History Characters / WarframeCorpus

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Employees of Nef who fight for him in The Index against the Tenno to try and get as much as credits they can while keeping their employer happy.

* TheDreaded: The Corpus seem fairly divided on their opinion of Granum; they either worship him as a sort of quasi-deity/founder of the Corpus, or they're scared shitless of him as a sort of vengeful boogeyman. The Board is certainly unhappy that he returned to the realspace and are making several plans to stop him. Railjack crew members of the Perrin Sequence will say they have seen Parvos in the Void with very scared voices, even their descriptions sometimes says that when they were younger, they got nightmares after hearing the stories of the Founder. Solaris United plays the trope straight, being scared shitless of him due to his [[WildCard unpredictable]] standing with him. To SU, Nef Anyo, at least, was predictable, but Parvos Granum is a complete enigma--and happens to hold ''legions'' more sway over the Corpus than Anyo ever did. On top of that, Parvos is a genius and a real mastermind unlike the bumbling Nef, so he could do real damage against the Solaris.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: A strong believer in this; he thinks that anyone with Desire - the dream to better oneself and improve one's wealth - should be given as much opportunity as reasonably possible to obtain it. It's for this reason he respects Solaris United and Vox Solaris, the workers and slaves, more than he does his "fellows" on the Corpus Board of Directors.

* HonestCorporateExecutive: Zig-zagged. Somehow overlaps this with CorruptCorporateExecutive, he is rather willing to lie and manipulate and trample on people to get what he wants, but he also prefers to obtain money through honest work, disdaining the current state of the Corpus for profiting from the works of others. He will also follow the rules set in his contracts no matter if that will hurt him, like how he gave back Drusus his Leverian Museum despite him losing an important asset that he could have used it to study its artifacts and get his splinter faction stronger. Granted, Parvos probably wanted this to happen so that the Tenno pay back the loan with Entrati artifacts so him being a honest corporate executive is more because of PragmaticVillainy and a XanatosGambit.

* IdleRich: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]. He '''despises''' those who reap the spoils of others' work, verbally eviscerating Nef for twisting his tenets into a philosophy of sloth and exploitation. Parvos himself is an [[InvertedTrope inversion]] of this trope, constantly seeking new ways to make his money work and make even more money.

--> '''Nef Anyo:''' [[BlatantLies No,]] [[DevastatingRemark that must be a different son.]]
--> '''Parvos Granum:''' You know nothing, falling short as you do of every ideal that I value. Your words, your efforts, are the model of inadequacy. I called you, Nef Anyo, but I do not need you. I need... them.

* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He seems to believe this, having born in a family of dirty poor farmers, he was in a very young age, put to work in the fields over long hours under the sun, wounding himself over the years as he grew up. This was exactly why he hated the Orokin so much, the slavery he and countless people had to go through convinced him to found the Corpus and attempt to end the slavery of the Orokin. This is also why he hates the modern Corpus so much, they became exactly the very thing Parvos tried to end when founding the Corpus.
* TragicVillain: For all of Parvos' ruthless and cruel behavior over the System, his origins definitely is very sad. During the times of the Orokin Empire, Parvos was born in a family of farmers who worked 24/7, collecting grains in the fields and paying a quota to their golden masters. The work made he and his family extremely injured and left them in a horrible health condition, and to add more salt to the injury, the Orokin paid them incredibly bad and not only did they do this to his family, but to hundreds of other farmer families. One day, tired of his low position in society and motivated by a mysterious voice, he went to the nearest Orokin city and started to stole gems from them, convinced he was only taking what he was owed, only for the guards trap him and cut off his left hand. But he managed to swallow a rubedo gem and dragged himself away back to home, where his brother Cladius bemoaned him for leaving them. He felt guilt because of this but the voice told him to spit the gem he swallowed and ransom it for money as a collateral. With that money, he started to give his fellow farmers loans and started his own business where he would become insanely rich. But despite all the money he had, Parvos couldn't save his father, who died working in the same field he used to live in. Both Parvos and Cladius mourned for his death, but he was now even more determined to end the slavery the Orokin made them all languish, building over the field they used to live and despite the protest of his brother, Corposium, a city where he would invite other people like him - people who wanted more when they had nothing - to try and use their intelligence and gain money through honest ventures. But not even his tenets would help him, as the Board he relied on, wanting to gain money through means Parvos unapproved, set a trap and overcharged the Void drives of the ship he was in, only surviving thanks to Protea, the warframe bodyguard he got from a deal of the Orokin, used her time manipulation abilities to protect him from the explotion. But not only did his bodyguard, whom he cared for, slowly became a Specter of herself, he saw within his own space of the Void, how without him, the Corpus slowly became no better than the Orokin he despised were, slavers that overexploited people with no chances to ever rise up like how he did. No wonder why Parvos is so ruthless, he believes that the Corpus must have a radical change for them to truly reform for the better. He considers the Corpus he built as his own son and he is truly in pain of what they have all become without his guidance, suggesting he might as well kill them all to make road to a new better Corpus.

* HonestCorporateExecutive: Zig-zagged. Somehow overlaps this with CorruptCorporateExecutive, he is rather willing to lie and manipulate and trample on people to get what he wants, but he will also follow the rules set in his contracts no matter if that will hurt him, like how he gave back Drusus his Leverian Museum despite him losing an important asset that he could have used it to study its artifacts and get his splinter faction stronger. Granted, Parvos probably wanted this to happen so that the Tenno pay back the loan with Entrati artifacts so him being a honest corporate executive is more because of PragmaticVillainy and a XanatosGambit.

* {{Macguffin}}: During ''Dante Unbound'', Parvos gives a [[LeonineContract exploitative loan]] to Drusus Leverian, the owner of the Leverian museum in order to make Drusus pay him back with his museum as collateral. He says that he wants the artifacts of the museum, one of them being an artifact that "speaks to him". Whatever Parvos is searching in the Leverian, it seems its something that could help him to take over the Corpus or at least boost his splinter faction of the Corpus in strength.

* BetterTheDevilYouKnow: During the ''Deadlock Protocol'', even though the mission begins with them fighting to keep Nef from becoming Chairman of the Board, Solaris United puts active effort into making sure he stays in power - because as vile, greedy and loathsome Nef may be, his stupidity, shortsightedness and vanity lets the SU work around him. Parvos Granum, who threatens to depose him, is actually competent and knows what he is doing while being no less exploitative in his own way - so letting him take the reigns will mean even worse exploitation to the Solaris people.

* PetTheDog: Despite manipulating the Tenno into helping him escape from the time prison and [[LetsYouAndHimFight pitting the Protea specter against them]] he holds a soft spot for Protea and is genuinely grateful for her saving his life, and laments that she was turned into a specter when she overextended her powers to save him. He even offers a sit to Solaris United, who are overexploited by Nef in his new Board of Directors.
* PragmaticVillainy: The name of the game with Parvos. He is devoid of campy or cartoony elements that can be found in other Corpus villains like Nef Anyo. Nor does he go out of his way to kick puppies or antagonise people around him like Alad V and instead puts up a very charming facade, realising that genuinely good treatment ensures genuine loyalty. He also does not spend his money on self-aggrandising frivolities, instead putting his assets to practical use.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He dislikes sentimentality, but the reason Sisters of Parvos are called that is because he desired a CoolBigSis in his youth who was smarter than his DumbMuscle brother, but just as trustworthy and reliable. That said, he will coldly shrug off the loss of any Sister who's slain by the Tenno, so he seems to have sentimentality [[WeHaveReserves only for the successful]][[note]]He will show genuine annoyance if the Tenno defeat a Rank 5 Sister, adding credence to this point of view[[/note]]. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with his claim of earning your wealth through your own hard work despite him making a lot of his money as a LoanShark - loaning people money and returning it with interest is a classic case of "getting richer without working yourself" but it's highly likely that Parvos also got a lot of money from not just loaning but other types of ventures and businesses, since he always tries to find new honest ways to get money, making him put a lot of effort and work to get money just as much as he gave people loans.

* EnlightenedSelfInterest: His tenet of ''Charity is power. More charity is more power'' tells that its good to do good things because it benefits you. This tenet has a darker meaning when Parvos gives to Drusus a unfair loan that would force the latter to pay him back with Leverian museum, using charity in order to empower and enrich himself.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Ed Kelly

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He absolutely loathes what the Corpus has become without his guidance and hates their obsession with wealth and elitism, and makes it clear that if he cannot change their ways, he'll start over with a new board and allow Eudico and Biz seats on it.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He dislikes sentimentality, but the reason Sisters of Parvos are called that is because he desired a CoolBigSis in his youth who was smarter than his DumbMuscle brother, but just as trustworthy and reliable. That said, he will coldly shrug off the loss of any Sister who's slain by the Tenno, so he seems to have sentimentality [[WeHaveReserves only for the successful]][[note]]He will show genuine annoyance if the Tenno defeat a Rank 5 Sister, adding credence to this point of view[[/note]]. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with his claim of earning your wealth through your own hard work despite him making a lot of his money as a LoanShark - loaning people money and returning it with interest is a classic case of "getting richer without working yourself" but it's highly likely that he also got a lot of money from not just loaning but other types of ventures, making him put a lot of effort and work to get money just as much as he gave people loans.

** Notably, he treats the threat from the Tau and the Sentients very seriously, and is disappointed with the Corpus seeing how they failed to better prepare for them.

* SelfMadeMan: Started off a poor farmer who lost his hand for stealing from the Orokin, but in the process managed to steal an ''incredibly'' valuable rubedo gem that was worth over ten generations of his normal pay grade. From there, he started a loaning service that got so successful that he was able to transform his farm into Corposium, the first Corpus city, and himself into a RichGenius.

* TragicVillain: For all of Parvos' ruthless and cruel behavior over the System, his origins definitely is very sad. During the times of the Orokin Empire, Parvos was born in a family of farmers who worked 24/7, collecting grains in the fields and paying a quota to their golden masters. The work made he and his family extremely injured and left them in a horrible health condition, and to add more salt to the injury, the Orokin paid them incredibly bad and not only did they do this to his family, but to hundreds of other farmer families. One day, tired of his low position in society and motivated by a mysterious voice, he went to the nearest Orokin city and started to stole gems from them, convinced he was only taking what he was owed. But the guards trapped him and cut off his left hand. But he managed to swallow a rubedo gem and dragged himself away back to home, where his brother Cladius bemoaned him for leaving them. He felt guilt because of this but the voice told him to spit the gem he swallowed and ransom it for money as a collateral. With that money, he started to give his fellow farmers loans and started his own business where he would become insanely rich. But despite all the money he had, Parvos couldn't save his father, who died working in the same field he used to live in. Both Parvos and Cladius mourned for his death, but he was now even more determined to end the slavery the Orokin made them all languish, building over the field they used to live and despite the protest of his brother, Corposium, a city where he would invite other people like him - people who wanted more when they had nothing - to try and use their intelligence and gain money through honest ventures. But not even his tenets would help him, as the Board he relied on, wanting to gain money through means Parvos unapproved, set a trap and overcharged the Void drives of the ship he was in, only surviving thanks to Protea, the warframe bodyguard he got from a deal of the Orokin, used her time manipulation abilities to protect him from the explotion. But not only did his bodyguard, whom he cared for, slowly became a Specter of herself, he saw within his own space of the Void, how without him, the Corpus slowly became no better than the Orokin he despised were, slavers that overexploited people with no chances to ever rise up like how he did. No wonder why Parvos is so ruthless, he believes that the Corpus must have a radical change for them to truly reform for the better. He considers the Corpus he built as his own son and he is truly in pain of what they have all become without his guidance, suggesting he might as well kill them all to make road to a new better Corpus.

* EvilOldFolks: As well as being a CoolOldGuy. A charming old fellow on the surface, but a ruthless crafty schemer at his core, he's been around from long before the Orokin fall. As ruthless as he is, Parvos is benevolent enough to give Solaris United the chance to rise up against Nef while giving Corpus women who are abused and neglected the chance to become his Sisters and serve a greater purpose. He praises the Tenno, Eudico and the Business for their diligence and self-reliance and spits the name of the elite Corpus like Nef for being exactly the very thing why Parvos hated the Orokin, the Corpus started to enslave people as well just like how the Orokin enslaved him and his community of farmers.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Modern day Corpus makes him look good by comparison but make no mistake - Parvos Granum is no less villainous than the organization which sprung from his ideals, since he is very willing to lie and manipulate everyone in his vicinity to obtain his goals, he just happens to be more fairer than the modern Corpus and would rather rely on honest work than profiting from other people's work.

* MadeOfIron: Against all odds, Parvos survived the loss of his hand to the Orokin as well as the burns he suffered from swallowing a molten gemstone. Then he goes back to the city he stole the gemstome from the next day to use as collateral for a loan.

* PetTheDog: Despite manipulating the Tenno into helping him escape from the time prison and [[LetsYouAndHimFight pitting the Protea specter against them]] he holds a soft spot for Protea and is genuinely grateful for her saving his life, and laments that she was turned into a specter when she overextended her powers to save him. He even offers a sit to both Eudico and Biz, two Solaris who were overexploited by Nef in his new Board of Directors.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Unlike the rest of the Corpus, Parvos isn't blinded by {{Greed}}, and in fact based the original Corpus on ideals of self-reliance. When he sees the modern state of the Corpus, he acknowledges that it may be time for a new board... and offers Eudico, Biz, and the Tenno seats on it. He even lets Drusus try to pay his loan back with the help of the Tenno.

* TragicVillain: For all of Parvos' ruthless and cruel behavior over the System, his {{Greed}} raising entire sectors, his origins definitely is very sad. During the times of the Orokin Empire, Parvos was born in a family of farmers who worked 24/7, collecting grains in the fields and paying a quota to their golden masters. The work made he and his family extremely injured and left them in a horrible health condition, and to add more salt to the injury, the Orokin paid them incredibly bad and not only did they do this to his family, but to hundreds of other farmer families. One day, tired of his low position in society and motivated by a mysterious voice, he went to the nearest Orokin city and started to stole gems from them, convinced he was only taking what he was owed. But the guards trapped him and cut off his left hand. But he managed to swallow a rubedo gem and dragged himself away back to home, where his brother Cladius bemoaned him for leaving them. He admits he felt guilt because of this but the voice told him to spit the gem he swallowed and ransom it for money as a collateral. With that money, he started to give his fellow farmers loans and started his own business where he would become insanely rich. But despite all the money he had, Parvos couldn't save his father, who died working in the same field he used to live in. Both Parvos and Cladius mourned for his death, but he was now even more determined to end the slavery the Orokin made them all languish, building over the field they used to live and despite the protest of his brother, Corposium, a city where he would invite other people like him - people who wanted more when they had nothing - to try and use their intelligence and gain money through honest ventures. But not even his tenets would help him, as the Board he recruited to help him, wanting to gain money through means Parvos unapproved, set a trap and overcharged the Void drives of the ship he was in, only surviving thanks to Protea, the warframe bodyguard he got from a deal of the Orokin, used her time manipulation abilities to protect him from the explotion. But not only did his bodyguard, whom he cared for, slowly became a Specter of herself, he saw within his own space of the Void, how without him, the Corpus slowly became no better than the Orokin he despised were, slavers that overexploited people with no chances to ever rise up like how he did. No wonder why Parvos is so ruthless, he believes that the Corpus must have a incredibly radical change for them to truly change for the better. He considers the Corpus he built as his own son and he is truly in pain of what they have all become without his guidance, suggesting he might as well kill them all to make road to a new Corpus.

* VillainsNeverLie: Implicitely averted. His commandments even state that it is wise to be deceptive, indicating that Parvos can (and will) lie to you. As a result, things he says about himself probably need to be taken with a grain of salt.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: A strong believer in this; he thinks that anyone with Desire - the dream to better oneself and improve one's wealth - should be given as much opportunity as reasonably possible to obtain it. It's for this reason he respects Vox Solaris, the ''workers'', more than he does his "fellows" on the Corpus Board of Directors.

* NonActionGuy: Whether it is by choice or otherwise, but Parvos does not fight himself, letting his spectres, and later Sisters as well as his personal Protea warframe act as his enforcers and protectors.

* TragicVillain: For all of Parvos' ruthless and cruel behavior over the System, his {{Greed}} raising entire sectors, his origins might make you understand why he is so motivated to obtain as much as money as he can. During the times of the Orokin Empire, Parvos was born in a family of farmers who worked 24/7, collecting grains in the fields and paying a quota to their golden masters. This work made he and his family extremely tired and left them in a bad health condition, the Orokin paid them incredibly bad and not only did they do this to his family, but to hundreds of other farmer families. One day, Parvos, both tired of the exploitation and motivated by a mysterious voice, went to the nearest Orokin city and started to stole gems from them, convinced he was only taking what he was owed. But the guards trapped him and cut off his left hand. But he managed to swallow a rubedo gem and dragged himself away back to home, where his brother Cladius scolded him for leaving them. He felt guilt because of this but the voice told him to spit the gem he swallowed and ransom it for money as a collateral. With that money, he started to give his fellow farmers loans and started his own business where he would become so insanely rich that he even the Orokin gave him respect. But despite all the money he had, Parvos couldn't save his father, who died working in the same field he used to live in. Both Parvos and Cladius mourned for his death, but Parvos was even more determined to end the slavery the Orokin made them all languish, planning to bulldoze the field and build Corposium, the city where he would invite other people like him - people who wanted more when they had nothing - to try and use their intelligence and gain money through honest ventures. But not even his tenets would help him, as the Board he recruited to help him, wanting to gain money through means Parvos hated and unapproved of, set him a trap and overcharged the Void drives of the ship he was in, only surviving thanks to Protea, the warframe bodyguard he got from a deal of the Orokin, used her time manipulation abilities to protect him from the explotion. But not only did his bodyguard, whom he cared for, slowly became a Specter of herself, he saw within his own space of the Void, how without him, the Corpus slowly became no better than the Orokin he despised were, slavers that overexploited people with no chances to ever rise up like how he did. No wonder why Parvos is so ruthless, he believes that the Corpus must have a incredibly radical change for them to truly change for the better. He considers the Corpus he built as his own son and he is truly in pain of what they have all become without his guidance, suggesting he might as well kill them all to make road to a new Corpus.

* AntiVillain: While he means well since he is trying to reform the Corpus into a much more benevolent and self-reliant version of itself, is genuinely at BenevolentBoss who treats his workers well and would rather help the Solaris who worked their asses off to death while the elite Corpus got fat with their work, offering the Tenno, Eudico and the Business sits on his new Board of Directors, ultimately Parvos' methods are incredibly morally dubious at best and highly corrupting at worst. He claims in his tenets that manipulating and being deceptive are valid ways of being a businessmen and that being sentimentally attached to someone is bad for businesses. In the end, his quest for reforming the Corpus is a selfish goal rather than a benevolent one.

* BatmanGambit: Having realized the potential ramifications of his discovery of the Specter Particle, Parvos rigged his lab to explode with a massive eighty mega-therm charge when the Orokin inevitably came knocking down his door with a Warframe assault force, incinerating the Warframes that came to arrest and/or kill him.

** When looking for new Sisters of Parvos, he deliberately selects for women abused and neglected by the Corpus in general, going by his quotes. Even when they don't make the cut, he still finds honest work for them - a mundane job in filing is still probably a big step up from whatever they were doing before.

** His arrangement with Drusus Leverian may be another example of this. He may be gracious enough to give Drusus a chance to pay off his loan by excavating Deimos relics - or he's intentionally playing Drusus and threatens him with foreclosure to put pressure on him and get him (and the Tenno) to produce valuable artifacts for him, making him richer without having Parvos waste any of his personal assets.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He dislikes sentimentality, but the reason Sisters of Parvos are called that is because he desired a CoolBigSis in his youth who was smarter than his DumbMuscle brother, but just as trustworthy and reliable. That said, he will coldly shrug off the loss of any Sister who's slain by the Tenno, so he seems to have sentimentality [[WeHaveReserves only for the successful]][[note]]He will show genuine annoyance if the Tenno defeat a Rank 5 Sister, adding credence to this point of view[[/note]]. His claim of earning your wealth through your own hard work also holds less water when you remember he made a lot of his money as a LoanShark - loaning people money and returning it with interest is a classic case of "getting richer without working yourself", although he holds more water when it's most likely that he also got a lot of money from not just loaning but other types of ventures, making him work a lot for money just as much as he gave people loans.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Modern day Corpus makes him look good by comparison but make no mistake - Parvos Granum is no less villainous than the organisation which sprung from his ideals.

* AnArmAndALeg: He lost his left hand and had it replaced with one of solid gold. The Granum Monuments are giant golden hands built to reflect this. He lost it due to stealing from the Orokin.

* ArtificialLimbs: One of his most striking features is his golden left hand, which he commisioned after swiping a number of valuable Rubedo jewels and getting his left hand cut off by the Orokin for it.

* EvilOldFolks: As well as being a CoolOldGuy. A charming old fellow on the surface, but a ruthless crafty schemer at his core, he's been around from long before the Orokin fall. As ruthless as he is, Parvos is benevolent enough to give Solaris United the chance to rise up against Nef while giving Corpus women who are abused and neglected the chance to become his Sisters and serve a greater purpose. He praises the Tenno, Eudico and the Business for their diligence and self-reliance and spits the name of the elite Corpus for being exactly the very thing why Parvos even started the Corpus, enslaving people for easy profit.

** Both are figures from the Orokin era and survived into the present day, but while the Queens did so intentionally through [[BodySurf use of Orokin continuity]], Parvos was instead trapped within the void for centuries and only escaped due to accidental actions by the Corpus.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He dislikes sentimentality, but the reason Sisters of Parvos are called that is because he desired a CoolBigSis in his youth who was smarter than his DumbMuscle brother, but just as trustworthy and reliable. That said, he will coldly shrug off the loss of any Sister who's slain by the Tenno, so he seems to have sentimentality [[WeHaveReserves only for the successful]][[note]]He will show genuine annoyance if the Tenno defeat a Rank 5 Sister, adding credence to this point of view[[/note]]. His claim of earning your wealth through your own hard work also holds less water when you remember he made a lot of his money as a LoanShark - loaning people money and returning it with interest is a classic case of "getting richer without working yourself", although he probably did get a lot of money from not just loaning but other types of ventures, making him work a lot for money just as much as he gave people loans.

* SlaveryIsASpecialTypeOfEvil: He seems to believe this, having born in a family of dirty poor farmers, he was in a very young age, put to work in the fields over long hours under the sun, wounding himself over the years as he grew up. This was exactly why he hated the Orokin so much, the slavery he and countless people had to go through convinced him to found the Corpus and attempt to end the slavery of the Orokin. This is also why he hates the modern Corpus so much, they became exactly the very thing Parvos tried to end when founding the Corpus.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Parvos is a ruthless business shark, willing to trample over other people in pursuit of his ambitions.

* EvilOldFolks: A charming old fellow on the surface, but a ruthless crafty schemer at his core, he's been around from long before the Orokin fall.

* TragicVillain: For all of Parvos' ruthless and cruel behavior over the System, his {{Greed}} raising entire sectors, his origins might make you understand why he is so motivated to obtain as much as money as he can. During the times of the Orokin Empire, Parvos was born in a family of farmers who worked 24/7, collecting grains in the fields and paying a quota to their golden masters. This work made he and his family extremely tired and left them in a bad health condition, the Orokin paid them incredibly bad and not only did they do this to his family, but to hundreds of other farmer families. One day, Parvos, both tired of the exploitation and motivated by a mysterious voice, went to the nearest Orokin city and started to stole gems from them, convinced he was only taking what he was owed. But the guards trapped him and cut off his left hand. But he managed to swallow a rubedo gem and dragged himself away back to home, where his brother Cladius scolded him for leaving them. He felt guilt because of this but the voice told him to spit the gem he swallowed and ransom it for money as a collateral. With that money, he started to give his fellow farmers loans and started his own business where he would become so insanely rich that he even the Orokin gave him respect. But despite all the money he had, Parvos couldn't save his father, who died working in the same field he used to live in. Both Parvos and Cladius mourned for his death, but Parvos was even more determined to end the slavery the Orokin made them all languish, planning to bulldoze the field and build Corposium, the city where he would invite other people like him - people who wanted more when they had nothing - to try and use their intelligence and gain money through honest ventures. But not even his tenets would help him, as the Board he recruited to help him, wanting to gain money through means Parvos hated and unapproved of, set him a trap and overcharged the Void drives of the ship he was in, only surviving thanks to Protea, the warframe bodyguard he got from a deal of the Orokin, used her time manipulation abilities to protect him from the explotion. But not only did his bodyguard, whom he cared for, slowly became a Specter of herself, he saw within his own space of the Void, how without him, the Corpus slowly became no better than the Orokin he despised were, slavers that overexploited people with no chances to ever rise up like how he did. No wonder why Parvos is so ruthless, he believes that the Corpus must have a incredibly radical change for them to truly change for the better.

* DivineAssistance: Back when he was a lowly farmer, Parvos was one day spoken by a voice that encouraged him to desire more and take the wealth that was owed to him. The advices of the voice would later become his ''tenets'', which he would later use to teach the masses and preach of how desire should be used. He described this voice as the voice of Desire. [[spoiler:It is heavily implied that the voice Parvos heard was the Man in the Wall, since the Corpus has a heavy emphasis on worshipping the Void as well in order to get more fortune.]]
* TheDreaded: Implied. The Corpus seem fairly divided on their opinion of Granum; they either worship him as a sort of quasi-diety/founder of the Corpus, or they're scared shitless of him as a sort of vengeful boogeyman. The Board is certainly unhappy that he returned to the realspace and are making several plans to stop him. Railjack crew members of the Perrin Sequence will say they have seen Parvos in the Void with very scared voices, even their descriptions sometimes says that when they were younger, they got nightmares after hearing the stories of the Founder. Solaris United plays the trope straight, being scared shitless of him due to his [[WildCard unpredictable]] standing with him. To SU, Nef Anyo, at least, was predictable, but Parvos Granum is a complete enigma--and happens to hold ''legions'' more sway over the Corpus than Anyo ever did. On top of that, Parvos is a genius and a real mastermind unlike the bumbling Nef, so he could do real damage against the Solaris.

* EvilOldFolks: A charming old fellow on the surface, but a ruthless crafty schemer at his core, he's been around from long before the Orokin fall.* EvilVirtues:

* {{Foil}}: To [[Characters/WarframeGrineer The Twin Queens]]

* GoodCapitalismEvilCapitalism: Parvos is a more realistically written case of an evil capitalist. Compared to the rest of the Corpus he's not stupidly greedy and does not aim for profit for its own sake, but rather strives to obtain money as a means to pursue more and more daring and grand ambitions and projects. He also espouses the virtue of hard work, which forms the main basis of his conflict with the Corpus - Parvus loathes that the current Corpus leaders get fat off the profits and work of other people, without doing anything to earn their wealth themselves. However, his agenda is ultimately selfish (he makes money for himself, not for the sake of his society or other people) and he is guided by his very manipulative and exploitative code of ethics, which leads him to subjugate and control other people in pursuit of his goals anyway. This makes him a {{Foil}} to Ergo Glast, who conducts his business in a strictly ethical matter with the end goal of bringing shared prosperity to everyone, and still managed to be a very successfull good capitalist.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He dislikes sentimentality, but the reason Sisters of Parvos are called that is because he desired a CoolBigSis in his youth who was smarter than his DumbMuscle brother, but just as trustworthy and reliable. That said, he will coldly shrug off the loss of any Sister who's slain by the Tenno, so he seems to have sentimentality [[WeHaveReserves only for the successful]][[note]]He will show genuine annoyance if the Tenno defeat a Rank 5 Sister, adding credence to this point of view[[/note]]. His claim of earning your wealth through your own hard work also holds less water when you remember he made a lot of his money as a LoanShark - loaning people money and returning it with interest is a classic case of "getting richer without working yourself".

* PetTheDog: Despite manipulating the Tenno into helping him escape from the time prison and [[LetsYouAndHimFight pitting the Protea specter against them]] he holds a soft spot for Protea and is genuinely grateful for her saving his life, and laments that she was turned into a specter when she overextended her powers to save him.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He dislikes sentimentality, but the reason Sisters of Parvos are called that is because he desired a CoolBigSis in his youth who was smarter than his DumbMuscle brother, but just as trustworthy and reliable. That said, he will coldly shrug off the loss of any Sister who's slain by the Tenno, so he seems to have sentimentality [[WeHaveReserves only for the successful]][[note]]He will show genuine annoyance if the Tenno defeat a Rank 5 Sister, adding credence to this point of view[[/note]].

* {{Ubermehsch}}: When Parvos had his realisation and formed his commandments, he came up with his own moral code and system of values, rejecting the lot fate had dealt him, and since then lived his life his own way ignoring the rules and conventions of society at large. He discarded the Orokin notion that he had only one station in life that he was not allowed to change and sought to improve it, and he also did away with the idea that you shouldn't lie and lead people on.

* XanathosGambit: Executes one in ''Deadlock Protocol''. Once his Void pocket is breached, he begins sending out his spectres into the real world, planning to take over the Corpus fleet where his portals are located. However, after the Tenno subdue his spectres, it turns out Granum himself has already fled the Void and is on the loose, using the spectres invasion as a distraction. With the fleet or without, one way or another he's free.

*** The Twins Queens are loved by the Grineer primarily due to propaganda, while it's implied the Corpus followed Parvos out of genuine loyalty due to him being a BenevolentBoss.
*** [[EvilMakesYouUgly The Twins Queens look like humanoid worms due to transferring their minds into Grineer bodies that are suffering from cloning degradation]], while [[BeautyEqualsGoodness the benevolent Parvos is surprisingly good looking for a man of his age]].
*** [[BadBoss The Twin Queens are horrible to their underlings]], while Parvos is a BenevolentBoss and more than willing to have Biz and Eudico on the new Corpus Board.

* GoodCapitalismEvilCapitalism: Parvos is a more realistically written case of an evil capitalist. Compared to the rest of the Corpus he's not stupidly greedy and does not strive for profit for its own sake, but rather strives to obtain money as a means to pursue more and more daring and grand ambitions and projects. He also espouses the virtue of hard work, which forms the main basis of his conflict with the Corpus - Parvus loathes that the current Corpus leaders get fat off the profits and work of other people, without doing anything to earn their wealth themselves. However, his agenda is ultimately selfish (he makes money for himself, not for the sake of his society or other people) and he is guided by his very manipulative and exploitative code of ethics, which leads him to subjugate and control other people in pursuit of his goals anyway. This makes him a {{Foil}} to Ergo Glast, who conducts his business in a strictly ethical matter with the end goal of bringing shared prosperity to everyone, and still managed to be a very successfull good capitalist.

** Notably, he treats the threat from the Tau and the Sentients very seriously, and is disappointed with the Corpus seeing how they squandered their chance to better prepare for it.

* AntiVillain: His goals are far, far more benevolent than the mainstream Corpus and he's far more reasonable, to the point of extending an invitation to his new board to Vox Solaris. His and the Tenno's opposition in "The Deadlock Protocol" is also mostly of circumstance, thanks to his using the Solaris workers as hostages. All of this said, one of his tenets advertises deception, another encourages one to be envious of other's possessions and then take them and as said earlier he holds Solaris hostage to get out of the Void. In ''Dante Unbound'', Parvos gives to Drusus a exploitative loan to him, knowing that Drusus wouldn't be able to pay him back and as collateral, he would be forced to pay him back through the Orokin and Entrati artifacts of the museum so that he could study them and empower himself with new knowledge of Entrati tech.

* {{Ubermehsch}}: When Parvos had his realisation and formed his commandments, he came up with his own moral code and system of values, rejecting the lot fate had dealt him, and since then lived his life his own way ignoring the rules and conventions of society at large - he discarded the Orokin notion that he had only one lot in life and sought to improve it, and he also did away with the idea that you shouldn't lie and lead people on.

* WeWantOurJerkBack: During the ''Deadlock Protocol'', even though the mission begins with them fighting to keep Nef from becoming Chairman of the Board, Solaris United puts active effort into making sure he stays in power - because as vile, greedy and loathsome Nef may be, his stupidity, shortsightedness and vanity lets the SU work around him. Parvos Granum, who threatens to depose him, is actually competent and knows what he is doing while being no less exploitative in his own way - so letting him take the reigns will mean even worse exploitation to the Solaris people.

* AffablyEvil: He's arguably not really evil, seeing the modern Corpus as a {{Greed}}-drunk sham compared to the corporation he built on tenets of self-reliance. He and the Tenno likely wouldn't even be antagonists under better circumstances, as his primary target is Nef Anyo, who the Tenno are by no means allied with, and he even wishes for the Corpus to prepare to combat the Tau threat; however, he's holding several Solaris (who Nef sent in as guinea pigs) hostage in order to have the Tenno open portals for his Specters, and without stopping his flow of Specters, the Tenno would be trapped in the Void with him thanks to Nef's incompetence. After the quest he mails the Tenno, telling them he plans to rebuild the Corpus and offering both the Solaris and the Tenno a seat at the table, offering them whatever they Desire. That said, for all his good intentions, he's not entirely above underhanded means, as his tenets state that deception is the sword of wisdom as well as encourage others to take what it is they covet. He also shuns sentimentality, calling it a weakness ([[{{Hypocrite}} in spite of the Sisters]]). He also becomes a lot less affable during ''Dante Unbound'', where Parvos gives Drusus a loan that's seemingly impossible to pay back so he can take the entire Leverian as collateral, with the intentions to study the artifacts of the museum to empower his splinter faction of the Corpus, all the while belittling Drusus over what he thinks is a private comm.

* CoolOldGuy: He's a genial old fellow who believes in tenets of self-reliance and making yourself a SelfMadeMan. After being fed up with the abuse of the Orokin, he goes to the city to take several gem, got his left hand getting cut but managing to spat out a moltem gem he managed to sneak and with the money he made with the gem after giving it back as a collateral, starts a loaning service that got so successful that he managed to not only make his body whole and commission his iconic golden hand prosthetic, he even managed create the entire Corpus Empire with the money he made with it. He even manages to survive two assassination attempts, the first one, he burns the Warframe hit squad into crisps when they were trying to steal his Specter Particle research by detonating a massive bomb that was under his lab and the second one when the Board tries to remove him from the leadership of the Corpus and overloaded the Void drives of his ship, but thanks to Protea and her time manipulation abilities, he survived that too but was left stranded in the Void. He heaps praise on the Tenno and Solaris United Vox Solaris for their bravery and ability to fend for themselves, while ripping into Nef Anyo's incompetence and gluttony. Now he has created a splinter faction within the Corpus to remodel it so that it is more akin to his ideals of self-reliance while also creating a group of elite soldiers known as the ''Sisters of Parvos''.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: To the extent he's ''evil'' at all, but he had a father and a brother who he genuinely cared for (though he admits to thinking of his brother as naive DumbMuscle in the intro to Sisters of Parvos), and he seems quite fond of his Tenno bodyguard, Protea.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He absolutely loathes what the Corpus has become without his guidance and hates their obsession with wealth and elitism, and makes it clear that if he cannot change their ways, he'll start over with a new board and allow Eudico and Biz seats on it.
* EvilVirtues: Parvos is the epitome of Diligence - he is a true example of a SelfMadeMan who had started from the very bottom, worked his way to the top and never rested on his laurels even after he got there. If it weren't for his ruthless and exploitative ethics he'd be an admirable figure.

* GoodCapitalismEvilCapitalism: Parvos is the good capitalist (at least, not as cruel and exploitative) in contrast to the Board's evil capitalists. He created the entire Corpus Empire through hard and honest work and his tenets of self-reliance with the desire to free his fellow farmers from the slavery of the Orokin and he is absolutely disgusted that the Board has turned his great dream into everything he hated about the Orokins and their elitism. Especially with Nef, seeing him as the worst aspects the Corpus has developed over the years and plans to reorganize the Corpus to make it more reliant in honest work and self-reliance rather than the overexploitation of other people and in case he can't do it, destroy the Corpus and start all over again.

* HonestCorporateExecutive: In contrast to all other current members of the Corpus Board, Parvos is this, being genuinely kind and respectful to his employees. In fact, one of his tenets is that charity is power, and that more charity equates to more power, in stark contrast to the modern Corpus' refusal to give or accept charity. It's implied this is why the board tried to assassinate him. He even seems to like Solaris United, a resistance group that fights against the Corpus, given he harbors no grudge against them and invites them to join his new board.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Modern day Corpus makes him look good by comparison but make no mistake - Parvos Granum is no less villainous than contemporary Corpus.

* PragmaticVillainy: Parvos may be a wise and honest man who plans to remake the Corpus in order to make it more attuned to his tenets of self-reliance, even inviting Eudico and Biz who are low-class laborers to join his new Board because he respects more the self-reliance and bravery they display rather than the credit-obsessed and lazy elite of the Corpus, but he is ruthless on how he does it, with his tenets saying that deception is a wise strategy and taking what you covet, as well as saying that sentimentality is a weakness that should be shunned. That said, he doesn't plan to use blatantly underhanded and unfair strategies to make this happen. During ''Dante Unbound'', Parvos is reasonable enough to give Drusus a chance to repay the exploitative loan if the Tenno helps him to pay it back, since Parvos gave that loan to take Orokin and Entrati artifacts to study them.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Unlike the rest of the Corpus, Parvos isn't motivated by {{Greed}} in the purely monetary sense, and in fact based the original Corpus on ideals of self-reliance. When he sees the modern state of the Corpus, he acknowledges that it may be time for a new board... and offers Eudico, Biz, and the Tenno seats on it. He even lets Drusus try to pay his loan back with the help of the Tenno

* WeWantOurJerkBack: During the ''Deadlock Protocol'' Solaris United puts active effort into making sure he stays in power - because as vile, greedy and loathsome Nef may be, his stupidity, shortsightedness and vanity lets the SU work around him. Parvos Granum, who threatens to depose him, is actually competent and knows what he is doing while being no less exploitative in his own way - so letting him take the reigns will mean even worse exploitation to the Solaris people.

* {{Hypocrite}}: A sympathetic version - he dislikes sentimentality, but the reason Sisters of Parvos are called that is because he desired a CoolBigSis in his youth who was smarter than his DumbMuscle brother, but just as trustworthy and reliable. That said, he will coldly shrug off the loss of any Sister who's slain by the Tenno, so he seems to have sentimentality [[WeHaveReserves only for the successful]][[note]]He will show genuine annoyance if the Tenno defeat a Rank 5 Sister, adding credence to this point of view[[/note]].
* IdleRich: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]. He '''despises''' those who reap the spoils of others' work, verbally eviscerating Nef for twisting his tenets into a philosophy of sloth and exploitation. Parvos himself is an [[InvertedTrope inversion]] of this trope, constantly seeking new ways to invest his fortune to make even more money.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Unlike the rest of the Corpus, Parvos isn't motivated at all by {{Greed}} in the purely monetary sense, and in fact based the original Corpus on ideals of self-reliance. When he sees the modern state of the Corpus, he acknowledges that it may be time for a new board... and offers Eudico, Biz, and the Tenno seats on it. He even lets Drusus try to pay his loan back with the help of the Tenno

* HateSink: Nef's smarmy and arrogant demeanor, {{Greed}} that makes even other Corpus disdain him, BlatantLies, being the responsible of the creation of the incredibly annoying Bursas proxies as well of sending his Razorback Armada on relays periodically has made him one of the most easily hateable characters of all the game, so much so that most of the players sided with Alad V against him in Tubemen of Regor event -- the same Alad V who most players outright hated for abducting and dissecting Tennos[[note]]To be [[BlatantLies fair]], the abduction is lore-based and Alad V is simply CuttingOffTheBranches[[/note]]. And then Fortuna dropped. By the Void. More specifically, Nef has in one fell swoop become a character who commits [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil civil-rights atrocities]] on a daily basis, casually forces his workers into {{Sadistic Choice}}s and [[FateWorseThanDeath horrific punishment]], and his smarm has been kicked up a notch. Probably, his worst actions shown in the game is when not only does he tries to gain the leadership of the entirety of the Corpus by saying that he is the biological son of Parvos Granum, the founder of the Corpus, [[spoiler:when Nef does meet Parvos, he immediately tries to convince him to honor all of his crimes. When Parvos rightfully refuses to support someone as Nef, he throws a tantrum and lets the Corpus fleet the Tenno was in be destroyed by the Specters of Parvos, with all of his crewmen not being able to escape and leaving a massive amount of his own {{Mook}}s to die, all out of complete spite that Parvos won't help him, with him away of the danger.]] All in all, Nef is the worst of the Corpus, given form, voice and a personality.

* GoodFortuneFromGod: They believe that the Void will reward their hard work and productivity with massive amounts of credits by worshiping it. Particularly prominent from Nef Anyo and [[{{Egopolis}} Anyocorp]]. Nef promises the Void will take notice of, bless, and give returns on any investments and donations, [[SarcasmMode coincidentally]] in ventures that Anyocorp has ownership in. It's not strictly known if Nef himself believes this or if he's simply a ConMan on top of being a major business magnate, but the fact his initial appearance was modeled off of U.S. televangelists and that he has went so far as to make a temple makes it all the more transparent that he crosses profit and religion more than other Corpus. [[spoiler:It is implied that the voice that Parvos was greeted and would guide him into prosperity was actually from the Man in the Wall, which would explain why the Corpus worships the Void as much as they do to Profit.]]

** He orders an Orokin cooling tower reactivated after the people whose ''entire job'' revolves around knowing how to get it working again tell him that this will ''break it'', then [[NeverMyFault blames Solaris when this is exactly what happens]]. In case you haven't noticed by this point, Orokin constructs are highly-advanced LostTechnology that the Corpus as a whole dedicate themselves to scavenging and reverse-engineering, and this particular construct (a coolant tower) would have let Anyo exploit even ''more'' of Venus' untapped resources for profit if he'd just ''listened to the experts''. His actions cost Anyocorp an irreplaceable asset that would have made him a proverbial mint, and his petulant lashing out at Solaris afterward not only serves ''zero'' useful purpose, but [[NiceJobFixingItVillain convinces Eudico to reactivate Vox Solaris and start fighting him again]]!

* BloodSport: The host of one. The Index is a betting arena in Neptune owned by Nef where Tenno and employees of AnyoCorp duke it out and try to score enough points dropped when killing a member of the opponent team. The Index is divided in three difficulties, each one costing more credits in order to enter but will pay more than the previous one.