What We Know Warframe Lore - The Orokin Empire

the long-dead the remnants of the oricon empire persists to this day offering immense power to those who can unlock their secrets but who were the origin who were the executor who carried out their will and who was ballast the man who seems to have a direct connection to the tunnel and Margulis first it is important to break down the hierarchy of the oricon Empire the Empire did not consist entirely of what would be considered or oaken instead it was divided into two very distinct cases the origin and the humans and below even then were the Grenier slaves and labour forces of the origin but I won't be covering them in this video to any major extent the oricon were comprised of the congress of executives the nondistinct or au can delete the seven emperors potentially the DAX and potentially the sect heiress though the latter too could simply have been elite humans the Congress of executor x' maintained the will of the emperors throughout the sprawling Empire the dax stood as elite Guardsmen for the Oregon and could have potentially been involved in training the Tenno the sect Aris were essentially aides to the Oricon elite and may have been mortal but privileged to move about the Empire unimpeded the oricon while technically humans themselves possess numerous traits that set them apart from the lesser humans firstly they boasted an unparalleled physical beauty so much so that it could be an illusion or result of some other source as orden Karis remarks that their beauty is nearly impossible to fathom secondly they were functionally immortal it is important to understand that while they were immortal they were not invincible they simply never aged or grew sick but as seen with the slaughter at the terminus and the murder of avanti's by a toke they were very much acceptable to standard attacks now that being said there is still some confusion about their mortality while they can be killed it would seem that they can rise again ballast and the oricon at warden Kara's absolution ceremony seemed unperturbed by his attacks and ballast claims that we have died a hundred times which would indicate reincarnation or some sort of consciousness transfer however judging from the effects it has an ordinary it would seem that the red liquid allows for mind transference as after drinking it he becomes the orders we now know if the latter is the case it is a valid theory that the bodies of the oricon are replicants of a sort hence they're perfect physical major however their immortality seems to be the result of consumption of the red liquid how a red liquid facilitates immortality is not yet clear but will likely become more apparent in the war with inquest regardless it still raises question about Aventis is death and if that was truly her end it is also unclear this red liquid is separate from aura or a way for Nintendo to gain an aura hence why the Emperor's were still able to be killed with finality by the Tenno since 1000 can absorb the aura of others below the Oricon was the rest of humanity composed of dignitaries and lower classes there seems to be an immense gaps between those favored by the oricon and those who are not while some like the are comedians were closely involved with the oricon elite in their projects most of the system was not as seen in the inaros quest those who are not directly subservient to the oricon elite were almost completely unaware of their existence in hierarchy the people of Mars and Phobos even went so far as to call them skyman indicating a medieval mindset and complete ignorance to space travel although it is potentially possible that these primitive terms only arose from the most recent civilization of Mars post collapse as generations of storytelling have distorted the truth of the legend regardless how far this level of submission was spread across the Empire is uncertain and could very well have included all but the most privileged of humanity this level of submission was enforced by locking all high functioning Oricon technology behind genetic barriers only those of Oricon status or potentially those who had the Oracles blessing could operate the technology with ease this massive barrier to entry is demonstrated when bill sááá is nearly killed for her genetic data to operate the solar rails it is due to this complication that the understanding of Oricon technology in the modern day is limited at best with only the corpus coming even close to operating it due in part to their intense reverence of auric and reliquary and also due to their potential ties to Oricon ancestry while the oricon were efficient in touting the value of their enhanced DNA they were still human within because as we have learned the oricon were still very much victims to the longings of Flash ballast one of the executor will Congress was romantically involved with Margules an Archimedean of human status judging from his comments that lust was his sin it would indicate that inner mingling between humans in the oricon was somewhat taboo it is very possible that when Margules became a threat to the empire steno program his allegiance was called into question and he was forced to execute her as a show of fealty beyond just the oricon elite and the humans of the system there is a very important class to remember the seven the seven are not the operating Congress of executives which may have had more than seven members but only convened in groups of seven for judgmental purposes the seven are the silent Emperors of the oricon Empire though not confirmed in game yet it was hinted by Mike Brennan that the seven maintained their vigil over the Empire within isolated pods sealed so that they would not have to share air with those of lesser standing silent so that only the most privileged of the elite could hear their gilded words it is due to this hermetic nature that the congress of executives was founded a group that could maintain the emperor's will without the emperors themselves needing to get involved it is also possible that these Emperor's each embodied one of the seven principles and eventually stood a symbolic figure heads for the Tenno schools this tide of the tonneaus beliefs and principles could be why they were willing to descend from their lofty Thrones for the absolution ceremony at the terminus and to their own demise but before its collapse the oricon Empire had a long expansive history while it is not clear the exact duration of the Empire it seems to have been divided into four or more arrows with meso neo and AXI in that order now while these errors have been named it is very likely that these were only small periods towards the end of the empire as all relics from those eras are run on the principles of void energy indicating that the eras transpired after the oricon learned how to master the void it is due to this mastery that they evolved from a science driven race to one that valued art and Majesty treasuring the form as much as the function as demonstrated by the increasing ordinance of the various relics regardless the oricon spent decades if not centuries reshaping the system into its current form twisting and experimenting with flora fauna and reality itself at their whim they terraformed much of the system vastly improved space travel via the use of solar rails and also poisoned the earth beyond recognition as seen in the silver Grove quest literally no natural flora or fauna exists in the system any longer as all has come as a result of auric and engineering most of this was likely done to rectify the ravaging of the earth in an attempt to restore it to a semblance of its former self while it is not clear how the earth was poisoned it is likely as a result of TechKnow site experimentation which brings into question the timeline of events and the duration of the old war seen as morghulis longs for old earth it would seem that the earth was overrun sometime early in her life or possibly even before it indicating that the old war transpired over a great period of time aztec no site was potentially developed as a tool to counter the sentient threat a thought that is further backed by the rich history of the Tenno and their culture that would have needed much time to mature all of this time allowed the immortal god emperors of the origin to wallow in their own pride toying with the lives of the system as if they were merely tools this hubris is of course what led to their own downfall as all their massive ventures and blame God backfired Grenier Tenno sentient techno site and even their own genetic pride culminated into a massive wave of chaos that tore their empire apart from within this event known as the collapse is still casting waves to this day and the whispers of the Empire continue to instill fear and greed into the system's ruling powers but the most burning question is are any of the oricon still alive it is very possible that some of the oricon elite managed to elude the Grenier and the dangers of the system for all these years the furtive old Metis is a likely candidate and with all the hints of ballast and his ties to the Tenno his existence is very possible as well but as with many things in the warframe universe these are mostly uncertain and are not the only interpretations but until the time comes when we have all the facts this is what we know you

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Keywords: Warframe, Orokin, Lore, Story, Tenno, Margulis, Ballas, Void, Plot

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Length: 8min 41sec (521 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 18 2016