The Man In The Wall

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"	Hey, kiddo.	„
	~ The Man in the Wall'southward standard greeting to the player Tenno.

"	You lot mad at me, kiddo? Did you forget? You lot owe me.	„
	~ The Man in the Wall'due south warning.

The Man in the Wall is 1 of the ii overarching antagonists (aslope Ballas) of the MMO third person shooter Warframe.

A mysterious entity living inside the Void, a realm where the laws of science and logic don't utilize, the Man in the Wall is the truthful source of the Tenno's ability and the Void engineering science that allowed the Orokin Empire to attain consummate dominance over the Origin System.

While he has remained trapped within the Void for eons, the total enkindling of the Tenno has allowed him to manifest himself to them. As their power grows, so does his influence over them.

He first appeared at the end of The War Within quest and serves as the main antagonist of the Bondage of Harrow quest, a supporting graphic symbol in The Sacrifice quest and The New War arc and the overarching antagonist of the Angels of the Zariman quest.

The Man in the Wall is voiced by either Scott Whyte, Emily Wold, Maya Aoki Tuttle or Griffin Puatu, using the same voice called for the player Tenno.

Advent

The Man in the Wall takes the course of an exact copy of whomever is looking at him, the only departure being eyes with black scalera and xanthous-orange energy as irises. His true form is that of a colossal humanoid literally fused into a wall, with both consisting of the same white rock-like material. He lacks the upper one-half of his face, has 4 artillery and four legs and is missing his index finger on his upper correct hand, the same finger that Albrecht Entrati accidentally cut off when escaping from him.

Personality

Merely like his appearance, the Man in the Wall'southward motives and goals are a complete mystery. Notwithstanding, his relaxed and personal fashion of speaking barely hides his more sinister and manipulative personality that does not accept anyone seriously, calling those he interacts with past the nicknames their parents gave them such as "Petty Bengel" and "kiddo" regardless of their electric current age. This non just shows that he can either peer into the minds of others or has omniscience, just also that he considers them to be zippo more than children.

The Man in the Wall'south deportment and words contradict each other, making it even more difficult to figure out his true goals. He claims that the Tenno "owe" him for saving them and giving them their powers, but there is merely as much prove that he was the 1 who put them in danger in the first place. He leads the Tenno to the key to stopping the Sentients from destroying the Origin Organisation, simply takes the time to mock them by forcing them to fight shadows of their disappeared mother effigy.

Biography

Albrecht Entrati's Story

Long before the Orokin Empire colonized the Origin Arrangement there was a scientist by the name of Albrecht Entrati. No ocean, no mountain and no sky could contain the Orokin and Globe had been explored in its entirety, and and then the Orokin longed for the stars. Albrecht was convinced an alternate dimension they called the Void was central to extending their reach into the infinite. Unfortunately, his studies yielded picayune if any results. Repeated failures and formulations that fabricated no sense had long casued the others to lose interest in his project and considered the Void and him alike only that: zero, a dead end not worth investing in. With only his trusted feline companion Kalymos and his girl remaining by his side, bitterness and humiliation pushed Albrechts decision to show the naysayers wrong.

And on one fated twenty-four hours, Albrecht'southward endeavor at exploring the Void would revolutionize the globe. Within a large bell made of a special glass to protect him from exposure, his daughter opened the gate and ready in motility events that no one could have foreseen. Equally the bell slowly made its style through the gate, Albrecht was overcome with awe at the impossible nature of this strange realm and stumbled confronting the glass, changing the bell'south path e'er and then slightly and grazing it against the edge of the door. Sharper than any blade could ever be, the door shredded open the bell and he fell into the Void unprotected.

He was sure of his expiry, but realized he was even so alive when he felt a painful sting in his arm. He laid on acme of the broken glass of the bell and the flooring of his laboratory beneath, to which he concluded he had never left. Another failure. Shame filled his eyes when someone stepped onto the shattered glass towards him and he forced himself to await upwards into the face of his daughter, only to notice himself face to confront with himself smiling downward at him. His twin reached out his manus and called out to him: "Picayune Bengel", a name simply Albrecht's mother had chosen him past in days long past. Confusion and euphoria filled Albrecht'south mind, but his sanity brought him to his feet, made him turn around and run for his life. Yet as much as he ran, he got no closer to the door. It was as if the earth compressed around him and pulled the door towards him instead. When it was close enough, he hurled himself through it and landed back in his laboratory. His body bedridden and bloodied he tried to scream, simply his voice was gone. He tried to see, but his sight had faded in an instant. And withal he could still feel his double reaching out from the other side. Rapidly, Albrecht wrote "Close it!" with his own blood onto the floor.

The endmost door severed the copy'south fingers, the study of which put the stars within reach. Numerous others ventured into the Void after Albrecht, merely none of them ever encountered the strange entity. And so over the years paranoia grew within Albrecht. When age started to break downward his body, he could have easily moved into a new body and continued his endless life similar the other Orokin, simply he decided against it. He could never be sure who it was that escaped the Void that day. Him or his copy?

The War Within

The Human being in the Wall only made a brief appearance at the very end of the quest, being briefly mentioned beforehand. Later Albrecht Entrati'south fated voyage into the Void, the Orokin Empire made many experiments at utilizing the Void. Ane such experiment was the effort to jump the gap betwixt Saturn and a place called the "Outer gates" (likely the far edge of Orokin rule around the solar system) with the large military machine vessel Zariman 10-Zero by traveling through the Void. However, the ship ended upwardly stranded within the Void. The actor Tenno's father stared out into the emptiness and worried that something is watching them from exterior. The energies of the Void had a profound issue on everyone on-lath the transport. While the adults were driven insane and went into a feral frenzy, the children were granted supernatural powers.

Later the horrors of the Zeriman Ten-Aught incident, the children's memories of the upshot were suppressed and they were given the collective name "Tenno". With the Elder Queen trying to burrow into the mind of the player Tenno and take over their body, Teshin, a former soldier of the Orokin Empire and ally of the Tenno, was forced to undo the treatment and so that they may unlock their full forcefulness and escape the Queen's grasp. At the end of the quest, the player Tenno was confronted with a choice on what to do with the Kuva adorning the Queen's scepter, a liquid that gave the Orokin of old their immortality via body transfer. Regardless of option, the Man in the Wall briefly took over the Tenno's body and gave them a short message.

If the Kuva was consumed, the Man in the Wall was pleased and asked them what took them so long. If the Kuva was given to Teshin, the Human being in the Wall reminded the Tenno that they are nothing without him. And if the Kuva was rejected and thrown away, the Man in the Wall was angered and warned them that they owed him.

Chains of Harrow

During the events of the Zariman Ten-Aught incident, the Tenno were forced to carelessness their families and starting time to rely simply on each other, every bit the madness that befell their parents and the crew had turned them into bloodthirsty savages, eventually regarding each other equally their new family. Just even amongst the Tenno there was an outcast, a child named Rell. Rell was the just ane who recognized that their parents' affliction wasn't ordinary madness, but rather had become something else entirely. Left to fend for himself, Rell turned his attention to figuring out what this entity is.

When the Tenno were finally rescued by the Orokin, Rell was bandage out once again. He was eventually taken in by others and began to teach them about the dangerous entity he called the Man in the Wall, forming a group chosen the Scarlet Veil to keep him at bay.

In the nowadays twenty-four hour period, the Ruddy Veil have become a powerful syndicate allied with the Grineer resistance group Steel Meridian and known for their extremely violent methods. Merely when the Lotus, motherly leader of the Tenno, sent them to investigate a distress call from a Steel Height ship, they discovered that the Red Veil had inexplicably turned on their allies and slaughtered everyone on-board. Merely i of them was not hostile to the Tenno: the Holy Speaker of the Blood-red Veil Palladino. The Tenno protect her and her cat-like pet Rook from strange, humanoid shadows and escort her to Steel Meridian'southward secret base of operations on Earth, where she would be condom from the apparitions and her own people.

During their adjacent mission to reclaim a relic that helped Rell focus, which Palladino could utilise to call out to him, they encountered a shadowy, invincible entity chasing after them. Palladino speedily realizes that this entity is non Rell and screams at the Tenno to run. Back at Iron Wake,

Palladino asked the Tenno to destroy the chains bounden Rell's vessel to the temple and put him to his well-earned residual. The Tenno could simply enter the temple as their truthful self and was again confronted by the Homo in the Wall. The Tenno managed to avoid his attacks, defeat the Ruby-red Veil fanatics he called and destroy Rell's chains. The Warframe crumbled to ash and Rell was finally released. When Rell asked what they would do about the Man in the Wall, Palladino bodacious him that they would accept care of him.

With Rell gone, the just defence force the Tenno had confronting the entity'due south influence had disappeared. Back on their transport, the Human being in the Wall greeted them, sitting on meridian of one of the send consoles.

The Cede

The Human in the Wall's involvement in The Sacrifice is minimal, though he plays an important function in what follows subsequently. After the player Tenno defeated Ballas and freed the intelligent Warframe Umbra from Ballas's psychological torture, which involved him reliving the memory of beingness transformed into a Warframe and forced to impale his own son over and over once more, the Man in the Wall visits them back on their send. He asks the Tenno if they are feeling better now, upon which the Tenno responds that they believe that they were the ones that killed Umbra'due south son. The Homo in the Wall is pleased to hear this.

Prelude to War

Chimera Prologue

Following this, the Man in the Wall disappeared and reappeared in the Tenno's personal quarters while wearing the Lotus'due south helmet, their onetime motherly leader. When the Tenno interacted with it they were transported to Lua, Earth's moon. He guided them back to the place where the Lotus was taken by Ballas and reverted to her previous identity, Natah, taking the time to mock them along the way and force them to fight shadowy apparitions of her. At their destination they establish the portal that Ballas and Lotus left through opened once again, taking them to the base of the Sentients. There they met a still living Ballas, having been rescued by Natah and turned into a half-Sentient hybrid after Umbra and the Tenno mortally wounded him.

Erra

Although the Man in the Wall isn't seen, his influence is yet hinted at. When the Lotus confronted her blood brother Erra during the Quondam War she was accompanied by a grouping of Tenno floating effectually her, among them the player Tenno. They simply watched her and Erra'south conversation with emotionless expressions, their optics identical to those of the Man in the Wall. When Lotus gave the command, they wordlessly attacked Erra in unison.

The New War

A flashback to the catastrophic Void jump of the Zariman Ten-Zero showed the first interaction betwixt the Man in the Wall and a Tenno. After they barricated themselves and other students in their classroom aboard the transport, the player Tenno went effectually the room to endeavour and comfort the other children every bit the adults had all gone murderously mad. They eventually got to another student facing a wall, knocking on the window with the back of their finger. The histrion Tenno offered the child their lamp, who turned around and accepted their souvenir with a thanks, smile to them with their ain face up. While the madmen started to tear down their barricade, the Human being in the Wall told the Tenno that he can save them and all the other children on the condition that they need to really desire information technology, offering his hand with a smug grin.

When the player accepted the Man in the Wall's bargain, information technology was shown that this had severe consequences for several instances of the role player Tenno across multiple timelines, all of whom collapsed in pain.

In the present twenty-four hour period, the Human being in the Wall saved the player after Ballas stabbed them and threw them and Natah into the Void. He replaced them with an developed version of themselves called the Out-of-stater, who didn't accept his bargain and was left stranded on the Zariman ten-0, leaving them to fight Ballas and Erra'due south new regime Narmer and nurse a dying Natah back to health. He later connected both the immature and adult version into the main timeline, assuasive them to accept each other's identify at will. This gave them a fighting chance to stop Ballas's programme to use Praghasa to destroy the Lord's day for his voyage to the Tau Arrangement, which the Sentients hade fabricated habitable before their rebellion against the Orokin.

During the confrontation with Ballas in his throne room on Praghasa, a Void portal opened due to his deportment and started to interruption it apart. Following Ballas's defeat and Natah being restored to her full power, the Man in the Wall's true class appeared out of the portal and grinned at her and the player Tenno. Natah tried to fight back confronting him with all her strength, just he just connected to grinning every bit his mimicked grade sabbatum and laughed on top of his head. Then, suddenly, the Human being in the Wall rushed forrard and disappeared, causing Natah to collapse exhausted onto the floor.

Angels of the Zariman

Following the determination of Narmer'south reign, the Zariman Ten Zero reappeared out of a massive rift in the outer regions of the Origin System for reasons unknown. Wedged in-betwixt dimensions, the Worm Queen and Parvos Granum immediately sent their subordinates to have control of the legendary vessel, but the Tenno were called to the ship by a strange vocal coming from inside. Investigating the Zariman showed that the walls were covered with a strange metal substance that took the shape of sharp edges, swirling tendrils and humanoid figures. Further into the ship, the player Tenno was attacked by i of those humanoid creatures and knocked out.

They were saved by the four Holdfasts, sometime crewmembers of the Zariman that have been stuck in limbo ever since the failed Void jump. The creature that attacked the Tenno was a and then-chosen "Void Angel" and used to be a friend of theirs called Kira. Kira succumbed to the influence of the Void and drank from the Reliquary Drive, which turned her and the other crewmembers into the Void Angels. About of them lay dormant within the halls of the ship, but Kira was very much active and aggressively trying to convert the others with her song besides.

With the help of the Holdfasts the Tenno managed to put Kira to remainder and salve the Zariman from being overrun by Void manifestations, but the Zariman remains stuck in place and both Grineer and Corpus will continue to fight for potency over the send, their disharmonize ever risking to unleash Hell again.

Trivia

The Railjack-grade ships that the Tenno apply for larger scale space combat are powered by a device called the "Reliquary Drive". Upon closer inspection, the swirling Void energy inside the device shows what appears to be a mummified human finger the size of a person. It is likely that this is one of the fingers that were cut off and when Albrecht Entrati's daughter closed the Void gate afterwards his kickoff encounter with the Human in the Wall.
The Man in the Wall'south truthful class resembles a Vitruvian Man.
Fittingly, the Man in the Wall is credited every bit "Evil Twin" in the official The New War vocalisation cast.