Ballas/Quotes

During The Second Dream

Protect the Moon

• "...What they need, Margulis, is to be destroyed. They're devils from that hell, not human anymore."

• "How can you defend these devils, Margulis, after what they've done to you?!"

• "Hush, my wilted love. I cannot protect you. Tomorrow you must renounce before the Seven..."

Save the Reservoir

• "Seven hands raised! For your apostasy, the judgement is... death. (Margulis, why?)"

• "...it's about the other rejects we consigned to Lua a few years ago. They're calling it... Transference."

• "...I know we are desperate, Executor, but these aren't Dax soldiers. These are golems possessed by devil minds."

During Apostasy Prologue

• "You know I can't."

• "I told you not to speak out. If you recant, maybe--"

• "Margulis, please forgive me..."

At the Lotus' chamber

• "Honored Seven, we have gathered here today to carry out the sentencing of Archimedian Margulis... You face the Jade Light, recant, and we will grant a merciful death."

During cinematic

• "Forgive me."

• "But of course you are. Imprisoned, just as she was."

• "I will not abandon you again, Margulis."

The Sacrifice Teaser

• "If you could trade, would you? Surely.

But all miracles require sacrifice.

For their life: yours."

"Coming in June" teaser site

After clicking on the tree behind Ballas:

• "Lua brings you strength."

After clicking on Ballas' eyes:

• "But you cannot defy your creator."

During The Sacrifice

Opening Cinematic

• "Howl all you want... It won't bring him back."

• "Lua brings you strength, Umbra... "

• "But you cannot defy your creator."

• "Even I make mistakes, like you."

First Vitruvian File (Enemy)

• "It is with the greatest risk that I commit this recording. The codices within reveal the hidden weakness of your most feared enemy. My Creations. My Frames of War."

First Umbra flashback

• "Good morning, old friend"

• "I'm afraid the disease has taken your voice, but We've prepared the finest serums to treat you. Shall we pass the time with a game of Komi? Like old times."

• "You remember this game, don't you? Think your move, and the board senses..." 

• "Oh, this... I've had them fit you with a Transference bolt, in honor of our... history together." 

• "And look... look who hasn't left your side since you took ill."

• "Look at him, old man. Look at your son."

• "Of course he remembers you, young Dax!"

• "Which will make this reunion all the more tragic... when you watch him die."

Second Vitruvian File (Blasphemy)

• "What led us here? You did, you vile blasphemies. Machines... Thinking... Breeding... You were to bear us a new, promised land. But when you arrived at that distant world, you knew that in time, we would bring ruin to it as well, as we had to Earth. And so it was... we came to war."

Second Umbra Flashback

• Playing Komi:
  • "Your move."  (download, history)
• After waiting 10 seconds before making a move:
  • "I'm waiting. Make your play."  (download, history)
  • "It's your move, old friend."  (download, history)
  • "Take your time."  (download, history)
• When making a move:
  • "Finally."  (download, history)
  • "Hmmm."  (download, history)
  • "I see."  (download, history)
• When one of Ballas' stones is captured:
  • "Curious."  (download, history)
  • "A fine move."  (download, history)
  • "Well played."  (download, history)
• When Ballas wins a game:
  • "Mine."  (download, history)
  • "And so I take another."  (download, history)
• After winning two games:
  • "You served with distinction, old Dax. We commissioned a portrait in your honor, there, on the wall"
  • "Will you follow in your father's path?"
  • "He will, and his children will. You see, these are the stakes of this little game. Each stone I capture will be another, and another, and another... culled from your subversive bloodline."
  • "You thought you could out-play me?"
  • "I've had lifetimes to plan my defection. You spied on me, intercepted my communications, but I saw your move long before you took it. And so... we come to the consequences."

Third Vitruvian File (Warframes)

• "Our hubris shone like a black star... for our technology, our war machines, were your kin. How easily you turned them against us. We were forced to older means. Not circuits, nor light... but flesh and disease. Our horrors past, our ravaged outer colonies... became gardens!"

• "We cultured the Infestation, conceiving of a hybrid. Transformed, but only just. The 'Helminth' was created, born to yield these new warriors, worthy of battle against you, the great and terrible Hunhow."

• "We took our greatest, volunteers or not, and polluted them with these cultured reagents. They transformed. They became Infested..."

• "...But only just. Their skin blossomed into sword-steel. Their organs, interlinked with untold resilience. Yet their minds were free of the Infested madness. Or so we thought. We set them upon the battlefield, bio-drones under our command."

• "The Warframes... all of them... failures. Surprised? They turned on us, just as you did. And so we had no choice but to commit them... to grave. This is all you know, Hunhow, but there is a hidden half. A secret, that lies within a place forbidden to you and your kind. I speak of the Void."

Third Umbra Flashback

• "Trouble concentrating, old friend? Look at all your Komi stones I've taken."

• "This one, a brother. These three, his children. And on and on, all of these gone to the Jade Light."

• "How thoughtful to remind him of his better days. Come now, your move. Only a few stones left."

• "Isaah, looks like your father still has his sharp wit."

• "'Yet you couldn't understand why I'd give my secrets to our enemy. How could I betray my own kind?"

• "But you have never had to sacrifice your love for faith. Imagine. To live, forever, with only one memory: seeing the one you love, die."

• "But, you won't have to imagine. A lovingly cultured Infestation swarms within your blood. Your transformation has begun, reshaping you into a sacred surrogate of the unholy Tenno. A Warframe with but a Single, Burning, Memory. It is... a miracle!"

• "But all miracles require sacrifice."

Fourth Vitruvian File (Tenno)

• "Before the vain faith, our people held Dualism as truth. That all things were of two parts: Mind and Body, Consciousness and Matter. Of our world, and the Void. It was from there that our answer finally came."

• "Distorted by vague horrors, we kept the Zariman survivors within a secret Reservoir. They were the missing half. Transference-linked: the Warframes, the body - and they, the mind. I give you now the coordinates and codes to this place, but Do Not underestimate these devils, Hunhow. They did what we could not. We had created monsters that we couldn't--"

Final Umbra Flashback

• "Sorry, Isaah. The time has come..."

• "Don't worry, old friend. I'm not going to kill your boy... --You are."

Umbra's Mind

• "--We had created monsters we couldn't control. We drugged them, tortured them, eviscerated them... we brutalized their minds, but it did not work. Until they came. And it was not their force of will, not their Void devilry, not their alien darkness... it was something else. It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly broken thing...and take away its pain."

Confronting Ballas

• "I tried to release you from your torment, but it seems these devils rebuilt you."

• "Has the wolf become a dog? Is this Umbra, or some Tenno?"

• "Then both will burn!"

Ballas' Defeat

• "STOP."

• "You think you can defy Me? Not even your Tenno devil can--agh!"

• "*gasp* I... created you..."

• (If player chooses light option) "I... I am just the stone... she is the hand."

• (If player chooses neutral option) "Yes... yes... she has foreseen it."

• (If player chooses dark option) "Now I know... what she sees in you."

During Chimera Prologue

• "No...No..."  (download, history)
• "My beauty, my grace, my humanity--"  (download, history)
• "H-Hello? No. No hope."  (download, history)
• "Ah..."  (download, history)
• "Only suffering under her eye."  (download, history)

Talking With Himself

• "But... She gave me the gift of life!"  (download, history)
• "Why would I betray her?"  (download, history)
• "Fool! This... This is no gift!"  (download, history)
• "She stole my death! My perfect death."  (download, history)
• "Such is her power... over me. Over the devil!"  (download, history)

Upon Catching A Glimpse Of The "Devil"

• "Who-who's there?"  (download, history)
• "Nothing...so..."  (download, history)
• "What? What is this?"  (download, history)
• "I'm just confused...Uh..."  (download, history)
• "Oh? Is there someone...?"  (download, history)
• "Only shadow...only shadow..."  (download, history)
• "Huh?"  (download, history)
• "Huh??"  (download, history)
• "Who?"  (download, history)
• "Okay."  (download, history)
• "Oh."  (download, history)
• "Ah..."  (download, history)

Talking about the deceitful Lotus

• "We saw what we wanted, those devils and I."  (download, history)
• "A lover... a mother. But now I know."  (download, history)
• "She's neither. She's a hawk - calling with sparrow's song."  (download, history)
• "A viper, blending into wood."  (download, history)
• "And her venom... spreads not into flesh, but into your heart."  (download, history)
• "Those devils! What has their great awakening accomplished - but the destruction of potential allies?"  (download, history)
• "Don't they see?"  (download, history)
• "Love must die--"  (download, history)
• "--As Margulis did... When I sent her into the jade light."  (download, history)
• "And the Lotus... Just some cloud in the sky, just some shape they imagined."  (download, history)
• "Only the Sentient is real."  (download, history)
• "Only Natah."  (download, history)

Upon realizing the presence of the "Devil"

• "So... tell me, devil. Do you understand what must be done?"  (download, history)
• "The  Paracesis. The Sentient slayer... Hurry! Take this... the idea of it... it is the only way your war can end."  (download, history)

During Erra

• "Yes! There is no Spear, Lo-- uh... Natah. Erra speaks--"  (download, history)
• "--Master Erra. He speaks true. My... The Orokin are gone. The 'bios' are divided. In-fighting over what remains. Only the Tenno--"  (download, history)
• "Yes..."  (download, history)
• "...Yes."  (download, history)

During The New War

Prologue

• "We... are seasons. All of us..."  (download, history)

• "Growing in the light... Fading in the dark..."  (download, history)

• "At once the same... yet... ever changed."  (download, history)

Act I

After Teshin destroys the first Orphix Generator

• "The Devil sends their relic to do the deed. But then... we're both relics, aren't we, old man?"  (download, history)

• "The Tenno freed you from your oath, did they? Does that absolve them of their sins?"  (download, history)

After Teshin encounters the last Orphix Generator

• "That's it. Come to me, old man. I'm eager to show you how this war ends. Not with brutality, but with hope. Not with lies, but truth, a truth for all who are strong enough to believe. Even you."  (download, history)

The War's End

• "Wake up, sleepyhead."  (download, history)

• "You're going to want to see this. Watch the Veil do its work."  (download, history)

• "He'll give in soon. They all will, and this war will be over before it even begins. Not with bombs and blood, but with truth. They programmed you and your kind. Now it is our turn to program them."  (download, history)

• "See the Veil work. Turning his memories inside out. Making him see the things he's lost. Putting pain where it serves us. A lost love, perhaps, her life cut short by the very Tenno he had sworn to protect."  (download, history)

After Erra kills Teshin

• "Goodbye, my love."  (download, history)

• "You cannot kill the Devil, Tenno..."  (download, history)

• "But you can send it back to hell."  (download, history)

Act II

The Rise of Narmer

• "All as One."  (download, history)

• "I stand before you... last of my kind. An orphan of Tenno massacres. But their violence did not end with me, did it? It carried on... to all of you."  (download, history)

• "Grineer languished in their torture-plexes. Ostron clades starved for Tenno tithe. Corpus pupils weeping Tenno praise under blade. Solaris souls blackened the skies of Tenno foundries."  (download, history)

• "But now is our time. An era of peace and security. The Devils have been cast out... And by the Void... The Tenno shall NEVER return!"  (download, history)

After the Drifter puts on the Narmer Veil

• "My child... So beautiful to behold. How do you feel?"

• "We found you within the derelict Zariman. Feral. Evil. Void in your heart... But Ballas, he saw a lost child in need of a father. As you recovered, he noticed me less and less. What good was I to him... if you weren't sick?"

• "I loved him, but he only loved you. The stasis dreams were the only choice I had. Your Zariman dreams of Mother, Father... I. Made. Them. Nightmares!"

• "But he could not be deceived for long. He saw through my deception, and my judgement was swift and true. He cradled you in his arms, saying... "Child"--"

• "--Child, my child. Forgive me. Wake from this horrid dream of hers. The world outside is waiting for you. These horrors of Zariman are lies only to hold you ill. I... love you."  (download, history)

Narmer Propaganda Drones

• Ballas: "All as One."  (download, history)
• Ballas: "The nightmare is over. Finally, we see clearly. Finally, we speak freely."  (download, history)
• Ballas: "Savor the taste of liberty, my friends. But never relax your vigilance. All as One."  (download, history)
• Ballas: "Future generations won't remember the Tenno oppression, but we do."  (download, history)
• Ballas: "We bear the scars, we mourn the dead, and we must never allow ourselves to forget. All as One."  (download, history)
• Ballas: "To those few who have yet to embrace Narmer, hear this: We understand."  (download, history)
• Ballas: "We see your fear, your hesitation, and we say; come into the warm."  (download, history)
• Ballas: "To those who imagine that any shall be rejected, hear this: there is room for you too, in this better world."  (download, history)
• Ballas: "But come sooner rather than later, for our pity... will last only so long. All as One"  (download, history)
• Ballas: "They breed in the midnight places. A pestilence. You have known them of old, talked tales of their evil."  (download, history)
• Ballas: "Stand strong. Stand together."  (download, history)
• Ballas: "One cord alone may snap, but a rope woven of many cords may bind. All must do their part. All as One."  (download, history)
• Ballas: "I saw the system divided, and I brought unity. I went to the orphans of war, and I brought peace."  (download, history)
• Ballas: "My ears rang with the cacophony of chaos. And I said, be still."  (download, history)
• Ballas: "This bounty, I give to you freely. Not the spoils of conquest, nor the profit of trade, but the gift of a loving father. All as One."  (download, history)
• Ballas: "Just as a crystal lens first brought the heavenly bodies within the sight of man, so did the Veil show us the world as it truly is."  (download, history)
• Ballas: "Seek out those who still walk under the smoke of confusion. And cry loud for comfort. Take their hand and guide them into the light. All as One."  (download, history)
• Ballas: "There are those who hate and fear the truth. And well be by it, for the truth is a surgeon's scalpel and has no mercy for what is foul and diseased."  (download, history)
• Ballas: "Purge and purge again, until only the truth remains. All as One."  (download, history)

Act III

After the Lotus flies towards Cetus

• "But 'of course' your Archons have her."  (download, history)

• "TENNO?!"  (download, history)

• "Even hell was not hot enough to split them!"  (download, history)

• "--BUT NOT THEM!!"  (download, history)

• "You see some great 'triumph' here? That this dullard herd worships me? Wailing 'freedom' from their rotten gobs, when the truth is... they ALL thirst for that piss-warm comfort of being told what to think! They wanted to kneel."  (download, history)

• "Gather the fleet. She is coming to us - what's left of her. She will kneel before me and, by my word, slaughter the only thing she has ever loved. And then? We feast."  (download, history)

Ballas' Speech

• "My people. Today we begin a great ascension. For as long as I have lived, a chain has dragged behind me. Keeping Tau always beyond grasp. We made our sacrifices... but always with one foot lingering on the shore. Never willing to leave it all behind. Never willing to burn the boats and commit, completely, to that opposite shore. That is why, These Worlds. Must. Die."  (download, history)

At the Sun

• "My people. Long have you waited for the sign. I have delivered it. Look to the sky! It grows darker by the moment. That darkness gathers strength, strength enough to open the Void and bear me onward to Sacred Tau."  (download, history)

• "What will become of you, my people? MY flock? You will join me there, of course, but by another path... The path of sacrifice. The path of oblivion. Cleansed of all doubt, for you will peer into pitch of day and find the Sun is gone. Its heart rendered, beating in my hand. The cost of my passage."  (download, history)

• "WE! ARE-! [Murex rams Praghasa]"  (download, history)

Inside Praghasa

• "What a glorious reunion! You and mother dearest both come to send me on my way. I am ready, Tenno. Are you?"  (download, history)

Final Fight

Opening Cutscene

• "'Kneel!! Kneel and I will spare these worlds! Beg, and I will make you complete again!"  (download, history)

• "I loved you, once... You were so like her."  (download, history)

• "But you can't, can you? Still desperate to save her from herself. You never truly knew her, did you? What she most needs?"  (download, history)

• "Why do you make me do these things?"  (download, history)

• "Say 'I love you, my Master'."  (download, history)

• "Now... Kill your child. For me."  (download, history)

First Phase

• "There's a good girl! Repair the hurt you have dealt us! Have dealt ME!"  (download, history)

• "You HAD to have a 'child' - and with an open heart I gave you... this. And my reward? Being left to watch as all your love- MY. LOVE. - poured into the bottomless well of this... abominable child."  (download, history)

• "Yes, let's discuss "what I did." I who have endured your torture of me. Your lies. Your betrayals. Without. Complaint. All for you. And this is my reward."  (download, history)

• "Pitiful. I am loved!"  (download, history)

Second Phase

• "Pitiful, broken thing! A puppet accusing her Maker of... "A lack of substance", was it?"  (download, history)

• "Very well! She can take your punishment for you."  (download, history)

• "Shut. Up! You are making me do this. And when this child is dead, you and I will have words."  (download, history)

• "Her kind can't feel pain. All lies."  (download, history)

• "You never understood me, my vision. My future lies with Tau. Not here. Not with you."  (download, history)

• "She has this coming. Do not interfere again!"  (download, history)

• "I cast you from my sight, 'Lotus'."  (download, history)

If Ballas kills the Lotus

• "And so, the monstrosity dies... beautifully."  (download, history)

Final Phase

• "Very well: I give you my death - and yours as well. The unstoppable annihilation of every. Single! Last! Thing! Pleased? Satisfied? Are you now full up with death?!"  (download, history)

• "My vision was only ever comprehensible to myself. My ambition beyond the grasp of... 'people'. Thus I have always been alone. Your death changes nothing."  (download, history)

• "People warned me against you, you know. Early on, before the Jade Light. I should've listened."  (download, history)

• "What are you? Tell me that! What barren, disgusting thing have I let into my house and my heart?! TELL ME!"  (download, history)

• "'Run'? Where should they run to?! You've only destroyed EVERYTHING!"  (download, history)

Ballas' End

• "Alone, at last."  (download, history)

• "Now, kneel."  (download, history)

• "You... Monstrous... BITCH!!"  (download, history)

• "Mar... Margulis?"  (download, history)

During Prime Trailers

Saryn Prime Access Trailer

• "Margulis, from your winter ashes, there has sprung a field of flowers. Conceived by me, germinated for deadly purpose. You used to dream of old Earth, didn't you? Bathed in gold and solemn blue. I intend to reclaim it now, from the spores, and the ruin. It came to me like a proverb: fight poison with poison.

Cure this sick horde with the greatest of plagues. I will call her... Saryn."  (download, history)

Vauban Prime Access Trailer

• "Lust was my sin. But greed is the blight that weakens our steel. These industrialists have gorged on the harvest of our long war. Their mind drones; Their mechanizations, toil in foundries remote. For what purpose? We must set watch upon them. Baiting our snares with the worms of profit.

Those kneeling at the altar of commerce will be returned... to the Void.

For your consideration... Vauban."  (download, history)

Nekros Prime Access Trailer

• "Fear is a weed, snaking in the dark. It vines within the mind, corrupting it. It germinates within tribes... dividing them. Your graces, we who are beyond death, have forgotten the simple power of fear. Let us now remember.

You will find no greater power... than the simple thought of your own name... inscribed upon a grave.

Our harbinger. Our terror... Nekros."  (download, history)

Banshee Prime Access Trailer

• "These like-faced savages, these earth-worn mules, a vast violent ocean at our command. Yet they wither. Mired in massed steel and flesh, casting these hordes from gene molds and flock minds, we inspire nothing. Our demons of void womb must be different. Unusual. Singular. Crafted without caste, wrought of the finest ore, slender and queer.

Sight without eye. Wrath without sound.

Not a soldier, but a myth. Not a warrior... a spirit... Banshee."  (download, history)

Valkyr Prime Access Trailer

• "Our long deathless winter has left us numb. Our wasted animal within, ugly and gaunt, hibernates beneath our shimmering beauty. Why do these Warframes stir us so? They burn with our lost desires, lost instincts. Tenno tamed, but only just. Cast and hunted as game. Trapped and tortured, yet they remain... animals.

Less than their human seed, gnawing their limbs from the snare, devouring a banquet of suffering, obese with heat and acid... and rage.

That is why they will destroy us."  (download, history)

Oberon Prime Access Trailer

• "Greed and denial will seduce any destruction... even our own. We're blind to future consequence... casting our debts on those to come. But what if now, the Gray Mother sought revenge?

A brutal thorn... piercing the gushing ulcers of waste and industry.

A new green, sown upon sanguine ground. Fertilized with the blood and bone of its defilers. Oberon."  (download, history)

Mirage Prime Access Trailer

• "Oh, how you suffered to become this beast. Yet you laughed at me. Others writhed and raged in the vice, but you, you played the fool. And so it was, that you distorted my design.

A sanguine trick. A murderous comedy. But no one is laughing anymore... except you.

The mere vapors of your life, shimmering still. Mirage."  (download, history)

Hydroid Prime Access Trailer

• "Fear... is the greatest of faith. While our immortal vines have left us distant from our baser selves, consider our subjects:

Those who gaze upon our cloud-swept towers with simmering, violent envy. They hold still the old fears.

Depth and darkness... The windless embrace...

We will give to fear a form and yet none a vague hydra, a load monstrosity, surging from the unfathomable... reminding them who their gods are. Hydroid."

Octavia Prime Access Trailer

• "When ape pounded flint on flint, some watched the sparks. Others merely danced. Our haunted creations will need drumbeats to drown out the throb of Helminth blood.

Songs to harmonize the long scream. Anthems to elevate their butchery.

But they are owed their struggle, as we are owed entertainment.

Our grand finale. Octavia."

Gara Prime Access Trailer

• "Of all our sleek gargoyles, our Void-born masquerade, how to honor the one who volunteered willingly, knowing the truth? Whose little act of courage - twinkled like a petty Ayatan, before our golden indifference?

And Nihil cried: "Glass her, for her presumption!" Until the arches rang with laughter. So be it. I shall encase you in crystal most fine. That the purity of your stigmatization might shard the sunlight itself.

The unbroken. Gara."

Nidus Prime Access Trailer

• "We cast our shining child adrift on strange seas. For with time, these starless currents black as mourning will work a sea-change. And if, one grisly dawn, the skies should hurl you, herald-like, back to Earth, remind us, foundling, of what we immaculate ones have lost.

What succulent richness disease's kiss may bring.

My festering demigod. My Nidus."

Khora Prime Access Trailer

• "None of them truly understands how much I lost, when I lost her. Nor by what subtle art my dead love now lives, within another's gleaming skull.

So tonight, we shall celebrate. In her honor, and mine, I shall unveil a new creation, a harmony of mistress... and monster.

An apex predator, a deathless companion. Unsurpassed. Blood-raw in whip, claw and fang. Khora."

Revenant Prime Access Trailer

• "What fatherless aberration is this? Who brings the wicked gift of an unknown mask this Naberus night? Seething with the Void, mocking me and causality alike!

And what strange cruelty named him, to know and defy his death?

This shadow of ill omen. This grim harbinger. This... Revenant."

Hildryn Prime Access Trailer

• "You have faced our worst. But one I have kept back, to guard against enemies within. She has sent many weeping on their way. This sky-born bastion of the sagas.

So hear me well, Hunhow. When you despoil the Reservoir, spare only her.

My stalwart. My shieldmaiden. Hildryn."

Wisp Prime Access Trailer

• "In languid dreams a vision came, of new heaven, new Earth. I breathed life into its custodian. A subtle sprite, to seed life. Yet as I reached for my savage warden, she... slipped from me.

So now... ...I cast her in flesh. Yours.

Let her be real. Incandescent. This fugitive form. This... Wisp."

Grendel Prime Access Trailer

• "We are losing this war, you say. You whisper that my Warframes are too genteel. Very well. Away with chivalry. Let us have monsters.

The law of club and belly, hunger and smoke. Beasts of cave and glut. I spread for you a cannibal feast. A toast, to the valor of mere appetite! You tremble! But the drool is on your chins.

For you birthed him, in all his innocent obscenity. This... is what you ordered. Grendel."

Gauss Prime Access Trailer

• "We... are not done. Our gourmet, Grendel, demands a gallant equal.

Lightning to his gastric thunder. A livid energy. Meteoric as messenger of long-forgotten Gods.

Between these two, the unspeakable, and the inescapable, there must be no more talk of defeat.

For thankless eyes shall be seared blind in the heat of HIS passing. Gauss."

Protea Prime Access Trailer

• Ballas: "At last. Esteemed Parvos. Tell me what you desire, and we shall furnish you."
• Parvos: "My desire is well known to you. Assemble what I have designed and I shall be on my way."
• Ballas: "Potent weaponry, exquisite anatomy, those are trivial. But temporal manipulation? Even the Entrati-"
• Parvos: "The Entrati have violated time, and I have violated them."
• Ballas: "What shall we name her, then, this child of two fathers?"
• Parvos: "Protea."