05 / 05 · GLOSSARY OF CANON

Terms and Concepts

Unpack ideas like Eternalism, Transference, Continuity and the Void.

CANON ARCHIVE

12 annotated files.

Each file carries a short definition, detailed notes, canon remarks, the related main-story chapters and verification sources.

01 LOHK

The Void

Obeying none of the rules of normal space, time or causality; the shared ground of Tenno power and the Indifference threat.

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02 TENNO · MIND

Transference

The process that lets one consciousness form a sensory and motor bond with another body or structure.

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03 TIME · POSSIBILITY

Eternalism

The model of time in which outcomes ruled out by a choice can go on existing as other real possibilities.

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04 KUVA · OROKIN

Continuity

The transfer of mind by which an Orokin consciousness seizes another body through Kuva and continues its life.

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05 VOID · THOUGHT

Conceptual Embodiment

The turning of intense thought, feeling and narrative pattern into physical, persistent reality inside the Void.

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06 INFESTATION · HELMINTH

Technocyte

The family of contagions able to rearrange living tissue and technology, branching into Infested, Helminth and Techrot forms.

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07 HELMINTH · WAR BODY

Warframe

A biological war body of human origin transformed by the Helminth, and the Tenno's partner in Transference.

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08 1999 · HUMAN

Protoframe

A Warframe-linked human transformed by Albrecht's Helminth serum in 1999, keeping their face and individual mind.

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09 OROKIN · ADVERSARY

Kuva and Requiem

Kuva, which carries the bonds of mind, body and immortality, and Requiem, the language that reads and breaks them.

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10 TENNO DISCIPLINE

The Focus Schools

The five schools that direct Tenno Void power into philosophies of attack, protection, movement, endurance and energy.

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11 DIGITAL MIND

Cephalon

A being in which a human consciousness or a designed personality is turned into digital function, often as an Orokin punishment.

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12 VOID TRAVEL

Reliquary Drive

The travel mechanism at the heart of the Railjack and Void transit, tied to the finger severed from The Man in the Wall.

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