@@jamesbuchanan4414 I think it is simbolic of how much influence Ballas had over all of us, including our Warframes. We could only hurt him whenever he let his guard down, and only with the tenno.
The thing that really spooks me about The Man In The Wall is how he seems to almost break the game’s physics and motions. His movement is so simple and not complex and he almost seems to phase with other objects around him. It almost looks like while everything else is done with lots of care and effort and lots of effects, the man was animated and effected with extremely few tools. Then when he kind of jumps at the Lotus before disappearing, he just kinda moves in one direction then disappears without any sort of transition. It’s so strangely creepy and seems like it could be setting up some kind of fourth wall break type thing, especially when you add in some of his previous interactions where he looks right at the camera(specifically the end of War Within)
@@NECROMAGICIAN666 Wally basically told us, in Requiem-speak, that he saw literally everything that happened during TNW, even if somehow it was not pulling the strings itself (which I doubt)
@@0hvlone519 the requiem mods have verses that you can make a poem in any order as a requiem sequence when you discover the right combination, when you hunt liches/sisters.
"Ah, don't mind me, kiddo. I'm just here to make you remember the only truth that really exists, while you struggle with everything you have: YOU... OWE... ME!"
@Lucien Hale he says "Oull - Ris- Xata - Vome. Khra - Lohk.", for what we know right now he said "Truth, light, order. Void, time". In other words, we don't know what Oull means but in my opinion he just want to tell you that it will be his moment now. In fact, he is the first entity in the game that was not created by humans, the only alien entity... or maybe he just want his index finger back
@@CloseWave I can imagine how powerful that creature can be if it is causing all these (warframe stories) simply because he is mad for losing his index finger. They probably looking at all factions fighting as daily entertainment.
@@CloseWave I've just discovered something about this. I thought this wasn't right but he do says these words. More than that, if you read the requem mods' description in that order, this forms a poem: "Through endless faces, countless forms, a multitude unfolds. In luminous space, blackened stars, they gaze, accuse, deny. Its heralds are the stars it fells, the sky and Earth aflame. To cosmic madness laws submit, though stalwart minds entreat. To cosmic forms from tangent planes, we end as we began. From brooding gulfs are we beheld, by that which bears no name."
Do you know what the really sad thing is? When Teshin first got the veil, he tried to resist it. Same as almost everyone else did. But everyone eventually succumbs to it. Even the Drifter almost did until it was removed. But not Ballas, the one who created the veils. He immediately gave in to his own vision. In his desperation to prove that everyone just wants to be told the truth...he proved that he's the only one who wants that.
I mean the orokin were pretty much like a spoiled child but amped up to 17, so yeah considering he could not understand why margullis chose the tenno over him, i say the orokin overall give in to its own desires because they are used to it.
@@commodorejones8044 they are the names of mods used to kill nemesis characters like the kuva liches and sisters of parvos. and thanks to another comment i found. i learned that the descriptions of those mods make a poem. "Through endless faces, countless forms, a multitude unfolds. In luminous space, blackened stars, they gaze, accuse, deny. Its heralds are the stars it fells, the sky and Earth aflame. To cosmic madness laws submit, though stalwart minds entreat. To cosmic forms from tangent planes, we end as we began. From brooding gulfs are we beheld, by that which bears no name."
If you check right as The Man in The Wall appears, he's missing the infamous finger on his upper right hand, even leaking void energy! Not surprising the finger inside our Railjack is so enormous!
Ballas' death goes hard. Marghulis gave her love and life to the Tenno and Ballas was so hurt that he wanted to believe he never cared about her anyway. But then as soon as he sees her face he completely melts and sounds close to tears. He is reminded for just a moment why he did all of this in the first place which leaves him completely exposed. It took one moment of honesty from the Golden Lord of lies to finally bring him down.
The Man in the Wall is one of the prime examples of modern day Lovecraftian horror at it's best. I dont know who he is, WHAT he is or what he wants. And I also honestly never want to find out
@@wdkpwr6586 The drifter is the operator from another timeline who never escaped the zariman after the incident and arrived in Duviri. The drifter then created the duviri paradox but later handed over duviri to dominus thrax because he wanted to leave duviri.
@@wdkpwr6586 they're the you that didn't get rescued from the Zariman, in another reality. They got trapped in Duviri and managed to escape thanks to a paradox original you (Tenno) created
@@wdkpwr6586 as far as I know, Man in the Wall is the physical manifestation of the Void. He's the one who gave the Tenno their powers, maybe he helped make Duviri. But you don't know what he is, all we know is that he takes the shape of whoever hes talking to, gave us our powers, he is in the void, and he wants OUT.
Yeah man - I noticed the smoking hand first thing but originally missed the shadowy corona around her after he disappeared. I'm super curious about that one. There's going to be some fucky things going down.
@@codydavis9918 it literally is the man in the wall His finger was missing and it's around the size of the one in our railjack And you know, tell was sitting on top of it
@@nicklangatang2136 I’m saying look at natah face after the wall vanished she had a smirk just like the wall did and then she collapsed. But yeah I already know about the finger and the ship
The man in the wall is exactly what I thought it would be. Something massive dwelling within the void that's probably ONE of its forms. It's strange booming voice that sounds like its own language is very Lovecraftian and very biblical. But he seems to be more "be very afraid" rather then "be not afraid" kinda like it's just tolerating us for now. This is definitely going to be a problem down the road.
The funniest thing is how people would explain how the name "Man in the Wall" is metaphorical for being trapped in the void or something like that, and then DE shows that the name is very, very literal.
@@samiamtheman7379 yep he clearly shops at Walmart. He is a fan of wall-to-wall savings. Any attempt at seeing him vulnerable has resulted in complete stonewalling. Although for the lotus he seems rock hard.
@@samiamtheman7379 IDK why they thought that. Rell is canonically autistic, why would he state anything but the very literal facts in regards to the Man in the Wall?
I mean, to be fair, he does use chicken legs to get around, because his actual legs are so short he may as well just use his long ass arms like a blue chimpanzee
@Stanky Tree The entity that appears in ur orbiter is not rell, it never was... Rell was containing the man in the wall before we release him in harrow's quest, Now TMITW can communicate with us but he needs to materialize for us, using ur operator's appearence for this purpose... Interesting fact: when rell calls him '"the man on the wall" it is a quite literal description. This may be because as we already know from his story, Rell had autism and that's a common characteristic in general terms
@@KrissNaramon in Harrow's quest, rell's mother is using cards with different emotions to teach him about it. This is a common practice in Therapy with ASD. That's the reason cause Rell can't hold the transference in the first place. He can't interpret warframes emotions properly. (Ballas said it in Sacrifice quest)
Sentients are allergic to the Void though... Not sure if having Void inside her would be any healthy for her. Although she's an Eidolon already anyways
Nah, he escaped. He was trapped in the Void which is where Albrecht Entrati found him. Ballas opening up a portal essentially freed him, and Wally "helped" us on the Zariman as the deal to help us do so. You can see him if you look high up on the Whispers in the Walls upddate.
Looking back at this scene between lotus and ballas it's basically the most story driven break up in gaming history Edit: holy shit where did these likes come from?
When you really think about it the entire story of Warframe is just one Lovestruck and person trying to deal with his girlfriend abandon him for some orphans
@@isaiahvaldez3330 jokes aside, i think orokin sees tenno as a weapon/tool. I'd say Lotus is equivalent to non-racist people back when everyone was racist (1800s?) That's why Ballas was like "wtf are you even thinking straight, Margulis?!"
It was a stab at space mom. She didn't believe he existed, told us it wasn't real. So he appeared to us, specifically her, as a literal man in the wall to mess with her mind and show his control over things.
@@yosefpoysun3534 she saw the man in the wall earlier, play assassination of this amalgam boss on jupiter to find out. Ropalolyst I think was his name.
@@conorflinn600 I mean the name makes sense tho, Wally is the manifestation of the Void and the Void is the Wall between realities, as we learned the Void is both the reason why a multiverse with infinite realities exists but also what kepts them apart from eachother and also allows travel between them The realities are the fabric of reality and the Void is the string that ties is all together
ballas should have had a better death at least, an orokin executor who manipulated the whole sentient race, took control of the whole solar system and created the warframes got killed by a kiss while being mind controlled
rather fitting considering the very object that is mind-controlling him is the very thing he used to mind control all our friends and the other factions into worshipping him. Essentially, our Tenno beat him with his own weapon, we may have originally thought we'd be killing him with the paracesis, but killing him with another weapon of his works just as well I guess.
@@user-tn3ek2vj6v Ballas' story is about his narcisism and greed. Lampshading all around, it's always someone else's fault that he's 'forced' to destroy everything etc. The only person so far that he didn't have outright murderous desires towards, was Margulis and even in her case, he was abusive and most importantly; possessive. To see her, finally on her knees and submitting to him, after all he'd done to her, to everyone she ever cared, to feel that sweet moment of finally being victorious? It was his comeuppance, his fitting end. I won't say it couldn't have ended better (personally, I'd have LOVED a scene where Tenno just come out the woodwork, breaking time and space for just one moment to stand up as an army and kick his behind from here to the edge of existence, but... oh well). But he had a good death, all things considered. A poetic one.
The scene where Ballas gets tricked by the masks his army wore was honestly, saddening. Ballas really missed Margulis that much and was willing to destroy the sun or whole origin system as revenge. That just shows why he betrayed the Orokin and everything. He just wanted his true love back. Edit: You can also faintly hear “This is What You Are” in the background when Margulis is on screen.
I never had any empathy for Ballas. The grief felt by one man for his lost love does not justify the enslaving and killing of the majority. The desires and rights of the many outweigh the griefs of the few.
Ever since I saw this thing I've been wondering "how did the man in the wall escape?" Then rewatching this I realized he only escape AFTER ballas died, one of the last orokin, then lotus trapped him, but I think he'll be free as soon as lotus either dies or is incapacitated in some degree, allowing him to escape freely and that will in turn cause our RJ to malfunction and go to plains of duviri since our RJ runs on his missing finger
@@JustSayingitslore What side of the court is he on? Autocorrect, I know, but it's now an image in my head. Pretty sure he wins most matches. Sick video cut though. Nice to see a longer piece with more context than just sudden wallboi.
It was talked about earlier in the game it was deimos the mom talks about how her father met the man in the wall when he was experimenting and in a panic closed the portal severing the mans finger and used it to help develop the warframes
People won't realize just how epic this is till it's too late, this was put together when they were all affected by the COVID-19 and it's still top notch, some rushed parts and could've been at least 3 or four more hours long but this quest is beyond amazing and it's so damn deep. The Devs put alot of work into this congrats to them.
@Turaglas lmfao 😂😂😂😂 how TF am I offending all those people. The Zarmanian, the Drifter plot, The Man in The Wall all that was well thought out. I'm not defending the rushed parts obviously I pointed that out above could've been 3 or 4 hours more content to fill in gaps that was missing.
I don’t know how I didn’t think of this when playing the quest. I was wondering why a giant smiling wall just started floating towards me and the Lotus. Somehow I didn’t put two and two together lol. Thanks for clearing it up.
I was watching a lore video about the New War yesterday and it occurred to me that because of the veil, Ballas dies happy. He dies convinced that Margulis loved him more than the Tenno. So much more than the son of a bitch deserved.
When I first heard of The Man in the Wall back in “Chains of Harrow”, my first impression as to what exactly it might be is the voices one would hear when going insane, like how you see a manifestation that resembles the Operator occasionally after completing the quest. The conversation with The Man in the Wall at the end of “The Sacrifice” quest changed that initial impression to something like a demonic spectral entity haunting those touched by the Void, slowly corrupting them in some way like what happened to Rell. Until that scene right after Ballas died, that is; that… entity… actually resembles a man embedded in a wall. Didn’t realize that the “Man in the Wall” moniker was meant to be taken in a more literal sense.
yeah, that was really neat, the basically literal interpretation of what Rell was constantly saying all the time. I just thought it was referring to voices inside the walls, not that he had actually seen the entity, as he was somewhat doing the same thing, talking in whispers all around us, as if he was inside the walls, y'know? nothing would've prepared me for a gigantic white man inside a concrete wall floating in space and then speaking to us.
I kinda expected something bizarre. And i mean, rell was autistic. Like, *really* autistic. I don't think creatively naming things was a strongsuit of his
I completely agree, they barely scratch the surface. With the man in the wall being such an influential piece now, we need to know more. And this Duviri paradox must have something to do with it.
Not the next update, I think we'll go smaller and focus on the origin system and wrap up the sentient problem for now, after all I'm not sure if hunhow is going to remain a tentative ally for now or use us since the whole system was at stake and not even he wants total annihilation because what would be left
I keep saying it, best release schedule IMO: New War -> bugfixes -> other updates / more narmer faction missions -> INFESTED LICHES / Arlo sidequest / Railjack Proximas of Deimos, Mercury, and Eris -> other updates / bugfixes -> DUVIRI PARADOX -> bugfixes
The part where the man in the wall appears genuinely took me by surprise so much and just brought back a flood of memories from the Duviri Paradox. I'm so fucking keen for the update...
I'm just gonna say this: if we ever do have The Man in the Wall as a Warframe boss, he really shouldn't be beatable by conventional means. I know that's not a popular opinion for Video Game villains, but unless the game becomes revamped to the point it isn't even recognizable, and all of the warframes become, like, Lovecraftian aliens + DBZ power level things, it makes no thematic sense for TMitW to suddenly have a HP bar we can chip down.
I kind of imagine it being like timed event raid style boss once a day or week where a Bunch of tenno kick its ass while dodging attacks, cc, and mobs. Then, when it gets defeated, the resolution would be that it just gets pushed back into the void again until it comes back. Kind of like an ongoing struggle to fight it off similar to the thermal event on fortuna or the ghoul event on earth.
I imagine it would be like the second act of The War Within. Basically a battle in the center of the mind, where one side traps the other in a horrible scenario made to wear them down physically and spiritually, and the other side fighting through all of it to escape their enemy's custom-tailored deathtrap and force them out of their mind.
@@NerdyGamer9k maybe attack it with railjack cheap shots or attack minor incursions of it that appear in the Suvari paradox during the nightmare state.
Really dont want to fight the man in the wall, I like the "Hey Kiddo" but also when you beat something of great danger then whats left? Fashion frame? The game is done…
I really am getting Lovecraft vibes from this, good old Man in the Wall being a cosmic being utterly beyond our comprehension, looking in a way our primitive minds can take in without going utterly mad. Of course we’re already out of our minds having spent god knows how long in the void during the craziness aboard the Zarimon ten zero, but at least we can still do things without being a jabbering vegetable. I hope they give more crazy stuff like this in the future, and go all out when the duviri plains arrive.
I have a theory. The man in the wall IS rell. The void itself is the space between realities so it's obviously hostile to anything and everything that enters it, so when rell shielded everybody from the void that birthed the man in the wall, a cosmicly powerful being capable of surviving the void also twisting his personality. I think TMITW is going to be our ally throughout duviri because he seems to have done nothing but help us, he gave us void powers allowing us to resist and harness void energy contributing to our survival, and clearly powerful he diddnt just erase us from reality proves he doesn't want to. Although something as or more powerful that would oppose him? And make him go through creating us? I don't know but I think something wild is gonna happen
Obviously, the Man in the Wall presents himself as the Vitruvian Man as a sign of power. The Vitruvian Man has many meanings, and one of them is the hierarchy of all living things, and his representation in our realm, as US, is sat on top as if it were a throne. I love the idea that the Man in the Wall is literally a god, and sits atop the throne of all living things. The Man in the Wall is free, and He is inside lotus (if the smile wasn't enough of an indication.) His final words before disappearing roughly translated to "you owe me" meaning that he has something planned. The debt? He saved the children on the Zariman. This is all playing into a scheme that we simply do not have even a fifth of the pieces for.
Actually to add to your theory he says the phrases on the Kuva Cards, something along the lines of "Oull - Ris- Xata - Vome. Khra - Lohk." Which if if look at the description of each card you’ll get a piece of a poem roughly saying "Through endless faces, countless forms, a multitude unfolds, in luminous space blackened stars they gaze, acuze, deny. Its heralds are the stars it fells, the sky and earth aflame, To cosmic madness laws submit though stalwart minds minds entreat, to cosmic forms from tangent planes we end as we began, froom brooding gulfs we are beheld by which bears no name." In a few words he tells us that he is truly endless, has and will always be here. How the unknown and crazy laws of the void are the true laws of the universe. How all the paradoxes and realities converge in the void where it holds dominance above all. Now depending on who you ask it could change because everyone hears something different. But this is the most likely and coolest concept to me. The void is time, Wally is the Void, time I’d everywhere and no where all at once and so is he. He’s both won and lost and he’s smiled through it all.
1:59 You know its good writting when you get that Ballas was so broken inside that the momentothe veil is put on his head he couldn't fight it back. Just as he said: ''Put their pain where it serves us''.
That's literally the first thing that I thought of when I saw it, especially coupled with the fact that it usually takes the form of our tenno in all of our other interactions
Erra dropped Ballas’ leash and Ballas smirked and stopped acting subservient the moment after they threw Natah into that machine. Watch that cutscene again s see if you’ll see that Ballas has been playing the long game.
@@spritemon98 Pazuul isn't Erra, it's the Archon that took control over his corpse, after Erra sacrificed himself for us, someone at the end of war took Erra's dead body and jammed a Tau Shard into it and now the leader of the Archons Pazuul is using Erra's body as his own to lead Narmer Now i wonder who did this and why, also how they got acces to Pazuul's shard because in the lore at the time of The New War, Pazuul was still in the Tau system following Hunhow's order to act as the guardian of Tau
Everyone is talking about what the guy is saying but does anybody realise that he didn't go back to the void? He just disappeared. What if he is released now?
I swear Warframe's lore and setting are so incredibly cool. I just started playing a few weeks ago after a big hiatus (I think I last played a lot right before Plains of Eidolon was added) and all this new content is insane. Say what you want about the game but there's a ton in it and these quests are rad as hell.
Pretty great isn't it? Yeah, the story for this game is a complete trip, but it kind of comes with the territory of the player character being a nearly demi-god like being literally fueled by Eldritch powers, plus a lot more crazy stuff.
Everybody talking about the Lotus and Ballas, while the Ghost of an autistic child was fighting that thing for void knows how long... Alone, in a cold dark place.
Lotus' left hand is smoking. Wally spoke a series of Requiem phrases. My theory is she cut a deal with Wally (for what, I'm not sure), in exchange for him severing Ballas' Continuity, thus preventing him from just returning again.
@@lordlightskin4200 Minor correction, that hand implants itself in you while also mutilating your own hand in the process. The remaining flesh that flaps around looks weirly similar in texture to Sentient "meat"
as a player with a potato laptop, I had to play with low graphics settings. Combine that with lack of sleep, and 3:36 felt like the entire cutscene, in fact the entire Warframe game platform even, gave way to a 2010 Gmod TF2 youtube video. Which on hindsight, were creepily abstract and crude, matched only by the simplicity of animation (example: ua-cam.com/video/WBuggMdUbog/v-deo.html ). Similarly, on low graphics, I was really looking at a pasty partly-decapitated clay figure rotate like someone manually did it with Paint 3D, before laughing at me and disappearing into the background (behind you), all while stuck in a T-pose. Now that I think about it, that is probably the most meta representation of what it feels like to become the meme for once.
I kinda wish we could find out the terms of their deal. Because right now, we kinda have no idea what are we fighting against. Imagine the deal was that MITW gets to make the world a better place and Tenno hates that because that would mean no more bounties and loot for them. :D
The thing that pains me with the new war is actually how hard it slaps, we will never get the unrushed content rich full version and that hurts me because the parts of it we did get go so damn hard. In my Op still the greatest quest line to ever hit warframe.
The sun was about to go off, which would kill all Tenno and species in the Sol system…Pretty sure the man in the wall gave Lotus the same choice they gave us. Die alone or survive…together
@@frank8917 I have a hypothesis is that Teshin have secretly developed an AI replica of himself in case if he does pass away and unlike the Lotus AI that glitches every so often, Teshin's version is much more refined; the reason why he kept this a secret is up to debate, but still a surprise gift so that our training can continue.
@@KordellCunningham but what If he’s still alive and at the same time dead? I mean, if the Drifter exists there is a possibility that another Teshin could exist
2:08 It's been 3 years and yet. When Margulis appears and "This Is What You Are" starts playing followed by Ballas sounding on the verge of tears, still gives me chills.
So the smoking hand thing can be explained away as the level of power she was using to repel IT was burning her hand. Watching it at 0.25 speed the man in the wall (I wasn’t expecting it to be an actual man in a wall) vanishes as IT hits the barrier she was channeling, so DE can take the story in one of two ways 1# it did go into her and they could do two ways with that idea too that this was ITs plan all along (though personally I thing it wants use more as the player has a higher upper limit on their powers so will be more useful and because of our age easier to use) or that as IT hit her attack they merged and it’s now just biding IT’s time and getting used to the new vessel, 2# that as IT hit her barrier it was actually cast back into the void to wait and plot. Each of these idea can tell an interesting story but no matter what happens a showdown with the man in the wall is going to happen sooner or later or it can just wait for us to die of old age as something tells me that IT is timeless (btw I’m using IT when I describe IT in the same way the Stephen King’s IT is said instead of just it)
Rell was the test run to see if a void entity can take over a Origin crafted being to inhabit this space MitW goes into Lotus body....but who is in there? Did Ballas also get absorbed as a sort of prison or as a way to give him peace? We have to remember that Orokin have been transferring themselves from body to body for ages. It's not until we fight the glassing Orokin (forgot his name) that we learn that it is possible to contain the Orokin in a type of jailing Also, do you see how the Drifter sees the child version of the MitW on his head yet it is not seen from Lotus viewpoint. Does this mean that the War Within and Without has finally started between Drifter and Operator? Just some different ways to see things
Honestly I hope Lotus isn't possessed by the man in the wall. Like damn bruh I just went through 2 hours to get her back now i'm about to lose her again?
At this current point in time (just after Duviri Paradox), with the story so far, the fragments, the Holdfasts, the Man in the Wall is terrifying. He has complete control over everything (it seems). Humanity is just barely holding on and their last line of defense, the Tenno, owe him their lives. What happens when he comes to collect his debts? Regardless, I'll be sad when this story arc comes to a close. He's such a great big bad.
More like she drained his powerpack. Remember - the "Mannequin" is absolutely filled with Sentient cybernetics. And Natah's likely to have a better grip on how they work
@@murasameqqwq "Through endless faces, countless forms, a multitude unfolds. In luminous space, blackened stars, they gaze, accuse, deny. Its heralds are the stars it fells, the sky and Earth aflame. To cosmic madness laws submit, though stalwart minds entreat. To cosmic forms from tangent planes, we end as we began. From brooding gulfs are we beheld, by that which bears no name. "
Ballas i understand you you are a great man but no one gave you chance to build the future by your vision :( i scared first time i see the man in the wall but hes cool when he says (Oull Riss Xata Lohk Khra vome)
When you come to it and you cant go do it and you cant knock it down you know that you found THE WALL (WHAT) THE WALL THE WALL nothin on earth can make you fall
Your Tenno just third-wheeling to the longest and most dramatic case of domestic abuse the system has ever seen.
Well, want it or not you're the child of this relationship
I hated the plot armored cut-scenery of this.
@@yRaven.Mother and son team up to murder abusive father and get away with it.
@@jamesbuchanan4414 I think it is simbolic of how much influence Ballas had over all of us, including our Warframes. We could only hurt him whenever he let his guard down, and only with the tenno.
@@jamesbuchanan4414 You're his child and it's affecting you mentally to see dad and mom fight, that's the point
The thing that really spooks me about The Man In The Wall is how he seems to almost break the game’s physics and motions. His movement is so simple and not complex and he almost seems to phase with other objects around him. It almost looks like while everything else is done with lots of care and effort and lots of effects, the man was animated and effected with extremely few tools. Then when he kind of jumps at the Lotus before disappearing, he just kinda moves in one direction then disappears without any sort of transition. It’s so strangely creepy and seems like it could be setting up some kind of fourth wall break type thing, especially when you add in some of his previous interactions where he looks right at the camera(specifically the end of War Within)
Apparently to speak voidtongue you keep your jaw clenched together as shown in the Warframe 1999 preview, adding to the uncanniness
Bro hopped out of the void and started spittin facts
That I don’t understand
But straight facts
@@NECROMAGICIAN666 Wally basically told us, in Requiem-speak, that he saw literally everything that happened during TNW, even if somehow it was not pulling the strings itself (which I doubt)
@@ddl9228 requiem-speak ?
@@0hvlone519 the requiem mods have verses that you can make a poem in any order as a requiem sequence when you discover the right combination, when you hunt liches/sisters.
@@Renosteru616 oh fr? I never knew what they meant but now I do thanks
"Ah, don't mind me, kiddo. I'm just here to make you remember the only truth that really exists, while you struggle with everything you have: YOU... OWE... ME!"
@Lucien Hale
No, but that is the message I've received.
But, actually, he do says "you owe me" at The War Within.
@Lucien Hale he says "Oull - Ris- Xata - Vome. Khra - Lohk.", for what we know right now he said "Truth, light, order. Void, time". In other words, we don't know what Oull means but in my opinion he just want to tell you that it will be his moment now. In fact, he is the first entity in the game that was not created by humans, the only alien entity... or maybe he just want his index finger back
@@CloseWave I can imagine how powerful that creature can be if it is causing all these (warframe stories) simply because he is mad for losing his index finger. They probably looking at all factions fighting as daily entertainment.
@@CloseWave
I've just discovered something about this. I thought this wasn't right but he do says these words. More than that, if you read the requem mods' description in that order, this forms a poem:
"Through endless faces, countless forms, a multitude unfolds.
In luminous space, blackened stars, they gaze, accuse, deny.
Its heralds are the stars it fells, the sky and Earth aflame.
To cosmic madness laws submit, though stalwart minds entreat.
To cosmic forms from tangent planes, we end as we began.
From brooding gulfs are we beheld, by that which bears no name."
@@vombate6373 I congratulate you as being the first person I've seen try to figure it out, and succeed, good job👍
Do you know what the really sad thing is?
When Teshin first got the veil, he tried to resist it. Same as almost everyone else did. But everyone eventually succumbs to it. Even the Drifter almost did until it was removed.
But not Ballas, the one who created the veils. He immediately gave in to his own vision. In his desperation to prove that everyone just wants to be told the truth...he proved that he's the only one who wants that.
Teshin didnt succumb to it? He ripped it off then got executed same as a bunch of others according to Erra
@@josephg.1.130 then that's even worse for Ballas, RIP
@@saamjaza1742 theres always been people who would succumb to a dreamworld aswell, Ballas included aswell
I mean the orokin were pretty much like a spoiled child but amped up to 17, so yeah considering he could not understand why margullis chose the tenno over him, i say the orokin overall give in to its own desires because they are used to it.
Teshin did not. He used the Buddhist art of meditation and something river and moon I don't remember exactly his words but yea. It's spiritual kinda.
>fly out of the void
>talk nonsense
>refuse to elaborate
>disappear
Oull, Ris, Xata, Vome, Lohk is nonsense ? These view seconds of his appearance is a big thing
@@ares7522 VOULL NE XATA VOK, MARA LOHK? is the the actual sentence
@@ares7522 Sounded like a whole lot of fuckin' non-sense to me. Unless, ofc, someone wants to explain it.
@@commodorejones8044 ever killed a kuva lich/sister of parvos? they're the names of the mods you have to use.
@@commodorejones8044 they are the names of mods used to kill nemesis characters like the kuva liches and sisters of parvos. and thanks to another comment i found. i learned that the descriptions of those mods make a poem.
"Through endless faces, countless forms, a multitude unfolds.
In luminous space, blackened stars, they gaze, accuse, deny.
Its heralds are the stars it fells, the sky and Earth aflame.
To cosmic madness laws submit, though stalwart minds entreat.
To cosmic forms from tangent planes, we end as we began.
From brooding gulfs are we beheld, by that which bears no name."
If you check right as The Man in The Wall appears, he's missing the infamous finger on his upper right hand, even leaking void energy! Not surprising the finger inside our Railjack is so enormous!
Can confirm, the upper right hand is missing a finger.
You've got a keen eye. Didn't think or see it on my own playthrough
I wasn't able to record mine but I definitely saw it on my second watch on this video
Go ahead Cy, Void jump with the Railjack.
*HE WONT UNFINGER YOUR RELIQUARY*
He be missing more the one
_"This entire catastrophe has been nothing but history's longest suicide note!"_
Ah castlevania fan
Ah a man of class.
A man of distinction
A man of culture.
But there are no innocents, not anymore!
Ballas' death goes hard. Marghulis gave her love and life to the Tenno and Ballas was so hurt that he wanted to believe he never cared about her anyway. But then as soon as he sees her face he completely melts and sounds close to tears. He is reminded for just a moment why he did all of this in the first place which leaves him completely exposed.
It took one moment of honesty from the Golden Lord of lies to finally bring him down.
Ballas was a simp/beta male..
@@vilgodz2628 Imagine being the Orokin Empire, and getting fucked entirely by a beta CUCK person, hahaha
@@vilgodz2628 You've never had a girlfriend that's obvious. It's called love, kiddo. You'll learn about it when you grow up.
@@showaker4755 ignore that edgy teenage boy who watches cringe ass sigma edits
@@vilgodz2628not a simp but he was definitely an incel
The Man in the Wall is one of the prime examples of modern day Lovecraftian horror at it's best. I dont know who he is, WHAT he is or what he wants. And I also honestly never want to find out
i want to know..i NEED to know who tf he is please.. i barely got who tf is drifter
@@wdkpwr6586 The drifter is the operator from another timeline who never escaped the zariman after the incident and arrived in Duviri. The drifter then created the duviri paradox but later handed over duviri to dominus thrax because he wanted to leave duviri.
@@wdkpwr6586 they're the you that didn't get rescued from the Zariman, in another reality. They got trapped in Duviri and managed to escape thanks to a paradox original you (Tenno) created
@@yvaincallipso84 man in the wall is like both of them combinned?
@@wdkpwr6586 as far as I know, Man in the Wall is the physical manifestation of the Void. He's the one who gave the Tenno their powers, maybe he helped make Duviri. But you don't know what he is, all we know is that he takes the shape of whoever hes talking to, gave us our powers, he is in the void, and he wants OUT.
Are we gonna ignore the elephant in the room and address the real possibility space Cthulhu may have just possessed space mom or what?
oh shit her leaft hand was smoking after it disappeared
Yeah man - I noticed the smoking hand first thing but originally missed the shadowy corona around her after he disappeared. I'm super curious about that one. There's going to be some fucky things going down.
YOOOOOO at 4:24 watch it through tell me that’s not a smirk like the man in the wall had 😭😭😭
@@codydavis9918 it literally is the man in the wall
His finger was missing and it's around the size of the one in our railjack
And you know, tell was sitting on top of it
@@nicklangatang2136 I’m saying look at natah face after the wall vanished she had a smirk just like the wall did and then she collapsed. But yeah I already know about the finger and the ship
The man in the wall is exactly what I thought it would be. Something massive dwelling within the void that's probably ONE of its forms. It's strange booming voice that sounds like its own language is very Lovecraftian and very biblical.
But he seems to be more "be very afraid" rather then "be not afraid" kinda like it's just tolerating us for now.
This is definitely going to be a problem down the road.
The funniest thing is how people would explain how the name "Man in the Wall" is metaphorical for being trapped in the void or something like that, and then DE shows that the name is very, very literal.
@@samiamtheman7379 yep he clearly shops at Walmart. He is a fan of wall-to-wall savings. Any attempt at seeing him vulnerable has resulted in complete stonewalling. Although for the lotus he seems rock hard.
@@samiamtheman7379 sorry wall puns.
@@samiamtheman7379 IDK why they thought that. Rell is canonically autistic, why would he state anything but the very literal facts in regards to the Man in the Wall?
It actually speaks in the requiem names. You can hear a very clear "Xata, vohm" when it talks.
Ballas walking like he shit his pants makes me laugh too much to take this seriously
I mean, how about you try walking on Sentient-made stilts
I mean, to be fair, he does use chicken legs to get around, because his actual legs are so short he may as well just use his long ass arms like a blue chimpanzee
Guess Rell wasn't being metaphorical when giving it that nickname
It literally is a man in a wall
@Stanky Tree it’s kinda like rell’s manifestations when he appears randomly in places like your orbiter or sometimes the railjack
@Stanky Tree The entity that appears in ur orbiter is not rell, it never was... Rell was containing the man in the wall before we release him in harrow's quest, Now TMITW can communicate with us but he needs to materialize for us, using ur operator's appearence for this purpose... Interesting fact: when rell calls him '"the man on the wall" it is a quite literal description. This may be because as we already know from his story, Rell had autism and that's a common characteristic in general terms
@@sebastianmontielcuevas5363 "Rell had autism" 💀💀💀
@@KrissNaramon in Harrow's quest, rell's mother is using cards with different emotions to teach him about it. This is a common practice in Therapy with ASD. That's the reason cause Rell can't hold the transference in the first place. He can't interpret warframes emotions properly. (Ballas said it in Sacrifice quest)
Rell was on the spectrum, and people on the spectrum don’t tend to dabble in metaphors.
what he said was
"You know, i am some kind of a wall my self"
William Dewall
Tenno don’t tell Rell
Walliam Dewall
@@TheFizio Pun-ception
I think what he said literally is
order chaos truth
yeah, the man in the wall is 100% hiding away in space mom, she literally has his iconic smirk when she turns to look at us
There is also a theory that the lotus made a deal with the wall and another time split happened.
holy shit wtf, I hadn't noticed that smirk...
I don’t think so, don’t forget she is a Sentient, a machine, and I don’t think he can teach machinery, if that was the case, it would lent need Ballas
Sentients are allergic to the Void though... Not sure if having Void inside her would be any healthy for her. Although she's an Eidolon already anyways
Nah, he escaped. He was trapped in the Void which is where Albrecht Entrati found him. Ballas opening up a portal essentially freed him, and Wally "helped" us on the Zariman as the deal to help us do so. You can see him if you look high up on the Whispers in the Walls upddate.
Looking back at this scene between lotus and ballas it's basically the most story driven break up in gaming history
Edit: holy shit where did these likes come from?
When you really think about it the entire story of Warframe is just one Lovestruck and person trying to deal with his girlfriend abandon him for some orphans
@@Fallout4277 should have signed the papers with her and adopted them too. Now he has a dead girlfriend and a angry robot version of her.
@@isaiahvaldez3330 yep
@@isaiahvaldez3330 that’s Orokin for you. Too big of a damn Ego.
@@isaiahvaldez3330 jokes aside, i think orokin sees tenno as a weapon/tool. I'd say Lotus is equivalent to non-racist people back when everyone was racist (1800s?)
That's why Ballas was like "wtf are you even thinking straight, Margulis?!"
You know, I didn't think the name would be quite so literal.
It was a stab at space mom. She didn't believe he existed, told us it wasn't real. So he appeared to us, specifically her, as a literal man in the wall to mess with her mind and show his control over things.
@@yosefpoysun3534 she saw the man in the wall earlier, play assassination of this amalgam boss on jupiter to find out. Ropalolyst I think was his name.
@@WafelixRox but she denied his existence still
Well it was given to him by a child
@@conorflinn600 I mean the name makes sense tho, Wally is the manifestation of the Void and the Void is the Wall between realities, as we learned the Void is both the reason why a multiverse with infinite realities exists but also what kepts them apart from eachother and also allows travel between them
The realities are the fabric of reality and the Void is the string that ties is all together
“You monstrous B***H!” I felt that.
ballas should have had a better death at least, an orokin executor who manipulated the whole sentient race, took control of the whole solar system and created the warframes got killed by a kiss while being mind controlled
rather fitting considering the very object that is mind-controlling him is the very thing he used to mind control all our friends and the other factions into worshipping him. Essentially, our Tenno beat him with his own weapon, we may have originally thought we'd be killing him with the paracesis, but killing him with another weapon of his works just as well I guess.
Especially after she abandoned us
@@user-tn3ek2vj6v Ballas' story is about his narcisism and greed. Lampshading all around, it's always someone else's fault that he's 'forced' to destroy everything etc. The only person so far that he didn't have outright murderous desires towards, was Margulis and even in her case, he was abusive and most importantly; possessive. To see her, finally on her knees and submitting to him, after all he'd done to her, to everyone she ever cared, to feel that sweet moment of finally being victorious? It was his comeuppance, his fitting end. I won't say it couldn't have ended better (personally, I'd have LOVED a scene where Tenno just come out the woodwork, breaking time and space for just one moment to stand up as an army and kick his behind from here to the edge of existence, but... oh well). But he had a good death, all things considered. A poetic one.
My ex
M.I.T.W.: "Hey kiddo, ever heard about D&D? Lets talk about a Warlock's contract..."
Oh no the MITW is now the eldritch daddy 😂
Ballas: *pours pancake syrup*
Lotus: "Blows up pancakes with mind"
Ballas: Muh fuckin Pancake- *Man in the wall shows up*
The scene where Ballas gets tricked by the masks his army wore was honestly, saddening. Ballas really missed Margulis that much and was willing to destroy the sun or whole origin system as revenge. That just shows why he betrayed the Orokin and everything. He just wanted his true love back.
Edit: You can also faintly hear “This is What You Are” in the background when Margulis is on screen.
I've kind of found it funny how the Lotus said you wanted a margulis you could control yet the moment he sees her he just drops everything
Also, he might’ve been under the control of “the man in the wall”, or the void itself
I think he kind of just went insane at some point.
@@Noodlepunk Probably. Likely due to his clear and obvious narcissism clashing with the love he likely did have for Margulis.
I never had any empathy for Ballas. The grief felt by one man for his lost love does not justify the enslaving and killing of the majority. The desires and rights of the many outweigh the griefs of the few.
So that giant wall thing wasn't a fever dream. Got it
Can we all admire how badass was Khal 175? like even Tenno needs a special sword to kill Sentient, and he just MACHETE his way, with a very good gun.
I'm guessing Sentient drones being more difficult to kill is more of a gameplay thing than a lore thing.
Kahl 175 probably means level 175.
That thing can obliterate anything
Canonically Sentients are weak agaisnt ballistic weapons, hence most tenno guns using bullets, they did a poor job to put that in the game.
The numbers after the name is the clone count of the grineer, means Kahl the 175th clone of original Kahl I Guess ?
@@rariehlani1344 Straight up decimates, like thats not a low level
Ever since I saw this thing I've been wondering "how did the man in the wall escape?" Then rewatching this I realized he only escape AFTER ballas died, one of the last orokin, then lotus trapped him, but I think he'll be free as soon as lotus either dies or is incapacitated in some degree, allowing him to escape freely and that will in turn cause our RJ to malfunction and go to plains of duviri since our RJ runs on his missing finger
The Man in the wall was never trapped
He been living inside the tennis rent free all these years remember kiddo you owe me
They just prevented him coming coming into our world
@@JustSayingitslore What side of the court is he on?
Autocorrect, I know, but it's now an image in my head. Pretty sure he wins most matches. Sick video cut though. Nice to see a longer piece with more context than just sudden wallboi.
which is weird cuz the remaining grineer queen is an orokin right?
Notice the MITW's right hand has a missing finger.
And the railjack is powered up by a Giant Finger?
Yeah i noticed that too.
Which means this wasn't the first time the teno have dealt with him
@@maniestranger4329 Now we are going to ask the Orokin
Wow you're literally the only one
No the finger is on the Zariman 10-0
It was talked about earlier in the game it was deimos the mom talks about how her father met the man in the wall when he was experimenting and in a panic closed the portal severing the mans finger and used it to help develop the warframes
His regular legs hanging off his new legs is doing things to my brain lol
The Man in the wall sure seems happy about something, doesn't seem like a bad bloke at all.
Because everything is going according to plan
>Mofo randomly appears in the middle of an apocalyptic event
>Spits some bars
>Refuses to elaborate further
>Leaves
People won't realize just how epic this is till it's too late, this was put together when they were all affected by the COVID-19 and it's still top notch, some rushed parts and could've been at least 3 or four more hours long but this quest is beyond amazing and it's so damn deep. The Devs put alot of work into this congrats to them.
The biggest shame is the lack of replayability
@@JaggedBird You mean replaying the new war? DE already mentioned they will work on it after the new war and short break.
@Turaglas lmfao 😂😂😂😂 how TF am I offending all those people. The Zarmanian, the Drifter plot, The Man in The Wall all that was well thought out. I'm not defending the rushed parts obviously I pointed that out above could've been 3 or 4 hours more content to fill in gaps that was missing.
Bro/Sis said I was offending the entire world about a post about a video game I'm dying over here 😂🤣🤣🤣
@@thefinestpiece ah okay. Thank you
I don’t know how I didn’t think of this when playing the quest. I was wondering why a giant smiling wall just started floating towards me and the Lotus. Somehow I didn’t put two and two together lol. Thanks for clearing it up.
It took me a bit to realize as well but then I saw the other version of me chilling on top and I was like OOOOHHH SHITTTT-
I was watching a lore video about the New War yesterday and it occurred to me that because of the veil, Ballas dies happy. He dies convinced that Margulis loved him more than the Tenno.
So much more than the son of a bitch deserved.
When I first heard of The Man in the Wall back in “Chains of Harrow”, my first impression as to what exactly it might be is the voices one would hear when going insane, like how you see a manifestation that resembles the Operator occasionally after completing the quest.
The conversation with The Man in the Wall at the end of “The Sacrifice” quest changed that initial impression to something like a demonic spectral entity haunting those touched by the Void, slowly corrupting them in some way like what happened to Rell.
Until that scene right after Ballas died, that is; that… entity… actually resembles a man embedded in a wall. Didn’t realize that the “Man in the Wall” moniker was meant to be taken in a more literal sense.
yeah, that was really neat, the basically literal interpretation of what Rell was constantly saying all the time. I just thought it was referring to voices inside the walls, not that he had actually seen the entity, as he was somewhat doing the same thing, talking in whispers all around us, as if he was inside the walls, y'know? nothing would've prepared me for a gigantic white man inside a concrete wall floating in space and then speaking to us.
I kinda expected something bizarre. And i mean, rell was autistic. Like, *really* autistic. I don't think creatively naming things was a strongsuit of his
this last part really makes me wish the void and TMITW both get explored more in the next major story update.
I completely agree, they barely scratch the surface. With the man in the wall being such an influential piece now, we need to know more. And this Duviri paradox must have something to do with it.
Not the next update, I think we'll go smaller and focus on the origin system and wrap up the sentient problem for now, after all I'm not sure if hunhow is going to remain a tentative ally for now or use us since the whole system was at stake and not even he wants total annihilation because what would be left
I keep saying it, best release schedule IMO:
New War -> bugfixes -> other updates / more narmer faction missions -> INFESTED LICHES / Arlo sidequest / Railjack Proximas of Deimos, Mercury, and Eris -> other updates / bugfixes -> DUVIRI PARADOX -> bugfixes
The part where the man in the wall appears genuinely took me by surprise so much and just brought back a flood of memories from the Duviri Paradox.
I'm so fucking keen for the update...
Orokin VR headset got Ballas simpin’
I'm just gonna say this: if we ever do have The Man in the Wall as a Warframe boss, he really shouldn't be beatable by conventional means. I know that's not a popular opinion for Video Game villains, but unless the game becomes revamped to the point it isn't even recognizable, and all of the warframes become, like, Lovecraftian aliens + DBZ power level things, it makes no thematic sense for TMitW to suddenly have a HP bar we can chip down.
I kind of imagine it being like timed event raid style boss once a day or week where a Bunch of tenno kick its ass while dodging attacks, cc, and mobs. Then, when it gets defeated, the resolution would be that it just gets pushed back into the void again until it comes back. Kind of like an ongoing struggle to fight it off similar to the thermal event on fortuna or the ghoul event on earth.
I imagine it would be like the second act of The War Within. Basically a battle in the center of the mind, where one side traps the other in a horrible scenario made to wear them down physically and spiritually, and the other side fighting through all of it to escape their enemy's custom-tailored deathtrap and force them out of their mind.
@@NerdyGamer9k maybe attack it with railjack cheap shots or attack minor incursions of it that appear in the Suvari paradox during the nightmare state.
Really dont want to fight the man in the wall, I like the "Hey Kiddo" but also when you beat something of great danger then whats left? Fashion frame? The game is done…
@@cephalonplant4087 "All good things come to an end"
But not really. They killed the Lich King in WoW years ago and yet the game continues
I really am getting Lovecraft vibes from this, good old Man in the Wall being a cosmic being utterly beyond our comprehension, looking in a way our primitive minds can take in without going utterly mad. Of course we’re already out of our minds having spent god knows how long in the void during the craziness aboard the Zarimon ten zero, but at least we can still do things without being a jabbering vegetable. I hope they give more crazy stuff like this in the future, and go all out when the duviri plains arrive.
I have a theory. The man in the wall IS rell. The void itself is the space between realities so it's obviously hostile to anything and everything that enters it, so when rell shielded everybody from the void that birthed the man in the wall, a cosmicly powerful being capable of surviving the void also twisting his personality. I think TMITW is going to be our ally throughout duviri because he seems to have done nothing but help us, he gave us void powers allowing us to resist and harness void energy contributing to our survival, and clearly powerful he diddnt just erase us from reality proves he doesn't want to. Although something as or more powerful that would oppose him? And make him go through creating us? I don't know but I think something wild is gonna happen
Obviously, the Man in the Wall presents himself as the Vitruvian Man as a sign of power. The Vitruvian Man has many meanings, and one of them is the hierarchy of all living things, and his representation in our realm, as US, is sat on top as if it were a throne. I love the idea that the Man in the Wall is literally a god, and sits atop the throne of all living things. The Man in the Wall is free, and He is inside lotus (if the smile wasn't enough of an indication.) His final words before disappearing roughly translated to "you owe me" meaning that he has something planned. The debt? He saved the children on the Zariman. This is all playing into a scheme that we simply do not have even a fifth of the pieces for.
Actually to add to your theory he says the phrases on the Kuva Cards, something along the lines of "Oull - Ris- Xata - Vome. Khra - Lohk."
Which if if look at the description of each card you’ll get a piece of a poem roughly saying "Through endless faces, countless forms, a multitude unfolds, in luminous space blackened stars they gaze, acuze, deny. Its heralds are the stars it fells, the sky and earth aflame, To cosmic madness laws submit though stalwart minds minds entreat, to cosmic forms from tangent planes we end as we began, froom brooding gulfs we are beheld by which bears no name."
In a few words he tells us that he is truly endless, has and will always be here. How the unknown and crazy laws of the void are the true laws of the universe. How all the paradoxes and realities converge in the void where it holds dominance above all.
Now depending on who you ask it could change because everyone hears something different. But this is the most likely and coolest concept to me.
The void is time, Wally is the Void, time I’d everywhere and no where all at once and so is he. He’s both won and lost and he’s smiled through it all.
Everybody gangsta till the wall starts speaking
For a free game, warframe will never cease to amaze me
Fr. It's the best f2p game ever with how much content tent it gives
@@banditdoggoI was disappointed about gimine skins in warframe 1999 being paid should of been free
@@badreedinebedro its 275 plat each
1:59 You know its good writting when you get that Ballas was so broken inside that the momentothe veil is put on his head he couldn't fight it back. Just as he said: ''Put their pain where it serves us''.
-Comes out of portal
-Talks in requiem mods and smiles
-Refuses to elaborate
-Leaves
Wally is such a chad
Getting some strong FMA Truth vibes from the Man in the Wall here.
That's literally the first thing that I thought of when I saw it, especially coupled with the fact that it usually takes the form of our tenno in all of our other interactions
Thank god I'm not the only one
What is FMA?
@@koala.justakoala4287
FullMetal Alchemist
I honestly didn't expect him to be such a big bad because Erra treated him like a pet
Erra dropped Ballas’ leash and Ballas smirked and stopped acting subservient the moment after they threw Natah into that machine. Watch that cutscene again s see if you’ll see that Ballas has been playing the long game.
@@Terra_Sloth I'll take another look but I was honestly hoping to get an Erra boss fight
@@spritemon98 In the futur we can fight Erra . Now Erra its Pazuul the new leader of narmer .
@@vm6012 he was always the leader
@@spritemon98 Pazuul isn't Erra, it's the Archon that took control over his corpse, after Erra sacrificed himself for us, someone at the end of war took Erra's dead body and jammed a Tau Shard into it and now the leader of the Archons Pazuul is using Erra's body as his own to lead Narmer
Now i wonder who did this and why, also how they got acces to Pazuul's shard because in the lore at the time of The New War, Pazuul was still in the Tau system following Hunhow's order to act as the guardian of Tau
Something i noticed, the statue of the man in the wall is missing a finger, and a finger around the same size can be found in the railjack
the real finger is on the zarimon. the one in our railjack is a fake one ergo replicated.
Everyone is talking about what the guy is saying but does anybody realise that he didn't go back to the void? He just disappeared. What if he is released now?
I was thinking he possessed the lotus, who he merges into and can be seen weirdly smiling before collapsing
he was already free and has a finger in ur railjack
He was never trapped
He was free once rhell was freed
Listen again he’s saying the lich stuff xata lohk all that and he looks like he went in lotus she starts smiling
I swear Warframe's lore and setting are so incredibly cool. I just started playing a few weeks ago after a big hiatus (I think I last played a lot right before Plains of Eidolon was added) and all this new content is insane. Say what you want about the game but there's a ton in it and these quests are rad as hell.
Finally. Umbra is avenged. Yeah sure the man in the wall fucked things up, but Ballas is finally dead
yeah that guy was lunatic and was going to destroy the whole universe
I have no idea what the context of this shit is, so this is the most absurd, trippy, LSD induced insanity imaginable to me.
Pretty great isn't it?
Yeah, the story for this game is a complete trip, but it kind of comes with the territory of the player character being a nearly demi-god like being literally fueled by Eldritch powers, plus a lot more crazy stuff.
@@uGuardian4 Damn, this game is absolutely nutso.
Everybody talking about the Lotus and Ballas, while the Ghost of an autistic child was fighting that thing for void knows how long... Alone, in a cold dark place.
Lotus' left hand is smoking. Wally spoke a series of Requiem phrases. My theory is she cut a deal with Wally (for what, I'm not sure), in exchange for him severing Ballas' Continuity, thus preventing him from just returning again.
Not to mention the hand you grab as the operator is lotus’ hand that was cut off
@@lordlightskin4200 Minor correction, that hand implants itself in you while also mutilating your own hand in the process. The remaining flesh that flaps around looks weirly similar in texture to Sentient "meat"
I get the feeling that even if I played Warframe I'd be confused
You are correct.
We all are, near constantly. But that's half of the fun. 😁
@@prophecy5886I did get confused but I figured out the lore later
"Before the Jade Light."
as a player with a potato laptop, I had to play with low graphics settings. Combine that with lack of sleep, and 3:36 felt like the entire cutscene, in fact the entire Warframe game platform even, gave way to a 2010 Gmod TF2 youtube video. Which on hindsight, were creepily abstract and crude, matched only by the simplicity of animation (example: ua-cam.com/video/WBuggMdUbog/v-deo.html ). Similarly, on low graphics, I was really looking at a pasty partly-decapitated clay figure rotate like someone manually did it with Paint 3D, before laughing at me and disappearing into the background (behind you), all while stuck in a T-pose.
Now that I think about it, that is probably the most meta representation of what it feels like to become the meme for once.
Reminder- we are literally fighting on the edge of the sun
Man in the wall: Voull Ne Xata Vome, Mara Lhok?
Translation: Do you remember our deal, Child of the void?
I kinda wish we could find out the terms of their deal. Because right now, we kinda have no idea what are we fighting against. Imagine the deal was that MITW gets to make the world a better place and Tenno hates that because that would mean no more bounties and loot for them. :D
Goodbye Bal Man, hello Wal Man.
The thing that pains me with the new war is actually how hard it slaps, we will never get the unrushed content rich full version and that hurts me because the parts of it we did get go so damn hard. In my Op still the greatest quest line to ever hit warframe.
People trying to justify Ballas in his final moments as if he wasn't gaslighting and abusing the Lotus, even so far as calling her a Monstrous Bitch
"say the line ballas!"
"You monsterous bitch."
"WHOO YEAH BABY THAT WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT THATS WHAT IVE BEEN WAITING FOR WOOO"
The sun was about to go off, which would kill all Tenno and species in the Sol system…Pretty sure the man in the wall gave Lotus the same choice they gave us. Die alone or survive…together
You should go and see teshin :(
Poot bastard, now Varzia is the last Dax on the System
RIP You honorable space uncle
@@frank8917 I have a hypothesis is that Teshin have secretly developed an AI replica of himself in case if he does pass away and unlike the Lotus AI that glitches every so often, Teshin's version is much more refined; the reason why he kept this a secret is up to debate, but still a surprise gift so that our training can continue.
@@KordellCunningham maybe he kept it a secret because he doesn’t want us to worry about him (maybe)
@@KordellCunningham but what If he’s still alive and at the same time dead?
I mean, if the Drifter exists there is a possibility that another Teshin could exist
I'm willing to bet all my Platinum that Teshin will be brought back in some way shape or form in the future. Most likely during the Duviri paradox.
Well hes not full as his missing a thing we own in our railjack
3:40 if you look closely the index finger on his upper left hand is missing
man that relieved sigh at the very end hits hard
I gotta say, that kiss of death by Natah was queen shit 👌
Now I noticed the missing index finger from the vitruvian Man in the wall which connects to the Duviri Paradox and Whispers in The Wall codex.
the way how Ballas talks to everyone but mainly to Lotus, Spoken like a true incel.
i was looking for just this scene exactly, thanks
the sound design of warframe is INSANE, i never see it getting complimented but its better than any game ive played
Drifter's utter terror at his witness of the Wall is what really gets me.
Shows up, flexes on Ballas and the Operator, and then leaves. What a fuckin chad.
2:08 It's been 3 years and yet. When Margulis appears and "This Is What You Are" starts playing followed by Ballas sounding on the verge of tears, still gives me chills.
I was surprised he wasn't immune to his own propaganda.
Apparently the man in the wall says Oull, Ris, Xata, Vome, Khra, Lohk. Which translates to ???, Light Truth, Order, Time, Void
Yes he's saying the requiem words
@@maulanahanif6761I think i might know some of these words like
xata I think its truth
vome is order
fazz is chaos
So the smoking hand thing can be explained away as the level of power she was using to repel IT was burning her hand.
Watching it at 0.25 speed the man in the wall (I wasn’t expecting it to be an actual man in a wall) vanishes as IT hits the barrier she was channeling, so DE can take the story in one of two ways 1# it did go into her and they could do two ways with that idea too that this was ITs plan all along (though personally I thing it wants use more as the player has a higher upper limit on their powers so will be more useful and because of our age easier to use) or that as IT hit her attack they merged and it’s now just biding IT’s time and getting used to the new vessel, 2# that as IT hit her barrier it was actually cast back into the void to wait and plot.
Each of these idea can tell an interesting story but no matter what happens a showdown with the man in the wall is going to happen sooner or later or it can just wait for us to die of old age as something tells me that IT is timeless (btw I’m using IT when I describe IT in the same way the Stephen King’s IT is said instead of just it)
Rell was the test run to see if a void entity can take over a Origin crafted being to inhabit this space
MitW goes into Lotus body....but who is in there? Did Ballas also get absorbed as a sort of prison or as a way to give him peace? We have to remember that Orokin have been transferring themselves from body to body for ages. It's not until we fight the glassing Orokin (forgot his name) that we learn that it is possible to contain the Orokin in a type of jailing
Also, do you see how the Drifter sees the child version of the MitW on his head yet it is not seen from Lotus viewpoint. Does this mean that the War Within and Without has finally started between Drifter and Operator?
Just some different ways to see things
Honestly I hope Lotus isn't possessed by the man in the wall. Like damn bruh I just went through 2 hours to get her back now i'm about to lose her again?
Ah hell nah, Baller got the Apple Vision Pro
man the SCORE on that scene gave me chills
At this current point in time (just after Duviri Paradox), with the story so far, the fragments, the Holdfasts, the Man in the Wall is terrifying. He has complete control over everything (it seems). Humanity is just barely holding on and their last line of defense, the Tenno, owe him their lives. What happens when he comes to collect his debts?
Regardless, I'll be sad when this story arc comes to a close. He's such a great big bad.
This is not only the man in the wall,its "The man with his man-wall"
Bro appears from the void, speaks in requiem mods, then leaves and does not elaborate
he is also missing a finger if you look closely. thats the finger in our railjack
When you realize rell was right.....jesus christ. Now we got a cthulu to deal with
If DE has any good writing chops, you won't be dealing with him, he will be dealing with you
can we talk about how lotus just sücked the soul out of ballas?
More like she drained his powerpack.
Remember - the "Mannequin" is absolutely filled with Sentient cybernetics. And Natah's likely to have a better grip on how they work
I need to do this in my Harrow Suit in memory of Rell. He fought so hard to keep the man in the wall away
I was honestly a bit stunned like Ballas when they showed Margalus: That was the very first time you see her face in the game.
its sort of sounds like the man in the wall was saying, "thank you, *someone*. I am free... "
If you speed it up, you can hear “Oull - Ris - Xata - Vome. Khra - Lohk”
@@murasameqqwq "Through endless faces, countless forms, a multitude unfolds.
In luminous space, blackened stars, they gaze, accuse, deny.
Its heralds are the stars it fells, the sky and Earth aflame.
To cosmic madness laws submit, though stalwart minds entreat.
To cosmic forms from tangent planes, we end as we began.
From brooding gulfs are we beheld, by that which bears no name.
"
ah so the finger in your railjack's reliquary drive is from the man in the wall
Ballas
i understand you
you are a great man but no one gave you chance to build the future by your vision :(
i scared first time i see the man in the wall
but hes cool when he says (Oull Riss Xata Lohk Khra vome)
I came after doing this quest with umbra equipped
He’s literally a man in a wall….🤣
It's in a religury drive
@Turaglas yes, I noticed that, I’m glad that they remembered that we use his finger in the reliquary drive
Lives up to his name
I like how you can see the man in the wall is missing a finger. Attention to detail, they has it.
Bro i feel so bad for ballas. He just wanted margulis back. And he ended up stuck with a freakin space mimic
Bro got that Uldren Sov treatment. 💀
At 3:39 keep watching and listen carefully we actually can hear the man in wall saying hey kiddo but not in our voice
No he's spelling the requiem words (like the mods for our parazon)
He says "Oull, Ris, Xata, Vome, Khra, Lohk"
3:35 Man in the Wall has Palpatine’s chin lol
Vay Hek threatens to theow the Lotus into the sun. Lotus theows Ballas into the sun.
When you come to it
and you cant go do it
and you cant knock it down
you know that you found
THE WALL (WHAT) THE WALL THE WALL
nothin on earth can make you fall
Top 10 storylines that will never be resolved.
How has no one talked about him saying “jade light” when the jade light event is about to end
The jade light was an execution method used by the Orokin.
3:40 oh!!!! Oh..... shit!!! We literally do have his finger in our railjack!!!