What We Know Warframe Lore - Grineer Social Hierarchy 

"Be good or be gone" AKA git gud

"If our enemies deserved peace, they would have defeated us" Hard. Core.

i like how you make it sound so badass and in the game it all just feels like pew pew pew and heil clem

The taller you are, the toughter you are - Grineer Logic

Grineer: now 30% more annoying by throwing down inflatable rafts everywhere that don't do anything but get in your way.

the entire existence of vay hek is a genius tactical choice because they make the fight with him so annoying that you will most likely rage quite half way through the fight without even killing him insuring that he will live on

"Unwavering strength" *Procedes to cut them down like unwanted toilet paper*

The Grineer are my favorite faction personally, I love their bolted together slapdash aesthetic.

This is why Tyl Ragor is my favorite Badass Boss, His Smart, Strong, Fast, and creative, but like any other grineer... selfishly nieve and mentally unstable, it's his madness and physical body that make him a formidable opponent, but sadly his mad genius is also the reason he falls, it outrages him when he comes across you cuz he actually is jealous of the tenno, almost seemingly perfect in design, and such power, yet, out of his control, he tryed to even make his own super soldiers Maniacs, like father like son I sapose, someone so smart and strong would be better to lead the Steel Meridian, but sadly just to much evil in his heart and mind... sad to see such a good looking clone wasted, to decay at the bottom of the ocean, luckily, he died where he loved to be... in his lab with his own statue... rest in peace buddy, you'll always be my favorite boss fight.

Just because a few people have asked it, Grineer who defect or who consider defecting would be absurdly low, so low as to not even be in the hierarchy. It's not really fair to even classify them as part, since they are distinctly apart from it. It would be like trying to rank tofu burgers on a meat scale. They are not on the same wavelength. However, if it really had to be quantified, it would be lower than you could imagine. Ostracization beyond comprehension, and a disgust that would be unparalleled. They are denying their very purpose, their sole reason for existence in the eyes of the Grineer, and are thus unworthy of any distinction. They would certainly not be allowed to return, even should they swear fealty to the Queens once more, and would be killed on sight if they were lucky. Their genetic material would likely not even be worthy to rejoin as a new Grineer, their very physical presence forever tainted by their hideous betrayal.

greed and denial *grenial* clem is dead

Vay Hek presents a large number of questions based on his position and the information stated about him. For starters his rank of councillor is unusual in that the ranks name cleary indicates it is a non-military rank. It's a government/civilian rank. That he is called councillor means there must be a council of grineer who serve some undefined purpose in the grineer society. Are they a council of advisors to the queens? or a governing council who handle the day to day affairs that the queens can focus on their own objectives? We see that vay hek has considerable oversight and influence within grineer society. The whole fomorian initiative for instance shows just how big his projects can be. And his repeated utter failures suggest just how secure/powerful his position his and the level of trust the queens have him in as he has not been removed. Is it possible there are grineer "civilians" as whatshernames mission briefing even points out that all female grineer are required to undergo a term of military service. A term is not a permanent posting meaning that eventually their term in the military will end and then where does the grineer trooper go? Are there a load of grineer cities somewhere with civilian grineer engaging in non-military labour for their society? Could it be these that vay heks power is rooted in? Also the court is mentioned in said briefing. If all grineer females or at least a large number of them spend time at this court then it must be rather large. Do they fulfil any role in Grineer society and how do they relate to the council? Nothing but questions. All from vay fucking hek.

Did that Powerfist give a last dying Middle finger to us at 2:01?

I liked the Rathuum event simply because it gave insight to what little downtime/recreation the grineer have. Of course, it still involves murdering people but I digress.

So next up is Cephalons. That looks interesting.

Great. It's like watching VaatiVidya but for Warframe. Really awesome.

So, essencially they're the imperium from warhammer 40k, but with cloned cannon fodder instead of a galaxy spanning empire populated by cannon fodder.

ypu sound like vaatividya but warframe. I like you.

"Their ability to utilize any source of power allows for them to rarely have accidents." This doesn't even make sense.

Given what we're finding out about the origins of the Twin Queens from the Kuria, I think your talk about them following the Queens with some sort of religious zeal may be more on the head than your video talks about. I look forward to a video on them, especially given the seeming matter of them not having come from Grineer clone stock themselves.

Maybe you should have mention of those who defect? Like those from Steel Meridian? The are no longer part of the Grineer, but how would you rate them in the Hierarchy? They had enough independece to actually leave and form a resistence of sorts.

With the new update the "real" Tenno said during a mission, that the Grineer were builders before they went into this warfare state.

What scares me is the fact that their cloning process depends on dead Grineer becoming 'recycled' into the cloning vats. I am surprised they haven't become desperate enough to abduct colonists and human unfortunates with the 'fitting' or 'close enough' genetic code needed to replace the already existing clones.

they may seem stupid, but that's just cuz they have the same AI as every other enemy; aka charge in and fight or stay away and shoot

Great job as always.

I dig this kind of videos, keep em coming!

These are really interesting lore videos you're making, StallordD. You're pointing out things I could never even begin to imagine, even though it's always been right in front of me. All your theories make so much sense, with all the sources you connect and such. You should really keep making these, man! If you don't know it already, there's this other RU-vid channel, ShoddyCast, that makes REALLY great quality lore videos for Fallout, Elder Scrolls and Dragon Age. You should really check it out, get some inspiration maybe.

Hi. This video is masterfully done. I liked it! As I just got into a Warframe phaze (and brought some unfortunate souls into it as well), I journeyed across the net for Warframe OSTs and recent lore. Foolish I was, not realizing the lore was THIS deep already. You opened my eyes to a whole horizon.

8 years ago and this still stands up today. Iiiiinteresting.

Very interesting seeing the old Kayla De Thayme enemy.

The Grineer are by far my favorite faction in Warframe, would love to know more about them in the future.

5:00 What mission is that cutscene from?

This is.. To say the least excelent content! Love the way you talk haha

Amazingly put together and highly informative for me especially. Thank you!

Awesome, your voice was very clear this time - great video, very interesting!

I absolutely love the grineer armor, seriously, it looks so original and bad ass!

Imagine if they managed to fix their deformities and become unafflicted by their biological weaknesses. We would end up fighting a more powerful foe.

Found this randomly under recommendations. This was great.

Me as Mirage Prime: Turns grineer ships into disco parties, slashing through armies

SPACE FEMINISTS?! I'm going to need a lot more bullets.

I really love the lore of the Grineer, they are like if the clones from Star Wars did order 66 and gained independance creating a new power in the galaxy. Though of course their ideals are quite corrupt and the leaders are tyrants, I still like them more than the Corpus who are more technological and spoiled. The grineer have a lot of fighting spirit I feel.

Nobody: ..... That one Grineer shouting in the distance: "TENNO SCHOOL!!!!!"

yeh thanks youtube i think it's about time to recommend me this vid

I really want to see an updated video of this subject. Also whats the source for that thumbnail, it looks so cool

Unwavering strength my ass, cant even turn around when im behind them.

A man who speaks about wf lore and uses a themed weapon (especially my fav grinder weapon) take your subscribe kind lord.

Awesome video, really great work!

I started watching this video thinking that it'd be another video where someone didn't get their facts right or straight or they'd not know something. I was proven so wrong, and deeply enjoyed this. Kudos. "Gar gon humtreshuve rnaa."

Very nice and high quality vidoes, subbed and liked.

This is my favourite faction

Any chance we can get an update as Kuva Liches are now a thing?

I like how you used a Rhino to go stealth around the bases.

I noticed they have a giant ballsack which means the butchers have balls of steel running at tenno's

As a aside comment - this type of theory also fits with the Clone Degeneration part of the Grineer lore as well. For example, there's no real signs of 'promotion' in the Grineer - only for a higher-level commander to be demoted or shifted to a new project or plan. A few good examples came in the form of Vor's demotion and Hek's plans getting pulled after the major resource wasting he's done with the Cizero Toxin and Fomorion projects.

Side note: the grenier queens are orokin and do the majority of the scientific work.

Glory to the Queens

I can admire how how efficient they are for warfare

I almost feel bad for the Grineer. All this investment, time, resources and effort into producing, admoring and arming soldiers… Just for some bright pink Rhino to splatter the soldier against the nearest wall as paste with a comically-overpowered weapon. The input doesn’t equal the output.

My absolute favorite faction in warframe are grineer deserters, Steel Meridian / Red Veil for life 🔥

Thank goodness I came across you. I've always been interested in Warframe Lore but DKDiamantes' videos are absurdly long and lazily edited/scripted (maybe because they aren't edited or scripted at all). But yours are succinct, only tell us what's important, and doesn't delve into speculation. A+ job, man.

so kela looks like that 4 years ago huh.......the moment of her getting drunk looks like yesterday........

Unless you have bane of grineer and you just stomp on them all

Fun fact there was a greneer king but he was seceded by the queens who are his daughters who then united the greniir as we know them

Wait, that Kela is... Wait this is from the 2015

Yeesh. That was kela de thaym before?? Yeah, she needed a change badly.

I feel bad about killing scorpions now

So... what about Clem?

I really liked Captain Vor. Such a single, but great goal. It wasn't conquering or grineer politics. He just wanted childrens and grandchildrens. When he failed, he only got a scold compared to others and still, he was crumbling on the inside.

I need an update video especially we now know how they were looked like

heavy gunners have prosthetic legs, idk if the height thing applies to them

I know I'm late but this is a great video

I love these! Keep it up :)

So pretty much the grineer are like the borgs from Star Trek.

Damn, that's what Kela De Thaym looks like back then?

0:02 clearly you've never fought high level Corpus

They make some of the best weapons, yes...

I wonder if the Grineer were intentionally modelled after Machinen Krieger action figures-they share the same bubble-shaped, industrial aesthetic

The lore of warframe is amazing tbh

You missed two things out, they were also builders thousands of years ago and deteriote as they age

What about the defeaters? Those known as the steel meridian, they seem to have a purpose or at least goal different from most grineer. Even the intention to protect rather then conquer is quite a change.

i wanna work for grineer

Love your channel

i read hierarchy as heresy at first

@Anto yes. Yes it is. All too accurately so.

nice remote observer skills

Great work. What is your new mic?

*C L E M*

You never explained defectors like Clem who don't bow down to the queens

Wait we have sentients right also now the sentients have the Lotus Also some sentients like the Eldilon killed warframes or even used them to come from a different plain of existence what we see with Revenant

The cabal would give the grineer a bad time

Are you going someday a video more about The Queens? Because I have a lot of questions about The Queens, their rules, their purpose and more. Anyway, great video about the Grineer.

I'm curious how you'd update this given War Within, Rathuum, and the announcement that DE plans on adding in labor grineer at the shipyards.

Scorpoions are elite melee units. They are way higher in the hirachy

They’re cool but my real favourite are the sentients

Husa is that you ?

Hey Stall. You think you're gonna do an entry vid related to or going in depth about the Sentients? Especially given the huge lore carpet bombing that was the Natah quest?

GRAKATA

Hmm.. Warframe has most certainly changed a lot over the last 2+ years. Just look at Kela de Thaym's design! And is it just me that thinks Grineer has been "dumbed down" over the years. I felt there was a much greater challenge facing them 2 years ago than what they are today! *Stand by while I analyze the intelligence profiles of the Grineer . . . Error! Not a number!*

You need a new video post on Grimeer and Corpus boss hierarchy/rank.

2:27 is that the grineer queen? :o