EVxx Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) Edit - sorry for the weird font earlier Hi all, I really like the Warframes' art design. In a way the warframes remind me of geared up Evangelions - we know Tennos are biological and 'may' look very much human, but the ambiguity leaves much to the imagination (how many eyes, if any at all?) - the inhuman nature of our avatars help players immense in the game world and help make the impossible possible. Because of that, I find it odd that in Defense missions, the Tenno in cryostasis look very much human. This is just an observation and I am not trying to push for changes. I just want to state that that it is much better to keep Tennos as ambiguous "biological warriors" rather than like modern-day human (in Evangelion - the creatures are nameless and mostly faceless bio-engineered weapons created to fulfill greater purposes). Would this concept go against the Tenno lore? Edited March 28, 2013 by EVxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrGrae Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Your concept works fine, the cryopod occupant is Nick Naked, who was the original placeholder model for the hostages rescued on missions, this is either also a placeholder (the cryopods used to hold a glowing Volt) or an homage to Nick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverBones Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 There has been a lot of discussion about the genetic makeup / origins of the Tenno. As of U7, a lot of hints point towards them being a humanoid race (at least) in a second skin. I still highly doubt they are vanilla humans though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrGrae Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) given that its a few million years in the future, I'm inclined to agree with Silver, they're probably very different from us, if you look at it genetically we're already nearly two subspecies of &*$$ sapiens. ... H.omo sapiens. -sigh- Edited March 28, 2013 by MrGrae Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G3rman Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) All we know is the Tenno originate from the Sol system, specifically on Earth. They descend from the Orokin who in all likelyhood were the 'humans' of the Warframe universe. We can also see from the prisoner defense a very human face on the female, so that backs up the theory. Warframes themselves should remain ambiguous, but NPCs shouldn't have the same restriction. You still don't know what you look like, but you can have an idea. Edited March 28, 2013 by G3rman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrGrae Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Orokin era does not mean the race was called orokin, the Ming dynasty of china was named after the ruling family, etc. And the tenno were a class of "warrior monks" according to the website snippet, so descended from the orokin is inaccurate, they were a part of the orokin era which was presumably comprised of the humans of the warframe universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G3rman Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) Orokin era does not mean the race was called orokin, the Ming dynasty of china was named after the ruling family, etc. And the tenno were a class of "warrior monks" according to the website snippet, so descended from the orokin is inaccurate, they were a part of the orokin era which was presumably comprised of the humans of the warframe universe. False. We know the Orokin were actually the Orokin; they were the dominant faction of their cycle, hence it being named the Orokin era. We have Orokin artifacts, Orokin clans. It was a civilization. And the words were exactly "Tenno descend from the Orokin era warriors." I have been compiling the lore of the game, I'd like to think I know what I am talking about. Edited March 28, 2013 by G3rman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrGrae Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 I'm british, it isn't my race. Nothing states that Orokin is race, nationality or species, it's ambiguous, but I think it is logical to consider it in a similar vein to Ming and the like, in that Orokin may have been the name of their civilisation, hense orokin artefacts, much the same way as you can have a Ming vase. "The Tenno are descendants of an ancient and mystical civilization of lost warriors from the Orokin era on Earth." They are descendants of people from the Orokin era, not the "Orokin" themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G3rman Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) Just as much as you are assuming, I am assuming they are descended from the Orokin themselves. Everything reported about the Orokin civilization has pointed to it so far, especially in the wording. Keep in mind that something like the Han dynasty can have ethnic links to the people under it. Han dynasty and the Han ethnic group of the Chinese. Edited March 28, 2013 by G3rman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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