Voruna, a Wolf-inspired Warframe

Voruna, the 51st Warframe, is here and she’s really packing a punch. This wolf-themed Warframe looks both awesome and slightly scary, with four heads adorned to her body. The Heart of the Pack is a monster capable of taking multiple roles, from stealth to damage dealing to status-spreading. Each head specializes in different strengths – one sneaks in the shadows, while another protects you and dies in your place. But is this Warframe any good?

I’d say yes. Voruna is pretty neat.

She is quite fun to play. Her abilities are all tied up in the wolf heads connected to Volruna, and each one also grants a passive. You can choose between the four wolves and pick a passive you like, and you can change your passive mid-mission, if you need to. I’ve mostly just been using her second ability, both its ability and its passive. The passive gives you protection from various status effects, while her main ability drops 10 different status effects on her enemies. Combined with the speed from her first wolf and the occasional non-dying of her 4th passive, there’s a lot to play with. Voruna works really well as a melee-orientated Warframe, especially if you are running Condition Overload on your melee weapons.

However, Voruna’s lore is less than fun. Those wolf heads once belonged to actual wolves, each with a different personality. With her pack of furry buddies, Voruna would roam Lua, protecting a secret and corrupted ceremony that the Orokin leaders used to extend their lives, something they called Continuity. This ceremony would force an Orokin’s conscious into a new, young body. During the fall of the empire, one Orokin looked to use Continuity for one last time, however, his choice of body to steal was different, and a little too young. Some void stuff happened and the ceremony was flooded with monsters from the void, which managed to kill Voruna’s pack. The Orokin attempts the ceremony anyway, readying a bowl of Kuva, which Volruna stole and poured on the heads of her wolf buddies, reviving them and turning them into floating heads.

Although, something about this lore does bother me a bit. These creatures were just magical wolves, but they could have been other Warframes. After all, each head is the same size as Voruna’s, and, well, I don’t know. Losing her pack of wolves is obviously sad, but I feel that if the wolves were all Warframes, same as Voruna, the damage would been greater and the grief accelerated far more. But still, it’s a good story and it’s always fun knowing that some Orokin asshole got hideously murdered and chewed on by a feral beast.

My only other real problem with Volruna is that, well, she doesn’t look particularly wolf-like. Instead, both Voruna and her floating-head wolf pack look more like a cross between a dragon and a wolf, what with their multiple eyes and lack of fur. I thought we’d get some fur on Voruna, but it’s all just the same old helminth flesh and tissue.

While the lore is good and the Warframe is fun, I don’t feel like Voruna really leans into the wolf theme. Even with the decapitated, flying wolf heads…