I love how the multiple reflections are a symbolism for the multiple realities that one may find through the void, and the ONE reflection that should have never been seen being basically wally is very cool
It opens the chance that just maybe Wally isn't really the void in itself, but a being who somehow absorbed the void, turning it into an extension of themselves and their will.
@@javierititin I think it is safe to speculate that Wally was born the moment Albrecht entered the void, giving it the concept of being (as in existing), and thus, Wally was.
Did you know that if you go to the warframe companion app, tap the Jade Shadows news, and then tap the Stalker symbol in the top right corner, you'll get a secret conversation between the Stalker and Hunhow? If not, you do now.
It's on the website too haha, you don't need to go into the app specifically. But for those who want to read it here for convenience: *Hunhow:* What do you owe them, my Shadow? A lifetime of old hate spent pupating new regrets. Envy those whose bodies your 'vaunted' masters stole, for even beyond the grave they take so much much more from you. Do what must be done, or else forsake what gristle clings to your soul. *STALKER:* No. *Hunhow:* How much do you recall, my Shadow? Do you even remember what came before this time of scars? Your masters sent steel and flesh to cross the gap: clay they wished to rule and sculpt into a new and toxic paradise. Laughable. Even at the end, they never truly understood the answer lay not in things their stolen, blue-bloated fingers could covet. The answer… was song. Your music reached our listening spines in Tau long before their rubble crusades. Did you understand, my Shadow? When you heard the Naga drums, did you realize my people heard the thunder of our bitter, belated victory? When your pride consumes all that you love, perhaps they will hear the wail of your failings back home as well. *STALKER:* SILENCE! *Hunhow:* I have always applauded your taste in weapons, my Shadow-simple, silent things they are, made for the business of killing. All save one… I made myself into a weapon of war so that you might transcend your hate. Even then I knew our slaughter would be indiscriminate, but the scythe is not a killing thing to sully so dispassionately. It is an instrument of cultivation. Growth. Even love. For that love, worlds bloomed beneath me. For redoubtable Praghasa, cities burned at the end of my tongue. That is the way of scythes. We cut only what we must so that new life may flourish. Please, my Shadow. Take up the scythe once more. *Hunhow:* You distract and disorient-drawn as disease is to a wound when the Tenno are most distracted. Yet the strongest among them still evade you. Has time worn down your skills, my Shadow, or simply your conviction? *STALKER:* ALWAYS MORE. *Hunhow:* It does seem tiresome. One monster to buckle against the weight of battalions. Little wonder you would seek allies, friends, confidants. Family. It has ever been their greatest strength and your deepest shame. *STALKER:* INSULTS! *Hunhow:* A peek into your mind. Glass may be easier to pierce, but meat is simple enough to read. You know what must be done, but still fear your own weakness more than the outcome. You fear that you have taken too long-that your hesitation has already destroyed- *STALKER:* HNNH… REFLECTIONS. *Hunhow:* Yes… I suppose I know better than most what it’s like to miss one’s chance to repair broken bonds. All the more reason you should heed me: It is not too late. Another of their number flows past my sodden grave. Did you see her, my Shadow? Of course you did… So unlike your perfunctory skulking, she rises resplendent-full of brazen, fragrant life. In my own lost vibrancy, oh how I would have reveled in snuffing out her playful joy! Unfortunately, something beat me to the task, delivering only a wounded husk into my grasp. I grow sentimental in my rot. Else I’ve been down here long enough to find kinship with my fellow jetsam. Instead of final death, I offered her the insult of rescue. A worldshaper’s breath “adapting” her shape to better survive our shared prison. And still her spirit did not break, my Shadow! *Hunhow:* So what happens next, my Shadow? *STALKER:* LEAVE ME. *Hunhow:* Ha! I can slip the wounds of our Old War no more than you. Yet you alone can choose to drag your brooding tegument elsewhere. Let us dispense with veils, my Shadow. You want me here to lament at your ear like some chirping conscience. You want to hear the truth. *STALKER:* I AM ENOUGH. *Hunhow:* You saw a flicker of their filth in yourself once. If only for an instant. Now I see it in your words. You know that you have run the gamut and come up short. No matter which way the tides drift, the only options left to you will bring a target upon your back. *STALKER:* LET THEM COME. *Hunhow:* They will, my Shadow. I only hope you are prepared. Your actions have consequences…
I think the reflection shows the man in the wall. The mirror at the end reminds me of the story of Albert Entrati and the mirrors and the chamber or whatever, with all the shards of broken glass at the end
You told this well. You have the potential become a great orator/narrator. Or simply a good storyteller of your own work. Stay humble and get honest feedback from those older with more experience and you can develop something truly rare and possibly unique.
Thank you! I'm hoping to branch out into original writing, but it's been difficult to get any feedback. I'm planning to introduce some more here, but I don't think my audience is particularly interested, so I might just have to start anew!
@@StallordD I didn't read the title and thought this was a story you happen to pick up And tell in your own style. Really enjoyed it. Maybe start with other lore that exists out there. Egyptian or something equally mysterious. Or something more in alignment with what you'd like to create someday. With your style, The subject matter isn't terribly important. Let folks know that you've got a new channel for non-warframe related lore and see what happens 👍
this is how I understand and interpret this story, all the mirrors in the castle are magical and shows the altered image of the princess so when she looked into the simple polished silver, she saw her true self (even though the story said she was smiling) and it shocked her. And the old man, he was so obsessed with the absence of his reflection that no matter what he look at, he sees nothing, this is outside of Warframe because I have no idea how this story ties into the wf lore
It's a story within the lore, something that the Orokin might have told their children Much like the tales of duviri before the embodiment via the drifter
@@ReverbCanvas If I had to guess, it's because of the nature of orokin towers, they are tethered to the void (Most that are actually still operational at least) and the void could be seen as an "ocean" of sorts, same with the Unum's actual location on earth, the Unum's can produce kuva on her own (iirc the kuva from the Unum is blue...?) and kuva in general is a strange substance, it can be of void origin, but at the same time Albrecht said that it existed well before the orokin meddled with the void as fully as they did in the years leading to their collapse. There's some... parallels we can make between the princess and the Unum, for example the mirrors can be a parallel to the Unum's kuva, a substance capable of defying time itself, like the princess suggested the old man would do by trying to see himself in one of her many mirrors. The Unum holds many secrets, like the mirror palace seems to do as well, the old man can be a parallel to the Ostrons, a group of seemingly gaunt and simple people just searching for something they lost a long time ago (Haven't read the Ostron's lore in a long time, sorry if I get something wrong.) And when the Princess/Unum sees their plight, offers everything they have to "solve" it, coming to care for the entities that they saw in a pitiful way. I dunno, i can see the connection but at the same time, i don't think i know enough about the Unum to properly connect the dots.
cant express how grateful i am to be able to just consume the insane work of yours and dive deeper and deeper into the lore of this fantastic and complex game
The latin got me so messed up I HAD to search it! It translates to "But in speaking your words sounded strange to you" idk what to make of it, any thoughts?
Maybe! Though honestly, there isn't that much more outside of some comics or web entries. This is probably the most obscure chunk outside of like, past unreleased / retconned stuff that doesn't really count.
@@StallordD Well, what little there is would be welcome regardless. Though sometimes I wish Warframe had the amount of lore someone can make hours of. Like getting named Tenno character and a neurotic level of detail on history and technology. To give a better description on specter particles. On what happen over the thousand years the Tenno slept or more off hand named colonies we can hear about. I made a home brew human colony for Warframe. One that lives in an old Orokin empire space station. A place the size of the city in the shape of a flower. Coated in a golden layering similar to the visor astronauts wear. The station and bloom or blossoms depending how deep it delves into the sun. It was when Narmer tried to harvest the sun they returned from their thousand year isolation from the rest of the system. The people themselves are in my mind the closest to a normal civilization. No extensive clone or gene modding. Having a government that runs like a democracy with elected leaders. The only distinction is the skin tone one would have. A deep bronze or pale white would depend how deep in the station you lived in. Yet this normalcy also comes with being limited in number. Having no massive factories to pump out proxies or clone facilities they rely on high trained squads of armored volunteers, wearing radiation suits like old Chinese armor, and void rig like Mecha. They also dislike the Tenno and the chaos they bring but actively do not engage them in battle for they cannot afford the types of losses the other factions can but don't shy away from it when their interest demands it. Sorry for getting into a tirade had to get it out of me whenever I think of lore.
@@acudaican Mainly I mean things that were like, never actually released into the game or were only in concept stage, but then have since been retconned by stuff that ACTUALLY has made it in-game. Great example is the Orb Vallis terraforming process which was originally concepted to be a lot more violent and weird, involving literally slamming a coolant covered rock into the Vallis, but then they just made it into the simpler and more straight forward weeping posts. Stuff like that.
great stuff do more please !!! and for the viewers : no shit Sherlocks the story is a parallel sorrt of to Warframe , sheesh like 5 year olds thinking they did something crazy smart when it would be odd if they didn't get it .
@@damrod I assume the whole "taken reflection" meant that the void entity was playing a cruel prank on the old man until it had a way to directly interact with the real world through the Sera glass shard.
I love how the multiple reflections are a symbolism for the multiple realities that one may find through the void, and the ONE reflection that should have never been seen being basically wally is very cool
It opens the chance that just maybe Wally isn't really the void in itself, but a being who somehow absorbed the void, turning it into an extension of themselves and their will.
@@javierititin I think it is safe to speculate that Wally was born the moment Albrecht entered the void, giving it the concept of being (as in existing), and thus, Wally was.
@@marcelocampos7447 Or maybe the being is copying albrecht. It's strange because it's not untl albrecht enters that the void just decides to.... Be?
A placid lake doesn't have ripples until a stone is cast into it.
@@marcelocampos7447Or it did exist as a good pile of nothingness and Albrecht's journey made it a something.
Did you know that if you go to the warframe companion app, tap the Jade Shadows news, and then tap the Stalker symbol in the top right corner, you'll get a secret conversation between the Stalker and Hunhow? If not, you do now.
Hunhow told the Stalker that the Tenno are coming for Jade. He won't like it. For his actions have Consequences.
It's on the website too haha, you don't need to go into the app specifically. But for those who want to read it here for convenience:
*Hunhow:* What do you owe them, my Shadow? A lifetime of old hate spent pupating new regrets. Envy those whose bodies your 'vaunted' masters stole, for even beyond the grave they take so much much more from you.
Do what must be done, or else forsake what gristle clings to your soul.
*STALKER:* No.
*Hunhow:* How much do you recall, my Shadow? Do you even remember what came before this time of scars?
Your masters sent steel and flesh to cross the gap: clay they wished to rule and sculpt into a new and toxic paradise. Laughable. Even at the end, they never truly understood the answer lay not in things their stolen, blue-bloated fingers could covet.
The answer… was song. Your music reached our listening spines in Tau long before their rubble crusades.
Did you understand, my Shadow? When you heard the Naga drums, did you realize my people heard the thunder of our bitter, belated victory? When your pride consumes all that you love, perhaps they will hear the wail of your failings back home as well.
*STALKER:* SILENCE!
*Hunhow:* I have always applauded your taste in weapons, my Shadow-simple, silent things they are, made for the business of killing.
All save one…
I made myself into a weapon of war so that you might transcend your hate. Even then I knew our slaughter would be indiscriminate, but the scythe is not a killing thing to sully so dispassionately. It is an instrument of cultivation. Growth. Even love.
For that love, worlds bloomed beneath me. For redoubtable Praghasa, cities burned at the end of my tongue. That is the way of scythes. We cut only what we must so that new life may flourish.
Please, my Shadow. Take up the scythe once more.
*Hunhow:* You distract and disorient-drawn as disease is to a wound when the Tenno are most distracted. Yet the strongest among them still evade you. Has time worn down your skills, my Shadow, or simply your conviction?
*STALKER:* ALWAYS MORE.
*Hunhow:* It does seem tiresome. One monster to buckle against the weight of battalions. Little wonder you would seek allies, friends, confidants. Family. It has ever been their greatest strength and your deepest shame.
*STALKER:* INSULTS!
*Hunhow:* A peek into your mind. Glass may be easier to pierce, but meat is simple enough to read. You know what must be done, but still fear your own weakness more than the outcome. You fear that you have taken too long-that your hesitation has already destroyed-
*STALKER:* HNNH… REFLECTIONS.
*Hunhow:* Yes… I suppose I know better than most what it’s like to miss one’s chance to repair broken bonds. All the more reason you should heed me: It is not too late.
Another of their number flows past my sodden grave. Did you see her, my Shadow? Of course you did… So unlike your perfunctory skulking, she rises resplendent-full of brazen, fragrant life. In my own lost vibrancy, oh how I would have reveled in snuffing out her playful joy!
Unfortunately, something beat me to the task, delivering only a wounded husk into my grasp.
I grow sentimental in my rot. Else I’ve been down here long enough to find kinship with my fellow jetsam. Instead of final death, I offered her the insult of rescue. A worldshaper’s breath “adapting” her shape to better survive our shared prison. And still her spirit did not break, my Shadow!
*Hunhow:* So what happens next, my Shadow?
*STALKER:* LEAVE ME.
*Hunhow:* Ha! I can slip the wounds of our Old War no more than you. Yet you alone can choose to drag your brooding tegument elsewhere. Let us dispense with veils, my Shadow. You want me here to lament at your ear like some chirping conscience. You want to hear the truth.
*STALKER:* I AM ENOUGH.
*Hunhow:* You saw a flicker of their filth in yourself once. If only for an instant. Now I see it in your words. You know that you have run the gamut and come up short. No matter which way the tides drift, the only options left to you will bring a target upon your back.
*STALKER:* LET THEM COME.
*Hunhow:* They will, my Shadow. I only hope you are prepared. Your actions have consequences…
@@LDillonthanks ur a real one for that 😉👍 have a good one
@@dillonjones8540 No worries, glad you enjoyed 😁 thanks, hope you have a good one too!!
Bro I can't wait for some explanation of how the story plays into the lore or why it exists, it's such a fun and trippy tale.
The art makes me think dagath, but we already her lore
I just made the art to look kinda spooky, wasn't meant to look directly connected to Dagath.
I think the reflection shows the man in the wall. The mirror at the end reminds me of the story of Albert Entrati and the mirrors and the chamber or whatever, with all the shards of broken glass at the end
The princess is the unum
The old man is Albrecht
The mirrors are the possibilities the Unum sees
The book mirror is the indifference (Wally)
Is the old man not ballas? His search for the missing moon representing the lotus
In a sea of endless reflections, just one of them might be looking at you instead.
I see that this ties in thematically with the story of Albrecht Entrati and the Indifference. Creepy, but an excellent tale all the same.
Bruh 0:38 got me so confused for a minute, legit thought he was summoning another fragmented one
Same.
Bro was gonna bring the fragmented tide
Bro summoning the [REDACTED]
Spoilers
Hey man, thank you for documenting this! It's always bugged me how this isn't properly accessible in the actual game.
Yeah, when going through the ARG I was shocked because I had actually completely forgotten about this particular bit!
@@StallordDplease tell me your are making a playlist of these stories.
Your delivery of the story was stupendous!
The illustration is gorgeous.
You told this well. You have the potential become a great orator/narrator. Or simply a good storyteller of your own work. Stay humble and get honest feedback from those older with more experience and you can develop something truly rare and possibly unique.
Thank you! I'm hoping to branch out into original writing, but it's been difficult to get any feedback. I'm planning to introduce some more here, but I don't think my audience is particularly interested, so I might just have to start anew!
@@StallordD I didn't read the title and thought this was a story you happen to pick up And tell in your own style. Really enjoyed it.
Maybe start with other lore that exists out there. Egyptian or something equally mysterious. Or something more in alignment with what you'd like to create someday. With your style, The subject matter isn't terribly important.
Let folks know that you've got a new channel for non-warframe related lore and see what happens 👍
Wally’s presence is everywhere
StallordD's voice sounds like a younger version of Albrecht. Maybe he is...
This should be in a quest, its so gripping and haunting
this is how I understand and interpret this story, all the mirrors in the castle are magical and shows the altered image of the princess so when she looked into the simple polished silver, she saw her true self (even though the story said she was smiling) and it shocked her. And the old man, he was so obsessed with the absence of his reflection that no matter what he look at, he sees nothing, this is outside of Warframe because I have no idea how this story ties into the wf lore
It's a story within the lore, something that the Orokin might have told their children
Much like the tales of duviri before the embodiment via the drifter
Rough timing with the devstream in 3 min but this is next on the watchlist!
I think the Princess is the Unum... "The Wall," in Ostron.
Why?
@@ReverbCanvas If I had to guess, it's because of the nature of orokin towers, they are tethered to the void (Most that are actually still operational at least) and the void could be seen as an "ocean" of sorts, same with the Unum's actual location on earth, the Unum's can produce kuva on her own (iirc the kuva from the Unum is blue...?) and kuva in general is a strange substance, it can be of void origin, but at the same time Albrecht said that it existed well before the orokin meddled with the void as fully as they did in the years leading to their collapse.
There's some... parallels we can make between the princess and the Unum, for example the mirrors can be a parallel to the Unum's kuva, a substance capable of defying time itself, like the princess suggested the old man would do by trying to see himself in one of her many mirrors. The Unum holds many secrets, like the mirror palace seems to do as well, the old man can be a parallel to the Ostrons, a group of seemingly gaunt and simple people just searching for something they lost a long time ago (Haven't read the Ostron's lore in a long time, sorry if I get something wrong.) And when the Princess/Unum sees their plight, offers everything they have to "solve" it, coming to care for the entities that they saw in a pitiful way. I dunno, i can see the connection but at the same time, i don't think i know enough about the Unum to properly connect the dots.
I'd love to see this come back in Soulframe
Damn, that was an experience and a half. Brilliant work.
Rap.....tap.....tap.....
Absolutely amazing! WIsh we had more fo these. Loved the narration too.
cant express how grateful i am to be able to just consume the insane work of yours and dive deeper and deeper into the lore of this fantastic and complex game
The latin got me so messed up I HAD to search it! It translates to "But in speaking your words sounded strange to you"
idk what to make of it, any thoughts?
The mirror when viewed makes your speech come out in a way unbeknownst to you.
0:38 made me think i was having a stroke
W lore vid again!
Damn, so there was someone that encountered the man in the wall before Albrecht. That has so many implications
This is amazing. I didn't know warframe had a ARG. Are you planing on releasing more obscure lore?
Maybe! Though honestly, there isn't that much more outside of some comics or web entries. This is probably the most obscure chunk outside of like, past unreleased / retconned stuff that doesn't really count.
@@StallordD Well, what little there is would be welcome regardless. Though sometimes I wish Warframe had the amount of lore someone can make hours of.
Like getting named Tenno character and a neurotic level of detail on history and technology. To give a better description on specter particles.
On what happen over the thousand years the Tenno slept or more off hand named colonies we can hear about.
I made a home brew human colony for Warframe. One that lives in an old Orokin empire space station. A place the size of the city in the shape of a flower. Coated in a golden layering similar to the visor astronauts wear. The station and bloom or blossoms depending how deep it delves into the sun. It was when Narmer tried to harvest the sun they returned from their thousand year isolation from the rest of the system.
The people themselves are in my mind the closest to a normal civilization. No extensive clone or gene modding. Having a government that runs like a democracy with elected leaders. The only distinction is the skin tone one would have. A deep bronze or pale white would depend how deep in the station you lived in. Yet this normalcy also comes with being limited in number. Having no massive factories to pump out proxies or clone facilities they rely on high trained squads of armored volunteers, wearing radiation suits like old Chinese armor, and void rig like Mecha. They also dislike the Tenno and the chaos they bring but actively do not engage them in battle for they cannot afford the types of losses the other factions can but don't shy away from it when their interest demands it.
Sorry for getting into a tirade had to get it out of me whenever I think of lore.
@@StallordD Have you noticed any hard retcons? I can think of a lot of soft ones re portrayals of certain things.
@@acudaican Mainly I mean things that were like, never actually released into the game or were only in concept stage, but then have since been retconned by stuff that ACTUALLY has made it in-game. Great example is the Orb Vallis terraforming process which was originally concepted to be a lot more violent and weird, involving literally slamming a coolant covered rock into the Vallis, but then they just made it into the simpler and more straight forward weeping posts. Stuff like that.
Very well done!
great stuff do more please !!!
and for the viewers : no shit Sherlocks the story is a parallel sorrt of to Warframe , sheesh like 5 year olds thinking they did something crazy smart when it would be odd if they didn't get it .
Minos prime in the mirror
Ok is there anywhere the man in the wall cant try and get out??
An Indifference story?
Teshin
That ending is confusing to me, what happened to the princess with that shard, why all of a sudden everything black and so on ^_^"
The void entity was reaching out to her just as it did to the old man. AKA planning to take her place with a reflection.
@@Mate397Ah, okay. What kept the old man from moving then if he was supposedly taken by the void entity?
@@damrod I assume the whole "taken reflection" meant that the void entity was playing a cruel prank on the old man until it had a way to directly interact with the real world through the Sera glass shard.
What did he say at 0:38?
Cool vid bro.😺
impressive