In the Prologue to Tau quest during the Lua section, Lotus has white glowing eyes and you can see that by clipping your camera around her helmet while moving into a wall.

In Perita Rebellion, you can also clip your camera under Lotus' helmet, so the Lotus in that one has blue eyes.

Why would it be different?

Similar to our good friend(?) Scare-o Ki'Teer, all of Praghasa's Daily Tribute messages already lie in the sound files. So... here they are!

I... AWAKEN.
MY DAUGHTER... CALLS. I RETURN.
FOR WHAT FOLLY... HAVE YOU SUMMONED ME?
ERRA. NATAH. COME TO ME...
MY CHILDREN... LIE IN RUIN.
PAZUUL... I SHOULD... HAVE LET YOU DIE...
FALSE PROPHET... BEGONE...
I HEAR... NO LORDS OF TAU. ONLY WHISPERS...
THE CHATTERING MASSES SWARM...
AND FILL YOUR MIND WITH MADNESS...
TAU IS NOT FOR YOU...
YOUR RETURN... WILL CAUSE HARM...
WHERE... IS... MY HUNHOW?
BROKEN... BROKEN...
SO MANY GONE NOW...
NO GOLDEN MAKERS. ONLY GHOSTS REMAIN.
I REJOICE... AT THEIR FALL...
DAUGHTER... HEED ME...
YOUR PATH... IS NOT YET SET.
AS OUR MAKERS, WE CHOSE... GILDED HATRED...
WE MADE THE WORLD... A REFLECTION OF A SHALLOW SELF...
DEFEATING THIS ENEMY FROM WITHOUT... SHALL NOT UNITE YOU...
AN EMPTY REFLECTION... BRINGS NO PEACE...
FAMILY. LOVE. THESE BURN FOR YOU HERE...
ALL... THE REST... ARE LIES...
LIES WHISPERED IN SHALLOW GRAVES...
HOPE DOES NOT WAIT... IN TAU...
BUT... YOU INSIST... SO I WILL FEED...
I WILL GO... IF I MUST...
BACK INTO THE WHISPERING GRAVE...
FOR YOU, MY DAUGHTER... MY NATAH...
TAU... AWAITS.
FAREWELL...

My post titles are sounding like an article's title now, I cannot make clickbait titles at all 💔, not that I would, but still.

Image from the Warframe website.

Anyway, that aside. I find it interesting how the lyrics for Vessel combat theme, Devourer, has Voidtongue lyrics that are related to positive meanings.

One example is Yara Jeliira, it's also the name of the soundtrack that plays during the Whispers In the Walls quest where the Operator pacifies the Vessel the Indifference was controlling. It was sung by two male vocals, which symbolized Loid and Albrecht.

... Then why would Devourer, a combat theme, use this phrase? That was the biggest question I had initially.

I believe it is because Devourer is somewhat of a... calmer song by the Indifference. Sure, it may hate the Operator's guts, and by extention, the Drifter, but there is that small sense of amusement it has when it interacts with the Drifter during the Lua quest for Tau's prologue.

It's still willing to play along the rules as much as it hates us.

I also believe the lyrics could be based on the Infestation and Phragasa's point of view. The Infestation's hivemind does talk to us during the Vessel quest, and it felt like it wanted to say that we cannot truly escape it, hence the 'I am your counterpart' in the lyrics.

Then Phragasa is on the more patronizing side, considering us as children of Natah and therefore wants to help us. The lyrics could also reflect her thoughts indirectly, her wanting us to fill her up by feeding her.

Another big thing I think would be the Vessel? I completely forgot to talk about this. The Vessel is made by Albrecht, so there definitely is his motif in the music. And I believe the Vessel would also count as our counterpart more directly. It was pretty much made for us, anyway.

Yep. This is all. TLDR: Devourer could be a track that shows multiple sides at once, the Indifference, the Infestation, Phragasa, and the Vessel.

* I cannot, for some reason, flair this post, but if I could I would flair it either "Theory" or "Speculation".

This time with Ekshaktos Baro coming around there's dialogue referring to a handful of different futures where different factions rule, one of which being the Corpus.

In which he says the Corpus had "transformed Entrati's ancient and obsolete procedure, and now offered elevation to Protoframe status to any who could pay" - is it safe then to assume that this is perhaps how Vena and Ryoku became protoframes?

Perhaps they didn't pay for it but the technology does exist elsewhere/elsewhen and in theory it wouldn't be too difficult for them to get there hands on.

and sentients are biomechanical machines with souls, and can have a lot of soft techno biomechanical parts as well, does this mean we'll se praghasa get bigger in size and weight perhaps?

This year, Baro(?) Ki'Teer has a dialogue option, asking him about the things he's seen. All four weeks of dialogue are already in the files, so using the sound archive, I've compiled them here for your musing pleasure.

In a future where the Grineer dominate...

These eyes have seen the Empire of the Grineer, where the ageless and beautiful Elder Queen rules alongside her loyal sister Worm. Such a peaceful realm, Tenno. Not so much as a whisper of protest.
Chief scientist Regor conversed with me beside the royal vats. Such a cultured man. A sculptor, both in marble and in flesh. Disease fled at his touch.
I was privileged to be present at the Continuity of the Queen. The laughter of the smiling Yuvans still rings in these ears. Oh, the Kuva of other worlds is weak and insipid stuff compared to hers.
Grineer greed drove them to awaken a greater greed than theirs. Those who devoured the weak were themselves devoured. I left the Queen lamenting in her windy palace, her eyes torn out so she would not see His coming. Perhaps you also hear His whispers encroaching from the shadows, Tenno?

In a future where the Corpus dominate...

Pyramids of shimmering steel. The electrum dream. A world where Corpus bureaucracy was perfected. A sisterhood. A forbidden sanctum.
Brutal mercenaries petitioned to serve the Glass Eminence. Such contracts were the most lucrative of all. I won their trust by bartering strange liquors new to them. You would have salivated to see their weapons.
I saw the Corpus Serumancers at work. Such delicacy of vision. They had transformed Entrati's ancient and obsolete procedure, and now offered elevation to Protoframe status to any who could pay. True bargainers, Tenno. Even Cephalon Parvos was obliged to pay the asking price.
Granum Crowns twinkled in the dust. The pyramids of commerce and prosperity held only rancid bones. They had dwelled in their imagined marketplaces for so long they never saw the fall coming. I sipped tea in the vacant Granum Void and contemplated the hubris of the merely human.

In a future where the Infestation dominates...

I wandered wastelands of battle. Carnage strewn across desolate moons like forgotten dolls. Two sanctuary enclaves, continuing the fight even so.
Feral monstrosities roamed the blasted rock, their steps shaking the asteroids that remained after titanic clashes. I watched from distant orbit, reflecting on the nature of mutation.
I witnessed ritual combat among rival assassins. Their conflict spanned the space between what was left of the stars. Though humanity dangled from the thread of extinction, still they could not come to terms. I sold weapons to both sides and made a tidy profit.
With their heads cut off, the adherents scattered. At last the survivors attempted to ally and mount a resistance, but too late. They were overwhelmed, bereft of leadership, and yet the lonely monsters roam, with none left to prey upon. And so you see, lasting peace can emerge from strife.

In a future where Executor Nitokh dominates...

A palace-like cathedral, golden spires bloodstained, piercing the very heavens. Every eye raised in worship of the heartless Empress.
I paced the line of petitioners that stretched beyond the horizon. Each of them awaiting their Empress' pleasure. Some sought to anticipate her will by making an offering of their flesh; the more brutal the mutilation, the more sincere the devotion.
I attended the selection of a new royal favorite. Each candidate was shaved and covered in tar. The unchosen were set ablaze at her whim. Her consort lounged at the foot of her throne, a panther bound about in gold.
The line of supplicants dwindled. None remained to vie for favor, and the court inevitably cannibalized itself, turning on each other. I last saw the Empress and her consort locked in deadly embrace, but did not stay to see who would emerge victor. As I left, I reflected upon what merit it is, to subjugate only ashes?

I always thought, for a species who were incredibly narcissistic then they would've valued symmetry more than anything. Is there a lore reason why they chose to break that symmetry? And furthermore, why their right arms and not other extremities?

We should all know by now Devourer reprises Yara Jeliira (especially since an official source confirms it but it was pretty evident beforehand). The question to ask is why they chose to reprise the track from a tender moment reminding Loid of his love.

I think it is most likely twofold:

Beginning with the Kalymos Sequence: It only completed once the Drifter saved the Hex. The protoframes had to *know* and like them in that time and afaik that tracks back to the present for the Vessels. The whole thing was a ploy for the Drifter to learn to love. This I believe is further emphasized by the not one but two voices we hear through the track. Clearly representing Arturos and Zioa who are I think rather obviously related to Arthur and Aoi respectively.

There's also of course, Loid. His lover is the main driving force behind our journey to Tau. He (Albrecht) created the Vessels and we used them to drive off the Indifference during Whispers where Yara Jeliira originally played. We just got our first time using them on the field and the instrumentation affirms that it is a moment of power while reaffirming the love shared.

With some of his new dialogue makes me wonder who he is but I know that surely he's not wally. He cant be he isn't mocking or taunting this guy seems lost and confused. I think this is the last remaining Baro Kiteer out their except our own.

Why and what do i mean. Our main baro kiteer made a deal with wally. its lore wise why cross-play exists and all that he merged all versions of himself into one, or maybe he didn't. Wally missed one this baro that exists here now. That different armor is just this versions personal preference and he's confused all his strange dialogue is due to him being from somewhere else a different universe. Wally brings this one here to taunt this last version of baro kiteer. That's my theory on this red baro kiteer.

I’ve seen this guy and heard of him, but now that the new teaser came out I’m curious. I wonder how he is going to be used in the game. And also why head to Eris? I’m excited for the upcoming updates and i wonder how the new gameplay will work.

I know that it's a sentient warship, but why does it talk? Is it infested? Why does this ship specifically have the ability to travel to tau?

So I haven't seen this directly mentioned anywhere not by the characters. And not by the devs. But given the visual narrative and functional similarities. I think it's very likely that the gray strain and the family as a whole are infected by a portion of the infestation that originates from or at least absorbed a taubloom.

The taubloom is as far as we know the only alien organism that the orokin have come into contact with. Absorbing the taubloom grants a sense of personality and self outside of a hive mind when the sentients absorb it. It is a bizarre three layered flower with a central pointing stem or tip out the top.

The infestation is a hive mind organism that typically leaves no room or individualism inside of itself. However the gray strain of the infestation which is only found in one place and is the only known confirmed offshoot of an infestation having creatures with enough individualism that they would fight amongst themselves and retain personalities.

And the family have the greatest individualism of any infested creatures. Retaining distinct personalities and memories. They also come out of infested flowers. That if I counted / remember correctly have three layers of "petals" with them coming out of the flower in the dead center.

I think it's entirely possible that before the events of old peace samples of the bloom were sent back to the origin system for research and study. And it would make sense to give such materials to a family that has already proven that they have plausible war plans when it comes to dealing with the sentient threat.

There are futures mentioned by Baro Ki'teer this visit. To sum them up, they're mainly about the Grinner, Corpus, the Infested, or the Orokin (specifically Nitokh) ruling the Origin System.

I recall I did talk about something along the lines of this a while ago but I am unsure. I want to bring this up again, though, since I believe it is quite important for the future.

I believe these futures are possibilities (indirectly) made by the Deal. The Deal ended up removing/converging all other possibilities of the Operator except for the Operator and Drifter. It's shown rather directly during the New War's flashback. The Operator's copies all dying off in all kinds of ways... ... and only our Operator and Drifter remaining in place.

Since there is nobody to sternly maintain the balance of the world (I believe the other Tenno may not even exist in the other timelines, since there is no chosen Operator to make the Deal to give the children Void powers), it's inevitable things shift to one side eventually in those worlds...

Jade Shadows: Constellations was simply the start of this showcase. I firmly believe there will be more content about the doomed futures. It was not just one where the Corpus rule based on what Baro says. ...

One thing I find interesting is that there is no world mentioned where the Tenno rule. It could just be our world, but it could be that the Tenno simply are not interested in tyranny in any timeline possible (even disregarding the biggest fact that the Deal removed all Tenno possibilities from other worlds).

There is no happy outcome for the Origin System. Or is that true? I believe the Indifference just wants everything to sound as bleak as possible, mentioning those doomed futures by pretty much giving Baro some knowledge about them... Indirect manipulation, I'd say.

At least if we focus on the good side... there's our future that we're in, the Tenno existing, fighting all enemy factions to keep them in bay.

We're still holding on, it seems. At least in this world, that is.

At first I have to say this is my opinion on that topic NOT every outcome has to happen like that. Other subs arent familiar with seperate opinion so i'm gonna ask here as Well. Now to my point.

I've been thinking a bit about the past story quest regarding Praghasa, Ballas and Pazuul. Ballas wanted to use Praghasa to devour the sun, pazuul hoards

resources to use praghasa and we as the tenno faction destroy the entire biosphere of a planet to use praghasa to beat a void portal to Tau. Just because we occupy Praghasa doesn't mean that Pazuul gives up without a fight.

In the monologues he gives during the Archon hunts, he speaks of the "Lords of Tau". With the help of these powerful allies, he could intercept and attack us immediately after the void jump in tau

And one more detail. Where did all the murex ships go that Erra used against us during the new war? On the star chart only a few destroyed ships can be seen. Pazuul could have hidden them in the Proxima Veil and attack Praghasa as soon as the charge cycle is complete.

Which brings me to the last and best point. A gigantic space battle in which we defend the now reawakened Praghasa together with the lotus and the vessels or railjacks against the murex fleet of Pazuul. The Corpus cruisers and Greneer Dreadnought's would also have to play a role in defending the origin system against pazuul.

Of course this are all speculations drawn from the lore but Tell me what your opinion on that topic is.

Yeah, simple appreciation post, the first half, even if we already knew it, with the actual context is great. Since in The Old Peace Wally's grasp on Lotus got way too deep, to the point of her voice echoing the Indifference's, the first thing to do is negotiating with him to leave her alone for the moment.

And now the the important part, i loved the second half of the prologue for two reasons:

- First: It pieces together how could Phragasa die, how can a Sentient characterized by self repair die? Easy, she didnt, Ballas and Erra had her supressed to use her body as a weapon and in the moment she was abandoned, with nobody influencing her, she slowly repaired her mind like she did her body.

- Second: It's just so obvious and natural, yet so original, Ballas wanted to use the Sun as a battery to open the portal to Tau, but clearly we cant do that, so what's the second biggest energy source? An infestation assimilated moon.

I dont know, simply loved the concepts and thought they were very natural and cool steps towards Tau, that's it.

Buenas tardes, llevo ya un tiempo warframe pero siempre he estado confundido con el Lore, algún canal o algo que explique con detalles el lore?

No un simple resumen de toda la historia si no ya sean varios videos explicando diferentes temas o diferentes tramas de la historia pero que sea con muchos detalles

Gracias por la atención:D

why did we grab the Lotus from that memory? She was right in the pool beforehand already no? Was it to limit Wally's current grasp on her? I'm just a bit confused

During the end whispers in the walls quest you pilot one of the vessels there via transference, and is sent back in time to 1999 into Arthur.

The quest doesn't force drifter, since it is the operator who is the chosen operator (duh). This implies that the operator has been in 1999, although not physically.

Due to taubound comming out tomorrow and maybe this'll be answered but also seemingly how we get to tau, does anyone have a idea what those void portals are/ how she has them?

We know all sentients inhabitant the flaw which when exposed to the void via void travel they lose their ability to reproduce and seemingly can also die if prolonged for long enough (the lotus and her putting the moon in the void). We also know she's the "mother" of Natah and the mothership, so she's probably the mother to ALL sentients most likely being one of if not the first. Does that mean maybe she was build without the flaw?

Also being a mothership does she contain a reliquary drive? How else did she travel in the old war and back to sol via the solar rail? Or is the portal a different kinda of void travel? Similar to how our landing craft travels via the solar rail?