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Dante
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Description
Seeker of knowledge. Keeper of history. Daring researcher of Leverian lore. Dante composes arcane tales to support allies and devastate enemies.
Passive
Noctua scans targets, recording information for your Codex. Status Chance increases by 50% on fully scanned targets.
Abilities
1st Ability	Noctua
2nd Ability	Light Verse
3rd Ability	Dark Verse
4th Ability	Final Verse
General Information
Sex	Male
Mastery Rank	0
Max Rank	30
Health	300 (390 at Rank 30)
Shields	150 (240 at Rank 30)
Armor	145
Energy	200 (270 at Rank 30)
Starting Energy	50
Sprint Speed	1.15
Aura Polarity
Exilus Polarity	None
Polarities
Introduced	Update 35.5 (2024-03-27)
Themes	Scribe, Owl, Storytelling
Progenitor Element	Impact
Subsumed Ability	Dark Verse
Tactical Ability	Light Verse
Sell Price	25,000
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

CODEX

Seeker of knowledge. Keeper of history. Daring researcher of Leverian lore. Dante composes arcane tales to support allies and devastate enemies.

Release Date: March 27th, 2024

Recite the epic tales of yore and chronicle our heroic deeds, woven therein the gilded tapestry of  Orokin history. Since foreshadowed from the Noctua's luminous pages, authored by the Keeper of History, Dante, he illustrates for defiant foes their predestined demise. Don his occult quills and tome, with gun and blade in tow, to inscribe our legacy as fate unfolds. Rescind the  Corpus plot to denude Leverian's exhibition halls, thus devise narratives yet unwritten upon its walls.

Dante is a male scribe-themed Warframe who wields  Noctua, an Exalted Tome. Dante's new tale began in Update 35.5 (2024-03-27): Dante Unbound.

Acquisition

Dante's main and component blueprints can be obtained from Rotation C of Disruption Armatus on Deimos. Access requires completion of The Deadlock Protocol and Whispers in the Walls.

Alternatively they be purchased from Loid in Sanctum Anatomica with  Vessel Capillaries, which are dropped by Disruption Armatus Demolishers in quantities of 2-4 (5-7 on The Steel Path). Each component blueprint requires 90 and the main blueprint requires 270, totaling 540 Vessel Capillaries for the whole set.

Item	Source	Chance	Expected	Nearly Guaranteed
Neuroptics Blueprint	Deimos Entrati Disruption / C	5%	~ 20 C Rotations	134 ± 44 C Rotations
Systems Blueprint	Deimos Entrati Disruption / C	5%	~ 20 C Rotations	134 ± 44 C Rotations
Chassis Blueprint	Deimos Entrati Disruption / C	5%	~ 20 C Rotations	134 ± 44 C Rotations
Blueprint	Deimos Entrati Disruption / C	7.50%	~ 13 C Rotations	88 ± 29 C Rotations

All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official drop tables stored on Module:DropTables/data. See Mission Rewards#Standard Missions for definitions on reward table rotations.
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Crafting

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
25,000	1	1	1	Orokin Cell 3	Time: 3 Day(s)
					Rush: 50
Market Price: 350			Blueprints Price: N/A
Dante Neuroptics Blueprint
15,000	Entrati Lanthorn 3	Control Module 10	Bellow Voca 4	Neural Sensors 4	Time: 12 Hour(s)
					Rush: 25
Dante Chassis Blueprint
15,000	Entrati Lanthorn 2	Alloy Plate 8,000	Entrati Obols 12,000	Plastids 2,000	Time: 12 Hour(s)
					Rush: 25
Dante Systems Blueprint
15,000	Entrati Lanthorn 3	Circuits 4,000	Entrati Obols 9,000	Necracoil 450	Time: 12 Hour(s)
					Rush: 25

Lore & History

Main article: Leverian#Dante

Main article: Loid (Original)/Quotes#Research Dante

“You're not supposed to be in here! You're going to ruin the surprise!”

The following article/section contains spoilers. Please complete The Deadlock Protocol and Whispers in the Walls quests before proceeding.

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Inbox Message:

I have made a tremendous mistake...

Tenno. Please. The Leverian desperately needs your help. Come see me in DANTE'S LEVERIAN, as soon as possible.

• Drusus: "The Leverian... it was floundering, you understand? Going under! All that work I put into it, and so few visited, let alone donated. Oh, I don't mean you, of course. I know you're a friend to the Leverian. It just... wasn't enough. So when Parvos made me an offer... I thought, why not? Just let it go. Let it all go. I took the deal, Tenno. I shouldn't have, but I did. Oh, if only Dante were still around. Please, you must come see me."  (download, history)

Entering:

LEVERIAN ENTRY  (download, history)

Ah, hello, friend. You find me now amidst the bones of all I am. Of the thing that mattered most to me in my too-long life. You know, I wasn't sure it was possible to be less than a man, for I was a man, once. This room was to be a shrine to one of my dearest friends, but now that shall never come to pass. Look around, and I will recount what was meant to be.

Unfinished Shrine:

LEVERIAN ENTRY  (download, history)

I've made such a terrible mistake, you see. In a universe at its own throat, where every living thing works daily to keep body and soul together, there's not much appetite for history. For stories.

The Leverian may not be a real place - a place you can reach out and touch - but to reality it was anchored. And reality demands a tithe. It takes coin to keep this place rezzed. This shrine to memory. And... a savvy businessman I was not.

To be less than a man is to be a fool. And fool I was.

Loss:

LEVERIAN ENTRY  (download, history)

Did I never tell you of Dante? No. I suppose I didn't. I suppose I hadn't the fortitude. The entirety of the Leverian is shaped by the lack of him - though perhaps only in ways that I can see.

Though by definition a weapon of war, Dante was, first and foremost, a student of history. And, he was my friend. Truthfully, much of the Leverian would not exist were it not for that bold, two-fisted academician's devotion to both myself and the cause of better understanding our history, and ourselves.

It shames me to think of what he would have to say about what I have done. To our shared endeavor.

Folly:

LEVERIAN ENTRY  (download, history)

Parvos Granum. You know the name. He of the gilded hand, and gilded tongue. For an age he has sought what Dante and I had gathered together. Our collected treasures. For one such as Granum there is no such thing as 'enough.' In an age with no appetite for memory, maintaining a shrine to our shared history seemed folly. And so, in a low moment, I signed it all away.

Regret:

LEVERIAN ENTRY  (download, history)

I do not know what possessed me, in that moment. I have no need for money, or food, or shelter, or care. Perhaps I merely felt my time was done, that the past had served its use, and me along with it. Whatever the reason I allowed myself an instant to feel my misery to be greater than my life's purpose. A momentary indulgence that may be paid by every future generation until the sun goes dark.

Friendship:

LEVERIAN ENTRY  (download, history)

I would give much for my friend to have been here. Dante and I, we tempered each other's unique compulsions.

You would have liked Dante, I feel. His end began, as it did for so many souls, with the Entrati family. The patriarch of that benighted family had fallen into decadence and disrepute, his name sullied by controversy and implications of madness.

Then an erstwhile associate of mine - a gentleman by the name of Loid, and Master Entrati's man for more than a lifetime - well, vanished. Loid, his Master, and his entire lineage. Just... gone.

Failing:

LEVERIAN ENTRY  (download, history)

There were rumors, of course. Master Entrati was known at that time for outlandish claims and questionable science relating to... voices he was hearing, I believe. Gods from beyond the veil and whatnot.

After the disappearances, Dante, never one to let a good mystery go, insisted on infiltrating the Entrati manse and learning the truth for himself. I, however, being more familiar with the, uh, confidential details of Master Entrati's... interests... urged him otherwise. I suppose you wonder why I would do such a thing, if I believed Master Entrati to be fit for little more than the asylum.

Loid was, as I said, a dear friend. We spoke often. His last missive to me was a simple one.

"We end as we began."

As a student of history and its occult apocrypha I know the terrible import of those words. And so I cautioned Dante to remain by my side. He promised to do so, then did otherwise. And I never saw him again.

Perhaps I was not so deft at tempering him, as he was of me. And that, I suppose, was my first great failing. The parent of this second, and most final, one.

 Dante:

LEVERIAN ENTRY  (download, history)

I imagine you've surmised why I have summoned you here. To ask that, in the name of whatever friendship we share, to lend your aid to my impossible predicament. To help preserve not me, not this shadow of a man I once was, but to keep this monument to history alive - so that future generations may learn from it, and never repeat our most shameful mistakes.

Granum's obsession with that bygone age demands pieces of such. Ironic, really, that one man's interest in history serves only to strip an edifice whose singular purpose was to protect it. But there remains one slim hope: the sourcing of artifacts from places other than the Leverian.

Sourced by you, at my direction. Help me, friend. Help me, that my one, great and final, mistake not be the error that turns our collective history and the work of lifetimes to a single, miserable use: making a rich man richer.

Inbox Message:

Helping Drusus

Tenno,

I have only just now learned of my old friend Drusus Leverian's predicament. I believe I can help you help him. Albrecht's old Conduit network has everything Drusus will need.

Access the Conduits in the AMARTUS node of Deimos or through the Sanctum Anatomica.

Come see me afterward, I may even be able to help you recover his trusted colleague, the Warframe Dante.

Loid

Dante Prex:

LEVERIAN ENTRY

You... found him, Friend. And Dante's tale deserves to be known. So... allow me to relate it, as he passes it to me.

Dante... ventured... to the... deafeningly... silenced halls of the... doomed... Entrati lineage, encountering... automated defenses, gone senile and violent, chanting in an... unright dialect that slurred thought and... annihilated... hope. That wrongtongued language invaded Dante's mind - infecting it with the one thing he was defenseless against: the promise of knowledge.

It may be said that a parasite is life from without the body fighting to exist within the body, despite the body, even as it risks the body. What, then, do we call knowledge from beyond our reality demanding to be let in?

Poor Dante. If only he had recited to me sooner the wrongtongued words he had heard. I could have told him, you know, that I had heard that language before. Once. Long ago. From the lips of Parvos Granum.

Dante found it, you see. Dante found The Book.

The Dante I knew was many things, but he was not weak. He struggled, fought, refused its knowledge. There was a moment, I knew, when that chill Indifference felt it had won. In those moments I was with him, wrestling the foul thing he had unlocked. Impossibly, though it cost him dearly, he was winning. But miserably, I knew the equation was not so simple as that.

I told him: Dante, what you have found can never be brought forth. Parvos must never know of this.

I felt the chill, the awful loneliness, of understanding wash through him.

I sensed the moment he chose, and I felt Dante give up. When he died, I almost died with him.

But the Book, the word, did not permit Dante to die. The violent diplomacy which ensued rewrit the very fabric of who he was. I understood things, learned things, on that journey with my old friend, from night to day. Things which could not survive in this world, but forever made a lie, to me, of science.

What became of him, and what stars he may have traveled to, is unknown to me. What that wrongtongued Voice may murmur in his mind, on long nights, I'm not sure I would want to know. It teaches because it longs to be known, and in being known it exists. And in existing, it survives.

General

Dante served as scribe and historian who worked with  Entrati. Additionally, he was the main chronicler of the Leverian, a little-known museum named after Drusus Leverian, its curator. A student of history and avid seeker of knowledge, Dante soon became close friends with both Drusus and Albrecht Entrati's assistant, Loid.

Due to his nature as a Warframe, Dante was unable to speak with a conventional voice; instead, he spoke through his writing, and his voice was indeed beautiful. A natural scholar, Dante possessed an affinity for knowledge, and often shared the Entrati's interest with bones and the dead. He even went on to publish some of the finest works detailing ancient Earth archaeology, something that was considered impossible for a mere Warframe to accomplish.

Dante was one of the few warframes who didn't immediately go mad and join in the Warframe Insurrection. However, he became a wanted fugitive.

Dante's Investigation

When Albrecht disappeared, Dante became eager to unveil the mystery behind the disappearance. After the reappearance of the martian moon, Deimos, he ventured into Albrecht's Laboratories, despite promising Drusus otherwise. Within the hauntingly silent halls, Dante encountered the lab's malfunctioning Necramechs; all acting violent and chanting in eldritch Voidtongue.

As Drusus watched, the wrong-tongued dialect began to worm into Dante's mind, tempting him with his one weakness; the promise of knowledge. He had discovered The Book, an unknown, unearthly tome of knowledge that was laid as a trap by The Indifference as an attempt to seize control of him. As Dante struggled to resist its knowledge, he heard his dear friend say, "Dante, what you have found can never be brought forth. Parvos must never know of this."

Thus, Dante gave up, allowing himself to succumb to the Book's influence and take his life. However, the Book and the hellish words within did not allow Dante to die, and instead altered the very fabric of who the Warframe was. Transported to stars unknown, that wrong-tongued Voice now murmurs endlessly within his head, longing to be known, to exist, and to survive.

Notes

• Currently,  Ruvox lacks a Signature Weapon bonus with Dante.

Trivia

• Dante is the 56th unique Warframe to be released.
• In Devstream 176, his concept art for his model, alt helmet, signature weapon, and WIP floating animations were showcased. Full gameplay reveal and signature Syandana were shown in Devstream 177.
• Dante, a common name known around the world, could possibly be named after the author and main character of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri. The poem reads Dante's self-described journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven.
• He is the second Warframe whose name starts with the letter 'D', the first being  Dagath.
• Dante is the first Warframe to utilize the following:
  • Whose Signature Weapon, the  Ruvox, is an Incarnon Weapon.
  • With an Exalted Weapon Tome, and the third Warframe behind  Mesa ( Regulators) and  Hildryn ( Balefire Charger) with an exalted secondary weapon.
  • Outside of Warframe Augment Mods, his Light Verse and Final Verse's Triumph abilities are among the first innate powers to grant Overguard to allies en-masse.
• He is the fourth Warframe behind  Wisp,  Titania Prime, and  Sevagoth's Shadow with unique floating directional movement.
• He is the second Warframe behind  Caliban with floating Idle Animations.
• He is the second Warframe behind  Protea with a built-in universal Aura polarity.
• He is the tenth Warframe after  Limbo,  Hildryn,  Wisp,  Titania Prime,  Protea,  Xaku,  Sevagoth,  Gyre, and  Qorvex with a unique dodge roll animation, where Dante dashes upright while floating.
• All abilities cast by Dante vocalize different Voidtongue sentences.
• Dante and his Noctua inflict primarily  Slash damage and status, which allude to wounds made by papercuts.
• First being  Fighter Escort and second  Razorwing, Dante's Pageflight is the third ability to summon flying companions, and the first at creating birds.