Warframe Lore 101: Kuva
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- Your local loremaster-in-training talks about the mysterious substance Kuva in the game Warframe. A liquid with the power to alter conciousnesses and maybe even souls.
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Best way to describe Kuva is by calling it the philosopher's stone. Theres also blue Kuva that has the same continuity effect as Red Kuva but its temporary. The sentient could heal its sterilisation cause the Kuva would heal the damage caused by the void, making it whole.
Yup! I just called it Space Kool-aid lmao, but great explanation.
There a blue version of Kuva
Not just the Philo Stone. It's also the Mercury-based immortality elixir that countless Dynastic emperors attempted.
As long as it facilitates my gambling addiction with rivens it can be whatever the hell it wants to be
Based take lmao
It feels like that consciousness property thing was just the first application the Orokin had for kuva. They did not care about the void either, until one socially outcast scientist discovered void travel.
The orokin could have done a lot more with kuva, but didn't see a need for it beyond extending their lives into immortality.
That's actually a fantastic point. Like there was so much they could have done with it, but they had no idea about it until further void research.
I always felt like DE had to explain kuva based on how it works with riven mods. Idk what came first, kuva, rivens or the lore, but kuva is a liquid that is *changing* something. It transfers minds, it changes or even welds bodies together. In my mind, kuva is synonymous to changing, and in itself it changes it's own purpose from time to time. From transfering minds to healing bodies to making a mod change it's properties. Are rivens explained somehow in the lore at all?
I personally couldn't find anything specific connecting rivens to kuva, but as I've talked with more people, the whole "changing" definition makes more sense and could just explain that when applied to riven mods it changes or alters them.
Change. What kind of science focuses so much on change? It's chemistry, but in this case it is alchemy. What is a red thing that facilitates all the transmutations an alchemist could ever dream of? THE PHILOSOPHER STONE
But wait there is more because from the Naberus Event Story we know there even exist blue and purple Kuva
Yup! And the blue one seems to be more temporary not sure about the purple one though. Maybe we'll get a horrifying kuva rainbow one day lol
So you're saying that if Kuva was a resource that could be consumed, then Hermos (the guy who farmed 18 million Kuva) could theoretically become a god?
That or have a galactic overdose lmao.
20 million*
Help, im trying to force hermos to farm more kuva with me but it aint working
I think kuva bring able to make the lichs pseudo immortal does work because a lich isn't properly created until a warframe interfaces with a kuva larva. So now there so full of kuva that they kinda resonate with the warframe, transforming, gaining warframe abilities and there ability to revive. We probably use the reqrium mods to interrupt that resonance making them able to be killed
So in that sense, Kuva Liches are Grineer soldiers so hopped up on Kuva that they become essentially invincible, and the requiem mods are a detox?
@@corgthemighty in a way, yah. Though i think of it more as them becoming more warframe like. As well based on a lot of the dialogue we do kill or nearly kill them in when we make a lich. So if i had to guess the kuva liches are Ethier an prototype or a byproduct of an attempt to revive the elder queen
I think a neat point to add since it was mentioned was that while sentients are weak to void, void itself has some intresting properties, the Orokin were for all accounts immortal, I mean Ordiris before getting shoved into a Cephalon stabbed a Orokin "To death" only for them to get back up meer moments later, this seems if were judging based on liches, to be due to Kuva, where simple wounds and even death are nothing more then a issue, but the thing about Void energy is it DESTROYS energy and life it seems, capable of killing Liches but more importantly killing the Orokin and Sentients in a similar process by destroying the Oro of the being aka THE SOUL, the Void actively seems to kill the Oro of a being which is what makes the Orokin so Immortal while the sentients only have a very basic fabricated soul which allows them to be killed by more normal means but that weird like light you pick up after killing a Sentient seems to be their Oro so you're basically eating their soul, and it seems Kuva also doesn't do anything if you don't HAVE Oro since there would be no mind to transfer
Makes me wonder if the grieneer queen can live again since she got void blasted and was a Orokin, meaning she had Oro, meaning that Oro probably got destroyed
I mean I kind of hope that the Elder Queen is able to stay dead if nothing else than she gets to rest. Thank you for the detailed breakdown though it was very interesting!
Thanks for the explanation Loid.
Anytime 😂
Kuva appears to be able to manipulate all living things. It allows one to basically modify / create minds and bodies
Unum is pronounced oo numb, according to the Ostrons, the people who live under its protection.
That out of the way, there's a hint in the Duviri Paradox that indicates that Kuva is void energy contained in a fluid. There are also hints around Duviri and the Zariman that indicate that the Void is the cognitive realm, the other side of the dualistic reality, with the universe as we perceive it being the physical realm. All minds, to some extent, are of the void, just as all matter is of the universe. This does tie all the things Kuva does together. Kuva is quite literally magic juice. I wouldn't be surprised if it was somehow tied into the making of the infested and, by extension, the warframes, along with any number of other trans-human processes.
As for the sterilization of the Sentients... well, their first exposure to the Void seems to have made them self-aware. Their second exposure to the Void supposedly destroyed their reproduction protocols, which they believe was an intentional void-allergy implanted in them by the Orokin. But the Void, or rather, The Indifference, is known to meddle with that which enters it, bestowing sapience, madness, mutation, phenomenal cosmic power, the works. I wouldn't be surprised if everything, the Sentients' self-awareness, their turning on their creators, their sterilization and increased animosity towards their creators, all of it, was the deliberate act of The Indifference. Kuva, on the other hand, contains the power of the Void, but does not seem a tool for The Indifference to meddle through. So, if The Indifference sterilized the Sentients, it would make sense that Kuva would be able to reverse the process.
This was a lot of really helpful information and ideas! Thank you for taking the time to type this out! And god, wouldn't be the first time Wally has messed around with things that led to disastrous consequences. (Also thanks for the pronunciation lol)
Love these vids, makes understanding the lore more fun since it’s easy to overlook things when trying to get through the quests
Thanks!! And yeah, also the writing can make things a bit vague or confusing so hope I'm outlining things in a coherent way as well.
Last bit is in dagaths story grandma mentions blue kuva, which was apparently used to temporarily transfer consciousnesses
I love how people who don't know her lore think the hole in her head is just a design thing, but people who know are horrifyed lol.
We dont talk about the hermos February 23rd incident
in my hunt for a way to fully understand this lore, this is the best source I have found yet. My thanks good sir
No problem! Glad you're enjoying it.
You're explaining, in a matter of 4-6 minutes, shit that I couldn't rap my head around since I started playing this game years ago. Thank you, my good man👌
No problemo! I've definitely had practice distilling larger topics into smaller more digestible segments so glad that skill is coming in useful here!
Kuva is basically spice from Dune but doesn't give you cool blue eyes and will fk you up
can't believe Loid has a youtube channel
Kuva and what it can do being a little weird and all over the place probably comes from ita void connection. Void has power over consciousness but it is also just plain power that can be used, considering its void connection that can explain why it can repair the damage caused to sentients by the void.
That's a great explanation. I do wonder if the writers have ever been like "Alright, we need some that can do [insert power here]. Aah, just give it to Kuva again" lmao
You'll have to research this further because there's a lot of lore I probably don't know, but I remember somewhere that kuva comes from the blood of the man in the wall, or at least his severed fingers. Or maybe that was just void energy, still weird to think about
Kuva is basically kthulu blood, it does what it wants
No mention of Grandma's Blue Kuva mention in her story from the Naberus Mobile, which can also transfer consciousness, but only temporarily.
As for explaining the various things Kuva can do... The way I've understood it is that there are dozens of Kuva varients, Red being the predominant one, blue being a muted version, and the Unem's, which I'd wager is a purple color just for my own fun and function, is just... Weird. Like the Unem her/itself. And the definition, while wonky, is more akin to "Manipulating Life" than "Manipulating Consciousness."
Love your videos man. You are underrated.
And I love that you love the videos!
the way the void works is effectively like living in a 40k style warp area where "i think therefore i am" gets applied to individual trains of thought. Void travel hurts the adapting robots, the unum's kuva is a soothing variety cause nature preserve/luxury hotel thus is able to fix things in a gentle prodding kind of way. Kuva is how cephalons are made i'm 90% sure and we get a pretty good description of its less than gentle formulations out of Ordin Karis.
then again, maybe i'm giving DE too much credit with the whole thinking out their quintessence/qi equivalent
Thank you for your contribution to the library! And yeah, I could definitely see it being used in the creation of the cephalons as the whole consciousness mind manipulation would fit right in for stripping their memory and personality.
Fun fact there is blue kuva and no we don’t see it but it’s in a story from grandmother tells you if Halloween happens it’s a footing hand that has little man that are deformed on it and she tells a story about what happened to them and how blue kuva had other things to it
What if Kuva had to do with blood and the vitals of a living being? It would explain the plan to revive the elder queen, the strong immunity to elements and the alteration of consciousnesses. Think about it everything that Kuva has been able to do is all connected to the body.
Kuva said: "sterilization is just mental, you need to manifest that baby!!!"
And Jade took that personally lol
It was also used during the New War turn people's memories inside out to make them worship Ballas
All as one. All as one.
With this Video, I saw a total of 5 Videos about Warframe Lore and I must say I love it xD
It's definitely a wild time, but a fun one.
You know they might as well make this space kool-aid be able to affect soul and run on JJK logic.
My understanding of Kuva is that it's liquid Void energy that can manipulate minds and bodies.
@@CallMeSaltyScorpion Yup! Great way to summarize it.
A little late and when I say a little I MEAN AN ENTIRE MONTH LATE
But in one of the decorations of the Halloween event you can listen to a story where a BLUE kuva was used as a temporary continuity
This kuva shit is starting to sound an awful lot like energised protodermis
Sorry, but I'm unfamiliar. What is that?
@@corgthemighty it's an element from bionicle. it's a mysterious metal that makes up the core of a planet, but it's also alive and has a conciousness. when it touches a living being it either transforms it or kills it, and it can be used as fuel
@@breadlord2855 We love our mysterious and potentially hyper dangerous space resources lol
Somewhere in the lore is also said that Kuva is mineralized "original human" blood. So it's our blood? Like humans from the XXI century blood that they harvest or something? I mean continuity has a strong conection with necromancy. Idk Kuva is weird it can be used for everything at this point
Hmm, I've only seen stuff that says it originates from the void. Do you happen to know where this mention of "original human blood" is so I can check my bases?
I always just thought of kuva as the manifestation of life itself and/or antihetical to the functions of the void
That or its just the voids blood itself, which wouldnt be too surprising
I love how confusing kuva is
At the end of the day, it's just funky space Kool-aid
Kuva is wack man. Keep up the awesome vids, cant wait to see what you cover next ❤❤❤
I love your support! And yeah, it was wild to look into, I had a basic idea of what it did, but no idea the level of scope. But its essentially just Space Kool-Aid.
Man, kuva is really something f'ed up. Naberus tale gave me chills about kuva and the cruelty of the orokin. Glad they're all dead now, except the entrati. Also, how did the entrati survive without kuva and continuity for a millenium?
Apparently, cultured Infested.
They got infested?
Except Loid in the pod and albretch in god knows when
What if kuva is the blood of the man in the wall he shows the ability to do things similar to how kuva would work and maybe 1999 in the year we discovered void travel
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Thank you so much! I look forward to the ride.
I came here to try and understand the lore behind Kuva. I'm left even more confused than I was before lmao.
@@user-hr8gr7qf5s In that case, what questions do you have?
Well....what is it? Lol. The Queens called it the old blood I think? It's part of the Void? But then the tower of Unum tower produces it though? Then there's the fact that Orokin utilized it long before they dealt with the Void? Idk Kuva lore seems to contradict itself doesn't it?
It's usage definitely is just used as some kind of plot device for sure, but it's origins are conflicting as well
@@user-hr8gr7qf5s Great questions. So, the way I see it, the Void is basically space magic and can do a lot of stuff right? Imagine taking the Void's craziness, and distilling it down into a liquid form, that's Kuva essentially, you drink it and there are a plethora of wild things that can happen.
As for its Origin, we know the Void would sometimes leak into the Origin system every so often even before the Orokin accessed it, meaning there were probably some Kuva clouds floating around that the Orokin somehow figured out how to turn into Kuva. Then they probably started using it in a bunch of things, the Orokin towers being one of them.
There's also this thing called conceptual embodiment, that says that, when you're in the Void, strong thoughts and emotions can come into reality (ie, you imagine it hard enough, and it will appear in the Void). There's a theory that Kuva kind of works the same way, where its effect on you is based on what you imagine it can do which could explain the various things it can do. (But that's just a theory I believe)
So summarizing, Kuva clouds have probably been around for a while and that's where the Orokin first got Kuva, while Kuva itself is a magic space Kool-Aid from the Void that might be able to do whatever the people that drink it imagine it can do.
@@user-hr8gr7qf5s Does that help outline things a bit?
I'm also 90% sure kuva is more of less the 'blood' of the Man in the Wall. Pretty sure Kuva bleed from his severed finger.
Ah yes warframe lore
there is sure alot of it
but does any of it make sense?
I think it can it can just take a bit to put together, but that's what I'm trying to do.
That how Voruna Warframe is make? Kuva can do anything now?!
Pretty much! From what I can tell, it's kind of like a liquid extension of the void since both can do a wild amount of things. The explanation for most things in the universe seems to connect back to either the void, Kuva, or Orokin bioengineering
cool entrati outfit
Nice lore vid
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
all your videos are good, not just this one@@corgthemighty
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So if we drink the Kuva we more or less meld our mind with the mind of the man in the wall. Am I correct or no?
Not exactly quite sure. Potentially a possibility given all that Kuva can do, but I suppose we might find out later since there is still a lot we don't know about the Man in the Wall.
I think it more gave him a brief opening to connect with us before being able to freely after the chains of harrow
@@eclipsedarksouls6036 And now he just pops in whenever to mess with us and say "hey kiddo"
I guess Kuva is an extrimely potent drug with several side effects? And people are just using the side effects? Maybe??? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Essentially. It seems to be kind of like a void drug that can do a ton of stuff.
it would be really cool if you taught the orokin language ^^
Yo language lore 101? 👀
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