| “ | Foolish Tenno, do you realize your Lotus has sent you to die? | „ |
| ~ Captain Vor taunting the Tenno coming to kill him. |
Captain Vor, later known as Corrupted Vor, is a supporting antagonist in the MMO third person shooter Warframe.
Once a high-ranking member of the Grineer, Vor lost his position as admiral after he disregarded his assigned task of stopping the awakening of the Tenno, the greatest threat to the Grineer, in favor of capturing them. His last ditch effort to redeem himself in the eyes of his beloved Queens by taking control of the player Tenno ultimately resulted in his death.
However, an ancient piece of Orokin technology called the "Janus Key" revived him and transported him into the Void, shedding his allegiance to the Grineer and becoming its immortal guardian, and likely a servant of the entity living in it.
He is voiced by Kol Cosbie, who also voiced General Sargas Ruk and Alad V.
Appearance[]
All Grineer suffer from clone decay and have to replace their limbs with mechanical prosthetics sooner or later. As an elderly soldier, Vor has since replaced both of his arms and legs and uses an implant on his right eye. He wears brown and grey armor, with several grey tubes of unknown function hanging from his body, especially around the waist area. On the left side of his chest is a slot where he places his Janus Key when not in use.
After being blown in half following his defeat at the hands of the player Tenno and resurrected by the Janus Key, a stream of white and golden energy connects the lower and upper halves of his body.
Personality[]
Like all Grinner, Vor was completely devoted to the Grinner Queens. But he was not merely loyal, he loved them. This same love extended towards his subordinates, viewing them as his children and becoming increasingly angered as the player Tenno cut them down to free themselves from the Ascaris. Part of his motivation to recapture the player was to regain the "love" of his Queen, the other was to use the Tenno to find a cure for the clone rot affecting him and his children.
Despite the confidence and anger he displays towards the Tenno, he still regards as worthy opponents unlike many of the other high-ranking Grineer. He even possesses a sense of honor uncharacteristic of said high-ranking Grineer, being fully willing to negotiate and accept surrender from his enemies and expressing distaste at the slaughter of Ostron villagers, though this was in-part due to considering it a waste of time.
After his resurrection and transportation to the Void, Vor's personality became more akin to that of a preacher, having shed his loyalty to the Grineer in favor of worshipping and protecting the Void from intruders that wish to pillage the sacred Orokin towers that float within it. Furthermore, his sermons show him to have gained insight of secrets that would not be revealed until years later, such as the true nature of the Lotus.
Biography[]
Ghouls[]
During a raid of an Ostron village on Earth for the purpose of excavating and confiscating Orokin artefacts, Captain Vor and his troops were ambushed by an Excalibur Tenno who was protecting a girl called Mitsuki. After being forced to retreat, Vor devised a counterattack utilizing Councilor Vay Hek's Ghoul soldiers, cannibalistic madmen that are born battle-ready from pods planted into the ground. While the Tenno was able to fight back against the horde, their poisonous blood eventually weakened him enough for Vor to place a restraining device called the Ascaris on him.
Using the Ascaris, Vor discovered the Tenno's true purpose and that said girl he was protecting knew the location of an Orokin vault, though the Lotus forced him out of the Tenno's mind before he could learn anything else. Still, Vor decided capturing the girl was now of utmost priority. The operation seemed promising as his forces were no match for the girl and a lone Solaris United resistance member that was defending her, though things quickly turned sour as a second Mag Tenno assaulted his troops and turned the tide of the battle against them. The Solaris United member even managed to shoot off Vor's Janus Key while he was retreating.
Vor then decided that it was best to let his enemies open the vault for him as he waited for reinforcements. Taking the Excalibur with him, Vor's plan seemed to have worked as he found the vault open for him and his troops. However, when they crossed the threshold into the Orokin tower, the inside turned out to have been long overrun by the Infested, which wasted no time in attacking them. Things went from bad to worse for Vor when Mitsuki activated the tower's Medica protocol, which launched neural sentries that burrowed themselves into Grineer and Infested alike, taking control of them and turning them against everyone else.
Fighting their way to the Medica chamber, Vor's forces were greeted by the second Tenno, the Solaris United member and Mitsuki, the latter of which used the tower's systems to stun the Grineer with a powerful electrical shock. As they fled the tower, Vor attempted to escape after them but was shoved back into the tower by a reawakened Excalibur. With the gate now closed, Vor found himself facing Infested and Corrupted alone. The details of his eventual survival are unknown.
Arid Fear[]
Faced with the immediate threat of the Tenno discovering their coordinates to Grineer settlements, the Corpus were forced to employ drastic measures to protect them from being stolen, else they run the risk of angering their Grineer contractors. Head of Grineer Relations Alad V proposed sending scouts with pieces of disassembled data into the Void, where even the Tenno would be at risk in retrieving them. While the Corpus Board approved his plan, it ultimately failed to prevent the Tenno from gaining access to the settlements.
After it became obvious that the Corpus' efforts were futile, an irritated Captain Vor sent a report of events to the Grineer Queens. He noted that he cannot fathom why the Corpus thought the Void was a good place to hide the coordinates in, since the Tenno were clearly connected to it somehow. While he acknowledged that the Queens were sceptic of mysticism, Vor admitted that he was starting to believe that the Warframes they had been fighting were not the Tenno at all. Dissections had given them no insight to how the Tenno were so powerful, so there must be something more to it. Vor speculated that perhaps the Warframes were merely conduits for the true Tenno, which if true would force them to make drastic changes to their strategy.
Vor's Prize[]
Tasked with destroying any Tenno not yet awakened by the Lotus, Vor led an assault on an Ostron village on Earth close to an ancient Orokin temple rumored to have Tenno sleeping in it. While another Tenno managed to awaken one of the three Tenno within, Lotus was unable to reactivate their defense systems in time, allowing Vor to place an Ascaris onto the Tenno. His soldiers prepared to fire, but Vor ordered them to lower their guns: They would be taking this one with them. As Vor left for their outpost the Lotus finally surged the Tenno's power systems, enabling them to fight back.
Vor quickly figured out that something went wrong when his salvage team didn't report back with the Tenno. The Lotus sent an extraction ship to get the Tenno out of there, but Vor simply used his Orokin Key to shoot it down and turned his attention to the threat before him, noting that this Tenno was stronger than the rest. The Tenno stood no chance to face Vor in combat underprepared like this, forcing them to run for their lives and find another ship the Grineer were investigating to flee. Finally in the relative safety of their Orbiter ship, their next step was an urgent priority: getting rid of the Ascaris.
As the Tenno traveled around to restore vital ship functions, the Ascaris burrowed deeper into their nervous system, allowing Vor to talk to them and manipulate their shield systems. If not dealt with quickly, the Ascaris would eventually take control away from the Tenno entirely and make them into Vor's puppet. Receiving a blueprint for an Ascaris negator from an allied black market dealer they rescued named Darvo and gathering the resources necessary to build it, the Ascaris buried deep enough to shut the Lotus's voice out completely, leaving only Vor. Rushing to the Orbiter's foundry, the Tenno disarms the Ascaris just in time, freeing them from Vor's influence.
Or so they thought. The Ascaris had an anti-tampering failsafe built into it and as a result was now armed to detonate. The only way to remove it is to defeat Vor directly. Raiding a Grineer Galleon-class ship and saving some colonists it was prepared to attack, the Tenno found coordinates to Vor's current location on a mining outpost in an asteroid floating around Earth. Vor was waiting for them and fought with all he had. Ultimately the Tenno cleaved Vor in half, after which the Ascaris disintegrated. Finally free, the Tenno could finally turn their attention to joining the others in their quest to save the Origin System.
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Trivia[]
- During Warframe's open beta, the game's bosses were simple reskins of regular enemies, albeit with custom weapons. Captain Vor was a red-colored Flameblade melee unit equipped with a stun baton. Both his teleportation ability and melee prowess were incorporated into his rework, though his baton was replaced with a unique sword named Cronus and given a Grineer-Orokin hybrid gun called Seer for when the Tenno move out of his range.
- As the main antagonist of the tutorial quest Vor's Prize, Captain Vor is the first antagonist new players will face in the game.
- Though he was incorrect regarding their true nature, Vor's suspicion that the Tenno are a seperate entity from their Warframes was confirmed in The Second Dream quest, 2 years after the Arid Fear event.
- One of Kela De Thaym's Rathuum executioners, Nok, once served under Captain Vor until his clone decay prevented him from performing regular military duty. Vor gave him his blessing to spend his remaining days punishing traitors in the arena.
- Corrupted Vor is infamous among the Warframe community for the speech he gives every time he's encountered in Void missions, since it is not uncommon for him to be defeated immediately only to keep talking for 2 minutes.
- Vor has the most individual fights out of any boss in the game, appearing on four seperate occasions. Once as a standalone boss on Mercury, once on Ceres as part of a duo boss alongside Lieutenant Lech Kril and finally as his corrupted variant in both the Void and Duviri. The only other bosses to have multiple encounters are Lech Kril and Alad V, each having two.
External Links[]
- Captain Vor on the Warframe Wiki
- Corrupted Vor on the Warframe Wiki
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