Talk:Valkyr/@comment-34610875-20180411231041/@comment-4448946-20180412054215

I don't know why so many people still seem to believe that warframes are mindless machines when there's so much lore in the game that says they are so much more.

For me, the most important piece is the Rhino Prime codex entry. In it we have a 'monster' with skin that 'changes, flowing like mercury', and its roar blows out the lights. It sounds a lot like a Rhino Warframe, but it's not under Tenno control, it's taking action all on its own, it's alive. At the end it enters the room where the children from the Zariman 10-0 are being kept in cryo, and comes to a complete stop. One of the Tenno has taken control of it.

Add the information garnered from this section of beautifully written lore to various lines from Alad V, Infested Bosses, and most importantly, the Sunrise Apothic entry...

"I can only survive short bursts - linking to Titania the way only Tenno can stand. I've never felt anything like it. A tortured presence, like an evil ink, staining my mind."

and we get a full picture.

Warframes are actually the culmination of the Orokin program to weaponize the Infested. They are living beings of infested flesh that have been altered and enhanced with electronic systems and armor plating, bound and controlled by the Tenno through transference. But the link isn't one way, the thoughts and feelings and memories of the Warframes bleed back along the link affecting the Tenno.