Casual Chat: Ascension Day

Just chatting about Ascension Day, some details I noticed, and my thoughts overall.
Ascension Day backgrounds by Juliette Buttigieg: www.artstation.com/artwork/kl...
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[@WanderingPhenomenist]

Don't worry about it, Mr. Curator, sir. This conversational style is a great way to get out intermediate content while we work on the next long video.
The next one is going to explode everyone's brains, anyway, so they should enjoy this one while they can

[@OrokinArchives]

I'll be honest: I sort of whipped this up on the spur of the moment, so there's no sound engineering and the video editing is also a bit lazy, haha. I mostly just wanted to get some thoughts out there while I'm working on the next "real" video. Let me know what you think!

[@DaniCamo]

Daenorloa here! Yes, I love these shorter ones, too!

[@chicitizen]

So did Stynax just show up out of nowhere? Where was his Tenno operator? Did the Operator know the girl?
Do the Tenno even communicate with commoners? So many questions? I can't help but notice the banging of drums during the ceromony, is that how the Tenno were celebrated after they defeated the Sentients? DE really needs to stop giving us bread crumbs and start telling a more complete story.

[@OrokinArchives]

I think there's an implication (more so if you read the Leverian) that Styanax and Aria had a longer relationship, but the details aren't known. As for the Operator side of it, warframe stories are usually presented in an Operator-agnostic perspective, especially in the Leverian, since Drusus doesn't even know about the existence of Operators. For most of the Origin System's citizens, the warframe is the Tenno, so when they see a warframe doing stuff, like fighting the Leviathan, that's all they write down. Operators are usually not taken into account. Tenno don't often communicate with non-Tenno (Alad V at one point called them "mute peasants"), though they do on occasion. We also see the Lotus speak with colonists on behalf of the Tenno. This story makes it seem like Styanax was acting alone, though we never see him actually talk (verbally) to Aria.
Your comparison of the drums during Ascension Day to the Naga drums at the Outer Terminus is intriguing. Perhaps it was another way the Philanthropist copied the myths of the Tenno and the Lotus.

[@andywuhu6720]

Also newer lore indicates the first converted frames made from people and whatnot as well as specters can retain some degree of self and act independently. It's usually not distinct enough to know but there are instances in lore (even recently with Dante I think) that reference the frames more as themselves rather than being piloted by tenno