| “ | 'My name'. Hmm... I have watched you. Monuments to narcissism. Demanding others sweat in your stead. Gorging upon that which you have not earned. Watched... as you claimed for yourself my teachings of self-reliance, perverting them into a flaccid philosophy of sloth. Of... Idleness. Is that you, my son? | „ |
| ~ Parvos chastising Nef Anyo. |
Parvos Granum is a major antagonist in the MMO third person shooter Warframe.
Parvos is the original founder of the Corpus who was betrayed by his Board of Directors and left stranded outside of time. Using the aspirations of one Nef Anyo, who claimed to be his long-lost son, Parvos escaped his imprisonment and set his eyes on creating a new Board to replace the old, deeming them unworthy of his legacy.
He is voiced by Ed Kelly.
Appearance[]
Parvos Granum is an elderly man in an extravagant, metallic full-body suit that only leaves his face visible. His left hand was cut off when he was young, him having replaced it with a golden mechanical prosthesis that symbolises his wealth. Like other Corpus, Parvos's face is marked with tattoos, his being small black vertical lines on his eyelids.
Personality[]
Parvos Granum is by far one of the most intelligent people to have ever lived in the Origin System. With a single gem he stole nearly at the cost of his life, Parvos managed to build up a commercial empire so successful that even the notoriously self-centered Orokin had to acknowledge. Unlike the modern Corpus, Granum treats his followers and those who fit into his teachings with respect, as seen when he commended Solaris United and personally rescued Captain Vala Glarios from the Void. By contrast, he despises laziness and narcissism, both of which are deeply ingrained into the philosophy of modern Corpus.
However, Parvos shows a lot more of his ruthless side when interacting with the Sisters of Parvos. By his own admission, Parvos considers sentimentality to be worthless. As such, while he eagerly supports his followers by providing the best equipment the Corpus have to offer and his own advanced Specter technology to allow them to cheat death multiple times, should a Sister be killed permanently he will coldly dismiss her as a failure and instruct the others to learn from her mistakes. That said, Parvos himself is more sentimental than he may realize, given that the sole reason why the Sisters of Parvos exist in the first place is that as a child he always wished to have a sister of his own, since while he loved his brother he was far too simple and brutish to help Parvos in his endeavors.
Biography[]
Past[]
Parvos Granum was once a simple grain farmer during the height of the Orokin Empire, working alongside his father and his brother Claudius. After years of back-breaking labor, Parvos decided to visit a nearby Orokin city and was awestruck by the beauty of its golden walls and gem-encrusted gates. Deciding that it was time the Orokin gave him what he was owed for his hard work, Parvos broke some gems off of a gate and ran, though he didn't make it very far. To shame him for his transgression and forever mark him as a thief, the Orokin publicly chopped off his left hand and then left him to crawl back to the dirt where he belonged.
What they didn't know was that he had swallowed one of the gems, which he managed to throw up back at home before its heat killed him. Despite the protests of his brother and father, he immediately left for the city once again, taking a loan with the gem as collateral. He loaned that loan to other poor men, who in return loaned their money to others. Parvos's wealth and those that he granted his grew rapidly and word spread of his achievement, men flocking to him to hear his preachings of the evils of idleness and contentment. If you want something, you have to go out and take it. Eventually his wealth had grown so vast that he could afford a golden replacement for his left hand.
However, back at home tragedy had struck. Parvos's father had collapsed in the field, who rushed back home to be at his side. But he was too late, his father was dead before he arrived. While Claudius mourned his passing, Parvos was filled with rage. He decided that his family would no longer dirty their hands in the field and flattened his home and land, erecting a new city in its place. Corposium, the city of Desire.
The Deadlock Protocol[]
With the Corpus Board of Directors having reached a long stalemate in their voting process, Nef Anyo made a bid to take control of the seat of chairman by claiming to have found the rightful heir of their long dead founder: himself. Stating that he bought the history of his own birth from his mother, he was apparently the product of a genetic succession program for their founder, which would automatically grant him control over the Board should he be able to prove it.
During the Orokin Age, Parvos had eventually grown powerful enough that even the Orokin themselves had to acknowledge his influence and made a deal with him, the end result of which granted him a Tenno bodyguard in the form of Protea. Sabotage had caused his ship's Void drive to malfunction and detonate, which meant that there were no remains left to be recovered. However, Nef's technicians were able to discover feint traces of Protea's whereabouts. Using slaves from his debt-internment colony on Venus to test the survivability of entering the "Granum Void", Nef prepared to retrieve the founder's corpse and replace his own hand with Parvos's golden hand to his own arm in an attempt to copy Parvos's image.
The abuse of their fellow people quickly caught the attention of the Solaris United resistance, who called the Tenno for aid in stopping Nef Anyo's scheme. They succeed in entering the Granum Void before Nef could, where to the schock of everyone Parvos Granum himself bid them welcome. Thanks to the time manipulation abilities of his Warframe bodyguard, Parvos had survived the attempt on his life at the cost of hers, leaving him stranded inside the timeless Void but still able to observe the outside world. He watched as his treacherous Board corrupted his own teachings of desire and twisted the Corpus into the ravenous greed they are known for today.
Nef Anyo attempted to gain his father's blessing by claiming everything he's built was in honor of Parvos, but he verbally tore Nef apart for the lazy and exploitative narcissist he is. The truth was that Parvos had intentionally led Nef to him, confident that his actions would catch relatiation from the Tenno. By getting just a single Tenno to Protea, Parvos was able to create a Specter copy of her, a technology he himself invented in his younger days, and expell the now unwanted visitors back onto Nef's fleet. Thanks to the time-warping effects of the Granum Void, it was as if they had never entered it yet still retained their memories of the visit. Furious at being rejected, Nef offered a deal to Solaris United. He will provide them with the means to re-enter the Granum Void and destroy the Protea Specter and in exchange they keep Parvos from leaving.
However as soon as they boarded one of Nef's ships to do so, Nef rigged his entire fleet to explode. Parvos's specters had taken control of the ships and he was not going to risk Parvos getting out alive. The Tenno rushed into a Void portal and came face to face with the Protea Specter. But priority was still getting the Solaris slaves out safely, which Parvos had kept with him in the Void. While the Tenno freed them and fought Protea, Parvos noted that the gates they opened to let them out cannot be closed thanks to the fleet's overloading engines, exactly what he had been banking on. Parvos casually left his otherworldy prison amidst the chaos. With the destruction of Protea the Tenno were expelled once again from the Void and placed before Nef rigged his fleet to detonate. They made a quick exit as Nef scratched his head in confusion, as the Protea traces and the army of specters simply and suddenly vanished from his ships.
Back on their ship the Tenno received a message from Parvos himself, having succeeded in freeing himself and found a place to hide for the time being. He informed them he will try to reform the Corpus to prepare them for the coming of the Sentients, but will likely have to create an entirely new doctrine if he finds them too corrupt to be saved. He offered the Tenno and the leaders of Solaris United a seat on his new Board, having easily figured out their identities and considered them shining examples of what his teachings were about.
Call of the Tempestarii[]
While not directly involved with the events of the quest, Parvos is referenced on several occasions. Captain Vala Glarios claims herself to be a servant of Parvos, showing that some of the current Corpus have already sworn allegiance to their resurfaced founder. After the Tenno used the defense systems of the ghost ship Tempestarii to suck her flagship into the Void, Vala found herself in the Granum Void where Parvos was once imprisoned. After she collapsed injured against a wall, Parvos appeared in front of and extended his golden hand to her.
Sisters of Parvos[]
With Vala Glarios at his side, Parvos put his plans to create a new Corpus that follows the design he had envisioned into motion. First order of business was the assembly of a trusted and capable group to support him. To do so, he called on his old wish of having a sister that could support him more than his brother could, hiring talented women that are devoted to him and his ambitions into a new organization he named the Sisters of Parvos.
Angels of the Zariman[]
Following the end of the Sentient invasion and fall of Narmer, the legendary and infamous Orokin colony ship Zariman Ten Zero reappeared out of the Void, stuck in a rift between dimensions for reasons none understand yet. Almost immediately after the Zariman appeared both Parvos and the Worm Queen sent their elite forces to claim the ship for their own interests, the secrets of the Zariman's disastrous maiden voyage bearing the promise of unfathomable power. Despite their best efforts, dominance over the ship shifts frequently as conflict between Grineer, Corpus, Tenno and the mysterious Void creatures inhabiting the ship constantly rages.
Deal with Drusus Leverian[]
Narmer's fall did not come without consequences. At the height of his insanity, Narmer's leader Ballas attempted to open a Void portal to the Sentient home system Tau, destroying the Sun and the entire Origin System in the process. Although he was stopped, Ballas indeed managed to open a portal, which allowed the Void entity known as "The Man in the Wall" to grow in power. Its influence was detected by the hidden laboratory of Albrecht Entrati, the legendary Orokin scientist who first invented Void travel, which led to it opening itself so that the Tenno could be summoned to assist with repelling the entity and its creations.
In the midst of this unseen war, Parvos made a deal with Drusus Thelonius Leverian, a Cephalon archivist who was an old associate of Albrecht, to gain ownership over Drusus' archive and the artifacts within it. Normally Drusus would've never agreed to such a deal, but ever the keen-eyed opportunist Parvos offered him this deal in a moment of weakness. Not wanting to lose hundreds of years of history to someone who doesn't value it, Drusus asked the Tenno for help in scouring the newly unsealed laboratory for valuable artifacts to pay off his debt.
In their mid-mission interactions, Parvos scoffed at the purpose of Drusus' museum, calling it "a dusty temple to idle history worship". Drusus rebuked his claim, believing that understanding history is important to avoid repeating it. When asked why he has such a sudden interest in Albrecht's ancient mementos, Parvos merely stated that he was looking for something that could give hidden insights.
Belly of the Beast[]
In the aftermath of the Warframe Jade's death in giving birth to her and the Stalker's child, as well as Captain Xeto's failure to capture them, the Stalker's lair was now vacant. However, remnants of her feared power, which was used as a swift execution method during the days of the Orokin, seeped into the very ground of the caves in which she died. Ever the opportunist, Granum swiftly sent his Corpus to secure samples of these "Volatile Motes" that contained her light, wanting to use them to imbue his elite with the ability to scorch his enemies to ash.
The Tenno monitored the situation and decided to step in to preserve Jade's dignity, collecting the motes themselves to send into the Sun, preventing Granum from getting his hands on them. The Stalker himself also took notice of these events and unusually offered his help to safeguard his late lover's sacrifice from being perverted. The Cephalon Ordis coordinated the operation and Parvos recognized him as Ordan Karris, the Beast of the Bones, a legendary mercenary who was presumed to have died when he slaughtered many Orokin during a ceremony dedicated to him.
Ordis tried to convince Parvos to stand down and let Jade rest, but Parvos countered that Jade had fulfilled her purpose by providing the Stalker an heir. There was no further closure that she could possibly receive, so her motes were his to exploit. Instead, he offered to free Ordis from his shackles as a Cephalon, stating that his city of Corposium was founded under the principle that "None shall be slaves". Ordis refused, much to Parvos immeasurable disappointment.
In the end, while Parvos gathered enough motes to create basic versions of the elite units he wanted, the Tenno had exhausted and destroyed enough of the motes to make it impossible for them to reach their full potential. All that remained in Stalker's lair were the much weaker "Vestigial Motes", which Parvos would continue to harvest in the hopes that the project could still be completed some day.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Parvos Granum's name means both "small grain" and "small seed" in Latin, which alludes to his humble beginnings as a farmer and as the origin point from which the Corpus grew.
External Links[]
- Parvos Granum on the Warframe Wiki
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