What Is a Warframe Actually Made Of? | Warframe Lore

⚠ Full lore spoilers ahead. New players: this file answers a question the game protects for a long time. A Warframe is not a suit of armour, and it is not empty. Cut one open and you find a person: somebody's soldier, somebody's father, infected on purpose with a cultured strain of the Infestation and handed to a child to carry. This is the archive's file on how the first Warframes were made, in the words of the man who made them. Where canon is silent, the record says so. CHAPTERS 0:00 A Warframe is not empty 0:36 The war the Orokin were losing 2:00 They stopped building and started growing 2:48 The whole answer, said plainly 3:47 What the conversion does to a body 4:27 It failed, and what they did next 5:11 One researcher's account 6:14 The accident at the cell door 7:19 Two halves: Transference and the Reservoir 7:55 The secret the empire kept 8:52 What they were before SOURCES Ballas's recording and Umbra's memories (The Sacrifice), the Rhino Prime Codex, the "Warframes" Cephalon Fragment, Captain Vor's intercepted message (Operation: Arid Fear), the Mag Prime Codex. Narrated by Cephalon Vestige. Recovered Records of the Origin System. Warframe is the property of Digital Extremes. This is fan-made lore commentary under DE's fan content policy. #warframe #warframelore #tenno #orokin #helminth #lore