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Ash - Japanese (Ninjas)

Banshee - Irish (Banshees are part of Irish folklore)

Chroma - Chinese (Dragon)

Ember - American (Fried chicken)

Excalibur - English (Excalibur. King Arthur. England.)

Frost - Russian (Lots of cold)

Hydroid - Somalian (Pirates)

Limbo - English (Top hat)

Loki - Scandinavian (Norse Mythology)

Mag - Scandinavian (Vikings invented the first magnetic compass)

Mesa - American (Cowgirl)

Mirage - Ibiza (Lots of partying and discos)

Nekros - Japan (Only country with a shrinking population (dying))

Nova - Swiss (The Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Biggest particle collider in the world)

Nyx - Irish?

Oberon - English (Druids)

Rhino - American

Saryn - German (Sarin, the chemical shes named after was discovered in Germany. and I could see her as a classy German lady from the early 1900s)

Trinity - American (Reference to where the most lobsters are in the world)

Valkyr - Greek (Reference to Greece's huge number of stray cats

Vauban - French (Vauban is named after a French engineer)

Volt - French (Come on, Volt clearly does part-time work as a model in Paris.)

Zephyr - Colombian (Colombia has the most birds in the world)

 

Chroma isn't Chinese. Nothing about Chroma is like a Chinese dragon. He'd be European I guess. Not sure what country. Wukong is Chinese.

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Excal is British
Mag is Polish
Volt is German
Ember is French
Banshee is Dutch
Equinox is Asian
Ash is Japanese
Chroma is of Mythological Origin, So, East Asia, Africa, West Asia, Europe, and South Asia. He's all over the place.
Trinity is God. Literally.
Nova is Asian
Saryn is Brazilian
Zephyr is Jamaican
Wukong is Chinese
Vauban is French
Mirage is....something.
Limbo is egyptian
Rhino is Russian Boxer
Nyx is Korean
Mesa is Latin
 

Edited by (PS4)sanemane213
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  • 7 years later...

ASH : Japanese (ninja iconography and the name ash)

ATLAS : Greek (Atlas is a greek name and the firsts gargoyles decorated greek temples)

BANSHEE : Celtic (The banshee is a creature from celtic folklore)

BARUUK : Arabic ( Baruk is a hebraic word meaning "holy" and his belt is symbolic of israelic priests )

CALIBAN : English ( Caliban is a monstrous Shakespearien character )

CHROMA : Greek or American (Chroma is the greek word for color BUT the chromatic dragon iconography is said by the dev is said to be inspired from "Dungeon and Dragons" which dragons have scales colored with their affinity)

CITRINE : Unknown (But i like to think she's egyptian due to her pharaonic design)

EMBER : Egyptian (The phoenix was first mentionned in ancient egypt)

EQUINOX : Unknown

EXCALIBUR : English (Arthurian legends)

FROST : Unknown (Maybe Siberic)

GARA : Japanese (Her name is based from the "garasu" japanese word, which means "glassy")

GARUDA : Hindi (The Garuda is a hindi/buddhist mythologic creature)

GAUSS : German (Name based from The scientist name "Carl Friedrich Gauss"

GRENDEL : English (Grendel is a Character from the Anglo-saxon poem "beowulf", and his name is said to come from the "grind" word)

GYRE : Austrian (Tesla was austian, and her design is inspired by austrian ballet dancers)

HARROW : Italian (The frame has a Catholic iconography, and the capital of catholicism is vatican, in italy)

HILDRYN : Norse (Hildr is the norse word for battle, and Hildr was also the name of a valkyrie in nordic mythology)

HYDROID : Carribean or greek (Hydro is the greek word for water BUT the frame dev was inspired by davy jones in Pirate of the carribean franchise)

INAROS : Egyptian (Pharaoh iconography)

IVARA : Norse (Named After "Ivarr" word, meaning "tree warrior" and from "ivar the boneless" who claimed to be a deadly norse archer)

KHORA: Greek (Named after The godess Kore in greek mythology, AKA Persephone, Plato also used "Kore" word for thing that is not being nor inexistant, similar to khora being either here and not here in the simaris sanctuary assault)

KULLERVO : Finnish (Kullervo is a character in Finnish mythology)

LAVOS : French (According to a dev, the name Lavos was inspired by Antoine Lavoisier, a french chemist. His design somehow can be reffered as Ouroboros or Caduceus)

LIMBO : Probably African (Due to his Ressemblance with Baron Samedi, a character in haitian voodoo)

LOKI : Norse (Loki is the Norse god of trickery and ruse. Which reflects Loki's abilities as warframe)

MAG : German (The only hint is mag alternativ helmets named after Gauss inventions)

MESA : American (Cowgirl iconography and the far west american is known to have various mountain called Mesas)

MIRAGE : Italian (Harlequin Design, Which originated from Italian Commedia del'arte)

NEKROS : Greek (Nekros is a greek word for "dead" and the alternative helmets are reference to greek mythology)

NEZHA : Chinese (Nezha is a chinese god of protection, and her design ressemble as it)

NIDUS : Unknown (The only hint is Nidus being a latin word for "Nest" referring to the starting point of a disease)

NOVA : Swiss (While nothing seems to gives a hint, she somehow plays with Antimatter, and the swiss L.H.C was the first to create antimatter)

NYX : Greek (Nyx is the Goddes of night in greek mythology)

OBERON English (Shakespearian and Arthurian legend character, while having druidic iconography)

OCTAVIA : Unknown

PROTEA : South african/turkish (Protea is the name of a south african flowering plant BUT her placeholder name was odalisk, and her design is basically a odalisk historic outfit)

REVENANT : Romanian (His early development name was Vlad, named after Vlad the Impaler, and his design/abilities are vampiric themed)

RHINO : Unknown (Possibly african)

SARYN : German (Named after Sarin, a chemical named after their inventor Schrader, Ambros, Rüdiger and Van der Linde, While having a historical German Chemist outfit)

SEVAGOTH : Undefined (Due to this warframe to be a community created warframe)

STYANAX : Spartan (name likely draws inspiration from the Greek mythological character Astyanax, While having a Spartan warrior design)

TITANIA : English (Same as Oberon)

TRINITY : Unknown (Name probably inspired by the Holy Trinity in christian legends, While having an angelic design. But her immortal skin has a ankh cross), which gives egyptian origin)

VALKYR : Norse (Berserker Gameplay and Named based from Valkyrie)

VAUBAN : French (Vauban was a French Ingeneer.)

VOLT : Possibly italian (Volt is a measure unit in electricity, named after Alessandro Volta, inventor of electric battery)

VORUNA : Lithuanian (Named after Žvorūna, a name synonymous to Medeina, the Lithuanian goddess of forests, trees, and animals. In Lithuanian mythology)

WISP : Unknown (Wisp's theme is based around Will-o'-Wisps, appearing in various folklores)

WUKONG : Chinese (Wukong is a Mythologic Monkey warrior wielding a Stick)

XAKU : Unknown

YARELI : American (Yareli is a female given name of Native American origin meaning "water lady; small butterfly)

Edited by Lost_Eon_Augury
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