History Characters / WarframeSentients

* NormalFishInATinyPond: For the The Drifter and just about most factions in the series, the Archons are a formidable threat (largely due to their inability to be harmed by anything that isn't the Nataruk or a Warframe), but against any decently built frame, they'll go down relatively quickly.

* WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler:Despite the fact that he was specifically trying to ''kill'' the Tenno the last time they met, He still holds them (and by extension the Drifter) high enough in regard to grant the Drifter an audience, albeit one with Stalker's Hate scythe at their neck until the Drifter makes their case.]]

* MechanicalAbomination: The Sentients as a whole are alien, powerful, and malevolent race of robots that plan to conquer the Origin System. Their appearance only makes things worse as they look like a combination of visceral machines that float around ominously.

* StarfishRobots: Their appearance is nothing like anyone have ever imagined from a terraforming machine, looking like a visceral combination of machine and organic lifeforms.

* MechanicalAbomination: The Sentients as a whole are alien, powerful, and '''malevolent'''.
* MechanicalLifeforms: Deliberately made to breed and grow like living organisms.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"He will gnash his fang-blade, filling the air with deadly coils of flame."'']]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Her whip cracks with an Eidolon's wrath... bone-shattered shockwaves unleashed by every unfurling of its tip."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:1000:''"I am Hunhow, Sentient destroyer of worlds."''.]]

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* MoreDangerousThanTheMale: Downplayed. Praghasa is braindead, but her capabilities are ''very'' dangerous. She's not only far bigger than Hunhow or Erra, she's nearly indestructible and enormous, with the power to eat ''the Sun''. Had she retained her higher functions, it's very likely she'd be able to pose far bigger a threat than either her son or her partner.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:The Vitruvian reveals that the Sentients originally started their genocidal war with the Orokin because of the realization that the Orokin would bring ruin to the worlds the Sentients had seeded [[AbusivePrecursors just as the Orokin had done to the Origin System]]. However, not only does this not justify the Sentients including the rest of the Origin System (which suffered as much if not more than the sentients did), but in the present day, it's pretty clear that the Sentients want to start The New War out of {{Revenge}} against the Tenno for defeating them, even though the worst of the Orokin are now gone]].

* RemovedAchillesHeel: Sentients are rendered sterile if they are exposed to Void energy, making them unable to exploit their extreme numbers to the fullest level against the Orokin during the Old War. The one who corpse spawned the Eidolons, however, discovered that this could be at least partially remedied via Kuva, which lead it to attack the Unum. [[spoiler:''The New War'' has the Sentients capture the Unum so that they can harvest her Kuva to heal their kin, allowing them to ZergRush with reckless abandon]].

** In the Second Dream he teams up with [[spoiler:the Stalker by offering a way to kill the Tenno once and for all]].
** In The New War, [[spoiler:both of them team up with the Drifter (an AlternateUniverse version of The Operator) to oppose Ballas and Erra, as Hunhow realizes that Ballas is manipulating his son Erra to achieve his goals]].

** [[spoiler: During the hunt for the Archon Shards even as he calls out Erra for following Ballas' increasingly deranged agenda, he earnestly pleads with his son to stand down.]]

* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:When he's finally met in the flesh in The New War, his eyes glow a bright shade of red.]] [[spoiler:They weren't always like this. Back in the Old War, his eyes and body-lights were blue.]]

* RetiredMonster: [[spoiler:By the beginning of Act 2 of The New War, he's resigned himself to be stuck in the underwater caves of Uranus, waiting to die. The Drifter convinces him to have one last go in an effort to save Natah and the system from Ballas, who is manipulating Hunhow's son, Erra]].

An empire carved out by Ballas after the Sentients [[TheBadGuyWins manage to win The New War]]. After completing ''The New War'' quest, they can be encountered as enemies in the highest level of Cetus bounties.

* PuppeteerParasite: The Archons grew from the heads of long-dead prime Warframes and reanimated their host bodies for their own use. [[spoiler:This includes Erra himself after his death at the climax of the New War, having been possessed by Pazuul.]]

** While Boreal retains most of his original moveset, his sentient summons are now Aerolysts, which are not only ''much tougher'' than the Brachiolysts, Conculysts, and Battalysts that he summoned in The New War, but are also invincible until their waist cannisters are shot out. He also gains a new pyramid shield to use when at low health, which requires specific aiming to destroy.

* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: Subverted. When first fought during The New War, two of the Archons are taken down by the Drifter armed with Nataruk, and the third with a single Warframe. Come the Archon Hunts available in the ''Veilbreaker'' update, and all three have been upgraded to DamageSpongeBoss status against up to four Warframes. That being said, they don't appear to have gotten much stronger physically, as while their attempts to grapple with/crush the Drifter required a PressXToNotDie event to counter, Warframes overpower their crushing attacks without such a sequence.

* WeCanRebuildHim: The Archon Hunts elaborate on Hunhow's comments during the New War, revealing that originally, the Archons were animalistic Sentients created on Tau in memory of extinct species from the Origin System. When the Archons fell in battle with the Tenno, Erra rebuilt them using the corpses of their foes. The Archons [[UnwantedRevival weren't happy with this]], believing themselves to be "abominations" for being built out of their sworn enemies.

* KarmicTransformation: The Archons hated being revived by Erra to be tools in The New War, so it's only fitting that Erra's body is turned into an Archon as well, with Erra's mind trapped and helpless.

* RememberTheNewGuy: As an Archon, Pazuul must've been a Sentient Beast or something similar before his fusion with Erra's body, but there's nothing indicating Pazuul even existed until after The New War has concluded.

** [[GameplayAndStorySegregation While it isn't usually present in gameplay]], Their AdaptiveAbility can be countered by [[ImmunityAttrition any attack that is too powerful for any amount of adaptation to counter]]. [[spoiler:This is why several Murex are roasted during the final portion of ''The New War'' - their adaptability is meaningless when they are only a few kilometers from the freaking ''sun'', as the amount of energy bombarding them is too high to defend against]].

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* WeakWilled: Lotus considers him this, saying that despite his pride and desire to rule a kingdom of his own, Erra was unable to find it in himself to stand on his own and thus allowed himself to be used by Hunhow and then Ballas, now just being [[spoiler: a puppet for Pazuul to walk around in. Erra himself is still in there somewhere, but doesn't have the strength of will to reassert control]].

* EyelessFace: While appearing humanoid in the vaguest sense of the word, the head and face of Erra is very alien in appearance. His face does not possess eyes, rather only holding shapes similar to empty eye sockets.

* MultipleHeadCase: [[spoiler:His Archon form in ''Veilbreaker'''s trailer has grown a second ram-like head on top of his original one.]]

* WeakWilled: Lotus considers him this, saying that despite his pride, Erra was unable to find it in himself to stand on his own, and allowed himself to be used by Hunhow, then Ballas, then [[spoiler:claims what was left of him allowed Pazuul to take his body.]]

* ShadowArchtype: To the Lotus. Hunhow comes to use The Stalker as his enforcer and gives him, new information, upgrades and weaponry just as The Lotus does for the Tenno, though Hunhow has much more malicious intentions than the Lotus ever did.

* NighInvulnerable: Even after you weaken its defences and cripple it, the Ropalolyst is still too tough for your warframe's weapons to destroy, regenerating to full health before you can kill it. You'll need to use your environment to do the job.

* UnexplainedRecovery: According to Natah, [[spoiler:he was in fact killed by the Tenno during the Old War and she is baffled that he's still alive.]] Erra brushes these concerns off, telling her that there are simply gaps in her memory from the restoration process.

* DecapitatedArmy: Once Ballas dies, Narmer is thrown into disarray, with what few holdouts that remained organized attempting to carry on the war despite being overwhelmed. By the time of ''Veilbreaker'', they've reformed under a new leader, Pazuul [[spoiler:which is actually an Archon made from Erra's corpse]].

* BackFromTheDead: The Archons were apparently killed during the Old War, with Erra rebuilding them in preparation for the New War.

* WasOnceAMan: They were once a Loki Prime, a Rhino Prime and a Mag Prime before Erra got his hands on them. [[spoiler: Then Erra himself has his remains repurposed for Pazuul.]]

* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: The Narmer Veils take away the free will and individuality of those that wear them, which Pazuul describes as giving freedom from both responsibility and desire to those that surrender to it, asking if that is truly so terrible. Interestingly, he also says that he himself surrendered to it as well.