Talk:Mastery Rank/@comment-74.194.27.43-20130412163753/@comment-41.133.218.109-20130417110242

I've always understood the Tenno to be humans from a period on Earth when the Orokin (who are alien) ruled. They are the only humans able to use the Orokin tech. And the Orokin are extinct. Nothing I've read so far contradicts this.

I've fantasised that a cool story twist would be that since the Tenno have no memory of their past, the revelation at the end of the game is that they (the Tenno) betrayed the Orokin after they granted them their tech and exterminated them. The war left Earth uninhabitable so the few Tenno survivors put themselves into stasis. The final battle in the game will be the Tenno learning of their treacherous past and redeeming themselves in a sacrificial last stand to save the only remaining Orokin (the Lotus?). Just a thought...