Talk:Tenno/@comment-122.53.94.190-20151205133431/@comment-512632-20151208134914

For the record, my Wrathchild has said that "because of Transference, it hurts her" (slightly paraphrased) when I got stuck inside the electrified water on Uranus for an extended period of time. So, yes, Transference includes feeling the Warframe's pain.

That said, I'm given to understand that each Warframe represents *one* of the original Zariman children; Rhino is specifically, if vaguely, mentioned in one of the snippets, and of course Exalibur mentions having "built a frame around them." This explains both how each frame developed its unique powers, and why each frame exhibits secondary sexual characteristics; each was built around, and based on, one of the original Tenno.

Later, the Orokin learned to duplicate (and improve upon) the original Warframes; recall that Prime equipment is equipment that was improved-upon by the Orokin. Presumably, when they were killed, The Lotus seized that technology and built it into the Liset's foundry/used it to develop The Well.. after all, we know that we only have to build a Warframe once before it can be restored an infinite number of times, and Stalker backs this up.

Just to cap off this expositional onslaught, the flesh inside the Warframe is likely some variant on Grineer cloned flesh combined with the Technocyte virus. This would go a long way toward explaining several things; most notably, why the Grineer seem to think they can use Tenno flesh to solve their clone degradation problems, why the Infested bosses keep going on about "flesh of our flesh" and suchlike, why Tenno can wield partially-Infested/Technocyte-infused weaponry, and where the Tenno immunity to Infestation comes from in the first place.

It also probably has a lot to do with how Transference is achieved, but that's just an educated guess on my part.