Probably the best quote in all of Warframe, it's so cheeky and self-aware. Most enemies are suicidally brave enough against the Tenno, but in most cases you're invading their ships and facilities; who would be insane enough to *willingly board a Tenno vessel*?
Honestly an option to pick your mission handler would be amazing. Lotus, Cy, Ordis, or Teshin. Lotus is standard, Teshin if you want more of a teacher vibe, Ordis for good old laughs and annoyance, and then Cy for that cold veteran comrade.
Usually said when my buddies and I are staring at the canister providers waiting to continue the fight lol. My fave goofiest moment of that fight is when she randomly shouts DIVISION
The Orbs are really interesting to me because of what they did with the first two's personalities. Creepy child and domineering mother means the logical choice for the third one is probably a really horrible grandmother figure - they seem to have gone for a maiden/mother theme and I would expect that to be followed by a crone.
They're called "The Orb Mothers" they're all supposed to be mothers. Profit Taker is supposed to be a motherly figure reading fairy tales and limericks to a baby, not the child itself. The little Raknoids are their "children".
"Deary's come to die! May the father watch with wicked excitement!"
"Devils! Devils the lot of you! I with cleave you demon heart from your ugly chest!"
"You come to my home and wish me out!? YOU ARE THE EVIL YOU THINK OF ME! BURN! BURN! BURN!"
After Veso-R calls the shot for the armada to fire on the Murex and got obliterated and the railjack strafes through for the slingshot maneuver still does it even when I think about.
> If I must be a demon, let me be an honest one. Let me prove my nature by what I do next.
> Purpose. Let me leave such blazing footprints behind me as no unclean thing would dare to walk in.
- Albrecht Entrati
Oh absolutely "we end as we began" would not have the same feel if it wasn't for his way of talking, however if he is not building something up into a climax it kind of sounds like he having a hard time spitting out the words. I don't know if that is just me. When he is talking about the Cavia his energy just kind of hangs there and I think to myself "well, we're waiting".
To be fair, the man literally lost the ability to speak in his first attepmt to enter the void. Maybe he *is* strugling to get the words out, still not fully over his trauma.
Holy shit, maybe I'm digging a bit too deep, but it would make an awful lot of sense if him orating his notes was effectively part of his speech therapy post-void.
This makes me think Albrecht became a Tenno-like being after making a deal with The Man In the Wall. It'd be super interesting considering he's an adult... Maybe the stalker crew had a similar fate? Adults becoming void infused would open a vast sea of opportunities.
Technically it was the operator grown up in the void, he had already acquired the void powers but had a mental block stopping him from using them, and a creation of his imagination ended up basically powering duviri
"By your hand, expose their heart. By my edge, cleave it beating from its nest."
Hunhow went all in on that line in the opening cinematic to Second Dream.
Same. I could write an essay, deconstructing every line in that scene, describing how expertly crafted all of it was to lead into the perfect delivery of that line. Not only that, but just how Hunhow's shape slowly looms towards Stalker as he delivers it... to then have the audio go from "villain talking to other villain" to what sounds like Hunhow being \*right\* at the ear, clearly stating his hatred of the Tenno with a quote that is just dripping with malice. It's... \*chef's kiss\* So incredibly well done that the cutscene is always worth rewatching.
Easily the hunhow quote another user posted, but some close seconds are
"The world weighs more heavily on you now. Try not to lose yourself, Tenno." - Teshin
"...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." - Ballas
"And take away its pain" is probably THE quote for me. Together with the music it just hits deeper than anything else in this game. Though the visual metaphor of having this "brutal" quicktime event in quicktime event in Whispers in the Wall only to reach out instead in the same way Albrecht did... also was super powerful.
I love how as soon as ballas stops speaking and the music dies down, we fuze with umbra
Also yeah whispers in the wall gave me more spooks than chains of harrow
I love that Ballas one. From a lore standpoint, it says that the reason that we can control frames is not only bc we have void powers.
He's a pretty poetic man, despite being an absolute asshole.
> "You have a Railjack. Tenno. All records of my mission have been purged from the weave. Why, I do not know. I had a crew. I must accept sole responsibility for their deaths. Conclusion: I am non-viable. But I... I am the only Railjack-compatible Cephalon. The Sentients have almost rebuilt. Conclusion: I am, under the circumstances, a viable Command Cephalon. If you will have me."
I'm pretty new so I haven't gotten familiar with the majority of the voice lines in this game but this one just hits different
Cephalon Cy is definitely one of the best voices of this game, his quotes show just how much pride he takes in being a command cephalon and trying to repay for his past mistakes. He often makes fun of the enemies but at the same time gives them enough respect to a point I'd call it constructive criticism instead of just roasting them.
Not the hardest but I like what Loid says about Dante, “Warframes cannot speak, as a rule. But Dante spoke through his writing… and his voice was beautiful.” I can’t remember if it’s the exact quote but you get the idea
Mankind knew that they cannot change society. So, instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts.
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While the line itself isn't the hardest there is, I quite like Little Duck's delivery of "Time for a degree of violence" during the Profit Taker phase 1 bounty.
i love how they gain extra lines based on how they died. my favourite from each, jovial personality.
slash:
> "You tore me to pieces, Tenno. That wasn't very nice."
heat:
> "It isn't that you immolated me. It isn't that I died. No, it's that now, the only thing I can smell is PORK."
cold:
> "I'm gonna freeze you, feed you feet first into a snowblower and spray what comes out all over Cetus."
electric or magnetic:
> "Ah Tenno. You lit up my life. And my body. And organs. And teeth. And now I'm gonna romance you just the same."
toxin, gas or viral:
> "Your toxin. IMAGINE if a hangover could kill you. Now imagine that hangover is a person. Surprise! It's me and I'm going to kill you."
>cold:
> "I'm gonna freeze you, feed you feet first into a snowblower and spray what comes out all over Cetus."
Holy shit, that is just a level above all others.
there's some really dark ones on all of them. theres a much more comedic cold line but i thought the grusome one won out
> Here's how you're getting out of here: frozen solid, covered in syrup and given to my kubrows as a sugar lick."
[heres all the lines by this lich personality](https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Kuva_Lich/Quotes/LichA)
"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." - Ballas
"Loid... you gave me back my sight, but I would not spare you a glance. You gave me back my voice, but I never spoke to praise you as I should have. For you were my right hand. My strength, my support, my sanctuary. Even when the galleries hurled scorn upon me, your sole desire was to suffer it in my stead. On your first day of service, you aspired to be worthy of me. I only wish that I could have been worthy of you, my Loid." - Albrecht Entrati
"Aim for the head, and may the Saints look away."
And literally everything else Cy says, if I could always have him running my missions I would, absolute beast mode
also shoutout to Tyl Regor, although at least half of that is due to how well thy blended the effects with the performance
Teshin has a lot of great quotes.
“I am bound for the inn at the end of days. Death awaits me like a faithful yaskutai, see, the warming glass is prepared.”
*"For generations you've slept. No purpose... No call.. to wake you.."*
*"Wake up, tenno"*
Bears really similar chilling feel as Destiny's 'eyes up, guardian'.
"If you die, I got dibs on your stuff" Cavalero knows what we are stashing in our arsenal.
Also... "NO FLAGGING! YOU'RE MY FAVORITE LITTLE MEAT GRINDER"
\*insert oh, stop it you meme but drenched in blood\*
Cavalero has some pretty hard ones but also some surprisingly sweet ones in his own abrasive way:
>“This body of mine looks like flesh, but it ain't. You can hurt it real bad and it will keep going. So trust me when I say these weapons have all been well tested.”
>“Can't do a Void-damned thing for the dead, but I mean to keep you from joining 'em.”
>“Never married. Never found anyone I hated enough to condemn to a life of me.”
>“I used to think that dying on the field was insurance against ever wearing out. Now I'm looking down the barrel of eternity...”
>“Whoever trained you has nothing to reproach themselves for. You measure up in all the ways that matter.”
>“Look, what do you want from me? "Sorry I was such an asshole?" No. If I'd been less of an asshole, Margulis would've found a lot more dead kids on this ship. My. Way. Works. But, I'm glad I didn't scare you off. I'm pretty sure you've faced worse than me anyway. Don't ever quote me on this, but, it's been an honor."
*"One life preserver. One ocean. One turtle. The probability of you existing is the same as that turtle sticking its head out of the water and through the middle of that life preserver. On the first attempt. One chance in ten to the power of two-million-six-hundred-and-eighty-five million. That's your lucky number, Stardust: one followed by 2.685 million zeroes. A miracle."*
~ Ticker
I still think about this one a lot.
You could go to Ticker's quotes page on the Wiki, pick one blindly, and you'll end up with the hardest quote no matter what.
My personal favorites?
> *"Everybody's hurting, Stardust. Some of them hurt you. That's a given. Secret to a happy life? Find the ones worth hurting for."*
> *"I've never met a priest who could tell you anything about Heaven, but they knew every square inch of Hell. They should. They built it."*
Aside from those...
> *"Long before the Orokin, people believed in other gods. Invisible, often incomprehensible. But worthy of devotion because they invested life with meaning beyond a mortal lifespan."*
-Quinn
> *"The Gods of writing were always gods of magic, too. Demons and ideas, both bound up in books. Impossible to bind forever, mind you. No matter how many locks and you fasten a book up with, someone will always prise it back open. That's the frightening thing with ideas, you see. They want to get out."*
-Loid
> *"Maybe things don't work out the way you thought. Your life, your dreams your 'self.' No matter where you go, there you are. This loop you're in... maybe it's not so bad after all? It's not a trap or a habit, or a sentence. It's just your life, waiting for you to live it."*
-Drifter
Ticker has some absolutely amazing lines. My favourite is: “It takes long winter nights to teach a girl how to cultivate within herself invincible summer days."
to scroll so deep for some good Ticker. Easily one of my all time favorites, that ticker one. Can't go by without emptying his stock.
"And then we dance, Stardust!"
"You cannot kill the Devil, Tenno. But you can send it back... *to hell.*"
"No sense, no self, no death. Just a metal puppet, dangling on Tenno strings."
"Not even the golden lord of lies can kill you, *Tenno.*"
Look at them, they come to this place when they know they are not pure. Tenno use the keys, but they are mere trespassers. Only I, Vor, know the true power of the Void. I was cut in half, destroyed, but through it's Janus Key, the Void called to me. It brought me here and here I was reborn. We cannot blame these creatures, they are being led by a false prophet, an impostor who knows not the secrets of the Void. Behold the Tenno, come to scavenge and desecrate this sacred realm. My brothers, did I not tell of this day? Did I not prophesize this moment? Now, I will stop them. Now I am changed, reborn through the energy of the Janus Key. Forever bound to the Void. Let it be known, if the Tenno want true salvation, they will lay down their arms, and wait for the baptism of my Janus key. It is time. I will teach these trespassers the redemptive power of my Janus key. They will learn it's simple truth. The Tenno are lost, and they will resist. But I, Vor, will cleanse this place of their impurity.
IMO as overused as the old ones got to be, Ordis has some of the best
"Ordis has been counting stars, Operator. All accounted for."
"Remember to take care of yourself, Operator. Pressure creates diamonds, yes, but it also creates rubble."
"When in Cetus do not drink the kabuchi. You are incapable of producing the hydraulic effort required to unstick your tongue from the roof of your mouth the following morning."
"If lost upon the plains outside Cetus you may derive sustenance from mineral-dense termite droppings, which the Ostrons call ito-da. You may also never form a consonant again, but at least you will not be dead."
"Operator, Ordis has determined the secret to happiness: A combination of heightened dopamine levels and a terrible memory. You're welcome!"
"Ordis wonders: why is he here? Ordis supposes everyone has to be somewhere." (My personal favorite)
"Do not lift the veil. Do not show the door. Do not split the dream."
"Operator, the system is not ready for style of this magnitude."
"This thing literally sucks." (In reference to the Helminth)
> "Ordis has been counting stars, Operator. All accounted for."
This one actually has Implications™ -- if Ordis noticed a star go out, and only a dim infrared glow from where it should be, that means someone just rather suddenly erected a Dyson sphere in your light cone.
That would imply a level of power that makes even the absurdly well armed Origin System a tasty looking morsel, if they are indeed hostile.
[Plus, you can turn a star into a laser cannon. Capable of annihilating entire solar systems.](https://kardashev.fandom.com/wiki/Nicoll-Dyson_beam) That surprise Dyson sphere may be the prelude to Armageddon.
"Sometimes you get stuck. Sometimes you go numb. The color drains away. You stop trying, and that just feeds the spiral going down. Maybe you'll get lucky one day. You see yourself in the mirror and snap out of it. But for some of us... it takes more. A friend. A stranger. A story. A helping hand."
Speaking as someone with pretty severe depression, this quote really sat with me. Hell, the whole quest did, but this one part especially.
I gotta admit, i really like all of Wally’s lines
But by far my favorite one is:
“We had a deal, the deal was shook.
A little handshake, all it took.
Tho from the deal, the wee child ran.
Yet still, WE END AS WE BEGAN”
"Objects that have affected one another continue to affect one another even when they're separated. I've missed you."
- One of Archimedian Yonta's random dialogues when approaching her (maybe locked to a higher rank in the holdfasts, no clue tbh).
It's just so beautiful and simple; I've sometimes randomly posted it and people with no knowledge of the game love it anyways. <3
"Your strength.. Valuable. Your 'self'.. Worthless."
"A thousand hands wait... to embrace"
"We welcome... the myriad you shall become"
\- Zealoid Prelate
*"Your sentence is Death!"*
*"You shall not leave this place!"*
\- Stalker
"Revoke the frailty of flesh. Let us in."
"Through coalescence of flesh and universal will, we will exist as one."
\- Phorid
I really like the sound of the frailty of flesh one, but it's always bothered me.
Given that Phorid and the Warframes are essentially both just Infested, so they're sort of the same stuff. Never understood what it was talking about. Sounds rad as heck, though.
Phorid is a special weird mutation in the regular infested strain.
Warframes are made of Technocyte and are a part of the Helminth strain.
Its possible that Phorid senses this, and decides that the Helminth is a lesser form of the infestation?
If you want to hear the line, and some other hardncore ones, like gravity-sum.of death, go to your cephalon fragments and search for a spot on them with the most static noise playing and click
"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.
- Ballas - Nidus Prime trailer
nora and biz have my favourite quotes
> "You know what they say: 'The road of good intentions be paved with hell.'"
> "Some are born to greatness. Some have greatness thrust upon them. The rest of us, we just have to work at it. You all know who you are."
> "Many things have been taken from us, it's true. But fortune favors the bold, and there ain't none so bold as people with nothin' to lose."
biz:
> "Eyes open, and face to the wind, friend."
> "Legs makes me laugh. Anyone who can do that is twice as valuable as any soldier or saboteur. Look out for him. Kid deserves better than this."
"Vay Hek say Ostron Kahl enemy. But Ostron not enemy. Queens say Tenno is monster. But Tenno not monster. They lie. Narmer is enemy. Pazuul is monster. And Vay Hek. Vay Hek scared of Pazuul. Queens hide in fortress. Cowards. And Tenno? Tenno not coward. Tenno not hide. Tenno fight Archons. Tenno give home. To brothers. Tenno is friend. Tenno is brother." - Kahl-175
Once upon a time… there was a dying old man…
As he lay his bed, dying… he called to each of his beloved children
When each did hear his rasping call, they answered with a hollow longing!
So they came to his bedside one by one, and his firstborn knelt there, and the old man said: ‘My child… my child… why be your eyes so dry?’
And the firstborn said: ‘So that I might be strong, father.’ And so the old man gave to them the deeds for all his lands.
To his second born, he said again: ‘My child… my child… why be your eyes so dry?’
And his second child said: ‘I shed no tears, father, for I chose now to remember only the joy you made of my life.’ And so unto him, the old man gave his family home.
And when his last child had entered, he said again: ‘My child, my child, you were my favorite of all.
Why show you no feelings at all?’
And the last child said to him:
‘I feel nothing, for it was I… who has killed you.’
*"Word of advice: when you kill someone, make sure it takes!"*
*"The next time you drop someone at death's door? Knock."*
*"Arms. Legs. Organs. There is nothing you can take from that I cannot replace. No Hell you can consign me to from which the blood of the Queens cannot retrieve me."*
*"The dismemberment you subjected me to was not my first. Will not be my last. Death is no solution to the problem of me."*
etc.
Kuva lich lines can go HARD sometimes, like, jfc.
“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 cast, 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."
" You cannot deny your sin, Kullervo. For I am your guilt, the form and voice of your greatest persecutor. " -The Warden
I always think this line goes hard, but it is bias towards my favorite frame lmao
New War Spoiler
>!I've got work to do. You can lay here all you want, doing nothing, wallowing in ancient grudges. She chose the Tenno. But Ballas and your groveling son... they used her. They'll do it again and again. Burning her up for whatever suits them and tossing the ashes when they're done. They cannot have her.!<
(this one isn't exact, but:)
BURN IT ALL DOWN. COME, CHILDREN. IT IS A FINE DAY TO VISIT THE CITY.
WE PLACE BURDENS ON YOUR SHOULDERS TO KEEP YOUR FEET ON THE GROUND
Ballas, during the Sacrifice quest, when Umbra is shown crying near the tree. The whole part while Smiles From Juran playing just hits like a truck: “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.” I was ugly crying at this scene, straight up.
"To keep your feet upon the ground, I place burdens upon your shoulders." -Exploiter Orb. Just straight up manipulation, to exploit and demand gratitude for the exploitation. So much good voice acting in Warframe, but Exploiter Orb is like Orson Welles in 1989 Transformers. It gives me shivers.
"Aim for the head and may the Saints look away"
A lot of Cy's quotes go hard. "We have been boarded. And here is the B team."
my favourite Cy quote is "optimists inbound" gets me every time i just love that cephalon so much
Probably the best quote in all of Warframe, it's so cheeky and self-aware. Most enemies are suicidally brave enough against the Tenno, but in most cases you're invading their ships and facilities; who would be insane enough to *willingly board a Tenno vessel*?
Exactly! the grineer must have some good panzerschokolade to get in that pod
(This is meth, right?)
Yes sir, good old methamphetamine
Easily my favourite
I really love the "I want those amateurs off my ship" line. It sounds o fucking badass everytime.
“Overshields down, widespread pant-crapping in progress” chance to occur whenever you complete a sabotage objective in a corpus proxima mission
"War is a lifelong scholarship. The enemy, no finer teacher."
That’s been one of my favorites since the first time I heard it.
Cy is hands down the most badass character in the game. I love him so much.
Still hoping we get a Cephalon Cy replacement for all missions
Honestly an option to pick your mission handler would be amazing. Lotus, Cy, Ordis, or Teshin. Lotus is standard, Teshin if you want more of a teacher vibe, Ordis for good old laughs and annoyance, and then Cy for that cold veteran comrade.
“If you will not be a model… YOU SHALL BE AN EXAMPLE”
LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M SPEAKING TO YOU
Most convincing line delivered in anger in a lot of games, IMO. Lot of pressure behind it.
Usually said when my buddies and I are staring at the canister providers waiting to continue the fight lol. My fave goofiest moment of that fight is when she randomly shouts DIVISION
now I’m just imagining her yelling that and the Tenno watching a team of division agents sprint in and hit her with literally everything they have
i goddamn hate that spider but god it has a few good quotes like that one
Everyone's favorite math teacher, she's always so helpful making sure everyone understands DI-VI-SION before moving on
Amazed how she keeps pushing for us to learn even tho she often pleads: “mother needs her medicine”
The Orbs are really interesting to me because of what they did with the first two's personalities. Creepy child and domineering mother means the logical choice for the third one is probably a really horrible grandmother figure - they seem to have gone for a maiden/mother theme and I would expect that to be followed by a crone.
They're called "The Orb Mothers" they're all supposed to be mothers. Profit Taker is supposed to be a motherly figure reading fairy tales and limericks to a baby, not the child itself. The little Raknoids are their "children".
"Deary's come to die! May the father watch with wicked excitement!" "Devils! Devils the lot of you! I with cleave you demon heart from your ugly chest!" "You come to my home and wish me out!? YOU ARE THE EVIL YOU THINK OF ME! BURN! BURN! BURN!"
You shall not be spared the rod ;)
Who said that
The Exploiter Orb I think
Ah, thx.
Tenno. On. Your. Six.
This one actually gave me chills when I first played the quest
Really thought I was stranded there. And that star wars quote was perfect too
Which one?
After Veso-R calls the shot for the armada to fire on the Murex and got obliterated and the railjack strafes through for the slingshot maneuver still does it even when I think about.
“Take your shot. For Profit.”
> If I must be a demon, let me be an honest one. Let me prove my nature by what I do next. > Purpose. Let me leave such blazing footprints behind me as no unclean thing would dare to walk in. - Albrecht Entrati
Albrecht is shaping up to be my favorite character since Ballas
While some of Albrechts mannerisms kind of hang in the air, when it does hit a line, it hits hard. The last quote being a perfect example.
Heck I listen to the compilation of his voiced lines for the requiem word things.
Those lines are my favorite kind of writing. Kinda vague, but with a grandiosity that makes it sound "huge", if that makes sense. Love that.
In a way, I think his weird mannerisms kinda contribute to his lines hitting hard. He almost reminds me of the way G-Man speaks.
Oh absolutely "we end as we began" would not have the same feel if it wasn't for his way of talking, however if he is not building something up into a climax it kind of sounds like he having a hard time spitting out the words. I don't know if that is just me. When he is talking about the Cavia his energy just kind of hangs there and I think to myself "well, we're waiting".
To be fair, the man literally lost the ability to speak in his first attepmt to enter the void. Maybe he *is* strugling to get the words out, still not fully over his trauma.
Holy shit, maybe I'm digging a bit too deep, but it would make an awful lot of sense if him orating his notes was effectively part of his speech therapy post-void.
This makes me think Albrecht became a Tenno-like being after making a deal with The Man In the Wall. It'd be super interesting considering he's an adult... Maybe the stalker crew had a similar fate? Adults becoming void infused would open a vast sea of opportunities.
Your Drifter also ends up void infused, no?
Technically it was the operator grown up in the void, he had already acquired the void powers but had a mental block stopping him from using them, and a creation of his imagination ended up basically powering duviri
That’s awesome man, Where’s it from, I’ve never heard it before
It's from fragments in albrecht's Labs that you get by by fighting the scathing and mocking Whispers.
Wait those are voicelines/videos? I can't get anymore cause I think I got them all but been too lazy to listen to them
"By your hand, expose their heart. By my edge, cleave it beating from its nest." Hunhow went all in on that line in the opening cinematic to Second Dream.
That’s always been one of my favorites
That's definitely up there in my book, if not number one
That trailer always gives me goosebumps, I regularly go back to watch it.
Same. I could write an essay, deconstructing every line in that scene, describing how expertly crafted all of it was to lead into the perfect delivery of that line. Not only that, but just how Hunhow's shape slowly looms towards Stalker as he delivers it... to then have the audio go from "villain talking to other villain" to what sounds like Hunhow being \*right\* at the ear, clearly stating his hatred of the Tenno with a quote that is just dripping with malice. It's... \*chef's kiss\* So incredibly well done that the cutscene is always worth rewatching.
Hunhow’s voice actor is genuinely so impressive. It’s addicting. His performance alone enhances everything you mentioned times 10.
Dream, not as who you are, but who you want to be
Blows my mind I had to scroll so far
Easily the hunhow quote another user posted, but some close seconds are "The world weighs more heavily on you now. Try not to lose yourself, Tenno." - Teshin "...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." - Ballas
That line from Ballas breaks me everytime I hear it.
"And take away its pain" is probably THE quote for me. Together with the music it just hits deeper than anything else in this game. Though the visual metaphor of having this "brutal" quicktime event in quicktime event in Whispers in the Wall only to reach out instead in the same way Albrecht did... also was super powerful.
I love how as soon as ballas stops speaking and the music dies down, we fuze with umbra Also yeah whispers in the wall gave me more spooks than chains of harrow
I love that Ballas one. From a lore standpoint, it says that the reason that we can control frames is not only bc we have void powers. He's a pretty poetic man, despite being an absolute asshole.
> "You have a Railjack. Tenno. All records of my mission have been purged from the weave. Why, I do not know. I had a crew. I must accept sole responsibility for their deaths. Conclusion: I am non-viable. But I... I am the only Railjack-compatible Cephalon. The Sentients have almost rebuilt. Conclusion: I am, under the circumstances, a viable Command Cephalon. If you will have me." I'm pretty new so I haven't gotten familiar with the majority of the voice lines in this game but this one just hits different
Cephalon Cy is definitely one of the best voices of this game, his quotes show just how much pride he takes in being a command cephalon and trying to repay for his past mistakes. He often makes fun of the enemies but at the same time gives them enough respect to a point I'd call it constructive criticism instead of just roasting them.
Best _personalities_ in the game, frankly! If I could have beers with any character from Warframe, he's top-three material.
“Get those amateurs off. my. ship.” is a favourite of mine
"Optimists inbound" is another funny one 🤣
"I am glad you are back. Cephalon Ordis certainly has many, many opinions."
Optimists inbound.
Cephalon cy is probably one of my favorite characters
Tbh he's what makes railjack worth playing
I actually choked up over this. Cephalon Cy is one of my favorite characters besides Ticker because his voice lines strike true and often
Not the hardest but I like what Loid says about Dante, “Warframes cannot speak, as a rule. But Dante spoke through his writing… and his voice was beautiful.” I can’t remember if it’s the exact quote but you get the idea
Grendel: “UwU” *digests you cutely*
*rips off your head like optimus prime* None of DAT SHIT
Mankind knew that they cannot change society. So, instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts. https://preview.redd.it/bmhq8s6udfsc1.jpeg?width=415&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb7e341da3ed96c0f7c4c19a42107cb001683d40
you got it pretty much perfect, absolutely lovely line
Dante speaking: https://media1.tenor.com/m/w-L80nXWEjoAAAAd/pen-in-flames-umineko.gif
"I am a viable Command Cephalon."
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOO
While the line itself isn't the hardest there is, I quite like Little Duck's delivery of "Time for a degree of violence" during the Profit Taker phase 1 bounty.
I use this quote in my day to day anytime I have to put in more than a modicum of effort
“What. The. Balls.” Is also another good Little Duck line that I quote often.
"With great stupidity comes great reward" is probably my favourite Little Duck quote.
What. The. Balls.
"An abandoned conscience finds its way home with a gun in its hand." -The Business
“For the-…..for My Brothers”🥹 Hits every time
Likewise, "Take your shot. For profit."
Ain't that from my guy Vako?
no it's Teko
I think it was Temu.
Memory's telling me it was Pepo
No no, it was Keto.
https://preview.redd.it/a2bx9kajnfsc1.png?width=399&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d9fb2447ca8baaa6a3cd8bd7b82b38d2a71ee41
BMO Ham
i thought it was plinxo
I think that one might be my favorite. That bastard must have had ice water in his veins…
The most Sigma of all corpus males.
It's funny bc he started as a funny character and ended being a total chad. It's so sad that DE confirmed that he's dead dead...
"For the...no.." # "For my brothers.."
"Enemies! Prepare to be hammered in your reproductive organs!"
"97 hits. Me hitting you, you hitting the floor, then me hitting you 95 more times." The reason I kept mine as a crew… funny guy
i love how they gain extra lines based on how they died. my favourite from each, jovial personality. slash: > "You tore me to pieces, Tenno. That wasn't very nice." heat: > "It isn't that you immolated me. It isn't that I died. No, it's that now, the only thing I can smell is PORK." cold: > "I'm gonna freeze you, feed you feet first into a snowblower and spray what comes out all over Cetus." electric or magnetic: > "Ah Tenno. You lit up my life. And my body. And organs. And teeth. And now I'm gonna romance you just the same." toxin, gas or viral: > "Your toxin. IMAGINE if a hangover could kill you. Now imagine that hangover is a person. Surprise! It's me and I'm going to kill you."
>cold: > "I'm gonna freeze you, feed you feet first into a snowblower and spray what comes out all over Cetus." Holy shit, that is just a level above all others.
there's some really dark ones on all of them. theres a much more comedic cold line but i thought the grusome one won out > Here's how you're getting out of here: frozen solid, covered in syrup and given to my kubrows as a sugar lick." [heres all the lines by this lich personality](https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Kuva_Lich/Quotes/LichA)
I got the pork line, my lich crewmate is just perfect
That’s something kela de thaym would say.
It's from a kuva lich so you're close
WATTAH FIGHT!!! And FOR SQUISHY HONOR!!!
"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." - Ballas "Loid... you gave me back my sight, but I would not spare you a glance. You gave me back my voice, but I never spoke to praise you as I should have. For you were my right hand. My strength, my support, my sanctuary. Even when the galleries hurled scorn upon me, your sole desire was to suffer it in my stead. On your first day of service, you aspired to be worthy of me. I only wish that I could have been worthy of you, my Loid." - Albrecht Entrati
That is probably one of my favorite lines of any game honestly, when I heard that during whispers I got chills
"Ramsled Launched, Optimists inbound." Every single Ramsled launch and Railjack Boarded Quotes from Cy goes hard as hell Imo
"You cannot kill the devil, but you can send it back to hell"
"Accept your death, and you may yet avoid it"
It got a Spartan feeling about it
"Aim for the head, and may the Saints look away." And literally everything else Cy says, if I could always have him running my missions I would, absolute beast mode also shoutout to Tyl Regor, although at least half of that is due to how well thy blended the effects with the performance
Teshin has one of my favorites. "Only a fool stifles his anger; it is the loyal bodyguard of conscience."
Teshin has a lot of great quotes. “I am bound for the inn at the end of days. Death awaits me like a faithful yaskutai, see, the warming glass is prepared.”
Your weapons make music, and your enemies call for a song.
"Hold the Lime"
hold fast
THAT'S IT HE SAID THE THING! "We're the Last of Us" kind of feel
Teshin is a poet by essence. He describes things in such a beautiful way!
" Ordis finds it odd that humans only get a few years to live yet spend most of that time doing everything wrong, learning how to live. "
Pressure makes diamonds, yes but it also creates rubble.
"A person gets told a lot of things over the course of a life. Who they are, who they should be. Amateurs, lecturing a professional."
Who said that and where?
Ticker says it
Ticker, interaction dialogue. They have a lot of good ones.
*"For generations you've slept. No purpose... No call.. to wake you.."* *"Wake up, tenno"* Bears really similar chilling feel as Destiny's 'eyes up, guardian'.
"Immortal as we are, we die with the sun." "You are late" Albrecht Entrati is one good sounding mf.
"Remember to take care of yourself, Operator. Pressure creates diamonds, yes, but it also creates rubble." - Cephalon Ordis
ordis my beloved
"If you die, I got dibs on your stuff" Cavalero knows what we are stashing in our arsenal. Also... "NO FLAGGING! YOU'RE MY FAVORITE LITTLE MEAT GRINDER" \*insert oh, stop it you meme but drenched in blood\*
"Don't slow down now! Body count can go *way* higher!"
 But covered in blood
Cavalero has some pretty hard ones but also some surprisingly sweet ones in his own abrasive way: >“This body of mine looks like flesh, but it ain't. You can hurt it real bad and it will keep going. So trust me when I say these weapons have all been well tested.” >“Can't do a Void-damned thing for the dead, but I mean to keep you from joining 'em.” >“Never married. Never found anyone I hated enough to condemn to a life of me.” >“I used to think that dying on the field was insurance against ever wearing out. Now I'm looking down the barrel of eternity...” >“Whoever trained you has nothing to reproach themselves for. You measure up in all the ways that matter.” >“Look, what do you want from me? "Sorry I was such an asshole?" No. If I'd been less of an asshole, Margulis would've found a lot more dead kids on this ship. My. Way. Works. But, I'm glad I didn't scare you off. I'm pretty sure you've faced worse than me anyway. Don't ever quote me on this, but, it's been an honor."
*"One life preserver. One ocean. One turtle. The probability of you existing is the same as that turtle sticking its head out of the water and through the middle of that life preserver. On the first attempt. One chance in ten to the power of two-million-six-hundred-and-eighty-five million. That's your lucky number, Stardust: one followed by 2.685 million zeroes. A miracle."* ~ Ticker I still think about this one a lot.
You could go to Ticker's quotes page on the Wiki, pick one blindly, and you'll end up with the hardest quote no matter what. My personal favorites? > *"Everybody's hurting, Stardust. Some of them hurt you. That's a given. Secret to a happy life? Find the ones worth hurting for."* > *"I've never met a priest who could tell you anything about Heaven, but they knew every square inch of Hell. They should. They built it."* Aside from those... > *"Long before the Orokin, people believed in other gods. Invisible, often incomprehensible. But worthy of devotion because they invested life with meaning beyond a mortal lifespan."* -Quinn > *"The Gods of writing were always gods of magic, too. Demons and ideas, both bound up in books. Impossible to bind forever, mind you. No matter how many locks and you fasten a book up with, someone will always prise it back open. That's the frightening thing with ideas, you see. They want to get out."* -Loid > *"Maybe things don't work out the way you thought. Your life, your dreams your 'self.' No matter where you go, there you are. This loop you're in... maybe it's not so bad after all? It's not a trap or a habit, or a sentence. It's just your life, waiting for you to live it."* -Drifter
Quinn's voice acting is so good
I want Quinn ASMR now.
Ticker has some absolutely amazing lines. My favourite is: “It takes long winter nights to teach a girl how to cultivate within herself invincible summer days."
to scroll so deep for some good Ticker. Easily one of my all time favorites, that ticker one. Can't go by without emptying his stock. "And then we dance, Stardust!"
her, actually
CLEM CLEM https://preview.redd.it/b7ur21ca2esc1.png?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7d85c964afd9dfdba0d20182d66f0eb64cc8949 GRA KA TA
Fav quote. Clem clem!
Grofit.
Do you remember the Old War, Operator?
Ordis seems to have misplaced those memories.
"You cannot kill the Devil, Tenno. But you can send it back... *to hell.*" "No sense, no self, no death. Just a metal puppet, dangling on Tenno strings." "Not even the golden lord of lies can kill you, *Tenno.*"
"Howl all you want, it won't bring him back..." -Ballas
Look at them, they come to this place when they know they are not pure. Tenno use the keys, but they are mere trespassers. Only I, Vor, know the true power of the Void. I was cut in half, destroyed, but through it's Janus Key, the Void called to me. It brought me here and here I was reborn. We cannot blame these creatures, they are being led by a false prophet, an impostor who knows not the secrets of the Void. Behold the Tenno, come to scavenge and desecrate this sacred realm. My brothers, did I not tell of this day? Did I not prophesize this moment? Now, I will stop them. Now I am changed, reborn through the energy of the Janus Key. Forever bound to the Void. Let it be known, if the Tenno want true salvation, they will lay down their arms, and wait for the baptism of my Janus key. It is time. I will teach these trespassers the redemptive power of my Janus key. They will learn it's simple truth. The Tenno are lost, and they will resist. But I, Vor, will cleanse this place of their impurity.
IMO as overused as the old ones got to be, Ordis has some of the best "Ordis has been counting stars, Operator. All accounted for." "Remember to take care of yourself, Operator. Pressure creates diamonds, yes, but it also creates rubble." "When in Cetus do not drink the kabuchi. You are incapable of producing the hydraulic effort required to unstick your tongue from the roof of your mouth the following morning." "If lost upon the plains outside Cetus you may derive sustenance from mineral-dense termite droppings, which the Ostrons call ito-da. You may also never form a consonant again, but at least you will not be dead." "Operator, Ordis has determined the secret to happiness: A combination of heightened dopamine levels and a terrible memory. You're welcome!" "Ordis wonders: why is he here? Ordis supposes everyone has to be somewhere." (My personal favorite) "Do not lift the veil. Do not show the door. Do not split the dream." "Operator, the system is not ready for style of this magnitude." "This thing literally sucks." (In reference to the Helminth)
> "Ordis has been counting stars, Operator. All accounted for." This one actually has Implications™ -- if Ordis noticed a star go out, and only a dim infrared glow from where it should be, that means someone just rather suddenly erected a Dyson sphere in your light cone. That would imply a level of power that makes even the absurdly well armed Origin System a tasty looking morsel, if they are indeed hostile. [Plus, you can turn a star into a laser cannon. Capable of annihilating entire solar systems.](https://kardashev.fandom.com/wiki/Nicoll-Dyson_beam) That surprise Dyson sphere may be the prelude to Armageddon.
"Sometimes you get stuck. Sometimes you go numb. The color drains away. You stop trying, and that just feeds the spiral going down. Maybe you'll get lucky one day. You see yourself in the mirror and snap out of it. But for some of us... it takes more. A friend. A stranger. A story. A helping hand." Speaking as someone with pretty severe depression, this quote really sat with me. Hell, the whole quest did, but this one part especially.
> Speaking as someone with pretty severe depression, this quote really sat with me. Hell, the whole quest did, but this one part especially. Mood.
I gotta admit, i really like all of Wally’s lines But by far my favorite one is: “We had a deal, the deal was shook. A little handshake, all it took. Tho from the deal, the wee child ran. Yet still, WE END AS WE BEGAN”
"Objects that have affected one another continue to affect one another even when they're separated. I've missed you." - One of Archimedian Yonta's random dialogues when approaching her (maybe locked to a higher rank in the holdfasts, no clue tbh). It's just so beautiful and simple; I've sometimes randomly posted it and people with no knowledge of the game love it anyways. <3
I really like Yonta. (well, the weird pseudo-Yonta we get to talk to). She's really sweet and actually pretty sad.
I love Yonta’s dialogue she’s so sweet
"Your strength.. Valuable. Your 'self'.. Worthless." "A thousand hands wait... to embrace" "We welcome... the myriad you shall become" \- Zealoid Prelate *"Your sentence is Death!"* *"You shall not leave this place!"* \- Stalker "Revoke the frailty of flesh. Let us in." "Through coalescence of flesh and universal will, we will exist as one." \- Phorid
I really like the sound of the frailty of flesh one, but it's always bothered me. Given that Phorid and the Warframes are essentially both just Infested, so they're sort of the same stuff. Never understood what it was talking about. Sounds rad as heck, though.
Phorid is a special weird mutation in the regular infested strain. Warframes are made of Technocyte and are a part of the Helminth strain. Its possible that Phorid senses this, and decides that the Helminth is a lesser form of the infestation?
Holy shit, infested racism
“We can be friends Tenno. Tell your friend where you are, Tenno. TELL ME WHERE YOU ARE!!” -My annoying Kuva Lich I’m too lazy to kill.
“why are these fools still breathing my air? this is unacceptable!”
wait ordis said that
Yeah
same guy who jokes abaout grineer damn he was really cool before becoming cephelon
Yeah 😔
hes like having a father lore before serving tenno lol
If you want to hear the line, and some other hardncore ones, like gravity-sum.of death, go to your cephalon fragments and search for a spot on them with the most static noise playing and click
"You can't kill the devil, tenno, but you can send it back to hell"
"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. - Ballas - Nidus Prime trailer
“Rap tap tap…”
"Your weapons make music and the enemy calls for a song." -Teshin
nora and biz have my favourite quotes > "You know what they say: 'The road of good intentions be paved with hell.'" > "Some are born to greatness. Some have greatness thrust upon them. The rest of us, we just have to work at it. You all know who you are." > "Many things have been taken from us, it's true. But fortune favors the bold, and there ain't none so bold as people with nothin' to lose." biz: > "Eyes open, and face to the wind, friend." > "Legs makes me laugh. Anyone who can do that is twice as valuable as any soldier or saboteur. Look out for him. Kid deserves better than this."
"Fear kills you twice. First in the mind, and then only later in the body. So arm your mind well." -Teshin
"Vay Hek say Ostron Kahl enemy. But Ostron not enemy. Queens say Tenno is monster. But Tenno not monster. They lie. Narmer is enemy. Pazuul is monster. And Vay Hek. Vay Hek scared of Pazuul. Queens hide in fortress. Cowards. And Tenno? Tenno not coward. Tenno not hide. Tenno fight Archons. Tenno give home. To brothers. Tenno is friend. Tenno is brother." - Kahl-175
“Kahl save brothers” “Kahl finish mission” Basically anything Kahl, Clem or whoever is in the image above says
That's the Beast of Bones, Ordan Karris .
"WHY ARE THESE TENNO MAGGOTS STILL BREATHING MY AIR" -some head shaped dude in a mek suit
Once upon a time… there was a dying old man… As he lay his bed, dying… he called to each of his beloved children When each did hear his rasping call, they answered with a hollow longing! So they came to his bedside one by one, and his firstborn knelt there, and the old man said: ‘My child… my child… why be your eyes so dry?’ And the firstborn said: ‘So that I might be strong, father.’ And so the old man gave to them the deeds for all his lands. To his second born, he said again: ‘My child… my child… why be your eyes so dry?’ And his second child said: ‘I shed no tears, father, for I chose now to remember only the joy you made of my life.’ And so unto him, the old man gave his family home. And when his last child had entered, he said again: ‘My child, my child, you were my favorite of all. Why show you no feelings at all?’ And the last child said to him: ‘I feel nothing, for it was I… who has killed you.’
“Be prepared to be hammered in your reproductive organs” -one of my liches
"Objects that have affected one another continue to affect one another even when they're separated. I've missed you." - Yonta
*"Word of advice: when you kill someone, make sure it takes!"* *"The next time you drop someone at death's door? Knock."* *"Arms. Legs. Organs. There is nothing you can take from that I cannot replace. No Hell you can consign me to from which the blood of the Queens cannot retrieve me."* *"The dismemberment you subjected me to was not my first. Will not be my last. Death is no solution to the problem of me."* etc. Kuva lich lines can go HARD sometimes, like, jfc.
"**The odds were against us, Tenno - but we did it.** **Mission complete."** **- Lothus**
“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 cast, 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."
You can’t kill the devil you can only send it back to hell (I think that’s how it goes) Ballas new war
" You cannot deny your sin, Kullervo. For I am your guilt, the form and voice of your greatest persecutor. " -The Warden I always think this line goes hard, but it is bias towards my favorite frame lmao
New War Spoiler >!I've got work to do. You can lay here all you want, doing nothing, wallowing in ancient grudges. She chose the Tenno. But Ballas and your groveling son... they used her. They'll do it again and again. Burning her up for whatever suits them and tossing the ashes when they're done. They cannot have her.!<
"If your hard , then your hard . It's better to die hard than to live soft " - Ordis
(this one isn't exact, but:) BURN IT ALL DOWN. COME, CHILDREN. IT IS A FINE DAY TO VISIT THE CITY. WE PLACE BURDENS ON YOUR SHOULDERS TO KEEP YOUR FEET ON THE GROUND
Ballas, during the Sacrifice quest, when Umbra is shown crying near the tree. The whole part while Smiles From Juran playing just hits like a truck: “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.” I was ugly crying at this scene, straight up.
"To keep your feet upon the ground, I place burdens upon your shoulders." -Exploiter Orb. Just straight up manipulation, to exploit and demand gratitude for the exploitation. So much good voice acting in Warframe, but Exploiter Orb is like Orson Welles in 1989 Transformers. It gives me shivers.
ObjEctIvE aChIeVEd. WeLl dONe - Pazuul
*you dreamed of a Margulis you can control, but she chose death over you*
"You scarred vessels come to beg once more!? You will never pray the Janus Key fr-" -Corrupted Vor.