What We Know Warframe Lore - The Orokin Towers + Light Umbra Speculation

The Orokin Towers are symbols of dominance and glory, testaments to the Orokin's mastery of space and substance. But as with many things the Orokin created, they harbor a dark secret. Bleeding flesh within their walls. But is the flesh so simple? Or could it be more familiar than we realize...

[skull_killa_]

Legend says if you wait in the towers, The LordD will speak his gilded words

[zanx_]

This guy nailed Umbra's creation before he was released!

[dg.]

Finally somebody with theory that makes sense, not just wild speculations based of authors own fantasy supported by lore bits that fit it with rest left out.Wish you made more of these.They are on entirely deffirent level than other out there *Cough*DK and his "Everything must involve stalker because I love him" theories *Cough*.SO GOOD FUCKING JOB MATE.REALLY GOOD JOB!

[EnderkillerEentertainment]

*played the Sacrifice Quest*
*comes here*
*GASP*
HE WAS CORRECT ABOUT UMBRA!!

[AndrewColomy]

DE needs to just make a book about this lore. No fragments or whatever scattered about the game, just a simple, coherent, straightforward presentation of the lore, cause it seems like it's deep as shit, but other than the cinematic quests and various instances of quests to obtain warframes, the lore has almost no bearing on the gameplay at all. It's almost irrelevant. The game's story directly only insinuates that you're a space ninja made out of a combination of technology and flesh and you're controlled by a kid with weird powers and you're lead by a space mom and a weird ship AI that was actually once a person, and you're going around foiling a mega corporation of guys that make robot animals and a group of jacked up clones while watching out for mutant space zombies and giant squid monsters. Most normal players don't really know about any of this shit. They don't know who Ballas or Margoulis is.

[salvadorjacome]

I'm so confident in your lore skills that i hit like BEFORE watching the video.

[blazingstormgaming]

Yes! Thanks for some new What We Know! I love this series!

[alias]

Another possible interpretation of Ballas' monologue in the Sacrifice teaser is that he was talking to an unconscious Margulis after she was involved in the incident with the Tenno kids that left her "withered." He probably already knew what the other members of the Executor Council planned to do based upon that incident--scrap the entire project, kill the dangerous ZXO children, and either summarily execute or exile Margulis for her failings and for her disobedience in letting the children live in the first place.
He thought then of what she said she wanted, and made the choice to implore that her labor of love be spared, and she alone take the punishment for her actions and failings, arguing that while the children of the ZXO were terribly powerful, that power could still be very useful to the Empire in their war against the Sentient threat, if only they were simply brought under control.
In the end that's exactly what happened. Margulis faced death by immolation in front of the Council of Executors, but her children were allowed to live--turned into weapons for the Orokin Empire to use and then throw away (or so they thought)...but allowed to live.
It sounds like after Ballas took oversight of the Warframe project, he was still very bitter about the other Executors--as well as the Seven themselves--condemning his love to die...his eyes were opened to the depths of their cold corruption. He saw the fall of the Empire itself in the ever-growing strength of the Tenno. No force in the galaxy could contain them; not the Sentients, not the Infestation, not the Grineer nor the Corpus, and not their gilded masters who were still terrified of all the horrors they had created, but none more so than their most valued warriors--their last and greatest hope was also to be their doom.
Perhaps Ballas had a bigger role to play in the Tenno killing their masters than has yet been revealed.

[Makorze]

Maybe the Umbra are what the stalker is? As far as we know, the Stalker isn't piloted by a Tenno yet some human consciousness lurks within it, a weakness Hunhow scolds him for holding onto. Also human transference directly into a warframe body has been achieved before, namely when Titania was created. On top of that, not only was she able to ride Titania to the silver grove, the frame itself fought on its own with no pilot when the Dax came to destroy the grove.

[dogemaester]

I can't believe most of this guy's theories are really true.

[jwapptastic]

I’m of the opinion that the Arboriforms are the same Derelict vines, but saturated with Void energy. The nature of the Void seems to be in the domain of living things, and these vines, as living things, are capable of transferring Void energy.

[NcrXnbi]

I am a simple man... I see a new video from LordD, I instantly give it a like and watch it immediately.

[ismaelsantos]

I'm glad you're back. Best lore videos and speculations that make sense, and a soothing voice.

[ThexLegendxM]

Coming back to this vid and hearing what you said about the Rhino codex and your speculation... You were spot on about Umbra.

[StuffStuffing]

Yesss! Love that you're back to do What We Know videos again!

[SmithOfGear]

The best Warframe Lore channel on YouTube, period. Your content is short, sweet and to the point, which is great. Please continue making videos!

[topheftyr]

You have no idea how excited I get when I see a video in this series being posted.

Thanks for you're hard work Stally.

[GamingonFiction]

Man, I love how you present your theories in these videos. Great work!

[da_BemBem]

Your oratory has improved in the time between your videos, that felt pretty empassioned. Good to see another of your videos!

[LichCraft]

Watching this after playing Sacrifice and it's awesome how on point you were on the nature of Umbra frames.