Due to their sparse numbers, civilian populations in the current WARFRAME era may still believe in these ancient myths about the Warframes and Tenno. A mythos surrounding them were created to mask the source of their power and to incite fear throughout the Orokin Empire.

Any details surrounding the truth of the Warframes and their Tenno operators were kept hidden by the Council of Executors. Warframes also found use by the Orokin to control their colonies, to serve as political assassins, and to purge Infestation outbreaks. Through Transference, the Zariman children, now known as Tenno, were able to operate the Warframes and channel their Void powers through them.Įquipped with archaic ballistic and melee weapons, the newly operated Warframes were deployed onto the battlefield with great success against their Sentient assailants, turning the tide of war in the Orokin's favor. The children survivors of the Zariman Ten Zero incident, hidden away in Reservoirs to control their chaotic Void powers, became the new ' operators' of Warframes as they were the only ones to 'see inside an ugly, broken thing and take away its pain'. The Warframe project was put on hold until Transference technology developed, granting the ability to transfer one's consciousness into a surrogate body. Torture, drugs, and surgical operations were attempted to destroy the hosts' minds and to tame the Warframes, but to no avail. However, the first Warframes were failures, turning against the Orokin. More specifically, the Helminth strain was developed to be injected into the strongest bodies the Orokin could find, volunteers or not, including Dax soldiers. Please do not use this article for critical in-game information.Īs a result of failing war efforts against the Sentients during The Old War, Warframes were created by the Orokin Executor Ballas after experimenting with the Infestation on human hosts. Content is subjected to change/removal as the game progresses. The following article/section is conjecture.

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