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The people on the Zariman were subjects of the Orokin Empire, but you probably wouldn't call them Orokin, since they weren't immortal or had blue skin. The closest would have been Quinn, who acted with their authority, but even he shows he's distinct from them. So there were no Orokin on the ship as we would understand it.

@@sinfulmourning2780 No, it was destroyed during the Old War by Hunhow. The Corpus have been mentioned as trying to rebuild it, and it may be Pazuul's objective as well.

Yeah, sorry about that. Keeping it in mind for the future!

No, they're humans who have genetically modified themselves. I suppose I could have been clearer about that, sorry. There are currently no aliens in Warframe (unless you count The Indifference).

@OrokinArchives what is indifference

@@xxxbg311 The Indifference is another name for the Man in the Wall, an entity in the Void. Sources differ on whether or not the Man in the Wall has always existed, independent of human activity, or was created inadvertently by Albrecht Entrati.

Thanks! I try to counteract speculation and misconceptions with the lore where I can, which is why I cite and quote as much as possible. Sorry for the long gap between videos, haha, but I'm still around and working on the next one!

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@BlazingFalkor We could, yeah. It's a common point of discussion in the community for a future direction.

Oh, that's an interesting connection I haven't made before.

That's what I love about these characters. SPOILERS FOR GRANDMA BELOW: Not only is she responsible for trying to keep the Entrati family together, not only is her original body not hers, not only is she protecting the ventkids but she gave her original name, Dagath, to the frame of the same name in order to keep her face. She has so many layers to her, and it's incredible.

Welcome to the fight tenno!

@@epone3488 The Jade Light has never been said to do anything other than completely destroy the condemned. The Weave is the connection shared by cephalons, who are created by glassing - often spoken of in the same breath as the Jade Light, but a distinctly different fate. We don't truly know the extent of Orokin death rituals or their importance, it's true, but we do know that it wasn't just the Executors who were immortal. Albrecht Entrati, Grandmother, and Drusus Leverian make it clear that all of the upper-class Orokin had access to Continuity.

@@OrokinArchives I belive whats her name used the JadeLight to save her and him on the Zero.

@@_tadoshi_ Good questions! Unfortunately the lore doesn't really expound on these topics, either the numbers involved or the way Tenno and warframes were paired. Some people think the player numbers are the canon Tenno population, based on The Business making comments during the Fortuna ARG that referenced the number of participating Tenno, but that's up for individual interpretation. I hope we get more info on how the Tenno were assigned their warframes and how they fought during the Old War at some point.

​@@OrokinArchivesAre you going to make a video covering the lore expansion from 1999?

Yeah, I think they are clearly related to the veils, and that gives us a little more information to work with, but I was lamenting the lack of hard info we have about the whole situation.

@@GlitchX That's certainly possible, but unfortunately we don't have many details about the origins of certain Orokin aesthetic trends.

Yes! The Orokin are human, or at least were originally. I think it's safe to say they're a post-human or trans-human subspecies now; the extrasolar message from the Zariman ARG distinguishes between human and Orokin anatomy. But they view themselves as the ultimate form or apotheosis of humanity. Ballas does refer a few times to a fundamental humanity that the Orokin embody. 1999 takes place on Earth before the Orokin existed, but I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a few hints at their origins there.

There aren't any documents that specifically lay out the exact power structure within the Orokin Empire, so we have to piece it together from multiple lines of dialogue. "Emperors" are only mentioned twice, both in older lore sources (Stalker Codex entry and Targis Prime armour, both prior to Executors being mentioned in the lore), so it's my belief that the concept of Emperors was later folded into the Executors. We have never seen any of the Executors respect or mention an authority above their own besides their collective peers (the other Executors). As for "the Seven", we have ample evidence that this refers to the Executors themselves. The Executors voted to decide criminal sentences; there were seven votes (Ballas: "Seven hands raised!"). Ergo, seven Executors. In Ivara's Leverian, Ballas is present inside "the Chamber of the Seven". Executor Tuvul calls himself a member of "the Orokin Seven" when talking to the Zariman colonists - this, I think, is the strongest evidence that "the Seven" refers to the Executors. Unfortunately, there's no lore that directly says "the Seven Executors", so we sort of have to figure it out from the context of these many quotes. Although the Slaughter at the Terminus was a one-sided victory for the Tenno, it was still chaotic and messy. We see during Jade Shadows that Jade specifically stopped the Tenno from killing the Stalker; who knows what other kind of confrontations may have taken place. Especially with the Executors, who were able to deploy the most advanced kinds of protection due to their rank. However, much of this is still unclear and certainly could be revised in the future if we get more clarification. It's possible DE may want to revisit the concept of the Emperors. Based on the lore we have now though, I don't think they were a factor.

Teshin says during The War Within that "By Orokin hands we Dax were given great power, great strength… but an even greater weakness. To obey their command. To never defy the kuva, the sceptre, the symbols of their dominion. No Dax can ever raise steel against an Orokin." Now, the mechanism for this obedience hasn't been established. It could be a sort of immobilisation protocol like we see with the warframes in The Sacrifice, or it could be genetic. Grineer loyalty and obedience has long been established as a genetic trait, as mentioned in Emergency Exit, A Man of Few Words, the Pacifism Defect, the Pyrus Project, Kahl's conversations with Kaelli, and more. Only spontaneous mutations or gene tampering can enable a Grineer clone to disobey. Given the level of detail we have regarding genetic loyalty in the Grineer, I'm inclined to assume the Orokin used similar technology to keep the Dax in line - after all, why wouldn't they? But it hasn't been conclusively determined yet.