What We Know Warframe Lore - The Kingdom of Duviri

[@pauz5864]

The king is back

[@MothsBats]

FINALLY!

[@spooky_4624]

The irony and timing of this comment 😅

[@deltaprimis3045]

Indeed he is !

[@themoonarmy1098]

HAIL TO THE KING!!!

[@asewuibv2]

duviri npcs when they see the drifter:

[@duel424]

Duviri has been a breath of fresh life in the story. What I wouldn't give for the tenno-drifter to sit down with the Entratis and lay out what they know from the plains and the deals etched with void entities to them. I would love to see how they would react.

[@RedShadowOfSaturn]

One of my favorite parts of New War was hearing "Mother/Gomaitru"...who we now know is Euleria Entrati, giving her lesson to the Tenno children on the Zariman, and making that connection to Deimos. Which, funny enough, was received rather poorly just due to the token thing...which, in reality, was one of the better ways to do rep and standing...but lore wise, it was actually a pretty important update.

[@Benzinilinguine]

​@@RedShadowOfSaturnpretty sure Euleria is Grandmother. Why would they have two names for one character, and none for another? It would make sense that the wife of a scientist is the one who literally wrote the book on Eternalism, not his daughter.

[@RedShadowOfSaturn]

@@Benzinilinguine Go and listen to Euleria's lecture during New War, then listen to Mother's voice lines in Deimos. They're undoubtedly the same person. The reason they have two names (and I'm unclear of some of the details here)...at some point, the void scientists lost their memories. It's why the Entrati family in the Necralisk all go by Family designations at first, and choose new names once you help them (via ranking up)...because they don't remember their actual names. They seem to have some recollection, like Mother "dreaming" about the untime door and images of her father and I think even the wall? Loid is trying to tell her that really happened, but she seems to doubt it a bit.

[@OrangeCreamsicle]

the reason mother has two names is because the family make new names for themselves as you rank up with them. it’s also apparently been confirmed that grandmother is on fathers side of the family which I think also lines up more with their personalities

[@Benzinilinguine]

@@RedShadowOfSaturn sure, same voice actress. Orokin also need new bodies, or they age. When did the zariman jump happen? Recently, in comparison to when we wake up? Or hundreds of years later?

[@zephyrprime8]

I like to think that the greater purpose mentioned by Albericht was allowing the Drifter to accept their trauma and leave the Kingdom of Duviri so that they may cross into our world and allow the Drifter to save the Origin System from the Narmer.

[@BurakKarabulut]

I think Duviri serves as a mirror to jump through between realities so maybe albrecht made scholar’s landing to find his true self while he was making the seriglass things on the other end but then their meeting could’ve implemented a third being which is the wall itself

[@ZakeirSnake]

"A slag of thought and feeling." That is a great descriptor. I was unaware of what Duviri was supposed to be in the first place because I wanted to be surprised when I started playing. I found myself more confused than anything, but this video really helps put it into focus and clears up a lot of the "what is all this?" feelings. Thank you for making this!

[@thegrouchization]

Your description of what a Palimpsest is made me realise that, in a way, the entire game is one due to its update cycle. Each new release is another etching onto the old, sometimes adding, sometimes replacing, always leaving traces of what came before.

[@photonicpizza1466]

The Orokin lab in the clan dojo is probably the best example of one such trace. Solar rails haven’t been a thing for years, but the Orokin lab which was dedicated to them remains. The lab is now basically useless, but it’s a nice pointer to a removed section of the game.

[@thegrouchization]

@@photonicpizza1466 It does technically still serve a function: It's where you get the BPs for Dragon Keys.

[@TheMapacraft]

😊😊😊😊​@@photonicpizza1466

[@wuzzems2850]

Man, I wish so bad that warframe can deliver its story as well as you deliver it to us.

[@xSoulhunterDKx]

IKR

[@cooldudeninja0219]

Sometimes you need a helping hand to see the insiders view. Though cutting out the wisdom speak sometimes they leave things up to us to try and figure out instead of giving it on that silver platter.

[@nico._lombana]

Most of games lore is like that, just text and minimal explanation, like dark souls. Luckily we have talented people like StallorD

[@RedShadowOfSaturn]

@@nico._lombana Yeah, this game will never have punishing difficulty like Dark Souls, but if Warframe resembles it in any way, it's in how it delivers its lore. Gotta look deeper for it, and likely have someone summarize it. Pros and cons.

[@Benzinilinguine]

It would be so much less interesting if it was explicit. All of this lore is in the game. You just have to pay attention.

[@haganetsume8173]

And when the people needs him the most, he returns. Welcome back man.

[@echostarling84]

Oh man I've waiting for this! I can't grind this history out myself through gameplay and you're the only Lore master I'll accept!

[@xhyckoh]

Same, but Socratetris is just as good for me, for a different POV.

[@YumLemmingKebabs]

​@@xhyckohIsn't he the one that makes hours long videos of mostly raw gameplay? I think i tried watching one of his videos and stopped after the first hour and a half that only had like twenty minutes of actual dialog from him.

[@xhyckoh]

@@YumLemmingKebabswell, by my sight he is making a detailed audiovisual record when explaining Warframe's lore, that's why there's a lot of raw gameplay (probably it's meant to those who don't want to play the game and want to know its story while immersed, there's even a shorter version cutting raw gameplay), adding historical and philosophical context to warframe's content, possibly showing some of the inspirations too. I pretty much like his format and aproach. And there's more of his lore videos, these ones with raw gameplay are an exception.

[@RedShadowOfSaturn]

This was exceptionally done. Also, not sure if you follow TheDseige, but his lore analysis is also pretty good.

[@YumLemmingKebabs]

@@RedShadowOfSaturn Siege is pretty good too. I often disagree with his speculation but he does try to back it up with examples of potential inspiration for his ideas, and his videos are fairly concise.

[@whatsnewbois9814]

Man it's hearbreaking to hear people call the story/quest of Duviri bad when it's good. DE put a lot of effort into this narrative clearly but most people would have to really dig deep to understand it's meaning. Your services are always apreciated Loremaster \[T]7

[@BladeBloodTear]

That's part of why people call it bad. If you have to do intensive digging for it people won't always find every single piece of it. So if they are in a situation where they only find fractions of a story and those fractions don't fit together, their natural conclusion is going to be that it's terrible. How would anyone call something good if they only have a few random pages of an entire book to read?

[@whatsnewbois9814]

@@BladeBloodTear i wont deny that but still... quite a shame

[@commandercorgi]

@@BladeBloodTearthey do fit together it just requires critical thinking and paying attention to what’s on your screen. People might respond to that with “but Im more focused on the gameplay” and my response to that is then you shouldn’t feel you can give a real review of the story

[@electricisnthereatthemomen6535]

But it is bad. It’s not the content of the story that’s bad itself though, but the storytelling itself. Duviri had bad pacing, no character introductions when it should have, it barely explains anything when I feel like it should have done more, and to top it all off, the worst part is that the whole reason the Drifter doesn’t take immediate control of Duviri: Is just because he forgot Yeah that’s it lmao

[@MEYH3M]

@@BladeBloodTear WF players are bad at piecing 2 things together even if you shove it in their faces. It's still amazes me that most ppl didn't realize the guiding hand was the hand of lotus that we have clearly seen ballas shop off in the new war.

[@godzelda123]

I also think the Man in the Wall also had more to do with the creation of Duviri then we realize. We know Albrecht Entrati was the first to encounter Wally, and once he returned there's no telling if it was truly him that returned, or his twin. Who's to say he didn't tell his daughter to write the Tales of Duviri in the first place? Or perhaps inspired her to do so? Wally is constantly playing 5D chess with the events of Warframe, so it would make sense he would want the book of Duviri written to set his whole plan in motion for the Tenno/Drifter.

[@malaki7335]

Cool theory!

[@silent0089]

kinda true too there's a Vagabond a black duviri with his finger missing from his left hand and he laugh when Drifter encounter then disappear

[@StiffAftermath]

Albrecht encountered the void entity, and became the Man In The Wall, as he exchanged places with it. He is in the void, wanting to escape. The void entity is already out. We see him as a younger entity in our ship from time to time, reminding us that we owe him for the deal we made. He has been manipulating things from the outside for quite a while now...Example: the dark eyes of the tenno were proof of his control abilities during red-eyed Natah's assassination of Erra, her brother.

[@Jcorella]

StallordD is alive! The moment from your Duviri livestream where you just read Orokin Script on the spot still lives with me.

[@DreadNought0255]

I'm still unclear as to how Dominus and Drifter come together. I'm under the impression that while Drifter is the version of us that didn't accept or wasn't offered a deal, that they are not Thrax. Not directly. In the little cinematic where all the parts of the doll come together, the arm that's reaching out of the void growth is similar to that of Dominus. How I interpret it is that as the Drifter willed Duviri into existence through their need of safe haven and attempt at controlling their emotion through the tale of Duviri, they didn't forge it "from fresh" as it came to be, it did so with Dominus as king and with a history already in place. Essentially the Drifter made a play that "started" in the middle around themselves. This is where the wobbly time thing comes in too with Albrecht and Teshin.

[@ovencake523]

what

[@DreadNought0255]

@@ovencake523 Basically as I understand it; the Void manifested Duviri into existence as-is from Euleria's stories for Drifter to self-insert into it as an escape. While this would make Drifter the creator of the realm and Dominus. But in story Dominus is the all-powerful ruler of the land and thus Drifter manifested an entity that had power over them. And Dominus being the garbage person they were written to be, hounded the Drifter over so many emotional cycles that the Drifter forgot who, how and why the whole thing came to be. They became a prisoner in a story they made.

[@TheRealBoomsledge]

THE G O A T RETURNS~! Thanks for all you do, man; it's appreciated immensely.

[@MASON9000YouTube]

Good to see you again, StallordD! Keep up the good work with the lore videos 👍

[@Gingysnap]

another phenomenal theory and lore assessment by ours truly. I havent been back to Duviri since i did the quest a couple weeks ago but this has definitely encouraged me to go back

[@malaki7335]

There's all sorts of hidden lore an details around the world if you explore. Hints for what is to come

[@malaki7335]

Excellent video! Great job illustrating the core theme of the quest (overcoming trauma). Many people didn't get that full picture.

[@MEGQuilts]

Beautiful work! I admit, I don't even play the game, but I'm enthralled by the lore, music, storytelling surrounding it. It took me 25 years to get back to somewhere with a decent enough internet connection that I could even watch videos, and I'm so looking forward to trying this out. I do love a good, convoluted, have to watch the details, story.

[@Deurization]

thank you for your interest

[@NightBane345]

Wish we could explore more of the Zariman, found the ship creepy as hell, but so ever interesting. Make it a place only for the Operator, in whichever version you prefer, and allow people to explore it, without a game mode. But some resistance, whichever it might be, void angels/creatures, or random ghosts/memories made real, or the unfortunate Grineer or Corpus

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

"I don't always Warframe, but when I do, I choose StallordD." EDIT: I mean, your videos are all well written, but this was STUNNINGLY BEATUFUL to listen to. It's poetic even as it sits to explain some pretty wild concepts to us. Well done, friend.

[@bionic-tale4313]

Hello, its been awhile since your last video. Though I haven't played Warframe for awhile now, I'm glad that you're back at making more content for about the game.

[@heraldofoblivion499]

Tenno stay eating

[@Bluedragon-iz3oo]

My theory is that duviri is a purgatory to the voids afterlife. Everyone that arrives there, with the exception of the drifter, died. Tenshin dead. Kullervo dead. Vor dead. Albrecht dead? (A zariman tablet implies his body is entomb on lua, but his soul may not be). There are more that i theorized to also be dead as well. Dax enemies, Dax the tenno killed in the past that wants revenge. Thrax enemies, grineer the tenno killed in the past that wants revenge. Corrupted enemies, general enemies the tenno killed in the past that wants revenge (probably why they all attack you but not each other). Ballas could possibly be reborned as the warden for kullervo. Calventi mercant sisterhood are the sisters of parvos.

[@adolhein]

Ayo, the retun of Warframe's lore king.

[@samuelsalvatore4511]

despite how rare it is to see a new video from you, i can safely say that you single-handedly carry the community's love for the lore of warframe it may not be okay to compare two different youtubers, but i see you as the warframe equivalent of "My Name is Byf", your videos are both informative and addicting to watch

[@kronosbot5]

The 'Tales of Duviri' were never meant to last. They could only buy time for anyone lost within The Void. Time enough, hopefully, to rally themselves and make their own way back.

[@Yewrenegade]

This is an awesome video, full deep interpretation about duviri and what would hold the future. Keep the great work man

[@aorcain6492]

welcome back! absolutely love your videos and i was so glad to see a new one

[@thecatboy7494]

Yoooo the legend returns. Love to see it.

[@koldraxonofthefirstseven5718]

I'll have to agree that there's a few aspects of this take on Duviri that doesn't align to my comprehension of it - namely the fact that Dominus Thrax is a construct of the Drifter's making via conceptual embodiment, taking the same visuals as the Thrax king in the Tales of Duviri, and creating an identical kingdom with a myriad of mechanisms to ensure its continued operation - and that the Drifter is not a construct. Sure, they're connected to the tale in the same way we're linked to our Warframes, but they were an outside element in the kingdom. A self-insert in all senses and forms. The merchants of Duviri even express the fact that whatever they could offer the Drifter is junk by comparison to what they have, save for the oddities Acrithis has in stock. In this way, we are literal self-inserted borderline 'isekai'd' into Duviri, but as the Tenno themselves forgot as they slept, so did Duviri decay. But now we remember Duviri. Even have it as a book somewhere in your Dormizone or Orbiter. We even extract weapons and learnings from it, such as the Dax blades used by Teshin, or the myriad of other odd-shaped armaments native to Duviri, or the means to summon a Kaithe - albeit not able to mount it as Operator or Drifter beyond Duviri for gameplay reasons, and notably somewhy unable to wield their Duviri weapons. On a gameplay flip, I'd reintroduce stamina to Tenno melee for Operator/Drifter, making every melee strike cost, and making combo count discount each successive strike, with the multiplier multiplying the discount. Some melees would be more difficult to wield, with the sorts of Fragor, Gram or Galatine being the heavier/heaviest of a limited selection. I'd also include a selection of primary and secondary weapons as something extra the Tenno would be able to wield, so they could LARP as Hayden Tenno with a Proto Glaive and a sidearm of their choice, if not Sirocco, beyond their Warframe. Reasoning for this is to expand the capabilities of Operators beyond an alternative for spy missions and as a forced mechanic for some bosses. Though back to this. The way you describe Duviri as an 'infection' is rather apt, considering how the Void had been popping the 'cysts' which the islands represented over time and had tried more brutal remedies to 'cleanse' itself of the 'unholy realm' we've thought into existence - it lines up with how we're called 'demons' by the Orokin, implying a backend interaction between the Wall of Lohk and the secretive high-ranking Orokin. Furthermore, the Warden. Something tangential to acknowledge would be how the appearance of some things in Duviri - like the Orowyrmlings - match up to the appearances of entities beyond, such as Umbra. Also... what if an Ayatan, as it is a memory storage tool of sorts, could be used to 'hack' Void Angels and impose a semblance of higher sentience, order, and nonharmful solutions to their hunger? Could defeating Wall of Lohk be as easy as turning it into fuel in the same way dinosaurs were rendered into fuel? Or could it be reasoned with - to give us tools to move Duviri and whatever of it can be salvaged to a proverb/literal table, and rendered (to it) as a game of Dungeons and Dragons, with it creating new scenarios? Perhaps we could get it to make a deal with us? A favour for a favour, as dubious as it was on us? Tau can wait. Maybe it's waiting for us to sort this out, hence its silence? All-the-same, I look forward to whatever happens next, and thank you for this.

[@AndresLopez-st3lz]

Srlsy I would pay 60$ for a full story mode Warframe game, no farming, no clans, no platinum, no seasonal events that new players will never be able to experience Just the full story they want to told us in a single player campaign

[@jonbigcawk]

Darksector is as close as it gets

[@shurikenblast]

@@jonbigcawk yes but dark sector is also ancient

[@tyrantofcans465]

So the Drifter's existence is the equivilent of someone erasing all of the parts of a play, putting a new one on, and the previous character's name slowly fades into focus as the new play keeps being used.

[@nahla2869]

your content is like a light in the dark. love Love LOVE your videos!!!

[@HaydrianCindel]

HE LIVES!!!! But for real, always stoked when your videos drop, and appreciate that you make anything at all for us.

[@andyh2783]

I cant believe Stallord is still at it. The very best WF lore on the internet right here. If your new to the game watch this man's entire catalog immediately. Thanks so much Stallord for staying with us this long.....cheers Tenno

[@fran13r]

This video was perfect, I thought I understood the basics of duviri and I mostly did, but there were so many details I missed that makes the world much richer and now I know them thanks to this vid, thanks!

[@Sonny_D]

Thanks for all the lore videos you do! The cohesive information and quality is fantastic ❤

[@srbingham]

At one point in the Albrecht Entrati Poems he refers to "the unholy Zariman parade" (singular) Given that the ship is Zariman 10-0... Do you think this might mean that there were anywhere from 9 to 99 ships before ours? As in "parade" is not referring to the "loyalty parades on the Zariman" but instead to a "parade of Zariman ships."

[@lolcerditorock]

Or the tenno massacring the orokin

[@pigslayer275]

Holy SHIT A new StallordD video I've been waiting for this! I'm probably gonna listen to this like 7x these videos are great

[@zyderveld]

Your writing is quite poetic at times. Love your work

[@kevonlangston1914]

I have a gut feeling that the man in the wall is us, the operator, after merging the void. He is what we eventually become. I have a feeling the ending of the story will either be us becoming the man in the wall or us breaking the cycle that creates the man in the wall ending in his defeat. It really makes just because how the tenno are linked to the void. The void doesn’t exist to harm the tenno but maybe use them as some sort of vessel or physical embodiment. Maybe we make the void strong just as it makes us strong. The man in the wall is that peak point in power in which we are one with the void. Maybe the man in the wall let the operator and the drifter survive because they are two halves that make him whole. The drifter able to create his own world inside the void and the operator able to harness the power of the void and control those around them. The man in the wall is an all powerful figure we fear because we don’t any thing about him, but he is just us when we stare into the abyss it stares right back. From the moment we shook his hand on the zariman we were instantly intertwined by fate. I believe that we are playing through the creation of the man in the wall, “our other self” and the ending of warframe might be us resetting the timeline to avoid him from being created or us turning into him creating a timeloop we trapped in.

[@photonicpizza1466]

Wally is almost definitely an embodiment of Albrecht Entrati after one of his trips into the Void. We know for certain that Wally predates the Tenno by a long time, since Albrecht saw him during his accident before he even invented any Void tech (which later powered most of the Orokin empire). There is some connection between the Tenno and Wally, what Wally calls their “deal,” but it’s definitely not like Wally is Tenno in the future.

[@ianski6430]

Dude you don't understand how great your videos are pls keep em up !

[@hodyfalyam]

I've been waiting for this video even before the duviri update arrived 😅😂 Enjoyed every minute of the video 🤤😍

[@cloudkracker9664]

19:09 this part reminds me of the Lovecraftian entity Yog-Sothoth "Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth."

[@shanebox9516]

A lot to unpack, and it oddly makes sense! You did very well in presenting everything and tying it all together. The idea that Thrax is "Our character," is an idea I never considered. I always wrote him off as another character entirely. But putting it into the perspective that Thrax is the "original" version of our character, with the other characters within Duviri being connected to us as facets of our emotions, emotions we can't rightly control. And with the Drifter stepping in, it makes sense how he/she was able to also turn back the clock, or reset Duviri, if they were also a piece of Thrax. Though this begs the question about the Drifter: Is he/she, a void entity? In the most literal sense, given they are a Conceptual Embodiment. At least within the realms of Duviri. But once they leave Duviri during the New War, are we looking at Thrax? Or the Void Entity?

[@asclepius29k]

Missed your uploads man, this video really brightened up my day, thank you!

[@kplaysleague3517]

My question is how do DE expect all their player base to understand all these complicated naratives when they dont offer any form of cinematics or a channel dedicated to lore, like the story is so sooo good but waiting for people to post their theories and their explainations once in a blue moon is honestly underwhealming af. Great video btw thanks for helping me get a better picture of it all

[@13lueBomber]

Playing Duviri not even 20 hours into the game, really made the story absolutely insane, and made zero sense. Honestly, Duviri should be locked, and not immediately accessible from the get-go.

[@bryanm498]

Being a veteran returning after 3 years hiatus was even worse for me. I didn't even remember New War conclusion, then I start the game and Zariman, Duviri, Murmurs happens, Eternalism, that 1999 "demo". You never expect to feel absolutely lost in some game you played for 1000 hours of your life.

[@Their0nfist1649-A]

I think DE has taken more of a Dark Souls approach to their lore in an attempt to make it more of a community activity. They leave just enough to keep a light thread to follow so that the larger community can dig around and find the missing pieces. You can debate whether it's a good way to do it, but it feels very intentional; and like Dark Souls, you can't deny that it keeps alot of discussion and involvement between expansions and updates... even if it does get old hanging on a perpetual cliff hanger.

[@RIKENZ]

YES, I have been waiting for this video since the update came out, great job!

[@REDMAN-bk7lw]

So if I’m understanding chronologically, The Zaramin gets got, our Tenno makes the deal, the Void splits our psyche in two parts. The part that escaped and the part that didn’t, the part that escaped made the deal saved they’re friends and live out the game up to the new war Netah gets her hand cut off by Ballass it falls into the void, meanwhile the one that didn’t protects they’re mind with child make believe and pretending with a toy all alone because they made the deal to save everyone and instead saw them all insta die and effectively went insane. All the events of duviri happen the drifter is born, after Tenno falls back into the void, they are reunited with drifter, one of the two saves Netah, Netah becomes lotus after she sucks the life outta Ballass, ballas falls into the void, the lotus fights back against the void saving the Operater/Drifter. idk anymore man that’s a lot

[@kylescott2235]

Thank you for this vid, it has cleared up SOOOO MUCH

[@MRx36000]

Been a while, glad to see you posting again! :)

[@BlackPsionic]

It's been far, far too long. It's good to hear your voice again, man.

[@peterfox6159]

Dear StallordHd This is really such an excellent explanation of the Duviri Lore, I cannot thank you enough :) There is so much in Warframe I simply did not fully grasped, because it was presented in a way that I was not actually drawn to interact with it or engage with it there and then. It is a true shame that DE tells their Lore in so consumer unfriendly ways. To me it is made ever more damning by the fact that I feel pressed to grind on to simply gather what is needed in resources and gear for the gameplay that the story is more often than not lost at the waysite. But When I find the time to watch your videos I do truly enjoy them. And for that ... I thank you :) Have fun, keep it up and know your fans appreciate your work very much! Cheers!

[@princesscadance197]

The person in charge ignores the warnings of the educated trying to tell them its a bad idea? I wonder if the Orokin lost a ship 12,000ft below sea level as well.

[@jamesvan2201]

Wow man. That explains quite a bit of what i completely missed. Nice!

[@r-saint]

Very cool. An idea for new video: summarize what we know about Tau civilization and culture and customs.

[@FeelingPinkerton]

not much material for that right now, maybe in 2 years

[@mohammadsiraj8058]

good to see you back! hope you're doing well since your last community post! don't usually comment but seeing you really brightened my day, I'd mentally prepared myself to never see from you again, so this is definitely a relief. hope you enjoy a good life👍

[@ВалентинДимитров-п7с]

The god has returned. Thank you for another amazing video. You were missed

[@jaeyoung3242]

Really love how you explain these stories sir.. Can't wait for the Stalker's story update and see it on your perspective 👑👑

[@bilalflier]

Ik you say its up for interpritation, But i find myself ascribing to you version of the cannon most of the time, great video as always.

[@DEADTEAMXXIII]

So happy to see you upload again loved your channel from way back and anytime anyone talks about lore in game i send them here. Hope to see more uploads soon and hope you are well 😊

[@REDACTED0451]

Been following you for years, delighted to see a new video. ❤

[@jankieek8218]

Glad to have you back, as always a great video.

[@benza8946]

What a beautiful explanation

[@dudeman1983]

17:46 Acrithis describes the hand Garmi saw as having "only three fingers and a thumb", which should mean it was missing only the one finger, not two.

[@StallordD]

Oh yeah, can't believe I didn't notice that. Means that there's either a miscount somewhere in the lore on the real amount it's supposed to be missing, or it's a sneaky hint it's from a different source. TBH my money is just on some vague language or something confusing the actual amount of fingers that were severed.

[@dudeman1983]

​​@@StallordD it is admittedly confusing; in the Angels quest, Archimedian Yonta talks about the "originals" when asked about the relics, locked well away, and the Zariman tablet asking about fingers clearly asks "where are my _fingerbones,_ kiddo?", supported by the excerpt from the Entrati Leverian to Netra, where Albrecht describes "The pale reaching _digits_ severed on the floor... studied with reverence, with greed." But then, in the New War, we see the Man (more literaly) in the Wall with only one finger missing, the same finger he used to knock againts the classroom window when appearing to the Tenno as their Void Double on the Zariman. I don't think it's meant to be clear. One thing that stands out to me in Duviri, though, is a pair of Sythel's lines; "The first scholar looked into the Void and he feared it. And his fear took shape. Do you understand? That's how all of this started!" Potentially she could be misconstruing her creator, the Drifter, as this first scholar and creator of Duviri, but considering her line about the black-eyed children...and the line where she can hear a Rap. Tap. Tap. in her home...it seems to suggest it was Albrecht Entrati whose fear took shape.

[@hijodelsoldeoriente]

Great video as always! Now, see you next year.

[@stealthcobra1525]

I'm not so sure Dominus is the Drifter... To me he's a creation of the Drifter's fantasies just like the other characters from the Tales of Duviri book and ballas were given flesh in there. Still pretty strange to think the Drifter ended up stuck into a groundhog day scenario of sorts where he's constantly being punished and submitted to the whims of Dominus Thrax. Well I guess technically it's more that everyone in Duviri are creations of the Drifter's mind and recollections of the tales of Duviri, except maybe outsiders like Teshin, Albrecht and perhaps Ballas.

[@commandercorgi]

I second this the flashback at the end is young drifter and that throws people off but thrax is another character in duviri and he’s always male, even if drifter is female. And most other people’s defense of that is that drifter can’t change duviri… even though that is ALL that happened in the story and the spirals

[@CovertKaz]

this tbh, Thrax is just the Drifter’s schizophrenic side.

[@KoiosDusklight]

While it is a creation of the Drifter, I don't think it is wrong to say it also is the Drifter, in the same sense the other main actors. The flashback scenes in the quest suggest to me that they are compartmentalisations of the Drifter's mental states to help him create a safe place place in the Void where he could live. Some of the scenes that describe Dominus's actions, like visiting the straw graves representing the other Zariman children, don't really make sense otherwise. But I do think it makes more sense to say that the Drifter was always just living in the kingdom he had created and the controlling aspect of him manifest in Dominus turned on him in a depressive cycle of self-punishment as the child king failed to stand against the ravages of the void and panicked, rather than the Drifter also being a narrative construct in the same sense the actors are. It is the original boi/gurl.

[@malaki7335]

Yeah he is a character like all the others, but in a way he is the Drifter. He is born of the Drifters desire to stay safe and protected, to have control in the chaos. But he is not just a replica of the Drifter.

[@thund3r682]

He is just a character drifter created thats meant to keep drifter safe from wally even if it means getting killed infinitely.

[@mundainman]

Hope your doing well, can't wait for you to cover kullervo and some of the tennocon stuff! Make sure to take care of yourself.

[@hazman61]

The Lore master returns

[@pnutbteronbwlz9799]

Super good video as always!

[@THEbrickShitHous]

good to see you working hard. hope your doing well

[@lordAera1]

I love the lore of warframe,please more videos like this

[@kobayashimaruu1]

such a well-spoken and informative video!! thank you :D

[@Stargazer01011]

Push the fingers through the surface into the wet. You’ve always been the new you. You want this to be true.

[@StallordD]

YOU ARE A WORM THROUGH TIME

[@Alexus00712]

Yooooo!! He's back baby!!

[@spaceyleafninjavlogs9106]

Yes!!! He’s back!!! Thanks you!!

[@Lior1055]

You should make a video about your tenno live thoughts! I'd love to hear your speculation. ^_^

[@MarrowofStar]

I have heard "the world of dust" a few times now, (12:22) and I dont think that i know what/where that is. Is it a lore source like a book or a codex entry? or is it something else?

[@brissingerr_et_balerdroch]

I just love it. Thank you for the video

[@maniacalcoast2742]

I was waiting for this video for AGES

[@musicaccount7116]

Im a returning player, stopped before Railjacks came out. I played Dirvir first before playing new war and was absolutely confused. It makes sense now definitely after watching this video

[@alaiziarobin2318]

good job man this is awesome !

[@LogaMC]

My lord, even the paradox didn't forsee the return of the king

[@DerCharacter]

Just watched return of the king a few days ago, great timing I guess

[@operatorverona]

i'm so glad that people still care about the lore.

[@Elias___]

Rewatching this masterpiece

[@Elias___]

Rewatching this masterpiece a second time.

[@joeybobbson2622]

Based lore moment, this has been confusing me since duviri drop

[@Max44321]

I missed your videos!

[@joangilabert126]

Great as always.

[@toondinosaur558]

Man do I missed him, welcome back from the void lad.

[@YumLemmingKebabs]

Yes. I very much did enjoy this.

[@cenation7mjc]

I have searching alot for some divuri lore couldnt find any Thank you

[@MiZiGe]

through this video, I now believe that the actual goal/target of the Orokin, for the Zariman, was not Tau, but the void itself, as creating a habitable environment, a.k.a. Duviri, seemed easier, closer than actually terraforming some distant worlds.The children were trained as beacons that would create and control new worlds in the seemingly endless void, and by being able to manifest thoughts into tangible objects, the Orokin could finally feel as gods.

[@eyywannn8601]

Nah, I don’t think so. There would be no point in creating the Sentients or indeed to go to Tau then.

[@tatianabasileus]

@@eyywannn8601 iIRC the discovery of Tau and initially sending the sentients there happened before the void was discovered by Albrecht

[@eyywannn8601]

@@tatianabasileus They knew about the Void then. Perintol’s robots were specifically noted to have a weakness to it.

[@ZeroOmega-vg8nq]

​@@eyywannn8601they knew of its existence but perhaps after albrecht the orokin higher ups realized the void is more pragmatic an option with the ability to create new worlds and realities with essentially infinite resources unlike planet colonization which still eventually leads to a planet being used up and more resources being used

[@photonicpizza1466]

The Zariman is well established to have been a colony ship aimed for Tau, the Holdfasts even directly talk about it during Angels of the Zariman.

[@cloudkracker9664]

Just curious, have you ever taken a look at the Orokin Archives when writing these videos? It's basically a giant lore respository for everything in game. It may come it handy if you don't want to hop in game everytime

[@hasea0295]

Cephalon simaris, a construct left behind to preserve History and record the Future. Built by the ingenious Librarian and Research Professor, Archimedean Stallord

[@NoahC69OC]

Thank you for everything 🙏🏽

[@johnlarsson5576]

fuck yes, thanks stallord for continue with the lore!

[@ddw34]

I like this interpretation, Thank you StallordD

[@gladteer873]

Can't believe this level of cinematic, graphic, story from a free game. They even added a new system just for that world....

[@PavelShevchuk]

I think i'm too dumb for this Duviri chapter. I hope upcoming content will make more sense to me

[@knicklichtjedi]

The way you said it at the end, makes me think that Duviri might be a place where the "Void War" could be born. I don't think we are strong enough, nor do we have the knowledge to fend off anything, if Wallie manages to open the gate a bit more and enter Duviri and from there also enter the World of Dust.

[@heyguysiguessthatsit4610]

YES YOU ARE BACK