History Recap / Warframe

-->'''Location:''' ''All synthesis entries within Cephalon Simaris' library, the various scannable objects found within the Origin System and Plains of Eidolon barring the Somachord Fragments and Frame Fighter Character data, and many of the game's quests have some allusion to the Orokin in one form or another.''

-->'''Location:''' ''All synthesis entries within Cephalon Simaris' library, the various scannable objects found within the Origin System and Plains of Eidolon barring the Somachord Fragments, and many of the game's quests have some allusion to the Orokin in one form or another.''

However, his plan failed and the Executors thought of his attempted SuicideByCop to merely be ActuallyPrettyFunny, as their means of Immortality meant that they could die thousands of times before truly biting it. As punishment, Ballas uploaded Karris' mind into the Cephalon Weave and assigned him to watch over the Orbiter of a Tenno Soldier in the Old War, rechristening him as "Ordis" and erasing his memories.

In order to fight the oncoming tide of Sentient, Infested, and Grineer rebels, the Orokin ironically turned once again to the Technocyte Plague that had spawned all manner of Infested horrors within Origin, this time creating a hybrid of human and Infested biology as a sort of SuperSoldier, called a "Warframe". The humans used to facilitate this process were a mix of both volunteers and unwilling participants, the latter implied to have discovered Ballas' plans at defecting at some point in time. In one particular instance, a renowned Dax Soldier who had fallen ill was turned into one of the first Warframes, an Excalibur with the code-name "Umbra"; it's implied that all Warframes created by infusing humans with the Technocyte Plague had this code-name. The Umbra Warframes, and all subsequent "First" Warframes, all had one burning memory implanted into their human halves in order to further increase their potency against the Sentients.

However, these warriors were ultimately considered failures and killed due to their Infested biology and memory-fueled rages causing them to become unstoppable berserkers, that is, until an incident involving a Rhino Warframe (presumably either a Primed or Umbral variant) that had breached containment in an Orokin facility and had gone on a rampage wound up within a room containing a Tenno Reservoir, which instantly calmed it. This turned out to be the key needed to tame the Warframes: the Tenno's basic empathy allowed them to soothe the UnstoppableRage the Warframes felt one way or another, and thus they became surrogates to the Tenno.

Ordan Karris was a mercenary fighting for the Orokin Empire in order to contain rebellious elements, known as "[[RedBaron The Beast of The Bones]]" due to the sheer number of people he killed. As he was to be honored by the Orokin Executors for his service in the form of eternal life, Karris was horrified to learn that he was affected by a terminal cancer that had already metastasized within his body and would kill him within months. Already afflicted with PTSD from his many, many campaigns against Orokin rebels real or imagined, and believing himself naught but an UnwittingPawn for the vain and beautiful after a fateful encounter with a young child accused of being a spy, Karris formulated a plan to go out in a blaze of glory. Using bone plugs - daggers meant to serve as a way for him and his elite to [[TakingYouWithMe take as many enemies as they could with them]] if suicide were the only way out of a corner - Karris slaughtered several Executors and Dax Soldiers at the ceremony meant to honor him and reward him with eternal life. However, his plan failed and the Executors thought of his attempted SuicideByCop to merely be ActuallyPrettyFunny, as their means of Immortality meant that they could die thousands of times before truly biting it. As punishment, Ballas uploaded Karris' mind into the Cephalon Weave and assigned him to watch over the Orbiter of a Tenno Soldier in the Old War, rechristening him as "Ordis" and erasing his memories.

The Tenno are invited to visit the town of Cetus and become familiar with it and its Ostron inhabitants, as the Grineer's harassment of the town is becoming more than what the local militia can handle. The settlement, located in a region of Earth untouched by the planet's massive forests, is home to a still-living Orokin Tower and its prophetic, feminine intelligence, known as the "Unum", that Cetus lives in the shadow of. Beyond Cetus lies the title "Plains of Eidolon", the site of a massive battle between Orokin forces and an enormous Sentient, so-called due to ghost-like Sentient fragments rising up at night to mournfully patrol the remains of their once whole form, ranging from small Eidolon Vomvalysts that serve as support units for larger fragments, to the colossal Eidolon Teralyst, Gauntalyst, and Hydrolyst. Upon entering Cetus, the Tenno introduces themselves to the most prominent members of the Ostrons' merchant community: Hai-Luk, a wistful fisherwoman who sometimes wishes she had taken a different career path, Master Teasonai, a weary old beastmaster specializing in rearing Kubrows and Kavats as well as more "Exotic" beasts, Hok, a master blacksmith and head of the local militia who is constantly annoyed by his LazyBum assistant Pedlek, Nakak, a kindly young girl who specializes in masks and ship decorations [[TheFaceless who is never seen without a mask on,]] Old Man Sumbaat, a no-nonsense prospector and purveyor of rare goods, and the chief of the Ostrons himself, Konzu. In order to prove themselves, the Tenno must go out onto the Plains and complete some tasks that Konzu has need for them to complete, as dictated by the mysterious Quills, a guild of {{Seers}} who largely keep to themselves, but that the Tenno might be able to accrue favor from...

After completing some tasks for Konzu, the Tenno talks with Konzu and learns about his oldest friends: Onkko, quiet, bookish, and brilliant, and Saya, stubborn, headstrong, and vigilant. Despite these two being complete polar opposites, Onkko and Saya were HappilyMarried, and everything was as good and jolly with the three of them as it could be... until Onkko disappeared, five years prior to the Tenno's arrival in Cetus. Now, Saya lives on the outskirts of town, and her attitude toward Konzu [[WeUsedToBeFriends could not be any colder.]] Konzu's worried that the Grineer have found evidence of Onkko still being alive, and he wants the Tenno to make sure that she doesn't go out and get herself killed.

* Archmedians, the scholars and scientists of the Empire.

In order to fight the oncoming tide of Sentient, Infested, and Grineer rebels, the Orokin ironically turned once again to the Technocyte Plague that had spawned all manner of Infested horrors within Origin, this time creating a hybrid of human and Infested biology as a sort of SuperSoldier. The humans used were a mix of both volunteers and unwilling participants. In one particular instance, a renowned Dax Soldier who had fallen ill was turned into one of the first Warframes, an Excalibur with the code-name "Umbra". It's implied that all Warframes created by infusing humans with the Technocyte Plague had this code-name. However, this method of creating Warframes was later discarded in favor of mass-produced Prime and non-Prime Warframes created through the use of a specific, "Docile" Infested entity called Helminth. The Umbra Warframes, and all subsequent "First" Warframes, all had one burning memory implanted into their human halves in order to further increase their potency against the Sentients.

During the Old War, an old Orokin Archemidian reminisced on her experiences in life, musing over how she had taken an oath to maintain her memories in order to become a living codex of the knowledge of the Orokin Empire. Realizing that senility/early-onset Alzheimer's was threatening to steal her ability to uphold her oath when she fails to recall details regarding a recent battle as well as the name of the man she loves, she voluntarily underwent the BrainUploading ceremony that turned her into a Cephalon, specifically Cephalon Suda. Her love is implied to have become Cephalon Simaris at some later point in time.

Of the Orokin, only four are known to have survived the massacre: The Twin Queens of the Grineer, Archimedian Sylvanas via Transference to the Silver Grove, and Executor Ballas through unknown means.[[note]]The Lotus is not counted due to her being a Sentient who assumed Margulis' form.[[/note]]

During the final days of the Old War, the Unum Tower came under attack by a massive Sentient, who sought to break through her DeflectorShields to get to the people within like many of the Orokin Towers on Earth it had assaulted before. Weakened by sunlight, the Sentient would attack during the night before retreating to tend to its wounds in the daytime. When it realized that the Tower's Kuva - the Unum's lifeblood - might be able to heal it from its journey through the Void, it became much more brazen in its attacks; and started devouring the local wildlife to get at the Temple Kuva found within them, gifted to them by the Unum to be her scouts during the Sentient's assault, as she was reluctant to send out [[CargoShip her lover]], the Warframe Gara, to deal with the entity trapped within her force fields. These more vicious attacks threatened to tear through the Unum's barriers, and Gara, in a HeroicSacrifice, [[FeedItABomb fed herself and a hydrogen bomb]] to the Sentient, detonating her fusion package when it reached the Sentient's heart. Because of her sacrifice, what was once a dangerous soldier in the service of Hunhow was now a mindless beast, half-ghost, half-Sentient, which could do little more than wander about and mournfully wail in despair at its fragments. [[AlasPoorVillain It's a tragic end for the Sentient,]] but in the end it's better than leaving it to fully heal itself and get loose.

However, decades later, merchants trading in orbit of Earth would be surprised by a signal, consisting of a single woman's voice, calling out to their ships. This voice never told them where she was, but begged to know of the Ostrons and the Yingbinyudai clade in particular. When word reached the aforementioned, they realized that it was Er-Phryah, still alive and well, even though she was living on Earth, its atmosphere still choked and polluted from thousands of years of Orokin hubris; as the great forests sprung from the Silver Grove were still young. When they came to Earth, Er-Phryah was overjoyed, and told them to set down in the shadow of a mighty Orokin Tower - the very Unum Tower that Gara had defended so many years ago. The Ostrons quickly found out why when the Grineer attempted to slaughter them - the Unum maintained a strict TruceZone on the territory within her shadow, rendering their mighty weapons of war nothing more than useless bricks of iron and steel. Reunited with Er-Phryah, and surprised that she and Mer-Sah were HappilyMarried despite their fears, the Ostrons used the Unum's powers to set up a town within her shadow, called "Karafamil" ('The Family and Prosperity'). With the Unum's blessing, the Ostrons began harvesting her tower for the meat they would need to survive, while Er-Phryah became the first of Karafamil's leaders.

Much of what is known about the Ghouls came from a rogue Corpus scientist who lived much of his life in Cetus. Believing that the Ghouls had dug up secrets from the ground, this scientist studied these Grineer shock troopers almost religiously... before leaving his notes and journals with their leader, Konzu, and disappearing entirely.

[[AbortedArc While much of Savah's story was left hanging,]] he was right about Venari escaping Venus unharmed - Helios Sentinels under the command of Cephalon Simaris found her later and proceeded to Synthesize her into Sanctuary. Meanwhile, a Quill - implied to be Onkko - gave Simaris Khora's pieces to be added into Sanctuary as well. Shortly afterward, both Warframe and Kavat ''hid themselves'' within the Sanctuary, something Simaris thought impossible for a sentient being to do. Now, Khora and Venari roam Simaris' ForeverWar datascape, rewarding lucky Tenno with the blueprints to one of her parts so that she and Venari may roam the real world once again.

!{{VideoGame/DarkSector}}
Digital Extremes previously said that Hayden Tenno, the protagonist of VideoGame/DarkSector, is the first Tenno. Fans were skeptical whether events in VideoGame/DarkSector were canonically part of Warframe's timeline or not, up until mid-2015 when Digital Extreme retracted the statement and made it clear that VideoGame/DarkSector is ''not'' canon to the Warframe timeline. At least, not directly. The events of VideoGame/DarkSector still happened, but so far in the past that any effects on Warframe's plot is negligible.

The Grineer are clones created by the Orokin, designed to have low intelligence and thus suited for hard labor. Several Synthesis Codex entries show the Grineer putting their tools to use as a weapon. The Orokin treated them like slaves and even used them as meatshields against Infested attacks. Even the most foolish animal has its limits; Tyl Regor's dialogue during the "Natah" quest indicates that the Sentients freed them from Orokin control during the Old war, instigating a rebellion and the eventual creation of the Grineer Empire.

!The Old War and Technocyte Virus

At one point, the Sentient turned against its masters, attacking and subverting any Orokin technology used against it. The situation went largely bad for the Orokin.

It is assumed that the Technocyte Virus was created to combat the Sentients, but it went rogue, assimilating everything in its path and attacking everything else, including the Orokin.

!The Children of Zariman 10-0

The Zariman 10-0 was a ship that had a void-jump accident; it was considered lost until it reappeared, years later. Investigation showed that all hands were lost, save for the children, who were twisted by the energies of the void.

A researcher named Margulis constantly tried to comfort the orphans, despite their periodic outbursts that harmed her and once rendered her blind. It is hinted by the Lotus that the Orokin executed Margulis. The Orokin used the findings she left behind to create 'Transference', a procedure that transport the consciousness of its subject into a stronger, more resilient body, allowing the children to channel and focus their powers to serve the Orokin Empire: the Warframes. They were the given weapons of the old ways; guns, swords, bows, to succeed where both advanced and zero-tech armaments of the Orokin failed, the controlling children locked up in cyrostatis sleep and hidden inside the Moon.

!Tenno rebellion and the Fall of Orokin
-->'''Available''': Stalker's codex entry

-->'''Available''': ''Natah'' questline

The Lotus is a Sentient, once named Natah, who infiltrated the ranks of Orokin Empire as part of a Sentient plan to use the Tenno to wipe the Orokin out. She was supposed to destroy them afterwards; however, the Lotus became attached to Tenno, desiring 'children' of her own, since the passage through the void made her barren. She put the Tenno away in 'second dream', leaving the final part of the Sentient plan unfulfilled.

From here, you set off on a series of missions (which also serve as an extended tutorial) in order to build an Ascaris Negator. Upon using the Negator, it is revealed that the Ascaris had a failsafe and instead burrowed deeper inside the warframe. Vor's assimilation of you is inevitable now; your only hope is to deactivate the Ascaris permanently by eliminating Vor..

During the process of the quest, the player encounters more allies;

!Operations Sling-Stone and Arid Fear

!The Gradivus Dilemma
-->'''Available''': 24 October 2013 - 30 October 2013 (World event)

!The Hunt for Alad V
-->'''Available''': 20 November 2013 (World event, alongside Update 11)

!Cicero Crisis
-->'''Available''': 19 December 2013 - 6 January 2014 (World event)

-->'''Available''': 29 January - 5 February 2014 (World event)

!Tethra's Doom
-->'''Available''': 5-12 March 2014 (World event)

!Specters of Liberty
-->'''Available''': 2-8 May 2014 (World Event, alongside Update 13.2)

!Operation Breeding Grounds
-->'''Available''': June 2014 (World event)

!Gate Crash
-->'''Available''': September 2014

!The Mutalist Incursions and Patient Zero
-->'''Available''': November-December 2014 (Mutalist Incursions only)

!Eyes of Blight
-->'''Available''': December 2014

!False Profit and The Tubemen of Regor

!Shadow Debt
-->'''Available''': January-February 2016

!Rathuum
-->'''Available''': April-May 2016

While these events transpire, new information is revealed about the history of the Tenno and the Zariman Ten-Zero accident, through communication with the Elder Queen. It's revealed that in early moments of the accident, several people had gotten desperate and sabotaged the ship, while others were overtaken with paranoia and fear. The current Tenno's father in particular said "something's out there, kiddo...watching us." Eventually, all of the adults were driven insane by the Void. The children, however, were mutated and given newfound powers, becoming the Tenno. Some of the Tenno, using this power, hunted and killed the adults, and others tried to avoid the fighting.

-->''Avaliable: March 2017''

-->''Covers both the tie-in comic "What Remains" and the Quest "Octavia's Anthem".''

!!What Remains
The story begins InMediasRes during the Old War. An old Orokin Archemidian reminisces on her experiences in life, musing over how she had taken an oath to maintain her memories in order to become a living codex of the knowledge of the Orokin Empire. Realizing that senility/early-onset Alzheimer's is threatening to steal her ability to uphold her oath when she fails to recall details regarding a recent battle as well as the name of the man she loves, she voluntarily undergoes the BrainUploading ceremony that turns her into a Cephalon, specifically Cephalon Suda. Her love is implied to have become Cephalon Simaris at some later point in time.

!!Octavia's Anthem

At the Relay, Simaris explains to the Tenno that a Datascape is a portion of the Weave that Cephalons can use for their own interests, ranging from training simulations to reviewing and revisiting old memories to projects as vast and incredible as Simaris' own Sanctuary, then wonders if the music Suda obsessed over could be something that Hunhow is afraid of. After learning what the Tenno intends to do regarding Hunhow and Suda's Datascape, Simaris tells them that he can link them up to that part of the Weave, but that such an endeavor would be paramount to suicide; and that he would not risk the Sanctuary to help the Tenno in their task, imploring them that they would take on their task alone. Within Suda's datascape, Suda herself has been replaced by an icon of Hunhow, while Ordis is trapped within a jail-like part of Hunhow's "Body". While Ordis initially begs his Operator to get out of there, he ultimately instructs the Tenno to play Octavia's Anthem using the gigantic note array found within Suda's Datascape. As the Tenno does this, Hunhow attacks the Tenno with data-based "Eradycysts" while continuing to boast about the futility of their mission, declaring that the Tenno's harmony would be replaced with "Sentient Dissonance" before ruminating on the beat of the Naga Drum, the instrument the Tenno murdered the Orokin to. As the Tenno assembles more of Octavia's Anthem, Ordis is able to break free of his prison cell, and begins to aid the Tenno in battle; and when Ordis is about to be overwhelmed, Cephalon Simaris [[ChangedMyMindKid shows up]] [[BigDamnHeroes with his Sanctuary Beasts in tow]], making short work of Hunhow's forces as the Tenno completes the Anthem, freeing Suda. In gratitude for the Tenno's aid, Cephalon Suda gifts them with the blueprint for the Octavia Warframe, which uses the Mandachord as an InstrumentOfMurder. Simaris, meanwhile, [[{{Tsundere}} not-too-convincingly]] dismisses his willingness to help the Tenno out at the end of the day as a mere "Loyalty-Glitch".

-->''Covers both the tie-in comic "Rell" and the Quest "Chains of Harrow".''

!!Rell
The story begins aboard the ''Zariman Ten-Zero'' during its fateful Void Jump. A young, newly-empowered and implicitly-autistic Tenno named Rell is accosted by a hunting party of adults [[GoMadFromTheRevelation driven insane by their exposure to the Void.]] One of the adults - Rell's mother, Kay - attempts to lure him out only to be [[SelfMadeOrphan killed by Rell in self-defense]], the Tenno declaring her to not be his mother but "something else" that he hadn't figured out. Rescued by a young Tenno girl, Rell is led to a safe area cleared out by other Tenno, only to be locked out by a larger Tenno boy who declares him to be "weird", much to the girl's rage and consternation. Unfazed by this ostracizing and declaring the company of other Tenno to be "too much noise", Rell powers up his Donda and muses that there is someone - some''thing'' - he needs to figure out on his own.

!!Chains of Harrow

-->''As there is so much lore to be explored within the Plains of Eidolon, this section is devoted primarily to a recap of the Tenno's first arrival in Cetus, the Legend of Gara, the Tale of the Woman of the Earth and the Husband of the Sea, and the Quest "Saya's Vigil".''

!!The Legend of Gara
-->''Location: Shatter Lock fragments scanned during "Saya's Vigil"''

Back during the final days of the Old War, the Unum Tower came under attack by a massive Sentient, who sought to break through her DeflectorShields to get to the people within like many of the Orokin Towers on Earth it had assaulted before. Weakened by sunlight, the Sentient would attack during the night before retreating to tend to its wounds in the daytime. When it realized that the Tower's Kuva - the Unum's lifeblood - might be able to heal it from its journey through the Void, it became much more brazen in its attacks; and started devouring the local wildlife to get at the Temple Kuva found within them, gifted to them by the Unum to be her scouts during the Sentient's assault, as she was reluctant to send out [[CargoShip her lover]], the Warframe Gara, to deal with the entity trapped within her force fields. These more vicious attacks threatened to tear through the Unum's barriers, and Gara, in a HeroicSacrifice, [[FeedItABomb fed herself and a hydrogen bomb]] to the Sentient, detonating her fusion package when it reached the Sentient's heart. Because of her sacrifice, what was once a dangerous soldier in the service of Hunhow was now a mindless beast, half-ghost, half-Sentient, which could do little more than wander about and mournfully wail in despair at its fragments. [[AlasPoorVillain It's a tragic end for the Sentient,]] but in the end it's better than leaving it to fully heal itself and get loose.

!!The Tale of the Woman of the Earth and the Husband of the Sea
-->''Location: Thousand-Year Fish Statues scattered throughout the Plains of Eidolon''

[[folder:The Tale of the Woman of the Earth and the Husband of the Sea]]
Several years after the fall of the Orokin, Merchant groups began to ply the trade routes of the Origin System; the largest among these being the Ostrons. Within their massive floating markets, the Ostrons were renowned for being one of the few who were never abated by Grineer, Corpus, or Infested forces during their travels, their clades and families growing rich and powerful over their centuries of existence. The oldest of these clades was the Yingbinyudai ('Great Bond'), and amongst their ranks was a young woman named Er-Phryah, who loved a man named Mer-Sah. While the love was reciprocal, many Ostrons thought their love to be [[StarCrossedLovers Star-Crossed]] and feared that they would have a MalignedMixedMarriage and an AwfulWeddedLife, as while Er-Phryah was of one of the most powerful clades of the Ostrons, Mer-Sah was Cetus: a phrase that, while the name of a great constellation of a whale to us modern humans, meant 'landless, cladeless, a body turned to dust turned to motes on a careless wind' to the Ostrons. Er-Phryah's father, blinded by greed and selfishness, refused to bless his daughter's marriage [[KickTheDog and exiled Mer-Sah from the Yingbinyudai clade's merchant ship.]]

However, [[HeelRealization to his horror]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone and eternal grief,]] Er-Phryah had left ''with'' Mer-Sah when he was exiled, leading her to some distant place where a voice had called him. Her father died full of regrets, believing that his daughter had died due to her foolishness... and his shortsightedness. Meanwhile, the rest of the Ostron clades and merchants continued their lives, plying the trade routes of the Origin System as they had thousands upon thousands of times before.

However, decades later, merchants trading in orbit of Earth would be surprised by a signal, consisting of a single woman's voice, calling out to their ships. This voice never told them where she was, but begged to know of the Ostrons and the Yingbinyudai clade in particular. When word reached the aforementioned, they realized that it was Er-Phryah, still alive and well, even though she was living on Earth, its atmosphere still choked and polluted from thousands of years of Orokin hubris; as the great forests sprung from the Silver Grove were still young. When they came to Earth, Er-Phryah was overjoyed, and told them to set down in the shadow of a mighty Orokin Tower - the very Unum Tower that Gara had defended so many years ago. The Ostrons quickly found out why when the Grineer attempted to slaughter them - the Unum maintained a strict TruceZone on the territory within her shadow, rendering their mighty weapons of war nothing more than useless bricks of iron and steel. Reunited with Er-Phryah, and surprised that she and Mer-Sah were HappilyMarried despite their fears, the Ostrons used the Unum's powers to set up a town within her shadow, called "Karafamil" ('The Family and Prosperity'). With the Unum's blessing, the Ostrons began harvesting her tower for the meat they would need to survive, while Er-Phryah became the first of Karafamil's leaders.

Mer-Sah, however, was still Cetus, and decided to live a hermit's life, never setting foot within Karafamil; it's implied that the Quills were founded by him. This didn't affect his and Er-Phryah's marriage however, in fact, Mer-Sah did it because [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy he wanted Er-Phryah to be happy with her family, and with her husband.]] In the meantime, Mer-Sah would voyage on the waters of Earth, gathering treasures from them that others would consider insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Back in Karafamil, Er-Phryah would voyage out to the Plains of Eidolon and make communion with the creatures there, to the point where she had even enacted a truce with the mighty Sentient Eidolons that roamed the plains at night. In this time, the Ostrons enjoyed a great golden age, and Karafamil became a wondrous, thriving city.

But, as with all good things, it came to an end. One day, Mer-Sah took his collection of treasures, and disappeared into the sea. The legend states that instead of dying, he instead reincarnated into the mighty Thousand-Year Fish, a rare, massive entity and one of the ancient spirits of Earth, but whether this means he underwent Transference or not is unclear. Er-Phryah, wrought with grief, mourned for many days and nights, and the beasts and Eidolons of the Plains, driven mad by her grief, reverted to the wildness they once knew, forcing the Ostrons to rebuild the ForceField that once surrounded the Unum Tower and never again venture onto the Plains of Eidolon at night. When the time of her mourning was ended, Er-Phryah went to the seas, seemingly communing with her beloved Mer-Sah in a language of the soul, until she herself died. When the Yingbinyudai clade buried her, the legend states that the Thousand-Year Fish surfaced and held vigil over her grave for ten days and ten nights, then vanished forever.

As for the Ostrons, Er-Phryah and Mer-Sah's love inspired them, and they renamed their town from "Karafamil" to "Cetus", turning what was once a cruel pejorative into a welcome and an invitation to everyone that needed a home, from Grineer running from their cruel Queens, to Corpus interested in trade alone, to travelling monks and wandering adventurers, to, eventually, the Tenno themselves.
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!!Saya's Vigil

-->''Available: November 2017 and April 2018''

!The Ghoul Purge
-->''Covers part of the first issue of the official Warframe Comic, the tie-in comic "The Ascension", the "Ghoul Purge" in-game event, and Sigor Savah's Journals.''

Ghouls - the most depraved, ugly, and nightmarish of the Grineer's forces - were first encountered in the official Comic; when an Excalibur Warframe came into contact with them while trying to save a village of Ostrons that had been attacked by Grineer forces under Captain Vor. Equipped with a ravenous hunger, an unyielding bloodlust, and paralytic blood that froze the Warframe in his tracks, allowing Vor's forces to easily capture the aforementioned Excalibur, they are a force to be reckoned with and a nightmare for any non-Tenno who might encounter them. Now, they harass Cetus itself on a bi-weekly basis and must be contained by the Tenno before they overrun the Ostrons.

!!The Ascension
The comic begins aboard the Kuva Fortress, where two Grineer nobles are preparing for an audience with the Twin Queens themselves. One noble is identified as Doctor Tengus - the Grineer who would later be responsible for unleashing the Infestation on the Origin System once again, as well as the one who created the Grustrag Three later on down the road - while the other remains unidentified. The unnamed Noble notes that he is anxious that the Queens will reject his and Tengus' plans without any consideration, only for Tengus to offer some succor in the form of them both becoming what they were meant to be.

In the Queens' grand hall, the unnamed Noble bungles his appearance before the Queens by trying to play the "good host" to his - rather annoyed - fellows, causing the Elder Queen to mockingly tell him to continue his shtick and be a source of amusement for her and her sister. Regaining his posture, the unnamed Noble reveals the project he and Doctor Tengus have been working on for the past while: a cadre of special shock troopers that can be gestated and deployed within days without the need for expensive landing craft that would be the most vicious and ruthless soldiers ever known by the Grineer. The Noble then presents the Ghouls to the Twin Queens, only to be pushed into their ravenous, clutching maws by Doctor Tengus.

Still, not all is lost for the Noble, as the Queens instruct Doctor Tengus to recover his head and give him a new body. After what must have seemed like an eternity for him, he is able to see what he has become: magnificent, while everyone else is just maggots compared to him. The comic then closes out on the unnamed Noble, revealed to be Councillor Vay Hek, strangling Doctor Tengus.

!!Ghoul Purge

!!Sigor Savah
-->''Location: Ghoul Journal Fragments obtained from killing Ghouls or completing Ghoul Purge Bounties''

The data Konzu has on the Ghouls came from a rogue Corpus scientist who arrived in Cetus a few years prior. Believing that the Ghouls had dug up secrets from the ground, this scientist studied these Grineer shock troopers almost religiously... before leaving his notes and journals with Konzu and disappearing entirely.

The scientist, Morphology specialist Sigor Savah, believed that the Ghouls had dug up the remains of the Warframe Khora from the Plains of Eidolon, which was why he was so obsessed with the Ghouls. Years earlier, while Savah was still with the Corpus as an employee under Nef Anyo, he had traveled to Venus to study the Orokin Terraforming project located there only to stumble upon the remains of an incredibly unique Kavat, christened "Specimen VK-7", in reality Khora's AceCustom Kavat Venari. Initially desiring to run a few tests on her before making a killing off of selling her to the highest bidder, Savah was surprised to see VK-7 literally ''will'' herself BackFromTheDead right before his eyes. VK-7 proceeded to show [[ItCanThink extremely heightened levels of intelligence and knowledge]], and eventually managed to escape right from underneath Savah's nose. Later spotted butchering Infested hives and Corpus soldiers sent to cleanse said hives, Savah ultimately reunited with VK-7 when he went with one of the aforementioned cleaning crews to deal with yet another Infested hive on Venus' surface; shortly thereafter, VK-7 presented Savah with the last remaining fragment of the original Khora Warframe, implicitly trusting him with the task of bringing her master back to life. [[HeelFaceTurn Already beginning to develop a conscience regarding her]] when she initially came back to life, Savah ultimately decided to initiate a LastStand against some of his coworkers once he learned that they were going to kill her. While his attempt was bungled by air filters, VK-7 was able to escape the wrath of the Corpus, and would come to his aid by killing the Corpus soldier assigned to execute Savah. While Savah was forced to leave VK-7 behind [[HeroicSacrifice by VK-7]] during their escape attempt, he was certain that the Kavat had managed to escape Venus unharmed, and went about his mission to restore Khora to her former glory by researching the creatures he was certain had recovered her remains.

[[AbortedArc While much of Savah's story was left hanging,]] he was right about Venari escaping Venus unharmed - Helios Sentinels under the command of Cephalon Simaris found her later and proceeded to Synthesize her into Sanctuary. Meanwhile, a Quill - implied to be Onkko - gave Simaris Khora's pieces to be added into Sanctuary as well. Shortly afterward, both Warframe and Kavat ''hid themselves'' within the Sanctuary, something Simaris thought impossible for a sentient being to do. Now, Khora and Venari roam Simaris' ForeverWar datascape, rewarding lucky Tenno with the blueprints to one of her parts so that she and Venari may roam the real world once again.

Back during the final days of the Old War, the Unum Tower came under attack by a massive Sentient, who sought to break through her DeflectorShields to get to the people within like many of the Orokin Towers on Earth it had assaulted before. Weakened by sunlight, the Sentient would attack during the night before retreating to tend to its wounds in the daytime. When it realized that the Tower's Kuva - the Unum's lifeblood - might be able to heal it from its journey through the Void, it became much more brazen in its attacks; and started devouring the local wildlife to get at the Temple Kuva found within them, gifted to them by the Unum to be her scouts during the Sentient's assault, as she was reluctant to send out [[CargoShip her lover]], the Warframe Gara, to deal with the entity trapped within her force fields. These more vicious attacks threatened to tear through the Unum's barriers, and Gara, in a HeroicSacrifice, [[FeedItABomb fed herself and a hydrogen bomb]] to the Sentient, detonating her fusion package when it reached the Sentient's heart. Because of her sacrifice, what was once a dangerous soldier in the service of Hunhow was now a mindless beast, half-ghost, half-Sentient, which could do little more than wander about and mournfully wail in despair at its fragments. [[AlasPoorVillain It's a tragic end for the Sentient,]] but in the end it's better than letting it to fully heal itself and get loose.

Back during the final days of the Old War, the Unum Tower came under attack by a massive Sentient, who sought to break through her DeflectorShields to get to the people within like many of the Orokin Towers on Earth it had assaulted before. Weakened by sunlight, the Sentient would attack during the night before retreating to tend to its wounds in the daytime. When it realized that the Tower's Kuva - the Unum's lifeblood - might be able to heal it from its journey through the Void, it became much more brazen in its attacks; and started devouring the local wildlife to get at the Temple Kuva found within them, gifted to them by the Unum to be her scouts during the Sentient's assault, as she was reluctant to send out [[CargoShip her lover]], the Warframe Gara, to deal with the entity trapped within her force fields. These more vicious attacks threatened to tear through the Unum's barriers, and Gara, in a HeroicSacrifice, [[FeedItABomb fed herself and a hydrogen bomb]] to the Sentient, detonating her fusion package when it reached the Sentient's heart. Because of her sacrifice, what was once a dangerous soldier in the service of Hunhow was now a mindless beast, half-ghost, half-Sentient, which could do little more than wander about and mournfully wail in despair at its fragments. [[AlasPoorVillain It's a tragic end,]] but in the end it's better than letting a fully-functional Sentient get loose.

Several years after the fall of the Orokin, Merchant groups began to ply the trade routes of the Origin System; the largest among these being the Ostrons. Within their massive floating markets, the Ostrons were renowned for being one of the few who were never abated by Grineer, Corpus, or Infested forces during their travels, their clades and families growing rich and powerful over their centuries of existence. The oldest of these clades was the Yingbinyudai ('Great Bond'), and amongst their ranks was a young woman named Er-Phryah, who loved a man named Mer-Sah. While the love was reciprocal, many Ostrons thought their love to be [[StarCrossedLovers Star-Crossed]] and feared that they would have a MalignedMixedMarriage and an AwfulWeddedLife, as while Er-Phryah was of one of the most powerful clades of the Ostrons, Mer-Sah was Cetus: a phrase that, while the name of a great constellation of a whale to us modern humans, meant 'landless, cladeless, a body turned to dust turned to motes on a careless wind' to the Ostrons. Er-Phryah's father, blinded by greed and selfishness, refused to bless his daughter's marriage, [[KickTheDog and exiled Mer-Sah from the Yingbinyudai clade's merchant ship.]]

Thing is, though, Onkko's ''not'' dead. Instead, [[FakingTheDead he faked his own death]] in order to save Cetus from some grisly fate foretold by the Quills. Once both Saya's Vigil and The War Within have both been completed, the Tenno Operator can access a mysterious door hidden in an alcove within Cetus, wherein they will discover an operating base of the Quills. There, Onkko will greet the Tenno, explaining that after faking his death he became a member of the Quills. Calling himself "Quill Onkko Primary", he gifts the Tenno with a Mote Amp and explains that the Unum knows them as a terror to the Sentient Eidolons in a past [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble that has yet to be.]] Onkko then goes on to explain that he and the Tenno have had, and will have, a long association, and from that point onwards, the Tenno will be able to go in and meet with Onkko as a representative of the Quills Syndicate.

The search for pieces of Onkko's glass key has managed to defrost Konzu and Saya's relationship some, and as they reminisce on some good times that they and Onkko had, Saya realizes where the final Glass shard might be located, and directs the Tenno to travel there under the cover of night, so that they won't be happened upon by patrolling Grineer. Travelling to a lake on the Plains late at night, the Tenno comes face-to-face with the Eidolon Teralyst, which is currently engaged in a fight against an army of Grineer. Making a mad dash for the cave Saya mentioned earlier, the Tenno is able to locate and recover the final Glass shard, fully reconstructing the key to Onkko's Shatter Lock (much to Vay Hek's rage... Well, ''bigger'' rage) and opening up his Ostron Coffer to reveal... [[ChekhovsGun An Iron Rose, specifically the one Konzu offered Saya so many years ago.]] Tearfully, Saya realizes that this was meant to be Onkko's final wish: for her to go and be happy with the one her heart desires, Konzu. Accepting that her husband is well and very dead, she thanks the Tenno for their help, and the Lotus will send the Tenno the blueprints for the Gara Warframe that she replicated while studying Onkko's Glass key.

The search for pieces of Onkko's glass key has managed to defrost Konzu and Saya's relationship some, and as they reminisce on some good times that they and Onkko had, Saya realizes where the final Glass shard might be located, and directs the Tenno to travel there under the cover of night, so that they won't be happened upon by patrolling Grineer. Travelling to a lake on the Plains late at night, the Tenno comes face-to-face with the Eidolon Teralyst, which is currently engaged in a fight against an army of Grineer. Making a mad dash for the cave Saya mentioned earlier, the Tenno is able to locate and recover the final Glass shard, fully reconstructing the key to Onkko's Shatter Lock (much to Vay Hek's rage... Well, ''bigger'' rage) and opening up his Ostron Coffer to reveal... [[ChekhovsGun An Iron Rose, specifically the one Konzu offered her so many years ago.]] Tearfully, Saya realizes that this was meant to be Onkko's final wish: for her to go and be happy with the one her heart desires, Konzu. Accepting that her husband is well and very dead, she thanks the Tenno for their help, and the Lotus will send the Tenno the blueprints for the Gara Warframe that she replicated while studying Onkko's Glass key.

-->''Covers first issue of the official Warframe Comic, the tie-in comic "The Ascension", the "Ghoul Purge" in-game event, and Sigor Savah's Journals.''

The Quest begins with the Tenno receiving a message from Palladino about a gift that she has left in their personal quarters. This gift, a glowing, purple hologram of Lua, proceeds to teleport the Tenno to a landing pad outside of an Orokin facility on Earth's Moon.

Back aboard the Orbiter, Ordis panics once he realizes that the Lotus is gone, and synthesizes a holographic copy of her to direct the Tenno until he can figure out her location.

-->''Covers both the Quest "Octavia's Anthem" and the tie-in comic "What Remains".''

In the modern day, the Tenno is summoned to an audience with Cephalon Suda. As they go in to meet her, they are abruptly informed by Cephalon Simaris that they should disregard anything that she says, complaining specifically about her obsession with music, something he dismisses as "inconsequential". Suda rebuffs his assertions, but [[AccidentalMisnaming calls him "Irmis", presumably the name he used as a human, rather than Simaris]], and proceeds to forget why she summoned the Tenno. Proceeding to assume that the Tenno are as curious about music as she is, Suda sends the Tenno to assemble an instrument called a "Mandachord", whose pieces are scattered throughout various Corpus facilities. Simaris, meanwhile, declares that Suda's erratic behavior is a sign of faulty and corrupted precepts, and demands that she be decommissioned and disconnected from the Cephalon Weave.

-->''Covers both the Quest "Chains of Harrow" and the tie-in comic "Rell".''

In the present, Cephalon Ordis alerts the Tenno to a Red Veil transmission that he's intercepted and is calling "haunted"; the transmission includes coordinates to a derelict Steel Meridian ship in orbit around Earth and a mysterious dialogue between two people, an unnamed woman and a child who reveals himself to be Rell. As the screen darkens under a RedFilterOfDoom, Rell tells the mysterious woman that he can't tell her where he is, as something is listening in to their conversation. Boarding the Steel Meridian vessel, the Tenno discovers a grisly scene: a pitch-black ship essentially running on fumes with only Life Support having any power, dead Steel Meridian Grineer, and a Red Veil insignia [[CouldntFindAPen smeared in blood]] on a bulkhead, along with a similarly gruesome message:

-->''As there is so much lore to be explored within the Plains of Eidolon, this section is devoted primarily to the Legend of Gara, the Tale of the Woman of the Earth and the Husband of the Sea, and the Quest "Saya's Vigil", as well as a recap of the Tenno's first arrival in Cetus.''

Back during the Old War, the Unum Tower came under attack by a massive Sentient, who sought to break through her DeflectorShields to get to the people within. Weakened by sunlight, the Sentient would attack during the night before retreating to tend to its wounds in the daytime. When it realized that the Tower's Kuva - the Unum's lifeblood - might be able to heal it from its journey through the Void, it became much more brazen in its attacks, and started devouring the local wildlife to get at the Temple Kuva found within them, gifted to them by the Unum to be her scouts during the Sentient's assault, as she was reluctant to send out [[CargoShip her lover]], the Warframe Gara, to deal with the entity trapped within her force fields. These more vicious attacks threatened to tear through the Unum's barriers, and Gara, in a HeroicSacrifice, [[FeedItABomb fed herself and a hydrogen bomb]] to the Sentient, detonating her fusion package when it reached the Sentient's heart. Because of her sacrifice, what was once a dangerous soldier in the service of Hunhow was now a mindless beast, half-ghost, half-Sentient, which could do little more than wander about and mournfully wail in despair at its fragments. [[AlasPoorVillain It's a tragic end,]] but in the end it's better than letting a fully-functional Sentient get loose.

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After the Mandachord is assembled, Suda sends the Tenno off to gather pieces of a song called "[[TitleDrop Octavia's Anthem]]", using an Orokin instrument called a "Hydraulus" to gather the song's fragments. As she does this, her behavior becomes more erratic and forgetful, prompting Simaris to declare that her strand of space-Alzheimer's is dangerous not only to herself, but the entire Cephalon Weave, and demands that the Tenno and Cephalon Ordis abort their mission and [[ShootTheDog disconnect Suda from the Weave]]; prompting Ordis to [[WhatTheHellHero tear Simaris a new one.]] Unfortunately, Suda's erratic behavior and memory loss have a more sinister explanation to them than just being the result of data corruption: the Sentient Hunhow is subverting Suda, and is using her to infiltrate the rest of the Weave. Using some of his Battalyst and Conculyst fragments, Hunhow-Suda attempts to stop the Tenno from assembling the rest of Octavia's Anthem.

At the Relay, Simaris explains to the Tenno that a Datascape is a portion of the Weave that Cephalons can use for their own interests, ranging from training simulations to reviewing and revisiting old memories to projects as vast and incredible as Simaris' own Sanctuary, then wonders if the music Suda obsessed over could be something that Hunhow is afraid of. After learning what the Tenno intends to do regarding Hunhow and Suda's Datascape, Simaris tells them that he can link them up to that part of the Weave, but that such an endeavor would be paramount to suicide, and that he would not risk the Sanctuary to help the Tenno in their task, imploring them that they would take on their task alone. Within Suda's datascape, Suda herself has been replaced by an icon of Hunhow, while Ordis is trapped within a jail-like part of Hunhow's "Body". While Ordis initially begs his Operator to get out of there, he ultimately instructs the Tenno to play Octavia's Anthem using the gigantic note array found within Suda's Datascape. As the Tenno does this, Hunhow attacks the Tenno with data-based "Eradycysts" while continuing to boast about the futility of their mission, declaring that the Tenno's harmony would be replaced with "Sentient Dissonance" before ruminating on the beat of the Naga Drum, the instrument the Tenno murdered the Orokin to. As the Tenno assemble more of Octavia's Anthem, Ordis is able to break free of his prison cell, and begins to aid the Tenno in battle; and when Ordis is about to be overwhelmed, Cephalon Simaris [[ChangedMyMindKid shows up]] [[BigDamnHeroes with his Sanctuary Beasts in tow]], making short work of Hunhow's forces as the Tenno completes the Anthem, freeing Suda. In gratitude for the Tenno's aid, Cephalon Suda gifts them with the blueprint for the Octavia Warframe, which uses the Mandachord as an InstrumentOfMurder. Simaris, meanwhile, [[{{Tsundere}} not-too-convincingly]] dismisses his willingness to help the Tenno out at the end of the day as a mere "Loyalty-Glitch".

The Tenno receives a Communiqué from Perrin Sequence leader Ergo Glast about the latest venture from Corpus head honcho Frohd Bek: an advertisement featuring Bek spewing corporate buzzwords like "Synergize" and "[[MemeticMutation Grofit]]" before segueing into him pitching the Ambulas Reborn project to his fellow Corpus, boasting about how data secured from their Animo Project has made Ambulas even more deadly than it ever had been before. Glast tells the Tenno that Animo is a linked, self-learning intelligence network and that by connecting it with a combat proxy like Ambulas, the Corpus risk wreaking the same havoc on the Origin System that the Orokin did with the Sentients during the Old War except worse because of the impending threat of the Sentients' return, and in order to counteract this threat, the Perrin Sequence has helped to fully fund Ambulas Reborn. Working together with Glast, the Tenno disable Ambulas Proxies from Corpus facilities throughout the Origin System, using their Animo Beacons to determine the location of the Animo mainframe itself. Using this information, the Tenno proceed to the main facility where Animo is housed and hijack multiple Ambulas Proxies while learning that Animo was initially Glast's invention, stolen by Bek, his {{Mentor}}, when Glast defected from the Corpus and formed the Sequence. In the end, Animo's threat is disabled permanently and Glast gratefully rewards the Tenno with the blueprint for the Supra Vandal weapon.

At which point, a woman identifying herself as "Palladino" contacts the Tenno and implores them to find her and protect her as the Red Veil has fallen into disarray following the departure of their "Sacred Muse". Fighting fanatical Red Veil soldiers along the way, the Tenno meets up with Palladino and her [[EvilDetectingDog Evil-Detecting Kavat]], Rook, on the ship's bridge, where she asks to be taken to Iron Wake, Steel Meridian's base located in Earth's planet-spanning forest. After defending her against Zombie-like Red Veil agents, the Tenno are able to evacuate Palladino to Iron Wake and meet up with her there.

On board the Corpus ship, the Tenno find a scene similar to the Steel Meridian ship: a pitch-dark vessel devoid of crew, and another message smeared in blood on a bulkhead:

This causes Palladino to believe that Rell is lashing out, and talks with the Lotus about how Rell was a Tenno who was ostracized by Margulis, [[BrokenPedestal much to the Lotus' dismay.]] Still, his being cast out by Margulis explains why the Lotus never heard of Rell until now, and Palladino further explains that Rell founded the Red Veil when her grandmothers took him in and became {{parental substitute}}s to him. Suddenly, a voice echoes through the halls of the Corpus ship: "[[MadnessMantra Rap. Tap. Tap.]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis The Man. In. The Wall.]]" Palladino then explains that "The Man in the Wall" is something Rell discovered and studied since he first became Tenno, and instructs the Tenno to follow Rell's voice. Doing so, the Tenno stumble upon the desiccated corpses of several Red Veil agents as well as an object Palladino identifies as Rell's Donda, a horseshoe-shaped piece of metal that serves as his "object of focus" - in other words, a device much like a modern-day fidget spinner.[[note]]One can only imagine that Palladino is trying to save face by using PurpleProse to describe it.[[/note]] Taking the item causes Rell to have a minor FreakOut, and further causes The Man in the Wall to manifest as an {{implacable|Man}} {{living shadow}} who reanimates the dead agents and proceeds to give chase to a presumably-panicked Tenno, while Palladino gives the order to evacuate.

Once the last of Rell's fragments have been captured, Palladino declares that Rell has returned to his Warframe, Harrow, and that the Tenno need to go to the Red Veil's Temple to complete one last task for her, while the Lotus muses that The Man in the Wall's manifestations are the result of a "Transference Loop" caused by Rell being stuck in Transference within the Void for so long.

Upon entering the Red Veil's temple within an Orokin Derelict, Palladino tells the Tenno that they are to free Rell from his suffering by going to the chamber where Harrow is located and give him a MercyKill, [[HeroicBSOD much to Lotus' grief.]] Having to do so without the aid of their Warframe, the Tenno is able to destroy the chains binding Harrow - and Rell - to this mortal plane, while The Man in the Wall manifests yet again and begins to rant about how Rell was mistreated in life. All the while, the Tenno must fight additional Red Veil agents sent by The Man in the Wall to kill them and experience Rell's final moments as a normal child aboard ''Zariman Ten-Zero'', namely a moment with him bonding with Kay, a moment where Kay [[ShamingTheMob calls out a group of future Tenno]] [[MamaBear for their bullying Rell]], and the last time Rell saw Kay before her death at his hands: moments after ''Zariman Ten-Zero'' misjumped and was left listing in the Void. After this, Rell is able to finally suppress The Man in the Wall's DemonicPossession to ask Palladino who will ward off The Man in the Wall once he's gone, to which Palladino comforts him by saying that that will be the responsibility of all Tenno now. After Rell's death, the Tenno return to their Orbiter and review a letter from Palladino, who gifts them Harrow's blueprint in gratitude for what they did for the Red Veil. Afterwards, the Tenno notices their Operator sitting happily on one of the consoles in their Orbiter... Except the Tenno can still control their Warframe, meaning that their Operator should still be in their Somatic Link; plus, [[WhamShot this guy's got]] [[BlackEyesOfEvil deathly-black eyes,]] [[OhCrap just like when their Operator]] ''[[CallBack was possessed at the mountain pass -]]''

Upon entering the Red Veil's temple within an Orokin Derelict, Palladino tells the Tenno that they are to free Rell from his suffering by going to the chamber where Harrow is located and give him a MercyKill, [[. Having to do so without the aid of their Warframe, the Tenno is able to destroy the chains binding Harrow - and Rell - to this mortal plane, while The Man in the Wall manifests yet again and begins to rant about how Rell was mistreated in life. All the while, the Tenno must fight additional Red Veil agents sent by The Man in the Wall to kill them and experience Rell's final moments as a normal child aboard ''Zariman Ten-Zero'', namely a moment with him bonding with Kay, a moment where Kay [[ShamingTheMob calls out a group of future Tenno]] [[MamaBear for their bullying Rell]], and the last time Rell saw Kay before her death at his hands: moments after ''Zariman Ten-Zero'' misjumped and was left listing in the Void. After this, Rell is able to finally suppress The Man in the Wall's DemonicPossession to ask Palladino who will ward off The Man in the Wall once he's gone, to which Palladino comforts him by saying that that will be the responsibility of all Tenno now. After Rell's death, the Tenno return to their Orbiter and review a letter from Palladino, who gifts them Harrow's blueprint in gratitude for what they did for the Red Veil. Afterwards, the Tenno notices their Operator sitting happily on one of the consoles in their Orbiter... Except the Tenno can still control their Warframe, meaning that their Operator should still be in their Somatic Link; plus, [[WhamShot this guy's got]] [[BlackEyesOfEvil deathly-black eyes,]] [[OhCrap just like when their Operator]] ''[[CallBack was possessed at the mountain pass -]]''

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-->'''The Man in the Wall:''' [[NightmareFuel Hey, Kiddo.]]

Glast offers one last match, wagering an Old War relic for Neewa. Anyo, falling for the bait, accepts. The Tenno wins the match, winning back Neewa for the Myconians. Afterward, the Tenno decides on what should be done with Neewa. The Tenno either chooses to cure Neewa, prolonging her lifespan, or to send her back, allowing the colony to survive. Regardless, the Myconians send their Old War relic to the Tenno, which is a blueprint for Nidus.

Digital Extremes previously said that Hayden Tenno, the protagonist of VideoGame/DarkSector, is the first Tenno. Fans were skeptical whether events in DarkSector were canonically part of Warframe's timeline or not, up until mid-2015 when Digital Extreme retracted the statement and made it clear that DarkSector is ''not'' canon to the Warframe timeline. At least, not directly. The events of DarkSector still happened, but so far in the past that any effects on Warframe's plot is negligible.

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The revelation horrifies Amaryn, who now sees the Silver Grove as corrupted by Orokin influence. She decides to let the grove burn, but Ordis is having none of it, urging the Tenno to go back to the grove. The Tenno uses the final Apothic, and the voice in the grove realizes that the Tenno is not Titania, but another like her. The voice also gives Amaryn a stern conversation, asking if Amaryn would rather have the grove she swore to protect burn in spite of the Orokin. An Oberon Specter attacks, and after the Tenno defeats it, Grineer units descend upon the Grove. Amaryn tells the Tenno to stay and fight, having changed her mind. After they are defeated, the voice refers to itself as Silvana, and says how she is bound to the grove by Transference. Once the Orokin learned of Silvana's secret endeavor, they sent soldiers to destroy the grove, but Titania killed all of them, which claimed her own life. Hearing this, Amaryn vows that New Loka will be more lenient in the future, and asks the Tenno to let Titania fly once more.

The revelation horrifies Amaryn, who now sees the Silver Grove as corrupted by Orokin influence. She decides to let the grove bun, but Ordis is having none of it, urging the Tenno to go back to the grove. The Tenno uses the final Apothic, and the voice in the grove realizes that the Tenno is not Titania, but another like her. The voice also gives Amaryn a stern conversation, asking if Amaryn would rather have the grove she swore to protect burn in spite of the Orokin. An Oberon Specter attacks, and after the Tenno defeats it, Grineer units descend upon the Grove. Amaryn tells the Tenno to stay and fight, having changed her mind. After they are defeated, the voice refers to itself as Silvana, and says how she is bound to the grove by Transference. Once the Orokin learned of Silvana's secret endeavor, they sent soldiers to destroy the grove, but Titania killed all of them, which claimed her own life. Hearing this, Amaryn vows that New Loka will be more lenient in the future, and asks the Tenno to let Titania fly once more.