ARCHIVE // THE LEVERIAN
The frames, kept as records
In Cetus the historian Drusus keeps a hall — the Leverian — and hangs an exhibit for a chosen few of the frames. The archive keeps the hall he did not: a record for each Warframe, the legend as it is told and, beneath it, what can be attested — the quest that first spoke the name, the line of game text that proves it, the thread back into the record. Where Drusus has spoken, his words are set here beside the archive's own. A weapon is easy to catalogue. A Warframe remembers being a person.
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Excalibur
The Archetype
The blade the Tenno are shown first — and, in his Umbra, the frame that at last said aloud what a Warframe is made of.
Sword and gun — the archetype frame
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Revenant
The Warden Reborn
A frame left to guard the ground where Gara felled a Sentient — who cut down its returning remnant night after night until it took him, and who fell into the lake to rise wearing its essence.
Eidolon-touched — thrall and spectral beam
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Inaros
The Fear-Eater
A Martian colony buried a warrior as a deathless god-king and waited for his return — a frame of sand and hunger that grows stronger the more fear it is fed.
Deathless — the tomb that walks
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Nekros
Harbinger of the Grave
The reaper of the arsenal — a frame that turns the dead into loot, shields, and soldiers, harvested, fittingly, from a thing grown out of Orokin corpses.
Necromancer — the hand that raises the dead
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Nyx
The Stolen Will
The frame of the mind — a weapon that reaches past armour into thought, and answers an enemy not with a blade but with the enemy’s own will.
Psychic — the mind turned against itself
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Rhino
The Immovable
The cornerstone tank — an immovable wall of Iron Skin whose one piece of dedicated lore is a terrified diary that says a word the archive knows well: Zariman.
The unmovable — juggernaut and force-multiplier
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Gara
The Woman of Glass
The glass-bodied frame of Ostron legend — the Unum's champion, who shattered herself to end the last great Sentient and scattered its remnants into the Eidolons that still wander the Plains by night.
Glass-forged — reflection, ward, and shatter
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Garuda
Death's Crimson Maiden
The blood-frame an Orokin scholar became rather than build — she turned the Garuda serum on herself, and made of her own execution a weapon.
Haemokinetic — blood as blade, ward, and fuel
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Xaku
The Lost
Not one frame but the salvaged dead of several, bound together by the Void into a single will that turns the Void itself into a weapon.
Void-bound — disarm, convert, unmake
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Protea
The Founder's Guardian
The tactician Parvos Granum commissioned as his own guard — the child of two fathers whose command of time saved the Corpus founder and sealed him inside the Granum Void.
The tactician — turrets, grenades, and a rewind of time
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Gauss
The Saint of Altra
The speed frame whose every stride charges a kinetic battery — remembered as the Saint of Altra, who outran a minefield's own detonations to retake a fortress that soldiers could not.
The speed frame — a battery charged by every stride
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Grendel
The Devourer of Tyrants
A primal, insatiable frame who eats his enemies alive — and turns that gluttony to mercy, devouring tyrants to feed the starving.
The living gut — swallows enemies whole, armors on every soul
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