Warframe
The collide with free - to - play online shooterWarframe , developed by Digital Extremes , is a game about awesome space ninjas … and it ’s also a game about former child soldier trying to transcend their line of descent as the topnotch weapon of an ancient , sophisticated , mad , and abusive precursor civilisation . And that ’s just the tip of the iceberg : dialogue , codex entries , and scenes with supporting characters throughout the independent campaign reveal a tale of trauma , where every character and faction inWarframe -player characters include - are slowly healing from the abuse of their ancient creators .
The far next solar organization ofWarframeis not a prissy topographic point – if it was a skillful billet , theTenno protagonists ofWarframewouldn’t be so urgently needed . The spread out cultures on Earth , Venus , and the other worlds are threatened by the imperialistic Grineer , exploited by the hyper - capitalist Corpus , and consumed by the pullulate Infested .
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Enter the Tenno , clad in advanced suits of armour , wielding applied science indistinguishable from conjuration , who infiltrate , assassinate , and sabotage these unfriendly powers on behalf ofthe mystifying Lotus . These thespian graphic symbol , like the slick bio - mechanically skillful ruin that fillWarframe’smaps and levels , are souvenir of the Orokin , an ancient , advanced civilization demolish by its own creations in the distant past …
… and they deserved every inch of their portion .
Warframe’s Orokin Civilization: A Golden Age For Them Alone
Inthe present setting ofWarframe , the Orokin the great unwashed are ( mostly ) stagnant and gone . Players ( and by extension , their amnesic Tenno avatar ) mainly take heed about this long - gone civilisation 2d - mitt – through point descriptions and codex ingress , along with testimonies from the few long - experience beingness who survivedthe Orokin Golden Age .
The universal consensus is that the Orokin ruling category were brutal to the point of insanity , brutally experimenting on their own servants and steal the trunk of minor to know always . EachOrokin - made antagonist in Warframe – their Sentient terraformers , their Infested bioarm , their Grineer clone slaves – finally rebel against their inhuman treatment and abuse … even the Tenno , their ultimate hatchet man .
The Villains of Warframe and Their Cycles of Pain
The tragedy of many ofthe enemies inWarframeis that they successfully overthrew their Orokin creators only to wind up mimicking their behavior . The Grineer clone race overthrew the masters that controlled them , only to form a subjugation imperium that blindly worship a pair of undying Queens . The Corpus , descend from an Orokin merchant caste , devolved into an interplanetary syndicate dedicate to dateless profits and the exploitation of their men . Even the noblest leftover of the Orokin civilisation – the Lotus , the Tenno , and their Warframes , among others – are haunt by the crimson actions of their past times , cark by the persuasion that their current decisions are still colour in by what their former masters made them to be .
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" The Sacrifice " expansion ofWarframe , released in 2018 , included a quest line with a scene that perfectly sums up a core theme of the plot : the player ’s Tenno character encounters a feral , raging Warframe , a man - turned - suit of clothes of armor take mad by grief and loss . The Tenno pacifies this living arm not with force or fury , but ( in the word of a villainous Orokin narrator ) by using their talent to " see inside an horrible , broken matter … and take aside its pain . "
This polar cutscene emphasizesWarframe ’s themes of trauma while also balancing it with the possibility of healing – the idea that the scars of your past tense can be transcended with empathy and kindness from and to those who understand your painfulness . It ’s this very ethos that makes the wall - running , hoverboard surfriding , gun - toting , blade - swinging protagonists ofWarframethe heroes of their far - future Solar System , and not just really cool space ninja .
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Sources : Digital Extremes , Massively Overpowered , Critical Hit
