Whisper

Whisper
A bound Whisper Grimoire
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Much has unfolded within the confines of Albrecht’s Laboratories and he made sure to document the events of his research in great detail. These notes are bound tightly within his Grimoire, which can materialize in the Laboratories, but be forewarned… unbinding it and looking into Albrecht’s lost notes summons something that cannot be easily banished. If you are successful in eliminating it, a note from Albrecht’s Grimoire may be left behind in its stead.

—Update 35: Whispers in the Walls - Codex Fragments: Albrecht's Notes

Whispers are unique  Murmur entities that can manifest from Albrecht Entrati's  Grimoire. Copies of his eldritch book may sometimes spontaneously materialize within his Laboratories, and looking too deeply into its pages may summon a dark mimic, which will then punish the reader harshly for their meddling.

Overview

An unbound Whisper tome

Whispers are shadowy mimics that copy the appearance of whoever unbound them from their tome. Seething with contempt, they mock whoever was unfortunate enough to unbind them. Tagfer will alert the  Tenno when a Whisper-possessed grimoire is nearby, and will instruct them on how to defeat once it's unbound.

Once unbound, a doppelgänger of the Tenno's Operator will crawl up from the ground, and will then mimic the appearance of the Warframe. During battle, the Whisper will use numerous abilities from various other Warframes, all while laughing gleefully. Once the Whisper's first health bar is depleted, a Whisper Grimoire must be found, marked by a white icon. Once located, the tome must be destroyed to fully banish the entity. As a last resort, it will take on the form of the Operator and use a Void Beam to deter any from destroying its tome. If players take too long to destroy the Grimoire, the doppelgänger will recover.

 Void damage and Amps are recommended, as they will deal devastating damage to the tome. Defeating a Whisper awards a Melee Arcane Enhancement and an Albrecht's Notes Fragment.

Types

There are two types of Whispers that can be encountered. The Mocking Whisper prefers up-close/melee attacks, while the Scathing Whisper prefers ranged/Grimoire attacks.

• Mocking Whisper
• Scathing Whisper

Main article: Mocking Whisper

CODEX

This mocking phantom emerges to persecute the one who unwisely looked into its book, cutting deeply with hatred and blows alike. The book it arose from is its one vulnerability.

Main article: Scathing Whisper

CODEX

Looking too deeply into Albrecht's lost grimoires may cause a void-born duplicate to appear, seething with contempt for the one who let it loose and hurling its wrath from afar. It cannot be banished until the book that gave rise to it is destroyed.

Trivia

• After fully damaging a Whisper Grimoire, the Operator's doppelgänger will then begin hovering above it, attempting to prevent its banishment as it's sucked back into the disappearing tome.

Gallery

Patch History

Update 35.5 (2024-03-27)

• Fixed Mocking/Scathing Whisper getting killed along with the rest of the enemies when the alert level hits 0% in Netracell missions.
• Fixed Mocking/Scathing Whisper stretching weirdly in reaction to Warframe abilities.

Hotfix 35.0.4 (2023-12-20)

• Added a waypoint marker to lore fragment drops from Mocking/Scathing Whispers.
• Changed Mocking/Scathing Whispers’ enemy waypoint to be white to help it stand out amongst other objective waypoints.
• Fixed Mocking/Scathing Whispers becoming invulnerable if affected by Cold procs during certain points of the fight.

Hotfix 35.0.3 (2023-12-18)

• Added markers to the rewards dropped from defeating the Mocking/Scathing Whispers.
• Fixed Mocking/Scathing Whispers being killed immediately upon spawning the Fragmented Trio on Effervo (Deimos).
• Fixed Mocking/Scathing Whispers getting stuck in some of their ability casts, causing them to be invincible and unmoving.
• Fixed a crash related to Mocking/Scathing Whispers.

Update 35.0 (2023-12-13)

• Introduced.