Talk:Tenno/@comment-174.101.102.189-20140129104757

I think one of the bigger misconceptions is the Orokin are rumored to be non-human. Whenever I first read about the 'Orokin Era', it didn't strike me as anything else other than the naming of an age in human history. Due to the Japanese influence on the game lore, I easily attributed it to the reign of a human Emperor or Empress and the Orokin Era was simply the name of the period of highly advanced technology that the Emperor/Empress reigned, which the Tenno hail from.

In which case, the Tenno would be human, but asleep since the Orokin Era. Since the Tenno are 'rejects' that are 'afflicted' with a form of the technocyte virus, they would be altered humans. And since their last known time period was the Orokin Era, it would explain why Orokin Era technology would be reverse-engineered and attempted to be duplicated since it was all they would know -- and why Primed technology is highly sought after, since the Tenno can not reproduce what they originally had perfectly due to the technology degradation from the Orokin Era to the 'present' era.

Due to warframes being 'primed', it tells me that they had multiple copies of the same warframe, and that the warframe was at one point a particular individual (for instance Valkyr's codex lore says 'the original Valkyr' in the past tense). If this is the case, then during the Orokin Era there were individual Tenno who were unique and conspicuous enough to warrant duplication (the ones we see now). Instead of us playing the 'original' frame, we instead are honoring that individual Tenno by using their frame. And just like with non-prime weapons, the Tenno have attempted to reverse-engineer Orokin warframes to create the non-primed versions. The 'original' warframes would likely be dead, with their body/frame being consecrated to their brothers/sisters of the Orokin Era to be dissected, reverse engineered, and eventually duplicated to both honor the fallen tenno and to have others take up their mantle, to show that the Tenno are immortalized.

I also speculate that Hayden Tenno either helped forge the Orokin Era after the events of Dark Sector, or was alive during the Orokin Era. The Glaive Prime is an indication to me that his successors wanted to further honor and immortalize their 'founder' by creating a Glaive using the highly advanced technology of the Orokin Era, even if it did not resemble his own aestheticaly.