Parvos’s Sisters and Their Lack of Lore Sense

It’s been a bit since the Sisters of Parvos appeared in Warframe, but something is bothering me about them. While, functionally, they are a lot like Kuva Liches, I feel like something is missing from them. Their lore doesn’t really make much sense. Well, some of it does. But all together, they seem to have a kinda messy and almost contradicting lore.

What actually makes a Sister Candidate special?

To create a Sister of Parvos, you need to get at least 25 kills in the Granum Void. Once you’ve done that and returned to reality, a Candidate will spawn. Stab the Candidate with your Parazon and she becomes a Corpus Lich.

But why? These Candidates aren’t that special, they just claim to be “loyal to Parvos”.

Granted, Kuva larvalings don’t make much sense either. But at least they are armed and try to shoot back. Larvalings seem to be chosen because they’re ill with ‘clone rot’ but are otherwise still willing to fight. Candidates don’t even attack you, they just hide in corners.

Why are they trying to kill us?

Okay, yeah, sure, I get it, we did stab them. But we stab thousands of Corpus all the time. It’s understandable that the Sister herself wishes to murder us, she wants revenge. The same can easily be said about Valla, our new enemy from the Call of the Tempestarii quest. This also applies to Kuva Liches, they’re pumped up on Kuva for the singular reason that they want you dead.

However, why is Parvos Granum sending these Sisters out to get us? Why is he so invested into these random women picked up out of nowhere?

Actually, let me rephrase that: why does Parvos, who always wanted a sister, so damn willing to put his new family members in danger? Because that’s exactly what he does. He gives a Sister a ship and some backup, then marches them into battle against the best assassins in existence!

There are plenty of other strange things too. Like, why the fuck are the Sisters given random robotic doggos? The Corpus Hounds aren’t particularly impressive, and work the same way pet MOAs do. Giving a Sister a special, extra powerful weapon makes sense. The Hounds though make no sense at all. Why would you give a Sister a robotic dog when you can give them WARFRAME SPECTERS?

Parvos only seems to care about half the time.

What really confuses me is Parvos Granum himself. He seems to flip-flop between emotions. Half the time, Parvos will threaten us and say that the Sister’s death will “cost you dearly”. Which makes sense since we did kill his adopted sister. But the other half of the time? Parvos doesn’t seem to care! He’ll just tut and roll his eyes. Occasionally, Parvos will make someone retrieve the dead Sister’s body, as a lesson to other Sisters. However, sometimes Parvos will just demand that the corpse be jettisoned into space!

Make up your mind, Parvos. You either care about your sisters or you don’t. I suppose at least Valla cares a little bit. But even then, she’ll regretfully abandon a Sister once her Hounds and Warframe Specters have been killed.

In the mean time, Kuva Liches kinda just do their own thing. While their creation (by stabbing) is still kinda weird, at least Kuva Liches are somewhat consistent with why they are doing what they are doing. After all, they’re just big, angry guys with cool guns. Sisters of Parvos though have plot armour to protect them.