THE ENTIRE WARFRAME TIMELINE but only what matters
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Warframe's story condensed into a concise retelling and it's still an hour long. I love it.
I already am a huge lore nerd, yet I still watched that "Only 9 hours long" video and still tempted to watch Brozime's take XD.
What's wrong with me?
@@Handinmapocket you need to touch grass and Warframe's lore is very uninteresting according to most of the playerbase.
@@stefanlewis7773 give or take really, at the end of the day. It's shouldn't bother anyone besides those who really, really care for any piece of lore. In terms of things those who find it "fascinating" to some degree. I personally don't care for lore, but I'll def read on some pieces that'll intrigue me or just being bored
You could probably be shorter in an abridged version but you'll lose detail. It's all about granularity
@@stefanlewis7773 according to Redditors, who don't really count as humans and so neither as players.
now between "orokin empire forming" and "lots of time passes" you have to put "some random shit happens in 1999"
Yup, this video is 10 months old afterall so
It's not in the time line, what happened in 1999 is that albricht entrati went back to that time to hide from the man in the wall and proceeds to infect some people with Grey Strain of the infestation to create a brand new type of warframes based on Ballas's Helminth Strain warframes, he called them 'Protoframes'. maybe in order to protect him or to carry some missions from him in 1999. Those Protoframes would later grow larger and larger because of the grey strain they are made out of and later turn into the giant Vessels we see in the sanctum anatomica.
@@MEYH3Mhow did I miss all of that in the quests.
@@Wyrdbreak it's in the codex entries you get by killing the scathing and mocking whisper that spawn from the book.
@@MEYH3M
Instructions unclear, destroyed several George Michael records and got nothing.
What always throws me off with the warframe storyline is how we never are introduced to other Tenno. The lore and story appear to make it clear that our particular operator are not the only Tenno around. Yet all the story and plot reacts in such a way that our Tenno is the only operator around. Our Tenno gets sucked into a portal, thus Narmer takes over the solar system? All the other Tenno just said fuck it I guess?
I've always held that each Warframe is canonically only the pilot of a single Warframe, but that still doesn't explain how or why we're the "special" one. My best explanation is that we just happen to be playing the one who all the unique things happen to, but other Tenno are present.
Vor's Prize - You happen to be the pilot of the Warframe that Vor found.
Second Dream - A squad of Tenno retrieve Lua, you just happen to be the one who makes it to the Reservoir. After the quest is over, you lead everyone else to the Reservoir. The Reservoir room exists in the Lua tileset and is clearly empty and ransacked by other factions.
War Within - You just happen to be the one who gets captured by the Queens. You use what you've learned to help the other Tenno tap into their hidden potential.
New War - All of the Tenno are in the fight, but you're the one who ends up confronting Ballas. It's clear that your attempt to kill him was a snowball's chance in hell and the Sentients were absolutely not losing the fight. With you failing at your mission, the other Tenno hide away and you go on your acid trip. You're the only one whose timeline was split. Duviri seems to confirm this since Duviri is literally just you.
It's fairly clear that there is only one of each Warframe, that's repeated over and over again. Valkyr was captured by Alad V in an attempt to figure out what a Warframe really is. Protea belonged to Parvos. Titania, Harrow, Yareli, Inaros, basically any Warframe with a quest associated with them is a unique thing, hence a unique Operator.
It's quite simple really.
There are other tennos, but you are The Tenno.
I think it's mostly a ludonarrative dissonance. They want to make a personal game about a single individual that is the key to all major events in the universe even though realistically they also know this is a four player coop game where they have to at least aknowledge the fact there's multiple tennos at once for it to make sense. Hence why the Lotus always acts like you're the only person around that matters, why you basically only save yourself from LUA after waking up, why the minute your lone tenno fails in the New War, there's nobody left to protect the Origin System while you were gone , etc...
Personally in my headcannon, I like to imagine there's only a handful of Tennos left, and most of them are not yet awake and may still be dreaming in their reservoir pods. That could explain why with the Lotus gone, there's nobody there to essentially brainwash the sleepîng Tenno's warframes into performing missions in the Origin System. I also really like the idea that originally each Tenno only had a single frame, and nowadays with so many dead or missing , our Tenno is able to recover and replicate old lost warframes and swap between them. I also like to think the "Warframe Cryopods" we keep protecting are actual orokin era people that were infected by the helminth strand and put in cryosleep, or even worse, bodies we end up using cause we need a being inside our frames to control / infect ... Cause I mean, we get blueprints for the mechanical parts and armor of the frame, but we still need a being inside them , right ? Maybe they are clones of the original individuals that infected and used to create each frames . I also like to imagine each frames are unique partially because of the way Ballas made them , but also because of the personality / gender and role of the person that was chosen to be infected... And that with blueprints we also get the necessary info to replicate the being inside the frame to some extent.
It's hard to write a multiplayer story so most of them are written as if you're the chosen one, which is weird when you see a thousands of others running around.
But it could be that in canon you're a top tier tenno and the others are nowhere near as strong.
Well, he's not exactly a Tenno, but for example the paradox introduced one close to it. If i remember correctly, Dominus Thrax is one of the children that were on Zariman. Or at least it's hinted at it in the quest.
On the question of Orokin modification and their over-sized arm, Ballas says (paraphrased) in a flashback "We Orokin offered our long arm of generosity". I believe the Orokin nobles were so arrogant and narcissistic that they actually had their arm modified to represent their "generosity"
Valid point, but really d.e. just wanted to be weird, mysterious,& cool. It worked honestly
There's a hologram on the Zariman of executor Tuvul saying "we stretched forth our great hands, shaped to match our generosity", so I agree with you
The reason why Ballas reprogrammed Natah and seemingly let her keep the Tenno was because he wanted to reshape Natah into a new (not dead) Margulis. As a mimic, Natah could fulfill this desire if Ballas. But as Natah becomes more and more like the part of Margulis who hated Ballas's cild-hearted nature towards the Tenno, he hated Natah for not being the idealized version of Margulis he wanted her to be.
God he truly is that comic of a guy putting a stick in his bicycle.
*Turns Natah into a copy of Margulis*
*She starts acting like Margulis*
"How could the tenno do this?"
@@herladyweaver862 Yup that's exactly what it is lmao
Biggest simp in Warframe history lmfao
@@Reader999 Yup the epitome of NiceGuy(tm)
Personally I don't believe that Natah was reprogrammed to become the Lotus. I believe that Natah found something that provided her information about Margulis, and she was *inspired* to become the Lotus. In the Apostasy Prologue the Lotus starts the converstion in a way that always gave me the vibe that this was the first time Ballas and the Lotus actually met (at least in person). Also, even as she was reprogrammed to be Natah again, she sounded somewhat resentful of her family for making her into a warmachine and preventing her from becoming a mother (the intro monologue to the Ropalolyst fight). And finally: why would Ballas wait so long? It's been over a thousand years since the Old War ended, and now he makes a move to retrieve the Lotus? I don't think that's just him taking his sweet time - I think he couldn't before now. I believe that Ballas actually was not able to reprogram a sentient, until he was able to manipulate Erra into giving him something (technology or information) that allowed Ballas to do so, which he used to take control of the Lotus. Hunhow would not be stupid enough to give an Orokin anything that could potentially be used against the Sentients like this, but Erra definately was.
Amazing video but I will say the part about the Zarimon keeping the void open is actually the opposite. The Zarimon is halfway inside the void, and halfway out. It's actually acting as a plug. If it were to pop out the void would cascade from the hole and destroy the origin system. We get told that by one of the holdfast members
Both are technically true, though. If it was removed the system would collapse, but the void would close in the process. It's a chicken/egg situation.
@@Joe90h Plus it's not exactly "halfway" inside either - it entered the void and exited in two places. That is part of the Paradox; the point of departure between The Operator and The Drifter's story. The Zariman is not circular - it is crescent shaped. The front of the ship is visible from both Duviri and within the Origin System. (This was known even before The Duviri Paradox came out - since the Zariman was visible in Duviri's trailer from four years ago). The events of The New War somewhat establish that Wally created the wound by making the deal with our child-self and so presumably The Operator is the version that shouldn't have happened. I would speculate that the wound cannot close while The Operator continues to exist.
I suppose it's speculation as to whether or not Wally's plan was to create the wound, or whether he only planned to escape with the Operator (and the wound was unintended).
"WiFi router that gives the whole universe void juice" is definitely my new favorite line from one of your videos lol
My theory for why the best character in the entire game, Ordis, didn't actually "die" is because his little robot body thing is just a future-wifi connected roomba. He just didn't appear for a while because he was upset about having to use a giant space ship as a body and was quite enjoying being able to scoot about a bit
It's also likely that his robot body being destroyed had a certain degree of feedback, so probably forced him to shut down for a while. Given how damaged the poor guy is, self-repair was likely a bit touch and go.
I think it was the Drifter's timeline Ordis got killed. Our timeline's Ordis didn't
@@thimovijfschaft3271 according to eternalism there are no different timelines and the Drifter is 100% acting in the events of the Operator story.
Brozime, you crazy man, what did you just do
He made the ones who care about the story of Warframe want to find where he lives
@@ModernReapers so far it seems like a good timeline, Warframe is very obscure and doesn't explain a lot of stuff
@@Hyped_Panda that’s true but there will always be that one person that takes something like this way too far
Minor points on Erra. A lot of stuff around him and his timline is pretty confusing, but I don't think his motivations are quite so vague. Based on his conversations with Ballas, what Hunhow says about him, and some of the comms we get directly from him during The New War, it seems to me that he chose to ally with Ballas mostly because he saw his father as a failure. After all, they did lose the Old War pretty hard once the Tenno showed up. He comes across as a rebellious youth, rejecting the old, outdated ways of his parents. His turn against Ballas seems pretty well explained too, based on his dialogue when you first meet him in Praghasa. Erra was totally cool with just subjugating everything in the Origin System, but Ballas decided he wanted full genocide instead, which would include the Sentients. Erra wasn't cool with that, and decides to eat some humble pie and throw his lot in with the only person who actually has a chance at stopping Ballas--You.
This, and also,
Orokin is not simply the name for human but rather the name for the elites among the human race - Hunhow was just being kinda racist (species-ist?),
Sentients weren't just for Terraforming - all kinds of Tech could already terraform - the main benefit was that they could survive the normal space journey all the way to Tau,
The Sentients were winning, but that battle was largely in Tau. Coming to the Origin System was a last ditch effort from Hunhow after they were losing to Warframes and Ballas told them about Tenno being the weak point.
the Zariman mission was definitely before the creation of the Sentient Project,
Parvos was in power before the Zariman launch and offered Cavalero a job,
and there's no conclusive evidence about which Zariman belongs to Drifter or Operator and what exactly happened with the Zariman that came.
@@ayushdeshmukh284 Eh, I think that's less of an important distinction. All (or at least, the overwhelming majority) of humans were part of the Orokin Empire, whether they liked it or not. In that sense, all humans were Orokin. But it's true that "The Orokin" usually refers specifically to the elite nobility. It's a pretty minor semantic distinction that, in the long run, doesn't really matter. Of course, to Hunhow humans are all the same so he doesn't really care. Everyone goes into the woodchipper.
Erra is Kylo Ren
probably the most sensible take but it really isn't clear enough for most players I think. When they just go through the new war and the story doesn't expand on what erra is doing in some explicit way and without reading something like this comment most wouldn't catch on.
It was already taking a long time but they really should've worked a little more on fleshing out the story telling in TNW.
okay but we still should've had a choice to avenge teshin
Dying from laughter at 50:10 when "Erra has decided.... that working with Ballas sucks" Great description!
Everybody wants to work with Ballas until they work with Ballas
Erra: "We did it Ballas! We now rule the origin system!"
Ballas: "Actually I think I will blow up the world so that maybe Natah might feel jealous of me and decide to kill her kids"
Erra: "HOL UP"
When Erra "comes back" he CLEARLY has new giant red orbs in his eyes and his stomach, and look like Kuva. why does NOBODY mention this? He was resurrected using kuva, probably by Ballas in order to have a failsafe in his 4d chess of using the Lotus/Natah to take over the Pragasa ship.
she would be less likely to resist her own confusion if she sees her brother and it has the extra effect of making Erra loyal to Ballas for resurrecting him.
thats indeed a thing
Ohhhhh! I think the orbs in Erra also look similar to those giant disks Ballas installed in the bigger cities, am I right?
@@knicklichtjedi Yes. It does suggest these are also needed to brainwash ppl like Antennas/signal receiver. However we dont know for sure.
Bad guys need those propaganda stuff don’t they 😅
common Darthmufin W
@@knicklichtjedi Which are kuva mirrors. That Erra has them is probably why he "veils" people before the veils.
I was having trouble remembering the old quests (returning player) and understanding the general integrity of the Warframe's lore. This video helped me a lot. Thank you so much.
"It is an infinite power source of doing anything that we need for the story to go forward" 🧐😝
every scifi story needs this
@@xSoulhunterDKx Also every anime and every religious texts.
The bible is a manga?
Somehow Palpatine returned
@@TheScrootch there is a bible anime in the making. And also a pixar like story about DAvid
I'm a huge lore nerd, I think I have my Warframe stuff in order, but sometimes the timeline is a mess, and now with a paradox it's going to be a WHOLE lot messy, so this video it's a godsend. Thanks a lot!
also you have "lifes" so u can die, but Ballas also says u r hard to kill in the new war. The whole Eternalism thing suggest we are linked with the drifter. I think it is like a splitted soul and we become 1/2 of all possibilities. This would imply whenever we "die" we actually do die (and come back from the dead via void magic), or are just loosing our real world manifestation/body till the void fixes us. Basically some sort of godmode thanks to the man in the wall. We know Wally is freckin powerful, but we dont know shit about him other that he is dangerous as fuck and also helping us (to help him?).
It was implyed by Albrecht Entrati that one, or multiple, conflicts involving nuclear weapons in the past before the Orokin Empire
"It began long before us, we who now live our perfect and dull, endless lives. It began long before these moon-palaces and body-markets hurling around our golden sun. It began long before our light-coil thinkers, *our radiation wars* , our oil, smoke."
DE being like "oh finally, someone explained it so we can understand what we did"
I've always read it as the Zariman 10-0 that is currently present in the origin system appeared with the return of the drifter and the merging of the two timelines/realities. It's obviously the version that wasn't found way back in the orokin era, due to the state of the ship and some of the commants made by the ghost crew . This is why the lotus refers to multiple "returns" of the Zariman.
Chains of Harrow has to be the most terrifying quest in all of Warframe. The rap tap tap never stops.
So basically all of warframe can be summarized as "Ballas is a rat"
You know shit's real when your video game story needs a million pages of flow chart to explain...I wouldn't have it any other way, honestly. Thanks DE for making something people care enough about to follow this whole crazy universe you've come up with!
I always thought that Erra did actually get destroyed and was rebuilt by Ballas, who hid memories of his destruction and seeded in him the impetus to help Ballas create Narmer, but that was kind of thrown out the window when Erra freely decides to turn on Ballas. Could have been a really cool moment where Tenno and Lotus have to convince Erra that he actually was destroyed and Ballas created false memories so that he could use Erra. Would have been a pretty cathartic moment.
If you look at Erra's body in the modern day you can see Kuva orbs on him that he didn't have in the Old War flashback on Lua. So some form of resurrection is highly implied.
And as we know from Teshin the Orokin could use Kuva alchemy to condition people into obedience even if they didn't want to follow the commands.
I remember yonta says every time she's in the reliquary room staring at the finger she sees in her side eye a version of her self smiling
I'm so glad you did this, I really love Warframe's story but I'm slow and thus its hard for me to grasp all the branching events, especially now with Eternalism and such, so this is a great visual for it
StallordD is a good channel for lore
Eternalism is excuse for plugging any plot hole that may arise with "well that could've happen in some universe or another", as well as ressurecting any character by pulling their copy from another timeline.
@@daroth7127 yeah
You're not slow. Warframes storyline is just convoluted AND makes no sense. The writers are devoid of logic, but somehow made a gem of a quest. The Second Dream. I'm almost certain that one quest is the reason many of the players invested in the storyline are invested at all. I didn't give a F about the warframe storyline until the end of the Second Dream.
@@dexasmoru8333 makes sense to me, maybe you're the slow one?
Also I think it’s important to note all the wayyyy at the start the orokin empire formed because they discovered the void after they observed it from a far. Says this in the void codex entry
Also the zariman lore bits you can find around the tile reveals the orokin rigged the void accident because the people where protesting the dangerous leap instead of small controlled jumps. Tuvul talks about this and so does yonta. And in the new war quest when the tenno say their pledges they say “we shall not fear to take the leap” which might be the orokin trying to condition them into not joining the protests etc.
Also in the zariman tilesets you can find smaller void people frozen in a protesting position
I really like how you setup the story, color-coded it and arranged it in a way that we can understand it. I appreciate the time you put into this. Really well done
This is EXACTLY what I've been hoping for. I love lore in games but there isn't a very solid compendium of plot points to catch up with that I was able to find. Your website is gonna be a gold mine for players, keep up the good work!
I was surprised you mentioned we have no reason for Erra working with Ballas, he explains to Hunhow quite clearly. The Sentients lost, and Ballas offered what Hunhow never could, victory. Domination over the Origin system and victory over humans, preventing any further efforts on behalf of the Orokin to reach Tau and turning them into an obedient, more machine like race of slaves. It's why Erra was confused when Ballas was throwing a tantrum over the Tenno return, as he says... "We have won." Plus by this point Ballas is more sentient than man so its not that much of a compromise either from Erra's point of view. Although that is why Hunhow objects, saying that Ballas is still Orokin and Erra is basically a Dax now, serving an Orokin elite. Ballas is so effective because he doesn't care about sides, only himself. He wanted the other Orokin elite dead and the Sentients dead or serving him, basically being God Emperor of Origin to enact his mad plan. Everyone is trying to figure out what side he is on and he was only ever on his own side, everyone else is still caught up in Orokin vs Sentient.
Fantastic timeline rundown! A pondering... I was under the impression that the Tenno were immortal due to their void exposure, rather than simply benefiting from cryosleep and The Dream. The Lotus describes them as being "more than human" and Yonta makes mention that both the Tenno and Holdfasts have Void Bodies rather than conventional flesh. It's also a prime reason that the Grineer Queens were so interested in seeking one as a Yuvan; immortal void child = no more Continuity, plus cool void powers.
The New War basically confirms that Tenno are "unkillable" rather than "immortal". Tenno will age and die, but during their lifespan, every possibility exists for them, so if you take a random bullet to the head, you can pop back into existence as the version of yourself that leaned a little to the left and missed that bullet.
Since Tenno power is based on possibility, there's only really three ways I can think of to kill them for good:
1. The Man in the Wall somehow just removes their power. Without what He did for them, they become normal kids and can die like anyone else.
2. Let them age out and die. In all likelihood, there are no possibilities that the Tenno live forever, so at some point, all their possibilities will run out and they will die of natural causes.
3. Create some sort of massive destruction that is so immense that there would be literally no possibility anywhere in time that the Tenno could escape it. Like blowing up the entire Orion arm of the galaxy or something. Humanity hasn't even managed to leave the solar system yet, so there's no possibility the Tenno could get away from this level of destruction.
A minor point, but the Zariman incident had to have happened after the invention of Sentients. Zariman's entire thing was the settlement of terraformed Tau system, and it had a revolutionary FTL drive, which the Sentient did not have access to and were limited to relativistic speeds - meaning they'd need several years if not decades to even get to Tau, while Zariman could get there much quicker. Zariman seems to have relied on the Tau terraforming being either done or advanced enough to where sending people and plants had a point, so it was probably only starting construction when the Sentients were leaving, if that.
This is really cool! Do you intend to do updated versions when new important events come to light?
Yes for sure
@@Brozime Thank you for that, even tho i knew all of this, i've listen the entire video and i'm still chocked we have a decent (and fucked up in many ways) story for this game.
Keep up the good work with ur videos :D
You know, I was moderately excited about Duviri Paradox coming out next week but after watching this video and refreshing my memory... I'm actually getting kinda hyped
The first time I encountered the man in the wall on my orbiter I posted it to Reddit without knowing it’s name or the context. (I had just came back from a 6 month break)
Mine is affectionately named Jeremy.
Someone tried to correct me into calling him Wally but everyone downvoted him and said that mine is now Jeremy :)
I think there are some mistakes about Alad V and Orokin in general.
First of all, I'm pretty sure "Orokin" is NOT just a term for human. The Orokin were the leading caste in the Orokin Empire, which also derives from the name "Oro-Kin" (Gold-Kin or "Golden Lords" what they're called often). Onyl these higher-ups did the Continuity, as the Yuvan were probably part of the "common" people (Or perhaps lab-grown? Who knows?).
Now Alad V was probably alive during the fall of the Orokin Empire. there are quite a few hints for this, e.g. he gets called "Orokin" by some (as you mentioned), but also he is the ONLY one who gets called that (except from the obvious ones like Ballas and the Entratis).
Another hint is that he, as the only one, calls the Tenno "betrayers" which points to the Tenno bringing the orokin empire to fall. From his voice and choice of words, he seems to carry some personal grudges against the tenno, because of that.
He also carries the typical Orokin character traits, like being extremely arrogant in terms of being able to control different technologies (warframes, the infestation, sentients), which the Orokin also thought to be able to control, but led to their downfall.
I thought aladv calls us betrayers because he was fused with the infested at some point and the infested is questioning why it's kin is working against it
Pretty sure salad fingers calls us a betrayer because we double crossed him in one of our many dealing with him. I dont think he's orokin tho. Wiki states that parvos granum was the son of a farmer in the orokin era and he founded the corpus faction. Parvos wasn't orokin and came into direct conflict with them (wiki can give u full details). Since salad fingers isn't old like parvos its highly unlikely he was alive during the orokin rule
Thank you for this incredible video Brozime! I had a ton of questions going in, so I feel a lot better because of how often you said there are things that just haven’t been explained yet 😂
You did a famtastic job explaining Warframe's lore! That's pretty much everything as I understand it, there is also the SocraTetris video that does a deep dive into many of the cultural and philosophical references and themes that really made me fall in love with this game! I showed up for the space ninjas, stayed for the thought-provoking stories.
Lotus lying no stop to us is wild💀
Perfect thing to watch 2 days before Duviri. So easy to understand and covered all major points, loved it!
One thing i think that also matters that should be here is that Baro Kiteer also met Wally and shook his hand, so he is a very powerful void being too now
Woah when did this happen
@@jalengibbs5403 When Cross Platform Play was added Baro Ki'Teer met a "dashing stranger" that told him he can merge with all of his version to become one. Baro agreed and now every platform has the same Void Trader
@@indrickboreale7381 oh that’s sick! Thank you.
Wally?
@@punani_slayer4209 Man in the Wall.
A lot of The New War could've been avoided if Ballas didn't want to bone Margulis
I don't agree with what Ballas did
But I don't blame him have you seen Margulis?? Man had his priorities straight
@@AdelizaNera I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying it's happened. And I understand.
My big question about warframe lore is "what about other tenno?" The storyline makes... an amount of sense if we're the only tenno around, but we aren't, are we? Lotus tells us to find others to team up with. People know what a "tenno" is without that being just us; we aren't "the only tenno anyone has seen in living memory" we're just a tenno. The relays are labeled as "tenno relays." Factions like the Arbiters of Hexis have opinions on what it means to be a tenno. Coordinated teams of tenno were recruited to attack orphixes during operation Scarlet Spear. There's a dead rhino on the Plains of Eidolon and I don't think it was mine.
So, if the player is just one of many tenno, what's the deal with the others? How long have they been awake? Do they know about the operators and the second dream and just never mentioned it to us? Did they all get themselves from Lua after the second dream, so they couldn't be captured by hostile factions? What happened to them during the New War? Were they all killed and now the player is the only tenno? Did they just go into hiding once it became obvious we were losing and only came back out into public after Ballas's downfall? Did they veil a bunch of operators (if so, why do we never fight any warframes when fighting Narmer)? Did the warframes all get chopped up and made into archons and then they rebuilt in the aftermath of the New War?
The 'other tenno' you are after are other players. Yes they exist because you interact with them through missions and trade. The 'story' only happens to you though.
@@chrismorley8590 Yes, but the events of the story should still impact them. The other tenno became vulnerable after we removed Lua from the void. They were left behind in the origin system while when we fell through the void portal.
A note on the handshake this video made me think of. In the movie 'the one' a person gains power from the death of a parallel self. In the case of the multiple deaths. Wally could be reducing all continuities down to two to give the operator/drifter void powers that would have been shared by many souls. Then the reason for two then would be to prevent the operator from becoming as powerful as him.
You mean like that film with Jet Li called "The One"?
Entirely possible!
Watching this after Whispers in the Walls. You slightly underestimated the importance of Albrect Entrati and the Heart of Deimos 😂😂😂
this was super good, you've done very well, mr brozime!
THANK YOU ZIME. I have been playing for 7 years and know bits and pieces but when the game is spread out over such a long period I forget details. Never cared to look into but I love your content so I will. THANK YOU THANK YOU
Thanks so much for making this. I've been wondering about a lot of this for a while, but just had no idea where to start or where to look.
This was a ton of work, thank you for making this. A lot of your commentary about the New War really shows how hard it can be to follow the plot or motivations of characters, there is a ton of hand waving that may or may not pay off later. You really need a chart like this to follow it. However, the intent and feel of the story is epic, and that really shines through.
Neato, I already know most of this stuff since I've been here from jumpstreet, but its great of you to do this for new players and just as refresher in general on warframe's loose and confusing at times plot, you've been doing great work as of late mate. Not that it was bad before, the quality has just gone up tremendously recently, your database will be the go to alongside the wiki for the community and that's great.
I hope someone from the Dev team has seen and watched this. It's GREAT! I've been playing for years and I didn't know some of this stuff or understand it. Brozime did a really good job on this.
This is the best warframe lore explanation i've ever seen on the internet. Organized and clean presentation. You have your own speculation but not trying to impose on us thats good too. Hats off to you
You dropped this video when I needed it the most, big like!
Love it bro.....this is gonna be phenomenal for new players starting at Diviri
i never knew what i was getting into when installing Warframe for the first time, only after like 200 hours when i finally started doing quests i noticed how deep the story goes.
fair to say that a old civilization who basically almost whiped out itself got me hooked pretty quickly.
Thanks for the video man, while playing the game i missed alot of stuff or it got really cinfusing at some point but this makes so much more sense now.
As a returning player, this was super helpful. Picking up the pieces from over 2 years ago and it’s been rough for the past 2-3 weeks trying to figure out both the game and story again, but I am catching up. Thank you!
This is very helpful, thank you! This really explained and cleared up multiple things that I didn't fully get. I now understand a bunch of things.
This is awesome!
Well done Brozime, it will be be a huge help for newcomers.👍
Love your effort brother, thank you so much, also enjoy your live streams 💕
This definitely cleared up a few things I wasn’t sure on. Really glad this exists. Super digestible too
Honestly, since i played all of the quests at release time i had forgotten or missremembered so much of this, good vid!
Hey there, started watching this when I was going to sleep then finished it later. Just wanted to say I really appreciate your work on this project. I've been playing Warframe off and on for roughly 6 years now so I have no idea who is what or what even happened in the story but now that's all changed and I'm caught back up to speed. Thanks you for helping the community understand the lore of this great game.
God back in to Warframe a few days ago (stopped right around when fortuna came out) and I literally not 30 minutes ago finished “The New War” loved it btw, seeing this video, posted today of all days lmao, never properly said it but thank you for everything you do, between builds, and guides, and just overall fun content, you are without a doubt my favorite Warframe streamer, and seeing your videos slowly trickle back in to my RUclips recommendations makes me very very happy, thank you Brozime, you are the best :)
As a returning player after years, I was quite confused after doing the New War quest. This really summed it up in an easy to follow way! Thank you for this!
**scoops the entire contents of this video into a folder**
Time for my next D&D campaign.
I appreciate this vid a lot, cuz I kinda fell off Warframe for a good while before and after the New War and I'm getting back into it and catching up, and this was a great refresher that also clarified some stuff I was always confused on.
Very well done, I appreciate ya. You earned the hell outta my sub today
15:45 the importance of heart of deimos is relatively small
*proceeds to describe how heart of deimos being destroyed would essentially end the game
This was amazing! Well done👏
Very nice! I am not big on lore, but this timeline certainly has made me more interested in it.
This was much needed. thank you :)
Been playing this game for literal years & never understood like 90% of the story. Great document & overview!!!
Wow amazing job man! Thank you for digesting the convoluted story of this game for a brainlet like myself. It was pretty easy to follow and I understood the lore a lot better after finishing the video. Though I've already forgotten most of what you said so back to square 1 for me.
Niiice, was waiting for this one!
Insane commitment to put this together, much appreciation!
haven't watched it yet, but man this is an absolute blessing, thank you Brozime
This is really remarkable. Thank you all for your awesome work. This was a bunch. Wow.
That was actually interestingly fascinating, great job Broz.
Fun fact: The Man in The Wall is actually The Tarnished that became the Elden Lord and is the source of both The Two Fingers and Three Fingers, also The Frenzied Flame has been controlled by Ballas and is one of the key sources of power with The Veils.
This raised more questions than it answered 😂 info source?
I didnt understand half of the words you said
@@HoepRemains I don’t know man I was informed by An Omen Beast in Midrath
@@bonk6561 Half the words didn’t understand me
Wow this was an amazing video! Thank you
This was surprisingly fast and accurate considering how much there was to do... Thank you.
Incredible. What a beautifully and easily digestible explanation of the story and timeline. Thank you so much.
That is a wild work! Congratulations, the best tool to understand the lore!
Definitely one of your best videos yet, I'm absolutely going to recommend this as a primer for anyone who's either coming into the game for the first time into Duviri or is just coming back into Warframe after not playing for a few years and wants to have a decent grasp on the plot.
i do not think this is a graspable video for a player coming into the game for the first time
@@Alx56 If they're competent enough to read along on the timeline and check out any related wiki articles if they somehow get confused I'm sure they'll be fine. This is hardly the most complicated game lore out there.
Be careful, there's serious spoilers in this video. I'd ask if that new player minds having a major plot twist from 20+ hours into the game spoiled for them.
Finally, a non-8-hour-long video on Warframe's lore. Thank you
This was nice to listen to while working at my day job might give it another listen at the night job
I really like this summary. It not only answers the ‘what,’ but also the ‘why’-which is great.
My newer clanmates keep asking "why..." and "how...", but for the longest time the only answer I could ever give is "something, something, void bullsh*t, iunno."
Great work! Thank u bro!
This was amazing, and very well done. Please do one for the duviri paradox!
Holy cow, I've played all the story and was still confused. Thanks for putting it all in one spot.
Some men want to watch the world learn.
I do find it hilarious that in a video going over the entire Warframe timeline and trying to explain it, a third of it is just, "This happens and we don't really know why."
On a side note if you see this, Brozime, what are Archons? Are they sentients? Why are the animals, is that a different tier of sentient we haven't seen before? Why does the Lotus reference the Ram as a different entity from Pazuul? Why are they working for Narmer? Do they believe in the cause or is it just something to do?
they are sentients merged with frames
From what I understand, the history is that the Archons were the first Sentients on Tau. Something something, now they're dead. Could be Old War, could be something else. Sometime around TNW, Ballas or Erra resurrects all but the leader, Pazuul, the Ram. In the aftermath, the archons get revived again, and they in turn resurrect Pazuul using Erra's body. There was always a hierarchy, Ballas, then Erra, then the Archons. With Ballas destroyed and the Archons more closely revered, they were the ones saved, and they became the leaders of Narmer.
Of course, this is like 40% lore, 60% speculation. All I can say is: Lotus separates Erra from Pazuul because she wants her brother back. Narmer already worshiped the Archons, so it could just be that they want to take advantage of their following.
The reason Erra defected to us (The Operator/Drifter) is because Ballas was going to use Praghasa to devour the sun and destroy the Origin System purely just to spite Lotus hence his line 'Are you so full up of death now?'
Ballas' plan turned from "I'm going to shit on the Orikin for killing Margulis" to "I'm going to do that, and kill everything the Lotus ever loved." Which Ballas even told to Erra himself. "Let her come, I'm going to make her kill the only thing she ever loved." (The Operator/Drifter). By destroying the sun, Ballas would remove the primary component of nurturing life, which includes the Sentients. While DE left alot of holes in their story (whether intentional or unknowingly, that's beyond me), Erra's intentions for defecting are pretty clear.
The Lotus explains during Archon Hunt: Amar that Erra has been a tool his own life. Manipulated by Hunhow, Ballas and now the ram (Pazuul). He had the capability to realize people used him, but only when it was too late. Hence her line "I grieve for who he could have been."
Lastly, regarding Ballas' decision to destroy the sun, he had been planning that since the very beginning. Everything from Margulis' death, the infestation, the Sentients and the Warframes. His plans failed time and time again. He was going to use the sun to fuel his jump to Tau in order to start over. So why not take a last minute shit on his ex-girlfriend while he's at it? Ballas is manipulative, conniving and petty. He has only been on one side his entire life, and it's himself. Erra realized this at the last literal second.
“The void was discovered by a guy named albrect entrati, but that’s not really that important”
That aged like milk lol
Thanks. Finally a 1h video that ties most important stuff together.
Tbh DE should have done this ages ago by themselves but when corpos cant, the fans will provide :)
Who could forget Ordis he’s always getting Vietnam flashbacks and making bad jokes every 5 minutes
at around 22:00 - They are not copies or clones of the finger, although I imagine this was probably just convenient and 'close enough' short-form on Brozime's behalf.
Just like Void relics contain all and none of the possible rewards simultaneously due to what is Warframe's quantum uncertainty parallel (Eternalism), the same finger of the Man in the Wall is utilized to power every-single Railjack at the same time. Basically, the railjacks utilize Eternalism to have the same object simultaneously present inside of all of them at the same time. It's literally an infinite energy glitch from abusing duping tactics, but in-universe and canon to the story. There is only one finger, but because of Eternalism timey-whimey spacey-wacey it's in all of them and none of them at the same time.
it would be nice if DE sets up a timeline of 'What Ifs' like for one of the timelines, what if the grineer queen successfully transferred her mind(using the kuva in the war within quest) into the operator and we as the operator/drifter from the current timeline get to fight her in her operator form
Tbh, with the whole Eternalism stuff, I'd like to see the future WARFRAME's updates will be about those 'What ifs' universes.
@@VitchAndVorty Don't hold your breath.
@@edwardpaddock2528 Still holding my breath until my crush loves me back.
NO. Hell no. I do not want warframe to start focusings on what if scenarios. I want them to keep the current timeline going and try and clear up all the fucking ambiguity in the storyline. I don't need to entertain 'what if this happened' when I don't even know what the hell is happening now.
@@dexasmoru8333 I mean... watch the video? The only particularly ambiguous parts involve Ballas, and he's gone now (please? Stay that way?), the rest of the story's pretty clear.
Thanks a lot for this informative video!!
I'd love to see a version of this alongside cutscene snippets had to go back and watch a few since its been literally years since I played some of these quests
I am surprised that I actually caught most of all the information you covered just by playing the game! I need a video like this for other games, like Genshin, where I feel like I missed 70% :D
Thank you! Let's see how this network of information will look like after the Duviri! (Very excited!)
4 more years to go until we get there pal,but I'll look forward to it too
@@splinterstorm360duviri releasing April 26
@@Zzay397 we were talking about genshin lol
@@splinterstorm360 oh lol
The thing about Genshin's lore is that a lot of it is tucked away in LTEs and the main story's pacing assumes you did those LTEs. Didn't play during this year's Windblume? No details about the Hexenzirkel for you. Missed the Irodori Festival? It's implied that Scaramouche is partially responsible for Kazuha's family falling into ruin. Forewent Fabulous Fungi Frenzy? That's where you learn that Sumeru's various fungi weren't always hostile. Better hope that the various players recorded their sessions and uploaded the footage on RUclips!
Now, which parts of those LTEs are actually central to the main story? Oh boy, is _that_ going to be entertaining! (Spoilers: It ain't much.)