Talk:Erra (Quest)/@comment-2607:F2C0:E2B2:38:D030:34E2:EF8E:3449-20191223225357/@comment-2605:6000:1715:60B2:4853:5F01:8162:8492-20191229062857

Deprogramming is its own form of brainwashing. And it effectively works as brainwashing on those who actually haven't been "programmed" by the enemy.

I don't think Natah is herself. I think her "disorientation" is her confusion as a result of being deprogrammed, and Erra is seen reinforcing it. I'm still convinced that Natah *CHOSE* to become the Tenno's protector, the Lotus. Her entire role was to act as a mole and take down the Orokin...

And she did. She was then supposed to destroy the Tenno and return home. She didn't. Instead she hid Lua in the Void and protected us. I think that was her choice. It's interesting that, in the cinematic, the Tenno at her side appear as if they're being directly mind-controlled by her. So it's not us that was controlling her, at the very least.

My question is... over all these events, where exactly was Ballas? Why did he only return to take off her mask so many years later? What... happened to him? He's the missing piece of the puzzle, but now he's leashed to Erra. Weird as it may seem, but we may actually have to rescue him so that we can at last learn what the hell happened.