Parvos Granum/Quotes

Inbox messages and dialogue from this character.

During The Deadlock Protocol

• "It has been so long since these old eyes beheld another living thing, here, in this sanctuary. I... am Parvos Granum. Thank you for finding me."
• "I live. Treachery seethed within the heart of the faith I had built. When the Board's assassins overloaded my transport's Void drive, Protea... my beautiful Protea... and her gift for manipulating time... preserved me."
• "But at the cost of all that she was. Now she is nothing more than a Specter of her former self. My beautiful Protea. That is why you have been invited here."
• "'My name'. Hmm... I have watched you. Monuments to narcissism. Demanding others sweat in your stead. Gorging upon that upon which you have not earned. Watched... as you claimed for yourself my teachings of self-reliance, perverting them into a flaccid philosophy of sloth. Of... Idleness. Is that you, my son?"
• "You know nothing, falling short as you do of every ideal that I value. Your words, your efforts, are the model of inadequacy. I called you, Nef Anyo, but I do not need you. I need... ... them."
• "Protea has scanned her kin... and with that, she is reinvigorated. Now, my lovely, if you wouldn't mind? Show our guests the door."
• "Some doors ought to remain closed? That's not in my world view. Fire. Fusion. Void. Progress always comes entangled with risk, with violence. With the precious sample obtained, development is accelerating. The Entrati have kept their secrets long enough."
• "I am calling it the Specter Particle. As my Archimedians explain, mimicry is in its nature. An echo. Exposed to precept circuits, we are able to imprint behaviors! Like an infant mirroring her surrogate. Only this infant can set the world on fire."
• "The palace birds think they can control us. They hit our research site with a Warframe assault team. Of course they did. I baited them to do it. The whole site lite up. Eighty mega-therm bloom. The whole lab, vaporized, those Warframes with it. Fire. Fusion. Void."
• "Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing. There's no stopping this, without stopping Protea."
• "By now your friends have noticed that the overloading Void engines are preventing the exits you opened for my captives... from closing. Well done. And goodbye. Enjoy your stay."

RECIPROCITY

The System shall change. No more clutching at sunk costs, imposed ideals, hand-me-down hopes. No, we are better than that. The Corpus shall know a violent restructuring, but with time enough to face the impending threat from Tau with renewed and absolute vigor.

Or not. Perhaps the rot is too deep. Perhaps the father should abandon his children. Perhaps it is time for a new philosophy. Hmmm.

Life's just a bargain like any other. Yours is no different. Would you like a seat at my new table? Perhaps with your... masked friends alongside? The Business, was it? A curious name. And Eudico too, of course. All people know what they want.

I know what they want. But what about you? Tell me, friend: What is it you Desire?

—Parvos Granum

During Deimos Disruption

• "Drusus, you do remember the penalty for late payment, don't you? Forfeiture."  (download, history)
• "Drusus Leverian. What purpose does your Leverian serve? What does it build? What does it earn? Nothing. A dusty temple for idle history worship."  (download, history)
• "Drusus Thelonious Leverian. Do you think me a gullible man? No. I desire precision. So does our contract, which clearly states: the penalty for missed payment is immediate forfeiture."  (download, history)
• "If you truly desired greatness for the Leverian, you would've made it happen, Drusus. But you haven't. Instead, you idle away the years, content with unfulfilled dreams and comfortable mediocrity. I desire greater things from the Leverian and her archives."  (download, history)
• "When I take ownership of your museum and all its contents, will you, Drusus Leverian, be included? Make this easy for me and I will make that transition comfortable for you. But if you prolong the inevitable..."  (download, history)
• "Drusus, you and I are not so different in this regard. I desire knowledge. Any wayward item that crossed his path may offer hidden... insights."  (download, history)
• "Do you know the problem with glass, Drusus Leverian? It is so very fragile. But you wouldn't know anything about glass, would you, Drusus?"  (download, history)
• "Drusus, this associate of yours seems uniquely resourceful. If they can be convinced to do my bidding, things would become much easier for you."  (download, history)
• "As you wish. Until the next payment's due."  (download, history)
• "Is that all, Drusus? Doesn't look like much."  (download, history)
• "Yes. I haven't seen something this beautiful since the days before the Old War."  (download, history)
• "Goods received. But I must ask... you wouldn't hold back on me, would you? Your associate hasn't any Warframes, have they?"  (download, history)
• "I should hope nothing happens to this associate of yours. For your sake."  (download, history)
• "When I find the artifact that speaks to me."  (download, history)

 Protea Prime 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."