OniDax Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-S-K Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Loki definitely Nigerian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truth Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 I could see Zephyr having an origin/design associated with New Zealand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Krism- Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Vauban is French because of his hat...and bastille... We don't look like that you know --' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)MK Ultra K11 Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 (edited) Excalibur: What happens when you try to mix every nationality together. What. It is obviously English. You know Excalibur is from The famous ENGLISH legend King Arthur. Edited October 17, 2015 by (XB1)MK Ultra K11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightsmith Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Other than Wukong I don't think any are national. There are themes. Hydroid is a pirate Mesa is a wild west gunslinger. I don't see how you can link any to a nation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octoknightx Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Other than Wukong I don't think any are national. There are themes. Hydroid is a pirate Mesa is a wild west gunslinger. I don't see how you can link any to a nation. >wild west >can't link to nation What 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruzelda Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Zephyr is without a doubt Aztec. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PnOyLeeT Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 (edited) Nova P is Asian Myanmar inspired neck rings and head band maybe Gersemi Valkyr is african inspired with that mouth-piece Edited October 18, 2015 by Pnoyleet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acidulant Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 (edited) Tenno Jk Edited October 18, 2015 by Acidulant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightsmith Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 >wild west >can't link to nation What Wild west isn't a "nation" its a theme. It's like "native American" or Norse. Neither are nations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruzelda Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Trinity is I'm surprised no one has posted a pic like this yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightsmith Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Trinity is I'm surprised no one has posted a pic like this yet. what will happen to poor lobster meme when her cloth gets updated :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acidulant Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 what will happen to poor lobster meme when her cloth gets updated :-( Lobster doll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)sanemane213 Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Couldn't find it. All that popped up when I googled it was an English Rock band Formed 5 years ago. I suck at life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freelancer27 Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Well, we got Vauban (French) and soon to be Sun Wukong (Chinese). This could go deeper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)sanemane213 Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 (edited) Excal is BritishMag is PolishVolt is GermanEmber is FrenchBanshee is DutchEquinox is AsianAsh is JapaneseChroma 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 AsianSaryn is BrazilianZephyr is JamaicanWukong is ChineseVauban is FrenchMirage is....something.Limbo is egyptianRhino is Russian BoxerNyx is KoreanMesa is Latin Edited October 18, 2015 by (PS4)sanemane213 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfdoggie Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Nyx is African American. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Eon_Augury Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 (edited) 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 September 21, 2023 by Lost_Eon_Augury 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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