically is EXACTLY how Duviri was made, from the turmoil of Drifter’s emotions

[@dumbsterdives]

late but yeah, one of the question pads you find in duviri thats being tampered with by the indifference has the correct answer as "i said i'd save them all. i never said i'd save you."

[@isaacciego888]

this made me wanna play the whole main questline again

[@Sauceyourgranny]

Wish we could since the quest data stays on our storage

[@defxnct]

And now I have two accounts😅, just finished New War Last night on my second playthrough.

[@WraithReaper09]

@@Sauceyourgranny Uhh? You can. Pretty much all quests are replayable.

[@chronosite]

Almost all quests are replayable The mainline story quests can be replayed again on the codex in the orbiter right on the left

[@lazyvoid7107]

​@@defxnct NEW WAR is meh

[@nathanbudd2775]

"Walking war crime dispensers" is probably my favourite description of a warframe to date.

[@toastertech1181]

"a small army of walking warcrime dispensers" yea thats quite a perfect way to describe warframes

[@bohba13]

"Walking warcrime dispensers" is not an exaggeration. Saryn is a chemical/biological weapon deployment method, Ember utalizes _excessive_ amounts of fire, Mirage is able to turn an entire tileset into a minefield, Nova uses anti-matter, I'm pretty sure mind controlling your enemies into killing eachother counts so there's Nyx, I'm sure crushing your enemies through magnetic force also could count (Mag), and there is probably many _many_ more I'm missing.

[@rckrsps]

don't forget nekros' necromancy

[@bohba13]

@@rckrsps desecration of dead? or looting corpses for trophies?

[@rckrsps]

@@bohba13 both of them kinda makes sense

[@truekurayami]

The majority of Warframes aren't war crime dispensers on their own, sure Saryn, and Oberon would be from Chemical/biological and Nuclear weaponry very much would be, Volt, Ember, Mag, and Trinity are examples of no INHERENT war crimes instead use specific war crimes and that mostly comes down to espionage and our basically Genecidal conflicts. The closest we get to civilian/non-combatant targets dangerous fauna ie The infected which is safe targets still, and the Twin Queens. Hell Octavia is basically the embodiment of the most effective "non-lethal" weapon used by the US military for crowd control in spite of it's potential to be the most destructive weapon they have. (edit: fixed an auto correct)

[@capimameripa470]

nidus and grendel are also some top tier war crimes

[@jedig2560]

NICE! Most "lore explanation" videos for Warframe are hours long. You were able to hit all the main and important points in less than a half an hour. A fun and concise video. I'm going to be linking this video to Noobs whenever they have questions about the overall lore of the game.

[@N8kdmagazine]

Thank you for covering the deal that the kids made with Wally.

[@paytonkraft7564]

It is weird, but it's that kind of self aware, roll with the punches weird that honestly makes the story just adorable to follow along. Not like "AWWWWWW" adorable as in you can't help but just LOVE the story of it.

[@CobraAce04]

You can criticise DE for many things, but what you can never ever criticise them for is a lack of passion or love for their project. Considering Rebecca IS the Lotus, it’s like there’s even a gap in the 4th wall. I’ve quit Warframe many times but I’ve never had any ill feelings to it or to DE

[@quantumblur_3145]

​@@CobraAce04somebody said the exact same thing about FNaF once, and it stuck with me. I'm here to see what these Canadians come up with next, because of stuff like Reb breaking to tears at tennocon (still wary that might've been signs of things being ugly behind the scenes, though)

[@onceonly1111]

Warframe has a great storyline, it's hard to digest because it has been so spread out. As someone who has played since the game was released, none of this existed at first - it was absolutely mind blowing when they released the idea that your Warframe was controlled by an Operator. Seeing the person come out of the chamber, and then your Warframe collapse among static, only for the point of view to switch to THEM was incredible, and then to have your Warframe carry them back to the ship.. It's really hard to capture that moment in the context of the first time. For several years players were asking each other "But what actually /ARE/ Warframes?"

[@AstromarineCorpse]

this is, no joke, the best Warframe lore video on KZbin, and you should be more well known in the community. Please keep updating us when new stuff comes out.

[@AlexPBenton]

If I remember correctly, the Orokin only started cloning the Grineer after the original managed to kill a sentient (I think with a shovel). I think he died in the process, but they used the bits of him that were left to build their army.

[@throg4657]

The grineer were a thing before that, what happened was that a grineer slave managed to kill a sentient fighter with a shovel, so the orokin used that clone as the genetic basis for all the future combat-oriented grineer.

[@quantumblur_3145]

​@@throg4657 they genetically favor grineer that could turn tools of labor into weapons, then wonder why their empire fell

[@bonelesschickennuggets1868]

@@throg4657Also of note, the current Grineer forces are but rotten clones of the original, with very severe genetical degradation, and they’re still quite the formidable fighters. Tyl Regor the lead scientist of the Grineer tried to reverse the genetical damages to recreate to perfection that original Grineer slave, but was stopped by the Tenno from doing so because otherwise, even they would’ve been overwhelmed by the perfected clones iirc. I dunno about you but that original Grineer was indeed a badass

[@dumbsterdives]

​@@throg4657they basically did the equivalent of (weird analogy to make about sentient beings but this is the orokin were talking about) breeding dogs to be more violent and aggressive then being surprised when after a few generations the dogs start being violent and aggressive

[@shardinhand1243]

id like to add a bit to the tenno, it may not be concret in game lore like what the devs make... but the tenno, the players, have become arguably the strongest faction in the story, with countless warframe piloting tenno, not only working to gather resorces, tech, and military power, also forming clans which co-operate having theyre own fleet if you count all the players with railjacks. the tenno faction even have theyre own uniqe clases of soldiers in a why, thanks to hired rail jack crews from fortuna, hard light warframe copies, drones and corpus mechs, and the thuasands kavat and kubro bred by the tenno, and of course the captured kuva lich's which are arguably the strongest asset of the tenno. theres a lot that could be explored in counting the tenno ie the player base, as its own faction in game.

[@DracoSafarius]

Only thing hampering it is I think that, lorewise, the Tenno (if we assume everyone is awake) cap out between several thousand to maybe under 20,000 at absolute maximum. Don't remember if we get exact numbers on how many survived the Zariman, but the ship wasn't holding millions of people. You factor in that the Grineer are absolutely colossal, the Corpus match them with supplemented mechanics, both sitting well above millions (technically could be billions if you're counting non-faction colonies and civilization they rule in), it hampers our standing.

[@shardinhand1243]

true... mhmmm maybe it could be made light cannon that there are more tenno that have come from alternate universes throught the rips in space, would allow for the faction to expand while not damaging lore, sort of a cheat work around but maybe. still the biggest problem iv found is getting an idea past the comunity mods which are... unpleasent people i tried pushing a thread to support added customization of warframes and was shouted down as just wanting to make waifus... people can be stupid as hell with theyre projection. my thread was locked i was mocked and when i pushed back they threatend to just ban me... to be honest it left me with a grudge against the warframe mod team.@@DracoSafarius

[@Hust91]

Their immortality and ability to do basically costless decapitation strikes anywhere in the system without any real central place to strike back against seems to give them a very outsized influence despite their low numbers. They can basically depose any faction leader they disapprove of at will if their location is known - and any leader will have to send out their orders in some way.

[@quantumblur_3145]

​@@Hust91 railjacks further embody this

[@gavinflynn9345]

And then you have Necramechs; the concept that would become warframes

[@quantumblur_3145]

They're the springlock suits of Warframe Lore and I love them

[@craigmccune6066]

@@quantumblur_3145 "The springlock suits of warframe lore" is defo a way to describe them!

[@graymulholland9988]

oh my god, this has to be the first WF lore video I've seen that actually gets the lore right - and doesn't make snap assumptions about things we don't know about.

[@hiddendesire3076]

19:49 This was a result of Ballas’ influence. He wanted revenge for his love.

[@johngaynor4363]

Revenge for his love who he voted to have executed.

[@howee6327]

WF do have endgame (lvl9999) OR having everything unlocked Also Umbra excal has better stats :) even better than exca prime but sure buddy

[@howee6327]

warframe does have endgame and thats lvl 9999 or Havin everything unlocked and umbra has better stats than exca even exca prime :d

[@quantumblur_3145]

​@@howee6327wrong thread

[@chriscastiel8231]

The thing with drifters and operators are, theyre essentially same beings but from parallel universes. Singular timeline, but multiple parallels. Essentially, when we met our drifter counterpart, we were actually meeting our own self, but one from a different universe than us. At first, while playing the quest, i thought it was time travel. It blew my mind when i realised it was actually a multiverse.

[@lellyzle]

Wow for the first time a clear an concise explanation of what the heck I've been playing for half a decade. im literally gonna recommend this video to everyone that ever asked me what that warframe game I keep playing is about. Because I just say space ninja for the most part and then they look at me like I've lost it 🤣😂

[@hazeltree7738]

I would presume that the Tenno killed the Orokin because the Orokin killed Margulis, or at least tried to. The Tenno had no love for the Orokin, only Margulis, and so they basically took a bunch of unstable void children and tried to attack their mother figure TL;DR: Tenno like Margulis, Orokin tried to kill her, Tenno didn't like that and killed Orokin

[@calick7208]

I agree. That’s the most likely explanation to their rebellion

[@quantumblur_3145]

And Natah helped them do it, despite possibly mimicking Margulis to HIDE her death from her patients

[@murkzz_shot8177]

So did margulis not actually die?

[@murkzz_shot8177]

So is maegulis alive?

[@hazeltree7738]

@@murkzz_shot8177 MAJOR spoiler warning if you haven't completed all of the main quests As explained during the quests, our "Margulis" is Natah, a sentient mimic meant to destroy the Tenno from within. However, she took a liking to us and decided to play the role of the Lotus instead of sabotaging us The original Margulis is dead, our Lotus is Natah, the sentient mimic

[@andyh2783]

So cool to see someone carrying the wf lore torch again... awesome vid and very accurate....subbed

[@thelostcity5214]

19:43 i always thought that natah had taken margules body, gainning her mind and basically becoming one, explainning her feeling for the tenno and it also explains why she had told the tenno to take down the orokin empire

[@hallelion]

23:07 "Haven't explained Helminth" And then, 1 month later, Duviri will further make things weirder XD

[@ThePopeOfAwesomeness]

The MIGHTY SEER is actually the God of the warframe universe, it has caused everything to happen. It is all knowing, all seeing.

[@LokiToxtrocity]

Any thoughts on Mighty seer getting an incarnon form?

[@ThePopeOfAwesomeness]

@@LokiToxtrocity if it doesn't happen we should go on strike

[@draconian3905]

@@LokiToxtrocity asking too Much De can’t improve on perfection

[@kcp9746]

What an absolutely superb and succinct explanation of the lore, this is probably one of the most well-told abridged lore videos I've seen on Warframe's lore. Good job!

[@OrdoMallius]

OMG a simple cohesive Warframe lore video that is not several hours long. Thank you.

[@maarek71]

You know how Helminth will refer to you as demon from time to time? It's right. Tenno are demons. Immortal because if taken down they just respawn and they "possess" the frames which are the bodies of mutated humans. They really are nothing more than demons after what the man in the wall did to them.

[@ovencake523]

the tenno: children forced to murder their rabid parents with superpowers granted to them by some mysterious eldritch horror in some crazy deal, before being adopted by a kind scientist who tried to help them with scifi dream therapy. then their adoptive mother was executed and their dream therapy tech was repurposed into tech enabling the children to possess mechanized meat suits that are essentially walking warcrimes, eventually culminating into them becoming child soldiers then they killed the people who made them child soldiers and caused the empire they had been serving to decend into complete anarchy and then they take a very long nap before waking up again with amnesia and choosing violence

[@truekurayami]

Note that Helminth will only refer to you as Demon when you enter it's chamber as the operator(maybe drifter stopped playing before that was a thing) never as a warframe.

[@OniGanon]

My pet theory is that the true Tenno never actually left the Void, and what we see are just Void reflections of the sort Albrecht Entrati saw in his experiment.

[@hazeltree7738]

It's interesting that the Tenno are called "Void devils", because you know what else exists in warframe? Angels. _Void_ angels. Specifically within the zariman. They're also a void creature, but referred to as angels, so that's just an interesting thought

[@enseleno]

@@hazeltree7738 More interesting, as we the devils are the good guys and the angels are bad creatures

[@projectorion01]

This is great! thank you for condensing down the main story and putting it in your own words, in an interesting way, rather than reading all the codex entries word for word and making a 4 hour long lore video. Love it!

[@mmfreshmeat2860]

The apostasy prologue - teshin slamming down transition was REALLY good

[@jeffbezos2960]

This is the go to lore video now. Great work and it's nice to finally have a videos shorter than 3 hours for lore

[@area52music]

An easier way to sum up the Classroom quiz part of the lore with the reallife theoretical physics ideas: Schrodinger's Cat. The teacher cephalon is literally describing schrodingers cat in that scene.

[@sibzpremiumnutt5490]

This is the best explanation of WF's lore I've ever Seen GG man love the content

[@parunox1702]

This was a lot to take in even our operators was having a hard time processing all of this.

[@TheEXGamemaster]

You did a pretty good job on the story, and yeah it only gets weirder from there.

[@salmantitas]

Thanks for making this video, needed a recap before jumping back in after years. Watched till the spoilers.

[@gehinkun]

Love the lore and setting of warframe. Weird sci-fi at its finest.

[@nask0]

Once I was in top 10 all time of Warframe. Not anymore, it's endless grind. Anyway, thanks for the video, it helped me to catch up with the lore progression

[@Spookyma2]

Child get stuck in void, child becomes void child, child now in infested flesh robots and does go brrrrrrrr

[@3044Smike]

dont forget those walking warcrime dispensers are actually mass production replications of the original ones which were killed for treason (something about the prime frames being uncontrollable so Ballas had them all killed and the project was abandoned untill it was discovered that the Tenno could controll them via their somatic link through transferrance)

[@quantumblur_3145]

I think they just tried to automate frames (see Umbra, and how that went), the "primes first" thing's been soft-retconned with Varzia's dialogue as "sometimes primes came first, others earned their priming later, still others are unknown" (Which, imho, is also realistic: tech usually develops lopsided) Ivara's leverian and Revenant Prime's... existence... align with this

[@EyeHeytEwe]

"Space racist grandpa" is accurate as hell 😂 genius level writing, there.

[@astephens3600]

The only thing I'm curious about it's how the Helminth strain of infestation got onto our Orbiter and why it chose to help us become stronger. I am also very curious about the entire lore surrounding The Stalker himself. Either way this has been a really interesting video.

[@mesaultintensifies2491]

helminth imo is part of original ship design. its entire small biosphere, you can see tank with fish under glass floor. i think he plays huge role in autonomy of orbiter, recirculating air, water, and other stuff, also plays role in service of warframes. it was specifically designed for that part after all. about stalker, I'm not sure, but long time ago somwhere i heard a theory, that his operator remained loyal to orokin, and now he takes revenge, for what tenno did with orokin after old war. maybe he is successful version of excalibur umbra, made before old war to track down rogue tenno/warframes. idk

[@astephens3600]

@@mesaultintensifies2491 I've always had a theory that stalker was also a sentient Warframe like Umbra.

[@eddoh2701]

the Warframes itselves are Technocyte in nature, when you play Infestation mission, your armour gets corroded and the Hivemind talks to you, calling you to return as a family member, in the other hand the Helminth is like a vaccine, a weakened version of the Technocyte virus.

[@EvyTallWoman]

​@@eddoh2701the infestation sort of creates a personality when it infests something, so I think the helminth in our orbiter is an infested medbay of sorts. It has the personality of a hospital.

[@the_fenix_3247]

Yeah I think it's the place where you fix your Warframes, and it just got overgrown with the lack of maintenance (998 years passed and it probably consumed all the Warframes you would have had in the orbiter)

[@MEYH3M]

21:35 Why does your drifter look like Emma stone 😂 This is one of the best lore summaries i've seen btw good job, can't wait for duviri lore later this year its gona insiane.

[@yvaincallipso84]

One of the best lore explanations for the game. Really really good! (You should have shown a clip if the helmuth eating your lavar though, that messed me first and last time I did it)

[@bastabey2652]

that's some weird dark lore that exceeds all expectations

[@Conta_Minated]

That was a great summary of the main points of the lore.

[@MidvaliTHF]

This really helps to explain the void relics. It's literally jumping through timelines to obtain technology that will prove useful in the tenno quest for justice. Fk

[@hidingly]

walked in knowing one thing: humans involved left knowing one thing: humans involved

[@p4rt_t1me_g0d]

Thanks, I've been playing since console launch and I still don't have a firm grasp, but you condensed everything into a nice presentation with visuals in sequence.

[@marcusdac]

this is the best explained, paced and edited warframe lore video ive seen. Yet, it has just 24 minutes :(

[@vexienroe]

Well done keeping it short. While still getting in a surprising amount of information.

[@suluhwidyotomo7942]

That intro hits too close to home man, played it non stop for like 3-5 months in 2018 then i stopped playing and just picked it back up mid 2022 and played just enough to this day

[@ThePunisher-mg5cy]

excellent from start to finish. thank you, i enjoyed how you explained the story. cant wait for wf 1999!

[@phobs5443]

This is exactly what I wanted out of a video like this - thank you so much! I so desperately want more

[@cashel1111]

how i played warframe for a bit but never got any sense of this level of depth in storyline! great video

[@b00mjack66]

this is the best compressive warframe lore video i've seen

[@darth_dan8886]

The "Promises as a magic system" might just be one. Because it inspired me to create a whole paracausal magic system of my own.

[@truekurayami]

Warframe and Destiny are both good places to find inspiration on "Magi-tech" around a Paracausal power system. While anything with an "Outer" God/being like D&D warlocks, Cthulu mythos, and such are great places to look for less tech dependent options.

[@Proctor_Conley]

This was incredible, Thank You!

[@lilvampire7439]

I was never able to find the lore in warframe other than hacking doors and buying plat. I always thought they were all aliens from out of system. Never thought the orokin started literally everything

[@SyBeR35]

“Smiles from Juran” is still 1000% my favourite piece of Warframe music.

[@convn1749]

just came back to game for the first time since 2015 and can say i have never been more confused or overwhelmed by a game in my life. this video at least gives me some context as to what’s going on and why. now i just need to figure out wtf all these quests are for, which ones to do, which order, and what they all unlock. thanks for this video, it makes the game feel a bit more grounded to me

[@TheCanineContrarian]

"Little Shop of Horrors reject"

[@coldblizzard5880]

It’s crazy how I’m still actively playing Warframe 10 years later. And listen idc what happens or what any KZbinrs have to say I’m Ride or Die with this game. I’m gonna see it to the end. And it’s a good thing that WF has no end in sight currently.

[@Gambette69]

I like that the second half of the video was without tickers and in one section. I was thinking it’d be over once the time markers were all touched, but the spoiler section was a pleasant “wait a minute!” This was playing while I multitasked so I wasn’t looking at the timeline.

[@VoidNuzzle]

Thank you for this, one of the first of many videos to explain the lore clearly

[@zekestapleton2487]

It's nice to see other people are just as confused as I am about the new war and the drifter. Even after playing the updates since this video I still have no clue how any of that works or why it happened.

[@_incogni_]

Thank you for this. I got burnt out if warframe years ago and had no idea what was going on but wished I did. This helps!

[@dorugu]

this dr who quote summarises warframe “People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.” :)

[@themisspultone]

23:00 is the perfect take :D

[@lohitakshslabryinth4018]

You sound familiar like, Pupsker himself he also makes content about warframe and gameplays Loved the info man ,Keep it up

[@caseytenebris1979]

High on life: omg don't shoot that- oh my god you killed a child, a child was hurt/died in our game oh my god Warframe: hello

[@darthplagueis13]

To be fair, the child in question is probably around a few hundred years old at this point, even if they spent most of it in cryostasis. Their void powers mean they can't die and presumably that they cannot age, either.

[@danielcox7629]

​@@darthplagueis13doesn't really matter because they are mentally a child to.

[@darthplagueis13]

@@danielcox7629 Are they, though? Are you really sure about that? The only Tenno who really acts childlike is Rell, and he was both autistic and being haunted by a cosmic horror, so he can't really be considered representative in that regard.

[@derekmandl]

Wow this was massively helpful. I’ve been playing on/off for years and never really understood the lore at all. I’m about to start the new war so had to stop the vid early. But super great to learn the base lore up to that point.

[@ladooshka]

This is so interesting! Thank you so much! I always enjoy your lore videos! You've already got me to play Horizon Zero Down ☺️ Now I am looking at Warframe game. Though there are so many DLC up to $300. Steep pricing. Do you think I can just start with the initial game without dlcs for now?

[@WatchmanGamingLore]

The DLC for Warframe are all item packs and cosmetics. So you can skip all of them. All of the story quests are free! I will warn you that Warframe takes awhile before you unlock the more interesting story quests (you have to complete short missions going through a star chart before unlocking certain locations) Look up guides for things like how to use Mods, which aren’t very well explained in the game.

[@Sandro_de_Vega]

There is no payd content besides cosmietics.

[@xoana4197]

They aren't dlc. Nothing of what they sell is locked behind a pay wall. And it's mostly cosmetics anyway

[@hijodelsoldeoriente]

Warframe is 100% free-to-play. No paid DLCs. Those are only optional and mostly cosmetics.

[@CaiHy-Bri]

the dlc are cosmetic items, but more than that they're all* user made, cosmetics created by the community and put into the game. a handful are paid but they're either quick access to the latest "prime" warframe, weapon(s), and a few extra goodies without needing to grind for them, new player boosters that are all items you can get for free, or ocasional exclusive skins but these are really just for the console versions the best part about the user made cosmetics is that they don't cost any money on consoles, just needing the usual premium currency as every other cosmetic, though the currency can be gotten for free fairly. you've seen the youtube headlines, it's "free to play done right"

[@I_am_a_cat_]

Space racist grandpa is my favorite character in the entire game

[@SeanBlantonPhD]

This is my favorite Warframe lore video. It’s succinct and clear as much as the content allows. Other videos ramble on for hours and you lose context with so much detail. Better to have this overview THEN break out into specialized areas find the detail imho

[@patrykmalecki3472]

This is amazing! I've only just started playing. Got so much to catch up on. I love the story already and all its ideas. I know what you've put together is just a fraction of it all but it's very, very well put together. Thank you!

[@mikeyder344]

You call him a Little Shop of Horrors reject. I call him Audrey IV

[@crackedoutjindosh8078]

A speculation I have judging by some scarce lore of a warframe as being one of the reasons the Tenno fight back against the Orokin could be because of Kullervo 'whispering secrets' and planting the seeds of revolution within the Tenno and using the Void as a medium of communication. I mean, it's also said that Kullervo wasn't THE reason for the rebellion: he just did the right thing at the right time resulting in his soon-to-be freedom. But it could very well be one of the straws that broke the camel's back leading to that event.

[@mon0theist_tv]

"...or something" sums it up pretty good

[@Mezjo]

Love the lore presentation. Lore is also a read on I keep coming back to the game, over and over. ❤

[@randomgames2374]

"at you disposal, small army of walking warcrime dispensers" Imma steal that

[@EloraMoon194]

"I haven't even gotten to the little house of horrors reject in the ship" XD I originally named mine Twoey for that reason!

[@trippymartian8847]

It would make sense if the sentients decided to fake their defeat in order for the Tenno to do what they could not

[@BrianSlusher]

Excellent recap, easier to follow than Brozime's recent stab at it.

[@logan_sunday]

Really fascinating lore. I had no clue about any of it. Ive tried Warframe a handful of times and always bounce right off of it. But this lore does give me a lot of hope for their Fantasy MMO. Hopefully the story and lore will be presently early and often.

[@SillyMynabird]

Great breakdown, especially within only 25 mins!

[@Dalinzir]

I actually forgot that warframes came to be in that manner lmfao. The lore is so wacky, I love it

[@aurawolf2221]

Warframe Lore is strange, silly somber, sad & fucking AWESOME 😂

[@StalxD]

i am excited to whats going to happen to the lore in duviri :)

[@WraithReaper09]

Not long now till we find out. April will be here sooner then we think since it's already the middle of March when writing this comment.

[@nicolasgomez6637]

You gotta update this man, whispers in the walls came out!

[@stevo_hobbies]

I've been playing Warframe for literal years and never had a good understanding of the story before this. Excellent job consolidating the nonsense into an easily digestible lore vid

[@Yoda_Gaming1738]

while not as important, I think you should have mentioned the stalker. For anyone reading this comment, hes basically a guy who was present to witness the tenno kill the Orikin. he then went on a revenge quest to destroy them, picking up followers along the way. But all you really need to know is that he drops really powerful early to mid game weapons

[@frequencyoftruth2303]

Thanks

[@Egeslean]

I haven't played Warframe in A LONG TIME, maybe a year after it first became a thing is when I stopped playing. I hopped back in once maybe like 2 years ago and I was so confused I just quit again. I'm pretty sure NONE of this was really there in the beginning, kinda cool to see where it's gone now, makes me glad to have backed it way back.

[@ronzology]

I started playing Warframe a long time ago as a kid, just loved how cool the game was. I could be a space ninja, for free? It was awesome; however, I never could understand nor care for the story since I was so young. I went on huge hiatuses, years at a time, and forgot everything. I just came back to the New War and had no idea what was going on. I caught up on the story and was super confused, so I needed some lore explanation. This video was perfect! I actually really like the story of this game. It's very good.