still can't believe that it was an actual man in the wall

shout out to incomprehensible beings who make shady deals involving unfathomable power gotta be one of my favourite genders

At the Zariman 10-0 Wally: "I can save them from the crazy adults that are trying to kill you, all of them..." Your Tenno: "So what's the cat-" Wally: "except you, you are going to die in every oher timeline with only two remaining"

before new war: wall might mean a metaphorical wall between the void and the rest of the universe... after new war: literal man in the literal wall

"My name is Wally and I'm here to party!" - Mr Stuck in Wall

Ballas definitely needs his own video. Our abusive space uncle is probably the most important villain in the game next to Wally and actually has his story completed, unlike most other villains.

Wally took the word "I'm inside your walls" into another level

From how the Wally acts and talks, seems like just a scientist that discovers a new element. You want to pick and prod at, study the very limits of what you can do to it. See all its reactions and of course not destroy any of it you can't recover. However for Wally having these fingers in our realm ties him to time, like nailing down a kite in a tornado. Sure the kite may fly off and the string snaps but hat string left on that nail tells of where the kite was and always would've been. So that also means somewhere around 1999 is when Wally first got trapped in time unable to go back or forward beyond Rell and the Labs.

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DE: oh ya we got Crossplay for ya...just had to whip out the whole summoning the devil thing for it Us:what DE:what

As players, we know for certain of the location of two of Wally fingers. Both located in Reliquary Drives - on the players Railjack and on the Zariman Ten-Zero, the latter best seen during Void Armageddon missions. Now, during talks between Cavalero and Archimedean Yonta onboard Zariman, they discuss the 'finger-relics', wondering how many are left - and Yonta says: "Fewer than there used to be. So long as the originals are safely sealed away of course." Which would imply Orokin somehow learned to copy the cut off fingers in order to create Reliquary Drives for more than just a few ships - makes sense, the Orokin Empire hardly operated on only 5 ships. Which opens interesting questions. Is either Zariman or Railjack finger the original? Wally seemed very interested in the finger aboard the Railjack, and in multiple voicelines implied player-Tenno can give the finger back to him, but it seems odd for something this important to be located on a random Railjack. On the other hand, it would make sense for original finger to be aboard Zariman - it was a massively important project for the Orokin, and assumption genuine fingers are more potent than copies and thus neccesary for a ship of this size is not far-fetched, and the Reliquary of Zariman is endlessly assaulted by Void Angels. But then, why pay any interest to the finger inside the Railjack. That, in my view, gives us three distinct possibilities. First - one is genuine, and the interest in the other is a bluff. Second - Neither of the fingers is the original, and Wally trying to get them is a bluff distracting us while He is searching for genuine article. Third, and my preferred - all of them are genuine. The copy-fingers were created utilizing the Void phenomenon of conceptual embodiment, by which new fingers that are just as 'rea'l as the originals may exist. As such, Wally - a creature born of conceptual embodiment himself - just need a finger, any finger, and it will work. Whether or not it would collapse the 'concept' of the finger in physical reality and other copies would cease to exist or regaining the finger would allow Him to pinpoint the copies so he can destroy them, fully and utterly unanchoring himself from linear time, one can only guess.

Honestly whats incredible and scary is that, you dont see devs out there have a baddie in the making that actually influences your gameplay at every step of the way by involving in the crucial process of the gameplay development itself. Its like the devs also made a deal with Wally to let him into our universe as well!

And the Danta Unbound pretty much comfirmed a theory we had for a while that even Parvos Granum has a deal with Wally... Not only that but Druses even tells you that Parvos can ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND VOID TONGUE?! Not even Albrecht can!

6:39 The devs confirmed the Vitruvian Man carving form the Man in the Wall takes is just like any other form it takes, a facade for the purpose of intimidating or unsettling its audience, but it seems to be a "general form," as you can also see its face overlooking the Sanctum Anatomica from beyond the broken in wall ledge, and beneath the Void Angel mindspace arena in one corner, observing.

I wouldn't be too quick to differentiate the "great indifference" as a place separate from Wally just yet... I wouldn't put it past an eldritch entity to also *be* the place as well. Kinda like how the meaty lattice of flesh shared across all the infested lifeforms is all part of a single hive-minded body of sorts, so is probably Wally's alien realm also a sort of manifestation of his physical body, with all the little murmur creatures being his antibodies and white cells. That's probably why he couldn't physically manifest and take over the Origin System before all the things that weakened his shackles in the void started happening through the story: _his actual physical form is unfathomably gigantic and alien,_ so much that we can just walk and parkour inside it like we're Osmosis Jones. Wally is having trouble forcing all of himself into the Origin System because it's like trying to push a big plush toy through the tiny neck of a water bottle. Edit: Of note is how Corrupted Vor now has a dialogue line about how "a wall of *bone* awaits his joining" when fighting him in the Undercroft, which is part of what makes me see Wally that way. You know all those oddly-colored stone structures and sand in that eldritch realm that is slowly taking over Albrecht's laboratories? Yeah, that's probably not just stone and sand...

This took a bit to put together but hope you guys enjoy! Next up is the Every Warframe Lore 101 which I'm currently aiming to release on May 1st.

I can't wait for Red Text to turn out to be wally

I don't remember which NPC, I think it's Yonta, saying that there are "way more fingers than there should be" Also, we do have a hint on what Wally's goal might be. Tagfer has a line where he says that the Indifference may not be evil by nature, but is simply trying to understand humans & conscious beings

If he has time based powers, his finger probably fell into multiple places in the same timeline

Our railjack is powered by a finger for hyperspace jumps through the void to get to various proxima missions, I'm concerned..

9:16 When he mentioned that he needed one more finger, I realized something. . . Don't we have a giant finger in our railjack? The one at the back of the ship. . . I think were cooked.

For some reason I did not expect some one to say "He's doing what to a space hole?" That caught me off guard. Good video.

wow i did not know the man in the wall was also called wally

So this has me thinking, whats that finger in our Railjack?

"I SAVED THEM. ALL OF THEM. NEVER SAID I'D SAVE YOU."

Wasn't expecting to see this right before I go to bed but I changed my mind.

Eh i dont think that "taking better care of the solar system" wouldve helped that much, it was basically inevitable that the Orokin empire wouldve grown big enough that at some point there wouldnt be enough resources in the Solar system to sutain it. It wouldve delayed it yeah but not solved the problem forever. Now if Albrechts void shield hadnt been fucking obliterated looney toons style before falling into the portal they mightve been able to use the void without having to deal with this Eldritch abomination Also Rell basically not being mentioned ever again after Chains of Harrow is a crime

Conceptually embodied timelines is crazy.

I like to think of the great indifference as wally s home like how in 40k the chaos gods have their own homes in the void

king nothing else to say other than worth the wait

This is great stuff man! been following the series for a long time. I’ve been playing warframe non stop since 2017 and you break down the lore in an easy to understand way!

You showed up in my recommended, and now im a subscriber. I love the Internet.

As a potential KZfaqr I have to say your lore explanations are very good...but also I has a question (from a chaotic lad) how did your character become a loremaster in training?

My crackpot theory is that he did only lose one digit; that digit has been duplicated across space and time multiple times throughout everywhere

4:51 this is literally the best comedy skit I've seen in years 👏🤩 This channel is a gem!

Feel like Wally is such a a good way to raise the stakes after the New War. He doesn't feel like a villain they shoehorned for the sake of a larger world ending threat. He's been lingering in the background for years, and slowly but surely has made itself a bigger and bigger threat as the mystery unravels.

“He’s just one finger away from flipping us all off” is what I thought you were gonna say lolol

excellent lore video! Warframe has such a deep, complex, interconnected lore that even trying to piece it together is quite the task. I'm hoping with Warframe 1999 and Jade Shadows we finally get some more answers.

My favorite interpretation/theory about Wally's actions & behavior is actually Birb 3's, from the Cavia syndicate. I can't find text for it anywhere (or I haven't looked in the right places) but at one point I got a line of dialogue from them saying that they thought Wally was like a very big, powerful child that just wants to play with the other kids but doesn't know *how*. Given that Wally's first interaction (that we know of) with anyone in the origin system consisted of him mimicking Albrecht Entrati's appearance, smiling creepily at him, and then trying to follow him back out of the void and getting his finger(s) chopped off for his efforts, and the rest of his subsequent appearances have been him trying to interact with people and leave the void, I think Bird 3's theory isn't that far off from the truth. That on top of the cutscene at the end of the whispers in the walls update, with Wally expressing frustration about how the Tenno aren't upholding their end of their bargain with him, kinda makes me think Wally's intentions were innocent at first (or at least not outright malicious), and the constant rejection afterwards + losing his fingers didn't leave him with a great impression of the folks in the Origin system.

I think Wally heard his name as "The Man in the Wall" as a deep metaphor for his nature from these funny bipedal mortals, and immediately told himself "It would be really funny and freak them out if I showed myself to them as an actual Man half stuck in a Wall". To which the Tenno Wally would immediately agree as he is that much of a gremlin.

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Really good damn video. Thank you I actually have and idea now where I stand after a 4 year pause!

I think the eternal relic in the zariman is his last finger. Deeming that the void angels fight tooth and nail to get to it.

E) Given how the Indifference fucks with time and the mechanics by which Eternalism work, it could be that, rather than Wally losing multiple digits on his hand, *multiple Wallies* each lost a single digit.

Wally did this for us

My laptop broke some days ago and I havent been able to play warframe since. I have been avoiding all warframe videos since then to stop myself from missing it. But damn i cant help but click your videos whenever i see them. Hopefully my laptop will get repaired by the end of this month since its in warranty.

As a new player, I love this content. Please never stop.

You can see Wally's missing fingers when he appears to give his speech at the end of the new war

linking the crossplay feature to Baro is so hype.

It's an interesting poetic justice in how we excluded Rell for his ASD (coded or otherwise) to then be treated the same after the Zairman. Cause up until Chains of Harrow we, Tenno, had been more or less the victim. Learning how we were essentially bullying a kid because he's neurodivergent gave me a bit of emotional whiplash. Considering Rell wasn't the one who made the deal either but had to suffer alone because - once again - we excluded him makes me view the shit we have to go through now as a bit of a redemption for what we've done. The fact that Rell also protected us for years, sacrificing his body and mind to keep basically a God away is a hell of a debt to pay. Granted, none of this would've happened had the Orokin not been Orokining as they did, but that doesn't excuse being mean to Rell. I mean, we offered a light to the thing tormenting us now but we couldn't be nice to a kid with sensory issues. The irony that Rell was probably the only one of us who actually had a chance to take on The Indifference on a way more level playing field had he had the support is kinda funny tho..

Hes also somehow connected to the reliquary drive at the back of your railjack

6:37 you can see in the second right hand he is missing one finger, however in all instances I have seen in game the finger only appears twice (well 2x infinite ) one as a railjack and zermin i think a void drive that allowed void jump , in the start of the zermin quest and the first time you see the finger it was mentioned that there were multiple but as long as the originals are safe everything will be fine

The man in the wall is a fantastic antagonist, im pretty sure he is a cosmic troll, doing things for shits and giggles.

Can’t wait to see how much the lore will change / grow with the introduction of the Protoframes in 1999, they might be called as the first frames to be made or something els entirely, but how they will like them that’s the catch

You going to need to look for a golden coffin in the back

I think the mention of multiple digits may also be referencing the fact they cloned/duplicated the severed fingers to use for the reliquary drives.

I think that Wally losing a finger locked him into that time/dimension since the void is connected to many different periods of times (and maybe versions of the warframe universe) and so long as wally who is trapped int he void and his fingers which are still trapped in the warframe universe I think it puts him in a time displacement and keeps him on a forward move time stream which contradicts the lessons on the zaramin

If I may submit my theory as to why The Man in The Wall is missing many fingers while we only ever see him missing one finger, I think one of the Requiem Mods is key. The Mod in question is *"OULL",* the wild card of the set. Like the other Requiem Mods, *"OULL"* has a Requiem Poem fragment attached to it. Unlike the other Poem fragments, however, this one appears to be a prelude or post-script fragment as putting it anywhere else in the Poem itself breaks its flow. The fragment reads, "From endless faces, countless forms, a multitude unfolds." My theory then is that it was not just one Man in The Wall who lost his right index finger but multiple Men in The Wall who all lost their right index fingers at the same time when Euleria Entrati slammed the Untime Door shut on their hand after her father gave the command. And while it's possible the Orokin were able to replicate the Indifferent Façade of The Man in The Wall to make even more fingers, that may have made even more Men in The Wall as a consequence. Now then... *WHERE ARE MY FINGER-BONES, KIDDO?*

This explains so much, thank you! I didn't understand what the hell was going on when my character had a weird creepy clone showing up on the ship. Now I know its just the local eldritch horror trying to crack into our reality.

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Something really boggles my mind and gives me chills is the fact that the Infestation (the techno virus that can eat PLANETS if left unchecked) is canonically AFRAID of Wally During the days before the launch of the Whispers In The Walls update there was a new page in Warframe's official site that showed us a conversation between Nora Night and that one Corpus stuck on Deimos collecting samples that we have to defend on bounties. This Corpus knows Deimos's fauna like the back of his hand and he tells us that the Infestation looks afraid and is trying to not stand out, as well repeated knocking this Corpus guy keeps hearing in his dreams. That whole bit freaked me the fuck out and I loved it

If I remember the last finger was in our railjack

Dont forget the debate of if Wally is an entity within the void or is the void itself. As for the multiple fingers thing, I feel its an externalism thing. It is both one and several. The same finger severed across multiple instances. Because that one finger is in several places at once, it is scattered across time. It is hinted at with Cy and the reliquary drive, something is there but also not there.

9:07 maybe it's something like the operator and the drifter they exist in the present and the future at the same time but only one of them, so because the finger exist in the present he can't just pop up and make a mess and also there's a big finger stuck in the railjack

When you mentioned that other factions dont know about wallie thats only a half truth , granum seems to have been influenced by wallie when founding the corpsus which as a faction worship the void and the idea of change and hate stagnation and apathy , he also mentions a whisper time and time again and somehow survived decades in the void AND has a great interest in entrati void labs

Harrow chassis blueprint: the true enemy of the tenno

There are definitely more than one missing finger from wally. There's one in our railjack AND on the Zariman

I think whats going on with the plural fingers is that he lost finger but across multiple worlds. Hes confined to the strands of khra not THE strand of khra so it would make sense. Especially with duviri showing us resources from other worlds can be transfered, I think this is what happened

If i recall correctly, the last finger is in our railjack, aka, the safest spot it'll ever be in... i hope....

Oh my god I just realized that Rell probably dubbed the Indifference “The Man in the Wall” because he takes the form of any man he comes across and is LITERALLY INSIDE the Wall of Lohk.

I’m happy to see the videos are getting longer. I understand you probly make these videos on tik tok too but personally I prefer videos with landscape orientation. I like the editing tho. Reminiscent of nakeyjakey. Maybe record outside so when you decide to cut to yourself full you can have some very engaging and dynamic backgrounds.

It's definitely several fingers. Since we have one in the "reliquary drive" of our railjack, and one in the Zariman, visible in the Oro Works node. Fibonacci might only be aware of the third one which Albrecht kept, that might also be what allowed him to travel back to 1999.

You missed out on one piece of man in the wall lore that might shine a light into what his goals are. Dante's encounter with the man in the wall. For those that don't want to be spoiled. Go to the Leverian with a rank 30 Dante and enter his entry. Navigate all the way to the end and get his Plex card. Druse will then explain how Dante died and that his killer was the man in the wall. For those that want to know what the man in the wall wants. Existence. "It teaches because it longs to be known, and in being known it exists. And in existing, it survives."

My theory is that Wally is also prone to the effects of eternalism, and each time he loses a finger he jumps to a new timeline that hasn’t lost his finger. But the poor dummy keeps losing his damn fingers so now he needs to get them back so he can travel back to 99 to kill Albrecht. We know the locations of at least 2 fingers off the top of my head; one in the Zariman and one in our personal Railjack. So he has 100% definitely lost more than one.

One of the fingers is in your Railjack.

If he can regenerate his digits but is activly trying to get one of his severed digits back, then he might be on a time table of sorts. Like he needs to be at full power to complete HIS side of a deal, otherwise he's the one that that will be reprimanded. Like imagine he is not the only elditch being and also not the most poweful, but he is the only one that has any interest with our realm.

New Corg video dropped, sleeping can wait!

Your vest looks like the walls in the Entrati Labs lol

Could you do a warframe lore video on the infestation and how terrifying the process of becoming a warframe is?

I remember back when he was called a void demon

Probably something to do with eternalism or something maybe he lost one maybe he lost none. My personal head cannon is: he lost multiple but albrecht gave us one and the rest when to his research into the vessels to trap wally into pocket realms. The reason he’s only missing one to us is because he knows we have one. And the deal he made with us was he’d give us powers to help ourselves out of the zariman in exchange for his finger and/or albrecht’s notes to find out what happened to the other fingers. But, with the cryosleep and war PTSD made us forget what we agree’d to.

There’s one in the zaranen and one in our railjack those are the two fingers. At least I know if there could be more that I’m not thinking about if somebody else has mentioned this that’s good, but if nobody mentioned it, that’s at least the two

Actually Wally still missing 2 of his fingers, one on our railjack and second on the Zariman

Ok so there is a theory on why there are many Wally's fingers that I read from somewhere but I can't find it anymore. Basically it was only one finger that got cut but it started duplicating itself which would explain why we see more than one finger and one always present at every railjack and other void engines using it as a reliquary drive.

Seems parvos granum is going to have very strong tie-ins with the man in the wall's story. So it would seem to me like corpus is going to get involved properly quite soon.

Ok, so I might be wrong here, but there are multiple fingers that The Indifference had lost, one having a verrryy small chance to show up in the Reliquary Drive of your railjack, and one being in the main thind you have to defend in Void Armageddon on the Zariman. Also, here's something cool I noticed about Wally. So you know how when Big Al entered the gate and heard Wally calling him by something only his mom called him? He does the exact same thing with the Tenno. When he just randomly appears in your ship, he says "Hey Kiddo", he mimics the Lotus's voice as he says it.

Hey corgethemighty i think when they mention that wally had lost "fingers" they are infact plure, but they don't mention what type of finger wether index or otherwise, in game you can piece together that the several finger are all index fingers that being 3 that we know of 1. being our railjack 2, tempestary, and 3 being the one in Armageddon which are all index fingers.

There used to be a finger in the reiljack now it’s gone

A bit sad you didn't talked about the most known thing about him,his speech ! "VOULL NE XATA VOK, MARA LOHK?" Until recently we still didn't had a lot of clues about what it really was Still a great video of course,really hyped for the every warframes video coming up !

This is some ultrakill level of gameplay-to-lore implementation. Cross play cause the big bad made a deal with a scammer merchant sure.

First video I’ve seen of your channel and I have to ask… do you play dungeons and dragons?

Just gotta say, this guy's fashion is sharper than my Praedos.

I still think that's what his finger in our railjack capsule is supposed to be. Somehow a representation of the last finger he needs to collect. I don't think it's an actual physical finger but rather a symbolic representation of us relying on his power. So we are probably the last finger. We have to do something for wally for him to 'regain his last digit' we just don't know what so we can't avoid doing it

Was it ever mentioned in any of the videos what the fingers are currently being used for? Most notably, the Railjack? Seeing the finger there always creeped me out.

even though there is multiple wally fingers out there, all but 1, are copies

isnt there a finger in our railjack

oh also for the stalker video you might wanna wait for june for jade's shadow update or not your choise

0:05 already an ultrakill reference, we're winning boys

I love it, how you know, already, nearly every story 😂👍 (my mean other fictions like 40k), btw do you know anything about Destiny lore too ?

Fun fact: one of the 7 executors, a fuck boi named tuvuul is partially responsible for the following: the sentients, the ten-0 colony ship, and the death of voruna's wolves