Albrecht Entrati

Albrecht Entrati was a highly renowned scientist, known for being the first one to gain access to the Void and introduce the Orokin to its potential. He is the former head of the family, and father of Euleria Entrati.
==Lore & History==
===General===
Albrecht was born during the Orokin Era, in a time before the Orokin Empire set their sights beyond the Origin System. He had a daughter, Euleria, and a kavat named Kalymos. He spent a considerable amount of time trying to prove the usefulness of the Void, whose contents he theorized could be the key to help his civilization reach for the stars.
===The First Voyage into the Void===
:Main Article: Requiem Words
The Requiem Words found in the bowels of the chamber in Necralisk, Deimos, contains eight separate Vitruvian entries, each paying homage to a different Requiem Word, of Albrecht's own thoughts and chapters leading up to his first voyage into the Void.
====Crossing the Threshold====
As the years passed and with no conclusive proof of the Void's existence, the other Orokin started to lose interest in his pursuit, considering it to be a dead end. Frustrated, Albrecht sought to prove them wrong, and so he hastily volunteered himself to go beyond the "wall between worlds", using a Seriglass Bell as a protective vessel. As the portal through the Wall of Lohk was activated, Albrecht witnessed space and time ripple as the wall yawed open. Disoriented, he stumbled in his vessel and shifted its path through the wall. As soon as it grazed the edge of the "door", the bell was sliced in half instantly by the edge of the portal, causing Albrecht to fall sideways directly into the Void, while the sliced bell fell over and shattered.
Albrecht felt his thoughts and memories being stolen away by the void, thinking he must be dying. After coming back to his senses, he saw that he was laying in the Bell's shattered seriglass on his laboratory floor, thinking it was another failure. Embarrassed, he looked up to face his daughter, but what he saw was not her, but a copy of himself. He noted that this "vague untime form" of him was like a mirror-reflection, but with [depth - a 3rd] dimension. He also noticed a vast sea of white light pierced by black stars; a flowing, colorful vapor twirling around, whose source was the wall he came through and Albrecht himself; and that he was standing on a familiar floor resembling his lab, as if it had been cleaved straight from his laboratory and put into the void. Feeling in awe with all this, he faced his "twin", who spoke: "Little Bengel" he said – an old name his mother used to call him as a child, unspoken for centuries. Though overwhelmed by a sense of euphoria, his wits told him to flee. 
Back to his laboratory outside of the Void, he sensed his flesh lacerated by the broken glass. No longer having his voice or sight, he cut his hand with a broken seriglass shard, and with his own blood wrote for his daughter to close the wall, as he sensed the other was there, reaching out. His daughter complied, deactivating the gate while severing one or multiple of the Void entity's fingers in the process.
A long time after this event, Albrecht stated how the severed digits acquired from his Void counterpart were eventually studied both with reverence and greed. As time passed, the knowledge obtained from these digits became the basis for void-related technologies the Orokin benefited from, such as the Reliquary Drives used by Railjacks and the Zariman Ten Zero.
While countless others have ventured into the Void, none have ever met this "man trapped in the wall" that Albrecht first saw. Pondering about its absence, Albrecht decided to not partake in Continuity ever again – the ritual where Kuva is used to transfer consciousness from body to body, effectively granting immortality – fearing that maybe the one who escaped was not him, but perhaps the other.
==== Voyage Aftermath ====
Albrecht would later go on to discover the Requiem Words, and create the Cosmic Clocks. One is located within the Necraloid backroom in the Necralisk, which contains eight Vitruvian recordings (each paying homage to a different Requiem Word) narrating the story of Albrecht's voyage. 
Additionally, Albrecht would create the Heart, an object said to provide the Origin System and the Tenno with Void energy, constructing it atop the very Void gate he used in his voyage. Expeditions into the Void would still continue, with explorers depositing any treasures they found within the subterranean Isolation Vaults. These vaults were constructed to both study the boons of the Void, and isolate and quarantine anything that came back unstable and corrupted.
=== Zariman Ten Zero ===
After Albrecht's first voyage into the untime dimension and the subsequent encounter towards his untime twin that follows, he would continue to study the Void, publishing "Beyond The Wall of Lohk" and co-writing "The Palimpsest of Spacetime" with his daughter, Euleria. These teachings were then implemented into the education criteria aboard the Zariman, which became the first school to offer public access to Albrecht's research"Zariman Ten Zero's school is the first to offer access to Albrecht Entrati's research archives. Aren't we lucky?" - Cephalon Melica. The Zariman also employed the use of an Entrati-made Reliquary Drive, powered by a duplicate of one of the fingers acquired by Albrecht.
Due to his status as the first to pioneer Void study, various portraits and statues depicting Albrecht can also be found throughout the Zariman, such as in the Habitation Zone, Hall of Legems, and Albrecht Park.
===Lost Islands of Duviri===
Albrecht has made an appearance in Duviri as one of the two known outsiders, although his known records do not indicate any period of time he was lost in the kingdom. In it, Dominus Thrax allowed him this to construct his own laboratory, which resided on an island dubbed Scholar's Landing. The stranger mentioned that Duviri would be needed in the future, and that there is a work of repentance that he alone cannot not do, before mysteriously vanishing along with the island.Lost Islands of Duviri Fragments - Scholar's Landing.
The denizens of Duviri have not forgotten Albrecht, and constructed an empty grave for him"The sky could not hold him. In cupped hands we caught him. Death will not hold him. Open-armed lies this grave. This world could not hold him, and so we are without him. Stranger. Father. Scholar. In our hearts, we hold you" - The scholar's tomb, located in Duviri., which can be found deep in a cave near Fort Wyrmsoul.
===Albrecht's Laboratory===
Albrecht's Notes can be found within his laboratories, chronicling five separate chapters of his thoughts following his first voyage into the Void.
====The Aftermath====
Building upon what was known from the Necralisk Entries found in the Necraloid chamber, it was revealed that one of the many effects of his breach into the untime dimension caused him to leave with ruined eyes, mutilated mouth no longer hiding his grin, as well as scorched skin; physical consequences which Loid steadily nursed back to health. Donning a new set of garb, he found a new determination to course correct the monstrosity of a mistake he had unleashed upon the world.
The entries recorded in the Necralisk seemed to predate Albrecht taking Loid's help.
====The Cavia====
One of his first attempts involves sending many animals into the same Voidspace he had visited, in hopes that just as the untime dimension would imitate a mockery of the Entrati himself, it would imitate a mockery of a lesser intelligent being, kickstarting a "humbling devolution". Most animals that returned from the Void ended up dead as a corpse, and he persisted to send more combination of animals until he eventually discovered that the Void takes most interest in the uniqueness of the subjects.
To that end the Entrati would gather an assortment of unique animals, assembling a pair of Cervulites, a tropical bird of unknown species as well as an enlargened Norg with unique body coat, and sent them on a voyage into the void. When they returned, they did not die save one, yet instead of humbling the untime consciousness, it seemed to have raised the intelligence of the animals instead to the point of them speaking in Voidtongue as well as giving them a persona.
And so his gambit had failed. Instead of disposing the animals, he ordered Loid to preserve them instead in hopes that future individuals more attuned to the Void may solve the mysteries unknown to him in his stead. They would later become the Cavia the protagonist Tenno encountered in Sanctum Anatomica, Deimos.
====Duviri====
There was an entry chronicling his days in Duviri, though it was not clear when exactly he entered the kingdom.
In it, Albrecht constantly wakes up to the voice of his daughter, much like how Tales of Duviri narrates herself. During his early days in Duviri he made himself the teacher of the child-king ruling over the kingdom, teaching him of the threats beyond the borders. Later on, Albrecht had recognized the strange cast of characters that his daughter had narrated to him within the kingdom, realizing them as the self-same fantasy characters and stories he had told her within her childhood chambers long ago.
Albrecht had realized the trivial stories he had came up with was morphed by his own daughter into a weapon of defense against The Indifference. Shamed by the courage his own daughter had shown, he discovered a newfound determination to defy the phantom that haunted him. He would soon disappear from Duviri unnoticed.
====The Vessels====
At some point, Albrecht seemed to have frequently travelled to 1999, described by him as the Plague Year. In it he acted the Doctor and brought healing to the people in the following year, presumably to entreat those afflicted by the Technocyte-virus. 
Towards volunteers willing to contribute more than healing, he brought with him Helminth infusions to turn their bodies into partial Warframes, their bodies becoming newly attuned to the Void whilst their minds are kept intact, presumably for research purposes. Arthur and Aoi are implied to be two among the volunteers who came forward. Results of his researches can be seen written along the blackboards of the Netracells of his laboratories.
Loid at one point suggested the idea of using the Grey Strain abundant all over Deimos, whose growth property are known to have reached monstrous dimensions. It was then that Albrecht had came up with the idea of developing The Vessels, combining the humanity of Arthur, the anatomical works of Ballas, and the monstrous growth of the Grey Strain; an equivalent to a Warframe on a titanic scale.
====We End As We Began====
His notes end with a chronicle of his last thoughts, enfilled with determination to repair what he has broken, regardless of whether his redemption will cost petty lives or not. As he bids Loid to destroy the device he and his loyal Kalymos will sleep in, his gambit against The Man in the Wall starts.
===Whispers in the Walls===
Albrecht makes several scant appearance in this quest, separated through different periods of time and progress.
At the beginning of the quest, deep in the Entrati underground complex, Albrecht could be seen interacting with a pager and a 1990s computer before climbing into a coffin along with his Kavat, whispering to his attendant Loid his last words. After the coffin closes, Loid smashes it and the screen fades to black.
He makes another appearance during the 1999 time period when the protagonist Tenno slipped into the point of view of Arthur's, during which the Entrati shows himself in front of the semi-Excalibur seconds away from the Year 2000, uttering to him:
Shortly after the Tenno recovered from their unplanned shift to the past, it was found by Loid that 1999 Albrecht had left behind a transmission message stuck within the Tenno's transference buffer. It was revealed in the message that Albrecht had initially left to the year 1999 to draw The Indifference's attention away from his assistant. He requests the Tenno for their trust, and instructed them to craft the Jahu Gargoyle blueprint found in the computer's memories, in order to complete The Kalymos Sequence.
The Cavia-turned-comprehensible would then direct the Tenno to retrieve Albrecht's last missing page from his Grimoire. Interfacing the newly completed Grimoire of Entrati's with the Jahu Gargoyle, the final page narrates Albrecht's numerous praise for Loid's servitude as his right-hand man.
A doppelganger of Albrecht Entrati makes an appearance in the epilogue of the quest, with similarly blank eyes like the Operator doppelganger. As the "Operator" speak on the Tenno's unwillingness to follow through on their deal with the Man In the Wall, "Albrecht" merely comments "We end as we began."
=== The Hex ===
While the Drifter arrives on New Years Eve 1999, Albrecht was captured by the Scaldra and consequently interrogated. However, Major Neci Rusalka sends her Lieutenant away to show him that she has been possessed by the Indifference, shifting between the forms of Entrati himself and Loid - despite her threats towards him, he reaffirms that the Indifference's weakness is to love.
When the Drifter attempts to retrieve Entrati from the interrogation room, they instead find the Man in The Wall, forcing them to retreat. However, when they return to the Central Mall after a mission to retrieve data on the reactor, they find Kalymos, who guides them to Entrati's Backroom. Inside, the Drifter accesses messages from Albrecht, who reveals that as the loop has been tampered with, they are unable to escape without the assistance of a power source rare in that dimension - the nuclear reactor set to explode on New Years 2000. As such, if the Drifter and Entrati wish to escape, they must not let the Hex stop the explosion.
Immediately afterward, the Hex catch wind of a Scaldra VIP escort, and they are able to destroy several vehicles in the convoy before Major Neci Rusalka arrives to intervene. After a brief battle, she instead opts to ram the remaining convoy in an attempt to deny the Hex Entrati, only for both to survive.
Albrecht emerges from the convoy to inform the Drifter that the Major is becoming more possessed by the Indifference with every cycle, and in order to stop it from influencing the timeline further, they need to kill her. However, the Drifter refuses, much to Albrecht's chagrin, and the two are whisked away by the Indifference.
After the Hex breach the reactor, Albrecht arrives to fatally shoot Amir as he struggles to fix the reactor along with Drifter. Despite his request for the Drifter to join him in leaving for Tau, the Drifter opts to try saving them instead, leaving Albrecht to state that they cannot do so "unless you know them" as he shoots the Drifter, prompting them to begin another loop with their powers from Duviri, this time encompassing the entire year of 1999.
== Notes ==
* While not appearing directly in The New War quest, Albrecht is mentioned and shown indirectly throughout the quest several times. The first is in the flashback aboard the Zariman Ten Zero, where his portrait can be seen hanging up in one of the Zariman's classrooms, revealing his unmasked appearance. In addition, he is credited during the lecture as having written "Beyond The Wall of Lohk" and co-writing "The Palimpsest of Spacetime" with his daughter, Euleria.
* When the player revisits the Zariman in the present, in addition to the portrait now laying on the floor, a large statue of him can be found in the Zariman's atrium.
* The giant "wall" form that The Man in the Wall takes when appearing to the Lotus at the end of the quest vaguely resembles Albrecht's masked appearance, and is missing a finger - a reference to Albrecht's encounter with him.
==Trivia==
*Statues representing his likeness can be found in secret sections inside the Isolation Vaults.
*The headpiece Albrecht wears resembles the mind control devices embedded in the heads of the Corrupted. It is unknown if this means that Albrecht was the creator of these devices, or a means for him to sense his surroundings after being blinded by his encounter, or if they were simply an Orokin fashion item of the era. A peculiar detail is that the headpiece appears broken in his Vitruvian recordings, but is intact on the statues of him inside the Isolation Vaults.
**The Summus Prime Sentinel mask introduced as a part of Loki's Prime Access visually resembles Albrecht's headpiece.
**A similar headpiece is worn by Nef Anyo, but without the face plate. His flips down to form some form of visor.
**There is also a statue of an Orokin in the Awakening cinematic and quest that resembles Albrecht Entrati.
*Unlike other notable Orokin, Albrecht does not possess an elongated right arm, though this is not the case for the rest of the Entrati Family.
**It is later clarified by Drifter in KIM messages with Aoi that he refused that particular modification.
*Albrecht is a name of German origin as a more modern variant of the former Adalbert (conjecture of "adal" and "bereht" meaning "noble" and "bright/famous" respectively, also cognate with the English name of Albright of same origin). "Bengel" likewise is a German word meaning "rascal" and not a nickname variant of Albrecht.
**The use of "Bengel" as a nickname for Albrecht may also be derived from German Lutheran scholar Johann Albrecht Bengel.
*Entrati is the past tense of "entrare," (to enter) -in Italian- conjugated in the first person plural (we entered/siamo entrati).
*His full name "Albrecht Entrati" and his long, wispy hair in his portrait may be an homage to Albert Einstein, a physicist famous for his development of the theory of relativity. Eternalism, a theory that taught in class during the The New War quest, partially resembles Einstein's theory of relativity.
*In the Warframe: 1999 tie-in comic, Albrecht is given the moniker of "Doktor Friday". Coincidentally, the year 1999 also ends on a Friday.
*The Untime Form's mirror duplication of Albrecht, its presence in/beyond "the wall," and its act of referring to him by his childhood name "Little Bengel," strongly references The Man in the Wall's duplication of the Operator and habit of referring to them by the nickname given by their father - "kiddo."
*According to the lead writer of Warframe, Albrecht and Loid's relationship is fully romantic.https://x.com/finlaena/status/1816103141768646941
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