(NSW)FlameDivinity Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Is there one? If so, could someone please inform me? If not, wanna start speculating? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Cartographer Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 (edited) Like Warframe skins? Weak. They're skins first, lore bites second. Someone's going to waltz in mentioning Valkyr Gersemi, but even that skin takes a fair few liberties for being the "original," pre-dissected Valkyr. Edited January 8, 2020 by Lost_Cartographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mints Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 You've played The Sacrifice right? Umbra's damaged helmet grows back rather quickly. It stands to reason that the shell of a Warframe can be changed in the same manner. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aldain Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Say it with me folks. Video Game. Not everything needs a lore explanation, sometimes a thing in a video game is just there because somebody decided "hey this would be cool" and spent a fair few hours coding/designing it. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TARINunit9 Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Just now, Lost_Cartographer said: Someone's going to waltz in mentioning Valkyr Gersemi, but even that skin takes a fair few liberties for being the "original," pre-dissected Valkyr. Yeah, that one always struck me as a recreation of what Gersemi looked like rather than some cache of long-lost, untainted Gersemi frames Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Red Dough Boy Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Profit. But also customizing and being special. Mostly seems like a make your own lore thing. Some skins like Excalibur's proto armor actually do have lore because it references Dark Sector which was one of DE's older games. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)ChaosTheNerd Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 2 minutes ago, Aldain said: Say it with me folks. Video Game. Not everything needs a lore explanation, sometimes a thing in a video game is just there because somebody decided "hey this would be cool" and spent a fair few hours coding/designing it. Eh we have fun in giving small bits lore to skins and other stuff, hell most of the background characters for starwars was never intended to have so much lore but they do, dont see why warframe cant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkandae Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Citation "Fashion victims about to become murder victims" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuroraSonicBoom Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Tennogen I will always consider noncanon, like pretty much any of the other skins as well, similar to the DS tribute skins they brought out for Excal and Nyx. Then again, there's the silver grove specters, so sadly I have to make an exception there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelmen Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Why do people people have different physical features around the world we are all human... Frames are all technically living organisms so why not have differences in physical appearance. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawbeard Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 55 minutes ago, Aldain said: Not everything needs a lore explanation did you know that the veil Leia wears in Star Wars (1977) has a specific lore? and you fool tought it's just what she wore that day. nuh uh! some people really can't stand not having an explanation for every single thing. pretty sure that is how religions got started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Red Dough Boy Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 8 minutes ago, Rawbeard said: did you know that the veil Leia wears in Star Wars (1977) has a specific lore? and you fool tought it's just what she wore that day. nuh uh! some people really can't stand not having an explanation for every single thing. pretty sure that is how religions got started. "But why does the sun rise if we don't sacrifice goats to the Sun God?" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaotyke Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 The same lore as Thanos appearing in Fortnite. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightmareT12 Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 2 minutes ago, Kaotyke said: The same lore as Thanos appearing in Fortnite. I see your bet and I raise it: We live in a world where this happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enemystand Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 The most recent part of a skin in lore (Atlas Leverian) is the Stratum Syandana from the Atlas Karst Skin, but the Leverian only mention the syandanna not the Deluxe skin itself, so visit the leverian and draw your own conclusions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmetnuter Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 we can assume the internals from which we build the warframes can be dressed with other "envelopes". Technical lore it is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toppien Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 (edited) at first they were skins with lore...nowdays? no lore at all, they are just to look cool Edited January 8, 2020 by Toppien 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)TehChubbyDugan Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Don't remember the source, but a dev once stated in response to "why does Ordis charge us to use our own foundry" that the Tenno were so likely to spend all of their money on flashy new ways to kill their enemies that he HAD to charge them so he could order basic items like food and fuel. Also, look at the frames themselves. Not a single one of these frames aside from some of the really early frames like Excal and Rhino are utilitarian. Most of them are flashy as hell, and looking at our weapons and the lore descriptions of weapons and syandanas, these are people from a culture at permanent war, and obsessed with ritual. Any mention of warframes in the lore that focuses on figures in the past, like in Simaris research targets, speaks about warframes vaguely, and with awe. They're spoken about like demi-gods, were part of the Orokin culture (or at least directly adjacent to it.) and were also young when they became a part of this vain warrior culture, so it's most likely deeply seated in their psyche that they have to look good while they're slaughtering millions at the behest of a shady mother figure. Also it's just a game and I don't think there's ever even been a concrete explanation for how many tenno there actually are, which frames were the original frames (Prime? Not prime?), and why and when they started to mass produce them for other tenno to use, if they did at all. The Leverian would have you think each frame was singular in nature (They didn't send AN Atlas to destroy the meteor, they sent THE Atlas, singular, as if there is no other), which makes me wonder where my Tenno's original frame is and what it was. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)robotwars7 Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 2 hours ago, (NSW)FlameDivinity said: wanna start speculating? I believe they are personalized versions of Warframes customized by their operators in the Lore. that's assuming there can be more than one of each Warframe lore-wise. if not, then perhaps they are uniquely designed frames, but using systems identical to what would be in the "real" Warframe. for example, Atlas' Karst skin was made as it is, but then fitted with a direct copy of Atlas' systems. that's my best guess anyway. beyond the 4th wall it's DE's way of making money and endgame for most of the players. though I would argue that nowadays the Tennogen creators are doing a lot better than DE's own team these days, but I suppose it's a matter of personal taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redfeather75 Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 (edited) They are literally shed skins found in the void, presumably belonging to alternate dimension versions of warframes. An alternate dimensions frost was a Wild Hunt rider that got stranded in the void and shed his skin before being rescued by a mysterious elf. All of what I say is very truthful and I love saying that because the word truthful sounds silly. Edited January 9, 2020 by Redfeather75 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)RPColten Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 There isn't really established lore behind skins. Some weapon skins are essentially in-universe aesthetic redesigns by craftsmen, normal Warframe skins are basically a new coat/jacket ontop of the same frame, and some Deluxe skins are like 'alternate-history' redesigns of a frames visuals. It's not consistent though. It's game first, universe consistency second. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)Kakurine2 Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 Some have lore to them. But most of them are just there to look cool and give players choices. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miser_able Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 4 hours ago, Lost_Cartographer said: Like Warframe skins? Weak. They're skins first, lore bites second. Someone's going to waltz in mentioning Valkyr Gersemi, but even that skin takes a fair few liberties for being the "original," pre-dissected Valkyr. What about the silver Grove skins? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(NSW)FlameDivinity Posted January 9, 2020 Author Share Posted January 9, 2020 4 hours ago, Aldain said: Say it with me folks. Video Game. Not everything needs a lore explanation, sometimes a thing in a video game is just there because somebody decided "hey this would be cool" and spent a fair few hours coding/designing it. You must've grown up never learning the definition of "fun." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(NSW)FlameDivinity Posted January 9, 2020 Author Share Posted January 9, 2020 (edited) I love how salty people get over literally nothing. You're not welcome here. Bye bye and get muted. Edited January 9, 2020 by (NSW)FlameDivinity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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