Talk:The Second Dream/@comment-108.87.117.137-20160101083103/@comment-17703786-20160101091846

Actually, the Excalibur Codex only says this:

"We built a frame around them, a conduit of their affliction."

Considering that the supposed source of this information according to the Codex is said to be the Orokin Archives, this gives it something of an "unreliable narrator" quality in that the Orokin may be waxing poetic about the nature of the Warframes. Hell, given that the knowledge of the Warframes actually being remote-piloted was top secret, it stands to reason that the Orokin hid the knowledge of such from the general populace to further the illusion of the Warframes being men with suits, rather than being simple biological machines controlled from somewhere else.

Also, Rhino and Ember Prime's entries actually further support The Second Dream rather than contradict it: Ember Prime's lore simply points out that the Tenno were once chidren with powers which the quest fleshes out, and the Rhino Prime codex is more or less a scene involving a Rhino Warframe going berserk without their Operator, up until it reaches the room with the Zariman children, at which point it calms down.

There was also a lore entry back when the Codex still had entries from the Event victory conditions, where the Arid Fear entry with Captain Vor stated that they've dissected the Warframes, and yet could not find anything that would tell them where the Warframe's power came from. In hindsight, this was already a hint that the Warframes couldn't possibly hold the Tenno inside, since if it did then they would've found the origin of the power inside the Warframes, instead of being baffled at why they couldn't make heads or tails of it.